The invention relates to a method for recycling alumina and sodium oxide from bayer process red mud. In the method, by adopting a high molecular ratio and high alkali concentration sodium aluminate solution, aluminum extracting reaction can be rapidly carried out under mild operating conditions, so that the recovery rate of alumina in the red mud reaches more than 85%, and the defects, such as equipment scabbing and the like can be effectively prevented and even eliminated; by implementing an efficient crystallization process of an intermediate product of hydrated sodium aluminate, the cycle efficiency of a dissolution medium is greatly improved; due to complete transformation of a phase in the aluminum extracting reaction, a reaction process of recycling sodium oxide can be performed at low temperature and normal pressure; and after secondary sodium removal reaction, the sodium oxide content in final red mud is not more than 1% and is far less than 6-8% of the bayer process red mud. Therefore, the red mud can be doped in large proportion for preparing cement, brick and roadbed materials, concrete additives, environmental remediation materials and other fillers, and the problems such as resource utilization of the red mud, potential environment hazard and the like are hopefully solved.