Minqi accomplished his medical school education at the Suzhou Medical College (Suzhou, Jiangsu, China) before moving to Winnipeg to pursue his research training in Oral Biology at the University of Manitoba and the National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics. 

In June 2018, Minqi and his family moved to Kingston from the prairies to begin Anatomical Pathology Residency training at Queen's University.

Besides reading histology slides, he likes fresh water lake fishing.