He established the engineering thermodynamics program at Tsinghua University in 1957 and the China Solar Power Society in 1979.

[5] Answering a national need, Wang spent 1963 to 1966 researching the synthesis of ammonia at a major chemical plant in Sichuan province.

From 1981 to 1987, he conducted basic research on the "film boiling of subcooled liquid flowing with higher velocity along a solid surface" and the "evaporation of liquid drops on solid surface", which won the State Natural Science Award in 1989.

[5] He published more than 400 research papers with more than 2000 SCI citations, and ten monographs or textbooks.

[2][7] He was conferred the Research Scholarship Award of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 1985, the Energy for Mankind Prize of the Global Energy Society in 1986, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Technological Sciences in 1998,[2][3] and the Lifetime Achievement Award by the China Solar Thermal Alliance in 2018.