Wang Naiyang, male, Han nationality, is a native of Fuzhou, Fujian Province. He was born in 1935 and graduated from the Physics Department of Beijing University.
After graduating from Beijing University, Wang worked in a nuclear research institute in the former Soviet Union. Wang also worked abroad in the mid 1980s, from 1985 to 1986, as a visiting profess in a plasma physics research institute at a Japanese university.
Among the nuclear science-related positions Wang has held throughout his career include serving as a director with the China Nuclear Society, honorary chief of the postgraduate department at the Ministry of Nuclear Industry, a consultant on the 863 Project, and a standing director of the China Physics Society. In addition, he was a member of the International Nuclear Institution and a deputy director of the Nuclear Council of the Pacific Region.
Wang serves as a researcher in the China Nuclear Energy Research Institute as well as an institute doctoral student tutor. He was also elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.