Li Hongzhang's descendants inside the most famous than the writer, author Zhang Eileen, Zhang Eileen's grandmother is Li Hongzhang's eldest daughter . Li Hongzhang has three sons, the eldest son of Li Hongzhang's eldest son Li Jingfang, since 1882 on the examination of the first place after the first place in the Premier of the Beiyang Yamen, in his father's support to the direction of the development of diplomacy, successively served as Minister of War in Britain, Minister of the Ministry of the Postal Department after the Minister of the Ministry of Japan, in 1912, after the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China government dismissed him from all his duties.

The oldest, Li Ching-shu, died during the mourning period after Li Hung-chang's death, and the youngest son, Li Ching-mai, under his father's care, was successful in his official duties and made it to Austria-Hungary as the minister of foreign affairs. Li Jingmai has always believed that his father's reputation is due to his father's wrong belief in the court, the original should be borne by the Royal family to their own body. After the signing of the Xinchou Treaty, Li Hongzhang came back so angry that he vomited blood and his stomach blood vessels burst, and he passed away shortly afterward.

Grandchildren of this generation of the most well-known to be Li Hongzhang's eldest grandson, Li Guojie, Li Guojie has been a business tycoon. He has been in control of the Commerce Bureau, and with the Republic of many big shots such as Duan Qirui, Shanghai's youth gang leader Gold Wing and Du Yuesheng, are very good relations. He was also in charge of large tracts of real estate in his hometowns of Hefei and Wuhu, which he inherited from Li Hongzhang. Li was constantly at war with Chiang Kai-shek afterward. Chiang's men accused Li of embezzlement and bribery, which was only resolved through the mediation of Duan Qirui. In 1939, Li Guojie was shot by Chiang Kai-shek's men at a street corner on the charge of being a traitor. The murder of Li Guojie and the murder of Tang Shaoyi remain a mystery to this day.

To the great-grandson generation, the Li family has begun to decline, with the Japanese invasion, many of the descendants of the Li family began to anonymity, living abroad. Currently Li Hongzhang descendants of direct descendants inside the most famous than as the first director of the School of Architecture at Tsinghua University, Li Daozeng. Li Hongzhang brother's sixth grandson, there are three overseas billionaires, known as the Li family's three aircraft carriers, these three people in the shopping mall.