Michael Minhong Yu (Yu Minhong) is a Chinese businessman, the self-made billionaire Founder, Executive Chairman, and former CEO of New Oriental Education & Technology Group (NYSE: EDU), one of China's largest private education providers. His career is rooted in education, teaching, and entrepreneurial audacity.

Yu graduated from Peking University (1985) with a B.A. in English. His career began as an English teacher at Peking University (1985–1991). His philosophical approach centers on scale, quality education, and social mobility (providing better test prep for global opportunities).

• New Oriental Education (Founder, Chairman & Former CEO): The core publicly traded asset, a major provider of test preparation, language training, and K-12 tutoring services in China.
• Academic Pioneer: His success is built on scale tutoring and dominating the market for TOEFL and GRE test preparation.
• Controversy: His company faced a major crisis due to the Chinese government's regulatory crackdown on private tutoring in 2021.
• Post-Crisis Pivot: Following the crackdown, he successfully pivoted the company into e-commerce and live streaming sales (leveraging his teaching brand).

Michael Minhong Yu's strategic genius was his commitment to high-quality test preparation. He founded New Oriental in 1993, recognizing the immense, untapped demand for TOEFL/GRE test prep for Chinese students seeking foreign education. The company achieved hyper-growth, successfully executing its IPO on the NYSE in 2006.

His structural contribution is immense: pioneering the scale commercialization of private education in China. His career faced a massive crisis in 2021 when the Chinese government banned for-profit after-school tutoring, forcing the company to close most of its K-12 services (a loss of 90 percent of its revenue). He successfully pivoted the company into a live streaming e-commerce platform (New Oriental's Dongfang Zhenxuan), demonstrating remarkable entrepreneurial resilience.

Michael Minhong Yu's social impact is structural, stemming from New Oriental's role in providing educational services that facilitated global educational opportunities for millions of Chinese students. His New Oriental Education Foundation supports various educational and community initiatives. His career highlights the immense resilience and adaptability of Chinese entrepreneurs facing major political and regulatory shifts.

His structural contribution is tied to the successful industrialization and scale of the Chinese private education sector.

Michael Minhong Yu maintains the professional, pragmatic style of an executive. His attire is consistently formal and high-quality, favoring tailored suits. His aesthetic reflects serious authority and stability, typical of a leader who successfully navigated a major corporate crisis.

Residing in Beijing, China, his luxury is the immense security and financial reward derived from his multi-billion dollar fortune. His life is dedicated to educational technology, entrepreneurial management, and social mobility advocacy.