General Gao Jin
高津
Director of theCMC Logistic Support Department
In office April 2019 – January 2022
Preceded by	Song Puxuan
Succeeded by	Zhang Lin
Commander of thePLA Strategic Support Force
In office January 2016 – April 2019
Preceded by	New position
Succeeded by	Li Fengbiao
President of thePLA Academy of Military Science
In office December 2014 – January 2016
Preceded by	Liu Chengjun
Succeeded by	Cai Yingting
Assistant to theChief of General Staff of the People's Liberation Army
In office July 2014 – December 2014
Preceded by	Yi Xiaoguang
Succeeded by	Ma Yiming
Chief of Staff of theSecond Artillery Corps
In office December 2011 – July 2014
Preceded by	Lu Fu'en
Succeeded by	Lu Fu'en
Personal details
Born	April 1959 (age 65–66) Jingjiang,Jiangsu, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Second Artillery Command College
Military service
Allegiance	China
Branch/service	PLA Rocket Force PLA Strategic Support Force
Years of service	1978–2022
Rank	General
Commands	PLA Strategic Support Force PLA Academy of Military Science

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

Gao Jin was born inJingjiang,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 theSecond Artillery Corps, China's strategic missile force.^[1][2]

Gao entered the Second Artillery Command College in 1985, and graduated with a master's degree in engineering.^[1] Reportedly a battalion commander of the 815th Brigade, of what was, at that time, the PLA's Second Artillery Corps. This unit was reportedly involved in the firing ofDF-15 ballistic missiles in theThird Taiwan Strait Crisis and would become this unit's commander in 1997. He then rose through the ranks of the Second Artillery Corps, becoming deputy chief of staff of what was then Base 52 (now Base 61 of thePeople's Liberation Army Rocket Force) in 2001, chief of staff of Base 52 in 2007 and overall commander in 2009, eventually becoming chief of staff of the Second Artillery Corps in December 2011.^[1][3] In 2012, he was elected an alternate member of the18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (2012–2017). He was made a lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in July 2013.^[1][2]

He was promoted twice in 2014, first to assistant chief of thePLA General Staff Department in July, and on December 22, he became President of thePLA Academy of Military Science,^[4] the PLA's top research institute, enjoying the same rank as the commanders of the PLA's sevenmilitary regions.^[1] At age 55, he became the youngest regional chief-level commander of the PLA. He succeeded GeneralLiu Chengjun, who had reached retirement age.^[1] On December 31, 2015, as part of wide-ranging reforms of the People's Liberation Army, Gao was named first commander of thePLA Strategic Support Force. On July 28, 2017, Gao was promoted to the rank of General.^[5]

Gao has published many academic articles, and has won technological and military awards. The Communist Party mouthpiecePeople's Daily has praised him as a "technologically powerful military leader."^[1]

• 1959 births
• Living people
• People's Liberation Army generals from Jiangsu
• People's Liberation Army Strategic Support Force commanders
• People from Taizhou, Jiangsu
• Members of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party

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