{"id":33129,"date":"2022-08-31T17:47:14","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T20:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=33129"},"modified":"2026-04-23T05:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T08:20:12","slug":"lottery-sales-in-china-down-13-5-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/lottery-sales-in-china-down-13-5-in-july","title":{"rendered":"Lottery sales in China down 13.5% in July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese lottery sales in July reached CNY31.37bn (US$4.55bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China.- China\u2019s Ministry of Finance has reported that lottery ticket sales reached CNY31.37bn (US$4.55bn) in July, down 13.5 per cent year-on-year. <strong>Welfare Lottery sales<\/strong>\u00a0were CNY12.38bn, up 10 per cent year-on-year. Sports lottery sales dropped by 24 per cent to CNY18.99bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June, lottery ticket sales had reached CNY31.98bn (US$4.74bn), with sales of lottery tickets to support the welfare system at CNY13.08bn, up 16.5 per cent, and, sports lottery tickets reaching CNY18.9bn, down 19.2 per cent. China&#8217;s lottery ticket sales in the first seven months fell 0.6 per cent to CNY213.43bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">China reiterates stance against cross-border gambling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Chinese government continues<strong>&nbsp;its fight against cross-border gambling crimes<\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Wang Wenbin<\/strong>, a spokesman from China\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has advised that anyone involved in such crimes should surrender or face severe punishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said: \u201cNo matter what corner of the world a criminal suspect runs to, China will initiate law enforcement cooperation with relevant countries and bring the suspect to justice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wang Wenbin\u2019s comments were made during a routine briefing on Tuesday when he was asked to comment on the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/thailand-chinese-arrested-for-allegedly-running-an-illegal-online-casino\" target=\"_blank\">recent arrest and extradition of a Chinese national from Thailand<\/a>&nbsp;on suspicion of cross-border gambling crimes.<strong>&nbsp;Chinese businessman She Zhijiang&nbsp;<\/strong>was arrested for allegedly running an illegal online casino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese lottery sales in July reached CNY31.37bn (US$4.55bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"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 July experienced a 13.5% year-on-year decline, primarily driven by a significant drop in sports lottery sales, despite an increase in welfare lottery. Concurrently, China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated its stringent stance against cross-border gambling, emphasizing international law enforcement cooperation following a high-profile extradition.","focusai_entities":"China's Ministry of Finance, Wang Wenbin, China\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, She Zhijiang","focusai_location":"China, Thailand","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.9), operator_casino (0.75), affiliate_publisher (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on regional iGaming?","query":"What are the projected long-term impacts of China's intensified anti-cross-border gambling stance on the operational strategies and market valuations of iGaming entities in neighboring Asian jurisdictions?"},{"label":"Lottery revenue implications?","query":"How will the observed decline in sports lottery sales affect the Chinese government's fiscal revenue projections and potential future policy adjustments within the state-controlled gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-33129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33129","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=33129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33163,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33129\/revisions\/33163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}