It is imperative to address aging and health challenges by developing rehabilitation services, which are essential for enhancing the public quality of life and health emergency response. This initiative urgently requires professional talent support, with vocational colleges playing a crucial role in cultivating applied professionals. This article takes Yibin, Sichuan as an example, analyzes the necessity of setting up the rehabilitation therapy technology in Yibin vocational colleges from the dimensions of policy support, actual demand, talent gap, local college layout, and talent distribution, and proposes measures to build a “government-demand-education” collaborative system, in order to provide theoretical references for the rational layout and high-quality development of rehabilitation therapy technology.