中共中央党校
In 1986 Liu was transferred to the provincial government of Jiangxi, working under then Jiangxi governor Wu Guanzheng, and then rising through the ranks to become Mayor of Nanchang, the provincial capital, in 1995. From 1998 to 2001 he was trained in the part-time postgraduate program of the Central Party School of the Communist Party of China, where he obtained a master's degree in Economics.