Lenovo Group Receives MSCI ESG “AAA”: ESG Strategy Upgrades Drive Innovation and Value Transformation

Recently, MSCI, the world's largest index company, released the 2025 corporate ESG rating results. With its systematic practice and long-term investment in the ESG field, Lenovo Group has been awarded the highest level of AAA in the world.

This is the fourth year in a row that Lenovo Group has received this rating. Lenovo Group's steady ESG investment and performance has fully demonstrated its risk management capabilities and long-term development resilience under “headwinds”, and has become a stable ESG anchor in the global investment market.

The MSCI Index is the most used benchmark index by global portfolio managers. Its ESG rating results are an important basis for the decisions of major investment institutions around the world, and it is known as the most authoritative ESG rating in the world.

Since A-shares were included in the MSCI index in 2018, the overall ESG ratings of Chinese companies have improved rapidly. However, in some industries with high ESG risk exposure, only a few Chinese companies have achieved breakthroughs in AAA ratings. For example, the technology hardware, storage and peripherals industry faces huge environmental and social risks due to its complex supply chain, and many global technology companies are underperforming in ratings. Lenovo Group is the first technology manufacturer in mainland China to achieve an AAA rating breakthrough.

According to MSCI's official website, Lenovo Group is leading the industry in five major areas, including corporate behavior, human capital development, data privacy and security protection, electronic waste recycling, and responsible procurement. It also has outstanding performance in corporate governance and the use of clean technology, and has been recognized.

In recent years, Lenovo Group has made significant progress in its sustainable development strategy. It not only firmly invests in the fields of net zero transformation of the entire value chain, biodiversity protection, responsible artificial intelligence governance, and corporate social responsibility, but has also turned ESG into enterprise-level services and solutions, empowering more enterprises to enhance ESG practices. With outstanding ESG performance, Lenovo Group maintains leadership among ESG rating agencies at home and abroad, including the 2025 Hang Seng Sustainability Index AA+ rating; CDP climate change leadership grade A, supplier participation rating A, and water safety grade A; the highest ecoVadis sustainability rating “Platinum Medal”; the 2025 Sedex Supply Chain Award; and the 2025 “Fortune” China ESG Influence List.

AI transformation is compounded by global value chain adjustments, and the steady performance of ESG is building a moat for sustainable growth for Lenovo

Currently, the global trade environment is facing tariff turmoil and geopolitical challenges, compounded by profound changes in artificial intelligence technology. Chinese enterprises, especially the technology manufacturing industry, which is deeply embedded in the global industrial chain value chain, are facing a double test. However, turmoil and adversity have “screened” more resilient and forward-looking enterprises, turning challenges into strategic opportunities: improving efficiency through increased investment in clean technology, deepening digital transformation, and strictly managing supply chain risks to actively respond and build a moat for sustainable growth. Outstanding ESG performance has become a high-value “technical ticket” and core competitiveness for Chinese enterprises in their global journey.

As a global high-tech manufacturing enterprise, Lenovo Group attaches great importance to ESG capacity building upstream and downstream of its supply chain, and has published 19 ESG reports continuously. The Lenovo Group's steady performance, including the highest MSCI ESG rating, has built a moat for sustainable growth in global competition throughout the year.

On the one hand, Lenovo Group's steady ESG performance confirms its long-term unremitting efforts in climate change leadership, supply chain governance, circular economy and electronic waste management, and corporate social responsibility, while mitigating ESG risks, turning it into an opportunity for performance growth. Taking the net zero transformation being promoted by the Lenovo Group as an example, Lenovo not only promises to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions in the overall value chain in fiscal year 2049/50, but also relies on its own and supply chain low-carbon transformation practices to create a “whole family bucket” solution, working from the dimensions of full carbon accounting, carbon reduction control, and zero carbon services to provide enterprises with ESG solutions integrating technology, products, platforms and services to help enterprises achieve cost reduction and efficiency while improving “carbon reduction capabilities”.

On the other hand, Lenovo Group's steady ESG performance has created a green competitive advantage and can seize new growth opportunities in the overseas green consumer market. In the context of global companies increasingly requiring strict scrutiny of their Scope 3 emissions and supply chain responsibilities, four consecutive years of MSCI AAA ratings are an internationally recognized compliance guarantee. In markets with increasingly strict regulatory requirements such as Europe, it can enhance Lenovo's brand trust.

Lenovo Group received the highest MSCI ESG rating, which not only confirmed Lenovo's long-term commitment, but also opened up an intelligent, green, and sustainable growth path for China's high-tech manufacturing industry in an uncertain global landscape by transforming ESG into a new business growth curve and unique market competitiveness.