Xi sends birthday greetings to Nobel laureate Chen Ning Yang

BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping has sent best wishes to renowned physicist C.N. 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.