Jin Zhang was born in Jingshan, Hubei Province, China. He graduated with a B.E. from Wuhan University of Bioengineering in 2015, majoring in bioengineering; he studied ecology in the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2015-2018, MSc in 2015). He has been studying in the group of Prof. Dr. Lanfang Wu in the Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences for his doctor degree since 2018.