Cardiac rehabilitation is a comprehensive program designed to reduce the risk of acute cardiovascular events and sudden death, limit the effects and symptoms of cardiovascular disease, delay the progression of disease and promote the reintegration of patients. Nowadays, the benefits of cardiac rehabilitation have been widely evidenced, and the aerobic exercise based cardiac rehabilitation program has been seen as a therapy for cardiovascular disease being recommended in latest updated guidelines. Unfortunately,its implementation is rare in our country. This article reviews the beneficial evidences of cardiac rehabilitation for different candidates, aiming to provide new reference for the utilization of it.