Embedded system has developed rapidly in these years, and it declares an new era after Personal Computer. Distance education is very important to improve whole people's ability, especially in developing countries. Distance education based on Culture and Education satellite grid will be the firm groundwork in whole-people education and lifelong education system. This paper will describe an embedded intelligent receiver system for satellite-base distance education, which depends on embedded operating system and applications, Digital Video Broadcast - Satellite, Internet Protocol Data Broadcasting, Extensible Markup Language, and so on. It can receive data and manage resource long-timely, automatically and intelligently. It is also easy to be administered and operated, and suitable to be used on a large scale.