on June<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe increase was largely due to mayor sports resuming internationally. Sports lottery sales rose 17.1 per cent year-on-year to CNY20.7 billion (US$3 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welfare lottery sales rose 2.6 per cent to CNY15.4 billion (US$2.2 billion).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Digital lottery sales came in at CNY22.42 billion (US$3.2 billion), up 17.3 per cent year-on-year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sales for the first seven months of the reached CNY160 billion (US$23.3 billion), down 34.8 per cent against the same period in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sports lottery sales fell by 35.6 per cent in the period, and welfare lotteries by 33.8 per cent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Lottery sales were up 10.4 year-on-year in July, mainly due to the rise in sports lottery sales as events returned around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9791,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Chinese lottery sales experienced a significant 10.4% year-on-year increase in July, reaching CNY36.15 billion, primarily driven by a 17.1% surge in sports lottery sales following the global resumption of major sporting events. Despite this strong monthly performance, year-to-date sales for the first seven months remain down 34.8% compared to 2019, indicating a partial recovery from earlier disruptions.","focusai_entities":"Ministry of Finance","focusai_location":"China","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.95), regulator (0.9), operator_casino (0.85), marketing_crm (0.75), investor_analyst (0.98), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Q3 Growth Outlook","query":"What is the projected impact of sustained global sports events on China's lottery GGR for Q3 and Q4, and how might this influence the full-year NGR compared to pre-pandemic levels?"},{"label":"Regulatory Response","query":"How might the Ministry of Finance leverage this sales recovery to adjust regulatory frameworks or expand digital lottery offerings to mitigate future market volatility?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16338,163,167,158],"tags":[227,3573,233],"class_list":["post-9787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-asia-news","category-finance-news","category-news-region","category-slider-home","tag-china","tag-lottery","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787","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=9787"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008065,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9787\/revisions\/777008065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}