Xi Mingze

Early life and education 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. Xi Mingze 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. She enrolled under a pseudonym and maintained a low profile. In 2014, she graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and returned to Beijing.

In February 2022, U.S. Representative Vicky Hartzler introduced a new bill to ban officials of the Chinese Communist Party and their families from pursuing higher education in the United States. Hartzler revealed that Xi Mingze continued her studies at an American graduate school after completing her undergraduate degree at Harvard University. Hartzler pointed out that approximately 317,000 students from China were studying in the United States during the 2020-2021 academic year, including Xi Mingze, who completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard University in 2014 and re-enrolled in graduate school in 2019.

Public life Following the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, Xi Mingze volunteered as a disaster relief worker for one week in Hanwang, Mianzhu. She has been described as interested in reading and fashion. In June 2025, Xi Mingze attended a family dinner for visiting Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko hosted by Xi Jinping in the Chunyi Garden within Zhongnanhai.

Information leak In 2019 a man called Niu Tengyu (牛腾宇) was arrested for allegedly leaking pictures of Xi Mingze's ID card on a website called esu.wiki. 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 provoking trouble", "infringing on citizens' personal information", and "incitement of subversion of state power", while the 23 others were given lesser sentences. The case attracted the attention of the United States Congressional-Executive Commission on China, which said in 2022 it would investigate allegations of torture of those detained.