China’s population is in a state of decline, but one of the first places you notice this is not in maternity wards, but in pet shops, dog groomers, and veterinary clinics. This is because, in major ...

More young Chinese people increasingly see their pets as members of the family, and a robust industry servicing those pets — including providing funerary services — is flourishing. Young people in ...

BEIJING — China is shrinking as more couples are making a conscious choice not to have babies — at least not human ones. Like their counterparts in the United States and elsewhere, young people in ...

Cats and dogs can now fill the hours their owners are at work with a dedicated all-day streaming channel for pets launched by Chinese tech giant Tencent. Clips of a duckling swimming in a bath or two ...

Young people in China - meaning people in their 20s and 30s - are having fewer children, but they are buying more pets. They're also increasingly seeing their pets as members of their family. That ...

On average in 2025, Chinese households spent more than 3,000 yuan ($435) on each dog and more than 2,000 yuan on each cat - Copyright AFP WANG Zhao On average in 2025 ...