Miss China wins 2012 Miss World

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It’s a much coveted moment. The crowning glory of being named Miss World. And 2012’s title goes to Miss China, who triumphed on home soil in northern China’s mining city of Ordos.

Yu Wenxia is from Northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, and a music school graduate. She is the second Miss China to win the Miss World pageant, after Chinese model Zhang Zilin was crowned in 2007.

A total of 116 contestants, the highest number ever, took to the contest stage. This year’s final on Saturday was watched by an estimated one billion people around the globe.

It’s a much coveted moment... the crowning glory of being named Miss World. And 2012’s title goes to Miss China

It’s a much coveted moment... the crowning glory of being named Miss World. And 2012’s title goes to Miss China

It’s a much coveted moment... the crowning glory of being named Miss World. And 2012’s title goes to Miss China

It’s a much coveted moment... the crowning glory of being named Miss World. And 2012’s title goes to Miss China