Self-proclaimed pet "pee examiner" unprecedented craze for dogs and cats in China

Staff at a pet store that takes care of a pet dog (file photo, July 19, 2021).

[Oriental News] in China, the term "Channiaoguan produced on gold" has been fixed. The direct translation is "urine examiner". Pet dogs, doting cat owners call themselves. "senior dog home, cat home" means "senior dog home". These owners call their pet a "hairy child" and regard it as a human family. China has ushered in an unprecedented pet craze in recent years. According to the White Paper on China's Pet Industry and the White Paper on Pet consumption Trends in China, there were more than 100 million dogs and cats in 2020. The average annual consumption per animal is 6653 yuan (about 118,339 yuan). It accounts for 20% of the owner's average disposable income. The market size of the national pet industry is close to 300 billion yuan (5 trillion 336.2 billion yen) in 2020. The number of households owning pets in China accounts for 17%, which is lower than in Japan and the United States, and is expected to increase in the future. The market is expected to reach 445.6 billion yuan (7 trillion 926.1 billion yen) in 2023. Sales of cat food and deodorant sand for cats are up 486 percent this year from a year earlier, and deodorant sand for cats is up 256 percent, according to online sales giant JD.com. "Tmall (Tmall) double 11" of Alibaba Group (Alibaba Group, Alibaba Group), the founder of double 11, had more than 100 million yuan in pet products sales on November 1, the first day of the promotion period alone. The Internet said: "I bought a lot of dog food, clothes and toys for my dog." Oh, the two kids didn't buy anything! (laughter) "you can also see this kind of writing. According to statistics, nearly 80% of pet owners are under the age of 35. Among them, the post-90s (born in the 1990s) account for nearly 40%, and many of them are single. Therefore, there is a high demand for automatic feeding utensils for going out at work, monitoring machines for indoor pets, high-performance toys for pet "playmates", air purifiers, and remotely operated intelligent household appliances for pets. In JD.com double 11, sales of pet smart products increased by 267% compared with the same period last year. Young singles visit relatives during the Spring Festival (Spring Festival, Lunar New Year), and many people travel during the long holidays of International Labour Day in May and National Day in October. Pet-hosting hotels have been set up in urban areas. Medical insurance services for animal hospitals and pets have also surged. According to enterprise data, there will be 960000 5000 pet products related enterprises in China by 2020, while in the first half of 2021 alone, the number of newly registered enterprises will reach 310000 2400. With the surge of entering enterprises, all kinds of disputes also occur. The design of the pet water supply is defective, dogs and cats suffocate their faces in containers, cats fall sideways while moving on the cat's bed, and several pet deaths have been reported. Therefore, there is a growing demand for uniform safety standards and industry rules. (C) Oriental News / AFPBB News News is a Chinese newspaper founded in Japan in 1995.