Abstract: With the continuous development of the tourism industry, the tourism has transformed from sightseeing tour to entertaining and sports tourism with the main purpose of building up health, which become the new direction of development of the tourism industry. The paper chooses the health tourism, the forest tourism, the hot spring tourism, the sports tourism, the rural tourism, the diet therapy, the aromatherapy and so on as key words, this 13 aspects on health tourism are retrieved in the fulltext databases in China Journal Net and other databases from 2000 to 2010 and the relevant literature review is also organised. Studies shows that Chinas health tourism research is not mature, which still in the early stage of its development. Meanwhile, it is found the following areas need to be strengthened：the basic comprehensive theoretical research, the development plan of health tourism resources, the combination of health tourism and ecotourism and etc.