In the last two years we have been involved in a major survey of the Galactic plane for pulsars using the Parkes radiotelescope in NSW (Australia). This project is the result of a collaboration between the Australia Telescope National Facility, the Jodrell Bank Observatory, the Massachussets Institute of Technology and the Bologna Astronomical Observatory. The survey uses the new 1.4 GHz multibeam receiver and a large filter-bank system. The survey proved already to be very successful in the discovery of distant pulsars. So far, more than 500 new pulsars were discovered, including about 15 young pulsars, two radio pulsars with very high magnetic field, and several new interesting binary systems. [Camilo et al. (2000), D'Amico et al. (2000), Manchester et al. (2000)].