Approved by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, Wang Hesheng, deputy head of the National Health Commission, was appointed as a member as well as a Standing Committee member of the CPC Hubei Provincial Committee.

Wang, 59, became deputy head and member of the leading Party members group of China's National Health Commission in March, 2018. 

Between 2016 and 2018, Wang served as the deputy head and member of the leading Party members group of the National Health and Family Planning Commission, and also the director of the Health Care Reform Office under the State Council.

Following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, Wang, as a member of the leading team from the central government on virus prevention and control, traveled to virus epicenter Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province, directing and inspecting work on fighting the disease and visiting medical workers on the front line.