Chinese lottery sales rise in March
Sales in March reached CNY58.22bn (US$8.08bn).
China.- The Ministry of Finance has reported that Chinese lottery ticket sales reached CNY58.22bn (US$8.08bn) in March. That’s an increase of 4.7 per cent in year-on-year terms and 39.12 per cent sequentially.
Welfare Lottery sales were CNY19.2bn (US$2.6bn), up 1.7 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 CNY26bn (US$3.6bn), up 20.9 per cent year-on-year. Sales of instant lottery tickets were CNY11.7bn (US$1.6bn), down 14.5 per cent. Keno sales were CNY3.6bn (US$0.50bn), down 5.8 per cent.
Sales of lottery numbers, guessing, instant lottery tickets and Keno lottery tickets accounted for 28.9 per cent, 44.7 per cent, 20.1 per cent and 6.3 per cent of sales respectively. Sales increased in all provinces except Yunnan and Xinjiang. Shandong, Hubei, Anhui and Zhejiang saw the largest increases.
Cumulatively, Chinese lottery sales for the first quarter of the year were down 0.6 per cent year-on-year at CNY148.5bn (US$20.5bn). Welfare lottery sales totalled CNY51.2bn (US$7.1bn), up 0.2 per cent and sports lottery sales CNY97.3bn (US$13.5bn), down 1 per cent.
Sales of lottery numbers were down 2.9 per cent at CNY41.6bn (US$5.7bn). The sales of lottery guessing reached CNY64.3bn (US$8.9bn), up 11 per cent; instant lottery CNY33.4bn (US$4.6bn), down 14.1 per cent; and Keno lottery CNY9.1bn (US$1.2bn), down 4.9 per cent.
In the first three months of the year, the sales of lottery numbers, guessing, instant lottery, and Keno lottery accounted for 28, 43.3, 22.5 and 6.2 per cent of the sales, respectively.
