Abstract: In the context of the global nursing workforce agenda and the Healthy China strategy, the economic value of nursing human resources has become a critical pillar for medical resource allocation, the control of social health costs, and the development of health industry. While the total number of nursing staff in China has grown steadily, challenges such as insufficient value realization, and structural imbalances constrain the effective transformation of professional value into economic value. Based on a life-cycle population health perspective, this paper proposes three core orientations for the economic value of nursing, and puts forward development strategies including creating a pricing incentive mechanism that reflects the value of nursing technical services, establishing a tiered and classified nursing talent training system, and promoting deep integration between nursing and innovative technology, thereby providing an implementation pathway for unlocking the high-quality economic value of nursing human resources.

Key words: Healthy China; nursing human resource; economic value; value orientation; development strategy