Ji Defa (纪德法) - The Wire China

Ji Defa, 73, is founder of Shanghai STEP Electric Corporation. He founded the firm in 1995 as a manufacturer of elevator control systems and expanded it into a producer of industrial robots. The Shenzhen-listed firm has a market cap of $1.9 billion…

…appliances giant Haier is its controlling shareholder. Ji has a master’s degree in industrial automation from Shandong University.

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