China's Next Top Model (season 4)

*China's Next Top Model*
China's Next Top Model
Season 4
Country of origin	China
No. of episodes	12
Release
Original network	Travel Channel
Original release	October 12 –; December 28, 2013
Season chronology
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	List of episodes

China's Next Top Model Cycle 4 is the fourth cycle of the Chinese reality TV series, based on the international version and spin-off to the original, America's Next Top Model. The series began to air on television on October 12, 2013.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Among the prizes for this season was a contract to host China's Travel Channel, a contract with 2pm model management, an appearance on the cover of Grazia China, a cash prize of 1,000,000 renminbi, a two-week all-expenses paid trip to Europe, the opportunity to walk in Paris Fashion Week for 2014, and a wide variety of gifts worth a total of 500,000 renminbi from the show's sponsors.^[4]

The winner of the competition was 21-year-old Wang Xiao Qian.

Contestants[]

(ages stated are at start of contest)

Contestant	Age	Height	Finish	Place
Chen Qi	25	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)	Episode 1	14–13
Yin Fang Bing	23	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Episode 1	14–13
Xia Fan	19	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)	Episode 2	12
Chen Chan Lin	19	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)	Episode 3	11
Zong Yi Tong	22	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Episode 4	10
Dang Zhu Xi	20	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Episode 5	9 (quit)
Wang Xiao Ting	21	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)	Episode 5	8
Shi Xin Ling	19	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)	Episode 7	7
Li Qiao Dan	23	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Episode 8	6
Chen Lan Zhou	25	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)	Episode 9	5
Xie Shu Ya	19	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	Episode 12	4
Hu Huan	21	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)		3
Yu An Qi	22	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)		2
Wang Xiao Qian	21	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)		1

Wang Xiao ting and Wang Xiao qian are identical twin sisters, however they were competed individually.

Episodes[]

Episode 1[]

First aired: October 12, 2013^[5]^[6]

The 14 girls move into the model house where they have to fight for the 12 beds in the house. Yin Fang Bing and Li Qiao Dan are too slow and do not get beds, but Yu An Qi and Zong Yi Tong offer to share with them.

At the challenge, the girls learn how to walk on the runway. Yu An qi wins the challenge for having the best walk and wins a 20,000 renminbi prize package containing a luxury bag, Gucci sunglasses, and much clothing.

The girls have a Winter Olympics shoot in the ice room of Beijing I Sweep Curling Club as their photo shoot for the week.

First call-out: Yu An qi
Bottom three: Chen Qi, Xie Shu ya, and Yin Fang Bing
Eliminated: Chen Qi and Yin Fang Bing
Photographer: Hua Yuan

Episode 2[]

First aired: October 19, 2013^[7]^[8]

The 12 girls get their makeovers and compete in a runway challenge where only 9 girls get to walk in a Bread n Butterfashion show. Zong Yi tong, Xia Fan, and Zhuo Chen lan lose the challenge and have to watch the other girls walk in the fashion show.

At home, Chen lan finds a frog and uses it to scare the other girls, causing Hu Huan to burst into tears. The girls have to re-create famous Chinese beauty shots for their photo shoot of the week.

First call-out: Wang Xiao qian
Bottom two: Xia Fan and Zong Yi tong
Eliminated: Xia Fan
Photographer: Zhang Hao ran

Episode 3[]

First aired: October 26, 2013^[9]^[10]

The 11 girls have a fancy dinner with judge, Zheng Yuan chang. After that they go to a hutong where they have a challenge. The girls are randomly split into four teams and each team must compose and shoot three street shots with foreigners within 15 minutes.

Team 1: Shi Xin ling, Wang Xiao qian, and Wang Xiao ting
Team 2: Chen Chan lin, Yu An qi, and Chen lan
Team 3: Dang Zhu xi, Li Qiao dan, and Zong Yi tong
Team 4: Hu Huan and Xie Shu ya

Team 2 had the best picture, but the overall winner of the challenge was Team 1. Team 1 shares a $20,000 renminbi prize package from i-xiu.com and each girl on the winning team receives a watch from Galtiscopio.

The girls go home and receive a nutrition lesson with nutritionist, Cecile. They learn from her what foods each blood type is fit to eat. Huan cuts her foot while playing hide-and-seek with the other girls in the house.

The girls then go to a desert in the Shapotou District in Ningxia where they have to wear swimsuits and work with male models for their photo shoot of the week.

First call-out: Shi Xin ling
Bottom two: Wang Xiao ting and Chen Chan lin
Eliminated: Chen Chan lin
Photographer: Kevin

Episode 4[]

First aired: November 2, 2013

The 10 girls are hanging around in the model house when Zhuo Chen lan kicks Shi Xin ling while they're playing, making Shi Xin ling get angry and cry. After Chen lan's apology, Li Qiao dan's baby daughter visits the house.

