After signing with Chinese record label Taihe Rye, Li started to make her debut album, The Queen and the Dreams, which was released in September 2006.

In the same year, Li collaborated with Chinese band The Catcher in the Rye to release a charity song titled "Green".

In June 2009, Li collaborated with Chinese writer Guo Jingming to release a song titled "Shu Embroidery".

In April 2011, Li released her fourth studio album, The Literary Youth Who Can Dance, in which most of the songs are produced by herself.

[5] In the same year, Li featured in the Chinese film, Flying Swords of Dragon Gate.

[12] According to Andy Wai Lam Ng, the vice-president of Tencent Music Entertainment Group, Growing Wild achieved China's highest digital music sales since the company released the first Chinese digital album in December 2014.

[13] Li Yuchun became the most popular singer in 2016 on Toutiao, China's major news and information app for mobile devices, which daily attracts about 1.27 billion clicks on Videos, and 230 million of them are relevant to entertainment.

Critics have argued that the attention she receives does not match her musical talent; instead, visual motifs like the image of her short hair have driven her fame.

The funds raised were used to cover the medical expenses for 33 children with critical illness, and the construction of five clinics in Anhui, Sichuan, Gansu, Henan.

[18] In 2010, the fund allocated 500,000 Chinese yuan to relieve the people in the disaster of 2010 China drought and dust storms, and allocated 1 million Chinese yuan to relieve the people in the disaster of 2010 Yushu earthquake.