Against the backdrop of surging technological revolution and increasingly prominent trends in economic globalization, China is currently in a critical period of comprehensively building a new era of modernization. Highquality development has become a crucial objective in the field of foreign trade, with its core lying in achieving abalance between efficiency and security while ensuring sustainability. Under the new era context, the theoretical connotation of high-quality development in foreign trade should at least encompass key aspects such as enhancing quality and efficiency, strengthening economic resilience, and promoting green transformation. The foundation of trade lies in international division of labor, which is deeply rooted in comparative or competitive advantages.Therefore, promoting high-quality trade development must rely on the creation and cultivation of new advantages.Technology, institutions, and factor endowments constitute the three primary sources of competitive advantage,with technological factors undoubtedly occupying a dominant position. Currently, the new wave of technological revolution centered on artificial intelligence is profoundly influencing high-quality foreign trade development by reshaping comparative advantages. Specifically, the advancement and application of AI technology play pivotal roles in improving quality and efficiency, enhancing economic resilience, and facilitating green transformation,thereby driving high-quality foreign trade development. Looking ahead, China should accelerate the application of AI in areas such as servitization innovation in manufacturing, service trade innovation, green trade innovation, and digital trade innovation to forge new development pathways.