The super large sapphire single crystal plate was successfully grown in a self-designed single-crystal growth furnace with edge- defined film-fed growth (EFG) method, the ideal temperature distribution of the die surface was designed by thermal field simulation. Two-stage heating is used to control the crystal stress and bubble defects, and to choose a suitable pulling rate to control the distribution of the bubble layer. The crystal could yield a plate with usable dimensions of up to 690 mm×300 mm×12 mm, X-ray diffraction show a full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the rocking curve of 0.016 3°, indicating a high crystalline quality. Results of transmission measurements performed on 5 mm thick samples are presented and the transmission is similar to sapphire grown by other techniques.