{"id":13021,"date":"2021-01-05T09:09:49","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T09:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=13021"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T01:57:44","slug":"video-lottery-sales-plummet-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/video-lottery-sales-plummet-in-china","title":{"rendered":"Video lottery sales plummet in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

China’s total lottery sales dropped 22 per cent year on year between January and November 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- Lottery sales dropped 4.6 per cent year-on-year in November, to CNY36.04bn (US$5.58bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country\u2019s Ministry of Finance attributed the fall to video lottery sales, which plummeted 80 per cent during the period to just CNY1,600 (US$247).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sports lottery sales represented CNY21.02bn (US$3.25bn) of the total but were down 0.2 per cent since compared with November 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital sports lottery sales were up 10.3 per cent during the period, while sales of sports betting games dropped 11.4 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The welfare lottery segment reported CNY15.02bn (US$2.32bn) representing a 10.1 per cent year-on-year decline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instant win games sales grew 21.3 per cent year-on-year to CNY1.6bn (US$247bn). Keno reported the biggest growth and amounted to CNY3.4m (US$526,146)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between January and November of 2020, lottery sales dropped 22 per cent compared with the same period in 2019, and totalled CNY297.44bn (US$46bn).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welfare lottery sales were down 25.1 per cent and sports lottery sales 19.4 per cent during the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New limits on sports lotteries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As of 1 November 2020, every Chinese province, autonomous region or municipality will be allowed to operate only one quick-draw<\/a><\/em><\/strong> for virtual sports lotteries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A recent joint notice from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the General Administration of Sport announced the restrictions on sales of quick-draw welfare lottery games and high frequency sports lottery games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the 2021 annual Spring Festival holiday, all high-frequency quick-open games will be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China’s total lottery sales dropped 22 per cent year on year between January and November 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13024,"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 experienced a significant GGR decline of 22% year-on-year from January to November 2020, primarily driven by an 80% plummet in video lottery sales and a 25.1% drop in welfare lottery. This downturn is exacerbated by new regulatory restrictions, effective November 2020, limiting quick-draw and high-frequency lottery games across all provinces, signaling a tightening governance framework for the market.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Civil Affairs, General Administration of Sport","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Impact Assessment","query":"What is the projected long-term impact of these new quick-draw and high-frequency lottery restrictions on China's overall GGR and the operational viability of existing lottery licensees?"},{"label":"Market Vertical Shift","query":"How might the significant decline in video lottery sales and the growth in instant win games influence future product development and investment strategies for B2B suppliers in the Chinese market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[3573,4138],"class_list":["post-13021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-lottery","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021","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=13021"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13061,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13021\/revisions\/13061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}