Port general plan is a special plan in the territorial space planning system.Its core role is to study and clarify the reasonable scheme for the spatial development and protection of port resources，promote the orderly development and effective protection of port resources，and provide the basis to carry out the territorial space planning and coordinate the spatial requirements of related industries.Since the implementation of the?Provisions on the Administration of Port Planning and the Contents and Text Format of the General Port Planning?around 2007，they have effectively guided the preparation of a number of general port plannings.In the new historical period，the major national and regional strategies have been implemented one after another，and the construction of territorial space planning system and national comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network has been accelerated，all of which have put forward new requirements for port general planning.Taking Beibu Gulf Port，Tianjin Port and other ports as examples，this paper makes a beneficial discussion on the preparation tasks，research ideas，guiding ideology，planning principles，current status evaluation，nature and function，shoreline utilization，port area division，function division，spatial layout and other contents of the overall port planning in the new era.Combined with the requirements of the times，it puts forward innovative research ideas on the key contents of the general port planning，which provides a technical reference for the development of port general planning in the new era.