 Jiang Jin began his football career playing for Bayi Football Team during the 1987 league season and gradually established himself within their team.During his time with Bayi he saw them become a fully run professional football team and despite seeing them finding it difficult to transition to professionalism Jiang was a steady constant within the team.By the 1996 league season his consistency started to pay off when he aided Bayi to third within the league, which led to an eventual call-up to the national team.