Internet rumors saying that the top private equity leader Xu Xiang needed emergency treatment due to a massage are false. The rumors were actually about another young patient.

On June 5th, it was rumored that former "private equity king" Xu Xiang suffered a ruptured carotid artery plaque due to a massage and was being treated at Huashan Hospital, affiliated with Fudan University in Shanghai. On June 6th, a reporter from Beijing News Beike Finance learned from a reliable source that this was false information, and the patient was not the former private equity tycoon Xu Xiang, but another young patient.