Liang Jun (Chinese: 梁军;[1] April 1930 – 14 January 2020) was believed to be the first female tractor driver in Communist China who later became a folk hero and model worker.

[2] Liang was born in 1930 in Mingshui County, Heilongjiang; her family were peasants and so gave her to a nearby landlord to be a child bride when she was twelve.

[4] Part of the rise of the People's Republic of China (PRC) involved this, termed by Chen as "celebrating women in particular roles".

[2][a] Though she became a folk hero across China because of the image as a first woman, Liang continued to work,[4] and was said to have "devoted her whole life to farm machinery".

[3] Her rise to notoriety involved stories spreading across the country that she, a woman, took tractors out to explore the wilderness.

[5] Liang returned to her province and began working for the government there, heading up agricultural development programs.