15:08:00, Oct. 10^th, 2008

The Organizing Committee of the 11th National Games of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter “the Games 11” for short) signed the cooperative agreement with Inspur Group in Jinan on Oct. 10^th, 2008, and declared Inspur Group to be the cooperative partner of IT products and services in 2009 Games 11. Huang Sheng, vice-governor of Shandong Province and vice-director and secretary general of the Organizing Committee of the Games 11, Si Anmin, deputy secretary-general of Shandong provincial government and executive vice secretary-general and office administrator of Organizing Committee of Games 11, and Sun Pishu, Inspur president and CEO, were present in the scene of the signing ceremony.

Information technology is an important insurance for the smooth process of modern sports events. As cooperative partner of the Games 11, Inspur Group will provide whole line IT software and hardware all-in-one products and technological services during the whole year from the day when the agreement is signed to the end of the Games. This will ensure that all national sports enthusiasts can synchronously share splendid moments of the Games 11 and that media, staff and volunteers can timely calculate, store, deliver and output information about the Games.

Inspur Group President and CEO Sun Pishu said: we Inspur men feel honored and proud to be the partner of the Games 11, and we know it is the responsibility bestowed on us by history. Inspur Group committed to provide advanced IT technological devices, organize excellent teams of technology application and services guarantee to ensure stable and efficient performance of the IT system. The enterprising spirit of Inspur is in line with sportsmanship: Inspur men and sportsmen all look at the world high levels in different fields and try to catch up with or exceed those advanced world levels. Moreover, the sportsmanship is of “challenge the limits, surpass the self” brings passion and vigor to the corporate culture of Inspur and thus promotes Inspur to be an “innovative, market-oriented and globalized well-known company”.

According to the Organizing Committee, the National Games is a domestic sports event of the largest size. The selection qualifications and procedures of partners are very strict, which require that the selected enterprises should be ranked the top at home in respective fields. Inspur Group is a well-known manufacturer of computing technical devices at home and the only one able to provide all-round software and hardware all-in-one solution whose products and services have extensive influence and good reputation in Chinese market. We believe that with its strength in technology and products, it will provide an efficient, safe and environment-friendly IT runtime environment for the Games 11.

On the signing ceremony, Vice-governor Huang Sheng awarded copper tablet and honorary certificate of partnership for Inspur Group.