Yu Minhong, A Ferry Driver Studying Abroad

His contribution to the internationalization of Chinese business is not direct. It is reflected in his one hundred thousand year old trainee who is 18 years old. He took the train for the first time, but then he sat down in Beijing. At the age of 33, he flew for the first time, flying from sky to sky every year for more than 100 days. At the age of 34, he went abroad for the first time, but he occupied half of the time of living and studying abroad.

Yu Minhong, the name of Harvard, and Yale almost surpass any Chinese University President.

The Beijing New Oriental School, founded by him, dominates the overseas training market in Beijing and even the whole country. Tens of thousands of Chinese students have been trained in the United States and Canada through New Oriental training.

According to incomplete statistics, 70% of the Chinese students studying in overseas prestigious schools are their disciples.

Over the past 10 years, the number of people who went abroad to study from New Oriental and then returned to the "returnees" tide returned to business.

He is proficient in English, especially in vocabulary. His GRE vocabulary series is called "Red Treasure Book" by New Oriental students.

Many of his trainees got full marks in TOEFL and GRE exams, so that he was honored as "the godfather of studying abroad".

11 years ago, Yu Minhong was unthinkable for those who felt that he was not a big man and didn't like to do great things.

He is thin, usually wearing T-shirt and sports shoes, and has a strong book on his body.

He is not a natural leader.

The children from rural Jiangsu took three years of college entrance examination from 1978 to 1980.

He wanted to be admitted to the Jiangsu normal college, and Changshou City was the place he dreamed of.

When he was admitted to the Department of Peking language in Peking University, he often remained silent because of his accent.

After graduation, the students went abroad, but he was refused by the embassy several times.

In 1992, Yu Minhong, a Peking University teacher who was once again blocked from going abroad, resigned and began working in a training school in the community.

He soon found that these private language schools were mercenary and sprout their own ideas.

In 1993, in the illegal building with air leakage, New Oriental began to be full of difficult development course.

That winter, Yu Minhong carried his paste bucket to advertise on the winter evenings below ten degrees. The ads had not been pasted up, and the paste was frozen to ice.

The twists and turns of the twists and turns made him summarize the three abilities that he needed to succeed: the ability to endure loneliness, endure failure and endure humiliation.

In 1995, with the gradual accumulation of word-of-mouth, New Oriental finally developed and began to expand rapidly. Besides TOEFL and GRE training, it opened up overseas consulting, oral training, College English training and other businesses, and gradually completed the process of changing from manual workshop to modern company.

Today's New Oriental is still synonymous with GRE and TOEFL Training, but he is not attached to this state.

"My ideal is to do world education," Yu Minhong, chairman of New Oriental Education Technology Group, said to "Global Entrepreneur". "Only by combining the best of East and West can we achieve the best education."

The New Oriental School, located in more than 10 major cities in China, has accumulated nearly 2 million trainees, including 450 thousand trainees in 2003 alone.

In May 2004, New Oriental opened schools in Toronto and Montreal, Canada, and entered the H overseas education market. Yu Minhong believed that the New Oriental School and his contribution to internationalization were not direct, but reflected in one hundred thousand students.

"They will become the starter of Chinese business internationalization no matter whether they will return to China in the future.

Now, Yu Minhong goes to North America several times a year - an activity currently active by New Oriental is to go among Chinese students and encourage them to go back to business.

New Oriental should be a bridge for overseas development and a rainbow for returning to China.

She was described as "the last alma mater of Chinese students" in the New Oriental training school. This is a mental alma mater.

Hundreds of thousands of students here, besides studying how to cope with the entrance examination abroad, learn the method of visa, and also know the spirit of life: "look for hope from despair" - this is the famous motto of New Oriental.

Yu Minhong and New Oriental principals have discussed many times whether to change this motto and whether it is suitable for the present era.

But Yu Minhong insists that this is a philosophy of life.

"Despair is a situation that everyone often has to face," Yu Minhong admits. He still faces desperation now, and the bigger the harder it is.

Mistakes in previous decisions cost little. Now, if the decision is wrong, it may bring tens of millions of investment mistakes to New Oriental's career. At that time, he felt more hopeless than he felt when he was poor.

But fortunately, the experience of running New Oriental has brought about changes in his character, "from complaining to being positive and active," Yu Minhong thought.

At the moment, he is trying to make his name and New Oriental brand more and more distant.

He has no longer taught thousands of students in the auditorium, though occasionally speaking in North America.

He plans to give new Oriental to others in 3 years, and then realize his other ideals.

Such as writing books, such as driving around the world.

He was 45 years old.