The proposal of the new development pattern has pointed out the way for our country's foreign trade development, namely to move towards the high quality development. In recent years, the scale of foreign trade in Anhui Province continues to grow, and foreign trade exchanges are increasingly frequent. It occupies an important position in the regional integration development of the Yangtze River Delta and the pattern of opening up in the central region. It is of great significance to study the high‐quality development of foreign trade in Anhui Province. Considering the internal and external factors that restrict the high quality development of foreign trade in Anhui province, the realization path of the high quality development of foreign trade in Anhui province must be built around the four main lines of deepening the supply‐side structural reform of foreign trade, building an innovation system with enterprises as the main body, promoting the diversified development of foreign trade pattern, and continuously optimizing the business environment for foreign trade, so as to perfect the institutional system supporting the development of foreign trade in Anhui province.