[2][3] In August, Xue was part of the China team that participated in the 2023 FIDE World Youth U16 Olympiad held in Eindhoven.
His team won and Xue personally scored 7 points on board 1 by winning 5 games and drawing 4 with no losses.
[4][5][6] In June, Xue participated in the 2023 Dubai Open Chess Tournament where he came eighth overall with a performance rating of 2709 where he defeated four grandmasters: Artem Chernobay, David Gavrilescu, Mikheil Mchedlishvili and Hans Niemann.
His strongest games during the tournament were defeating Jan-Krzysztof Duda and Aravindh Chithambaram with the black pieces.
[12] In January, Xue won the Hastings International Chess Congress with 7 points from 9 games and an Elo performance of 2645.