Xiang Jingyu (Chinese: 向警予; pinyin: Xiàng Jǐngyǔ; Wade–Giles: Hsiang Ching-yü, (1895-09-04)September 4, 1895 – (1928-05-01)May 1, 1928, née Xiang Junxian), was one of the earliest female members of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), widely regarded as a pioneer of the women's movement of China.

When the humiliating “Twenty-One Demands” was signed, she and other students made speeches in the streets, hoping to wake the patriotic enthusiasm of Chinese people.

She thought that education could rescue China, so she founded Xupu Primary School under the support of some local progressives.

When the New Citizen's Academic Association was founded in Hunan by Mao Zedong and Cai Hesen in April 1918, Xiang Jingyu wanted to make a career outside.

So Xiang Jingyu went to Beijing, and paid a visit to Mr. Cai Yuanpei, the principle of Peking University.

In July 1919, Xiang Jingyu was invited by Cai Hesen to go to Changsha, and carry out Hunan's work-study movement in France.

In July, she was elected as the first female member of the CCP Central Committee and became the first director of the party Women's Bureau.

Xiang Jingyu wrote a number of articles to elaborate Chinese women’s problems.

Then, Xiang Jingyu founded the Committee of Women's Liberation, and trained many female cadres, who then became a force against feudalism and imperialism.

In October, Xiang Jingyu and Cai Hesen were sent to study in Moscow Orient Communist Labor University, where their relationship permanently ended.

[clarification needed] Xiang Jingyu was arrested in the French Concession Sandeli in Wuhan on 20 March 1928 due to the betrayal of members of her group to the police.