Jin Hui (1954-), a native of Tangshan, Hebei Province, is a writer. Jin graduated from the Department of Literature of the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art in 1986. Since 1970, he has successively worked as a coal miner in Kailuan, a soldier and a reporter in a military region, and a professional writer in the Literary and Artistic Creation Office of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region.
He began to publish in 1975 and joined the Chinese Writers' Association in 1991. Jin wrote and published an article entitled "Memorandum on Three Years of Natural Disasters" in Shanghai's Society magazine, speculating that the number of unnatural deaths during China's 1959-1961 famine was about 40.6 million.
