College student Yan Shuqing, 23, was excited on Wednesday to learn she will be released from intensive care in two days, having recuperated well from a kidney transplant this month.

"I am feeling good now and want to go back to school as soon as possible and see my friends," said Yan at Qianfoshan Hospital in Ji'nan, Shandong province.

But outside the ward, her parents said they had mixed feelings about their daughter's successful operation.