{"id":777034997,"date":"2025-11-24T09:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777034997"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:47:34","slug":"chinas-lottery-sales-rise-6-per-cent-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/chinas-lottery-sales-rise-6-per-cent-in-october","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s lottery sales rise 6% in October"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sales reached US$6.62bn, with both the welfare and sports lotteries seeing year-on-year growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

China.- Lottery ticket sales in China rose 6 per cent year-on-year to CNY46.89bn (US$6.62bn) in October, according to figures released by the Ministry of Finance. Sales from the Welfare Lottery reached CNY15bn (US$2.12bn), up 3.4 per cent, while sports Lottery sales climbed 7.3 per cent to CNY31.89bn (US$4.5bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From January to October, cumulative nationwide lottery sales amounted to around CNY523bn (US$73.85bn), a rise of 1.9 per cent year-on-year. Analysts expect full-year sales to remain generally stable amid steady participation and ongoing adjustments in digital and instant lottery formats in key provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Funds are allocated to administrative expenses, public welfare programmes and prize pools.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\tSee also:<\/span><\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\tSee also:<\/span> China\u2019s lottery sales edge up 1.5% in first nine months of 2025<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sales reached US$6.62bn, with both the welfare and sports lotteries seeing year-on-year growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":9694,"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 increased by 6% year-on-year in October, reaching US$6.62bn, with both Welfare and Sports Lotteries demonstrating growth. Cumulative sales from January to October amounted to US$73.85bn, up 1.9% year-on-year. Analysts anticipate stable full-year sales, driven by consistent participation and ongoing adjustments in digital and instant lottery formats.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.95), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.75), tech_data (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.85), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Digital Lottery Impact","query":"What specific 'adjustments in digital and instant lottery formats' are driving participation and how do these impact the overall GGR trajectory?"},{"label":"Welfare Fund Allocation","query":"What is the precise breakdown of fund allocation from these lottery sales to public welfare programmes versus administrative expenses and prize pools, and how does this compare to prior periods?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[227,3573,20100],"class_list":["post-777034997","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\/777034997","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=777034997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777035015,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777034997\/revisions\/777035015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777034997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777034997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777034997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}