Deng’s Son Planning Trip to U.S.
BEIJING — Deng Pufang, the disabled son of Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, will visit the United States and Canada in October, a U.S. Embassy official said Thursday.
Deng Pufang, 43, director of the China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped, will arrive in the United States on Oct. 1 for a private, three-week visit after spending two weeks in Canada, embassy official Nancy Tucker said.
Deng will also be examined by a doctor in Canada.
His itinerary is likely to include stops in New York, Washington, Miami, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where he plans to meet with leaders of groups for the handicapped and blind, she said.
Deng, the eldest son of Deng Xiaoping, became a paraplegic in 1968 after he was thrown out a fourth-floor window by radical Red Guards during China’s Cultural Revolution.
The younger Deng was a student at Beijing University at the time and his father had been purged as a “capitalist roader.”
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