Li Hongbao (1939) was born in Tianjin. He studied oil painting at the Tianjin Xinhua Staff University from 1960 to 1964. From 1975 to 1976, he engaged in oil painting creation for one year in the oil painting training class of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts; he participated in the Second Tianjin Literary Congress in 1982; and graduated from the industrial design class of the Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts Amateur University in 1988.

Currently, he is the director of the Art Department of the Tianjin Health Education Institute.