China lottery sales continue to grow

The Chinese news agency Xinhua reports that China’s lottery sales rose 9.4 percent year on year to 104.18 billion yuan (around US$ 16.5 billion) in the first quarter of 2018, quoting official numbers from the Ministry of Finance.

March alone saw lottery tickets worth over 40 billion yuan sold, a year-on-year increase of 5.9 percent, according to the Ministry.

Sales of welfare lottery tickets went up 1.8 percent to 52.25 billion yuan, while sports lottery sales rose 18.3 percent to 51.93 billion yuan.

Central China’s Hunan Province registered leading year-on-year growth of 1.42 billion yuan in the first three months.

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