When Zhang Jin 15 years old, he studied in Wuhan Middle School founded by Dong and began to accept revolutionary ideas. During the Great Revolution, he participated in the peasant revolutionary movement and served as secretary of the rural peasant association. After the "918" incident, Zhang took an active part in the anti-Japanese propaganda work, organized the "Anti-Japanese Youth Iron Blood Group" in Wuhan, and went to Zhengzhou, Shijiazhuang, Tianjin, Xuzhou, Nanjing and other places to carry out anti-Japanese propaganda activities. The regiment was later forcibly dissolved by the Kuomintang government. After the outbreak of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, under the leadership of the Eighth Route Army Office in Wuhan, Zhang Jin, Li Xiangpu, Kong Luosun and others founded the Battle Bookstore, published progressive newspapers and publicized the Communist Party of China (CPC)'s anti-Japanese ideas. On June 29th, 1938, Max Zhang joined China. Under the leadership of the CPC Southern Hubei Special Committee, he first worked for Wang Jinzai's troops in Xianning and Puyin, and then went to the Hubei, Henan and Anhui detachment of the New Fourth Army (later changed to the fifth division) to participate in the anti-Japanese work of opening up the south of the Yangtze River. He used to be the head of the Organization Department of CPC Xianchongpu Central Committee, the secretary of Jiapulin (Hunan) Working Committee and the political commissar of the forward detachment, the secretary of Wuchang County Working Committee and the secretary-general of the Yangtze River Committee, and carried out armed struggles against the enemy in counties in southern Hubei.

After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Zhang entered the propaganda shop of the Central Plains Bureau and served as the county magistrate of Anli and the education section chief of the Democratic National Construction University. After the breakthrough of the Central Plains, he was assigned to work in the Northeast, and successively served as the deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Zhuanghe District Committee of the Communist Party of China, the second secretary of Xinjin County Committee, and the secretary of Wanfu County Committee, leading the local military and civilians to persist in the struggle until the liberation of the whole Northeast.

1April, 949, Zhang Jin went south with the Fourth Field Army. In June, he stayed in Jiangxi and served as the propaganda minister of the CPC Ji 'an prefectural committee, the secretary-general and deputy minister of the propaganda department of the provincial party committee, and the chairman of the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles. 1953 National College Adjustment, Zhang Jinfeng was transferred to Guangzhou to build South China University of Technology (now South China University of Technology) and served as Party Secretary, Vice President and Dean until 1984 when he retired. 3 1 year, Max Zhang has been leading this institution of higher learning, making a start-up university among the national key institutions of higher learning.

The school of 65438-0959 was rated as the national advanced unit, and Zhang Jin attended the national model convention of 65438-0960. One month before his death, Zhang's poetry collection "Yi Xian Lou Yin Cao" was published.