Abstract: In the context of the national strategy of “Healthy China”, it is of great strategic significance to excavate driving factors of the industrial structure innovation upgrading of health industry and then accelerate the transformation and upgrading of it, which will foster new economic growth points of China and improve people's health and welfare. Prior studies about the driving mechanism of industrial structure innovation upgrading mostly focus on traditional manufacturing industry, lacking the exploration of the core impetus and inner mechanism affecting the health industrial structure innovation upgrading from the perspective of multi-factor. Based on the new perspective of four factors such as environment, the government, supplier and demander, the current study adopts the qualitative research method to establish a theoretical model driving industrial structure innovation upgrading of health industry. Results show that the four factors synergistically promote industrial structure innovation upgrading of health industry. The present study not only reveals the four-factor theoretical model driving industrial structure innovation upgrading of health industry, but also enriches the theoretical connotation of industrial innovation and upgrading. Meanwhile, this paper also provides targeted policy recommendations and implementation paths for the government to promote the industrial structure innovation upgrading of health industry.

Key words: health industry, industrial structure, innovation upgrading, qualitative research