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The first China Pet Industry Innovation Conference will open on December 12, 2023, which is a grand event to promote the development of the pet industry with scientific and technological innovation.

In 2023, the size of China's pet market will grow to nearly 600 billion, with a compound annual growth rate much higher than the global level, and the proportion of high-income, young and highly educated people in pet raising groups is increasing. With the vigorous development of China's pet economy and the change of the structure of pet raising population, the concept of pet raising has also undergone great changes.

Pets are no longer just companions of the family, but have become an indispensable part of people's emotional world. Pet owners' care for their pets has changed from basic feeding needs to comprehensive physical and mental care, not only pursuing the basic satiety of pets, but also expecting them to live a happy life. This change of anthropomorphic emotion has also brought new challenges to the ecology of the pet industry.

According to statistics, pet owners are most concerned about pet raising knowledge, accounting for 55% of all concerns, and this proportion has a further rising trend. In contrast, pet entertainment content and promotional information received 20.8% and 15.6%, respectively. This data not only reveals the changes in pet owners' information needs, but also highlights the market's desire for high-quality information.

However, pet owners are faced with a mixed information environment. Although specialist pet hospitals and pet shops are trusted, their information coverage is limited. E-commerce platforms and content platforms have a large amount of information, but the accuracy and science are greatly reduced. As the data reveals, the information that pet owners are exposed to on these platforms is often based on advice from personal experience, hard to discern and often contradictory, which not only fails to solve the problem, but may actually confuse pet owners even more. Pets are supposed to be happy family members, but the clutter of information increases the anxiety and annoyance of pet owners. "Worry" and "determination" have become the urgent needs of the moment, and the market is in urgent need of a systematic, scientific, authoritative and convenient pet information platform.

At the same time, the continuous iteration and comprehensive application of artificial intelligence technology, as well as the changes in the lifestyle of pet owners after the three-year epidemic, have also promoted the upgrade of the pet rearing model: digitalization.

Pets cannot speak and have difficulty expressing their needs and status. Through the combination of scientific research and digital technology, pet owners have a window into their pets' physical and psychological conditions to provide precise monitoring and care. This convenient way not only improves the quality of life of pets, but also reduces the anxiety of pet raising with accurate and detailed data, and pet raising life becomes more relaxed and enjoyable.

Ganzhou Health Pet Science Research Institute is committed to breaking the bottleneck restricting the development of pet health in the country. The institute brings together high-level experts and professional and technical talents in the industry, and has a team of more than 150 high-level talents in the field of biomedicine and veterinary medicine, including academicians, National thousand people, National Jieqing, Changjiang Scholars, industry experts and other more than 50 people, and more than 100 researchers, of which 80% are graduate students or above. For the pet industry's scientific research and innovation, talent training and industrial transformation to provide a steady stream of scientific and technological power. Use science and technology to promote industrial upgrading, use digital to liberate users' decision-making difficulties, and use physiological and pathological big data to solve problems for pet owners. Digitization has always been one of the important directions of the transformation of scientific research results in the Institute of Pet Science.

On the opening day, the Institute will release its digital platform for the first time. A number of digital products on the platform have been highly sought after in the private beta period. Among them, the AI poop decoder introduces the AI feces interpretation function on the basis of tens of thousands of pet feces data, providing an unprecedented accurate health monitoring tool for pet owners. AI fecal interpretation is based on Waltham fecal scoring system, combined with computer vision technology, accurate positioning, color discrimination and scoring of pet feces. By using a ResNet residual connection network pre-trained on ImageNet, the applet can accurately identify the color of the feces and score it. At the same time, the application of YOLOv8 model makes the location of feces more accurate. The integration of these techniques achieved 95% prediction accuracy at 1 point error tolerance on the scoring model, and 95.2% on the fecal location detection model on the mAP50. In addition, at this conference, digital functional services such as comprehensive online medical and health management for pets and pet AI intelligent consultation based on GPT will also be released. Online medical and health management can provide one-stop and comprehensive disease screening and disease risk prediction for pets, link offline pet stores, and carry out physical examination services for pet infectious disease detection, pet gene detection, pet medical disease screening, and human pet co-morbidity screening, etc., to protect the health of pets. AI intelligent consultation combines multi-modal fusion data, pre-trained large language model and AI algorithm to provide integrated intelligent diagnosis services for pet owners. With these features, pet owners can more easily monitor the health of their pets and identify and deal with potential health problems in a timely manner.

"China's pet families are about to break 100 million, the penetration rate has reached about 22%, and has maintained an annual growth rate of about 2 points, and the penetration rate of 70% in the United States will maintain a growth dividend period of at least ten years." The organizing committee of the first China Pet Industry Innovation Conference said, "China's pet industry has risen to a huge market, and will gradually enter a new cycle of development with science and technology as the engine."

The development of the industry driven by science and innovation is gradually opening a new chapter. This is not only a victory of scientific and technological innovation, but also a qualitative leap in China's pet industry. In this new cycle, every pet owner and every pet owner will enjoy the convenience and fun brought by scientific innovation.

Hard work and grace!