{"id":777015169,"date":"2024-05-02T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T12:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777015169"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:40:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T13:40:47","slug":"chinese-lottery-sales-up-11-7-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-up-11-7-in-april","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lottery sales up 11.7% in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sales in March reached CNY55.6bn (US$7.8bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.- The Ministry of Finance has reported that\u00a0lottery ticket sales reached CNY55.6bn (US$7.8bn)\u00a0in March,\u00a0up 11.7 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0<strong>Welfare Lottery sales<\/strong>\u00a0were CNY18.88bn (US$2.6bn), up 22.4 per cent, while\u00a0sports lottery sales rose 6.9 per cent to CNY36.72bn (US$5.1bn).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumulatively,\u00a0Chinese lottery sales for the first three months of the year were up 19.7 per cent\u00a0in year-on-year terms to CNY149.47bn (US$20.9bn).\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-up-36-5-in-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">For\u00a0full-year\u00a02023<\/a>, lottery sales were up\u00a0by\u00a036.5 per cent at CNY579.7bn (US$81.64bn).\u00a0The sales of tickets\u00a0for the welfare system increased by 31.3 per cent to CNY194.44bn\u00a0while\u00a0sports lottery\u00a0tickets\u00a0sales rose by 39.3 per cent to CNY385.26bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales in March reached CNY55.6bn (US$7.8bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":9837,"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 robust growth in its state-sanctioned lottery sector, with March sales reaching CNY55.6bn and Q1 2024 cumulative sales up 19.7% year-on-year to CNY149.47bn. This sustained expansion, building on 36.5% growth in full-year 2023, underscores the significant GGR generated by both Welfare and Sports Lottery verticals within a tightly regulated market.","focusai_entities":"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 (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Growth Catalysts","query":"What specific operational enhancements, distribution channel optimizations, or product innovations are primarily driving the significant year-on-year GGR growth across both Welfare and Sports Lottery verticals in China?"},{"label":"Regulatory Framework","query":"How do the existing regulatory compliance and governance frameworks in China ensure the integrity and public benefit allocation of the substantial GGR generated by the state lottery system?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777015169","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\/777015169","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=777015169"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777016108,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777015169\/revisions\/777016108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777015169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777015169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777015169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}