China has been promoting judicial digitalization in a big wave in recent years. While the western legal tech market primarily flourishes from the bottom-up, China’s judicial digitalization has been implemented in a predominantly top-down manner, especially in its early stages. By 2013, the significance of judicial digitalization had expanded beyond the pursuit of mere efficiency enhancement. Other multi-dimensional objectives, such as strengthening litigation fairness, promoting access to justice, and enhancing judicial transparency, had been incorporated into political considerations.