So i've been following this and feel unsatisfied with the "buzz" about it. Let me explain why:

The best Pictures can be seen here

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-05/23/c_138082738.htm

whereby the third is the most interesting to me, because it allows comparing whith the existing pictures of the Transrapids "Track-Train-Interface" (for lack of a better term). It looks similar, but not exactly. Would it matter? Who really cares?

What i do care about is how "real" this thing is. Because for all we know this just a mockup on stilts. There is nothing wrong with mockups as such. Except for this mockup on stilts there is no footage to be found which shows this thing on a longer test track, or this thing on a test stand where at least it is levitating in the configuration like shown in the press. Any footage, if existing at all shows different systems. Furthermore neither

https://binged.it/2M6k70R

nor

https://goo.gl/maps/h687Cptq2U4kH2Pm9

show any signs of testing track at the factory, or its surroundings.

So until further notice i consider this as a notion of intent to build, but far from ready. As i said, for all we know, the "production rollout" is that of the modelmaker without the real innards.

Btw.: Anybody remembering

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_Elevated_Bus ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aPPXB7gqYU

( first 12 seconds only ^v^ )