本文简述了我国在21世纪期间“环境、健康与发展研究”的重点领域与主要方向，其重点领域是：（1）对主要由化学元素引起的地方病采取适合当地条件的预防措施，以期达到逐步控制的目的；（2）环境污染物及其对人体健康的影响；（3）城市化与人体健康关系的研究。主要方向为：（1）控制地方性疾病的流行；（2）防止污染物质及环境变化产生的健康危害；（3）在经济发展和城市化过程中保护人民健康。

The main fields of the study on environment human health and development in 21th Century in China are briefly discussed in the paper. The main fields include: (1) To control the endemic diseases caused by chemical factors in the environment, the protective methods which is applicable to local environmental conditions must be adopted;(2) The risks to human health from contaminants in water, air, food or commercial products have arised more attention, the study of human populations exposed to potential environmental hazards should be developed; (3) Some citizens are more at risk from urbanization due to the change of lifestyle factors, therefore, the way to protect human health in the process of economic development and urbanization should be explored.