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The effects of rapid heating (heating rate ranging from 15℃/s to 300℃/s) during the final annealing process on microstructure evolution and magnetic properties of cold rolled non-oriented electrical steel had been investigated. It was found that the heating rate increasing could cause the substantially refined structures for the recrystallization grains and this grain refinement would decline when the heating rate beyond 50℃/s. The recrystallization texture exhibited pronounced improvement with hearting rate, such as the intensity decrease of {111}//ND fiber and the intensity increase of {110}<100> Goss component. The texture improvement and grain size refinement caused by heating rate increasing resulted in complicated variation of the magnetic properties. The magnetic induction (B50) keeps increasing while the heating rate increasing from 15℃/s to 300℃/s and the core losses variation (P1.5/50) is reverse, but it begins to increase when the heating rate ranges from 100 to 300℃/s. The results indicate that recrystallization texture and the magnetic properties of the non-oriented electrical steel have been improved definitely by the rapid heating during the final annealing treatment.