Mingren (Chinese: 名人; Pinyin: Míng Rén), literally translated, means "Brilliant Man," i.e., meijin in Japanese, and myungin in Korean. It the name of a Go competition in China, which is the Chinese equivalent of the Nihon-Kiin's Meijin.

[edit] Outline

The Mingren is sponsored by the Zhongguo Qiyuan and Chinese People's Daily. There are 64 players who compete to get into a 16 player preliminary. The preliminary is a single knockout format, and the final for the challenger is a best-of-3 while the final is best-of-5. The winner's purse in 2008 was 100,000 CY ($14,600).

[edit] Past winners

Player	Years Held
Liu Xiaoguang	1988
Ma Xiaochun	1989 - 2001
Zhou Heyang	2002
Qiu Jun	2003
Gu Li	2004 - 2008

[edit] See also

• Meijin
• Myungin