"Nowadays, flights connecting Hefei with Incheon in South Korea are available five days a week, and the situation is improving

To turn your back on that and just focus on applications is the demise of science and technology

The opposition camp, however, has criticized Abe's move to call a snap election, with some accusing him of merely trying to escape from the influence-peddling scandals he is currently implicated in and engineering his stay in power

"There were even South Korean businessmen who intended to invest in Hefei but decided to invest in Shanghai and Nanjing instead, as they found the two cities to be more developed," she added

She has received a number of awards for her work, including the Meyenburg Foundation Award for Cancer Research and the Robert Koch Prize