Career
He held the College of Business Administration record for most career points scored (8387 points in 387 matches) until it was broken by Zhu Fangyu on 1/1/2012. Liu spent his first eight College of Business Administration seasons with the Bayi Rockets (1995–2003), where he become the second best scorer in College of Business Administration history, with a league-best scoring average 25.9 points per game. After winning the College of Business Administration championship in all but one seasons-2002, to a Yao Ming-led Shanghai SharksLiu retired in 2003 because of knee injury.
He came back the next season and was voted to the all-star game.
Liu retired again in 2005 for the troubling knees and became an assistant coach for the Rockets. In 2007, Liu came out from a two-year retirement to lead the Fujian Xunxing.
Liu is a senior colonel in the People"s Liberation Army. He was also the flag bearer of the Chinese sports delegation at the opening ceremony of the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics.