Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a comprehensive intervention to the chronic respiratory diseases, that its benefits in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have been well established. Localization of PR in China is one of the key health strategies as there are nearly 100 million patients with COPD which causes huge disease burden. In addition, the evidence of PR for patients with other chronic respiratory diseases and post-thoracic surgery should be accumulated too. Now clinician, patients, and policy makers have few recognition of PR, which needs large-scaled standardized training and popularizing. This article starts with the definition of PR, reviews its population, implementation, settings, as well as the current situation of PR in our country in order to make clinicians, researchers, and policy makers have better understanding of PR and to make some suggestions on direction of the future research and clinical work.
