This paper describes the ideas of the Chinese technology of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The authors believe that its strategy should be based on inheritance of both the essence of CPR technology of both indigenous and western origin, and it should take into consideration of three factors: time, place and population in order to establish a composite mathematical and theoretical foundation of the CPR technology, and to form a guideline of CPR, and eventually establish the CPR system with Chinese characteristic. DOI: 10.11855/j.issn.0577-7402.2015.09.02