The invention discloses a hydro-conversion technology for catalytic diesel oil. The technology comprises the following steps: firstly, putting a mixture of catalytic diesel oil and hydrogen into a hydrogenation reactor and performing hydrofining reaction, and then guiding into a cracking reactor and generating contact reaction with hydrocracking catalyst layers, wherein upper and lower catalyst layers are arranged in the hydrocracking reactor; the hydrocracking catalyst in the upper layer has the properties as follows: on the basis of the total weight of the catalyst, 10%-18% of MoO3, 2%-10% of Co, 40%-90% of modified Y-shaped molecular sieve, preferably 50-80%, and the balance of aluminum silicon carrier; the hydrocracking catalyst in the lower layer has the properties as follows: on the basis of the total weight of the catalyst, 15-30% of MoO3 or WO3, 2-15% of NiO, 10%-60% of modified Y-shaped molecular sieve, preferably 20-40%; the filling mass ratio of the hydrocracking catalysts in the upper layer and the lower layer is (1:5)-(5:1). The hydro-conversion technology disclosed by the invention can further increase the device liquid yield, can reduce the hydrogenation saturation of the generated gasoline component and can increase the octane value of the gasoline component under the condition of better meeting the requirement for the conversion rate of catalytic diesel oil.