On May 22, the three-day WESAVC concluded successfully at Tianjin Meijiang Convention Center.
As one of the world’s top professional veterinary conferences, the event brought together over 500 pet medical industry elites, experts, scholars, and brand leaders, along with 24,402 practicing veterinarians from across China. Gathering together, they engaged in in-depth discussions on cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, clinical challenges, and industry development trends, creating a diverse and educational yet entertaining exchange platform. This injected new momentum into the standardized, high-quality development of China’s small animal clinical diagnosis and treatment industry.
The conference also featured a range of special activities and branded exhibition zones, seamlessly blending technology showcases, industry networking and interactive experiences. Spanning over 50,000 square metres, Halls N1 through N7 of the Tianjin Meijiang Convention Centre were packed with visitors and completely full. The exhibition brought together more than 1,000 leading distributors, over 2,000 pet medical brands, and more than 2,500 new products and special-offer items.
37 Specialized Courses to Meet Learning Needs at All Career Stages
Keeping pace with industrial development, the conference comprehensively upgraded its curriculum system and launched 37 specialized courses covering various disciplines. The courses ranged from basic clinical operations to advanced specialized diagnosis, treatment, operation and management, fully meeting the differentiated learning demands of veterinarians at different career stages and helping participants improve professional competencies in a targeted manner.
The conference joined hands with Royal Canin, Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim, Elanco, Virbac, Vetoquinol, Pro Plan, Confu, Hanvet Pet Health, Kidou Bio, Pawprint Ark, LIFE CARE, FIEST SIGHT, Paiwei, Tengchuang Bio, Jumu Ophthalmology, Nourse, Candioli, Yingchuo Advanced Veterinary Specialty Education, Shande Business School, Guandian Bio, Animals Asia, Chi University, Nubear, Yisheng Animal Medical, Petstek
Yilin Pet Healthcare, Bioguard labs, Pet Physician Network, Lunshuo Technology, Yuanyuan, Heze Animal Health, WE PinHui and other well-known brands to jointly launch featured specialized courses and activities. It incorporated the improvement of front-line veterinary clinical skills and institutional operation management capabilities into a systematic curriculum and activity system. With the professional support of dozens of high-quality domestic and international brands, targeted empowerment for veterinarians’ career growth at different levels was fully realized.
53 Themed Activities to Realize Targeted Industrial Empowerment
The conference hosted the Third Annual G300 Pet Industry Leaders Summit, the Second Smart Pet Healthcare Summit, the First China Animal Hospital Operator Empowerment Conference, the Fifth Pet Medical Distributor Conference, the 2026 Advanced Medical Transformation Forum from Human Medicine to Veterinary Medicine, the 2026 Pet Pharmaceutical Clinical Demand Seminar, the Fifth 2026 Overseas Pet Medical Channel Resource Matching Conference, the Veterinary Device Standard Forum, the Special Seminar on Medical Accident Risk Prevention and Control for Animal Diagnosis and Treatment Institutions, the Overseas VIP Buyer Group Tour and the New Product Myriad Innovations Expo. These events covered key links across the entire pet medical industry chain, creating systematic connections from clinical diagnosis and treatment to supply chain management, and from the domestic market to international resources, promoting coordinated progress and value innovation across the industrial ecosystem.
Other events included The 2nd Precision Operations & Revenue Growth Summit, the Shande Business School Animal Hospital Management Private Salon, the 5th Pet Medical Traffic Summit, the 3rd Canine Atopic Dermatitis Session, the 3rd Pet Hospital Operation Conference, "Innovation · Care · Future – Feline Neutering Ushers in a New Era of Cat-Friendly Practice", the 3rd Pet Hospital Service Conference, the 5th Pet Welfare Science Conference, the 2026 Ten-Million-Level Pet Hospital Training Camp, the Pet Hospital Open Day, and the big vet interviews. These activities focused on the real-world needs of pet medical practitioners at different career stages, precisely matching resources and experience sharing, and were committed to improving veterinarians' clinical skills and hospital management standards.
A series of award ceremonies were held consecutively: the 5th Pet Healthcare Distributor Award Ceremony; the 2025–2026 China Pet Industry Annual Influential Figure and High-Quality Development Promoting Institution Award Ceremony; the Outstanding Young Veterinarian Award Ceremony of the 18th WESAVC ; the "Langbot" Annual Benchmark Dean Award Ceremony of WESAVC ; the 2nd Golden Feline Hospital Award Ceremony; the WESAVC 2026Golden Pet Hospital Award Ceremony; and the 3rd Aether Centre Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine Clinical Case Competition.
Four Major Competitions to Build a New Talent Cultivation Ecosystem
Four major competitions were organized: the 8th Golden Feline Knowledge Competition, the 10th Orthopedics Special Competition, the 8th Imaging Skills Competition, and the 1st Veterinarian Entrepreneurship Competition. The 2026 National Pet Diagnosis and Treatment Industry-Education Integration Summit and Talent Double Recruitment Fair was also held to comprehensively promote in-depth industry-education integration and innovative talent cultivation models.
Featured Exhibition Zones to Build a Diversified Edutainment Exchange Platform
A variety of cultural and recreational activities were arranged, including 2026 Veterinary Fun Run, Psychological Counseling, Veterinary Interaction Activity: Honor of Kings Championship, Outstanding Young Veterinarian Badminton Match, Veterinary Reading Day, “Paws in Action” Booth Check-in Activity and WESAVC Veterinary Hall of Fame. These activities provided a relaxing leisure space for busy practitioners to relieve work pressure, broke the rigid boundaries of professional academic exchanges, enabled veterinary practitioners from all fields to deepen connections and friendship in a relaxed atmosphere, and further consolidated industry centripetal force and cohesion.
On-site featured exhibition zones included the Future Pet Hospital Experience Center, International Brand Exhibition Area, Supply Chain Exhibition Area, Pet Medical Star Product · WE New Product Launch Plan, Pet Medical Supply and Demand Matching Platform, and JD Health Integrated Pet Hospital Docking Platform, providing participants with immersive exhibition experience and diversified business cooperation opportunities.
During the conference, two grand banquets were held: WESAVC 2026 Welcome Dinner and WESAVC 2026 Gala Dinner. More than 2,000 professionals from the domestic and international pet medical industry gathered together to witness the grand event.
The closing ceremony was presided over by Yang Qiqing, Member of WESAVC. Wei Rensheng, Chairman of the Executive Committee, delivered a closing summary speech. He pointed out that the conference has always been committed to building a high-standard industry exchange ecosystem. By gathering cutting-edge diagnostic and therapeutic technologies, innovative management concepts and advanced service modes, it continuously drives the steady progress of the pet medical industry. After 17 years of development, the conference has grown into a high-end professional event deeply participated by clinical veterinarians, medical brand owners, channel suppliers and diagnosis and treatment institutions, and has won wide recognition and high praise from industry peers at home and abroad.
The closing ceremony culminated in the flag handover ceremony. Ding Shaozhong, President of Tianjin Small Animal Diagnosis and Treatment Association, handed over the conference flag to Wang Haifei, Secretary-General of Chongqing Pet Diagnosis and Treatment Association, marking the perfect conclusion of the The 18th East and West Small Animal Veterinary Conference.