Qi Qiaoqiao
| Qi Qiaoqiao 齐桥桥 |
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|---|---|
| Born |
March 1, 1949 Yan'an |
| Nationality | People's Republic of China |
| Other names | Qi Lianxin (齐莲馨) |
| Occupation | Businessperson |
| Organization | Qinchuan Dadi Investment Limited |
| Board member of | Chairperson of the |
| Spouse(s) | Deng Jiagui |
| Children | Zhang Yannan |
| Parent(s) | Qi Xin, Xi Zhongxun |
Qi Qiaoqiao is a Chinese businessperson, former civil official, and elder sister to Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
Qi was born in Yan'an in 1949 to Qi Xin, the second wife of Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China, Xi Zhongxun. At the age of three, Qi moved with her family to Beijing, where she was entered into the kindergarten at Beihai north of the Forbidden City.
In 1962, Qi entered Hebei Beijing Middle School (Chinese: 河北北京中学), which had been one of the only middle schools to participate in the student protests of 1935 that demanded the Nationalist government actively resist the invading Japanese army. When she enrolled, her father insisted that she be registered under her mother's surname, Qi. He also paid for her to board at the school throughout the week. As the daughter of a revolutionary family, Qi was made a member of her school's communist party and served as secretary for her class' communist party. During this time, she contracted tuberculosis; the disease that killed both her paternal grandparents. Qi recovered after three months, however, and passed her junior year exams.
Late in 1962, Xi Zhongxun was denounced and his children were branded 'children of a criminal' (Chinese: 黑帮子弟). Qi was made to attend a special class at school to educate her on the principles of Marxism, along with the children of other disgraced officials and difficult students. When her mother returned home one day having been beaten, Qi also consoled her siblings.
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