He held various positions as Red Fifth Army party Secretary General and Second Division Security Bureau Chief prior to the Long March.

[1] In the same year in December, he participated in the invasion of Changsha under the post of the Red Fifth Army General Secretary.

[2] This was an attempt to cover the main force of the CCP breaking out of the Fifth Encirclement Campaign against Jiangxi Soviet.

[4] In December 1946, Li was the political commissar for the second column of the Jinchaji Field Army,[5] spearing heading many assaults in this area.

Li participated in the Battle of Taiyuan in 1949 as the director of the Political Department of the People's Liberation Army 20th Corps.

Despite being persecuted during the Cultural Revolution, Li assumed role of political commissar for the Fuzhou Military Region in 1972.