A business administration graduate and part-time model, Miss Zhang is one of the thousands of young Chinese women who were inspired to enter beauty pageants after Miss World came to Sanya.
“I think it is just a dream to be here,” she told The Sunday Telegraph a few hours before her win.
“When I was 18, I watched Miss World when it was first held in China and I thought it was fantastic. I knew then I wanted to be part of it.”
She had just three days to prepare for the month-long competition, which was held on World Aids Day and included a video message from Nelson Mandela promoting HIV awareness, having only become Miss China at the end of October.
Unlike the Miss World contests of old, contestants are no longer judged solely on their looks in a bikini.During the month-long competition they were put through sporting and singing tests. All 106 did appear briefly in bikinis, but they spent much longer in elaborate, designer gowns.
Miss Zhang won over the judges, who included former tennis player Annabel Croft and singer Duncan James, by expressing her desire to help promote the Beijing Olympics and to bring glory to her country. “I think education is more important that being beautiful,” she told The Sunday Telegraph.
Now, she believes she is the envy of most Chinese women.
“Miss World is very famous in China. I think deep down a lot of girls would like to take part in it,” said Miss Zhang, who at 182 cms (5ft 11 and a half inches) was the tallest of this year’s contestants.
Such sentiments are music to Mrs Morley’s ears.
A determined Londoner, she is the guiding light behind the contest, which was originally launched by her late husband Eric Morley in 1951 and remains enormously popular in Asia and South America.
She claims it has gone from strength to strength since the disastrous 2002 event, during which the contestants had to flee Nigeria after riots by Muslims protesting against it left 250 people dead.
The annual arrival of 100 beauty queens from around the globe has helped turn Sanya and Hainan Island into a booming tourist destination.
For hundreds of years, it was feared as the place where China’s emperors exiled those who had displeased them.
Now, it receives 16 million visitors a year, including more than half a million foreigners and is being promoted as the Hawaii of the Orient.
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