While the 2013 ISPRM World Congress Chooses Beijing China as its venue,Chinese colleagues in rehabilitation medicine(RM) feel especially honoured and happy,looking back at the past three decades of hard working in advancing the new specialty in China.In this article I would like to outline the step by step progress of rehabilitation medicine in chronological order,with a hope that the readers might find the impetus of this progress and some characterists of medical rehabilitation in this rising oriental developing country.