 Liao responded to every message, and was said to have addressed the concerns of residents in over half of the cases.Liao was appointed as the Party Secretary of the Communist revolutionary heartland of Zunyi in July 2012, and he was named a Standing Committee member of the CPC Guizhou Committee in January 2013, catapulting him to "sub-provincial level" office.On October 28, 2013, Liao was scheduled to preside over a meeting of the municipal party leadership.