Abstract: General practice(GP) is oriented to communities and families. It is a comprehensive medical discipline that integrates clinical medicine, preventive medicine, rehabilitation medicine, and humanities and society. The main purpose of general practice is to emphasize long-term responsible care that is people-centered, family-based, and oriented toward the maintenance and promotion of overall health, focusing on both individual health and group health. Since the 70 th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, general practice has experienced vigorous development in our country. In the face of the new situation of chronic non-communicable diseases and emerging infectious diseases that continue to threaten people's health, disease prevention and health care, health management and emergency response to public health emergencies based on the concept of general practice have played a huge role in China's primary health system. With the aging of the social population, the ever-increasing demand for elderly care services has also provided more perspectives and space for the development of general practice. From the perspective of general practice, integration the resources of families, hospitals, communities and pension institutions, promotion the comprehensive construction of "family type" "community type" and "integrated" mode of medical care and nursing through the link of general practitioners, so as to improve the quality of life of the elderly, reduce the pressure of social pension, cultivate a general professional team with the concept and skills of general practice, and do a good job in guarding the whole life cycle nursing, are not only the development trend of China's medical and pension reform, but also the necessary way to achieve the goal of "healthy China".