Born in Kai County, Sichuan (now part of Chongqing municipality), Liu graduated from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics. After college, he was assigned to work in the audit office of Sichuan Province. In 1988, he was promoted to a position in the Chengdu office of the National Audit Office. In the next few years Liu specialized in commercial audits.
In September 1996, after completing one-year training for young cadres at the Central Party School of the Chinese Communist Party, Liu was appointed to the post of deputy auditor general. Following the retirement of Li Jinhua, he was promoted to the office of Auditor General of the People's Republic of China in March 2008. He was conferred the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold with Sash, a state honor of Austria, on May 25, 2016.[1]
He was transferred to Shandong province to become party chief there in 2017.[2]