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Wang took part in the Korean War in the early 1950s. After the war he was sent to Shanghai to work in a factory, where he met Zhang Chun-Qiao and became involved in a Red Guards group. He organized the Shanghai Commune in January 1967, and in 1969 he was elected to the Central Committee. He joined the Permanent Committee and became deputy-president of the Party in 1973.
He was arrested for his participation in the Gang of Four in October 1976 and received the death sentence, but had it commuted to life imprisonment. He died of liver cancer in a Beijing hospital in 1992.