Li Deshui, male, Han nationality, is a native of Yushan, Jiangxi province. He was born in 1944, joined the CPC in 1985, and he is a university graduate and senior engineer. After graduating from the Jiangxi Metallurgy Institute in 1968, he was assigned to the Anhui Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Company Works, where he was appointed the chief of the workshop section, and dispatcher.
He is the former director of the National Bureau of Statistics.