高速磁悬浮列车的发展使得人类地面客运交通运行速度可望在21世纪中前期达到500km/h的新水平。根据我国高速客运交通发展的需求和国际战略发展的进展情况，提出了我国发展战略的建议，简要叙述了我国近年来发展的主要成就及对近期工作的建议与展望。

High-speed maglev with 500 km/h operational velocity can be used for practical passenger transport in the first part of 21st century. It has obvious advantages for long distance, high capacity passenger transport between large cities. From the practical development needs and real situation of the passenger transport in China, based on the detailed analysis of the international progress, after quite serious discussion, since 1998 a suggestion for the development strategy of high-speed maglev in China has been formed. The strategy is suggested to have five steps, i.e. ： a. Study on the strategic position of high-speed maglev in China´s passenger transportation system. b. Construction of a short test and operational demonstration line based on the imported technology, c. Feasibility study for long distance operational line and organization of the internal R & D and engineering work. d. Construction of a long distance operational line and commercialization of the equipmens and engineering. e. Gradual realization of the high-speed maglev network in the country. Some quite encouraging progress has been achieved, and reported in present paper. Suggestion and prospect of near future work are also outlined.