‘I love you’: Huawei’s Meng and husband make Chinese net users swoon with display of ‘immortal love’

Video of Meng Wanzhou’s husband waving and shouting ‘I love you’ after she landed in Shenzhen became the No 1 searched clip on Weibo

Public declaration from 45-year-old seen as a rare gesture for even much younger men in China

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Liu Xiaozong (far left) and his wife Meng Wanzhou wave to each other on the tarmac at Shenzhen Boaon International Airport on September 25. Photo: Handout

Published: 8:30pm, 26 Sep 2021Updated: 9:59am, 28 Sep 2021

Soon after the plane carrying Meng Wanzhou touched down in Shenzhen, her husband – standing on the tarmac among a 100-strong crowd – waved to her excitedly as he shouted: “I love you”.

“I love you,” the Huawei chief financial officer responded, as she waved back.

And Chinese web users were sent swooning over the pair’s relationship, after a video clip of the romantic moment was widely circulated on social media.

Meng arrived in Shenzhen, where Huawei Technologies Co. is headquartered, on Saturday evening, after nearly three years under house arrest in Canada, where she had been detained on fraud charges at the request of the US. Her release came after a deal on Friday with prosecutors in New York.

Footage aired by state broadcaster CCTV showed her husband, Liu Xiaozong, standing among the 100-strong crowd that had assembled to welcome her on the tarmac.

Meng Wanzhou waves to a cheering crowd in Shenzhen as she steps out of a chartered plane that brought her back from Canada after nearly three years. Photo: CCTV