Li Jingxia, the professor and doctoral supervisor of Shanghai Conservatory of Music, is the vice-president of Chinese Musicians' Association Pipa Society, and the deputy director of China Nationalities Orchestra Society Pipa Committee. Also, she is the distinguished expert of Shanghai intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center, and the special hired graduate tutor of Shanghai normal university. She was the dean of the Chinese Instrument Department of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the director of the Pipa Professional Committee of the Shanghai Musicians Association.

Li received conservatory training consecutively at the Central Conservatory of Music and the China Conservatory of Music. She is the first person in China who received the Master’s Degree in Pipa. In 1989, she studied music education in Germany while learning Germanic language and literature in Austria. After that, she returned to the motherland to engage in teaching in Shanghai Conservatory of Music in 1998.

Moreover, many of students taught by Li Jingxia have won a great deal of awards in various professional competitions including but not limited to China Golden Bell Award. She has won the Dean's Award of Shanghai Conservatory of Music twice and was selected as one of the 20th Century Chinese Traditional Music Characters.

In July 2023, she was invited to join the Asian Art Association Singapore (Music) and be judge of World Pipa Competition 2023.

In 2006, Li Jingxia independently designed Pipa in different registers, including bass, soprano and tenor, which formed the Pipa ensemble. She was responsible for the implement of Ecological research and countermeasures of Pudong School Chongming School Pipa art in the National Intangible Heritage Protection List programme and a project series named Pinghu school Pipa art heritage comprehensive practice that contributes to the Chinese Pipa art tradition. She has successfully planned courses set up in Shanghai Conservatory of Music including A great view of Chinese instrumental music culture, History of Chinese instrumental Art and Theory of Chinese instrumental performance techniques.

Since 1986, she has successively held solo concerts several times at home and abroad. Her audiovisual albums were produced by China Record Corporation. In addition, she has published her own book Chinese Pipa performance art and collected papers, words of which have reached 600 thousand. Besides, she has edited the first Chinese Anthology of the Art Theory and Research of Pipa and organized over 80 academic lectures and master classes.