Claim: Fang Lizhi found an opportunity to read some recent astrophysics papers in western journals  and wrote 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). This was the first modern cosmological research paper in mainland China.