Ni Guangnan, 1939, was born in Zhenhai County, Zhejiang Province (now zhenhai district, Ningbo). He is currently a researcher at the Institute of Computing of China Academy of Sciences, an academician of China Academy of Engineering, the fifth and sixth directors of the Chinese Information Society of China, and concurrently the deputy director of the cloud computing expert committee and the Internet of Things expert committee of the Chinese Institute of Electronics, the director of the china electronic chamber of commerce Internet of Things expert committee and the Haidian Management Committee of Zhongguancun Science Park, the consultant of the National School of Administration expert committee, the expert of the National Electronic Document Management Expert Committee and the expert of the National Information Security Evaluation Center. He used to be a counselor of Beijing Municipal People's Government, a deputy to the Eighth National People's Congress, a member of the Eighth and Ninth China People's Political Consultative Conference, and a special member of the Fifth all-china youth federation.

196 1 graduated from the radio department of Nanjing Institute of Technology (now Southeast University), and then worked in the Department of Computing of China Academy of Sciences. For decades, he has been engaged in the research and development of computers and their applications. He participated in the development of the first electron tube computer (1 19 computer) designed in China, and studied Chinese character processing and character recognition in the 1960s and 1970s, which was the first application of Chinese character input. 198 1- 1983 was a visiting researcher (VRO) at the National Research Institute of Canada (NRC). At the end of 1984, the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences set up a computing company (the predecessor of Lenovo Group) to transform scientific and technological achievements. As the chief engineer, he presided over the development of Lenovo Chinese character system, which created great economic and social benefits. 1988 won the first prize of national scientific and technological progress, and 1 1 the computing company was renamed Lenovo. Since then, he has served as the company's director and chief engineer, presided over the development of Lenovo series microcomputers, established the company's main business, and 1992 won the first prize of national scientific and technological progress. In addition, in 1990, he was awarded the title of expert with outstanding contributions from young people; 199 1 year, won the national special allowance and the Yilida Science and Technology Award; 1992 was rewarded by Chinese Academy of Sciences; 1994 was selected as the first academician of China Academy of Engineering.

In recent years, we are committed to promoting the domestic open standards such as Linux and CPU, and the national standard UOF of domestic software and document format in China, and making suggestions for promoting the formulation of relevant industrial policies.