Gao Jin

Gao Jin (; born April 1959) is a general of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). Since April 2019, he has served as Director of the Logistic Support Department of the Central Military Commission. Prior to that, he served as the inaugural commander of the PLA Strategic Support Force from 2016 to 2019, President of the PLA Academy of Military Science, and Chief of Staff of the Second Artillery Corps, where he spent most of his career.

Biography 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.

Gao entered the Second Artillery Command College in 1985, and graduated with a master's degree in engineering. In 2012, he was elected an alternate member of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–2017). He was made a lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 2013. the PLA's top research institute, enjoying the same rank as the commanders of the PLA's seven military regions.

Gao has published many academic articles, and has won technological and military awards. The Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily has praised him as a "technologically powerful military leader."