1969-1977 Worker, company messenger, battalion correspondent, acting publicity secretary, Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps

1977-1978 Awaiting assignment in Beijing; employee, Intelligence Research Institute, Ministry of Post and Telecommunications

1978-1982 Japanese major, Department of Asian and African Languages, Beijing Second Foreign Languages Institute

1982-1989 Staff member, attaché, Deputy Director, Director, Department of Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)

1989-1994 Counselor (elevated to Deputy Director General-level in May 1992), Minister Counselor (since April 1993), Chinese Embassy in Japan

1994-1995 Deputy Director General, Department of Asian Affairs, MFA

1995-1998 Director General, Department of Asian Affairs, MFA (June 1997-January 1998: visiting scholar, Georgetown University, United States of America)

1998-2001 Assistant Minister, CPC Committee member, and Director General of Department of Policy Research, MFA

(1996-1998: Attended an in-service graduate program in world economy at the APEC Study Center of Nankai University and was awarded a Master of Economics degree; March-May 2000: attended a continuing studies course for provincial- and ministerial-level officials at Central Party School)

2001-2004 Vice Minister and CPC Committee member, MFA

2004-2007 Ambassador of China to Japan

2007-2008 Secretary of CPC Committee and Vice Minister, MFA

2008-2013 Director, Taiwan Work Office of the CPC Central Committee and Minister, Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council

2013-2018 Minister and Deputy Secretary of CPC Committee, MFA

Since 2018 State Councilor, member of the Leading CPC Members Group of the State Council, and Minister of Foreign Affairs

Wang has been a member of the 17th through 19th CPC Central Committees.