[1] His rise to national fame came with his hosting of the hit TV dating show Fei Cheng Wu Rao (If You Are the One), after which he emerged as a household name.
in Literature from Nanjing Normal University and has a postgraduate degree from the Jiangsu Party School in Philosophy.
He was an editor and producer, as well as head cameraman for the 1995 documentary series Towards Atlanta (Chinese: 奔向亚特兰大), and continued his journalist career at JSBC's Channel 2 between 1997 and 1999.
Meng attributed the success of the show to the ability of the participants to express their views freely.
He regards the "post-80s" generation to be far more expressive of their views than their predecessors in earlier dating shows, none of which reached the high rating levels of Fei Cheng Wu Rao.