The big health industry includes medical products, health products, nutritious food, medical devices, health care devices, leisure and fitness, health management, health consultation and other fields. That is to say, the whole process, all-round and all-factor care for life is carried out around people's food, clothing, housing, transportation, birth, illness and death, so as to pursue not only individual physical and mental health, but also psychological, spiritual and social, environmental, family and crowd health.

The health industry is a compound industry, with a wide radiation area and many employees, which plays a great role in stimulating consumption. It has the important function of stimulating the growth of domestic demand and ensuring the improvement of people's livelihood, and has collectively reconstructed the "Chinese-style health industry system" under the new situation. Finally, it is defined that China's health industry consists of six basic industrial groups.

Big health industry is a series of industrial systems related to health. To develop a big health industry is to change the traditional medical industry development model, that is, from a single treatment model to a "prevention-treatment-maintenance" integrated prevention and treatment model.

Therefore, it is necessary not only to continue to develop the pharmaceutical industry with medical devices and drugs as the mainstay, but also to speed up the development of health products such as health food, cosmeceuticals and functional daily necessities, as well as personalized health testing and evaluation, consulting services, disease rehabilitation and other health management services.