{"id":10788,"date":"2020-10-10T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T17:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=10788"},"modified":"2026-04-24T01:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:06:18","slug":"china-looks-to-develop-horseracing-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-looks-to-develop-horseracing-industry","title":{"rendered":"China looks to develop horseracing industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The government has presented a five-year plan to develop the sport and the industry, including the potential creation of a lottery.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.-&nbsp;China\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs together with the General Administration of Sports (GAD) has revealed a five-year plan to develop equestrian sports in the country.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organised horseracing was outlawed in mainland China in 1945 and no legal gambling on the sport has been allowed since 1949. Since then, there have only been&nbsp;exhibition race fixtures, mainly organised by the Hong Kong Jockey Club&nbsp;(HKJC)&nbsp;and the China Horse Club (CHC).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Ministry of Agriculture and GAD have presented a report titled the National Equine Industry Development Plan (2020-2025), destined to promote and develop equestrian sports and industries.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Racing Post, the Chinese government plans to develop racing by upgrading horse welfare and medication standards to an international level, developing national competitions and publishing an annual report on the matter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new <strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-recovery-continues-in-august\" target=\"_blank\">lottery<\/a><\/em><\/strong> associated with this sport could also be set up as part of the plan, something which has been proposed before by the\u00a0<strong><em>HKJC<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has presented a five-year plan to develop the sport and the industry, including the potential creation of a lottery.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10790,"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 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, in conjunction with the General Administration of Sports, has unveiled a five-year plan (2020-2025) to develop equestrian sports, including the potential reintroduction of a lottery associated with horseracing. This initiative marks a significant policy shift in a market where organized horseracing and legal gambling have been prohibited since 1949, potentially opening a new regulated gaming vertical.","focusai_entities":"China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, General Administration of Sports (GAD), Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC), China Horse Club (CHC), Racing Post","focusai_location":"China, Hong Kong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.85), operator_casino (0.75), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Lottery Implementation Timeline","query":"What specific legislative and regulatory steps are anticipated for the implementation of the proposed horseracing lottery, and what is the projected timeline for its operational launch?"},{"label":"Market Impact Assessment","query":"How might the reintroduction of a state-sanctioned horseracing lottery in China impact the broader Asian iGaming market, particularly concerning potential GGR generation and B2B\/B2C partnership opportunities?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161,16338,154,167,158],"tags":[227,4256,233],"class_list":["post-10788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news","category-east-asia-news","category-legislation-news","category-news-region","category-slider-home","tag-china","tag-horse-racing","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788","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=10788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010315,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions\/777010315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}