Huang Shangli is the present of Guangdong province Publishing Group. And he was the vice-present of Guangdong Science and Technology Press, the present of Guangdong Education Press, the member of Guangdong News Publishing Bureau party organizations and the present of Guangdong province Publishing Group, etc.

As a senior publisher, he achieved some results, such as make Guangdong Science and Technology Press as a national quality press and the winner of national prize-winning books, promote reform and development of Guangdong publishing, presided over a series of pioneer works of Publishing Group reorganization, restructuring and given of state capitals, made the Publishing Group as one of the cultural restructuring experimental units and enterprises of building the Guangdong as a culture province, etc. Moreover, he made great efforts in promoting Guangdong culture publishing.