Liu Xingyan, 20, Beijing Babe
The Beijing News (新京报) has always tried to be a serious newspaper, even though many of the editors who actually dared to be serious all got sacked at the end of 2005.
Nonetheless, one feature of the paper that has been seriously uninterrupted is the Beijing Babes (北京宝贝) column, which started in November 2003. Last week, The Beijing News published an entire supplement of Beijing Babes — a beauty competition in which all the contestants wear clothing made from copies of The Beijing News.