{"id":777025879,"date":"2025-04-29T09:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777025879"},"modified":"2026-04-21T23:27:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T02:27:58","slug":"chinese-lottery-sales-rise-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-rise-in-march","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lottery sales rise in March"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sales in March reached CNY58.22bn (US$8.08bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- The Ministry of Finance has reported that\u00a0Chinese lottery ticket sales<\/strong> reached CNY58.22bn (US$8.08bn) in March. That’s an increase of 4.7 per cent in\u00a0year-on-year terms<\/a> and 39.12 per cent\u00a0sequentially<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welfare Lottery sales\u00a0<\/strong>were CNY19.2bn (US$2.6bn), up 1.7 per cent year-on-year, while\u00a0sports lottery sales<\/strong>\u00a0amounted to CNY39.01bn (US$5.4bn), up 2 per cent. The sale of lottery numbers reached CNY26bn (US$3.6bn), up 20.9 per cent year-on-year. Sales of instant lottery tickets were CNY11.7bn (US$1.6bn), down 14.5 per cent. Keno sales were CNY3.6bn (US$0.50bn), down 5.8 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sales of lottery numbers, guessing, instant lottery tickets and Keno lottery tickets accounted for 28.9 per cent, 44.7 per cent, 20.1 per cent and 6.3 per cent of sales respectively. Sales increased in all provinces except Yunnan and Xinjiang. Shandong, Hubei, Anhui and Zhejiang saw the largest increases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cumulatively,\u00a0Chinese lottery sales for the first quarter of the year were down 0.6 per cent year-on-year at CNY148.5bn (US$20.5bn). Welfare lottery sales totalled CNY51.2bn (US$7.1bn), up 0.2 per cent and sports lottery sales CNY97.3bn (US$13.5bn), down 1 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sales of lottery numbers were down 2.9 per cent at CNY41.6bn (US$5.7bn). The sales of lottery guessing reached CNY64.3bn (US$8.9bn), up 11 per cent; instant lottery CNY33.4bn (US$4.6bn), down 14.1 per cent; and Keno lottery CNY9.1bn (US$1.2bn), down 4.9 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first three months of the year, the sales of lottery numbers, guessing, instant lottery, and Keno lottery accounted for 28, 43.3, 22.5 and 6.2 per cent of the sales, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau GGR rises slightly in March<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sales in March reached CNY58.22bn (US$8.08bn).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":14355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Chinese lottery sales reached CNY58.22bn (US$8.08bn) in March, marking a 4.7% year-on-year increase, primarily driven by sports lottery and lottery numbers. However, cumulative Q1 sales saw a slight decline of 0.6% year-on-year to CNY148.5bn (US$20.5bn), indicating mixed performance across gaming verticals and regional disparities. This data provides critical insights into the performance dynamics of the state-controlled lottery sector.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China, Yunnan, Xinjiang, Shandong, Hubei, Anhui, Zhejiang","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Q1 Performance Drivers","query":"What specific market dynamics or policy adjustments contributed to the Q1 year-on-year decline in overall Chinese lottery sales despite a strong March performance?"},{"label":"Vertical Growth Analysis","query":"How do the differing growth trajectories of sports lottery, welfare lottery, and instant tickets impact the long-term revenue diversification strategy for the Chinese state lottery?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163],"tags":[3573],"class_list":["post-777025879","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\/777025879","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=777025879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777025886,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777025879\/revisions\/777025886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777025879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777025879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777025879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}