Official figures
China lottery sales climb 7.3%
China's lottery sales rose 7.3% year on year to 394.64 billion yuan (about USD 57.53B) in 2016.
2017-01-24
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China's lottery sales rose 7.3% year on year to 394.64 billion yuan (about USD 57.53B) in 2016.
Welfare lottery sales increased by 2.5 percent to 206.49 billion yuan, and the sports lottery rose 13.1 percent to 188.15 billion yuan, the Ministry of Finance announced.
In December, lottery tickets worth 36.59 billion yuan were sold, a year-on-year increase of 7.2 percent. Welfare lottery sales rose 4 percent to 19.98 billion yuan and sports lottery sales rose 11.4 percent to 16.61 billion yuan.
The provinces of Guangdong, Hubei, Hunan, Henan and Yunnan each saw their lottery sales value rise by more than 2 billion yuan.
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