Abstract: Kaolin is a kind of widely used metalloid mineral resources, China is the first country to discover and make use of kaolin, and kaolin reserves rank front in the world. Although kaolin reserves are large in China, with the expansion of its application field, resources are seriously in short supply, and the price rises accordingly. Especially, high quality high-end kaolin processing products are far from meeting the demand of market consumption. The main development of kaolin in China was reviewed in this paper the present situation, the comprehensive utilization of field development progress, and summarized the development and use of kaolin, booster formation kaolin mineral resources development and utilization of innovative concept, way of exploring the development and application of kaolin resources, promote efficiency of utilization of kaolin to promote China's economic sustainable development of high quality.