The new standard “green food rice” was promulgated by the Ministry of Agriculture Department of China and have been implemented from January 1st, 2015. Based on the changes of many relative standards and our experimental results, many revisions had been made for the former standard. The main revisions were as follows: first, application scope was enlarged, the new standard can be used for germ rice, black rice, red rice and parboiled rice; second, the requirements for some characteristics, such as amylase content, were revised; finally, many characteristics were changed: as for rice quality characteristics, chalkiness degree was added while gel consistency and protein content were deleted; as for health indicators, the limitations of fluoride, Cyanide, fenthion, chlorpyrifos-methyl, BHC, DDT were deleted while pesticides such as imidacloprid was added. The implement of the new standard will have important effects on rice industry.