Dr Wang is director of the Shanghai Institute of Hypertension, director of the Department of Hypertension, Ruijin Hospital, and director of the Department of Hypertension, Ruijin North Hospital. At present, he is coordinating several multicentre randomized clinical trials and population- and patient-cohort studies in China. He has published 380 full-length articles on hypertension in the international literature and 140 articles in the Chinese literature, and has lectured extensively in national and international conferences. He is president of the Asian-Pacific Society of Hypertension, president of the Pulse of Asia Society, deputy president of the HOPE Asia Network, and president of the Chinese Hypertension League. He serves on the editorial board of journals, such as Chinese Journal of Cardiology (Associate Editor), Chinese Journal of Hypertension (Associate Editor), Hypertension (Associate Editor), Hypertension Research (Associate Editor), Pulse (Editor), etc.