After nearly 60-year continuous development, modern biomechanics is becoming an important frontier and interdisciplinary field of biomedical engineering. This paper reviews the worldwide key achievements and development trend of biomechanics, as well as domestic mechanobiology and biomechanical modeling and analysis and their clinical applicationssince the beginning of the new century. The development of biomechanics in China is expected to continue in four fields:life science, modern medicine, great health engineering and national defense. Three suggestions to the development of biomechanics in China are put forward, including the study on the mechanobiological mechanism of diseases, the study on the design of biomechanics and health engineering, and the study on the biomechanics and mechanobiology of special environment.

biomechanics  /  mechanobiology  /  stress-growth theory  /  health engineering  /  biomedical engineering