{"id":777011446,"date":"2023-11-27T04:25:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777011446"},"modified":"2026-04-22T15:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:13:47","slug":"chinese-lottery-sales-up-59-3-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-up-59-3-in-october","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lottery sales up 59.3% in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chinese lottery sales hit US$6.65bn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- The\u00a0Ministry of Finance of China\u00a0<\/strong>has reported that lottery sales grew by 59.3 per cent year-on-year in October, reaching CNY47.34bn (US$6.65bn).\u00a0Lottery sales to support the country’s welfare system were up 40.9 per cent year-on-year at CNY15.49bn. Sports lottery sales were CNY31.85bn, up 70.1 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cumulative sales over the first ten months of 2023 reached CNY475.88bn, up 53 per cent year-on-year. For full-year\u00a02022<\/a>, lottery sales were up 13.8 per cent at CNY424.65bn (US$62.82bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese lottery sales hit US$6.65bn.<\/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":"China's Ministry of Finance reported a substantial 59.3% year-on-year increase in lottery sales for October, reaching US$6.65bn, with cumulative sales for the first ten months of 2023 up 53% to CNY475.88bn. This growth was driven by both welfare and sports lottery verticals, which saw increases of 40.9% and 70.1% respectively.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance of China","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.7), tech_data (0.8), payments_fraud_aml (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Drivers of Lottery Growth?","query":"What are the primary underlying drivers contributing to the significant year-on-year GGR growth in China's lottery sector, beyond general economic recovery?"},{"label":"Impact on Gaming Policy?","query":"How might the sustained robust performance of the state-controlled lottery influence future regulatory considerations or policy discussions regarding other potential gaming verticals in China?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777011446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011446","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=777011446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777040894,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777011446\/revisions\/777040894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777011446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777011446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777011446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}