Since April 2019, he has served as Director of the Logistic Support Department of the Central Military Commission.

Gao Jin was born in Jingjiang, Taizhou, Jiangsu province in 1959, to parents who were both PLA soldiers.

He joined the PLA in 1978 without telling his family, and spent most of his career in the Second Artillery Corps, China's strategic missile force.

[1] On December 31, 2015, as part of wide-ranging reforms of the People's Liberation Army, Gao was named first commander of the PLA Strategic Support Force.

The Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily has praised him as a "technologically powerful military leader.