Details are quickly emerging about the man behind a small explosion at Beijing's International Airport.
His name is Ji Zhongxing. He was born in 1979 and he is from Shandong Province.
He appears to be one of a large number of people in China known as 'petitioners'.
Each has an individual social grievance. Some complain that the local government in their province has stolen their land - a so-called 'land-grab', others will try to expose malpractice at their local hospital or factory.
At the heart of each of their stories will be one thing: corruption.
We often get petitioners at the Sky News bureau in Beijing. They knock on our door armed with documents which they hope will prove their claim.
They travel from their provinces to the Chinese capital in the hope that the central government might listen to them. They are almost always disappointed.
Ji Zhongxing's story - if his online blog is accurate - is tragic.
The blog, complete with graphic photographs, emerged through China's equivalent of twitter, Weibo.
Eyewitnesses said a homemade bomb was detonated In it, Ji says he was beaten up by the Chinese police in 2005. He says the beating was so severe, it paralysed him from the waist down.
He explains that he used to run a bike taxi service in his local town. He was not registered, which is how he ended up in trouble with the police.
It's not clear how Ji travelled to the airport in Beijing. But, for his unusually extreme form of 'petitioning', he chose a place which gave him significant publicity.
Beijing's Terminal 3 is the largest of the airport's terminals and is where all the international flights arrive.
His explosive device was not very powerful and appears to have been detonated just outside the doors where arriving passengers emerge.
Crowds were nearby, waiting for people to arrive, but not in his immediate vicinity.
Perhaps then he was not intending to injure anyone but himself - he wanted to draw attention to corruption.
His moment was photographed multiple times in seconds. Locals posted on Weibo.
However the scene was cleared up within half an hour. Cleaners were drafted in to remove burns from the walls and marks from the floor. Efficient? Yes. But probably an attempt to restore order fast and remove any sense that someone has questioned authority.
There are already suggestions that the government censors are busy deleting Weibo posts related to the incident.
Any foreigners arriving at the airport who had wanted to post their pictures of the incident on Twitter or Facebook would have struggled. Both are banned and blocked in China.
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