As an important part of social governance, the health poverty alleviation plays a key role in promoting Healthy China Strategy. This paper reviews the practice progress of health poverty alleviation in China, and summarizes it's four action logics. It is found that the governance effect is restrained by several issues, such as pessimistically external governance environment, single governance subject, poor leading role of the pilot areas, specific practices inconsistent with conceptions, and the research has not paid enough attention to the incentive system and supervision mechanism of the practitioners. Based on the above, this paper proposes five governance principles on the governance of health and poverty alleviation: evidence-based principle, systematic principle, economic principle, dynamic principle and people-oriented principle. Lastly, we hope to provide some preferences to promote the governance practice of health poverty alleviation.