Background
Wang was born in April 1938, in Wenxian, a small, poor county in Henan Province, Central China.
梦奎 王
Wang was born in April 1938, in Wenxian, a small, poor county in Henan Province, Central China.
He graduated from Peking University in 1964 with a degree in economics.
After graduating from Peking University in 1964 with a degree in economics, Wang joined the editorial staff of Red Flag magazine, one of the most influential publications of the 1960s. However during the Cultural Revolution he was sent to a cadre school to be re-educated through manual labor, where he stayed for six years until his return to Beijing in 1975. He joined the No. 1 Ministry of Machinery Industry and began to conduct systematic economic research. In 1979 Wang became an associate research fellow in the Research Office of the Secretariat of the CCP Central Committee, and was later promoted to be the deputy head of the Economic Group. In 1987 Wang joined the Economic Research Center of the State Planning Commission. Three years later he was appointed as assistant director, and in 1995 he became the director of the Research Office under the Chinese State Council. Finally in 1998, he was named the director of the Development Research Center of the State Council. It is in this capacity that Wang made his most important contributions, providing both theoretical foundations and practical recommendations to the Chinese government on various key issues faced in economic reform.
He joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1956.
Besides his government post, Wang is a professor and PhD adviser at Peking University. He was also an alternate member of the Central Committee of the 14th Chinese Communist Party Congress (1992–97), and a member of the 15th CCP Central Committee (1997–2002).