For full-year 2022<\/a>, lottery sales increased by 13.8 per cent, reaching CNY424.65bn (US$62.82bn). The sales of lottery tickets for the country\u2019s welfare system increased by 4.1 per cent to CNY148.13bn. Sales of lottery tickets for sports increased by 19.7 per cent to CNY276.52bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the Ministry of Finance, China\u2019s lottery ticket sales reached CNY33.22bn in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":22356,"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 Ministry of Finance reported January lottery sales of CNY33.22bn, marking a 7.8% year-on-year increase but a significant sequential decline from December. While welfare lottery sales dipped, sports lottery sales surged by 32.9% year-on-year. This follows a robust 2022, where total lottery sales grew 13.8% to CNY424.65bn, primarily driven by the sports vertical.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"January Sales Drivers","query":"What specific factors contributed to the significant month-on-month decline in January lottery sales compared to December, and the divergent performance between welfare and sports lotteries?"},{"label":"2023 Outlook","query":"Given the 2022 growth and January's mixed results, what is the projected GGR trajectory for China's lottery sector in 2023, and how might regulatory or economic shifts impact these forecasts?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777003008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003008","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=777003008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777003046,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777003008\/revisions\/777003046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777003008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777003008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777003008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}