China lottery increases ticket sales

Welfare lottery and sports lottery keep showing good results as ticket sales increased 13.1 percent in August.

China.- The country’s Ministry of Finance revealed on Friday that August sales of China’s official lottery tickets increased 13.1 percent. Welfare lottery and sports lottery have been experiencing good results for a few months, whilst overall lottery sales reported mixed results in 2017.

As the Ministry said, aggregate sales totaled US$5.3 billion in August, whilst welfare lottery sales increased 10 percent year-on-year to US$2.64 billion and sports lottery sales increased 16.4 percent to US$2.66 billion. During last month’s operations, 26 provinces boosted their operations, specially driven by Fujian, Henan, Hunan, Zhejiang and Guangdon.

Aggregate lottery sales during the first eight months of 2017 increased 6.3 percent to US$41.3 billion, with welfare and sports lottery sales increasing 4.6 and 8.1 percent respectively. The money from lottery tickets cover public welfare projects, as well as prize money.

Back in July, it was reported that SF Lottery is preparing a unique instant scratch game to enhance its portfolio. The new SF Lottery game will only be offered in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Hunan and Jiangxi, and it was already approved by the Ministry of Finance, which also highlighted that Guangdong and Jiangsu have been generating a distinguished amount of lottery revenue. Both provinces have ranked first and second in terms of sports lottery sales volumes last year.