[3] On 19 September 1926, the CCP Baoding Municipal Committee was vandalized and Liu was unfortunately arrested; Due to multiple rescue efforts, he was released from prison 18 days later.
[3] In 1928, he was transferred to Tianjin, where he responsible for newspaper distribution and document storage in the CCP Shunzhi Provincial Committee.
[3] After serving his sentence and being released from prison in 1935, he was appointed as head of Publicity Department of the CCP Baoding Special Committee.
[3] He participated in the organizational and leadership work of establishing, consolidating, and developing the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Counter-Japanese Base, and also took part in the Counter-Japanese Guerrilla War behind enemy lines in north China and the battle to recapture Zhangjiakou.
[3] During the Chinese Civil War, he successively served as secretary of the CCP Zhangjiakou Municipal Committee, secretary of the CCP Central Hebei Regional Committee, and deputy political commissar of the Central Hebei Military Region.