Abstract: By analyzing the experiences and lessons of expanding the patients' sources, promoting new technologies, developing equipments,enhancing the patients with special social status, disseminating Chinese culture and other aspects in medical foreign aid, the view that five combinations should be conducted was concluded to develop rehabilitation medicine effectively in Africa. Which were: the integration of the daily workload improving and the technical structure optimizing, the combination of the own advantages exerting and the actual local conditions considering, the linking of the medical knowledge disseminating and the core technologies leading, the unity of the fair share of things accomplishing and the social image shaping and the association of the masses of the people serving with close ties to senior.

Key words: rehabilitation medicine, medical foreign aid, connotation, Africa