1. Forest health care refers to the organic combination of high-quality forest resources with modern medicine, traditional Chinese medicine and other traditional medicines to carry out a series of activities beneficial to human physical and mental health, such as forest rehabilitation, recuperation, health preservation and leisure.

2. Forest health care industry includes emerging health industries such as forest health care environment cultivation, forest health care, rehabilitation, fitness, leisure and forest tourism, research and development and production of forest health care products. It is an industrial chain with forestry as the main body, covering agriculture, industry, tourism, commerce, medicine, sports industry and health service industry.

3. Promoting the healthy development of forests is of great strategic significance for promoting the structural reform of forestry supply side and the transformation of forestry economy, helping farmers in mountainous areas get rid of poverty and become rich, promoting the formation and development of green and healthy industries, and promoting the construction of healthy China.