Driven by the sweeping wave of economic globalization, the rapid expansion of translation business and the increasingly complex translation projects have given rise to the rapid development of CAT technology and tools. This paper first analyzes the prominent problems of the traditional translation mode which can no longer meet the needs of social development. Following a typical website translation project, this paper then elaborates the indispensable role that CAT technology plays in modern translation projects, and generalizes that it is of great strategic significance to develop and popularize CAT technology in facilitating translation industry, education and research as well as the building of national linguistic competence.