Playing the position of power forward for the Ducks, he won three CBA championships and served as the team's captain.
[1] He was also a member of the Liaoning provincial team which finished 4th at the 2005 National Games of China.
[2] In 2007, Liaoning loaned Ji to the Beijing Ducks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA).
In August 2018, Ji was diagnosed with lung cancer, but did not publicly disclose the news and quietly sought treatment in the United States.
Despite more than a year of treatment, his health deteriorated and he died on 5 December 2019 at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing, aged 33.