Abstract: Community health promotion is an effective tool and necessary means for our country to implement the “Healthy China” strategy， improve the level of social disease control， and achieve health for all. This paper uses the policy content analysis method to comb and analyze 44 community health promotion policy texts issued by the country from 1999 to 2019.The preferences of community health promotion policy tools are studied based on the analytical framework of policy instrument. The research results show that community health promotion policy-makers in China are diverse and very cooperative. But the hierarchy of the policy is quite low. The number of annual policies released is generally stable but showing a growing trend. The focuses of the policies mainly include community health services provision， institutional construction and giving full play to the strengths of traditional Chinese medicine. Regarding the selection of community health promotion policy tools， supply-oriented policy tools are overused， environment-oriented policy tools are properly used， and demand-oriented policy tools are seriously lacking. The internal selection structure of various policy tools is also quite unbalanced. Therefore， the paper proposes that the government should improve the top-level institutional construction， increase the hierarchical level of the community health promotion policy， and realize the effective combination of supply-oriented， environment-oriented and demand-oriented policy tools， as well as the balance of internal selection structure of various policy tools.

Key words: community health promotion; policy tool; policy evaluation; content analysis