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.
[1] In late 1962, her father Xi Zhongxun was denounced and Qi and her siblings 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.
[1] Qi set up the company Qinchuan Dadi Investment Limited (Chinese: 秦川大地投资有限公司) in 2007, along with her husband Deng Jiagui.
[2] In 2014, multiple news agencies reported that Xi Jinping, Qi's brother and newly the Chinese leader, had instructed her to sell her assets and withdraw from the business world.
[2] Qi is thought to own, directly or through her daughter and husband, company shares and real estate valued in the hundreds of millions of United States dollars.
[5] Qi and her husband transferred the shares in 2013, supposedly to an employee, so that the couple could avoid claims of conflict of interest.