India, Nov. 15 -- The husband of China's first cryogenically preserved woman has faced criticism after starting a new relationship.

According to a report by the South China Morning Post, Gui Junmin, 57, decided to freeze his wife, Zhan Wenlian, after she died of lung cancer.

In 2017, doctors had given her just months to live. Gui said he froze his wife after her death in the same year with the hope that she could wake up if a cure for cancer was found.

Zhan, 48, became China's first cryogenically preserved person after Gui signed a 30-year agreement with the Shandong Yinfeng Life Science Research Institute.

The institute, founded in 2015, worked with Qilu Hospital of Shandong University to carry out experimental human cryopreservation...