Ma Hung-pin (1883-21 October 1960), Chinese Muslim general who served as acting governor of Kansu in 1930-31 and as governor of Ninghsia in 1948-49. He declared allegiance to the Chinese Communists in September 1949 and was rewarded with administrative posts in the new regime.

A native of Linhsia (Hochow), Kansu, Ma Hung-pin was the son of Ma Fu-lu, an elder brother of Ma Fu-hsiang (q.v.). Little is known about his early years except that he was schooled for military life. About 1904 he became commander of a cavalry company at Sining, commissioner for wastelands development, and commissioner of mines. He received command of the Kansu West Route Cavalry Patrol Battalion in 1911. After the republic was established and the Mongol banners of the Ikechao and Ulanchab leagues grew restless because of Outer Mongolia's declaration of independence. Ma helped calm these groups by leading his forces into the Wuyuan-Linho sector of Inner Mongolia and announcing plans for a reform movement. In 1914 his assignment to that area was made official with his appointment as commander of the 7th Cavalry Battalion, with responsibility for the defense of the Hotao area. He worked to rid the area of bandits, and in 1919 he defeated a large force led by the pretender to the Manchu throne, Ta-erh-liu-chi. In the winter of 1920, having risen to the rank of lieutenant general. Ma was appointed a defense commissioner.

Ma Hung-pin became commander in chief of bandit-suppression on the Shensi-Kansu border in 1926, and the following year, he entered the service of Feng Yü-hsiang (q.v.) as commander of the Temporary 22nd Division of the Second Army Group of the National Revolutionary Army. He continued to sen'e Feng until October 1929, by which time Feng's 1929 campaign against the forces of Chiang Kai-shek was limping to an end. Then he declared allegiance to the National Government, which rewarded him with the governorship of Ninghsia and command of the 7th Division. When the so-called enlarged conference movement, led by Feng Yü-hsiang and Yen Hsi-shan (q.v.), collapsed in 1930, Ma became a commissioner of the Kansu provincial government and acting governor of Kansu. In August 1931, however, the division commanders Ma Wen-chü and Lei Chung-t'ien effected a coup at Lanchow and placed Ma under house arrest. After being released at the time of Ma Wen-chü's arrest in September, Ma Hung-pin resigned the Kansu governorship. His cousin Ma Hung-k'uei (q.v.) was offered the post, but refused it. Eventually, Shao Li-tzu (q.v.) became governor of Kansu, and Ma Hung-pin received the post of Kanchow-Liangchow border defense commissioner, with headquarters at Suchow. In 1933 he participated in the defense of Ninghsia against the rebellious Sun Tien-ying, and in 1934 he was appointed commander of the 35th Division and was given responsibility for bandit suppression in the eastern Kansu region.

With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in July 1937, Ma Hung-pin was appointed commander of the Eighty-first Army and vice commander of the Seventeenth Group Army. That winter, he also became defense commander of western Suiyuan. He led his forces northward to fight the Japanese and managed to hold the Kuyang-Anpei sector for more than a year. In 1940 he was appointed defense and conciliation commander for the Ikechao League and was assigned to the Paotow-Saratsi sector, then held by the Japanese. Ma skirmished for several months in the upper Ordos region and recovered some territory on the south bank of the Yellow River. The National Government decorated him for his accomplishments in the field, but he received no new commands after his forces were transferred to the Kansu- Ninghsia border area in the spring of 1941. For the remainder of the war, his only office was that of member of the Kuomintang Central Supervisory Committee. In 1948, as the Kuomintang-Communist battle for the mainland was nearing its end, Ma Hung-pin succeeded his cousin Ma Hung-k'uei as governor of Ninghsia when Ma Hung-k'uei became governor of Kansu. Ma Hung-pin declared allegiance to the Chinese Communists in mid-September 1949, thereby helping to undermine the attempts of Ma Hung-k'uei and Ma Pu-fang (q.v.) to defend the northwestern region. When the Central People's Government was established in October 1949, Ma Hung-pin became a member of the Northwest Military and Administrative Council, vice chairman of the Nationalities Affairs Commission, and deputy governor of Kansu. He was appointed vice chairman of the reorganized Northwest Administrative Council in 1953. He was a Kansu delegate to the National People's Congress in 1954 and was elected to the congress's nationalities commission. That year, he also was elected to the National Defense Council and was reelected deputy governor of Kansu. On 21 October 1960 Ma died in Lanchow, at the age of 77 sui.