The year 2018 had been the first year of construction of free trade ports in China. Both China（Shanghai）Pilot Free Trade Zone，which has developed gradually on the basis of “replicable and generalizable” experiences，and China（Hainan）Pilot Free Trade Zone，which has been established as a free trade port at the outset，have aimed at the building themselves into an area of high-level openness-namely free trade port-in a new era. In general，free trade ports take “the highest-level of openness” as their target location and “being within the territory but outside the customs zone”，“exemption from custom duties” and “free entry and exit” as their basic characteristics. As far as the relationship between free trade ports and existing free trade zones is concerned，the former should be the extension and intensification of the parts of the latter that are based on the unique local advantages，rather than “replicability and generalizability”，and emphasize “particularity”，rather than “universality”. The innovative development of free trade zones in the past five years has laid the necessary foundation for the construction and development of free trade ports. In the future，China should focus on the basic connotation and characteristics of free trade ports and further reform and improve the relevant systems，especially those relating to the free entry and exit of goods，capital and personnel.