Qiao Jian, Senior Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Marketing Officer of Lenovo Group
In the past 2021, Lenovo Group has continuously made breakthroughs against the trend with the hard work and sweat of all employees, providing customers with value-added and contributing to society. We crossed the rmb 400 billion turnover milestone and jumped to 159th place on the Fortune Global 500 list, while profits improved significantly. With innovative products, services and solutions, we support our customers to maintain productive productivity and enjoy a smooth experience during the pandemic. We continue to promote public welfare undertakings, donate money to the Henan flood and send IT service engineers, support Shanghai Jiaotong University and other universities to carry out scientific research, talent training and transformation of scientific and technological achievements, and help all walks of life achieve low-carbon and even zero-carbon transformation through intelligent solutions.
In the new year, the key to China's economic development is to keep a steady word, and Lenovo Group will also maintain resilience and seek progress in stability. We have set a big goal for the next three years: to double the company's net profit, double its R&D investment within three years, and recruit 12,000 hardcore technology talents worldwide. In this general direction, we will continue to promote the implementation of the service-oriented intelligent transformation strategy, maintain the sustained and stable growth of the company's performance, increase the investment in science and technology research and development as planned, and continuously achieve more and stronger business breakthroughs and innovation results, and go all out to promote the country's scientific and technological progress and industrial upgrading.
Looking to the future, the global green and low-carbon development trend is bringing new opportunities for enterprises. As a technology manufacturing enterprise with a global layout, Lenovo Group will continue to be committed to building a green manufacturing and green supply chain system through digitalization and intelligence on the one hand, guiding and driving the upstream and downstream of the entire industrial chain to achieve zero-carbon transformation, and on the other hand, it will also actively empower the outside world to help all walks of life achieve low-carbon development. Our goal for the next decade is to reduce our operating direct and indirect carbon emissions by 50% and the carbon intensity of some value chains by 25% by 2030. In addition, we are actively evaluating long-term emission reduction plans, striving to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, making our due contribution to global temperature control of 1.5°C, and working together to build a community of human and natural life.