The establishment of pilot free trade zones is a major practice of the CPC Central Committee’s new philosophy，new thinking and new strategy for governance with General Secretary Xi Jinping at the core，and an important measure to promote a new round of high-level opening-up in China. General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that the fundamental purpose of building free trade zones is to explore new ways and accumulate new experience for comprehensively deepening reform and opening wider to the outside world. Institutional innovation should be taken as the core task and reproducibility and extensibility as the basic requirement. Since its establishment five years ago，the Guangdong Pilot Free Trade Zone has been guided by Xi Jinping’s Thought of socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era，fully implemented the series of important instructions and spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping on the construction of free trade zone，adhered to the decisions and arrangements of the provincial Party committee and government and the core of institutional innovation，boldly tried and ventured and independently reformed，and steadily promoted the construction of free trade zone. It has explored new ways and accumulated new experience for comprehensively deepening reform and building a new system of open economy，and played an increasingly important role in serving national strategy.