To promote the health of the whole people, and to win the final success of building an all-round well-off society. Xi Jinping's important elaboration on the people's health fully demonstrates the people-centered times demand, and contains the rich connotation of taking building an all-round well-off society as the strategic goal, maintaining social fairness and justice as the value pursuit, social resources co-construction and sharing as the path, and ensuring the superiority of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics as the conditions. In the new era, the important elaboration on the people's health is of great practical value for accelerating the implementation of Healthy China Strategy, promoting the construction of China's health work system, and especially guiding the prevention and control of COVID-19.