Wang Wenlan is the vice chairman and permanent executive member of Chinese Photographers Society. He gained the government allowance for the technicians granted by the State Council. Wang severed as a juror of jury for national photo shows, international photographic exhibitions, reportage photography shows and China Golden Statue Award. The anthologies of photographs published by him include Jingwei, About Eminent Persons, Floating Great Wall, the Twinkling of an Eye and China Records. "Strolling around the Square" and "Chinese and Foreign News Portraitures" Photo Exhibition held by him was showed in the China National Museum of Fine Arts.

Wang Wenlan believes that a photographer's most important task is to record a nation's change and revolution. Wang has covered lots of historical events and recorded moments of people's daily life of different classes. These images have become valuable visual materials showing the ups and downs during the thirty years and the development of China.