Li Enheng graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies Institute in 1969 and studied in Law Center of Louisiana State University, USA from 1981-1982.

　　Since he joined the Ministry of Foreign Trade in 1973, Li Enheng has always engaged in multilateral economic and trade cooperation affairs in his over-three-decade civil service career except two years on bilateral commercial diplomacy in the Chinese Embassy in Jamaica. Li served successively as Deputy Division Director, Division Director and Deputy Director General in the Department of International Relations, Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations and Trade (MOFERT) and Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (MOFTEC). He was also appointed as Counsellor and Minister-Counsellor at the Director-General level of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva. Within this long period of time, he worked with responsibilities of covering affairs related to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN-ESCAP), various international individual commodity agreements (ICAs), Asia and Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), Asia-Europe Meetings (ASEM) and negotiations for China’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), among others. From 2002 to 2008 Li served first as Minister-Counsellor and soon as Minister in the Permanent Mission of China to the WTO, dealing exclusively with WTO-related affairs.

　　Li Enheng is now Vice-Chairman of China Society for WTO Studies and Senior Councillor for Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center.