Abstract: New quality productive forces can provide impetus for industrial transformation by improving production efficiency and promoting technological and institutional innovation. The practices of high-end manufacturing transformation and upgrading in developed countries such as Germany, the United States, and Japan have provided China with experiences in leveraging new quality productive forces to empower industrial transformation and upgrading, including focusing on talent and skill cultivation, creating an innovation-friendly environment, improving intermediary service institutions, and enhancing the vitality of small and medium-sized enterprises. To overcome the practical difficulties in China's industrial transformation and upgrading, we can draw on the successful experiences of developed countries and give full play to the enabling role of new quality productive forces by strengthening talent development to consolidate the foundation, building an innovation ecosystem to promote industry-universityresearch collaboration, improving the venture capital system to increase financial support, and clarifying the roles of the market and government to stimulate enterprise vitality.