Abstract: To build the unique tourism culture characterized by mountain, river, forest, field, lake, custom, border and snow in Mudanjiang City, the paper analyzes the characteristics of natural resources endowment that support the development of tourism economy as well as the development potential of characteristic resources through the investigation of land, water, geological relics, snow and ice resources in the area. The results show that the comprehensive land quality in Mudanjiang City is generally good, with 1 425 hm² of zinc-rich land delineated. The total water resources is 137.9×10⁸ m³, with high quality and great development potential of mineral water, and two target areas for mineral water development are selected. Forty geological relic sites are integrated, which are divided into 4 geological heritage areas. The evaluation indexes of snow and ice resources are established and 3 suitable areas for development are identified to expand the advantages of snow and ice.