Wang Quan was born in Yixian, Anhui, in July 1960. He began working in August 1977, initially as a sent-down youth in Xinhua Commune, Shuyang County, Jiangsu. He later studied in the Department of Chemistry at Huaiyin Normal College and subsequently worked as a teacher in local schools.[2] In 1986, he entered Renmin University of China to study industrial enterprise management at the graduate level. After graduation, he joined the Jiangsu branch of the People's Bank of China, where he rose through the ranks, serving successively as secretary, deputy section chief, section chief, and later as assistant director and deputy director of the office. He subsequently headed the Planning and Capital Division, during which time he was also seconded as executive deputy leader of a poverty alleviation team in Suining County from 1996 to 1997.[2]
In 2000, Wang became president of the Suzhou Central Sub-branch of the People's Bank of China and concurrently served as secretary of its Party committee and director of the State Administration of Foreign Exchange Suzhou Central Sub-bureau. He was later appointed vice president and deputy Party secretary of the Nanjing Branch of the People's Bank of China.[3]
In August 2005, he entered the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government as deputy secretary-general and later became director of the Provincial Financial Affairs Office. In 2013, Wang was appointed deputy Party secretary of Wuxi and was soon named acting mayor. He obtained a doctoral degree in management from Nanjing Agricultural University during this period. In January 2014, he was formally elected mayor of Wuxi.[1]
In February 2018, he was appointed Party Secretary of Changzhou, concurrently serving as Party secretary of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress, president of the municipal Party school, and first secretary of the Changzhou Military Subdistrict.[4] In January 2019, he was elected chairman of the Standing Committee of the Changzhou Municipal People's Congress. In December 2019, Wang became Party secretary of the Standing Committee of the Changzhou Municipal People's Congress, and the following month he was appointed director of the Environment, Resources, and Urban-Rural Construction Committee of the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress.[5]
He has been a deputy to the 13th National People's Congress, a delegate to the 13th Jiangsu Provincial Party Congress, a member of the 13th Jiangsu Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, a member of the 12th Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, and a deputy to both the 12th and 13th Jiangsu Provincial People's Congresses.[6]