With the development of rehabilitation medicine being promoted as a national strategy, the rehabilitation medicine has developed rapidly in China, and the number of rehabilitation medicine departments in tertiary general hospitals has increased greatly. However, the discipline development faces some problems, such as unreasonable physical condition setting, nonstandard clinical path of rehabilitation technology, inaccurate discipline positioning, loopholes in safety management, inadequate rehabilitation quality control, and imperfect talent construction system. This paper attempts to discuss the strategic thinking of the development of rehabilitation medicine from six dimensions: foundation, technology, system, safety, quality control, and talents, so as to provide a reference for discipline builders.
