Realizing the value of natural resource assets in nature reserves was a crucial measure for promoting the transformation between "lucid waters and lush mountains" and "golden mountains and silver mountains", building a Beautiful China, and fostering harmonious coexistence between humanity and nature. By taking new quality productive forces as the entry point, this paper systematically explored the basic logic, action mechanism, and key pathways through which these forces can empower the realization of the value of assets in natural protected areas. The study employed a combination of literature analysis, case study methods, and the method of induction and deduction to construct a comprehensive logical framework. This framework is centered around the entire life cycle of realizing the value of assets in natural protected areas, which includes asset inventory, integration and optimization, restoration and enhancement, value assessment, fund raising, development and operation, as well as supervision and early warning. The framework features three-dimensional drivers: technological empowerment, factor allocation, and industrial leap, and it extracted key pathways to achieve this goal. The research findings were as follows: (1) New quality productive forces could break through the traditional protection and restoration model through technological innovation. They could optimize factor allocation to address property rights and capital constraints, and gave rise to new business forms in industries to reconstruct the value transformation pathway. This process formed a collaborative empowerment mechanism of "maintaining value-increasing value-transforming value"; (2) At present, the empowerment of realizing the value of assets in natural protected areas by new quality productive forces still faced three dilemmas. These included difficulties in implementing technologies, limitations in factor allocation, and contradictions in industrial development. These challenges increased the difficulty of organically integrating new quality productive forces with nature protected area; (3) The key pathways for new quality productive forces to empower the realization of the value of assets in natural protected areas included the technological empowerment pathway of "technological breakthroughs, optimized adaptation, and enhanced supporting measures", the factor allocation pathway of "institutional innovation, market activation, and capacity reconstruction", and the industrial leap pathway of "industrial value addition, standardized operation, and green development". By thoroughly explored the role of new quality productive forces in the realization of the value of assets in natural protected areas, the study provided a reference for the scientific management and value realization of resources in natural protected areas. It also contributed theoretical and practical support to the construction of ecological civilization and high-quality development.