President Xi Jinping sends a wreath to commemorate the late professor, who died in Beijing at the age of 103 last week.

Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a wreath on Friday to mourn Chen-ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist who died in Beijing last Saturday at the age of 103. Cai Qi, the president’s chief of staff, was also among the Communist Party dignitaries to offer floral tributes for the funeral held at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing, where many of the country’s leaders are interred. The farewell ceremony began at around 9am on Friday, with the late professor…

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