Rice agricultural heritage, an importantant kind of agricultural heritage, refers to the traditional rice production system, which is based on rice cultivation, possessing rice cultivation skill, rice species, rice culture and paddy landscape. This paper expounds the type and value of rice agriculture heritage, as well as the challenge and main approach of the dynamic conservation of it. This analysis is based on the status quo of agricultural heritage designation, including Globally Important Heritage Systems (GIAHS) designated by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), China Nationally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (China-NIAHS) designated by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China, and the results of the first agriculturai heritage national census in 2016. The rice agricultural heritage systems could be divided into five categories, i.e. rice origin type, rice-fish symbiosis type, rice terraced type, royal rice production type, and drought & paddy rotating type. The rice agricultural heritage systems has ecological and environmental value, economic and livelihood value, social and cultural value, scientific research and educational value, promotion and demonstration value. The conservation and inherition of rice agricultural heritage is up against many challenges, mainly appears as the destruction of paddy landscape, the loss of traditional rice culture, the decline of rice diversity, and the die of rice cultivation skills, etc. In order to improve the problem of rice agricultural heritage conservation, it is urged that we should pay more attention to the deveiopment of multi-function agricultural and the construction of conservation together with management regimen.