second consecutive month<\/a><\/em><\/strong> in which lottery sales rose, after the decline resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0In July, lottery sales in China rose by 10.4 year-on-year.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\nTotal sales reached CNY37.78 billion (US$5.55 billion) in August, which was a 4.5 per cent increase on July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sports Lottery sales rose 10.5 per cent to CNY21.53 billion (US$3.17 billion), while Welfare Lottery sales decreased 9.3 per cent, to CNY13.25 billion (US$1.95 billion).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digital lotteries sales increased 16.7 per cent to CNY21.94 billion (US$3.23 billion) in August, while sports betting sales remained steady at CNY10.24 billion (US$1.5 billion).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Instant win games were up 18.2 per cent to CNY2.59 billion (US$381 million), while Keno sales declined 15.6 per cent to CNY12.9 million (US$1.89 million).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sales through the first eight months of 2020 accumulated CNY194.83 billion (US$28.6 billion), down 30.3 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After posting double-digit annual growth in July, August sales increased 2 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"China's lottery sector reported a 2% year-on-year growth in August, reaching CNY37.78 billion (US$5.55 billion), marking the second consecutive month of post-pandemic recovery. This growth was primarily driven by robust performance in digital lotteries (+16.7%) and Sports Lottery (+10.5%), while Welfare Lottery and Keno verticals experienced declines. Despite recent positive momentum, year-to-date sales for the first eight months of 2020 remain 30.3% below the prior year's figures.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Digital Lottery Growth","query":"What specific technological or marketing innovations are underpinning the significant double-digit growth in China's digital lottery sales, and how might this influence future B2B supplier demand?"},{"label":"Vertical Performance Divergence","query":"Analyze the socio-economic factors contributing to the divergent performance between Sports Lottery\/Digital Lotteries and Welfare Lottery\/Keno, and what strategic implications does this hold for product portfolio optimization by operators?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,16338,163,167,158],"tags":[227,229,3573],"class_list":["post-10504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","category-news-region","category-slider-home","tag-china","tag-gambling","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10519,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10504\/revisions\/10519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}