This study takes the papers with the theme of “health communication” included in the official source journals of CSSCI from 2017 to 2023 as the research object, and adopts the bibliometric method and content analysis method to understand the current situation of research on health communication in China in the context of “Healthy China” from the aspects of overview, topics and methods. The study found that, at the ontological level, there are limited high-quality journals for health communication research in China, and the number of related researches is relatively large, but the quality varies. At the epistemological level, both “communication in health” and “communication in health” have received common attention. At the methodological level, the theoretical perspective is still dominated by Western theoretical models, and comprehensive research should be conducted in order to build a “knowledge increment”. To summarize, China's future health communication research should be based on “crossroads”, insisting on disciplinary integration and theoretical innovation; focusing on “health promotion”, strengthening technology-driven and application exploration; and bearing in mind “the greatness of the nation”, balancing global vision and local practice.