{"id":331436,"date":"2025-10-25T11:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/331436\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T11:29:09","slug":"china-bids-farewell-to-nobel-prize-winning-physicist-chen-ning-yang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/331436\/","title":{"rendered":"China bids farewell to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Chen-ning Yang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a wreath to the funeral on Friday of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3329496\/chinese-nobel-prize-winning-physicist-chen-ning-yang-dies-aged-103?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"noopener\">Chen-ning Yang<\/a>, a Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist who died in Beijing last Saturday at the age of 103.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Cai Qi, the president\u2019s 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\u2019s leaders are interred.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The farewell ceremony began at around 9am, with the late professor draped in the national flag of the People\u2019s Republic of China and surrounded by flowers and evergreens at the memorial hall, according to the official Xinhua agency.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">At the centre of the auditorium hung a large black banner inscribed with white Chinese characters in memory of Yang, while a portrait was displayed underneath, according to a Xinhua photo.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Below the portrait, Yang was flanked by two rows of wreaths.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The first in one row was from Xi, bearing the president\u2019s name and accompanied by a tribute couplet that said: \u201cDeeply mourning Mr Chen-ning Yang.\u201d This was followed by a floral offering from Cai, who ranks fifth in the party hierarchy and is a member of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee and director of the party\u2019s general office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a wreath to the funeral on Friday of Chen-ning Yang, a Nobel Prize-winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":331437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[164501,9710,157622,164500,164502,63290,492,164499,159,6043,111014,21751,157621,67,132,68,157619],"class_list":{"0":"post-331436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-babaoshan-revolutionary-cemetery","9":"tag-beijing","10":"tag-chen-ning-yang","11":"tag-chinese-american-physicist","12":"tag-einsteins-theory-of-relativity","13":"tag-nobel-prize","14":"tag-physics","15":"tag-robert-mills","16":"tag-science","17":"tag-shanghai","18":"tag-standard-model","19":"tag-tsinghua-university","20":"tag-tsung-dao-lee","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-yang-mills-theory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115434577318171781","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}