CIMC Vehicles (Group) Co., Ltd. designs, manufactures, sells, and services semi-trailers worldwide. It also wholesales and retails vehicles, auto parts, and metal materials, and processes and manufactures general mechanical products, metal structures, and related goods. Its offerings include chassis, tractors, spare parts, trailers and accessories, containers such as folding and tank containers, composite material products, tank trucks, and automobile trailers, along with special, modified, and transport vehicles and mechanical and metal structure parts. The company additionally sells automobiles, trams, auto parts, metal materials, hardware, electronic and mechanical equipment, and chemical products; handles import and export of goods and technologies; operates highways and parking lots; provides land freight transportation, domestic freight forwarding, and leasing of machinery, vehicles, and containers; and engages in warehousing development, construction, operation, leasing, and sales, property management and investment, motor vehicle inspection, vehicle storage, warehousing, computer software, and logistics activities, as well as technical consulting. Its products are marketed under the CIMC Lighthouse, Vanguard, CIE, SDC, LAG, Ruijiang Tanker, and Tonghua Tanker brands. Formerly Shenzhen Tianda Heavy Industries Ltd., it changed its name to CIMC Vehicles (Group) Co., Ltd. in May 2005, was incorporated in 1996, and is headquartered in Shenzhen, the People's Republic of China.