• In 1984, Legend was established.

In 1984, with an investment of RMB200,000 from ICT of CAS, 11 researchers including Liu Chuanzhi founded the ICT New Technology Development Company (Legend’s predecessor) in a reception office.

• In 1985，the Chinese Character Card was launched.

In 1985, Legend successfully developed its first hit product, the Chinese Character Card, and received the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology (first class).

• In 1986, Legend broke new ground of agency business.

Since 1986, Legend had worked as an agency for international PC brands, so as to accumulate investment capital, and gain market understanding, laying grounds for the launch of PCs under its own brand.

• Legend Hong Kong was established in 1988

• In 1988, Legend made its first open recruitment.

Legend started its open recruitment in May 1988. A group of fresh undergraduate and graduate students joined Legend, injecting vitality into the development of the company.

• In 1990, Legend’s own brand PC was born.

• In 1994, the PC Division was set up and Lenovo Group was listed in Hong Kong.

In the 1990s, the country lifted the bar of import approval and slashed tariff, resulting in a large number of internationally renowned PC brands pouring into the Chinese market, and local brands suffered a huge impact. Legend was determined to persist in developing its own brand PC, and in 1994, it took the initiative to adjust its organizational structure to compete head-to-head with international PC giants. In the same year, Lenovo was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange with the stock code HK0992.

• In 1997, Lenovo PC became No. 1 in China by market share.

• In 1997, Beijing and Hong Kong businesses were integrated.

• In 2000, Lenovo PC ranked No. 1 in market share in the Asia-Pacific region (excluding Japan) for the first time.

• In 2001, Legend was spun off.

In 2001, Legend was split into Lenovo Group (0992) engaged in own-branded business and Digital China (0861) engaged in agency distribution and system integration business in order to promote the more focused development of the above two main businesses.

• Digital China, after the spin-off, was listed on the mainboard of Hong Kong Stock Exchange on June 1, 2001.

• In 2001, Legend Holdings carried out shareholding reform.

• In 2001, Legend Capital was established.

In 2001, Legend Holdings founded Legend Capital (later renamed “Jun Lian Zi Ben” in Chinese) with US$35 million as the first fund, with the purpose of empowering and promoting the growth of innovative and entrepreneurial enterprises in China through "equity investment + value-added services".

• In 2003, Hony Capital was established.

In 2003, Legend Holdings founded Hony Capital, focusing on promoting the development of China’s real economy with “Intelligent investing for all” as its mission.

• In 2003, Legend Holdings established the corporate vision.

With the mission of serving the country through industry, Legend Holdings is committed to becoming a respected and trusted global holding company, with equity in leading enterprises in multiple industries and international influence.

• In 2003, Lenovo Group announced the new logo “Lenovo”.

• In 2004, Lenovo fought on two fronts, defeated strong rivals and acquired IBM's global PC business.

In the early 2004, facing the strong challenges of the direct-sell model of foreign competitors, Lenovo Group made a major strategic change - focusing on PC, adopting the "dual model" business pattern, re-organizing and designing the supply chain, channels, customers, products, etc. Lenovo eventually beat all rivals, thus laying a solid foundation for internationalization.

On December 8, 2004, Lenovo announced the acquisition of IBM’s global PC business, entering the international arena and participating in global competition.

• In 2004, Lenovo became the first global partner of The Olympic Program (TOP) from China.

• In 2004, the CSR Development Plan was established.

On its 20th anniversary, Legend Holdings established the company's CSR development plan and incorporated it into its overall development strategy.

• In 2008, Legend Star was established.

In 2008, Legend Holdings worked with CAS together and set up the Legend Institute of the CAS. The Legend Star Entrepreneur/CEO Training Class hosted by Legend Holdings was dedicated to resolve the bottleneck of talent issue during the course of the commercialization of scientific and technological achievements. Today, Legend Star has developed a featured model of “Early Investment + In-depth Incubation”, empowering the development of Innovative and entrepreneurial start-ups in China.

• In 2009, Lenovo reported a loss. Founder Liu Chuanzhi came back.

