Wang Tongsan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. He was born in 1948, received a master's degree from Beijing Normal University, and received a doctorate from the department of quantitative economics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1990, becoming one of the first doctors of quantitative economics in China. Wang has focused his research on economic models and prediction, and has worked as a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for several years. Wang Tongsan became director of the Institute of Quantitative and Technical Economics in the late 1990s.