Recently, MSCI Inc, the world's largest index company, released its 2025 corporate ESG rating results. Lenovo Group earned the globally highest AAA rating based on its systematic ESG practices and long-term investments in the field. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Lenovo Group has received this rating. Lenovo Group's robust ESG investments and performance fully demonstrate its risk management capabilities and long-term development resilience amid "headwinds," establishing itself as a stable ESG anchor in global investment markets.
As the benchmark index most widely adopted by global portfolio managers, MSCI indices serve as important decision-making references for major global investment institutions, with their ESG ratings recognized as the most authoritative globally. Since A-shares were included in MSCI indices in 2018, Chinese companies have achieved relatively rapid improvements in overall ESG ratings. However, in certain industries with significant ESG risk exposure, only a limited number of Chinese companies have achieved AAA rating breakthroughs.
For instance, the technology hardware, storage, and peripherals industry faces substantial environmental and social risks due to complex supply chains, with many global technology companies showing poor rating performance. Lenovo Group is the first mainland Chinese technology manufacturing company to achieve an AAA rating breakthrough.
According to MSCI's official website, Lenovo Group leads the industry in five key areas: corporate behavior, human capital development, data privacy and security protection, electronic waste recycling, and responsible procurement. The company also demonstrates outstanding performance in corporate governance and clean technology usage, earning recognition across these domains.
In recent years, Lenovo Group has made significant progress in sustainable development strategy, not only making firm investments in full value chain net-zero transformation, biodiversity protection, responsible AI governance, and corporate social responsibility, but also developing ESG into enterprise-level services and solutions to empower more companies in enhancing their ESG practices.
With its excellent ESG performance, Lenovo Group maintains leading positions across domestic and international ESG rating agencies, including the 2025 Hang Seng Sustainability Index AA+ rating; CDP Climate Change Leadership A-level, Supplier Engagement Rating A-level, and Water Security A- level; EcoVadis Sustainability Rating's highest honor "Platinum Medal"; 2025 Sedex Supply Chain Award; and 2025 Fortune China ESG Impact List.
**AI Transformation Combined with Global Value Chain Adjustments: Robust ESG Performance Builds Sustainable Growth Moat for Lenovo**
Currently, the global trade environment faces tariff storms and geopolitical challenges, combined with profound transformation from artificial intelligence technology waves. Chinese enterprises, especially technology manufacturing companies deeply embedded in global industrial and value chains, are facing dual tests. However, turbulence and adversity have "filtered out" more resilient and forward-looking enterprises, transforming challenges into strategic opportunities by increasing clean technology investments, deepening digital transformation to improve efficiency, and strictly managing supply chain risks to actively respond and build sustainable growth moats.
Excellent ESG performance has become a high-value "technical ticket" and core competitive advantage for Chinese enterprises in their global journey. As a globalized high-tech manufacturing enterprise, Lenovo Group highly values ESG capability building across its own operations and upstream and downstream supply chains, having continuously published 19 ESG reports. Lenovo Group's consistent robust performance, including maintaining MSCI ESG's highest rating, has built a sustainable growth moat in global competition.
On one hand, Lenovo Group's robust ESG performance validates its long-term unremitting efforts in climate change leadership, supply chain governance, circular economy and electronic waste management, and corporate social responsibility, mitigating ESG risks while transforming them into business growth opportunities. Taking Lenovo Group's ongoing net-zero transformation as an example, Lenovo not only commits to achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions across its entire value chain by fiscal year 2049/50, but also leverages its own and supply chain low-carbon transformation practical experience to create a comprehensive "full suite" of net-zero solutions. The company focuses on comprehensive carbon accounting, carbon reduction management and control, and zero-carbon services, providing enterprises with integrated ESG solutions encompassing technology, products, platforms, and services, helping enterprises achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement while enhancing their "carbon reduction capabilities."
On the other hand, Lenovo Group's robust ESG performance creates green differentiated competitive advantages, enabling it to capture new growth opportunities in overseas green consumer markets. Against the backdrop of global enterprises increasingly needing strict scrutiny of their Scope 3 emissions and supply chain responsibilities, four consecutive years of MSCI AAA ratings represent internationally recognized compliance assurance. In markets with increasingly strict regulatory requirements such as Europe, this enhances Lenovo's brand trustworthiness.
Lenovo Group's achievement of MSCI ESG's highest rating not only validates Lenovo's long-term commitment but also transforms ESG into new business growth curves and unique market competitiveness, opening an intelligent, green, and sustainable growth path for China's high-tech manufacturing industry in an uncertain global landscape.