On May 9, Lenovo Group's 2024 ESG and Social Value Forum was held at Lenovo headquarters. Nearly 400 people, including industry experts and scholars, business representatives, mainstream media, the public and Lenovo employee representatives, attended the forum, and Lenovo Group released the "Lenovo Group Social Value Report" for the second consecutive year, and the "Lenovo Group 2023 Rural Revitalization Report" for the first time.
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At the forum, Liu Jun, Executive Vice President and President of Lenovo Group China and Chairman of the ESG Committee of Lenovo China Platform, delivered a welcome speech. Wang Yiming, Vice Chairman of China Center for International Economic Exchanges, delivered an opening speech; Qiu Aijun, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, and Mei Dewen, Vice Chairman of the Beijing Green Exchange, delivered guest speeches; Zhang Jian, Executive Dean of the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development of Tsinghua University, and Wu Furong, Co-Director of CDP's Global Strategy, delivered keynote speeches. Wang Xuan, Secretary-General of the ESG Committee of Lenovo China Platform, introduced the highlights of the two reports; Zhong Hongwu, professor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and president of the Responsible Cloud Research Institute, interpreted the rating of the "Lenovo Group 2023 Social Value Report", and Wang Peng, deputy secretary-general of the China Rural Development Foundation, commented and shared the "Lenovo Group 2023 Rural Revitalization Report".
Liu Jun, Executive Vice President and President of Lenovo Group China and Chairman of the ESG Committee of Lenovo China Platform, emphasized that from ESG + technology to ESG + artificial intelligence, Lenovo Group continues to explore AI to help China's intelligent, green and low-carbon transformation, and deeply integrate the social values of "for the country", "for the environment", "for the industry" and "for the people's livelihood" into the company's development strategy, operation and management. Receiving the highest rating from MSCI for two consecutive years once again proves that doing a good job in ESG and social value is the driving force for sustainable development of enterprises. He also said that standing at the critical juncture of Lenovo Group's fifth decade, Lenovo will continue to strengthen independent innovation, build China's new quality productivity with full-stack AI, and continue to contribute to the social value of the enterprise.
Liu Jun, Executive Vice President and President of Lenovo China, Chairman of Lenovo China Platform ESG Committee
Wang Yiming, Vice Chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges, affirmed Lenovo's consistent ESG concept and practice, and systematically summarized the four characteristics of Lenovo's model, which are "implementing net-zero emission actions and striving to be the vanguard of carbon neutrality", "Empowering the manufacturing industry with intelligent technology and leading the high-quality development of the industry", "Always practicing Lenovo's way to help create a better life", "Integrating ESG into corporate governance, and being an ESG doer and doer". This is not only a high evaluation of Lenovo Group's performance and achievements in ESG, but also a good expectation for Lenovo Group's continuous improvement.
Wang Yiming, Vice Chairman of China Center for International Economic Exchanges
Qiu Aijun, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission, pointed out that "ESG investment can help guide the flow of capital factor resources, which are the core of the market economy, to low-carbon and emission reduction enterprises, and ESG evaluation can promote the green development of enterprises and achieve high-quality development." Enterprises should take the fulfillment of social responsibility as the clarion call, show their abilities, promote common prosperity, and promote social harmony. At the same time, we should take the improvement of corporate governance as the starting point, continuously enhance the vitality and motivation of market players, and promote the improvement and development of the socialist market economic system. By internalizing ESG values into the company's development strategy, Lenovo also empowers upstream and downstream enterprises to develop green, and jointly contributes to China's modernization with high-quality development. ”
Qiu Aijun, Deputy Director of the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission
Mei Dewen, vice chairman of Beijing Green Exchange, believes that as a responsible global company, Lenovo Group has highly integrated ESG with its corporate strategy and its own business, and promoted the comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation of itself and the industry. The Beijing Green Exchange and Lenovo Group have reached a comprehensive strategic cooperation, and actively contribute to Lenovo Group's low-carbon development strategy, promote the carbon neutrality demonstration project of Lenovo's global headquarters building, and assist Lenovo ThinkPad X1 and X13 products in carbon neutrality throughout the life cycle.
Vice Chairman of Beijing Green Exchange Mei Dewen
Jian Zhang, Executive Dean of the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development at Tsinghua University, introduced several trends in addressing climate change after COP28 and the impact on corporate ESG climate action. He suggested that all parties should raise awareness of climate change-related risks, formulate long-term response strategies, and take steps to take action, including changing production methods, promoting the green transformation of supply chains, and seizing the opportunities of green and low-carbon development, so as to enhance the corporate and social value of climate action. Lenovo Group actively responds to climate change, contributes to the green and low-carbon transformation of the economy and society, and spares no effort to promote sustainable development as the owner of the industrial chain.
Zhang Jian, Executive Dean of the Institute of Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Tsinghua University
Wu Furong, co-director of CDP's global strategy, said that Lenovo has been disclosing climate change questionnaires on the CDP platform since 2010, and CDP, as one of the world's most recognized and influential information disclosure platforms, has continuously updated and iterated according to international standards, and the scoring standards have been improved year by year. In the future, CDP hopes to form a synergy with more outstanding Chinese companies like Lenovo Group, and work with everyone to move towards a greener, greener, and more natural future.
