[2] Liu was moved from forward to midfielder by Qi Wusheng, and had outrageous performance.
He was recruited by Dalian Wanda in 1993 season, and after hard training, he was able to pass the stamina test, to play for the team between 1994 and 1995, and won Dalian Wanda's first professional league champion.
[1][4] In 1996, he retired again, and started to work as manager for Shaanxi Guoli.
[8][9] In 2010, he shortly took the caretaker position for Dalian Shide after Xu Hong was sacked.
[10][11] In 2013, Liu joined the newly established Dalian Transcendence in the China League Two.