{"id":777033603,"date":"2025-10-24T08:27:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T11:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777033603"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:51:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:51:39","slug":"chinas-lottery-sales-edge-up-1-5-in-first-nine-months-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinas-lottery-sales-edge-up-1-5-in-first-nine-months-of-2025","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s lottery sales edge up 1.5% in first nine months of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a slight dip in August, both welfare and sports lottery ticket sales rose in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- Lottery ticket sales in China rose 1.5 per cent year-on-year<\/strong> to CNY476.14bn (US$67.13bn) in the first nine months of 2025, according to data released by the Ministry of Finance. Sales of welfare lottery tickets reached CNY159.75bn (US$22.53bn), while sports lottery sales amounted to CNY316.39bn (US$44.60bn). Both were up 1.5 per cent from the same period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September, lottery sales totalled CNY52.9bn (US$7.46bn), a 2.8 per cent increase compared to the previous year<\/strong> after a dip in August. Growth was supported by a balance between digital and instant lottery formats and solid performance in provinces such as Xinjiang, Hebei and Shandong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under China\u2019s lottery management framework, funds raised from ticket sales are distributed among administrative costs, public welfare initiatives and prize pools.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> Seaport reaffirms positive stance on Asia\u2019s gaming sector<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a slight dip in August, both welfare and sports lottery ticket sales rose in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":7427,"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 demonstrated robust growth in the first nine months of 2025, reaching CNY476.14bn, a 1.5% year-on-year increase. This performance, driven by both welfare and sports lotteries, saw a significant rebound in September after an August dip, supported by digital and instant formats and strong provincial contributions.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China, Xinjiang, Hebei, Shandong","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.8), operator_casino (0.7), product_ux (0.8), tech_data (0.7), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.9), journalist_researcher (1.0)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Lottery Fund Allocation?","query":"How do the administrative costs and public welfare allocations from these lottery sales compare to previous periods or international benchmarks, and what is the governance framework for these distributions?"},{"label":"Digital Format Impact?","query":"What specific policy or operational changes contributed to the September rebound and the sustained growth in digital and instant lottery formats, and what are the implications for future product development?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[227,3573,20100],"class_list":["post-777033603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-china","tag-lottery","tag-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033603","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=777033603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777033615,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777033603\/revisions\/777033615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777033603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777033603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777033603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}