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Wang Hanbin (born 1925) is a retired Chinese Communist Party politician.
Wang was born in Hui'an, Fujian Province in 1925. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1941. He graduated from the Southwest Union University in 1946.
After the People's Republic of China was formed in 1949, he served as secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee until 1958 when he became the deputy secretary general of the Municipal Committee. He became the director of the Policy Research Office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1977 to 1979. He was a member of the 12th, 13th, and 14th CPC Central Committees from 1982 to 1997 and an alternate member of 14th Politburo of the Communist Party of China of the CPC between 1992 and 1997. He was also the Secretary-General of the 6th National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) and became the vice-chairman of the 7th and 8th NPCSC.
During the draftings of the Hong Kong Basic Law for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, he was selected vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee.