In 2024, he again led a major operation from intelligence gathering to prosecution transfer, helping destroy an ephedrine processing plant in Shaanxi and seize 15 metric tons of finished and semi-finished ephedrine.

Wang always maintained that anti-drug work could not rely on experience or case crackdowns alone. As new drugs emerged and criminal methods evolved, he pushed for better systems, closer coordination and smarter tools. He helped develop a working mechanism linking target-case investigation, full-process joint operations, multi-level case solving and post-case review.

In 2024, drug-manufacturing cases in Chengdu fell 65.2 percent year on year, while arrests related to drug manufacturing dropped 44.1 percent and outward drug trafficking cases fell 48.1 percent.

Wang also promoted a broader model that embedded anti-drug work into urban governance. Under his leadership, Chengdu introduced a four-level responsibility system involving officials at the city, district, township and community levels, while more than 600 volunteer teams of elderly residents were mobilized for intelligence gathering, outreach and family-based prevention.

After identifying growing risks tied to new psychoactive substances and crime in online and delivery sectors, he helped create an integrated anti-drug intelligence center and smart command platform that assisted in handling 3,500 criminal suspects after entering trial operation in April 2024.

Colleagues recall that for all his operational toughness, Wang cared deeply about discipline. He often said anti-drug officers, who routinely deal with traffickers and the darker side of society, must be even stricter with themselves.

He repeatedly reminded officers to hold the line on integrity in matters large and small, and treated anti-corruption and risk prevention as a lifeline for the team. He followed the same rules himself, accepting no special treatment and no gifts.

Wang was decorated with four second-class merit citations, two third-class merit citations and five commendations. He was named a national anti-drug investigation expert and an outstanding people's police officer in Sichuan.

More than those honors, what stayed with the people who worked with Wang was his belief that someone had to stand between ordinary people and the darkness — and that he was always ready and willing to be that person.