{"id":777004005,"date":"2023-04-04T14:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T17:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777004005"},"modified":"2026-04-22T23:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:07:38","slug":"chinese-lottery-sales-hit-us6-08bn-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-hit-us6-08bn-in-february","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lottery sales hit US$6.08bn in February"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

China’s lottery sales were up by 86 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- China’s lottery sales <\/strong>rose 86 per cent year-on-year in February, reaching CNY41.81bn (US$6.08bn).\u00a0Sales were up 25.8 per cent compared to January.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Welfare Lottery <\/strong>generated CNY13.58bn, up 44.2 per cent when compared to last year and 25.2 per cent to January 2023. CNY7.65bn came from lottery tickets (up 46.9 per cent year-on-year) and CNY3.60bn from instant games (up 32.3 per cent). Keno revenue dropped by 16.8 per cent to CNY2.26bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sports Lottery revenue <\/strong>witnessed growth of 115.9 per cent year-on-year, amounting to CNY28.27bn. The figure was up 26.3 per cent when compared to the previous month. Sports wagering generated CNY19.50bn and lottery sales CNY5.65bn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instant games contributed CNY3.11bn, down 9 per cent from January. Video lottery revenue was CNY1m, up from zero in January, but significantly lower than the CNY11m generated in February 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For full-year 2022<\/a>, Chinese lottery sales were up 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":"

China’s lottery sales were up by 86 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":26703,"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 an 86% year-on-year surge in February 2023, reaching CNY41.81bn, primarily propelled by a 115.9% increase in Sports Lottery revenue. This robust monthly performance builds upon a 13.8% overall growth for full-year 2022, underscoring significant expansion within this regulated gaming vertical.","focusai_entities":"","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Sports Lottery Drivers","query":"What specific macro-economic factors or operational enhancements within the Sports Lottery vertical are primarily driving the 115.9% year-on-year GGR increase, and what is the projected sustainability of this growth trajectory?"},{"label":"Market Impact Analysis","query":"How do these robust lottery GGR figures, particularly the significant year-on-year growth, correlate with broader Chinese consumer discretionary spending trends, and what implications does this hold for potential future liberalization or expansion of other regulated gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777004005","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\/777004005","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=777004005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777004031,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777004005\/revisions\/777004031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777004005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777004005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777004005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}