In June 2019, the Ministry of Education and the Hainan Provincial Government jointly issued the Implementation Plan on Supporting Hainan to Deepen Education Reform and Opening Up. It clearly proposed to support Hainan to build an international education innovation island and create a new benchmark for China's education opening up and development in the new era, which pointed out the direction and injected new momentum for the opening up and leapfrog development of Hainan's higher education to the outside world. From the perspective of theoretical traceability and practical foundation, this paper finds that the current higher education in Hainan Province has some problems. The regional layout needs to be further optimized and the depth of integration with key industrial parks is not deep enough. Some institutions have lagged behind in setting and adjusting their majors and some majors are not outstanding and the effectiveness of talent training needs to be further improved, etc. In order to promote the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port with the development of higher education, the paper proposes four specific paths based on whether the potential demand can be predicted and whether the specific real demand is regular in the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port.