The invention relates to a power station indirect dry cooling system, and provides a system and a method for structural analysis of an indirect dry cooling tower based on APDL (ANSYS Parametric Design Language). The method comprises the following steps of: 1) according to geometric outside dimension of the indirect cooling tower, defining geometric parameters of the indirect cooling tower, and establishing a parameterized geometric model of the indirect cooling tower; 2) defining the unit type, real constants and material constants of the indirect cooling tower; 3) defining unit meshing size, performing self-adapting meshing division, and establishing a finite element model of the indirect cooling tower; 4) respectively applying parameterized loading for the indirect cooling tower under five loading working conditions (dead load, live load, wind load, temperature load and earthquake load) and performing computational analysis; and 5) performing combination of loading working conditions, and extracting computed results. Through the application of the system, the full process control of the indirect cooling tower from modeling to calculation can be realized. Meanwhile, the indirect cooling tower can be optimally designed by adjusting the value of each parameter. A large amount of repeated work is avoided, and the efficiency of structural analysis and design can be greatly improved.