Chinese beauty Zhang Zilin took thecrown in the final round of contest of the Miss World Pageant 2007,which concluded last Saturday in Sanya,a tourist resort of south China's island province Hainan. It’s the first time a Chinese woman has won the title.
中国美女张梓琳在上周六结束的2007年世界小姐大赛决赛中摘得桂冠,本次比赛在海南岛的旅游胜地三亚举行。这是中国女孩第一次获得此殊荣。
Zhang Zilin,born in the northern industrial cityof Shi jia zhuang,is now a Beijing secretary. Graduated from University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2006,the new Miss World had been a hurdler and triple jumper for 12 years.She is really a sports lover.A blog by Zhang on the Web portal Sina.com had over 1 million hits as of Sunday,with many fans posting their congratulations."You've brought honor to our country!We're all happy for you!We're proud for China!"wrote a fan named "Tango."
As one of the three most prestigious world beauty contests,the 57th Miss World Pageant came to China for the fourth time. Beauties from 106 countries and regions took part in this year's contest. Miss World pageant is an international beauty pageant founded in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. After Morley died in 2000,his widow,Julia,succeeded him and is now executive chairwoman of the organizing agency.
In actuality the girl who won the title of Miss World will later spend the next 365 days trotting the globe raising money for victims of natural disasters,disease and poverty.