According Lenovo's senior vice president, Chen Shaopeng, the Chinese electronics group plans to spend 1% of its annual net profit on global social investment.

The British retail giant Tesco Plc recently announced that it had established a partnership with Lenovo Group, to develop green IT projects in China.

About 100 companies from China have jointly established a Green Mobile Phone Alliance in Shanghai.

Investigations made by 34 Chinese environmental groups indicate that suppliers of some internationally known IT companies are discharging heavy metal pollutants in China.

China's Ministry of Education says that the networks of all China's schools shall be subject to monitoring and education departments at each level shall conduct regular checkups on these networks and guide the schools in installing green online filtering software to remove bad information.

Lenovo Group has published a corporate social responsibility report, which is said to be the second the company has issued.

Lin Jialai, the vice director of the China Association for Poverty Alleviation and Development, proposed at a donation ceremony that Chinese companies and individuals donate unused computers to schools in the rural areas.