{"id":777021152,"date":"2024-12-02T09:13:59","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T12:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777021152"},"modified":"2026-04-22T03:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:42:17","slug":"chinese-lottery-sales-down-6-6-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-down-6-6-in-october","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lottery sales down 6.6% in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sales reached CNY44.22bn (US$6.14bn).<\/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> were CNY44.22bn (US$6.14bn) in October. That\u2019s a decline of 6.6 per cent in year-on-year terms and 13.97 per cent&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-down-2-4-in-september\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sequentially<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong>Welfare Lottery sales&nbsp;<\/strong>were CNY14.5bn (US$2.02bn), down 6.3 per cent year-on-year, while&nbsp;<strong>sports lottery sales<\/strong>&nbsp;amounted to CNY29.7bn (US$4.13bn), down 6.7 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sale of lottery numbers reached CNY12.8bn (US$1.78bn), down 6.3 per cent year-on-year; sales of lottery guessing reached CNY20.1bn (US$2.79bn), up 6 per cent and instant sales were CNY8.2bn (US$1.14bn), down 28.2 per cent. Keno sales were CNY2.9n (US$403m), down 7.4 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales of lottery numbers, guessing, instant lottery tickets and Keno lottery tickets accounted for 29 per cent, 45.7 per cent, 18.6 per cent, and 6.7 per cent of the total lottery sales, respectively. Lottery sales increased in Hainan, Hunan and Tibet. Guangdong, Hubei, Jiangsu and Henan saw the largest decreases, down CNY490m (US$68m), CNY310m (US$43m), CNY290m (US$40m) and CNY250m (US$35m) respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also: <\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/china-to-add-new-macau-visas-for-zhuhai-and-hengqin-residents\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">China to add new Macau visas for Zhuhai and Hengqin residents<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cumulatively,\u00a0Chinese lottery sales for the first ten months of the year\u00a0were up 7.8 per cent year-on-year at CNY513.2bn (US$71.3bn). Welfare lottery sales totalled CNY171.9bn (US$23.9bn), up 7.4 per cent year-on-year and sports lottery sales CNY341.2bn (US$47.4bn), up 8.1 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sales of lottery numbers were up 2.4 per cent in year-on-year terms at CNY146bn (US$20.3bn). The sales of lottery guessing reached CNY234bn (US$32.5bn), up 14.9 per cent year-on-year; the sales of instant lottery amounted to CNY96bn (US$13.3bn), down 1.3 per cent; and the sales of Keno lottery reached CNY34bn (US$4.72bn), up 15.6 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sales reached CNY44.22bn (US$6.14bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":9791,"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 experienced a 6.6% year-on-year decline in October, reaching CNY44.22bn, primarily driven by significant drops in instant lottery and Keno verticals. Despite this monthly downturn, cumulative sales for the first ten months of the year demonstrated robust growth, increasing 7.8% year-on-year to CNY513.2bn, largely fueled by strong performance in sports lottery and lottery guessing segments.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China, Hainan, Hunan, Tibet, Guangdong, Hubei, Jiangsu, Henan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Monthly vs. YTD Trends","query":"What specific market dynamics or policy shifts contributed to the significant sequential and year-on-year decline in October's lottery sales, contrasting with the robust cumulative growth observed over the first ten months?"},{"label":"Vertical Performance Analysis","query":"Given the divergent performance across lottery verticals, particularly the decline in instant sales versus growth in guessing and Keno, what strategic implications does this hold for product portfolio optimization and revenue diversification within the Chinese lottery market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777021152","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\/777021152","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=777021152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777021169,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777021152\/revisions\/777021169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777021152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777021152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777021152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}