Abstract:65 rice cultivars introduced from Sri Lanka were used to evaluate the agronomic characteristics, milling and apparent qualities, and 29 main indexes were analyzed with the methods of principal component analysis and clustering analysis as well. The results showed that all the parameters were significantly affected by cultivars. The ranges of them were 137–189 d of entire growing period, 82.1–139.7 cm of plant height, 20.6–32.6 cm of ear length, 5.9–17.3 of effective panicles, 11.6–29.5 g of 1 000 grains, and 0.3–1.0 kg/m2 of yield, respectively. Most of the cultivars exhibited good milling and apparent qualities. In general, the characteristics of most cultivars were late maturing, higher plant height, high tillering ability, big panicle, high setting percentage, and lower weight of 1 000 grains and yield. Analyzing with the method of principal component analysis, the grain number contributed to 69.936% of rice characteristics. Through the clustering analysis, all cultivars were divided into 3 types , type I has good yield traits, but the appearance quality is poor, and the quality and yield of type II is the opposite of type I , and type III has good agronomic traits and appearance quality.