Wang Yifu entered Beiping Normal University in 1929, where he began participating in revolutionary activities. In 1931, he joined the Chinese Communist Party.[2] The following year, he led a group of progressive students to Chahar Province to join the Chahar People's Counter-Japanese Army and took part in the Great Wall Resistance against Japanese aggression. During this period, he successively served as deputy director of the Pingdiquan office of the Liaoning–Jilin–Heilongjiang Mass Support Association, a member of the Wanquan Working Committee of the CCP, and director of the Political Department of the Second Cavalry Division of the 16th Army of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.[3]
After the defeat of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army in the autumn of 1933, Wang transferred to Shanxi Province to engage in party affairs. Following the Xi'an Incident in December 1936, he returned to Beiping and served as head of publicity for the Northeast Affairs Special Committee of the CCP Northern Bureau, secretary of a prefectural party committee in the Jin–Sui region, and political commissar of a sub-district of the Jin–Sui Military Region.[4]
After the victory of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Wang was appointed deputy secretary and head of the organization department of the CCP Harbin Municipal Committee. From 1948 onward, he held a series of senior positions, including deputy director of the Northeast Civil Affairs Commission, minister of civil affairs, member of the Northeast People's Government concurrently serving as president of Northeast University, and executive vice minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Central People's Government Council.[1]
In 1979, Wang became deputy secretary of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party. He was elected vice chairperson of the Standing Committee of the Ninth Tianjin Municipal People's Congress in 1980.[5] In 1981, he was transferred to the Preparatory Committee of the China Law Society as vice director, and in 1982 he was elected vice president of the China Law Society. Wang Yifu died of illness in Beijing in 1991 at the age of 81.[6]