Abstract: In this paper, the statistics of National Science and Technology Award from 2000 to 2012 in rice scientific research were analyzed. The result showed that, after changes of wave, the number of National Science and Technology Award in rice scientific research got into a period of steady growth; rice breeding of new varieties and breeding technology innovation areas were most awarded; agricultural colleges, national research institutions and local agricultural research institutions were the main part of rice research system; the Hunan, Sichuan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu got the most achievements on the rice scientific research. At last, suggestions for the challenge of rice research in China were put forward, like strengthening the research on rice functional genome, breeding super hybrid rice and green super research on rice, strengthening research on the rice supporting technology and deep processing.