Abstract: Due to the long existence of the urban-rural dual household registration system, a large group of rural migrant workers has formed in China, now it is extremely urgent to promote the citizenization of rural migrant workers. The new ideas of development put forward by “The 13th Five-Year Plan”, such as innovation, coordination, greenization and sharing, mean that the citizenization of rural migrant workers should focus not only on household registration, but more importantly on their sharing of the equal rights as the urban residents at such aspects as employment, housing, pension, health care, education and so on. Therefore, to promote the citizenization of rural migrant workers substantively, it is necessary to make a breakthrough synchronously at both the urban and rural levels, in the meantime the problems existing at the three aspects, the cost-sharing mechanism, the urban support system and the migrant workers’ retreat from rural collective, should be resolved.

Key words: migrant workers; household registration system; citizenization; urban reforms; rural reforms