[Original article in Chinese. Title translation, and following summary of the article's key points, provided by Business & Human Rights Resource Centre.] In Greenpeace’s August 2006 report, Lenovo, the only Chinese brand ranked, was at the bottom end of the ‘green’ brand ranking charts due to its lack of de-toxification programs and weak material recycling policy. Yet on 6 December, due to its solid commitment to and swift improvement in its green policy, Lenovo was ranked 8th in the Greenpeace Guide to Greener Electronics, surpassing Sony, Samsung and Apple. The Guide ranks 14 major electronic brands in terms of their policies on removing hazardous materials and in recycling. In the August assessment, Lenovo not only lagged behind in the categories of ‘cautionary principle’, ‘individual producer responsibility’ and ‘amounts recycled’ but it also lacked a de-toxification program. In December, the company’s commitment to totally eliminating the use of PVC and brominated flame retardants (BFRs) by 2009 won it top marks. Chen Yu-hui, a Greenpeace campaigner, was impressed with Lenovo’s swift improvement in just 3 months, adding that it took Greenpeace more than one year to convince Dell to implement a de-toxification program. However, Lenovo still does not have any recycling program for its customers while its competitor Dell has already launched a global recycling program.