Appendix: Timeline of Efforts Taken
Jan. 20, 2020: Lenovo epidemic prevention and control team was established.
Jan. 23, 2020: Lenovo quickly set up an epidemic logistics emergency management team.
Jan. 24, 2020: Lenovo’s Data Center Group provided free upgrades and 24/7 on-site service support for Wuhan medical institutions (and would further provide 24/7 service support for medical institutions across China).
Jan. 25, 2020: Lenovo announced plans to donate IT equipment needed for urgent assistance to Wuhan emergency medical projects.
Jan. 28, 2020: Five global regions of Lenovo set up epidemic response committees to provide employees with health checks, and physical and psychological consultations.
Jan. 29, 2020: In order to produce enough servers for epidemic prevention on big data platforms, the Lenovo Shenzhen factory set up a production team to complete the development of the employee return identification system.
Feb. 1, 2020: Lenovo Foundation launched a 10-fold donation-matching campaign for Hubei.
Feb. 4, 2020: Lenovo completed donation, installation and debugging of all IT equipment to Huoshenshan Hospital. Lenovo equipment was connected to the Hospital’s imaging system and health system, including:
Feb. 6, 2020: Installation and debugging completed for all IT equipment donated to Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital (including 700 PCs 160 tablets, 375 printers, supporting software and desktop systems, etc.). Lenovo launched Internet “online consultation” service for Heilongjiang Daqing Longnan Hospital to provide citizens with free health consultation services.
Feb.7, 2020: Lenovo supplied 200 PCs, 16 all-in-ones and 100 printers to Xiaotangshan Hospital in Zhengzhou, China. All equipment software was installed and delivered to the hospital at night of the same day. Launched Lenovo Foundation Hubei Community Epidemic Prevention Voluntary Service Small Funds Project — all of the funds used to support ordinary residents and front-line personnel who have contributed to community epidemic prevention.
Feb. 8, 2020: Lenovo announced that it will provide job opportunities for employees of subject matter experts (SME) who recently lost their jobs (available in Shenzhen, Wuhan, Hefei, Huizhou, and Chengdu).
Feb.10, 2020: Lenovo completed the installation and debugging of infrared temperature measurement equipment in Chongqing in 48 hours to ensure steady advancement of epidemic prevention in the Liangjiang New Area.
Feb.13, 2020: Lenovo provided SMEs with a 100-day free license of the Microsoft Office commercial version, including software such as EXCEL, WORD, and PowerPoint, to help employees work remotely.
Feb.15, 2020: Lenovo Foundation and its employees raised a total of RMB 1,786,159, all dedicated to Hubei’s epidemic prevention and control, with zero management fee.
March.3, 2020: Intel and Lenovo collaborated with BGI Genomics to accelerate analysis of the coronavirus genome.
March.9, 2020: Lenovo CEO Yuanqing Yang donated 10 million yuan to his alma mater USTC to fund scientific and technological research on COVID-19.