Chinese woman's body frozen in advanced procedure

The frozen body of a woman who died in Shandong province on June 17 has become the first in China to undergo a full cryonics freeze procedure - using a technique known as extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO - in a city 100 kilometers from where the body was frozen.

Liu Aihui, 72, had been receiving medical treatment at Tai'an Central Hospital in Tai'an, Shandong province - about 100 km from Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute, the cryonics institution affiliated with Yinfeng Biological Group, a private company based in Jinan that specializes in the research and development of human cell and organ storage technologies.

"It would be very complicated to transfer her to a hospital close to the Yinfeng institute, so experts decided to conduct ECMO at Tai'an and then transport her to our cryonics institute for more procedures," said Li Qingping of the institute.