Wang was born in Xushui, Hebei Province in 1941. He studied at Tianjin University of Sport, and joined the Tianjin table tennis team in 1958. He was chosen into the Chinese national team in 1961. At the 1963 World Table Tennis Championships in Prague, he and partner Zhang Xielin became the first Chinese duo to win the men's doubles gold medal in world championships. They won the silver in the following 1965 championships in Ljubljana.