New Oriental's development history:
New Oriental Education and Technology Group (NOTEG) was founded on November 16, 1993 as Beijing New Oriental School. With training as its core, the group owns a number of training systems, such as Full Star Kindergarten, Bubble Children's Education, Youneng Middle School Education, Basic English Training, University English and Exam Training, Examination for International Examinations, and Multi-language Training, etc. At the same time, it has made remarkable achievements in basic education, vocational education, education research and development, overseas consulting, and cultural industry.
Meanwhile, it has made remarkable achievements in basic education, vocational education, education research and development, overseas consulting, and cultural industry. As a famous private educational institution in China, New Oriental Education & Technology Group was successfully listed on September 7, 2006 on the New York Stock Exchange in the United States. As of May 2014, New Oriental has set up 56 schools, 31 bookstores and 703 learning centers in 50 cities across China.
Expanded Information:
New Oriental, China's largest education and training organization, celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Great Hall of the People, with performances from representatives of all campuses. At the ceremony, New Oriental also honored star teachers and people with outstanding contributions.
Yu Minhong, CEO of New Oriental, delivered a speech titled "Believe in the Power of Ideals" at the end of the ceremony, which once again conveyed positive energy to the outside world, and recounted how New Oriental has grown from a small organization in Zhongguancun to an aircraft carrier in China's education and training industry over the past 20 years. In the past 20 years, New Oriental has grown from a small organization in Zhongguancun to an aircraft carrier in China's education and training industry, encouraging students and employees to strive for their ideals.
The following is the full text of the speech:
I am very happy to be standing here today, on the stage of the Great Hall of the People. It reminds me of when I was in college and rode my bicycle through Tiananmen Square, when I thought that one day I would be able to walk into such a sacred auditorium.
Later, the reform and opening up finally opened the Great Hall of the People to the people, and I once visited the entire auditorium and some of the surrounding halls of the Great Hall of the People as a tourist. At that time I thought, when will I be able to sit in this hall for a meeting? Then I was named a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and became qualified to come into this hall to attend meetings and listen to the speeches of the country's leaders.
On another occasion, the 100th anniversary of Peking University was celebrated in the Great Hall of the People, and Wang Qiang, Xu Xiaoping, and I were invited to sit in the Great Hall of the People as delegates. At that time New Oriental was still a very small organization.
I sat here once thinking, when will New Oriental also be able to celebrate its birthday in the Great Hall of the People. It was more than ten years ago, and at that time I thought, about the 20th anniversary, we should be able to walk in. Today, we have walked in, into the Great Hall of the People.
Maybe, every venue can accommodate the twentieth anniversary of New Oriental, but the meaning here is really different, because, it proves that a humble dream of a humble person, as long as it persists, can be realized, and New Oriental is a great dream realized by a group of humble people.
People's Daily Online-"New Oriental" 20th anniversary of Yu Minhong speech firmly believe in the ideal