Qincheng Prison
Mao's first wife was waitress Hao Mingli. The wedding ceremony was held on 7December 1997, but Hao died in 2003 at Qincheng Prison, an institution well known for its political prisoners, having been incarcerated there since 2002. Mao Xinyu remarried in 2003 to Liu Bin (), who was from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province and whom he had met in 2000. Mao Xinyu and Liu Bin have one son, Mao Dongdong (毛东东, born 2003), as well as one daughter, Mao Tianyi (毛甜懿, born 2008).