When was Lenovo founded?

Mr. Liu Chuanzhi is from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. 1966 graduated from Xi' an Institute of Military Telecommunications Engineering (now the predecessor of xidian university), senior engineer, president of Lenovo Holdings Limited, chairman of the board of directors of Lenovo Group Limited, vice chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce, representative of the 16th CPC National Congress, and representative of the 9th and 10th National People's Congress. 1984, Mr. Liu Chuanzhi and other 10 computing employees founded the new technology development company of Computing Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences (the predecessor of Lenovo) for 200,000 yuan. Under his leadership, Lenovo has grown from an ordinary small state-owned private enterprise in Zhongguancun to a flagship enterprise group supported by the state after nearly 20 years of hard work. At present, Legend Holdings Limited owns two Hong Kong listed companies, Lenovo Group Limited and Digital China Holdings Limited, with total assets of 654.38+0.79 billion yuan, operating income of 40.3 billion yuan in 2003 and total profits of 654.38+0.23 billion yuan. By the end of June 5438+February 2003, Legend Holdings Co., Ltd. * * * had paid a total of 5.45 billion yuan in various national taxes, which made outstanding contributions to the development of China's IT industry. During the nearly twenty years' entrepreneurial career, as an active explorer and practitioner of China's scientific and technological system reform, Mr. Liu Chuanzhi dared to break the shackles of the old system, led Lenovo to break through the traditional planned economy concept that has long bound the minds of researchers, and embarked on a high-tech industrialization road with Lenovo characteristics. As the top decision-maker and manager of the company, he held high the banner of national computer industry, actively explored the industry and enterprise reality based on China, and won in one fell swoop in the competition with foreign strong players, which not only established Lenovo's leading position in China market, but also promoted the development of a large number of national IT enterprises. Mr. Liu Chuanzhi creatively adapted to the special political and economic environment of China's transition from a planned economy to a market economy, successfully realized the shareholding system reform of Legend Holdings, and established a property right mechanism and an incentive mechanism that is conducive to Lenovo's long-term development and can give full play to employees' subjective initiative, so that a large number of young people took the lead. He took the initiative to combine western modern management theory with China's enterprise practice, summed up and put forward a series of important management ideas such as the famous "roof map theory of enterprise management", and formed a systematic associative management system with "building a team, setting a strategy and leading a team" as the theoretical core. Make Lenovo gradually become a company group that conforms to the modern enterprise system and has international competitiveness. Mr. Liu Chuanzhi was awarded the Second National Science and Technology Entrepreneur Entrepreneurship AwardNo. 1, a young and middle-aged expert with outstanding contributions in China, a man of reform in China, and a 1995 national model worker. In June, 2000, he was selected as "Best Businessman in Asia" by Fortune magazine, "Star of Asia" by Businessweek, and "CCTV China Economic Person of the Year" in 2000. In 200 1 year, it was selected as "the 25 most influential business leaders in the world" by Time magazine.