Peng Liyuan is a Chinese soprano and contemporary folk singer and the spouse of Xi Jinping, current General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of the People's Republic of China.
16 Facts About Peng Liyuan
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Peng Liyuan sang the theme songs of several popular TV series, such as The Water Margin.
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Peng Liyuan was the president of then People's Liberation Army Academy of Art between 2012 and 2017, and vice president of the All-China Youth Federation between 2005 and 2010.
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Peng Liyuan was a civilian member of the People's Liberation Army and held the civilian rank equivalent to Major General before she was appointed the Art Academy's dean, upon which she was given the formal rank.
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Peng Liyuan is known within China for her fashion sense, credited to her personal couturier Ma Ke.
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In 2014, Peng Liyuan was listed as the 57th Most Powerful Woman in the World by Forbes.
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Peng Liyuan is a native of Yuncheng County, Shandong province.
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Peng Liyuan is the daughter of Peng Longkun, an official in charge of cultural affairs who was branded a "counter-revolutionary" during the Cultural Revolution because some of his relatives had served in the Taiwanese army.
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Peng Liyuan joined the People's Liberation Army in 1980, when she was 18 years old, as an ordinary soldier.
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Peng Liyuan first performed nationally and came to fame during the earliest rendition of the CCTV New Year's Gala in 1982, when she performed On the Plains of Hope.
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Directly after the Tiananmen Square protests in June 1989, Peng Liyuan sang for the troops.
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Peng Liyuan is actively involved in politics and is a member of the 11th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
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Peng Liyuan sang in a song-and-dance number in 2007 shown on Chinese television that featured Tibetans thanking the Chinese military for liberating them.
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Peng Liyuan was introduced by friends to Xi Jinping in 1986, when Xi was working as the deputy mayor of the eastern port city of Xiamen, Fujian.
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Four days later, Peng Liyuan returned to Beijing to appear in the National Art Festival, and then immediately departed for the United States and Canada to perform.
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Since that time, Xi and Peng Liyuan have led largely separate lives, with Peng Liyuan spending most of her time in Beijing and her husband spending his time in Fujian and later in Zhejiang.