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Biography

Fu Xiancai grew up near the Yangtze River. He became politically active in 1994, when his village was threatened by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam. In 1997 was forced to leave his home after it was flooded by the water of the reservoir. Afternoon light on the jagged grey mountains rising from the Yangtze River gorge The Yangtze River or Chang Jiang is the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world after the Nile in Africa and the Amazon in South America. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal. // Events January Bill Clinton January 1 : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect. ... Three Gorges Dam construction site, downstream side, 26 July 2004 Three Gorges Dam, receiving, upstream side, 26 July 2004 Three Gorges Dam, ship locks for river traffic to bypass the dam, May 2004 The Three Gorges Dam (Simplified Chinese: 三峡大坝; Traditional Chinese: 三峽大壩; Pinyin: Sānxiá Dàbà) (30. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Since that time he has been campaigning for better resettlement compensation from the People's Republic of China for those forced to move by the construction.

On 19th May 2006 Fu Xiancai gave an interview to the German television station ARD in which he discussed the dam. Following the interview he was warned by Chinese authorities for his activism and received a broken leg and blows to the head. In June 2006, he was summoned to receive a further warning from police and assaulted as he returned home. He is partially paralysed as a consequence of his injuries. Current logo ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – the Consortium of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany), is a joint organization of Germanys regional public broadcasting agencies. ...

The German government has protested against his situation and the potential implications for other foreign correspondents in China.

Germany has now provided the money needed for the operation and the operation took place on 18th of june^[1].

Weblink:

• Article of an international Organisation
• Article of the german Newspaper FAZ (german)
• Interview with the reporter of the german newsstation which was the reason of this situation (german)

References

1. ^ http://www.n-tv.de/679791.html

This article is based on a translation of an article from the German Wikipedia.