Bomber's desperate point BEIJING: When Ji Zhongxing rolled his wheelchair into the arrival hall of Beijing's international airport and began shouting, seemingly no one wanted to take notice. For years, no one had taken any notice. Then, he raised his hands in the air, waving a white package containing a home-made bomb, and blew it up. It ignited, initially, a brief panic and social media frenzy - and now a cold, hard look at what drove him to commit the desperate act. Chinese police swiftly identified the 33-year-old from Shandong province after the blast and said he was receiving medical attention for non-life-threatening injuries. No one else was hurt. Reports from the official Xinhua news agency and state-run broadcaster CCTV said the man attempted to hand out leaflets detailing his grievances at Beijing Capital International Airport. Xinhua said Mr Ji had been protesting for years over "alleged unjust treatment which resulted in his paralysis," but left it to other media outlets to fill in the gaps. Widely reported by mainstream news sites and shared on Chinese social media is a blog purportedly maintained by Mr Ji, dating back to 2006 and subsequently removed by censors on Saturday night. It documents his long and forlorn legal fight for justice after being crippled when he was assaulted while working as motorcycle taxi driver in Guangdong province. The online posting attributed to Mr Ji said on June 28, 2005, he was carrying a passenger on his motorcycle when the occupants of a police car became impatient after wanting him to give way. Suddenly ... seven to eight public security officers holding steel pipes stopped me. One of them hit me right in my face with the steel pipe," the posting said. He said he woke up the next day paralysed and that his family was now in debt. Because we are peasants and we are poor, no one is willing to help us. While it was impossible to immediately verify the blog's authenticity, the author's name, age and home town matched the description of the suspect. His older brother, Ji Zhongji, corroborated the version of events and told London's Telegraph that Mr Ji went to Beijing in 2008 to put his case, without success, before the central government. The emergence of Mr Ji's back story has set Chinese social media alight, with much of the commentary focused on the treatment of vulnerable sections of Chinese society and the need for better rule of law. "In the past 10 years, the number of desperate, mistreated, downtrodden everyday Chinese, is just how many landmines that could explode around us at any moment," Kai-Fu Lee, a former director of Google China who has more than 49 million followers on Weibo, said. Mr Lee said smartphone photos on microblogs increased the chance of protests spreading. One other microblogger simply said: "Where's the dream?," a direct reference to Xi Jinping's aspirational China Dream. In a separate incident, outrage erupted in Hunan province this week after 56-year-old watermelon vendor Deng Zhengjia was beaten to death by urban management officials, known as chengguan.