Boron carbide powder materials from Mudanjiang account for 40% of the international market.

In recent years, Mudanjiang City has actively developed the new materials industry, which has now taken shape—there are 48 enterprises above designated size, accounting for about 7% of the industrial proportion. The main products include four major series: hard materials, special fibers and composite materials, new chemical raw materials, and new functional building materials.

Mudanjiang has rich mineral resources, with 80 types of minerals discovered and proven reserves of 41 types, accounting for 47.1% of Heilongjiang Province and 17.5% of the country. It has abundant energy resources such as coal and oil shale, as well as metal resources like iron, copper, and gold, and non-metal resources including graphite, cordierite, wollastonite, calcite, quartz sand, refractory clay, basalt, granite, perlite, pumice, volcanic ash, and marble.

Through recent development, the variety of products in Mudanjiang's new materials industry has expanded from a single type of boron carbide to dozens of types including silicon carbide, boron carbide, industrial silicon, special ceramic materials, and finished products. Boron carbide powder materials account for 40% of the international market and 80% of the domestic market; 80% of industrial finished products are exported, accounting for 15% of the international market and 80% of the domestic market. Mudanjiang is the largest export base for international green silicon carbide powder materials, with an annual export volume of over 20,000 tons, accounting for 60% of the international market. The Mudanjiang special materials industrial base has been recognized as a national high-tech industrialization base, becoming one of the three national high-tech industrialization bases in Heilongjiang Province. Mudanjiang is also an important production area for graphite in our province, with proven graphite ore reserves reaching 240 million tons. During the 13th Five-Year Plan period, there are plans to build three deep processing projects for graphite.

Mudanjiang is also actively promoting the research and development of new materials and has become a national '863 Program' special materials industrial base designated by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The Jindiamond Boron Carbide Company has a postdoctoral mobile workstation and a provincial enterprise technology center. The Chenxi Boron Carbide Company has established a production, learning, and research alliance with the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It has several research and development organizations, including the Provincial Paper Industry Research Institute and the Hard Alloy Research Institute. The Provincial Key Laboratory for New Carbon-Based Functional and Superhard Materials at Mudanjiang Normal University currently has 33 doctoral and master's degree holders, undertaking 25 provincial and ministerial-level scientific research projects, obtaining 3 national patents, and mainly engaged in applied research on diamond films and related materials, low-dimensional materials, and electronic functional materials.