At the end of the same year, she participated onstage in CCTV's Spring Festival Gala and sang the song Hymn to Heroes, which honored the soldiers of the People's Volunteer Army who fought in the Korean War.

[3][4][5][6][7] On 7 September 2023, Russian media reported that a delegation of Chinese bloggers including Wang visited Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast.

A video emerged of Wang singing the Soviet patriotic song "Katyusha" in Mandarin at the bombed-out Donetsk Academic Regional Drama Theater in Mariupol, where a Russian airstrike on 16 March 2022 killed over 600 Ukrainian civilians sheltering there at time.

The video of Wang singing in Mariupol was posted on social media site Vkontakte by the Russia-installed head of the so-called Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin attracted attention, resulting in the Ukrainian government demanding an explanation from China on why the delegation was allowed to travel to the occupied territories.

[12][13] Back in China, the video and news articles related to Wang's performance were censored from the Chinese internet.