Career
He has also managed several other teams such as Tibet, Tianjin Teda and China on a caretaker basis, while his last senior coaching position was with Institute of Technology Football Club. Jin Zhiyang started his playing career with the youth team and subsequently the senior team He would retire shortly afterwards to begin his management career. After he retired from football Jin Zhiyang would begin coaching for the team before he was offered a chance to become the Head coach of Tibet in 1974.
Near the end of the 1997 Chinese league season the Chinese Football Association would hire a foreign coach in Bob Houghton to manage the Chinese football team and Jin Zhiyang was brought in as an assistant coach to help him.
This lasted until December 2008 when recently promoted top tier side Tianjin Teda F.C. offered him their head coach position, taking this opportunity to return into management he would lead them at the start of the 1999 league season to a respectable seventh-place position at the end of the season. In 2000 Jin would return to the Chinese football team as their manager, but on only on a part-time caretaker basis to aid the team prepare for some important 2000 AFC Asian Cup qualification games.
As a player As a manager Guoan Institute of Technology Football Club.
