When I was young, I made progress and followed the revolution. 1949 Join the underground party in the Communist Party of China (CPC). After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), he served as deputy secretary of the CPC Xiamen School District Committee, president of Xiamen Shuangshi Middle School and president of Xiamen No.1 Middle School. During his tenure as the principal of Shuangshi Middle School, he turned this original private school into a provincial key middle school and won the "National College Entrance Examination Red Flag". Li Yongyu was badly hit during the Cultural Revolution. 1980, he served as director of Xiamen Municipal Education Commission and director of Education Bureau. He is also the director of the National Primary and Secondary Education Foundation, the vice chairman of Fujian Vocational Education Association, the inspector of Fujian Province, and the vice chairman of Fujian Tao Xingzhi Research Association. While presiding over the work of the Education Bureau, he actively pursued the policy of paying equal attention to both ordinary secondary schools and vocational secondary schools, guided by the construction of special zones, paid attention to reality and adjusted the school layout. Participate in the establishment of Lujiang Vocational College and develop all kinds of secondary vocational education. After retirement, he took the lead in setting up the "Xiamen Education Foundation" to raise tens of millions of yuan for Xiamen education circles at home and abroad.