{"id":24121,"date":"2021-11-02T07:45:51","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T10:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=24121"},"modified":"2026-04-23T14:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:15:18","slug":"lottery-sales-in-china-down-4-2-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/lottery-sales-in-china-down-4-2-in-september","title":{"rendered":"Lottery sales in China down 4.2% in September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chinese lottery sales in September were down 4.2 per cent when compared to the previous month and down 12.8 per cent when compared to September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- China’s Ministry of Finance has reported that Chinese lottery<\/a> revenue for September 2021 was CNY31.23bn (US$4.90bn).<\/strong> The figure was down 4.2 per cent when compared to the previous month and down 12.8 per cent when compared to September 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Digital lottery sales reached CNY12.77bn while betting and prediction games recorded a total of CNY11.65bn. Sales of\u00a0instant win games\u00a0<\/strong>hit CNY4.44bn in revenue and keno games CNY2.36bn. Welfare Lottery sales<\/strong>\u00a0were CNY11.84bn, up 3.4 per cent month-on-month and down 15.0 per cent when compared to last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sports lottery revenue was CNY19.39bn, down 8.43 per cent month-on-month. The lottery also reported\u00a0instant games brought in CNY2.21bn\u00a0<\/strong>and betting and prediction games CNY11.65bn. Most of Welfare Lottery and Sports Lottery sales came from the Guangdong province<\/strong>\u00a0with CNY1.24bn and CNY1.88bn respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They were followed by Zhejiang, which reached CNY1.01bn in Welfare Lottery sales and Jiangsu, which generated CNY1.47bn in Sports Lottery sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lottery sales in China drop 20.8% in 2020<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lottery sales in China<\/strong>\u00a0lost ground during the Covid-19 pandemic, falling by 20.8 per cent year-on-year to CNY333.95bn (US$51.52bn) last year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video lottery sales<\/a> <\/strong>were most affected by the pandemic and the closure of betting outlets at the beginning of the year. Sales plummeted by 84.8 per cent<\/strong> year-on-year to just CNY679.3m (US$104.8m) in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welfare Lottery sales<\/strong>\u00a0were\u00a0down 24.5 per cent\u00a0<\/strong>at CNY144.48bn (US$22.3bn).\u00a0Sports Lottery sales<\/strong>\u00a0fell 17.9 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0to CNY189.64bn (US$29.26bn). Sales of\u00a0instant win games<\/strong>\u00a0also fell, down\u00a02.1 per cent<\/strong>\u00a0at CNY14.64bn (US$2.25bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese lottery sales in September were down 4.2 per cent when compared to the previous month and down 12.8 per cent when compared to September 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":21008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Chinese lottery sales in September 2021 reached CNY31.23bn, marking a 4.2% month-on-month and 12.8% year-on-year decline, with Sports Lottery contributing the largest share. This follows a significant 20.8% year-on-year contraction in 2020 to CNY333.95bn, primarily due to the Covid-19 pandemic's impact on retail channels, particularly video lottery. The data highlights ongoing market volatility and shifts in gaming verticals within the state-controlled lottery sector.","focusai_entities":"China\u2019s Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact of Digital Sales?","query":"What specific regulatory or operational factors are driving the significant contribution of digital lottery sales, and how might this trend influence future channel strategy for the Ministry of Finance?"},{"label":"2022 Recovery Outlook?","query":"Given the 2020 decline and continued September 2021 contraction, what is the Ministry of Finance's projected recovery trajectory for the Chinese lottery market in 2022, particularly for the heavily impacted video lottery vertical?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[229,3573],"class_list":["post-24121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","tag-gambling","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121","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=24121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24157,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24121\/revisions\/24157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}