Wang Ming was born on June 4, 1933 in Qingdao City, Shandong Province to a family of employees. In 1937, the Japanese invaders occupied Qingdao. His father did not want to work for the Japanese invaders, so he went to the rear alone, engaged in highway transportation work, and supported the anti-Japanese war. His mother led five Wang Ming sisters to flee to rural areas in Gaomi, Shandong, where they lived a hard life. Wang Ming's mother graduated from Shandong Women's Normal School. She often told her children about the principles of resisting Japan and saving the nation and the deeds of national heroes, so that they received patriotic ideological education from an early age.

In 1941, the Japanese invaders extended their claws to rural Shandong. The mother had no choice but to take her children and go through untold hardships from the occupied area to Lanzhou, the rear of the motherland. Wang Ming transferred to Lanzhou Rotary Primary School and studied very hard since he was a child. In the summer of 1945, Wang Ming ranked first in his class and was admitted to the Middle School Affiliated to Northwest Normal University without taking the exam. He has always followed the school motto of his alma mater: "Diligence, Prudence, Honesty and Courage". He studies diligently, is prudent and realistic in research, is honest and trustworthy as a person, and strives to reach new heights in his career. In 1952, Wang Ming was admitted to the Horticulture Department of Northwest Agricultural College with excellent results, and has since become a diligent "gardener" in the field of horticulture science. He took the profound saying "Take root downward, bear fruit upward" as his motto.

In 1956, Wang Ming stayed at the school to teach after graduating from university, and independently assumed the teaching tasks of the newly established course "Genetic Breeding of Fruit Trees and Vegetables and Improved Breeding". From 1957 to the spring of 1958, he went to the Horticulture Department of Shenyang Agricultural College to study under Professor Tan Qimeng, a famous Chinese vegetable genetics and breeder. Professor Tan has benefited a lot from his erudite academic attainments, his excellent academic style of rigorous scholarship, and his strict requirements and enthusiastic training of the younger generation. In 1961, Wang Ming participated in a training course on the utilization of atomic energy at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and mastered the advanced theories and technologies of isotope utilization in agriculture, creating conditions for carrying out radioisotope tracer research and radiation breeding. In his academic career, he has always pursued the word "new" and kept up with new trends, new technologies, and new levels of scientific development. In teaching, he constantly enriches new materials, writes and translates many new textbooks, continuously explores in scientific research, and achieves many results. From 1981 to 1982, Wang Ming received funding from the "Development of Agricultural Education" project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and went to Rutgers University in the United States for further study, engaged in vegetable breeding and germplasm resource research. After returning to China, he began to train master's students and has trained 30 master's students. He has opened a number of new courses, participated in two national research projects, presided over the research of three doctoral program special scientific research fund projects and natural science fund projects, and achieved many research results in the research on disease resistance breeding of vegetables and melons.

In 1986, Wang Ming was promoted to professor, and was later approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council as a doctoral supervisor. He has trained 7 doctoral students. After graduation, these graduate students have become the backbone of horticulture teaching and scientific research. . Wang Ming is diligent in research and has written extensively. His main works include: "The Development of Modern Breeding", "Vegetable Hybrid Breeding and Utilization of Hybrid Vigor", "Heredity and Variation", "Chromosomes and Melon Breeding", "Tomato Breeding", etc.; he also serves as the director of the Institute of Higher Agriculture He is the deputy editor-in-chief of the school textbooks "Vegetable Breeding" and "Modern Vegetable Breeding", and the chief editor of "Chinese Watermelon and Melon Genetic Breeding". He has published more than 100 papers in major professional journals at home and abroad, including more than 30 papers in foreign journals or international academic conference proceedings, and some papers have been included in some famous foreign agricultural retrieval journals. His academic achievements have been selected into more than 10 classics including "Dictionary of Chinese Inventors", "Achievement Ceremony of Contemporary Chinese Scientific and Technological Celebrities", and "Biographies of Contemporary Chinese Educational Celebrities".