She is the only daughter of former Chinese Premier Li Peng and his wife Zhu Lin.
Li was born on International Children's Day in June 1961 at Fourth Affiliated Hospital of China Medical University in Huanggu District, Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Past is Railway Hospital in Liaoning,[3] She is a daughter from three children to Li Peng, then fourth Premier of the People's Republic of China, and Zhu Lin, a Russian-language translator.
[4] Li claims to have spent time at the MIT Sloan School of Management, however MIT stated that the only record it has of attendance by a student with Li’s name was enrollment in a “non-degree short course” open to anyone who has “intellectual curiosity” and pays $7,500 for 15 days of classes.
[9] In 2014, leaked data obtained by the think tank International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) showed that Li Xiaolin owned assets in the tax haven British Virgin Islands.
[12] In April 2016, Li was named in the Panama Papers, linking her to a British Virgin Islands company via a Lichtenstein foundation.