Since the discovery of superconductivity in 1911, new materials have been discovered, n ew mechanisms revealed, and new theories developed. At the same time, remarkable achievements have been made in the applications of superconductor. Among all the applications, microwave filters and microwave receiver frontend sub -systems, which benefit from the small surface resistance of the superconductor materials, have attracted intensive interests all over the world, and great progress has been made in their applications. Our group has been devoting to the related research and made great results in this area for a long time. In this review, we will introduce a new design method for high temperature superconductor (HTS) filters, and discuss the applications of HTS filters and sub -systems in mobile communications, meteorological radars, radio astronomy, satellite application and other areas, along with the researches performed by our group in recent years.