Xi Mingze was born on 25 June 1992 at Fuzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital in
Fuzhou. She is the only child of
Xi Jinping and his wife
Peng Liyuan.[5] Xi keeps a low profile, and not much of her personal information has been revealed to the public. She studied French at her high school,
Hangzhou Foreign Language School, from 2006 to 2008.[6][2] Xi enrolled in
Harvard University in the United States in 2010, after a year of undergraduate study at
Zhejiang University.[7] She enrolled under a
pseudonym[8][9] and maintained a low profile.[10] In 2014, she graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and was thought to have returned to Beijing.[11]
Public life
Following the
2008 Sichuan earthquake, Xi volunteered as a disaster relief worker for one week in Hanwang,
Mianzhu.[2][12][13][6] In 2013, she made her first public appearance with her parents at the Liangjiahe village in
Yan'an, Shaanxi, where they offered
Chinese New Year greetings to the locals.[14] She has been described as interested in reading and fashion.[2][12]
Information leak
According to
Radio Free Asia, Niu Tengyu (牛騰宇) was arrested in 2019 for allegedly leaking pictures of Xi Mingze's ID card on a website called
esu.wiki.[15][16][17] Radio Free Asia reported that on 30 December 2020, the
Maonan District People's Court sentenced Niu to 14 years in prison and a 130,000
RMB fine for "
picking quarrels and stirring up trouble", "infringing on citizens' personal information", and "incitement of subversion of state power", while the 23 others were given lesser sentences.[15] The case attracted the attention of the
Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which said in 2022 it would investigate allegations of torture of those detained.[18]
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