The first bandoneon player in mainland China.Associate Professor of the Accordion and Modern Instrumental Music Department of the Sichuan Conservatory of Music,Research Secretary of the Department, and a contracted artist of Chengdu City Music Hall.

She is a member of the Sichuan Musicians Association.Masters of “Music Educator” and “Musician” at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover, Germany.She is the founder, artistic director and bandoneon player in“Liu Shanshan Tango Quintet",which is the first professional Tango Quintet in China.

She studied accordion with Prof. Wu Shouzhi, Prof. Zhang Xiaobo and Prof. Elsbeth Moser from Germany. From 2009 to 2015, she studied Bandoneon Performance many times at the World Conservatory of Music in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève in Paris, France.

In 2009, she won the third prize in the solo group and the first prize in the chamber group of the 11th Accordion Competition in Baden-Baden, Germany; in 2012, she won the first prize in the non-traditional instrumental group of the "CCTV Ethnic Instrumental Television Competition"; in 2020, she won the second prize and unique “ALDO PAGANI’’ special prize in the category of"Astor Piazzolla Prize"in the 45th International Accordion Competition in Castelfidardo(PIF), Italy; in the same year she won the second prize in the "World Music” Category of the 70th World Accordion Championships (CMA); In 2021, she won the third prize in the “Tango Ensemble” category of the first International Bandoneon Competition "Astor Piazzolla - Città della Triani 2021" in Italy.

She has collaborated with Hanover Youth Orchestra, Hildesheim Theatre Orchestra ，Lanzhou and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra in light opera and bandoneon concerto, and has held more than one hundred chamber music concerts in important concert halls such as the National Center of Performing Arts in Beijing, the Shanghai Cultural Plaza Theatre, and the Hsinchu Theatre in Taiwan, etc. She has been invited to participate in the opening ceremonies of important accordion festivals such as the “Summer of Harbin”, Huaxi in Guiyang, and the Xixiang Valley of Shenzhen, etc.

On 1 July 2018, the documentary "Seven Days of Tango" about the story of Liu Shanshan and her tango orchestra was broadcast on CCTV9's "Human Geography" channel "New Youth".