Qi Xin

Qi Xin
Qi Xin and Xi Zhongxun
Native name	齐心
Born	November 1926 Gaoyang County, Hebei
Nationality	People's Republic of China
Education	Counter-Japanese Military and Political University
Alma mater	Central Party School
Genre	Memoir
Spouse	Xi Zhongxun
Children	Qi Qiaoqiao Qi An'an Xi Jinping Xi Yuanping
Relatives	Qi Houzhi (齐厚之) (father)

Qi Xin (Chinese: 齐心; born November 1926) is a Communist Party of China member who has written various articles on her husband Xi Zhongxun and is mother to Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Communist Party of China.

Qi Xin was born in 1926. Her father was the head of the law bureau in the Nationalist government's Third Army during the Northern Expedition.

In 1938, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Qi was attending a girl's middle school in Beiping, modern Beijing. After Beiping fell to the Japanese army, her elder sister Yun (Chinese: 云) took her to Tunliu County, Shanxi, to join the Eighth Route Army. Yun sent her younger sibling to the schoolgirl's team of the Counter-Japanese Military and Political University.

Later in the winter of 1939, Qi transferred to the female cadre's branch of the Cadre's School in Changzhi County, where she served as a tutor and team leader. She participated in fighting at Yincheng and Xihuo town. Qi entered the Central Party School in 1941, then was sent to Yan'an University's middle school in 1942. She married Xi Zhongxun in April 1944, then after graduating school later that year, Qi went to a rural village to work.

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