{"id":777016995,"date":"2024-07-05T09:28:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T12:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777016995"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:27:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:27:16","slug":"chinese-lottery-sales-down-4-8-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-down-4-8-in-may","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lottery sales down 4.8% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sales reached CNY47.62bn (US$6.68bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.- The Ministry of Finance has reported that\u00a0lottery ticket sales reached CNY47.62bn (US$6.68bn)\u00a0in May,\u00a0down 4.8 per cent year-on-year.\u00a0Welfare Lottery sales were CNY17.06bn (US$2.38bn), up 4.1 per cent, while\u00a0sports lottery sales fell 9.1 per cent to CNY30.56bn (US$4.28bn).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales are believed to have dropped due to fewer big sporting events and the high comparison base last year. Cumulatively,\u00a0Chinese lottery sales for the first five months of the year were up 12.2 per cent\u00a0in year-on-year terms at CNY252.54bn (US$35.33bn).\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><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 CNY579.7bn (US$81.64bn), a rise of 36.5 per cent. The sales of tickets\u00a0for the welfare system increased by 31.3 per cent to CNY194.44bn\u00a0while\u00a0sports lottery\u00a0sales rose by 39.3 per cent to CNY385.26bn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales reached CNY47.62bn (US$6.68bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":7507,"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 4.8% year-on-year decline in May lottery sales to CNY47.62bn, primarily driven by a 9.1% fall in sports lottery GGR attributed to fewer major sporting events and a high comparison base. Despite this monthly dip, cumulative lottery sales for the first five months of 2024 demonstrated robust growth, increasing 12.2% year-on-year to CNY252.54bn, underscoring the sector's underlying resilience.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Sports Lottery Decline Factors","query":"What specific major sporting events were absent in May 2024 compared to May 2023, and how did this impact the sports lottery GGR and NGR?"},{"label":"H2 2024 Outlook","query":"Given the cumulative growth, what are the Ministry of Finance's projections for H2 2024 lottery sales, particularly considering upcoming major international sporting events and their potential impact on the sports lottery vertical?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777016995","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\/777016995","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=777016995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017019,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777016995\/revisions\/777017019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777016995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777016995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777016995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}