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A vet (right) installs a tracking chip into a pet dog in Suzhou Hydro Flask Hydration 21 Oz Standard Bocca W Sport Cap Verdi Italia , East China's Jiangsu Province. File photo: CFP
Electronic device makers such as Hong Kong-listed SUGA and other start-ups are looking to cash-in on a boom in China in so-called pet wearables, such as smart collars, leashes and feeders.
Pet ownership, denounced as a decadent and bourgeois habit after the Communist Party took power in China more than 60 years ago, has become popular again among the country's growing middle class.
Lia Yang Liu, 39, a lecturer in Chinese literature at a Beijing university, bought a GPS tracker that attaches to her dog's collar.
"The device really helped me once Hydro Flask Hydration 40 Oz Wide Bocca Rosse Italia , when I loosened the collar and he just ran out of the park," said Liu, who is skeptical of other products.
"I think the commercials just exaggerate the effects. I don't believe devices can translate a pet's language for us."
The electronic pet device market in China is still quite small but by some estimates is growing by a fifth or even a quarter every year, drawing developers and producers such as PetPace LLC, Mars Petcare's Whistle Labs Inc, i4C Innovations, Fitbark and DeLaval.
Alfred Ng, chief technology officer at Suga Hydro Flask Hydration 32 Oz Wide Bocca W Straw Lid Bianche Italia , estimates China is now 5 percent of a global market that US-based market intelligence firm Transparency Market Research estimates was worth $1 billion at the end of 2016.
Ng forecasts that China's share of the market will jump to more than 20 percent by 2024, by which time Transparency Market Research estimates the global market will be worth at least $2.5 billion.
SUGA produces wearable tech that monitors pets' health and food intake. It is also eyeing a device to check pet emotions.
Chen Xufeng, marketing manager of Guangzhou-based software developer Guangdong Lekong IOT Technology Co Ltd, expects the China market in pet electronic devices to grow 20 to 25 percent in the next two to three years.
"There are more than 10 million pieces of wearable products for pets sold in the Chinese market every year," Chen said.
IDTechEx, an independent market research firm, said there are 300 manufacturers of wearable pet gadgets globally and almost half are based in China. It predicted that the number will rise to 500 as the market expands.
Ava Lui, 33 Hydro Flask Hydration 40 Oz Wide Bocca Blu Italia , an IT professional in Hong Kong, has three cats and a dog and has fitted her pets with collars that can monitor their activity and food intake.
"I just wish that they will never get sick, they won't get hurt. The less I take them to see vets the more time I can spend playing with them. That would be ideal," she said.
BEAUMONT, Texas, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- "I only have what I have now," 61-year-old Dond Collins Sr., wearing a T-shirt Hydro Flask Hydration 40 Oz Wide Bocca Grigie Italia , khakis pants and rubber roots, told Xinhua, pointing at his half-swamped house in suburban Port Arthur, an eastern Texas city bordering the state of Louisiana.
A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in southeast Texas, catastrophic flooding caused by record amount of rain is receding slowly in bordering areas between the two southern states.
Severe economic losses and tremendous mental trauma are nearly irreparable.
Collins Sr. broke the moment floodwaters pumped into his home, which was just renovated not long ago with his pension, but was not insured. His was one of hundreds of houses flooded Tuesday night in the neighborhood near a number of oil refineries.
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Though the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers financial support to evacuees and others in need, Collins Sr. said the assistance requires an application first, but with his house in several feet of water, he has no computer to file the document.
"I wish there would somebody reach out to help," he said.
The meteorological disaster was weakened to a tropical depression the second time it made landfall Wednesday, but still brought about massive rain that led to catastrophic flooding, keeping most of the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan area in rapid water flows for a time.
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Plastic bottles, trash, broken bushes, pieces of clothes and shoes were floating around water-buried communities. Cars parked in front of houses were only seen by their roofs and windows.
To locate those in need of evacuation or rescue, military and civilian helicopters were flying over the Beaumont-Port Arthur area while motor boats, steered by state police and volunteers, were whizzing on watercourses in flooded neighborhood.
However Hydro Flask Hydration 40 Oz Wide Bocca Nere Italia , due to the size of the affected areas and lack of systematic coordination between military and civilian assistance, there is considerable possibility that those who need help could not be seen, located, or reached out to in time.
Jeremy Augustine, a volunteer from Louisiana, told Xinhua that the situation in floodwaters is complicated in light of backwash, swirls, underwater barriers Hydro Flask Hydration 18 Oz Wide Bocca Blu Italia , floating objects, and many other unpredictable factors.
"The flooding is not receding but rising in Neches River in Beaumont," Augustine said. "It's hard to tell how things will be going in coming days."
Storm Harvey has so far displaced over 1 million people, killed at least 40, and damaged or destroyed over 100,000 homes, with an estimated 80 billion U.S. dollars in damage.
White House said Friday President Donald Trump has asked the Congress to approve a 7.9-billion-dollar request for initial payment for Harvey relief and recovery efforts.
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