He was born in December 1925 in Yantai, Shandong Province and graduated from School of Medicine, Peking University in 1950. He is currently the academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and was appointed director of the Beijing Neurosurgical Institute and honorary dean of Beijing Tiantan Hospital.
      Professor Wang Zhongcheng is one of the pioneers of neurosurgery in China. He first carried out cerebral angiography in the 1950s, which greatly improved the detection rate of intracranial disorders. He published China’s first monograph of Neurosurgery “Cerebral angiography”. He carried out the first micro-neurosurgical technique in China and successfully implemented thousands of cases of intracranial aneurysm surgery, so that the disease mortality was reduced from 10% to lower than 2%; he also has new achievements in vascular anastomosis in the treatment of ischemic cerebrovascular disease and the comprehensive treatment of cerebral vascular malformations. His clinical and basic research results of brain stem (central to life) lesion and intramedullary spinal cord tumors has reached the international advanced level; in which the following clinical theory was summarized: “Plasticity of the brain stem and spinal cord”, “Spinal cord ischemic preconditioning” and “Normal perfusion pressure breakthrough phenomenon of medulla oblongata caused by large blood vessel mother cell tumors operation”. He also led the 6 cities and rural and minority areas of 22 provinces in research of nervous system diseases epidemiology, and provided important information for the development of Chinese health undertakings.  His research team made 66 scientific achievements, of which eight received national awards. He has published over 290 papers and 20 monographs. He trained a large number of neurosurgery professionals for the country, including more than 70 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; and  provided selfless support to 22 medical institutes in 18 provinces with Tiantan nerve surgery. Professor Wang Zhongcheng, with his noble medical ethics, exquisite technology and rigorous scholarship, won international honor for the Chinese neurosurgery.