Abstract: The wollastonite industry is developing rapidly with the increasing proven reserves, widening application range and deepening longitudinal study of wollastonite. Wollastonite has become an important basic non-metallic ore with huge application market demand and wide development prospect. In this paper, the present situation of wollastonite resources at home and abroad was introduced, the technical characteristics of wollastonite in the application fields of ceramics, paint and coating, rubber and plastic, metallurgy, papermaking, building materials and so on were emphatically analyzed, the application progress of wollastonite was summarized, and the development prospect was forecasted.