The next morning, the girls find out they are going on a Royal Caribbean International luxury cruise trip to South Korea for 3 days. On the cruise ship, Xin ling gets a chance to show off her dancing skills. The girls arrive at Myeong-dong in the Jung District, Seoul, where they have their first challenge. The girls receive ₩100,000 (about 573.30 renminbi) and 15 minutes to buy one vacation-themed accessory. Afterwards, they return to the cruise ship where they walk a runway wearing swimsuits and model the accessory they bought. Dang Zhu xi and Yu An qi were deemed as having the worst accessory, while Qiao dan wins with the best, most vacation-themed accessory. The girls then have a 2nd challenge where they must repeat the runway show in the 1st challenge, but this time they must do so in front of the cruise staff and also coordinate a dance with a professional dancer at the end of the runway. The cruise staff vote which model walked and danced the best, and Qiao dan wins again. For winning both challenges, Qiao dan receives a 20,000 renminbi gift card to shop at Galeries Lafayette.

The girls return to Beijing where they have their photo shoot of the week. Their photos from this shoot will be published in the January 2014 issue of China's Self magazine.^{[citation needed]} Model-turned-designer Alina tells the girls the theme of the shoot is Pandora's Box and that they will be modeling her Ali-Hang haute couture collection. The focus of this episode is posing, so the girls are asked to create strong, long, lean, fairy-like poses for this shoot. After the shoot, Qiao dan finds out her daughter has a fever. At the judging, the girls complain to the staff backstage about the judges' choosing of the photos.

Photographer: Chen Bo yu^[11]
First call-out: Shi Xin ling
Bottom two: Chen lan and Zong Yi tong
Eliminated: Zong Yi tong

Episode 5[]

First aired: November 9, 2013

The 9 girls are visited at the house by famous actress, Fan Wen fang and have an acting lesson.^{[citation needed]} The girls are paired up and each pair has to speak a phrase to their partner in the emotion they are given. Afterwards, the girls must dress up as a variety of housewives and act out a scene where they must say they are China's Next Top Model. Dang Zhu xi lets the girls know that her break from university is almost up, and she is debating whether to take a year off and stay in the competition, or to quit and leave. The girls vote on what they think she should do and a majority of them vote for her leaving, but Zhu xi has not made up her mind yet. The girls then have their challenge of the week, where the girls must create a breast cancer commercial for the Aimer Foundation. The 9 girls are split up into 3 teams where they must be topless, must use 3 keywords, and must write, direct, and act their commercial together in 15 minutes.

Team 1: Dang Zhu xi, Li Qiao dan, and Wang Xiao ting
Team 2: Hu Huan, Wang Xiao qian, and Yu An qi
Team 3: Shi Xin ling, Xie Shu ya, and Chen lan

Team 1 went first and Zhu xi was criticized for not doing enough in her segment. Team 2 went second and Huan and An qi were criticized for being too cold. Team 3 went last and was criticized for not using key words under Shu ya's direction; Xin ling was also criticized for overthinking her segment. Overall the winner of the challenge was Team 1. Their prize is a gift bag containing clothes from Galeries Lafayette worth 30,000 renminbi split among the three of them. Back at the house, Zhu xi gets upset that she has only $5000 of clothes from the gift bag and confronts Qiao dan and Xiao ting about it. Next, the girls have to model as vintage American housewives, or Desperate Housewives, for their photo shoot of the week. Their photos will be published in the 12th issue of L'Officiel China magazine.^[12] The girls are split into groups and each group is given a scene to act out in their shots for the magazine.

Rich beauty queens doing each other's make-up: Wang Xiao qian and Wang Xiao ting
Haughty housewives competing with each other: Hu Huan and Yu An qi
Heartbroken housewife complaining to impatient housewife doing chores: Dang Zhu xi and Li Qiao dan
Two gossiping housewives with angry housewife overhearing them: Shi Xin ling, Xie Shu ya, and Zhuo Chen lan

After the photo shoot, the girls find out 2 will be eliminated and cry over this. At the judging, Xin ling is not present because of her health problem, but later recovers and joins the girls in the judging room. When put up for judging, Zhu xi quits the competition to go back to school. As a result, only 1 will be eliminated. The girls break down into tears over the most heartbreaking elimination of the season.

Photographer: Zhang Xi^[13]
First call-out: Yu An qi
Bottom two: Li Qiao dan & Wang Xiao ting
Eliminated: Wang Xiao ting

Episode 6[]

First aired: November 16, 2013

This episode is a finale runway special where all 14 finalists are shown walking in the final runway show. Tyra Banks is also present at this final runway to help China's NTM's host and judges decide on the winner. No winner deliberation is shown and there is no elimination.