At the beginning of 2009, due to the combined impact of the global financial crisis, Lenovo slid into a big loss. Liu Chuanzhi returned as the Chairman of Board, while Yang Yuanqing, the former-chairman, took the position of CEO. They launched a series of measures and turned business from loss to profit in just two quarters.

• In 2009, as part of the overall arrangement of the corporate socialization reform of CAS, Legend Holdings introduced social resources to further improve its corporate governance structure.

• In 2010, Legend Holdings set out its Mid-term Development Strategy.

• In 2010, Levmia Group was established.

In order to serve the country solving the problem of high dependence on imports of some high-end materials, Legend Holdings established Levima Group, committed to building a large-scale, influential and comprehensively competitive advanced material industry cluster.

• In 2011, Liu Chuanzhi stepped down as chairman of the board of directors of Lenovo Group.

• In 2012, Zhu Linan was appointed President of Legend Holdings.

• In 2012, Legend Capital changed its Chinese name to “Jun Lian Zi Ben”.

• In 2012, Joyvio Group was established.

Joyvio Group is an agriculture and food industry group built by Legend Holdings, with fruit and high-end animal protein as its core businesses, and actively deploys ready-to-cook products and agricultural food technology.

• In 2013, Lenovo PC emerged as world’s No. 1 by market share.

• In 2014, Lenovo completed the acquisition of Motorola Mobility.

• In 2014, Lenovo completed the acquisition of the IBM x86 server business.

• In 2015, Legend Holdings was listed on the main board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

• In 2015, Joyvio and Golden Wing Mau announced their strategic merger to build a world-class fruit enterprise.

On December 16, Joyvio Group's fruit business and China's largest fruit supply chain company, Golden Wing Mau Group, officially announced a strategic merger, both reaching a milestone of growth. The merged "Joyvio Golden Wing Mau" has now become China's largest full-scale fruit industry chain global company, and continues to contribute to the development of agriculture through science and technology.

• In 2017, CAS Holdings Ltd. Strategically invested RMB850 million in Levima Advanced Materials Co., Ltd.

This strategic investment can fully realize the complementary advantages of the R&D and technical reserves of CAS and the industrial foundation, management experience and operational capabilities of Levima Advanced Materials, and further promote the transformation and upgrading of the industry.

• In 2018, Legend Holdings was approved to become the first pilot company of "full circulation" in the H-share Market.

On April 23, Legend Holdings received the approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission for the company's application and became the first pilot company of "full circulation" in the H-share.

• In 2018, Legend Holdings strategically invested in Banque Internationale à Luxembourg.

On July 2 2018, Legend Holdings completed the acquisition of the 89.936% stake in Banque Internationale à Luxembourg. This strategic investment would improve the overall value and financial stability of Legend Holdings, providing better return to the shareholders, and at the same time, offering support to Chinese companies and Chinese-invested financial institutions "going global", while actively "bringing in" foreign capital.

• In 2019, the Completion of the Hereditary Succession at Legend Holdings

On December 18 2019, Liu Chuanzhi, Chairman of the Board, Executive Director of Legend Holdings, and Founder of Lenovo Group retired as the Chairman and Executive Director of the Company in accordance with a predesignated plan. Zhu Linan, Executive Director and President of Legend Holdings, resigned as the President. As a result of the recommendation from the Nomination Committee of Legend Holdings’ Board of Directors and resolution passed by Board of Directors, Ning Min, Executive Director, Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Legend Holdings, took over as Chairman of the Board, and was appointed as the Chairman of the Nomination Committee and Strategy Committee. Meanwhile, Li Peng, Senior Vice President, was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer, following the resolution passed by the Board of Directors.

• In 2020, Levima Advanced Materials was successfully listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange

On December 8, Levima Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. was officially listed on the SMEs Board of Shenzhen Stock Exchange. After that, the percentage shareholding of Legend Holdings in Levima Advanced Materials was 51.77%.

Levima Advanced Materials is another result of Legend Holdings, which started from greenfield investment and promoted the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements and the development of the real economy. After listing, Levima Advanced Materials continues to focus on the direction of advanced materials, pays attention to the "bottleneck" field of high-end advanced materials that the country needs and the market is in short supply, and emphasize on building an excellent advanced materials platform enterprise in the fields of new energy materials, biological materials, and special materials of sub-categories.