China's first permanent maglev suspension railway has completed a test run in Ganzhou, East China's Jiangxi Province, marking a new breakthrough in maglev railway technology.
The Xingguo maglev suspension railway, developed by the Jiangxi University of Science and Technology and China Railway Science & Industry Group Co., doesn't rely on rubber wheels to run. Instead, it remains suspended in the middle of a notch by the repulsion between the permanent magnet material and the track.
Compared with traditional suspended rubber-wheeled monorail traffic, the new railway saves energy, doesn’t touch the rail, and has strong climbing ability, a small turning radius and low noise.
The railway runs at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour. The full length of the main testing track is about 800 meters.
(Video source: CCTV, compiled by Huang Tianyu)