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Xi sends birthday greetings to Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang
By Xinhua Published: Sep 22, 2021 09:53 PM
Yang Chen-ning, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, listens to questions raised by a student at the opening ceremony of the first CAS-Leopoldina Joint Conference in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 9, 2019. File Photo:Xinhua

Yang Chen-ning, a Nobel prize-winning physicist, listens to questions raised by a student at the opening ceremony of the first CAS-Leopoldina Joint Conference in Beijing, capital of China, Sept. 9, 2019. File Photo:Xinhua


 
Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent best wishes to renowned physicist Chen Ning Yang on his birthday.

Entrusted by Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, senior officials of the Ministry of Education visited Yang at Tsinghua University on Wednesday, presented him with a flower basket on Xi's behalf and conveyed Xi's greetings.

Yang is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.