Abstract:In recent years, the rapid development of digital economy has become the key force that bring China's rapid economic development. Based on the analysis of the inevitability of data becoming a factor of production and the heterogeneity of data elements, the action mechanism of data elements in high-quality economic development is expounded based on the five development concepts of innovation, green, coordination, sharing and openness.The potential of data elements should be further activated to enable the digital transformation of enterprises.The dividend of data elements and the adjustment of industrial structure should be speed up. The application of data elements should be expanded and the efficiency of government governance should be improved.All of the above make the path of building data elements to enable high-quality development.