SMC Corporation began to invest in the construction of factories in Beijing in September 1994, when the total investment amounted to 2 billion yen, the establishment of the first factory covering an area of 20,000m2. The construction of the second factory was started before the completion of SMC's first factory in the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Zone. The second factory covers an area of 60,000m2, equivalent to three times the size of the first factory. In the past few years, SMC (China) seems to be the one who races with itself, and keeps investing more and more, and the total investment has reached 12 billion yen, and the registered capital has reached 10 billion yen. the strategy of SMC is very simple: to build a good plant, to introduce the advanced equipments, to train a batch of human resources, and to consolidate the first-class performance. the site of the third plant, which is constructed by SMC next, is chosen in the Tianzhu Export Processing Zone of Beijing, and it occupies even more area of 180,000m2, which is equivalent to the whole Export Processing Zone. The site of SMC's next third factory is located in Beijing Tianzhu Export Processing Zone, covering an area of 180,000m2, which is equivalent to 45% of the area of the whole export processing zone. In order to strengthen the technical support and after-sales service to customers, SMC (China) Company has set up sales offices in 13 major cities including Shanghai, Nanjing, Wuxi, Tianjin, Harbin, Xi'an and so on. SMC took its first step into the international market in Australia in 1967. Today, SMC has 230 sales offices in 39 countries. With the expansion of SMC's international marketing network, SMC's share of the world market has been more than 20%. 2010 SMC and one of the largest industrial parts distributors in North America, BDI, reached a strategic cooperation agreement. BDI has more than 130 subsidiaries in 11 countries around the world (wholly owned subsidiaries in China is: a strong combination to expand the share of the world market.