The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of dietary carbohydrate to protein ratios (C/P) and feeding rate on growth and lipid metabolism of juvenile Carassius auratus gibelio. Three isolipidic and isoenergetic diets containing C24/P42 (24% carbohydrate to 42% protein), C32/P36 and C40/P30 were formulated, and each diet was fed twice (08:30 and 16:30) daily at the rate of 2%, 3% and 4% of the fish wet body weight, respectively. The fish (initial body weight 2.40±0.10 g) were randomly assigned to 9 groups with triplicates per group and 24 fish per replicate, the experiment lasted for 50 days. The results showed that fish fed with C40/P30 diets, the final body weight (FBW), the special growth rate (SGR) and feed conversion efficiency (FCE) were significantly lower but protein efficiency ratio (PER) was significantly higher than those fed with C24/P42 diets (P<0.05). However, there were no significant differences between the fish fed with the C24/P42 and C32/P36 diets. As feeding rate increased, FBW, SGR increased significantly (P<0.05), while FCR, PER of fish fed at the rate of 3% and 4% had no significant difference but were higher than those fed at the rate of 2%. CF increased significantly with increased feeding rate. The body composition of the fish was significantly affected only by feeding rate. Fish fed at the rate of 3% and 4%was significantly lower in moisture and ash contents of the whole-body, moisture content of carcass but higher lipid content and liver glycogen content than that of fish fed at the rate of 2%, and there was no significant difference between fish fed at the rate of 3% and 4%. Fish fed with the C32/P36 diet had the highest activities of malic enzyme (ME), lipoprotein lipase (LPL) but the lowest activities of hepatic lipase (HL) in liver than those fed with the other two C/P ratios diets. Increasing dietary C/P ratios significantly increased the liver lipid (LPO) content. Fish fed at the rate of 3% and 4% had the higher ME, HL, LPL, total lipase (TLP) activities and LPO content than those fed at the rate of 2%, increasing feeding rate increased the lipid content and the degree of peroxidation damage in the fish body. According to the above observations, the C32/P36 diet is suitable for juvenile Carassius auratus gibelio, and its feeding rate is at 4%.