She is a professor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and serves as the director of the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases.

[3] The system, now known as Li-NBAL,[3] has significantly improved survival rates for people with severe chronic hepatitis.

[2] She was appointed Vice President of the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University in October 1993, a position she held for three years.

Her research prompted the government to close all live poultry markets, preventing the spread of the disease to the rest of China.

[5] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Li was one of the researchers who proposed to lockdown of the center Wuhan (known as Category A prevention and control measures).

[9] Li is married to Zheng Shusen, a liver transplant expert and also an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.