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Message:: [QUOTE="scottishmoney, post: 1206770, member: 12789"]A Fascinating Image from the PROC <img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/china/china1yuan1960dtl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://www.scottishmoney.net/banknotes/china/china1yuan1960.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />One of the intriquing and fascinating aspects of paper money in  the People's Republic of China is after the communist government secured  it's position in all of China in 1949 women began appearing on paper  money - perhaps in the interests of equality.  On this 1 Yuan note  released first in 1960 and used up until 1980 a young lady drives a  tractor.  A recent issue of the IBNS Journal had a story about the 1  Yuan note with the lady on the tractor, in this case at least, it was  based on a photo of her on a tractor. Evidently the lady (Liang Jun) was  China's first female tractor driver. She was trained in 1948 at a  school sanctioned by the Communist Party and wound up working most of  her life with agricultural machinery.  She retired in 1990 and is now 80  years old.<img src="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSj_cw0ET5faIjIawogS99Y5AnURWybvFTMMrSBILmYHZJTTOleqQ" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> A recent photograph of Liang Jun from a CCTV article on her life.[/QUOTE]