inching up and socioeconomic differentiation exploring selfrated health of chinas ruraltourban migrants from 2005 to 2015 objective largescale ruraltourban migration in china has stimulated heated discussion about rural migrants poor health status this article reports the first study in china that compares the aggregatelevel change in selfrated health of rural migrants between 2005 and 2015 and explores whether the difference if any can be explained by their different public health insurance enrollment status due to chinas health reforms in the late 2000s it also explores whether the aggregatelevel change in migrants selfrated health differs across different education levels methods logistic regression models using pooled repeated crosssectional data of the 2005 and 2015 china general social survey from 2688 ruraltourban migrants results rural migrants selfrated health has significantly improved from 2005 to 2015 this can be by explained by their different health insurance enrollment status however such improvement is particularly pronounced for migrants with higher education levels conclusion whereas chinas recent health reforms have been overall effective in improving rural migrants health these policies might lead to health inequalities within rural migrants in favor of those with higher education levels