She moved to Beijing to work at 20 and married a man five years later, but they got divorced soon due to his alcohol abuse and domestic violence. Fan now takes care of her two daughters alone.
Shen, who has left Peking University in 2011 and now teaches in another school, denies the accusation, according to a local media report.
She said that females during wars have more chances than males to survive because of their gender advantages, saying the "comfort women" survived the war in this way.
She hid in a reed marsh with her parents for more than a month to avoid the Japanese army. For fear of being recognized as a girl by the Japanese army, she cut her hair, and her mother put ash from the bottom of a pan on her face.
She has not had a single radiotherapy session after undergoing surgery, despite her need for the treatment. "They called me from the hospital two months after the surgery and they have just told me that they are waiting for a technician to fix the radiotherapy machine, but he never shows up."
She became the world's oldest person seven months ago after the death in September of Violet Brown in Jamaica, also at the age of 117. Video shown on Japanese television showed Tajima moving her hands to the beat of music played on traditional Japanese instruments at a ceremony to mark the achievement.
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Shen's words come after the Ministry of Finance and State Taxation Administration's decision in early April to reduce value-added tax on used cars from 2 percent to 0.5 percent, valid from May 1, 2020 to Dec 31, 2023.
She also said the Eurasian rail freight had big potentials for further growth and that a total rail potential of 640,000 TEU is forecasted for 2027, compared with a volume of 140,000 TEU in 2016.
She encouraged startups to do more research in technology and law. “We will give better answers to our clients’ specific questions, such as how to solve traffic disputes, instead of general replies,” she said.
She can now say "United Kingdom","Italy" and "Japan" with ease, but has difficulty with the names of nations that have little correlation with their pronunciation in Chinese, such as the Netherlands and Switzerland.