In December 2015, Jin tied for 11th at the Asian Tour's Thailand Golf Championship for his best career finish outside of China.

In his PGA Tour China career, through the 2015 season, Jin has played 18 events, making the cut 13 times and recording six top-10s, including the victory.

Junior Amateur in Bluffton, South Carolina as the top-ranked player in the field, but he lost in the first round of match play to Norway's Kristoffer Reitan.

In November 2015, the USC Trojans announced that Jin had signed a national letter of intent to play collegiate golf there, beginning in 2016.

[4] Jin won the rain-shortened 2015 Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship at Hong Kong's Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club to earn entry into the 2016 Masters Tournament.