This study approaches the history of China’s health communication research from the perspective of dialogic public relations (Kent & Taylor, 1998,2002). Three developmental stages are identified: Education-Oriented (1987-2000), Persuasion-Oriented (2001-2010), and DialogueOriented (2011-present). This article emphasizes that the latest stage of academic tasks includes the transition from a single discipline to interdisciplinary cooperation, from focusing on communication effects to the media's social meaning research, health narrative research, and social network research on the symbiosis of a diverse academic ecosystem. This essay offers a thirty-year re?ective survey on past, current, and future directions of China’s health communication research, as they relate to the dialogic theory of public relations.