China\u2019s lottery sales rose to US$10.04bn in September, with sports betting sales up 73.1 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
China.- Chinese lottery sales rose 27.3 per cent<\/strong> year on year to RMB67.389bn (US$10.04bn) in September, according to the Ministry of Finance. Sales increased by RMB15.325bn (US$2.28bn). The ministry said the continued impact of the FIFA World Cup contributed significantly to the increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sports lottery betting was the largest category, with sales of RMB39.386bn (US$5.87bn), up 73.1 per cent and accounting for 58.4 per cent of total sales. Keno sales rose 19.5 per cent to RMB4.094bn (US$609.9m). Instant lottery sales fell 14.9 per cent to RMB9.967bn (US$1.49bn), and video lottery sales by RMB10m (US$1.5m) to RMB53m (US$7.9m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sales rose in all 31 provinces<\/strong>. Shandong recorded the largest increase, at RMB1.6bn (US$238.4m), followed by Henan at RMB1.43bn (US$213.1m), Zhejiang at RMB1.16bn (US$172.8m) and Jiangsu at RMB1.05bn (US$156.5m).<\/p>\n\n\n\n From January to September, total lottery sales rose 14.6 per cent to RMB545.82bn (US$81.33bn), an increase of RMB69.683bn (US$10.38bn). Sports lottery sales were RMB397.721bn (US$59.26bn), up 25.7 per cent, while welfare lottery sales fell 7.3 per cent to RMB148.099bn (US$22.07bn).<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" China\u2019s lottery sales rose to US$10.04bn in September, with sports betting sales up 73.1 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":777035508,"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 significant 27.3% year-on-year increase in September, reaching US$10.04bn, primarily driven by a 73.1% surge in sports lottery betting attributed to the FIFA World Cup. This performance contributed to a 14.6% rise in total lottery sales for the January-September period, totaling US$81.33bn, with sports lottery dominating the gaming verticals.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance, FIFA World Cup","focusai_location":"China, Shandong, Henan, Zhejiang, Jiangsu","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.8), operator_casino (0.85), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.95), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Post-World Cup Growth?","query":"What are the projections for China's sports lottery GGR growth trajectory in Q4 and FY2024, absent the FIFA World Cup catalyst?"},{"label":"Vertical Strategy Impact?","query":"How might the significant divergence in performance between sports lottery and welfare lottery verticals influence future regulatory allocations or product development strategies?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[227,25373],"class_list":["post-777048888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-china","tag-china-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777048888","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=777048888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777048888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777048896,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777048888\/revisions\/777048896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777035508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777048888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777048888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777048888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}