The Miss China Yu Wenxia was crowned Miss World 2012 on Saturday night (18) in a ceremony that took place at the stadium in Ordos, a mining town of China bordering the Gobi Desert.

Wenxia, 23, took the coveted title with 116 competitors, including the Mexican Mariana Reynoso, one of the favorites to take the crown, delivered by Venezuelan Ivian Sarcos, Miss World 2011. She was the second Chinese to take the prize, after Zhang Zilin, who won in 2007..