Abstract: The new quality productivity of agriculture is an inherent requirement and important focus to promote the level of agricultural modernization. This article elaborates on the connotation of agricultural new quality productivity from the aspects of its formation and constituent elements. It constructs the logical driving mechanism of agricultural new quality productivity for agricultural modernization from six aspects, namely mechanization of production procedures, scientific production technology, agricultural industrialization, agricultural informatization, sustainable agricultural development, and intelligent labor subjects. It also deeply analyzes the practical difficulties faced by the current agricultural new quality productivity in promoting agricultural modernization, and proposes practical paths for developing agricultural new quality productivity to empower agricultural modernization from five aspects: technological innovation, industrial innovation, green transformation, high-quality talent cultivation, and institutional mechanism innovation.

Key words: new agricultural productivity, agricultural modernization, connotative meaning, technological innovation, industrial innovation