Xu Xiaobing ??? (16 August 1916 – 27 October 2009) was a Chinese cinematographer, filmmaker, and photojournalist.
The Chinese Communist Party commissioned Xu and his wife, Hou Bo, to make an official photographic record to share with the Chinese and world public of Party leaders, scenes of battle, and vignettes of everyday life during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and especially of Mao Zedong from the 1930s down to the 1960s.
The couple shot many of the best-known photos of Mao and other leaders.Xu was a member of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and President of the Chinese Photographers' Association.
Xu Xiaobing, Hou Bo, and Lu Houmin have been called the best photographers of Mao.