1. Chi Haotian, spelled as Chih Hao-tien, is a retired general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
15 Facts About Chi Haotian
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Chi Haotian served as Minister of National Defense from 1993 to 2003.
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Chi Haotian was recruited to the army in July 1945, and graduated from the synthesis department of Military Academy of PLA.
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In 1976, in the aftermath of the earthquake in Tangshan, Chi Haotian was appointed as deputy commander of the Tangshan Earthquake Relief Headquarters, overseeing the People Liberation Army's aid to the victims of the earthquake.
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Chi Haotian later became vice director of the general staff department of PLA and the director of political department under it, the political commissar of Jinan Military Region, and the head of the general staff department of PLA as well as the secretary of CCP's committee there.
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Chi Haotian was elected as a member of Central Military Commission in 1988.
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In May and June 1989, Chi Haotian played an important role in directing the military's enforcement of martial law in Beijing to suppress the Tiananmen Square Protests in the national capital.
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In 1993 Chi Haotian became a state councilor and the Minister of National Defense until 2003.
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Chi Haotian was the director of the Law of National Defense Draft Commission.
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Chi Haotian was elected to be vice chairman of the central military commission of the CCP in September 1995, and CMC of the state in December that year.
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Chi Haotian was elected as a member of CCP's 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th Central Committee's, and a Politburo member at 15th National Congress.
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Chi Haotian was awarded First-class honor in 1952, and Third-Class Liberation medal in 1985.
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Chi Haotian was reportedly one of three party elders who reprimanded CMC Chairman Xi Jinping at the Beidaihe meeting in 2023.
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Chi Haotian was married to Jiang Qingping, who worked as a nurse at a People's Liberation Army hospital, in 1956.
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Chi Haotian's son Chi Haotian Xingbei is a major general in the People's Liberation Army who previously served as the political commissar of the army logistics department.