Claim: Fang Lizhi found an opportunity to read some recent astrophysics papers in western journals and wrote but never published the first modern cosmological research paper in mainland China.
Evidence: Fang found an opportunity to read some recent astrophysics papers in western journals, and soon wrote his first paper on cosmology, "A Cosmological Solution in Scalar-tensor Theory with Mass and Blackbody Radiation", which was published on the journal Wu Li (Physics), Vol. 1, 163 (1972).