Abstract: To figure out practical and theoretical demands and discipline development direction of agricultural product quality and safety risk assessment in China, we systematically analyzed the teaching curriculum in universities and colleges. Moreover, the existing systems set up by Ministry of Agriculture in agricultural product quality and safety risk assessment were evaluated. One national institute and a hundred of laboratories on agricultural product quality and safety risk assessment have been founded by the end of 2015. Universities and colleges set up teaching programs which are relevant to the discipline. However, the development of disciplines is still slow, due to the reason that the curriculums are not based on the fundamental research of risk assessment theory and model which are practically needed. Finally we put forward some feasible strategies that would be beneficial to the development of agricultural products quality and safety risk assessment. First, more efforts should be put to strengthening the discipline construction and theoretical research. Second, on the basis of evaluating the existing risk factors and exploring the unknown ones, new theories, new risk assessment techniques and models should be developed to adapt to the special situation in China. At the same time, an objective evaluation should be carried out on nutritional function of agricultural products, exchanges of knowledge and technology between institutions and scientists should be encouraged, and a scientific consumption of agricultural products should be guided.