China crowned Miss World 2012

Miss World 2012 Winner, Miss World 2012, Femina Miss India Fashion, Miss World: Before china also won the Miss World title in 2007, when model Zhang Zilin took the crown. After miss china won Miss World 2012 at a ceremony in Inner Mongolia, pageant organizers said on Saturday. Organizers said Yu beat out 115 contestants, a record, in the highly publicized annual international beauty pageant.

* Miss China Wearing a sparkling blue gown, Yu Wenxia waved to the audience in the Dongsheng Stadium in Ordos, located in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

* The mostly Chinese audience erupted in cheers and fireworks lit up the sky when it was announced that the home candidate, Yu Wenxia, had been awarded the title.

* “When I was young I felt very lucky because so many people helped me, and I hope in the future I can help more children to feel lucky,” Yu, a 23-year-old aspiring music teacher said when asked why she should be crowned.

However, enthusiastic competitors seemed unfazed by the locale, expressing optimism that with the help of the pageant, the city could leave its reputation behind and take its place alongside other global centers of glitz and glamour.

* “Ordos could be the next Dubai,” Marielle Wilkie, representing the Caribbean nation of Barbados, confidently predicted.

* Albanian contestant Floriana Garo chimed in with her own bold statement. * “In ten years, this city will be booming,” she said.

* Architecture in Ordos, where the city museum is shaped like an undulating blob, is “world class,” added Markysa O’Loughlin, representing St. Kitts and Nevis, also in the Caribbean.

* Contestants churned yoghurt in a nomad’s yurt and donned local dress to climb sand dunes during their month-long stint in China. Video clips shown during the final showed the beauty queens posing in swimwear on desert sand dunes.