up from only 29.22 billion yuan<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (US$4.14 billion) in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWelfare Lottery sales totalled RMB15.29 billion (US$2.18 billion) in June, up from RMB14 billion (US$2 billion) in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, in the month in which professional football competitions resumed, Sports Lottery sales hit RMB18.26 billion (US$2.61 billion), up from RMB15.20 billion (US$2.17 billion) in May. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
China suspended lottery sales in January for New Year celebrations and extended the suspension into February due to the spike in Covid-19 cases. In some markets, including Beijing, operations have yet to resume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the first six months of the year, Chinese lottery sales fell 41.7 per cent in comparison to the first half of 2021. Lottery revenue for H1 was RMB123.90 billion (US$$17.69 billion), including RMB59.29 billion (US$8.47bn) from the Welfare Lottery and RMB64.61 billion (US$9.23) from the Sports Lottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Combined sales in the Sports and Welfare Lotteries reached RMB33.57 billion (US$4.79 billion) in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8461,"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 combined Sports and Welfare Lottery sales reached RMB33.57 billion (US$4.79 billion) in June, marking a robust 3.4% year-on-year recovery to near pre-pandemic levels. Despite this strong monthly rebound, H1 2022 lottery revenue remains down 41.7% compared to H1 2021, totaling RMB123.90 billion, primarily due to earlier operational suspensions.","focusai_entities":"Chinese Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China, Beijing","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.9), compliance_legal (0.7), operator_casino (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"June Recovery Drivers","query":"What specific operational adjustments or marketing initiatives underpinned the significant month-on-month GGR recovery in June, particularly within the Sports Lottery vertical?"},{"label":"H2 GGR Projections","query":"Considering the substantial H1 GGR decline and ongoing regional operational variances, what are the revised full-year GGR projections for the Chinese lottery market, and what are the key upside\/downside risks?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[227,3573,20100],"class_list":["post-8459","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\/8459","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8470,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8459\/revisions\/8470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}