After meeting with Wang Jiangping, Vice Minister of Industry and Information Technology, in Beijing on September 26, Pascal Daloz, executive CEO and chief operating officer of Dassault Systemes, said in an interview with the media that China is already a leader in innovation. Dassault Systemes has always adhered to the strategy of long-term development, and its strategy for China will not change, and it will continue to deeply cultivate, serve and integrate into China. 18 years into China is just the beginning.

Ten years ago, China was a “manufacturing powerhouse” focused on improving production capacity. Today, 10 years later, China has begun to focus on innovation and development in various fields. For example, in the battery industry, China is already a “top priority” country in the world. The vast majority of the world’s electric cars are designed in China.

“In China, for China, with China” is Dassault Systemes’ development strategy in China. “We will not change our previous strategy because of outside influences. Chinese-style innovation will continue to produce more outstanding achievements. We will continue to pay attention and increase our support to China.” PASCAL Daloz stressed.

We will increase support for the Chinese market

Dassault Systemes is one of the world’s industrial software companies, including 3D experience platform (3DEXPERIENCE platform), as well as CATIA, SOLIDWORKS, ENOVIA and other 13 industrial software design, modeling, simulation, collaboration and other. In recent years, Dassault Systemes has expanded from the manufacturing and urban construction industries to the medical industry, which is condensed into a word: “from the material world to life sciences”.

In 2005, Dassault Systemes entered the Chinese market. In 2020, the company’s Asia Pacific headquarters will be moved from Tokyo to Shanghai. Based in the Chinese market for more than 10 years, Dassault Systemes is a participant and promoter of the digital transformation of China’s industry. Today, its software and solutions are used in many industries in China, including aerospace and defense, automotive and transportation, industrial equipment, biomedicine, and urban construction.

Starting from 2020, Dassault Systemes began to lay out a new development strategy in China – the “Himalayan Plan”, which is divided into “Value up” and “Value Wide”, “Value up” for large enterprises, including 12 priority development industries, divided into manufacturing, life sciences and urban and infrastructure sectors; “Value Wide” targets small and medium-sized enterprises and covers six regions in China.

As part of the plan, in recent years, Dassault Systemes innovation centers have been launched in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Qingdao, Changchun, Taicang, Jiangyin and other places.

In the manufacturing industry, new energy and high-tech industries have continued to grow at a rapid pace. In terms of cities and infrastructure, smart cities, infrastructure and buildings continue to innovate and develop. These provide good ground for the innovative application of industrial software.

In China, Dassault Systemes divides the life sciences sector into three categories, focusing on and increasing investment: one is pharmaceutical, the second is clinical, and the third is medical equipment. At present, pharmaceuticals are developing from chemical to biopharmaceutical, and the process is more complex, involving simulation and performance analysis at the molecular level. Using industrial software, simulations and clinical experiments can be performed at the molecular level. In 2022, 75 percent of new drugs approved for release worldwide will be developed, tested and manufactured using Dassault Systemes software.

Zhang Ying, president of Dassault Systemes Greater China, said: “With 12 big industries that Value up, we see a scene of ten thousand horses galloping. The potential is huge in every sector.”

In the industrial sector, Dassault Systemes deals with nearly half a million Chinese customers. But the ecosystem team has only covered 20 percent of them so far. The best cases and benchmarking projects created by Dassault Systemes in 12 industries have strong reference value, but they have not been fully reused and implemented in the ecosystem.

PASCAL Daloz pointed out that in the face of the Chinese market, Dassault Systemes has been cultivating, supporting and incubating the ecological industries and enterprises of the Chinese team. In the future, more efforts will be made to deepen coverage, expand the ecosystem and ecological communities, meet the needs of the Chinese market and provide better services.

Since 2018, Dassault Systemes’ revenue in Greater China has maintained double-digit growth every year. In the past four years, the number of employees in China has tripled to more than 4,000 in the Greater China ecosystem (i.e., the number of partner teams), with plans to increase to 10,000 in the next three years.

“Himalayan Project” to reach 1 billion euros in revenue by 2026, PASCAL Daloz’s attitude is: very confident.