He represented Chengdu Military Football Team and Bayi Football Team at club level while also having a long association representing China at international level where he made 119 appearances making him China's highest capped goalkeeper.
Li Fusheng was born in Ju County, Shandong but moved to Dalian to receive training in a Sports School where after he graduated he got a job in a petroleum factory to support his family after the death of his father.
After the tournament he would go on to become the team's first choice goalkeeper for the next several seasons and was part of the squad who narrowly missed out in qualifying for the 1982 FIFA World Cup, losing to New Zealand in a play-off.
After achieving this he would decide to move away from football and join the Chinese Communist Party where he went to the Central Party School and then the PLA National Defense University to become a Colonel before he took on a position at the Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution where he was the deputy director in charge of cultural relics.
In August 2007 after moving to a home and decorating he fell off a ladder and sustained serious head injuries.