Based on data from the 2020 Internet Use by Minors in China Survey，this paper studies the cognitive attitudes and behaviors of urban and rural minors in the process of internet use. It finds that there are differences in the internet cognitive attitudes and behaviors between urban and rural minors. A digital divide is obvious，with urban minors having access to the internet earlier than rural minors. Rural minors are deeply immersed in the internet and spend longer time online on average every day. They tend to access short video content and more of them have encountered online safety problems. It proposes that the governance model should shift from the traditional control-based one to a more coordinated one and that governance should switch from a society-based paradigm to a relationship-based paradigm.