{"id":777020354,"date":"2024-11-01T09:49:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777020354"},"modified":"2026-04-22T04:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T07:37:28","slug":"chinese-lottery-sales-down-2-4-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-down-2-4-in-september","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lottery sales down 2.4% in September"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sales reached CNY51.4bn (US$7.03bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>China.- The Ministry of Finance has reported that&nbsp;<strong>lottery ticket sales<\/strong>&nbsp;were CNY51.4bn (US$7.03bn) in September. That\u2019s a decline of 2.4 per cent in year-on-year terms and 5.64 per cent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-up-2-7-in-august\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sequentially<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>Welfare Lottery sales&nbsp;<\/strong>were CNY17bn (US$2.33bn), down 6.5 per cent year-on-year, while&nbsp;<strong>sports lottery sales<\/strong> amounted to CNY34.4bn (US$4.71bn), up 0.3 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decline was put down to a higher base in the same period last year, a decline in instant lottery sales and increased control over lottery promotion activities. The sale of lottery numbers reached CNY14.3bn (US$1.96bn), down 3.8 per cent year-on-year; sales of lottery guessing reached CNY24.65bn (US$3.38bn), up 12.5 per cent and instants sales were CNY9bn (US$1.25bn), down 27.3 per cent. Keno sales were CNY3.4bn (US$471m), down 1.2 per cent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales of lottery numbers, guessing, instant lottery tickets, and Keno lottery tickets accounted for 27.8 per cent, 47.9 per cent, 17.6 per cent, and 6.7 per cent of the total lottery sales, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lottery sales increased in 12 provinces and decreased in 19. Guangdong, Hubei, Jiangsu and Henan saw the largest decreases, down CNY540m (US$74m), CNY290m (US$40m), CNY190m (US$26m) and CNY180m (US$25m) respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumulatively,&nbsp;<strong>Chinese lottery sales for the first nine months of the year <\/strong>were up 9.4 per cent year-on-year at CNY468.9bn (US$64.1bn). Welfare lottery sales totalled CNY157.4bn (US$21.5bn), up 8.9 per cent year-on-year and sports lottery sales CNY311.5bn (US$42.6bn), up 9.7 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales of lottery numbers were up 3.3 per cent in year-on-year terms at CNY134bn (US$18.3bn). The sales of lottery guessing reached CNY214.1bn (US$29.3bn), up 15.8 per cent year-on-year; the sales of instant lottery amounted to CNY88.7bn (US$12.2bn), 2.3 per cent; and the sales of Keno lottery reached CNY32bn (US$4.38bn), up 18.3 per cent year-on-year. Sales of lottery numbers, guessing lottery, instant lottery and Keno lottery accounted for 28.6 per cent, 45.7 per cent, 18.9 per cent and 6.8 per cent of the total lottery sales respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:<\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/imf-lowers-macau-gdp-forecast-for-2024\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">IMF lowers Macau GDP forecast for 2024<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales reached CNY51.4bn (US$7.03bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":16825,"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 in September declined 2.4% year-on-year to CNY51.4bn, primarily due to a higher comparative base, reduced instant lottery sales, and increased control over promotional activities. Despite this monthly dip, cumulative sales for the first nine months of 2023 demonstrated robust growth, increasing 9.4% year-on-year to CNY468.9bn across various gaming verticals. This indicates underlying market strength despite short-term regulatory and market adjustments.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China, Guangdong, Hubei, Jiangsu, Henan, Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (1.0), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Regulatory Impact on Promotion?","query":"What specific regulatory changes underpin the 'increased control over lottery promotion activities' and what is their projected long-term impact on player acquisition costs and overall GGR?"},{"label":"Provincial Performance Drivers?","query":"How do the provincial sales declines, particularly in Guangdong and Hubei, correlate with regional economic indicators, localized regulatory enforcement, or shifts in consumer gaming preferences?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777020354","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\/777020354","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=777020354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777020354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777020391,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777020354\/revisions\/777020391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777020354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777020354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777020354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}