Xi Mingze (; ; born 25 June 1992), nicknamed Xiao Muzi (), is the only child of

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party The general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party () is the head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Since 1989, the CCP general secretary has been the paramount lead ...

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and operatic-style traditional singer

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Early life and education

Xi Mingze was born on 25 June 1992 at Fuzhou Maternal and Child Health Care Hospital in

Fuzhou Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute ...

. She is the

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and his wife

. Xi keeps a low profile, and not much of her personal information has been revealed to the public. From 2006 to 2008, she studied French at her high school,

Hangzhou Foreign Language School Hangzhou Foreign Languages School (HFLS) (Chinese: 杭州外国语学校 (simp.)/杭州外國語學校 (trad.)), colloquially referred to as "Hangwai"(杭外), is a grade 7–12 public high school located in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Founded ...

. Xi enrolled in

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in the US in 2010, after a year of undergraduate study at

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. She enrolled under a pseudonym,Andrew Jacobs and Dan Levin
Son's Parties and Privilege Aggravate Fall of Elite Chinese Family
, ''New York Times'', 16 April 2012. and maintained a low profile. In 2014, she graduated from Harvard with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and was thought to have returned to Beijing. In February 2022, US congresswoman

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's press release revealed Xi had reenrolled for graduate studies in 2019 and is living in the US.

Public life

Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Xi volunteered as a disaster relief worker for one week in Hanwang,

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. In 2013, she made her first public appearance with her parents at the Liangjiahe village in

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, Shaanxi, where they offered

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greetings to the locals. She has been described as interested in reading and fashion.

Information leak

According to US state media outlet

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, in 2019, Niu Tengyu (牛騰宇) was arrested for allegedly leaking pictures of Xi Mingze's ID card on a website called esu.wiki. Human rights group China Change criticized the alleged use of

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and

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to extract

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s from the suspects. Radio Free Asia reported that on 30 December 2020, the

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People's Court sentenced Niu to 14 years in prison and a 130,000 RMB fine for "

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", "infringing on citizens personal information", and "incitement of subversion of state power", while the 23 others were given lesser sentences.

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