China has a surging demand for bauxite in recent years, but has a low bauxite resource
guarantee internally, largely depending upon imported ores. This paper, based on the bauxite resource features in China, systematically analyzes the situation of China's bauxite exploration and development from reserve, production, exploration capital, exploration advances, mining situation, importing trade,alumina oxide production, and points out the issues, abundant total bauxite resources but less for minable, less exploration investment, limited newlydiscovered reserve, over mining, limited mining life, rising imported and dependence, surplus alumina oxide production capacity. Hence, four suggestions presented for the sustainable development, rationally develop and use internal bauxite resources, actively explore and develop the foreign bauxite, diversify imported bauxite sources, and disable the primitive production and transfer to the foreign.