The word míngrén means "brilliant man".
The Mingren is equivalent to the Nihon-Kiin's Meijin and the Hanguk Kiwon's Myungin titles.
[1] The Mingren is sponsored by the Zhongguo Qiyuan and the People's Daily.
It consists of a preliminary tournament in which 32 players compete against one another to determine the challenger to the previous year's winner.
The preliminary is a single-elimination format, and the title match is decided in a best-of-three.