Climate change will change the growth environment of crops, thereby affecting crop yield and quality. The effects of climate change on the yield formation of rice, one of the most important grain crops, had been reported extensively, but there were few studies on rice quality, which bore equal importance as yield in terms of rice production safety. After a brief introduction of the experimental platform, this paper summarized the research progress of the impact of climate change on rice quality. Quality traits were classified into processing, appearance, cooking/eating, nutritional and feeding quality. Climate change included elevated atmospheric CO_2 concentration, elevated tropospheric O_3 concentration, higher temperature etc. This paper focused on the interactions between atmospheric composition change and high temperature on rice quality. Previous studies showed many uncertainties about the impact of climate change on rice quality, but some important trends had also been found. Unfortunately, most of these trends indicated unfavorable changes in rice quality. Rice growing in high CO_2 concentration, high O_3 concentration or high temperature environment exhibited an increase in grain chalkiness and a higher percentage of broken grains during milling process. The concentrations of protein and several micronutrients in rice grains decreased with high CO_2 concentration, but the palatability was improved; Both the eating quality of rice grain and feeding quality of rice straw showed a trend of deterioration when plants were growing under ozone stress. At present, the understandings in this area were obtained mostly from the impact of single climatic factor, but the interaction between CO_2 and temperature or O_3 had been observed in a few studies. In addition, the responses of rice quality traits to climate change might also be affected by fumigation methods, genotypes and fertilizer application. In future, the experimental platform of different scales should be employed to verify the existing trends; More efforts should devote to evaluate the interactions between climate change factors and other factors, and to reveal the mechanisms of these interactions; And all related researches should aim at the successful development of rice production technology that could truly adapt to future climate change.