{"id":777012300,"date":"2024-01-08T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T13:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777012300"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:15:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T17:15:39","slug":"chinese-lottery-sales-down-2-5-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-down-2-5-in-november","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lottery sales down 2.5% in November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chinese lottery sales in November reached CNY50.54bn (US$7.12bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.- China\u2019s Ministry of Finance has reported that lottery ticket sales reached CNY50.54bn (US$7.12bn) last July, down 2.5 per cent year-on-year. The figure, however, was higher than&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-up-59-3-in-october\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the CNY47.34bn (US$6.65bn) recorded in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Welfare Lottery sales<\/strong>&nbsp;were CNY16.94bn, up 29.5 per cent year-on-year. Sports lottery sales dropped by 13.3 per cent to CNY33.6bn. Authorities attributed the decline in November lottery ticket sales to last year&#8217;s high comparison base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumulative sales over the first ten months of 2023 reached CNY526.41bn, up 45.1 per cent year-on-year. For full-year&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-up-13-8-in-2022\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2022<\/a>, lottery sales were up 13.8 per cent at CNY424.65bn (US$62.82bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese lottery sales in November reached CNY50.54bn (US$7.12bn).<\/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 Ministry of Finance reported November lottery sales of CNY50.54bn (US$7.12bn), a 2.5% year-on-year decrease attributed to a high comparison base from the previous year. Despite this, cumulative sales for the first ten months of 2023 reached CNY526.41bn, marking a 45.1% year-on-year increase. Welfare Lottery sales saw a significant 29.5% year-on-year rise, while Sports Lottery sales declined by 13.3%.","focusai_entities":"China's Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact of Base Effect?","query":"Beyond the high comparison base, what underlying macroeconomic or consumer behavior shifts are contributing to the year-on-year decline in November's overall lottery sales, particularly for Sports Lottery?"},{"label":"Welfare Lottery Growth Drivers?","query":"What specific initiatives or product innovations within the Welfare Lottery segment are driving its significant 29.5% year-on-year growth, contrasting with the Sports Lottery's decline?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777012300","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\/777012300","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=777012300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777012301,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777012300\/revisions\/777012301"}],"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=777012300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777012300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777012300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}