Li Xiaoxi, male, Han nationality, is a native of Jiangjin, Chongqing. He was born in 1949 graduated from the Economics Department at Lanzhou University in 1981 with a political economy major. Li received a Master's Degree in practical economy from the Graduate School at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1984 and obtained a Doctorate in economics from the same institution in 1989.
After serving as an associate researcher and serving in the institute of finance and trade economics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Li worked at the State Council Research Office. At the council, he held the inspector, deputy director, and director positions for the macroeconomic research department.
In 1996, Li became a doctorate tutor in the graduate school of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He then was made deputy director of the scientific committee and director of in the institute of economics and resources management – both at Beijing Normal University.
The author of more than 200 articles, he has written primarily about price and inflation measures as well as the practice of importing overseas investment.