para-olympics

The Para-Olympics are well underway, time to highlight the biography of the Executive President of Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG),Deng Pufang. His family, most obviously his father, Deng Xiaoping, were targets of Mao’s cultural revolution. The Red Guards imprisoned Deng Pufang, tortured him and threw him out of the window of a multi-story building. Deng was rushed to a hospital but was denied helped because of being the son of a capitalist. Deng is a paraplegic since, he is a high-profile advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities in China and beyond, he is the President of the Federation of Persons with Disabilities in China and Chairman of the China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped.