[2] Wenying studied Plant Pathology in Department of Agronomy at Shanxi Agricultural College (now Shanxi Agricultural University) from 1973 to 1975, and then entered Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), where she received a Master of Science degree in Mycology in 1985.
[citation needed] She has served as the director of Systematic Mycology and Lichenology Laboratory, Institute of Microbiology, CAS for two terms.
[3] On October 19, 2010, Wenying was elected Third World Academy Society (TWAS) Academician in the 21st annual conference.
[citation needed] She worked on wild resource surveys, collections, and study of species diversity of certain groups of Ascomycetes through tropical and northwest areas of China, including Henan, Hubei, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Hainan, Fujian provinces and Taiwan.
[1] Another main contribution of her study is molecular phylogeny of Ascomycetes, between species or genera with similar anatomical structures in Otidea, Pyronemataceae, Penicillium, Nectriaceae and Helotiales, utilizing molecular bio-information methods such as ITS, 28S rDNA partial sequencing, and other nucleotide sequence analysis.