{"id":4147,"date":"2020-03-05T10:06:50","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T10:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=4147"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:18:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:18:49","slug":"chinas-lottery-sales-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinas-lottery-sales-gambling","title":{"rendered":"China lottery sales could hit zero in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">January lottery revenues fell 43% with February set to be even worse as the Coronavirus crisis deepens. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China.- China lottery sales suffered a staggering 43.3% year-on-year drop in January amid fears the revenues could hit zero in February. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to China&#8217;s Ministry of Finance, lottery sales fell to RMB27.2 billion, (\u20ac3.5 billion), with welfare lottery sales down 39.3 percent and sports lottery down 46.4 percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">January\u2019s overall sales decline is a consequence of the shutdown of most lottery operations on January 22 to observe the annual Spring Festival celebrations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The shutdown was supposed to end on January 31 but was initially extended to February 9&nbsp;as a measure to contain the spread of <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/topics\/coronavirus\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the Coronavirus crisis in China, the shutdown is still in place and means that February lottery revenues will likely be zero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This would be an unprecedented situation, similar to Macau\u2019s casinos recording a&nbsp;nearly 88% drop in February\u2019s gaming revenue&nbsp;following the government-ordered 15-day shutdown of gaming operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>China\u2019s welfare<\/em><\/strong> and sports lottery are <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wing-hing-lottery-contract\"><em><strong>the only legal forms of gambling <\/strong><\/em><\/a>in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January lottery revenues fell 43% with February set to be even worse as the Coronavirus crisis deepens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":"China's lottery sales experienced a 43.3% year-on-year decline in January, reaching RMB27.2 billion, primarily due to extended operational shutdowns initiated for the Spring Festival and prolonged by the Coronavirus crisis. Projections indicate February revenues could be zero, mirroring the severe impact observed in Macau's casino sector from similar government-mandated closures. This situation highlights significant disruption to the country's sole legal gambling verticals.","focusai_entities":"China\u2019s Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China, Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Economic Impact Analysis","query":"What are the projected long-term economic implications for China's welfare and sports lottery sectors, and the broader state revenue, given the sustained operational shutdown?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response","query":"How might the Chinese Ministry of Finance and other regulatory bodies adapt governance frameworks or operational protocols to mitigate future force majeure events impacting state-controlled gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16338,163,158],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","category-slider-home","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147","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=4147"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008569,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4147\/revisions\/777008569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}