{"id":777028374,"date":"2025-06-27T12:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T15:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777028374"},"modified":"2026-04-21T21:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:29:42","slug":"chinese-lottery-sales-rise-nearly-20-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinese-lottery-sales-rise-nearly-20-in-may","title":{"rendered":"Chinese lottery sales rise nearly 20% in May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Record growth was driven by sports events and a low base in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- Lottery ticket sales in China rose by 19.8 per cent year-on-year to RMB57bn (US$7.95bn) in May, according to data from the Ministry of Finance. The uptick was driven by domestic and international sports events, alongside a low comparison base from the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sales of sports lottery tickets rose by 26 per cent to RMB38.51bn (US$5.44bn). Welfare lottery sales, which fund social programs, reached RMB18.53bn ($2.61bn), an 8.6 per cent increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cumulatively, between January and May, Chinese lottery sales amounted to RMB263.37bn ($37.06bn), up 4.3 per cent from the same period in 2024. In 2024, the lottery generated a record RMB620bn ($87.3bn) in sales<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Macau government extends instant lottery concession agreement with Macau Slot<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Record growth was driven by sports events and a low base in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"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 lottery ticket sales surged by 19.8% year-on-year in May, reaching RMB57bn (US$7.95bn), primarily driven by domestic and international sports events and a low comparison base. Sports lottery sales saw a 26% increase, contributing to a cumulative RMB263.37bn ($37.06bn) in sales between January and May.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance, Macau Slot","focusai_location":"China, Macau","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.85), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.8), marketing_crm (0.7), payments_fraud_aml (0.75), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"What drove sports lottery growth?","query":"What specific domestic and international sports events were identified as primary drivers for the significant increase in sports lottery sales in China?"},{"label":"Impact on welfare funding?","query":"How does the 8.6% increase in welfare lottery sales impact the funding allocation for social programs in China, and what are the governance implications?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[227,3573],"class_list":["post-777028374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-china","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028374","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\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777028374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777028396,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777028374\/revisions\/777028396"}],"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=777028374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777028374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777028374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}