As a retired factory employee of Xinyu Iron and Steel Group, she attracted widespread attention for independently running for a local delegate to the National People's Congress in 2011.
She worked at Yuanxingang Equipment and Materials Co., a branch of Xinyu Iron and Steel Group until she xiagang (being forced to retire) in 2009.
The authority deemed her action as being backed by "anti-China forces" and posing grim threat to China's established election procedures.
[4] Liu Ping's attempt received widespread support in China, e.g. the prominent scholar Yu Jianrong.
In 2011, Liu organized a group of citizens to visit the blind lawyer Chen Guangcheng, who was under house arrest and tight guarding in Linyi, Shandong.
[2] In June 2014 she was sentenced to 6+1⁄2 years in prison by a court in the province of Jiangxi for using a cult to damage law enforcement, gathering a mob to disturb order in public places, and picking quarrels and provoking trouble.