Through principle component analysis and correlation analysis, the quality characters of eight soft rice varieties popularized in Shanghai in recent years were tested and analyzed. The results showed that none of the eight soft rice varieties reaching the standards of fine quality rice issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, mainly because the three indicators of the improper transparency, gel consistency and amylose content failed to meet the high-quality rice standards. There were complicated correlations between grain quality traits. There was a very significant negative correlation between the head rice rate and grain length. There was significant negative correlation between brown rice rate and alkali spreading value, gel consistency and protein content. It was found that the cumulative contribution rate of the first three principal components reached 82.795%, and the whole rice rate, brown rice rate, chalkiness degree, gel consistency and alkali spreading value were the most representative quality indicators by principal component analysis.