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JD.com CEO engaged with girlfriend?

China.org.cn, February 16, 2015

• Liu Qiangdong, the founder and CEO of the online sales giant JD group, might be engaged with his girlfriend Zhang Zetian, qq.com reports on Monday.

  Liu posted a photo with a ring on his ring finger on Feb. 16, 2015.

   
  
  

  Liu posted a photo with a ring on his ring finger earlier today on his Wechat Friends account, saying "at this moment in my life, the happiest thing is having you … the best birthday gift …" Feb. 14, the Valentine's Day, is Liu's birthday.

  The post got a "like" from one named "Xiaotian Zhang," which is reported to be looked like his girlfriend's name.

  Rumors about the break-up of the couple circulated recently on the Internet after Liu deleted a blog expressing his loyalty to his girlfriend on Jan. 3 and his girlfriend deleted all of her blogs on the same day.

  Later on Jan. 5, JD.com released a statement denying that Liu paid his girlfriend 30 million yuan (about US$4.82 million) after they broke up. The statement also denied rumors that the couple broke up because of an investigation of a senior Chinese official.

  On Jan. 25, the couple was seen visiting a temple in Thailand together and seemed becoming reconciled.

  Liu's girlfriend, Zhang Zetian, became an online sensation in 2009 after a photo showing her holding a cup of milk tea went viral on China's social media, earning her the nickname the "Milk Tea Sister."

  The two met at Columbia University in 2013 when Zhang was studying there as an exchange student from Tsinghua University.

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