[1] He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
[2] His elder half-brother Li Tieying is also a Chinese Communist Party politician.
He was deputy head of the Industry Department of CCP Beijing Municipal Committee in October 1984 and party secretary of Dongcheng District in March 1987.
He rose to become deputy secretary-general of the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party in July 1989, concurrently serving as director of the Bureau of Economic, Scientific and Educational Cadres.
In September 2002, he was appointed director of the State Commission Office for Public Sector Reform, a post he kept until July 2007.