With the acceleration of China's reform and opening up, with the improvement of people's material living standards and health care awareness, people are no longer satisfied with massage as a treatment method. All kinds of people put forward the requirements of health massage from different angles, and the demand for health massage in society has risen sharply, which is in line with this.

In addition to professional massage center work, leisure places, sanatoriums, rehabilitation centers, nursing homes and other welfare institutions have also set up health massage services, and some hospitals have begun to increase health massage programs. Therefore, the prospect of masseurs is very broad.

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According to the requirements of "the State Council's Institutional Reform and Functional Transformation Plan" and the spirit of the State Council's series of promoting the combination of simple administration, decentralization and management and optimizing services, Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security decided to abolish the provisions of the former Ministry of Labor and Social Security on recruiting skilled workers (Decree No.6 of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security).

In 2000, the former Ministry of Labor and Social Security promulgated the Regulations on Recruiting Skilled Workers (Order No.6 of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security), which stipulated 90 jobs (occupations) with professional qualification certificates, including health massage therapists.