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Lenovo’s Next Generation Hope Fund is helping redefine

how Lenovo and our employees support the communities

where we live and do business. We enable doers to

do more through social investment programs targeting education, entrepreneurship, disaster relief and regional community outreach. Lenovo provides assistance through financial contributions, equipment donations, and employee volunteer hours. As a company, Lenovo annually commits up to 1% of pre-tax income to global social investment programs. To measure success, we evaluate the effectiveness of each investment against predefined goals upon program completion.

Lenovo aims to advance, enhance and extend education at all levels. We support education-related programs and initiatives through our industry-leading products and technologies, community investments and program sponsorships. We do not limit the scope of our education related social investments, but rather we consider each opportunity based on its own merits. Lenovo donates equipment, provides financial contributions and lends expertise to schools and related organizations across all global markets. Lenovo supports global education investments in both K-12 and higher education.

Lenovo North America employees volunteered more than 7,500 hours in local communities, focusing on K-12 disadvantaged youth and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education.

Lenovo North America invests in causes that support K-12 disadvantaged youth with a focus on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education. With the goal of empowering young people with technology and building future leaders, Lenovo donated technology and strengthened partnerships with various nonprofit organizations, including Boys & Girls Clubs, YMCA, Kenan Fellows Program for Curriculum and Leadership Development and Kramden Institute, a nonprofit that refurbishes used PCs for students without computer access in their homes.

In 2013, Lenovo partnered with the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation in the United States and donated 250 IdeaPad Yoga tablets, with a value of approximately US$50,000. The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation is dedicated to helping inner city youth reach their full potential in life. The Foundation aspires to reach those children whose dreams and passions are limited due to financial circumstances and provide them with opportunities that allow them to see the value in their education and planning for their future.

During FY2013/14, Lenovo announced a new partnership

with Plan International to support and fund its Open

Space Literacy Program, which aims to increase the quality of education in primary schools around the world. Founded over 75 years ago, Plan International is one of the world’s top 10 NGOs and one of the oldest and largest children’s development organizations in the world. Plan works in 50 developing countries across Africa, Asia and the Americas to promote child rights and lift millions of children out of poverty. As part of the joint effort with Plan, Lenovo will be donating a sum of US$115,000 over a period of two years to equip 50 schools in Kenya with new X131e laptops, which are built for education. Lenovo devices will provide students with access to quality digital educational content and, in return, help them transform their lives and realize their full potential.

A Room to Read Social Mobilizer in India uses a Lenovo laptop during a workshop with the program’s at-risk girls.

In 2013, Lenovo’s Asia Pacific/Latin America region established an exclusive technology partnership with Room to Read, one of the world’s fastest growing NGOs. Lenovo donated US$400,000 worth of ThinkPad laptops to support its Girls’ Education Program in India, Vietnam and other countries across Asia Pacific. The program, which aims to abolish illiteracy among more than 16,000 at-risk girls in the region, is facilitated by Girls’ Education Social Mobilizers that used to lack the resources to effectively run their lessons and workshops.

Since the partnership began, over 170 laptops have been shipped, with more than 130 additional units to follow. The introduction of this equipment has been hugely beneficial to the program, enabling greater efficiency and clarity of communication. Since receiving the units, the Social Mobilizers have used the laptops in life skills training sessions with at-risk girls, discussions and parent meetings. Room to Read’s senior spokespersons also use Lenovo ThinkPad technology as they travel around the world to raise awareness about the organization and its mission.

Lenovo delegation at the Women’s Forum 2013.

For seven years, Lenovo has been a corporate sponsor and technology partner of the Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society. The objective of the forum is to highlight and enhance women’s contributions to the economy and society and to provide new approaches to issues.

Lenovo China’s investment in venture philanthropy, an innovative approach focused on grass-roots NGOs in China, aims to increase capability and skill building in the areas of strategic planning, IT, HR and financial management. Since 2009, 8.6 million RMB (approximately US$1.4 million) in financial assistance has been donated to over 33 NGOs across the country.

As a new endeavor based on the venture philanthropy project, Lenovo China focused on education during fiscal year 2013/14. In cooperation with the YouChange China Social Entrepreneur Foundation, Lenovo initiated the Lenovo Flipped Classroom project which is aimed at providing quality educational resources and experiences to schools in remote areas in China by utilizing information technology. In the project, Lenovo has provided its digital devices as teaching assistance appliances to six schools in China, and plans to roll out to more schools next year.

Students having English lessons with Lenovo Tablets on at ChengXiang Middle School of Fu Ping County, Hebei Province, P.R. China (December 2013).

The Lenovo China Volunteers Association (LCVA), a volunteer organization formed by Lenovo China employees in 2008, now has over 3,500 employee members and approximately 50 committee members in China. This program is focused on sustainability initiatives in China, including narrowing the digital divide, environmental protection, educational assistance, poverty alleviation, and disaster relief. China’s LCVA is instrumental in driving active and ongoing employee volunteer programs and is a critical component of Lenovo’s social responsibility initiatives.

Lenovo has a long-standing practice of assisting communities around the world when disaster strikes. Lenovo and its employees are committed to helping those less fortunate and to lend a helping hand to those who are unable to provide for themselves. In November 2013, the East Asia Region team rallied to help the people of the Philippines who were affected by Typhoon Haiyan. Local country teams collected donations on the ground and partnered with local relief organizations to send supplies including food, clothing and medicine to the affected areas. Also, during FY2013/14, Lenovo donated US$25,000 to support tornado disaster relief efforts in the state of Oklahoma in the United States.

Lenovo’s regional offices have established extensive relationships with their local communities and regional non-governmental organizations. These regional offices support education, the environment and social causes unique to their communities.

Nearly 200 Lenovo North America employees volunteered to help build seven homes for Habitat for Humanity in 2013.

During fiscal year 2013/14, Lenovo North America employees volunteered more than 7,500 hours of their time to support their local communities. Since 2005, Lenovo and its U.S. employees have contributed more than US$9 million to nonprofit organizations. In addition, during fiscal year 2013/14 Lenovo U.S. employees donated 28,000 items for military care package drives, collected 2,700 pounds of food for food bank drives, and provided over 12,000 items for school supply drives. In the East Asia Region, Lenovo embarked on the “Power Up Kids Project” in March 2014. The Project was designed to engage and mobilize millennials to take action for positive change within their communities in Indonesia. Working with a local NGO, Sahabat Anak, and a group of volunteer street artists, Graffiteach, the Power Up Kids Project implemented a unique education method that engaged street kids in learning through pictures sketched on the Lenovo Yoga Tablet and drawn on walls by Graffiteach artists, rather than from conventional text books. Teachers from Sahabat Anak then explained the lessons contained in the pictures to the kids thus creating a warm and interactive learning environment.

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123 INdEPENdENT AUdITOr’S rEPOrT 124 CONSOLIdATEd INCOmE STATEmENT

125 CONSOLIdATEd STATEmENT OF COmPrEHENSIVE INCOmE 126 CONSOLIdATEd BALANCE SHEET

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129 CONSOLIdATEd CASH FLOW STATEmENT

130 CONSOLIdATEd STATEmENT OF CHANGES IN EQUITY 131 NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEmENTS

The directors of Lenovo Group Limited (the “Company”) submit their report together with the audited financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Group”) for the year ended March 31, 2014.

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