The "new" dividend of AI for small and medium-sized enterprises has arrived.

The wave of intelligence is surging, washing over the shores of the business world and redefining the order on the "beach". 

In short-video and e-commerce live-streaming rooms, it is digital humans that are indistinguishable from real ones who fluently introduce products; in factory workshops, it is not employees but mechanical arms and robots that "walk"... The intelligent transformation empowered by AI is becoming the core driving force for the growth of thousands of industries. 

Small and medium-sized enterprises, as business entities accounting for more than 90% of the Chinese market, their intelligent transformation path is the key to the integration of the digital and real economies. The 2024 "Government Work Report" clearly proposed to "promote the specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative development of small and medium-sized enterprises", and responsible "chain leader" enterprises are also actively seeking "answers". 

LENOVO, with the dual identities of a "dual-practical" enterprise and a "chain leader" enterprise, is one of them. 

The second season of LENOVO's "New Business Innovation and Ecological Roadshow" has arrived as scheduled. This business innovation IP will focus on "AI towards the Real" this year, focusing on three cutting-edge AI tracks: AI PC-side intelligent technology, AI application innovation, and advanced manufacturing. By building a new ecology of "two-way empowerment", it leads the industry to continue to move forward.

Expand the ecological circle of friends, attract more large enterprise partners, and increase the introduction of local governments and government-side forces such as state investment; upgrade the roadshow competition, and further screen high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises with innovation capabilities through online and offline dual roadshows; promote multi-point collaboration in different ecological circles, and accelerate the integrated innovation and commercial realization of large, medium, and small enterprises... Leading ideas, practical methods, and solid practices will all be vividly demonstrated in this competition. 

All participating projects will receive assistance from LENOVO in multiple dimensions, including production and research co-creation, ecological opening, capital support, business expansion, brand empowerment, and service empowerment. And the winning projects will also obtain entrepreneurial resources and guidance provided by a think tank composed of LENOVO group executives, well-known entrepreneurs, and investor experts, as well as the opportunity to have closed-door exchange meetings with top investment institutions and industry-leading enterprises, and the top exposure support from top media. 

Do the right thing and do it right. In the previous "Ecological Roadshow Season", more than 400 innovative projects in the cutting-edge AI industrial chain were gathered, witnessing their excellent ideas and business practices; many outstanding innovative projects have entered the POC stage and integrated into industrial applications in a more agile and practical way. 

AI towards the Real accelerates the landing of AI in business and industry; the Ecology towards the New gathers more open resources, laying a smooth path for small and medium-sized enterprises to move towards "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative". For 40 years, LENOVO has continuously focused on serving the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and has explored a "three-step" transformation path for small and medium-sized enterprises of "venture capital, post-investment, and on-chain" from five empowerment dimensions of technology, supply chain, platform, ecology, and green. Up to now, LENOVO has served more than 7 million small and medium-sized enterprises and supported the intelligent transformation of more than 30,000 specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative enterprises, including more than 3,000 specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative "little giant" enterprises. 

A visible business stage, a channel that can link multiple ecological circles for two-way or even multilateral empowerment, and a platform IP that accelerates the integrated development and commercial realization of large, medium, and small enterprises is gradually being clearly established. 

In an era of everything moving towards the new, how can entrepreneurial teams overcome the risks in the business world? How can innovation be efficiently implemented in the actual industrial scenarios? How can solutions find those who really need them? The charm of the business world lies in the courage to explore. Now, with a strong "partner" by your side, are you willing to embark on a business adventure? 

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