China has reportedly censored a renowned Chinese opera singer for bearing a striking resemblance to President Xi Jinping.

Authorities blocked Liu Keqing’s social media account multiple times, citing that he “violates the leader’s looks.”

The Chinese baritone has been sharing singing tutorials on his Chinese TikTok-like Douyin account since 2019.

According to Radio Free International, Liu posted a video on May 10 announcing the censorship of his account for “image violation.”

“Dear friends, my Douyin account has been reported and banned because of my profile picture’s violation,” the musician wrote.

“I have provided my identification materials again, and I am currently waiting for approval. This is the third time that my account has been banned because of ‘image violation,” he added.

The original clip has been then removed from the musician’s page.

He attempted to open another Douyin account in the past, but was suddenly deleted for using a profile picture that resembles some of the President’s official portrait.

Now, even his name has been censored online, even blocking comments on some of his instructional videos where he sits at home in a white sweatshirt while offering energetic tutorials on vocal warm-ups.

This is not the first time President Xi’s doppelgänger surfaced.

Last year, a food vendor in China became an internet sensation for looking too much like the President.

The Chinese government has been under fire for protecting the President’s image obsessively, even banning Winnie the Pooh in 2017 after internet users compared the President to the lovable bear.

In 2013, Chinese social media users started circulating pictures of President Xi with then US President Barack Obama beside a picture of Winnie the Pooh walking beside his tiger friend Tigger.

After the meme became viral, comments that mention the “Little Bear Winnie”, Pooh’s Chinese name, turned up error messages and told users could not proceed for searching an illegal content.