WANG Ning studied finance at Peking University and graduated with a Master’s degree in Economics. He is currently Member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee, Secretary of the CPC NCPA Committee, President of NCPA and Deputy Chairman of China Soong Ching Ling Foundation.

He has been engaged in sports and cultural affairs for a long time. He organized many international sports events and large-scale cultural activities. In 2008, he was the producer of the opening and closing ceremonies and Director of the Operation Centre of the Beijing Olympics. In recent years, he has been the chief planner of cultural activities for major international events held in China, such as “Millennial Road”, the gala for The First Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, the gala for the China-Africa Cooperation Forum Beijing Summit, and the opening gala themed “Beautiful Home” of the Beijing World Horticultural Exposition.

Since he took up the position of President of NCPA, he has valued openness, inclusion and sharing. He gives the sincerest respect and support to artists, and continuously improves the management of NCPA in a modernized, precise and human-oriented manner. He is committed to creating exquisite artistic works and promoting art education so as to offer the nutrition of art to the people. He insists on introducing outstanding works from other parts of the world. Through exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and the rest of the world in the field of literature and art, he wishes to promote the integration and development of the classical and the modern, tradition and fashion and contribute to a diversified world civilization.