The issuer's predecessor was the New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. It is a privately owned enterprise approved by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and funded by the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on November 9, 1984. The registered capital is RMB 1,300,000. In June 1990, with the approval of the High Technology Enterprise Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the New Technology Development Company of the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences reduced its registered capital to RMB 1,000,000 and changed its name to Beijing Lenovo Computer Technology Development Company in April 1991. In August 1998, with approval from the High Technology Promotion and Enterprise Bureau of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing Lenovo Computer Technology Development Company changed its name to Lenovo Group Holding Company and increased its registered capital to RMB 100,000,000. In April 2000, with approval from the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, it was agreed to restructure Lenovo Group Holdings into a limited liability company. On June 22, 2001, with the approval of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lenovo Group Holdings completed the restructuring and changed its name to Lenovo Holdings Co., Ltd. on the same day. The registered capital is RMB 660,860,399.40, of which the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the former Workers' Shareholding Association contributed RMB 429,559,259.61 and RMB 231,301,139.79 respectively, with holding ratios of 65% and 35%, respectively. In August 2013, Lenovo Holdings Co., Ltd. began a shareholding system reform and conducted an independent assessment of its net assets as of June 30, 2013. According to the evaluation report, the audited net asset book value is RMB 2,529,122,962, which is used to determine the amount of capital required by the sponsor to register the company. On January 23, 2014, with the approval of the Chinese Academy of Sciences's “Approval for the Overall Change and Establishment of Lenovo Holdings Co., Ltd.” (Letter Issued by Ke (2014) No. 9), Guoke Holdings Co., Ltd. initiated the establishment of Lenovo Holdings Co., Ltd. on the basis of the net assets of its parent company, which had been audited as of June 30, 2013, by Guoke Holdings, China, Lianheng Yongxin, Liu Chuanzhi, Zhu Linan, Chen Shaopeng, Tang Xudong, Ning Min, and Huang Shaokang. The share capital is RMB 2,000,000,000, and the shareholders' shareholding ratio remains unchanged. On February 18, 2014, the Beijing Administration for Industry and Commerce issued a new business license to the issuer. Following the “Approval of the Issuance of Overseas Listed Foreign Shares by Lenovo Holdings Co., Ltd.” (Securities Regulatory License (2015) No. 676) issued by the China Securities Regulatory Commission on April 20, 2015, the issuer completed the issuance of shares (H shares) to overseas investors and listed and traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on June 29, 2015. The stock code is 3396.HK. As of December 31, 2015, the total share capital of the Company was RMB 2,356,230,900. On January 25, 2016, the issuer's address was changed to 1701, 17th Floor, Building 1, No. 2, Science Academy South Road, Haidian District, Beijing. On April 23, 2018, the issuer was approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission and became the first pilot enterprise in the H share “full circulation” pilot. On June 6, 2018, a total of no more than 0.88 billion domestic shares held by the issuer's eight shareholders were converted into H shares which can be listed and traded on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. After this conversion, the share structure of Lenovo Holdings will be: domestic shares of about 1.084 billion shares, accounting for about 46.02%; H shares of about 1.27 billion shares, accounting for about 53.98%. Announcement on December 19, 2019: Ning Min is the chairman and Li Peng is the general manager.