Abstract: Management of rural domestic waste is one of the important parts of the national rural revitalization strategy, and related to the fundamental well-being of rural residents. This paper is to study the impacts of household income and trust in villager leaders on households’ willingness to treat the domestic solid wastes in a way that is prescribed by the government. The study was based on a questionnaire survey of 465 households in catchment areas of Yudong Reservoir in Zhaotong, Yunnan Province. A Double Hurdle Model is employed in this empirical study. The results show that 86.9% of households are willing to pay for the treatment of domestic solid wastes with an average willingness to pay of CNY45.616/year, which are fairly high. Household income and trust in villager leaders have positive impacts on households’ willingness to participate in and willingness to pay for treatment of domestic solid wastes. Trust in villager leaders has a reinforcing effect on the relationship between household income and their willingness to pay for the treatment of domestic solid wastes. More trust in villager leaders by householders, more impacts the household income will have on household willingness to pay. Moreover, personal and family characteristics such as householder age, number of persons to afford in a household, whether there is a village leader in the household, and number of persons in a household have effect on households’ willingness to participate in the treatment scheme. Comparing the results of households’ willingness to participate and willingness to pay, it can be concluded that there are differences in the direction and degree of influence of variables such as householder age, number of persons to afford in a household, whether there is a village leader, and area. This shows that household participation and household payment have two different mechanisms, and need to be treated differently to better understand rural households' willingness. Realizing the reasonable coordination of economic factors with household income as the core and non-economic factors with the trust in village leaders as the core is the key to promoting households' participation in rural domestic solid wastes management.