REPORT: Peng Lifa's hometown is drowning in sorrows...
Peng Lifa's hometown of Tailai is an isolated rural county near Inner Mongolia
The man who unfurled the hand-painted protest banners from the bridge was anonymous for a few hours but internet sleuthing and social media accounts in his name have revealed the identity Peng Lifa to the world. A scientist by training, he lived in Xicheng District of Beijing and worked in a computer services firm near Taoranting Lake on the south side of town.