Chinese lottery sales rise in April
Sales in April reached CNYB57.75bn (US$8.04bn).
China.- The Ministry of Finance has reported that Chinese lottery ticket sales reached CNYB57.75bn (US$8.04bn) in April. That’s an increase of 4.1 per cent in year-on-year terms but down 0.81 per cent sequentially.
Welfare Lottery sales totalled CNY19.2bn (US$2.71bn), up 2.2 per cent year-on-year, while sports lottery sales amounted to CNY39.01bn (US$5.4bn), up 2 per cent. The sale of lottery numbers reached CNY38.57bn (US$5.52bn), up 5.1 per cent. Sales of instant lottery tickets were CNY11.9bn (US$1.66bn), up 19.8 per cent, and Keno sales totalled CNY3.6bn (US$0.50bn), up 0.6 per cent.
Sales of lottery numbers, guessing, instant lottery tickets and Keno lottery tickets accounted for 28.1 per cent, 44.8 per cent, 20.7 per cent and 6.4 per cent of sales respectively. Sales increased in all provinces except Qinghai, Guizhou, Gansu, Jiangxi, Jilin and Xinjiang. Guangdong, Jiangsu and Zhejiang saw the largest increases.
Cumulatively, Chinese lottery sales for the first four months of the year were up 0.7 per cent year-on-year at CNY206.3bn (US$29.19bn). Welfare lottery sales totalled CNY70.4bn (US$9.79bn), up 0.7 per cent and sports lottery sales CNY135.8bn (US$18.91bn), up 0.7 per cent.
Sales of lottery numbers were down 2.4 per cent at CNY57.8bn (US$8.05bn). The sales of lottery guessing reached CNY90.1bn (US$12.54bn), up 8.1 per cent; instant lottery CNY45.4bn (US$6.32bn), down 7.2 per cent; and Keno lottery CNY12.8bn (US$1.78bn), down 3.4 per cent. Sales increased in 19 provinces. Hunan, Chongqing, Hubei and Anhui saw some of the biggest rises, while sales declined in 12 provinces, including in Xinjiang, Yunnan, Sichuan and Henan.
