A 4-time Olympian, she won the bronze medal alongside Zhang Xi at the women's beach volleyball tournament of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

[2] In 2002, she attended the Athletic Sports College of Fuzhou and became a member of the Chinese national beach volleyball team.

Xue then made her Swatch-FIVB World Tour debut in 2005, playing in two events with You Wenhui and winning the FIVB Top Rookie award for 2006.

[3] On 28 May 2006, Xue teamed up with Zhang Xi for the first time and became the youngest player to ever win a major event, when the 17-year-old won the $400,000 China Shanghai Jinshan Open.

They also achieved an extraordinary gold medal win on the FIVB World Tour Women's Final in Åland, Finland,[6] by snapping the record gold-medal winning-streak of Brazil's França–Silva duo on 21 August 2010.