[1] He was investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in late 2016, was assigned responsibility for corruption at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and stripped of his post as minister.
He began working in January 1970 at the Construction Equipment Factory of Shenyang, capital of Liaoning province, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in November 1974.
[1][2] Li worked at a number of factories in Shenyang for 15 years, until entering the government in June 1985, when he was appointed Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League of Liaoning province.
[1][2] In the October 2016 footage of Xinwen Lianbo, Li Liguo was missing from the attendees of the sixth plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, stirring speculation that he had been sacked due to scandal.
[3] On February 9, 2017, the CCDI announced that Li Liguo was stripped from his position as Minister of Civil Affairs and demoted to deputy-department-level (副厅局级) for failing to impose strict party discipline at the ministry and allowing "systematic corruption" to occur under his watch.