Abstract:Based on 764 data collected from cities of Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Zhengzhou and Wuhan in 2019, this study takes migrant workers as the research object and explores the factors influencing their willingness to convert their household registration status in the context of the “New Household Registration Reform”. By constructing theoretical hypotheses and utilizing a multiple logistic regression model, the study finds that the more migrant workers are motivated by economic rationality, the desire for recognition, and the circumvention of rights discrimination, the greater the likelihood that they will be willing to convert to urban household registration; on the contrary, the stronger the deviation or “inhibition” to these dynamic mechanisms, the higher their tendency to retain rural household registration. This findings highlight the critical role played by economic, societal, and cultural factors in shaping migrant workers’ household registration conversion intentions, emphasizing the logical behavior characteristics of migrant workers as both economic and social persons, including interests chasing direction, rights protection demands, and social recognition desires in household registration. These characteristics. reflect the diverse dynamic structure and complex value of urbanization of migrant workers.