Raised in Liaoning,[1] Wang took part in hammer throw from a young age and was the winner of the 2006 Chinese youth championship.

[2] He threw beyond sixty metres with the senior implement for the first time in 2007 and improved to 63.20 m (207 ft 4 in) the year after, placing seventh at the Chinese Athletics Championships.

[1] Wang threw beyond seventy metres on several occasions that year, with his most prominent performance came at the 12th Chinese Games in his home province of Liaoning.

[4] Out of competition, Wang received a public warning in June after a positive test for hydrochlorothiazide (a banned diuretic but a minor infraction of the doping code).

[5] He was runner-up at the National Grand Prix Final in July and took that same position at the 2014 Asian Games, finishing behind Tajikistan's Dilshod Nazarov.