Wang Yongrui, who has loved drawing since his childhood, was born in 1944 in Ping County of East China's Shandong Province. In 1964 Wang joined the army before before joining an art academy in Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province as a professional painter in 1981.

In 1982 he set up the Deng Sanmu museum, which was the first artist gallery after China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

From 1985 to 1987 he studied traditional Chinese painting at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts, and took part in the school's picture show, "Eight people's joint exhibition of flower-and-bird paintings."

In September of the same year Wang Yongduan was invited to hold a painting exhibition in Japan.

In 1989,Wang held joint exhibitions at the Heilongjiang Provincial Museum and the Academy of Traditional Chinese Painting.

In 2000, he published the Wang Yongrui Painting Collection.

In recent years, Wang Yongrui has been promoting the Tingyu Lou Painting Studio, and earlier this year, he went to the Southeast Asian country of Cambodia with a delegation of painters from China.

At present, Wang Yongrui is a first-class artist of the Heilongjiang Painting Institute, the vice-present of the Heilongjiang Seminar for Flower & Bird Drawings, a member of the Ancient Chinaware Seminar, and a visiting professor of Renmin University of China, as well as a distinguished member of other highly reputable organizations, associations, and institutions.

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