He was a research professor at the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS).
Gao was born in January 1930 in Guanghua County (now Laohekou), Hubei, Republic of China.
[1] After graduating from Provincial Jiangling High School, he entered Wuhan University in 1950 to study law.
He entered the Department of Law of Moscow State University in November 1956, and graduated in February 1961 with an associate doctor degree.
[1] In August 2006, he was among the first batch of scholars to be elected honorary academicians of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.