Career
He is one-eighth English. His great-grandmother was English. Xie Hui started his professional football career with in the 1994 season.
During the 2000-2001 season, Xie Hui was the top scorer for Aachen with fourteen goals in twenty-four league appearances.
The following season Xie Hui netted only once in thirteen appearances and because of this drop in performance, he went back to on loan in March 2002 to gain more first team experience and to keep his place on the China national football team When his loan finished he transferred to another German second tier club in SpVgg Greuther Fürth in August 2002, however after only netting only once in eight league appearances for Greuther Fürth, Xie Hui came back to China to play for Chongqing Lifan in 2003.
Foreign the third time he rejoined Shenhua in December 2004 on a permanent basis where he once again revived his career and after two years with Shenhua, Xie headed back to Germany when he joined another second tier German club SV Wehen Wiesbaden on January 1, 2008 on an 18-month contract. When his contract ended Xie would once again return to Shenhua on January 6, 2009 for a testimonial.
After the game he officially retired from football and soon became an assistant manager at Shenhua.
On December 9, 2004 Xie married his long term girlfriend and Chinese supermodel, Tong Chenjie (佟晨洁), however the couple divorced on June 27, 2011.