Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a wreath to the funeral on Friday of 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 ceremony at the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery in western Beijing, where many of the country’s leaders are interred.
The farewell ceremony began at around 9am, with the late professor draped in…