Abstract:Considering the unified, sustainable and coordinative development of the national future transportation system together with the energy, environment protection and urbanization requirement, it is important to develop vigorously the electric transportation systems. The successful construction and operation of the Shanghai Maglev Demonstration Line shows the birth of the maglev transportation as the sixth kind of the mankind transportation systems, the maglev will play important role in the future transportation systems. Some suggestions for active development of maglev transportation in China were put forward, including application, industrialization, research and development.