with a family root in fujian, wang was educated at the fujian normal university and became a member of the fujian provincial committee of the communist party of china (cpc). from 1992 to 1998, he served at the new china news agency hong kong branch. in 1998, he returned to fujian to serve as the assistant to the mayor of xiamen and other bureaux when xi jinping, later becoming general secretary of the communist party of china, was the governor of fujian. in 2006, he became the deputy secretary-general of the liaison office of the central people's government in hong kong until 2015 when he became deputy director of the hong kong and macao affairs office. from 2016 to 2017, he was the director of the liaison office of the central people's government in macau.