Europe promotes the development and practice of healthy cities with the stage action plan of “healthy City network”. Since its establishment in 1987，the Healthy Cities Network has gone through seven stages of development. It has continuously engaged local governments to promote the healthy development of cities through political participation，institutional change，capacity building，collaborative planning and innovative planning. Development throughout the seven stages of the five principles is to deal with the priority principle of determinants of health and health equity and everyone has the right to promote healthy principle，integration and the European and global public health priority principle，the construction of healthy city on the city’s social and political agenda principle，the principle of promoting good governance and health comprehensive planning. The concept and practice of healthy city development in Europe are characterized by advanced stages，clear tasks，clear paths and sustainable development.