Ms Sha has a busy schedule for the next week.
While in Hastings she will visit some of the schools whose students took part in the competition, including Havelock North High School, attended by the winning student, Woodford House, Hastings Girls', and Karamu High Schools.
Ms Sha will help decorate a float, which she will then ride in the annual Hastings Blossom parade on Saturday.
She will also visit Te Papa and Parliament on a two-day trip to the capital.
Competition organiser and Hastings District Council member Kevin Watkins was interviewed on video link by Mianyang TV last weekend and the resulting programme aired on Wednesday. He was also asked to send photos of Hastings and the schools Le Sha will be visiting, as well as pictures of Parliament and Te Papa to be broadcast during the programme.
Competition winner Nesta Lade, received an all-expenses paid trip to China, which she is taking this month.
Mr Watkins said it sounded like Nesta would be in the "hot seat" representing Hastings in China, with so much media interest.
He said the reason for the competition was to foster Hastings school students' interest in China, and he chose Le Sha because her hometown of Mianyang suffered a devastating earthquake in 2008, as Hawke's Bay had in 1931.
Le Sha, despite losing close family members in that earthquake, had acted with "extreme bravery in rescuing others, and then been closely involved in the rebuilding of the city".
She said, after three years of construction, that her home city has been transformed to be better and "more beautiful" than ever.
