"I'm all right. I'm still alive, and I'll be out of the hospital soon."

Liang Jun, 84, responds to the public's concerns after she was sent to the hospital due to acute heart failure and asthma late last month. Liang, who is said to be the inspiration behind the image on the third series of 1 yuan bills issued in 1962, was China's first woman tractor driver. She has devoted her life to farm machinery, thus becoming an icon of agricultural modernization.