{"id":20378,"date":"2021-07-16T15:52:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=20378"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:33:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:33:00","slug":"china-continues-to-expand-gambling-blacklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-continues-to-expand-gambling-blacklist","title":{"rendered":"China continues to expand gambling blacklist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism is preparing a third selection of overseas gambling destinations to add to its blacklist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- Chinese authorities have said they have added more overseas gambling destinations to the\u00a0country\u2019s blacklist\u00a0<\/strong>of destinations to which cross-border transfers are controlled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the fact that the original list has yet to made public, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said it would work with other government departments to \u201csuspend tour groups and arrangement of tourist visas for outbound travel to the recently added destinations.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to authorities, the so-called blacklist aims to “safeguard the lives and financial safety of Chinese citizens<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Ministry stated: “We will adopt measures to suspend outbound tour groups and the arrangement of tourist visas for trips to these cities and attractions abroad that are on the blacklist.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\u00a0blacklist<\/strong>\u00a0was established in\u00a02020<\/strong>\u00a0and is compiled through work by multiple departments, including the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Public Security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In January,\u00a0a second selection of destinations was added<\/a>\u00a0to the list, but none of the content of the list has been made public. Analysts assume the list includes Australia, Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam, which are all popular casino destinations for Chinese customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first nine months of 2020, China\u2019s crusade against\u00a0cross-border gambling\u00a0<\/a>operations detected funds of 1CNY trillion (US$149.6bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, the Ministry of Public Security announced that\u00a0police had investigated more than 18,000\u00a0<\/strong>cross-border gambling cases<\/a> since 2020 and had arrested 110,000 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Zhao Kezhi, the minister of public security, police also detected 2,800 illegal payment platforms<\/strong>, more than 3,400 gambling platforms and over 2,200 gambling promotion platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Police also raided underground banks and 1,400 illegal technical teams connected to cross-border gambling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism is preparing a third selection of overseas gambling destinations to add to its blacklist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":20379,"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 Culture and Tourism is expanding its blacklist of overseas gambling destinations, restricting outbound tourism and visa arrangements to these locations. This initiative, part of a broader crackdown since 2020, aims to safeguard Chinese citizens from cross-border gambling, which has led to the detection of significant illicit funds and numerous arrests. While the specific destinations remain undisclosed, analysts speculate popular Asian-Pacific casino markets are targeted.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Public Security, Zhao Kezhi","focusai_location":"China, Australia, Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.85)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Economic Impact?","query":"What is the projected GGR impact on key Asian-Pacific integrated resorts, such as those in Macau, the Philippines, and Vietnam, if these jurisdictions are confirmed on China's expanded gambling blacklist?"},{"label":"Regulatory Compliance?","query":"How will international gaming regulators and operators in potentially blacklisted jurisdictions adapt their AML and KYC frameworks to mitigate risks associated with China's intensified cross-border gambling enforcement?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,156,158],"tags":[23911,4138,20479],"class_list":["post-20378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-gambling-regulation","tag-online-gambling","tag-online-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20396,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20378\/revisions\/20396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}