Jin's first international point was registered on the biggest stage of them all, in the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, an assist on a Ma Xiaojun goal against Germany.

The following year, she won bronze at the women's ice hockey tournament at the 2003 Asian Winter Games in Aomori Prefecture.

Between 2004 and 2009, Jin represented her home country in the top division of the IIHF World Championship, as China placed seventh in 2004, sixth in 2005 and 2007, eighth in 2008, and ninth in 2009.

[5] She represented her country as an alternate-captain at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, where she tallied the second-most points of all players on the team.

China claimed its third consecutive bronze medal at the 2011 Asian Winter Games, boosted by Jin's tournament-leading 7 assists.