He climbed the ranks in Cangzhou, Hebei, eventually rising to become the city's vice mayor.
From 2004 to 2013 he was transferred to Beijing to head the State Bureau for Letters and Calls, the agency in charge of processing petitions from ordinary citizens.
In March 2013 Wang was transferred to Anhui province to become its acting governor, replacing Li Bin, who was appointed chairperson of the newly formed National Health and Family Planning Commission.
[1] On June 1, 2015, Wang replaced Zhang Baoshun, who had reached retirement age, as the Party Secretary of Anhui province.
He left frontline politics and joined the National People's Congress Education, Science, Culture and Public Health Committee as a deputy chair.