Xi family

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Xi
习
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Current region Beijing, China
Place of originChina
FounderXi Zhongxun
Titles
List
Members Xi Zhongxun
Qi Qiaoqiao
Xi Yuanping
Xi Zhengning
Xi Mingze
Connected members Qi Xin
Peng Liyuan

The Xi family is a prominent political Chinese family. The most well-known member is Xi Jinping, the current general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and president of China. Other prominent members include Xi Jinping's father Xi Zhongxun, who played a significant role in the history of the People's Republic of China.

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Prominent members

Xi Zhongxun

Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002) was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and politician who played a significant role in the history of the People's Republic of China. He served as the first Secretary-General of the State Council from 1954 to 1965, Vice Premier of the State Council from 1959 to 1965, Party Secretary of Guangdong from 1978 to 1980, and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 1980 to 1983 and again from 1988 to 1993. He was a member of the influential Eight Elders in the 1980s. [1]

Qi Xin

Qi Xin married Xi Zhongxun in April 1944, then after graduating from Suide Teachers' College later that year, Qi went to a rural village to do grassroots work with peasants. [1] : 78  They moved to Beijing in 1952. [2]

Wives

Ke Lingling

Ke Lingling, the daughter of Ke Hua, China's ambassador to the United Kingdom in the early 1980s, married Xi Jinping in 1979. However, their life philosophy differed. Ke wanted to move to the UK, where her father served as ambassador, but Xi refused to accompany her. The two were said to fight "almost every day". [3] In 1982, they divorced, ending three years of marriage; they had no children. After they divorced, Ke immigrated to the UK. [4]

Peng Liyuan

Peng Liyuan, a prominent Chinese folk singer, and Xi were introduced by friends as many Chinese couples were in the 1980s. Xi was reputedly academic during their courtship, inquiring about singing techniques. [5] Peng Liyuan, a household name in China, was better known to the public than Xi until his political elevation. The couple frequently lived apart due largely to their separate professional lives. Peng has played a much more visible role as China's "first lady" compared to her predecessors. [6]

Siblings

Xi Heping

Xi Heping, Xi Jinping's sister, committed suicide during the Cultural Revolution by hanging herself at her military academy. [1] : 238–239 

Xi Zhengning

Xi Zhengning was the elder brother of Xi Jinping. He served Director of the Department of Justice of Hainan Province and the Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee of the Hainan Provincial Committee. He died of a sudden heart attack on November 27, 1998, at the age of 57. [7]

Qi Qiaoqiao

Qi Qiaoqiao is a Chinese businesswoman, former civil official, and elder sister to Xi Jinping. Qi was born in Yan'an in 1949. In 1962, Qi entered Hebei Beijing Middle School, which had been one of the few middle schools to participate in the student protests of 1935 that demanded the Nationalist government actively resist the invading Japanese army. Qi enrolled in the Foreign Affairs College. After graduation, Qi worked for the police as deputy director of the General Office and director of the Foreign Affairs Bureau. [8]

Xi Yuanping

Xi Yuanping is the younger brother of Xi Jinping. He previously served as the president of the International Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Association. [9]

Children

Xi Mingze

Xi Mingze is the daughter and only child of Xi Jinping and 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 Languages School, from 2006 to 2008. [10] [11] Xi Mingze enrolled in Harvard University in the United States in 2010, after a year of undergraduate study at Zhejiang University. In 2014, she graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and was thought to have returned to Beijing. [12]

Other relatives

Zhang Yannan

Zhang Yannan is the niece of Xi Jinping, and the daughter of Qi Qiaoqiao. [13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Torigian, Joseph (2025). The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. ISBN   9781503634756.
  2. ↑ Xu 許, 心怡, ed. (27 May 2013). "習近平"家風"揭秘 齊心自述與習仲勛婚姻往事" [Xi Jinping's "family traditions" are unmasked: Qi Xin's autobiographical account of her marriage to Xi Zhongxun]. Renmin Wang (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 28 April 2017. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  3. ↑ Osnos, Evan (30 March 2015). "Born Red". The New Yorker . Archived from the original on 4 October 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2019.
  4. ↑ "兩次婚姻 與前妻天天爭吵" [Two marriages and daily quarreling with ex-wife]. Apple Daily (in Chinese). 25 October 2011. Archived from the original on 25 August 2017.
  5. ↑ Page, Jeremy (12 February 2012). "Meet China's Folk Star First Lady-in-Waiting". The Wall Street Journal . Archived from the original on 11 May 2012. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  6. ↑ Beech, Hannah (21 March 2014). "Michelle Obama Tours Beijing With China's First Lady". Time . Archived from the original on 26 June 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  7. ↑ "习仲勋大儿子的同学竟是毛远新和文兴宇". 海外网. Archived from the original on 2021-10-25. Retrieved 2021-10-25.
  8. ↑ "与祖国共命运——对话清华EMBA04D班 齐桥桥" [A common destiny with the homeland: dialogue with class 04D of the EMBA course at Qinghua University: Qi Qiaoqiao]. Xinlangwang. 11 November 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  9. ↑ Chan, Minnie (2014-10-16). "Younger Xi goes on the record about wife". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2019-07-26.
  10. ↑ "Who is Xi Jinping's mysterious daughter?". The New Zealand Herald . 2023-06-13. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  11. ↑ "Red Nobility: Xi Jinping's Harvard daughter". China Times . 16 February 2012. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2012.
  12. ↑ Osnos, Evan (6 April 2015). "What Did China's First Daughter Find in America?". The New Yorker . Archived from the original on 10 July 2022. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
  13. ↑ "【学习小组】习仲勋父子的家庭相簿--时政--人民网". politics.people.com.cn. Archived from the original on 2023-04-18. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
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