[1][2] Wang, a member of the Kuomintang, defeated Chen Yung-hsing, the Democratic Progressive Party candidate, in the 1993 Hualien County magisterial election.
[4] Infrastructure projects focusing on flood prevention took place during his first term, including the dredging and riverbank fortification of Hualien City's Meilun River [zh].
[5] In his second term, Wang advocated for the Executive Yuan to distribute more money to local county governments.
As Toraji caused landslides and floods, Wang attended the Kuomintang's sixteenth National Congress.
[9] Interior minister Chang Po-ya and legislator Chou Hsi-wei criticized Wang for his absence from Hualien.