A 45-m-long high-temperature superconducting (HTS) Maglev ring test line, named as "Super-Maglev", has been successfully developed in Chengdu, China in February, 2013, 12 years after the birth of the first man-loading HTS maglev test vehicle. The maglev vehicle (2.2 m in length, 1.1 m in width) is designed for one passenger with a levitation height of 10-20 mm; the permanent magnet guideway (PMG) (45 m in length, 0.77 m of track gauge) is a racetrack shape with a curve radius of 6 m; the driving is accomplished by a linear induction motor with a maximum running speed of 50 km/h. The linear motor is composed of four sub-motors installed at one straight section in the middle of the double PMGs and the total length is 3 m. Thissecond-generation HTS Maglev vehicle system is highlighted by the cost-performance and the wireless multi-parameter onboard monitoring function. The current same-level load capability has been achieved over a small-section low-cost PMG whose cross sectional area is only 3000 mm 2 . On the vehicle, parameters of levitation weight, levitation height, running speed, acceleration, lateral offset, online position and total running distance of the vehicle are real-time monitored and displayed on the onboard tablet computer. The system component and test data are reported in detail in the paper.

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