the first round of football\u2019s UEFA Champions League<\/strong>. Lottery draw sales accounted for CNY9.07bn, down 7.7 per cent year-on-year while income from betting and prediction games was CNY7.01bn, up 31.2 per cent when compared to the previous year.<\/p>\n\n\n\nInstant game revenue was CNY4.94bn, a year-on-year increase of 58.1 per cent and keno sales contributed CNY1.44bn, up 124 per cent. Sports lottery sales accounted for CNY13.09bn in total revenue, an increase of 17.9 per cent year-on-year, and welfare lottery revenue was CNY9.38bn, an increase of 19.7 per cent from February 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this segment, betting and prediction games accounted for CNY7.10bn<\/strong>, instant games generated CNY2.21bn and video lottery sales added CNY3.86bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities reported that Chinese lottery sales for February reached CNY22.48bn (US$3.54bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16856,"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 reached CNY22.48bn (US$3.54bn) in February, marking an 18.6% year-on-year increase, primarily driven by sports lottery and instant games, with the UEFA Champions League cited as a contributing factor. However, this figure represents a 27.2% decline compared to January's sales. Welfare lottery also saw a significant year-on-year increase.","focusai_entities":"China\u2019s Ministry of Finance, UEFA Champions League","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9), operator_casino (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"China Lottery Outlook","query":"What are the projected growth trajectories for China's lottery verticals, particularly sports betting and instant games, given the reported February performance and the influence of major sporting events?"},{"label":"Revenue Volatility Analysis","query":"How does the Ministry of Finance analyze and mitigate the significant month-on-month revenue volatility observed in China's lottery sales, and what are the implications for annual fiscal planning?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-28676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676","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=28676"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28687,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28676\/revisions\/28687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}