Founded in 1988, the China Rehabilitation Research Center (CRRC) is the pre-eminent provider of medical rehabilitation services in China. The center's activities span the entire spectrum of physical medicine and rehabilitation, including:

• REHABILITATION SERVICES

  • Combining modern rehabilitation medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, CRRC provides medical, educational, occupational, psychological and social rehabilitation and engineering services to disabled people in order to maximize or restore their functional abilities and facilitate their reintegration into society.

• SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

  • The Center conducts scientific research in the field of rehabilitation medicine and practical technology. Medical research is now directed towards clinical rehabilitation such as functional regeneration and restoration following spinal cord injury, neural system injury or musculoskeletal injury. Technical research is focused on the utilization of biomedical poly-molecular material and the development of health care medicines.

• AIDS AND EQUIPMENT SERVICES

  • The CRRC develops, produces, and supplies aids and equipment to disabled people nationwide and provides maintenance and quality monitoring services. It also develops and produces rehabilitation training equipment, prostheses, orthoses and aids for activities of daily living(ADL aids).

• PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

  • In order to disseminate rehabilitation technology throughout the entire country, CRRC both offers professional training (including graduate students’ and undergraduate students’ training), and undertakes the compilation of authoritative rehabilitation text books and training materials.

• INFORMATION AND SOCIAL WORK

  • CRRC exchanges and researches information concerning rehabilitation, including relevant standards, methods, rules, policies, and prospects of , about, or for the disabled. It also makes suggestion to the government and the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, as will as offers consultation and guidance to the public.

• PUBLICATIONS

  • CRRC is responsible for producing, publishing and distributing audio-visual materials concerning the disabled, assisting national publicity and educational organizations in the dissemination of information. .