河南南阳人，1963年考入上海交通大学学习，毕业后曾在部队农场劳动锻炼一年，入伍后历任战士、班长、排长、师党委秘书、军党委秘书、营政治教导员、团政治处主任、团政委、师政治部主任、师政委、总政干部部院校处处长、军政治部主任、军副政委、军政委、武警政治部主任、总装备部副政委，陆军中将，中共十六届中央委员，政协全国十一届委员会常务委员。李栋恒将军自少年时代开始即写作诗词，多年来一直坚持笔耕不辍。人民文学出版社等单位将李栋恒将军从1957年至2007年整整半个世纪的诗词书法作品结集出版。
In nanyang in henan, 1963, was admitted to Shanghai jiaotong university, has been in the army after graduation exercise work on the farm for one year, after the army as soldiers, monitor, platoon leader, division of the party committee secretary, the party committee secretary, political instructor, group director of the political section, TuanZhengWei, division, division commissar, director of the political department, general logistics GanBuBu colleges everywhere long, the director of the political department, the deputy political commissar, JunZhengWei deputy political commissar, armed police, director of the political department, general equipment, lieutenant general, the communist party of China 16th central committee, the standing committee of the 11th CPPCC national committee.General Li Dongheng writing poetry since childhood, has been sticking to sit still for many years.People's literature publishing house and other units to Li Dongheng general from 1957 to 2007 for half a century of poetry calligraphy works published.
