人类要生存,必须有吃、穿、住、用所需的生活资料,物质资料的生产是人类社会存在和发展的基础,人类社会的历史首先是物质资料生产方式发展的历史。人们进行物质生产,必须借助生产工具。具有一定生产经验和劳动技能的人和他们使用的生产工具,作用于劳动对象,就构成生产力。这里说的生产工具包括作用于自然界所必需的一切劳动资料:从简单的手工工具到现代自动化的机械设备,以及生产过程中必要的厂房、容器、取暖制冷设备、照明设备等等。生产工具对生产力的发展起着特殊的作用,是生产力发展水平和生产力性质的主要标志。在生产力中,人的因素具有特别重要的地位,是首要的生产力。生产力的 Human beings must survive, eat, wear, live and use the necessary living materials. The production of material information is the basis for the existence and development of human society. The history of human society is, first and foremost, the history of the development of the mode of production of material information. People make material production and must rely on tools of production. People who have a certain amount of production experience and labor skills, and the production tools they use, act on the working population to make up the productive forces. The production tools described here include all the labor information necessary for working with nature: from simple hand tools to modern automated machinery and equipment, as well as the necessary plants, containers, heating and cooling equipment, lighting equipment, etc. in the production process. Production tools play a special role in the development of productive forces and are the main hallmarks of the level of productive forces and the nature of their productive forces. In the productive forces, the human factor has a particularly important position and is the primary productive force. Productive