| Office1: | Vice-President of the National Defence University of People's Liberation Army | ||||
| Term Start1: | August 1998 | ||||
| Term End1: | July 2003 | ||||
| 1Blankname1: | President | ||||
| 1Namedata1: | Xing Shizhong (Chinese: 邢世忠) | ||||
| Gao Jindian | |||||
| Native Name: | 高金钿 | ||||
| Native Name Lang: | zh | ||||
| Birth Date: | October 1939 | ||||
| Birth Place: | Jinan, Shandong, China | ||||
| Death Place: | Beijing, China | ||||
| Party: | Chinese Communist Party | ||||
| Alma Mater: | National Defence University of People's Liberation Army | ||||
| Serviceyears: | 1962-2017 | ||||
| Rank: | Lieutenant general | ||||
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Gao Jindian (; October 1939 – 13 December 2018) was a Chinese army officer and politician, lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).[1]
He was a member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.[1]
Gao was born in Jinan, Shandong in October 1940. He graduated from the Dezhou No. 2 High School.[2] In 1960 he joined the Communist Youth League of China. He enlisted in the army in July 1962, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1970. He joined the People's Liberation Army National Defense University in 1986, and was promoted to vice president in 1998.[3]
He was promoted to the rank of major general (shaojiang) in 1995 and lieutenant general (zhongjiang) in 1999.[3]
On December 13, 2018, he died of illness in Beijing, aged 79.[4]