Chen Xiaogong, retired airforce lieutenant general, graduated from Jilin  University and the People’s Liberation Army Military Academy. He  served successively as Defense attaché in Chinese Embassy in Egypt and  in the U.S.A from 1998 to 2003. He worked in the position of the Deputy  Director-General of the Foreign Affairs Office of the Central Commission  of CPC from 2003 to 2006. He was appointed Assistant Chief of the  General Staff in 2007. In 2009, he served as Deputy Commander of  the PLA Air Force. Chen Xiaogong was a deputy to the 11th and 12th  National People’s Congress.