新浪网教育频道(微博)在2008年成功推出了首届中国教育盛典，教育盛典不仅展示了中国教育的发展轨迹，更以独特的视角记录了网络对教育行业的影响力；2009年重装上阵的第二届中国教育盛典由于其评审阵容强大、奖项别出心裁、调查报告具有权威性而获得圆满成功；2010年的中国教育盛典更是以“微博盘点”的全新形式，综合回顾了这一年来中国教育行业的重要事件。“2011中国教育盛典”大型活动再次盛大开启。本届活动的主题为“教育，因你而改变”。活动将通过媒体提名、网友投票、微博互动及专家评审等环节，推选出年度重要教育事件、重要人物、最具品牌影响力的教育集团等重要奖项，旨在不断推动教育事业的发展和壮大。以下为此次活动的提名机构简介：

　　胡敏教授(微博)，著名教育专家、新航道国际教育集团总裁兼校长、留英学者。曾任国际关系学院英语系副主任、硕士生导师。2004年创办新航道，他不仅是中国雅思培训产业化的开创者，同时也是中国托福培训业的一代宗师和考研英语培训的领路人。由其开创的雅思、托福、SAT、考研英语和少儿英语等培训理念及教学模式在全国得到广泛应用和传播，并曾多次应邀赴英国、澳大利亚、加拿大韩国、日本等国的世界知名大学和国际语言培训机构进行访问和讲学。由其领导的国际化教育团队培训年轻学子逾百万，并在业内率先开发出大量拥有自主知识产权的培训教材和专著逾三百部，其中大部分被国内外知名培训机构奉为经典教材，是目前我国英语培训界出书立著最多的知名学者。

　　1998年荣获北京市第五届哲学社会科学优秀成果二等奖；2005年荣获教育部中国成人教育协会和陈香梅教科文奖办公室联合颁发的“中国民办教育创新与发展论坛暨陈香梅教科文奖表彰活动特殊贡献奖”；2008 年荣获“改革开放三十年北京教育功勋人物奖”；2009 年英国文化协会授予其全球“雅思考试20年20人”杰出贡献奖；2009年荣获品牌中国(教育行业)年度人物大奖。

　　Prof. Hu Min

　　Hu Min is President of New Channel International Education Group, President of Beijing New Channel School, a distinguished education expert, and a returned scholar from England. He was formerly the Vice Chairman of the English Department at the School of International Relations where he mentored master's candidates, and formerly President of New Oriental Education Group. He founded New Channel School in 2004. As one of the luminaries of English training in China, Prof. Hu is not only the ground-breaker for the entire IELTS training industry in China, he is also a master of TOEFL training and a pioneer in preparatory training for the NETEM. His basic concepts of training and educational models for the IELTS, TOEFL, SAT, NETEM, and Youth English are now commonly used all over China. He has been invited many times as a speaker and visiting scholar to universities and educational institutions in England and other commonwealth nations, Japan, Korea, and many other countries. He leads a corps of international teachers that have together trained over a million students. Hu Min has lead the industry in the production of independent intellectual property, publishing over 300 works and textbooks, many of which have been hailed by domestic and foreign training centers alike as classic instructional materials。

　　In 1998 he was honored in Beijing with a second level prize for Outstanding Achievement in Philosophy and Social Science. In 2005, he was recognized for outstanding achievements as an innovator in the Chinese non-governmental education sector with an award given jointly by the Chinese Adult Education Association and the Ms. Anna Chennault Education Scholarship Office.  In 2008 he was recognized for having provided meritorious service in Beijing over the past 30 years of opening and reform. In 2009 he was recognized by the British Council as one of the 20 outstanding contributors to the IELTS test over the past 20 years。