Qi served as Commander of the 12th Group Army from 2002 to 2005 , Director of Combat of the Joint Staff Department from 2005 to 2008 , Assistant to the Chief of Joint Staff from 2009 to 2012 , and was promoted to Deputy Chief of Joint Staff in 2012 . He was also head of the China International Institute for Strategic Society ( 中国国际战略学会 ) , with responsibility for military intelligence and diplomacy , until being replaced by Sun Jianguo , a fellow Deputy Chief of Joint Staff , in 2013 . Qi was one of the military commanders of the relief efforts after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake
2008 Sichuan earthquake
2008 Sichuan earthquake
Qi Jianguo