Abstract: [Purpose/Significance] Identifying key core technologies helps to clarify the direction of future efforts, optimize the allocation of innovation resources, accelerate the breakthrough of key core technologies, and promote the development of new quality productive forces by cultivating new types of workers, updating new types of means of labor, and expanding new types of subjects of labor. [Method/Process] Given the importance of key core technology identification in empowering the development of new quality productive forces, the research clarifies the connotation and extension of the key core technologies, and investigates the qualitative and quantitative identification methods of key core technologies at home and abroad. Quantitative methods are divided into three categories: indicator evaluation, social network analysis, and text mining. A comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of each method are reviewed, and the overall shortcomings and problems of existing identification methods are summarized. Based on the analysis of the practical requirements and significance of breakthroughs in key core technologies, this study delves into the inherent logic of identifying key core technologies, which enables the development of new quality productive forces. The method of identifying key core technologies can cultivate new types of workers by improving talent management mechanisms and strengthening skills training for workers, New types of means of labor are updated through promoting technological integration and innovation and engaging in industry-academia-research cooperation and expanding new types of objects of labor by developing new production fields and analyzing market demand. In view of the challenges faced in the process of empowering new quality productive forces through the identification of key core technologies, this study proposes a practical way for empowering the development of new quality productive forces through the identification of key core technologies. [Results/Conclusions] Current research on identifying key core technologies is in its early stages and still faces several challenges, including outdated identification methods, inconsistent standards, the complexity of integrating technologies across disciplines, the need for improving accuracy of identification results, the lack of mining and using of multi-source data, and uncertainties in forecasting market demand. These obstacles hinder the process of using key core technology identification to cultivate new types of workers, update new types of means of labor, and expand new types of objects of labor, thus hindering the accelerated development of new quaity productive forces. Therefore, we need to focus on removing the obstacles that hinder the acceleration of new quality productive forces through the identification of key core technologies. A dynamic identification indicator system can be established to support the training of new types of workers, industry-academia-research cooperation can be strengthened to facilitate the updating of new production materials, and industrial development funds can be established to support the expansion of new types of objects of labor.

Key words: identification of key core technologies, new quality productive forces, new types of workers, new types of means of labor, new types of objects of labor