Background
Sun Jianguo was born in 1952 in Wuqiao, Hebei Province.
孙建国
Sun Jianguo was born in 1952 in Wuqiao, Hebei Province.
He joined the People"s Liberation Army in 1968, and graduated from the PLA Navy Submarine Academy in 1978.
He has served as Deputy Chief of the PLA General Staff Department since 2009. From 1996 to 2000 he served as deputy commander of the Navy submarine base and President of the Submarine Academy. In 2013, Sun replaced Qi Jianguo as head of the China International Institute for Strategic Society, taking over responsibility for military intelligence and diplomacy.
Sun was an alternate member of the 17th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and is a full member of the 18th Central Committee.