China's National Icon, first female tractor, dies at 90

In 1948, Liang Yun became the first woman in China to take up the tractor's work when she was given training to learn to become a tractor.

More than a decade later, its image that proudly drove the tractor had been printed in the 1-Yuan bank, the BBC writes, translates Periscope.

No one could drive better than I,” had said in an interview. “I have no regrets in this life. ”

Liang Yun was born in 1930 to a poor family in the remote Chinese province of Heilgiang.

She had spent most of her life helping on a farm and also studying in a rural school.

In 1948, when a local school opened a tractor driver competition, it applied.

According to a local medium, there were 70 students in class with Liang Yun as the only woman there. She managed to complete her training and become the first woman to drive a tractor.

A year later, Chinese leader Mao Zedong had announced the creation of the People's Republic of China. /Periscope