To provide an inkjet recording medium, which spoils no ink absorbency and is excellent in film durability and abrasion resistance and its manufacturing method and a recording method employing the medium.

In the inkjet recording medium having a porous ink absorbing layer including at least fine inorganic particles, a hydrophilic resin and a water-insoluble resin on a support, at least one kind of the hydrophilic resin is a polyvinyl alcohol modified by an acetoacetyl crosslinked by a crosslinker reacting with an acetoacetyl group.