Leading the high-quality economic development with the new development concept is the internal requirement of promoting the high-quality economic development in the digital era. Based on the interpretation of the theoretical connotation of high-quality economic development, we should distinguish the internal logic of digital economy driving high-quality economic development. In the new era, we should strengthen basic scientific research, strengthen the construction of new infrastructure, enhance the digital transformation ability of the real economy, actively create the digital industry ecology, form a two wheel drive mode of deep integration of digital economy development and real economy, and promote the high-quality development of China’s economy in the new era.