{"id":7505,"date":"2020-06-23T20:45:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T20:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2026-04-24T04:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:14:06","slug":"china-lottery-sales-remain-low-due-to-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-lottery-sales-remain-low-due-to-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"China lottery sales remain low due to Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Results for May were down 17.7 per cent on 2019 as the impact of the pandemic continues to show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China.- Lottery sales in China continue to feel the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities say China\u2019s sports and welfare lotteries took in CNY29.22 billion (US$4.14bn) in revenue in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s an improvement on April\u2019s CNY23.39 billion (US$3.3 billion) total, but still a decline of 17.7 per cent on figures for May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As could be expected, the majority of May\u2019s revenue came from digital sales, which brought in CNY23.22 billion (US$3.28 billion) or 79.5 per cent of total revenue for the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sales for quiz games dropped by 71.6 per cent to CNY2.72 billion (US$385 million), and instant win sales by 9.2 per cent, to CNY2.36 billion (USD334 million).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video lottery sales also declined by 78.8 per cent to CNY916.1 million (US$129 million)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Total lottery sales in China for the first five months of 2020 fell by 49.2 per cent year-on- year to CNY90.33 billion (USD12.7 billion). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">April saw lottery sales of CNY23.39 billion (about US$3.28 billion), and March CNY 10.51 billion (about US$1.48 billion), Xinhua agency reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The numbers from May suggest something of a <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-lottery-sales-march\">recovery from the previous month<\/a><\/em><\/strong> as China slowly comes out of Covid-19 lockdown measures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">China\u2019s welfare and sports lottery are the only legal forms of gambling in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results for May were down 17.7 per cent on 2019 as the impact of the pandemic continues to show.<\/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 in May 2020 reached CNY29.22 billion (US$4.14bn), marking a 17.7% decline compared to May 2019, yet an improvement over April 2020 figures. Digital sales constituted 79.5% of the total, while specific gaming verticals like quiz games and video lottery experienced significant declines. Overall, H1 2020 sales are down 49.2% year-on-year, reflecting the ongoing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the state-controlled sports and welfare lotteries.","focusai_entities":"Xinhua agency","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), operator_casino (0.8), product_ux (0.75), tech_data (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Digital Sales Sustainability?","query":"What is the projected sustainability of the elevated digital lottery sales post-pandemic, and how might this influence future channel investment strategies for Chinese lottery authorities?"},{"label":"Vertical Performance Discrepancies?","query":"What specific factors contributed to the disproportionate decline in quiz games and video lottery sales compared to instant win, and what implications does this hold for product portfolio diversification?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338,158],"tags":[227,3573,20100],"class_list":["post-7505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","category-slider-home","tag-china","tag-lottery","tag-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505","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=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7521,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}