A video of a toddler being viciously attacked on the street is causing outrage in China.
The video shows a man repeatedly kicking and beating the toddler - who, police have told Sky News, is aged two or three.
Within a few hours of it appearing online, 17 million Chinese people had expressed their horror.
It is the number one trending topic on Weibo, China's equivalent of Twitter.
A 29-year-old local man named Wang Jiaolong has been arrested.
The footage, shot by a security camera, shows the child playing with a broom outside shops before the man comes along and kicks him in the head.
The child collapses and the man stamps on his skull and hand thirteen times in quick succession.
The attacker then picks up the dustpan and broom and uses them to repeatedly hit the child.
A number of people pass the attack without stopping.
The child's ordeal lasts 35 seconds before a group of people emerge from a nearby shop and intervene.
Several people chase the man down the road while others help the child, who has now left hospital.
The attack happened on 4 May outside the child's uncle's shop in Luochuan County, Shaanxi Province.
Police have not named the victim but confirmed he is local and has been transferred to a specialist hospital in the city of Xi’an.
Remarkably, he has no life-threatening injuries.
Speaking to Chinese Central Television, the child's father said his son has multiple wounds.
These are thought to include several fractures to the left side of his skull and a severely wounded hand.
The suspect, Mr Wang, is undergoing psychiatric tests.
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