Great news comes from Lenovo’s global largest PC R&D and manufacturing base — Lianbao (Hefei) Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (LCFC), as the company has successfully rolled off its 300 millionth PC. Surpassing the 300 million unit mark in PC shipments, this milestone achievement sets a new record for Lenovo’s manufacturing sector. It signifies that LCFC has become one of the world’s top single-site PC manufacturers by shipment volume, underscoring the further consolidation of its leading position in the global PC R&D and manufacturing industry, as well as the enhanced prominence of its scale advantages and industry influence.
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As a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lenovo Group, Lianbao (Hefei) Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (LCFC) settled in Hefei Economic and Technological Development Zone in 2011. It took only 14 months from groundbreaking to the roll-off of the first batch of products, creating the commendable "LCFC Speed". In 2020, LCFC achieved an annual revenue of 101.6 billion yuan, becoming Hefei’s first enterprise with a 100-billion-yuan revenue scale. The following year, its total import and export volume exceeded 10 billion US dollars, making it Anhui’s first foreign trade enterprise with a 10-billion-US-dollar turnover. Its products are sold well in 126 countries and regions worldwide—one out of every eight laptops sold globally is produced by LCFC.
Since its establishment, Lianbao (Hefei) Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. (LCFC) has continuously consolidated its four core capabilities: innovative R&D, intelligent manufacturing, agile supply, and outstanding quality. By constantly optimizing production processes, improving automation rates, and enhancing digital management capabilities, the company has achieved remarkable results in technological R&D, product innovation, supply chain security, intelligent manufacturing, and quality improvement.
To date, LCFC has built an R&D network spanning four locations across the Taiwan Strait: Hefei, Taipei, Shenzhen, and Kunshan. It boasts over 2,500 technical personnel, launches more than 100 new products annually, and owns a full range of star products including Yoga, Legion, ThinkPad, ThinkBook, and Xiaoxin, with over 2,000 authorized patents. The intelligent motherboard workshop achieves an automation rate of 90%, enabling remote debugging, one-click model changeover, as well as positive feedback and reverse error correction functions. The lean assembly workshop has a maximum daily output of 150,000 complete machines, and the benchmark production line "Mercury Line" is the Group’s first fully independently constructed production line with complete intellectual property rights. Supporting an annual shipment capacity of 40 million units, the company has established a robust supplier system in the industry, forming in-depth cooperative relationships with over 500 enterprises worldwide to realize smart warehousing and global shipping. In terms of quality assurance, LCFC has built excellent quality competitiveness and customer satisfaction. Adhering to the "Extreme Left Shift" concept, it continuously advances the starting point of quality management. In the AI era, with the empowerment of digitalization and intelligence, the company pursues ultimate improvements in reliability.
Thanks to its leading and balanced comprehensive strength, LCFC has successively been recognized as a National Export Quality and Safety Demonstration Enterprise, a National Intelligent Manufacturing Demonstration Base, a National-level Industrial Design Center, a National-level Green Factory, and a National Intellectual Property Demonstration Enterprise. In 2023, it was certified as a global "Lighthouse Factory".
