He studied piano with his mother Professor Sui Wenju since he was a child, and later studied with Professor Zhu Gongyi and Professor Li Huili. In 1983, he was admitted to the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music and studied under Professors Pan Yiming and Yang Jun. Graduated from the Piano Department of the Central Conservatory of Music with honors in 1987. In 2004, he graduated with honors from the China Graduate School of Art. During the twenty years of teaching, he has cultivated many outstanding piano performance talents. Many students have been admitted to famous universities at home and abroad, such as the Juilliard School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, Yale University, etc., and have won the highest academic scholarships. In the past ten years, students have participated in many international competitions in the United States, Japan, France, Canada, Ukraine, Brazil, Greece, etc., as well as major domestic competitions, and have frequently won awards. Such as the 7th Ukraine "Horowitz" International Youth Piano Competition, the 10th Germany Ettlingen International Youth Piano Competition, the 1st Brazil Vera Robles International Piano Competition, etc. There were 206 winners and 80 gold medals.

In recent years, while concentrating on piano education, he has also enthusiastically participated in various forms of performances and served as a judge for various piano competitions and piano examinations across the country. He has conducted piano demonstration teaching in many cities in China for many times, and has visited many foreign music schools in the United States, Russia, France, Japan, etc. for academic exchanges and inspections. In 2005, he was invited to give master classes at the Mount Royal Conservatory of Music in Canada and the Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar, Germany, and was very popular among teachers and students. In 2000, he was awarded the Young and Middle-aged Outstanding Contribution Award by the Central Conservatory of Music. In the same year, he won the Fourth Section Yang Xuelan Music Education Award. In 2004, he won the "Ou Yongxi" Outstanding Teacher Art Education Award from the Ministry of Culture.

Since 2000 alone, he has served as a judge and secretary-general of the organizing committee for 26 national piano competitions. He has been invited to participate in many international piano competition judging and master class lectures, and has been highly praised by domestic and foreign peers; Organized, planned, and coordinated nearly a hundred student concerts; held many lectures and concerts across the country, and received high praise. It has played a significant role in the promotion and popularization of piano learning and music education. The large and complex subject work of the Affiliated Middle School is arranged in an orderly manner. This includes: daily work of the subject, enrollment work, teaching work of the subject, academic exchange activities, artistic practice of the subject, mid-term and final examinations, scientific research work - revision of the syllabus, organization and coordination of major domestic competitions. etc.

Professor Zhang Jin’s consistently hard-working, teaching-educating work style, and the care and support he received from college, school leaders, and colleagues have enabled him to achieve extraordinary results in teaching work and professional accomplishment. score. It has been affirmed and recognized by the school and society. At the 50th anniversary celebration of the Central Conservatory of Music in 2000, he was awarded the "Outstanding Contribution Award for Young and Middle-aged Students" and the 4th Yang Xuelan Music Education Award. In 2004, he won the "Ou Yongxi" Outstanding Teacher Art Education Award issued by the Ministry of Culture in 2006. Won the "Baosteel" Excellent Teaching Award and the Best Teacher Guidance Award at the 7th Ukraine Memorial Hollovi International Youth Piano Competition. His personal deeds have been positively reported in news media such as People's Daily (Overseas Edition), Music Weekly, Piano Art, Little Performer, and Piano Boy. Widely praised by the society. He is a well-deserved pianist and educator.