Wu Furong, Co-Director of Global Strategy at CDP
In order to fully demonstrate Lenovo's ESG and social value concepts and practices, Lenovo Group released the "Lenovo Group Social Value Report" for the second consecutive year at the forum, hoping to communicate with all parties and partners in the past year Lenovo's solid investment and innovative practices in the field of social value creation in the past year, and continue to co-create and share value with all stakeholders, and promote social value creation with innovation-driven. At the same time, Lenovo Group released the "Lenovo Group 2023 Rural Revitalization Report" for the first time at the forum.
The release ceremony of the "Lenovo Group 2023 Social Value Report" and the "Lenovo Group 2023 Rural Revitalization Report".
Wang Xuan, Secretary General of the ESG Committee of Lenovo China Platform, introduced the two reports
Wang Xuan, Secretary-General of the ESG Committee of Lenovo China Platform, introduced that Lenovo Group has taken the initiative to build Lenovo's "1+N" sustainable development information disclosure system two years ago, based on years of continuous cultivation in ESG, namely: 1 ESG annual main report + N special report, so that the continuous enrichment of special reports and the annual "Lenovo Group ESG Report" complement each other, to ensure that Lenovo strengthens communication with stakeholders from a more diversified perspective, and is proactive, systematic, timely, and Comprehensively disclose Lenovo's ESG and sustainability information, and continuously enrich Lenovo's sustainability information disclosure matrix. In the "Lenovo Group 2023 Social Value Report", the latest exploration, development and excellent practices of Lenovo Group in the past 2023 are comprehensively, systematically and in detail, which well explains how Lenovo actively responds to the national strategy with its own innovation and actions, and assumes the mission and responsibility of the enterprise. The "Lenovo Group 2023 Rural Revitalization Report" comprehensively sorts out and details Lenovo's implementation practices, key projects and model development in the five major areas of talent revitalization, industrial revitalization, cultural revitalization, ecological revitalization and organizational revitalization.
The Lenovo Group 2023 Social Value Report once again received a "five-star" evaluation from the China Corporate Social Responsibility Report Rating Expert Committee. Zhong Hongwu, professor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and president of the Responsible Cloud Research Institute, evaluated the report as excellent in terms of process, substance, balance, comparability, readability, and innovation, and led in terms of completeness, and believed that the report was an excellent corporate social responsibility report.
Zhong Hongwu, professor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and president of the Responsible Cloud Research Institute, interpreted the rating of the "Lenovo Group 2023 Social Value Report".
Wang Peng, Deputy Secretary-General of China Rural Development Foundation, started from the policy background of rural revitalization, and deeply analyzed the participation of social forces in rural revitalization, especially industrial revitalization and talent revitalization. Taking Lenovo as an example, focusing on industrial revitalization and talent revitalization, we will comprehensively lay out rural revitalization, create a model of enterprise assistance for multi-form rural industries, pay attention to the actual income and sustainable development of farmers, and at the same time involve the cultivation of rural talents of multiple ages, pay more attention to the present and pay more attention to the long-term future, integrate science and technology, the core competence of the enterprise, into the effective path of exploring rural revitalization, and integrate social responsibility into the development strategy of the enterprise.
Wang Peng, Deputy Secretary-General of China Rural Development Foundation, commented and shared on the "Lenovo Group 2023 Rural Revitalization Report".
The forum announced the "Lenovo China Platform 2023 ESG and Social Value Annual Special Award and Top Ten Outstanding Cases", which were reviewed by a third-party expert jury and finally selected around the seven responsibility dimensions of scientific and technological innovation, environmental responsibility, chain owner responsibility, rural revitalization, employee responsibility, partner responsibility, and ecological responsibility, fully demonstrating Lenovo's responsibility and responsibility for the country, the industry, the environment, and the people's livelihood with technology empowerment.
Lenovo China Platform 2023 ESG and Social Value Special Award Ceremony
Lenovo China Platform 2023 ESG and Social Value Top 10 Outstanding Cases Award Ceremony
2024 is a crucial year for the implementation of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and it is also an important moment for Lenovo's 40th anniversary. As a global high-tech enterprise rooted in China and one of the first companies in China to set sail and build internationally renowned brands, Lenovo has gone through multiple economic cycles and technological changes, and has now grown into one of the world's most influential technology companies. It is the continuous investment in R&D and forward-looking technology accumulation that enables Lenovo to seize the opportunity in every technological change and play its role as a technology leader. At present, with the continuous development of new industrialization and the formation of new quality productivity, Lenovo Group is using scientific and technological innovation to help China's manufacturing industry transform and upgrade to digital intelligence and zero carbon, and promote thousands of industries to jointly move towards a new journey of high-quality development.
Looking forward to the future, Lenovo will continue to be guided by ESG and social values, closely focus on the national strategy, continue to serve the country, industry, environment and people's livelihood, and unswervingly move forward towards the grand goal of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation.