Wang was born in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, in September 1973. He studied fiscal science at the School of Finance and Economics of Soochow University from 1992 to 1996. He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in January 1996 and entered public service in August of the same year, beginning his career in the Financial Supervision Division of the Wuxi Municipal Finance Bureau.[2][3]
Between 1997 and 2001, Wang worked in the Wuxi State-owned Assets Administration Bureau, where he held the posts of clerk and later deputy section chief. In 2001, he returned to the Wuxi Municipal Finance Bureau, serving as deputy section chief, deputy director, and eventually director of its General Office. In 2003, Wang was appointed deputy director of the Wuxi Municipal Finance Bureau.[4] He was later promoted to deputy director-general of the bureau, where he remained until 2009. From 2009 to 2010, he served as deputy head of the Wuxi Municipal Development and Reform Commission, before being appointed deputy director-general of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Finance.[5]
Wang served as vice mayor of Changzhou from 2011 to 2015. He was then transferred to the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology, where he became director in 2015, a position he held until 2021. In December 2021, he was appointed Communist Party Secretary of Yangzhou. He concurrently serves as the First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Yangzhou Military Subdistrict.[6]