邓小平的第一生产力理论既是对马克思主义生产力学说的丰富和发展 ,也是对知识经济必然到来的科学预测。知识经济是以知识为基础的经济时代 ,它与第一生产力理论的科学判断与科学实质相一致。党的第三代领导集体继承、丰富并发展了“第一生产力理论” ,为知识经济的到来奠定了理论基础 Deng Xiaoping’s theory of the first productive forces is not only the enrichment and development of the Marxist theory of productive forces, but also the scientific prediction that the knowledge-based economy is bound to come. Knowledge economy is a knowledge-based economic era, which is consistent with the scientific judgment and scientific essence of the theory of the first productive forces. The third generation of the Party’s leadership inherited, enriched and developed the “theory of the first productive forces”, laying a theoretical foundation for the arrival of a knowledge-based economy