Washington: US Congress Rep Vicky Hartzler revealed that Chinese President Xi Jinping’s only daughter Xi Mingze is living in America. Hartzler revealed this while she was introducing the “Protecting Higher Education from the Chinese Communist Party Act.”
According to a Chinese current affairs commentator living in the US stated on his YouTube channel on Sunday that Hartzler divulged the fact that the only child of the world’s second most powerful leader lives in the US.
Aside from a few basic biographical details, very little is known about the cherished daughter of Chinese President Xi Jinping and his second wife, famous folk singer Peng Liyuan.
The US Senator bill would ban “individuals serving in the National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and their family members from receiving student or research visas.”
Meanwhile, the commentator pointed out that he said in 2019 that Xi’s daughter has returned to the US after living in China for five years.
Xi Mingze, born on June 27, 1992, studied French at her high school, Hangzhou Foreign Languages School.
She travelled to the US in 2010 to study at Harvard University in Massachusetts under a pseudonym, but it wasn’t until 2012 that many people had even heard of her.
The commentator believes that she is still living in the same Cambridge area and is a research student there now.
She had studied psychology and English at Harvard and lived under an assumed name, her identity known only to a limited number of faculty and close friends—“less than ten,” according to Kenji Minemura, a correspondent for the Asahi Shimbun, who attended the commencement and wrote about Xi’s experience in America.
Xi, on the other hand, led a “frugal life” in Cambridge, according to Minemura. “She studied all the time,” he said. After Harvard, Xi Mingze returned to China; she joined her parents on a recent trip to Yan’an, the rural region where her father was sent to work during the Cultural Revolution when he was a teenager. She returned to Harvard in 2019, for graduate studies.
According to the China Times, she was nicknamed “Xiao Muzi” by her grandfather, Communist revolutionary and former state official Xi Zhongxun, “designating her as an innocent and decent person who is useful to society”.
In 2008, after the devastating Sichuan earthquake, the then 16-year-old asked her school for a leave of absence to spend a week assisting in disaster relief efforts and care for injured survivors, her mother told local media at the time.
Asked whether she was worried about her daughter’s safety, Peng said: “As the earthquake claimed so many lives and triggered such a big disaster, my daughter should go to the frontline to help. During seven days as a volunteer, she worked hard and never complained. She learned a lot and also made lots of local friends. She said people in Sichuan are nice, strong and kind.”
Said to be surrounded 24 hours a day by Chinese bodyguards, Xi Mingze’s privacy is jealously guarded by her father.
Earlier, a Chinese man, Niu Tengyu, a website technician, was charged with leaking the personal information of President Xi Jinping’s daughter and was sentenced to 14 years in prison.