Pet healthcare booms in China as furry friends outnumber infants and toddlers
Just a few months after opening his first pet clinic in Hangzhou in early 2019, Yang Zhong, the founder of Joy Pet Hospital, launched two more branches.
Despite the lingering impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and a property market downturn on many industries, China’s pet economy is thriving, fuelling Yang’s ambitions for rapid expansion.
By 2021, he had opened his first teaching hospital and five new pet hospitals in two other cities – Shanghai and Ningbo.
He now runs over 30 hospitals – with a total of about 400 staff members – that have treated over 100,000 pet dogs and cats.
Yang is riding the boom of the growing pet economy in China, where dogs and cats have become increasingly popular companions for the country’s growing ranks of elderly people and single young adults amid falling marriage and birth rates.
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