He worked for Tonghua Textile Machinery Plant before entering politics, serving as vice mayor of Tonghua county-level city, deputy party chief of Tonghua Prefecture, and Communist Party Secretary of Tonghua prefecture-level city.[2]
Wang was appointed vice governor of Jilin Province in January 1993, and became a member of the Jilin provincial party standing committee in September 1997. He was promoted to deputy party secretary of Jilin in May 2000, and served as Chairman of the Jilin Provincial Committee of the CPPCC from May 2003.[2]