Abstract: Education is the core strategy to alleviate the contradiction between new quality productive forces and the supply & demand of talents, while basic education is the indispensable cornerstone for shaping new quality talents. In order to consolidate the cultivation foundation of future new quality talents, the basic education should closely focus on the needs of new quality talents, build a set of efficient mechanisms so as to help students smoothly grow into new quality talents. In this process, the guidance of composite educational goals, the restructuring of interdisciplinary knowledge systems, and the customized strategies provide strong support for STEAM education to empower the cultivation of new talents. In order to meet the multi-dimensional needs of new talents, it is necessary to reconstruct the cultivation mechanism of STEAM education from five key levels: reshaping the core cultivation concept, clarifying the fundamental cultivation goal, strengthening the basic cultivation conditions, formulating the primary cultivation strategy and stabilizing the key cultivation cornerstones. In order to promote STEAM education to better adapt to the development of the digitalization era in the cultivation of new talents, a series of measures should be taken: to ensure the efficient operation of STEAM education, to improve its interdisciplinary knowledge system, to build a space that spans virtual and physical worlds, to improve the STEAM qualifications of teachers, and to build a vibrant new ecology for the cultivation of STEAM talents. The implementation of these measures will strongly promote the innovation and development of STEAM education in cultivating new quality talents, thus contributing to the social progress in the new era.

Key words: new quality productive forces, new quality talents, STEAM education, STEM education, cultivation mechanism, interdiscipline