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| Industry | Automotive |
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| Founded | 1999 |
| Founder | Leiled Tji andTong Jian |
| Headquarters | , |
| Services | Automotive design and engineering |
| Website | www.tji.cn |
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| Traditional Chinese | 上海同濟同捷科技股份有限公司 | ||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 上海同济同捷科技股份有限公司 | ||||||
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TJ Innova Engineering & Technology Co., Ltd. (上海同济同捷科技股份有限公司), abbreviated asTJI, is a privatedesign company for theautomotive industry. They are specialized in creating vehicle concepts and in the building ofdesign studies andconcept cars. The company was founded in 1999 by ProfessorLeiled Tji andTong Jian. The company is located inShanghai.
Leiled Tji began his career in the automotive industry in 1989 with a cooperation with theFirst Automotive Works and inliaisons with theChangchun Auto Research Institute and theHarbin Industry University. Two years later he has founded theAuto Technology Institute as a part of the FAW Group. For his first time he had devoted himself to create design studies. In 1999 he founded TJI which was his first independent company. TJI worked for a lot ofChinese andJapanese companies.
TJI was the first Chinese company in using modern digital tools like3D CAD[citation needed]. Currently the company employs more than 1,400 workers and receives orders from many renownedChinese andJapanese companies. Famous series models from this design company are theLifan 520, theSoueast/Mitsubishi Zinger and theSoueast Lioncel.[1] The most famous concept car from TJI is theTJ Innova Lightning[2][3] supersportscar which was shown in its first generation on the 2005Shanghai Auto Show. The first generation is very similar to the one year later introducedFerrari 599 GTB[citation needed]. In the second generation which was presented in 2009 the model showed similarities to theMaserati GranTurismo and theAston Martin DB9. TJ Innova is a registeredbrand name andtrademark. TJI already has received a lot of several awards like the New Most Growth Enterprise, the Award for Innovation Elite of Yangtze Delta Area, Award for Science & Technology Progress and the Award for Special Contribution for Independent Design.[4]
