Rehabilitation University is the first university named after rehabilitation in China and even in the world. It insists on interdisciplinary, and builds a "great health" discipline professional system with rehabilitation science as the core, medicine, science and engineering as the main body, and management, education, sociology and other disciplines crossing.
Rehabilitation University plans to have about 1 10,000 full-time students, including 5,000 doctoral and master students, and is committed to cultivating high-level compound and innovative rehabilitation talents. The campus covers an area of 1.360 mu, and the first-phase construction area is 535,000 square meters, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.
The construction of rehabilitation university will adhere to the contemporary advanced rehabilitation concept, integrate medicine, life science and humanities, and build a new university based on research and led by rehabilitation application.
Liu Jiayi, secretary of the provincial party committee, attended the meeting and delivered a speech. Gong Zheng, deputy secretary of provincial party committee and governor, presided over the meeting. Zhang Haidi, Chairman of China Disabled Persons' Federation, Zhou Changkui, Party Secretary and Chairman of China Disabled Persons' Federation, and Ceng Yixin, Party member and deputy director of National Health and Wellness Committee, delivered speeches respectively.
On August 9, 2022, the conference on the construction of the affiliated hospital directly under the Rehabilitation University was held in the East Campus of Qingdao Municipal Hospital. The meeting conveyed the resolution of the ninth meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th Committee of Qingdao. As a directly affiliated hospital of Rehabilitation University, Qingdao Municipal Hospital uses two names: Qingdao Municipal Hospital and Qingdao Hospital of Rehabilitation University.