Episode 7[]

First aired: November 23, 2013

First call-out: Li Qiao dan
Bottom two: Shi Xin ling & Xie Shu ya
Eliminated: Shi Xin ling

Episode 8[]

First aired: November 30, 2013

First call-out: Wang Xiao qian
Bottom two: Li Qiao dan & Yu An qi
Eliminated: Li Qiao dan

Episode 9[]

First aired: December 7, 2013

First call-out: Wang Xiao qian
Bottom two: Yu An qi & Chen lan
Eliminated: Chen lan

Episode 10[]

First aired: December 14, 2013

First call-out: Hu Huan
Bottom two: Xie Shu ya & Yu An qi
Eliminated: None

Episode 11[]

First aired: December 21, 2013

Recap Episode

Episode 12[]

First aired: December 28, 2013

First eliminated: Xie Shu ya
Second eliminated: Hu Huan
Final two: Wang Xiao qian & Yu An qi
China's Next Top Model: Wang Xiao qian

Summaries[]

Call-out order[]

Wen Jie's call-out order
Order	Episodes
Order	1	2	3	4	5	7	8	9	10	12
1	An Qi	Xiao Qian	Xin Ling	Xin Ling	An Qi	Qiao Dan	Xiao Qian	Xiao Qian	Huan	Xiao Qian
2	Huan	Xin Ling	Qiao Dan	Qiao Dan	Xiao Qian	Chen Lan	Chen Lan	Huan	Xiao Qian	An Qi
3	Zhu Xi	Qiao Dan	Zhu Xi	Huan	Huan	Huan	Shu Ya	Shu Ya	An Qi Shu Ya	Huan
4	Xiao Ting	Xiao Ting	Huan	An Qi	Shu Ya	Xiao Qian	Huan	An Qi	An Qi Shu Ya	Shu Ya
5	Chen Lan	Huan	Yi Tong	Zhu Xi	Xin Ling	An Qi	An Qi	Chen Lan
6	Xiao Qian	Shu Ya	An Qi	Xiao Ting	Chen Lan	Shu Ya	Qiao Dan
7	Xin Ling	An Qi	Xiao Qian	Shu Ya	Qiao Dan	Xin Ling
8	Qiao Dan	Zhu Xi	Shu Ya	Xiao Qian	Xiao Ting
9	Fan	Chan Lin	Chen Lan	Chen Lan	Zhu Xi
10	Chan Lin	Chen Lan	Xiao Ting	Yi Tong
11	Yi Tong	Yi Tong	Chan Lin
12	Shu Ya	Fan
13/14	Fang Bing Qi

The contestant was eliminated

The contestant quit the competition

The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two

The contestant won the competition

In episode 1, Shu Ya, Fang Bing, and Qi landed in the bottom three. Shang Wen Jie handed the final photograph to Shu Ya, eliminating the other two contestants.
In episode 5, Zhu Xi quit the competition during judging.
Episode 6 was a special episode where the final runway was shown. The winner was not revealed until the final episode, after the regular competition resumed.
In episode 10, An Qi and Shu Ya landed in the bottom two. None of them was eliminated.
Episode 11 was the recap episode.

Photo shoot guide[]

Episode 1 photo shoot: Olympic sports
Episode 2 photo shoot: Re-creating famous beauty shots
Episode 3 photo shoot: Steamy couples in the desert
Episode 4 photo shoot: Eccentric woodland elves
Episode 5 photo shoot: Desperate housewives
Episode 7 photo shoot: Underwater goddesses
Episode 8 photo shoot: ONLY Lookbook with animals
Episode 9 photo shoot: Lingerie inspired by the Chinese opera
Episode 10 photo shoots: Cliff editorial; resting on the beach in B&W
Episode 12 photo shoot: Grazia covers

References[]

^ http://www.rtvgames.com/showthread.php?t=40613
^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRa4ZDXrEr8&feature=player_embedded
^ http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjA3NDI3MjAw.html
^ http://video.sina.com.cn/p/ent/v/m/2013-09-09/141162889641.html
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-06-19. Retrieved 2019-11-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-30. Retrieved 2013-10-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ http://www.breadnbutter.cn/
^ http://www.weibo.com/haoranzaoxing
^ http://www.galtiscopio.com/
^ http://www.moko.cc/zhenshangvision/
^ http://space.yoka.com/blog/2613112/
^ http://www.lofficiel.cn/
^ http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1301717840

External links[]

[1] ttp://www.rtvgames.com/showthread.php?t=40613

[2] ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRa4ZDXrEr8&feature=player_embedded

[3] ttp://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjA3NDI3MjAw.html

[4] ttp://video.sina.com.cn/p/ent/v/m/2013-09-09/141162889641.html

[5] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-06-19. Retrieved 2019-11-06.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[6] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-10-30. Retrieved 2013-10-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[7] ttp://www.breadnbutter.cn/

[8] ttp://www.weibo.com/haoranzaoxing

[9] ttp://www.galtiscopio.com/

[10] ttp://www.moko.cc/zhenshangvision/

[11] ttp://space.yoka.com/blog/2613112/

[12] ttp://www.lofficiel.cn/

[13] ttp://blog.sina.com.cn/u/1301717840

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