Abstract: Entrepreneurship is a positive way to solve the employment problem of disabled people. Compared with the survival-based entrepreneurship，opportunistic entrepreneurship can not only ensure their own employment and income，but also create jobs and improve social benefits. Promoting their entrepreneurial transition from the survival to the opportunity type is a new idea that can help the disabled to realize high-quality employment and entrepreneurship. The entrepreneurial process of Yang Shuting’s entrepreneurial team is taken as a typical case，and the grounded theory is applied to an in-depth analysis of the entrepreneurial transition path of disabled people. On this basis，a theoretical model for the disabled to transit from survival to opportunity-based entrepreneurship is established by developing three main categories of motivation formation，ability shaping，and opportunity utilization，and three supporting categories of resource acquisition，entrepreneurial learning，and effective management. This model can help the disabled to break the shackles of survival-based entrepreneurship. Countermeasures and suggestions are also provided for the disable people’s entrepreneurial transition based on the three elements of motivation formation，ability shaping，and opportunity utilization.

Key words: disabled people, employment of disabled people survival-based entrepreneurship, opportunitybased entrepreneurship, employment positions