There is insufficient awareness of the importance of industrial software at all levels of society:

MC-TDID52 In the industrial field, the general tendency is to “take the doctrine”, directly introduce foreign software, ignoring independent development

In colleges and universities, relevant professional courses are also generally “heavy application, light research and development”, mainly teaching the use and operation of well-known foreign software

Some authorities, industrial software in the strategic emerging industry support directory is also in a marginal position

“Rain and dew are not called strategies, strategies need to focus, make trade-offs”

Industrial software is in the cross field, and the industrial software industry is actually facing “three regardless” in the past decade.

Four dilemmas:

Funding difficulties, basic research and development investment is seriously insufficient

MC-TDID52 The technical dilemma begins and ends in the institutions, and lacks commercial transformation

Market difficulties, domestic industrial software is difficult to break through the European and American software ecosystem

Talent dilemma, weakening of hematopoietic function in colleges and universities, serious brain drain in the industry

“Industrial software is hard, industrial software companies are hard, and industrial software industries are dangerous.” Recently, the reporter of “Outlook” news weekly learned that the development of China’s industrial software industry is facing many difficulties.

Although China’s industrial software has the broad market prospects and development opportunities provided by the “integration of the two”, the industry generally reflects that the importance of industrial software at all levels of society lacks sufficient understanding. “Few people in society know that under the bright coat of hot concepts such as intelligent manufacturing and Industry 4.0, the core is industrial software.”

MC-TDID52 For example, in the industrial field, although Chinese enterprises pay more and more attention to information technology, they generally tend to “bring the doctrine”, directly introduce foreign software, ignoring independent development; In colleges and universities, relevant professional courses are generally “application, light research and development”, mainly teaching the use and operation of well-known foreign software; In some authorities, industrial software also occupies a marginal position in the catalogue of strategic emerging industry support.

As an industry, the industrial software industry is very small. According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology’s “2018 Software and information Technology Service Industry Statistical Bulletin”, China’s software business revenue in the year was 6,306.1 billion yuan, of which industrial software revenue was 147.7 billion yuan, accounting for only 2.3%, and only 0.14% of the total revenue of 102.2 trillion yuan of industrial enterprises.

Industry insiders said: “Industrial software is not an irrelevant subordinate industry, but an indispensable support for the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry to improve quality and efficiency, and it is the key to obtain future competitive advantage in the new round of global industrial revolution.” At present, it is urgent to change the passive situation that the industrial software industry does not adapt to the strategy of manufacturing power.

It’s embarrassing to have no choice

In September 2018, the National Development and Reform Commission, together with the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Finance and other relevant departments issued the Guidance Catalogue of Key Products and Services for Strategic Emerging Industries. The first level of the catalogue lists eight industries; The second level is divided into 40 key directions; The third level directory is further divided into 174 sub-directions, of which there are 11 items under “emerging software and services”, オ appears “industrial software”, which belongs to the fourth level; “Product development and design software” under “industrial software”, that is, core industrial software such as CAD and CAE, is submerged in the fifth layer of the list of nearly 4,000 subdivided “key” products and services.

MC-TDID52 “Equal exposure to rain and dew is not a strategy, and strategy needs to be focused and balanced.” In response to the reality that industrial software is squeezed into the corner of industrial policy, Lin Xueping, deputy director of the Intelligent Manufacturing Research Institute of the Intelligent Manufacturing Association of the China Association for Science and Technology, said that industrial policy can not simply be sorted according to the size of the volume as the priority level of support and training, and “emerging” is not equal to strategy, and it is necessary to be wary of “non-strategic emerging industries” distorting the direction of social resources investment, “bad money driving good money”. Affect the strategic layout.

Another concern is that industrial software is at the intersection of basic science and IT products, linked to the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Science and Technology, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. Industry insiders reflect that the industrial software industry is actually facing “three regardless” in the past decade.

MC-TDID52 It is understood that from the “Seventh Five-Year Plan” to the “tenth Five-Year Plan” (1986 to 2005), the former Ministry of Machinery and Electronics Industry of the “CAD research project”, the former State Science and Technology Commission and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the “National high-tech Research and Development plan (863 plan)” and “CAD/CIMS application engineering, manufacturing information engineering”, The research and development of domestic industrial software has been supported. During the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” and “Eleventh Five-Year Plan” period, the Ministry of Science and Technology also focused on supporting the research and development of core industrial software such as three-dimensional computer-aided design CAD software.

Starting from the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan”, that is, after 2011, industrial software was included in the information field of the “integration of the two”, which was responsible for the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the Ministry of Science and Technology was no longer in charge, and the support of the Ministry of Science and Technology was no longer extended. Industry insiders reported that since then, the national ministries have almost no funds to MC-TDID52 support the research and development of domestic independent industrial software.

For the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, independent industrial software research and development belongs to basic scientific research, does not belong to the information construction of industrial enterprises, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has no responsibility and special funds to subsidize basic scientific research.

According to Zhao Min, executive director of the Intelligent Research Institute, during the “Tenth Five-Year Plan” to “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, China’s total investment in core industrial software research and development is less than 200 million yuan. Compared with the United States, since the “digital modeling and simulation innovation strategy” was proposed in 1995, to the current “Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Program”, high-end industrial software has always been placed in the core strategic position.

For example, in the “Electronic Renaissance Program (ERI)” launched by the U.S. Department of Defense in 2018, EDA electronic design giant Cadence was shortlisted for the first batch of support projects, receiving the highest funding of $24.1 million. Synopsys, another of the global EDA trio, also received $6.1 million. According to official data from the U.S. Department of Defense Advanced Research and Development Agency DARPA, the Electronic Recovery Program will cost about $216 million in fiscal 2018.