1874 Attended Dongshan College with his father. 1883, he passed the imperial examination in Guangxu period and was admitted to the official school, becoming a well-read person. 189 1 taught at Wang's family school in the south of Jixi, and then in Qingxi, Zhejiang. During this period, he repeatedly wanted to set up a new primary school to show his ambition, but he was afraid that he had no capital to start it. 1903, Jixi program tycoons Dong and Cheng Songtang founded "Private Sicheng Second Class Primary School", where they presided over the school for eight years and trained many talents. 19 12, inspector of Anhui province, in charge of Huizhou education. 19 13. Mr. Wang was ordered to establish the Fifth Normal School in Anhui Province and serve as the principal, which was the first in Huizhou. 19 14, the fifth division was renamed as the second division of the province, and Jin Hu took over as the principal of the second division of the province. Hu Jinjie, as the first president of the Second Division, has been carefully nurtured and managed for nearly 10 years, and finally the school has begun to take shape. 1924, there were more than 500 school buildings and library books 15400 volumes. There are 570 instruments and more than 100 models in the science laboratory. The school is surrounded by mountains and rivers, lush, teaching, experiment and life are on the right track in an all-round way, and it has become a leader in the ranks of middle schools in Anhui Province. Jin Hu has served as the president of the Second Normal University for a long time, advocating the combination of education and life, and advocating the use of education to enlighten people's wisdom and educate new people, thus cultivating a large number of talents for Huizhou. 1927, Jin Hu retired to China. In his later years, as a special editor of Anhui Tongzhi Museum, he wrote some contents of Geographical Records and Literary Records for Anhui Tongzhi. 1933, Hu Jinjie was elected editor-in-chief of Jixi County Records, and died in 1934.

There are many works, including New Map of Geography of the Republic of China, Atlas of Provinces of the Republic of China (translated and published in Japan), Lecture Notes on Geography of the Republic of China, Ji County Annals (editor-in-chief), Daocheng Village Autonomy Annals, Anhui Tongzhi (geography annals of mountains, water systems and arts and literature), textual research and so on.