MISS China has won this year's Miss World beauty pageant (ZT)

MISS China has won this year's Miss World beauty pageant ... in China.

Winning smile ... Yu Wenxia is crowned Miss World 2012

Pretty Yu is a music student who hopes to teach when she graduates.

"I love to smile and I like music," she said in a video posted on the pageant's website, in which she talks about her study of Chinese folk music.

 

Gorgeous girls ... Miss World 2011 Ivian Sarcos applauds runner-up Miss Wales Sophie Moulds

Yu's victory marks only the second time in the pageant's 62-year history that China has won. Miss United Kingdom has won four times and Venezuela has won the most with six victories.

The pageant has caused controversy since its inception in 1951, with feminists claiming it is sexist.

 

Sharing a joke ... Miss United States Claudine book enjoys a giggle with Miss England Charlotte Holmes

Britain's Helen Morgan was forced to resign four days after winning the crown in 1974 when it was discovered she was an unmarried mother.

And several countries boycotted the contest in 1976 after South Africa submitted both a Caucasian and African entrant.

 

Global beauties ... Miss Mexico Mariana Berumen and Miss Austria Amina Dagi

 

So close ... Miss England Charlotte Holmes, centre left, commiserates with runner-up Miss Wales Sophie Moulds

More recently, a number of contestants boycotted the event when it was held in Nigeria in 2002.

Their move was to support the cause of Amina Lawal, a Nigeria woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery under Sharia law.

Lawal's conviction was eventually overturned and she has since remarried.

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