Nelson Fu



Nelson Fu or Fu Lianzhang (1894–1968) was a Chinese doctor. He was one of the few if only western-trained doctor to have made the Long March and later, in Beijing, a Vice-Minister of Public Health, to be responsible for the health of the Communist Party elite. In 1955, he was awarded the rank of lieutenant general of the People's Liberation Army.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Fu lived and worked in the then-prefectural seat of Changting (now Tingzhou town) in western Fujian Province. He was a senior doctor at its British Christian missionary Hospital of the Gospel. During the Cultural Revolution, Fu was severely persecuted and tortured by Vice Chairman Lin Biao and his subordinates, particularly Qiu Huizuo. He died in prison on March 29, 1968, at the age of 74.