Wang Fuchun enrolled in Suihua Locomotive Driver School of Harbin Railway Bureau in 1963. In the 1980s, he majored in photography from Harbin Normal University. After graduating, he worked as a photographer and editor with the Research Institute of Harbin Railway Bureau. In 2002, he moved from Harbin to Beijing. He is now a freelance photographer, Vice President of Beijing Commonweal Photography Association and national ambassador of a charity program called Light and Shadow Education Aid Program. He has produced more than ten photography albums including Chinese People on the Train, Black Soil, Northeasterners, Siberian Tigers, Chinese Steam Locomotives, Chinese People’s Life. He has also participated in photography exhibitions and gallery exhibitions in Denmark, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia and other countries several times. In 2012, he won the Golden Dragon Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Photography Association.