[2] Liu is currently enrolled a student at Tsinghua University, where he, like many Chinese athletes, strives to find a balance between training and schoolwork.

[3] Liu's first medal, as a Junior, was at the 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Lahti, Finland, where he won a bronze in the 50 metre rifle three positions event with a total of 1157 points.

[2] In 2006, Liu won a silver medal in the men's 10-meter air rifle event at the ISSF World Cup meet in Guangzhou.

[5] That year, Liu also competed in Doha, Qatar, for the 2006 Asian Games, where he won his first gold medal in the Men's 10 m Air Rifle event, with 700.8 total points.

He, with Olympic champion Zhu Qinan and Li Jie, beat South Korea with 1,786 points to win the first gold of the Games.