The level of intelligent health monitoring for aerospace composite materials is one of the key features to evaluate the reliability and advancement of aerospace vehicles. Intelligent health monitoring technology is fundamental to support the development of repeated and long-term reliablity of various aerospace vehicles. In this paper, the main research progress and development status of intelligent health monitoring for composite materials in recent years are summarized in sensor fabrication, the integration of sensor and composite material, composite material status monitoring, composite material damage and failure characterization technology, artificial neural network data processing and analysis technology,and put forward the existing problems of monitoring technology and future directions of intelligent health monitoring for aerospace composite materials.