The three basic functions of the CDPF are to represent the interests of people with disabilities in China and help protect their legitimate rights, to provide them with comprehensive and effective services and to supervise affairs relating to people with disabilities commissioned by the Chinese government.

With its motto "humanity, probity, service and contribution" the CDPF has helped many disabled persons.

Wu Yunfu (伍云甫), general secretary of the Chinese People's Relief Association, served as chairman.

Wu Yunfu (伍云甫), general secretary of the Chinese People's Relief Association, served as chairman.

[5] In August 1978, Report on the return of the China Association for the Blind and Deaf's organization and working was approved by the central leadership after the instructions.

[6] On March 15, 1984, the inaugural meeting of the China Welfare Fund for the Handicapped was held in Beijing.

[8] On March 11 to 13, 1988, the First National Congress of the China Disabled Persons' Federation was held in Beijing.

[11] On January 14, 2011, the China Disabled Persons Rehabilitation Association of the Fifth National People's Congress was inaugurated in Beijing.

[14] On October 11, 2011, the opening ceremony of the Eighth Chinese National Games for the Disabled was held in Hangzhou.

[20] The highest authority of the China Disabled Persons' Federation is the National People's Congress.

The powers of the National People's Congress are considering reports from the Bureau of the China Disabled Persons' Federation in order to determine working principles and tasks, modifying the China Disabled Persons' Federation charter and electing the Bureau of the CDPF.

It is a domestic public offering of a comprehensive monthly journal of the CDPF, for carrying forward the humanitarian and servicing for disabled people.

Being the only national institutional journal for disabled people, the magazine played an active role in promoting the CDPF's work.

The journal distributes to mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, as well as a dozen other countries.

[28] Blind Monthly is the only Braille cultural publication, founded in Beijing on March 15, 1954, and sponsored by the China Disabled Persons' Federation.