Tere are two authorised lottery operators in China, the Welfare Lottery established in 1987 which offers Lotto, VLT and Instants, and the Sports Lottery established in 1994 , which offers the same and sports-betting
Tere are two authorised lottery operators in
China – the Welfare Lottery (issued by China Welfare Lottery Issuing Centre) established in 1987 which offers Lotto, VLT and Instants and the Sports Lottery (issued by China Sports Lottery Administration Centre) established in 1994 which also offers Lotto and Instants and runs sports betting. Te Sports Lottery also introduced VLTs for the first time in 2015. Both provide funding towards good causes in
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Technically of course gambling in China is illegal. Outside of Hong Kong and Macau the only sectors which exist are the two national lotteries which govern the lottery and sports betting sectors. It is said the potential for these sectors are huge with a 20 to 30 percent growth annually. Te regulated lottery industry in China was launched in 1987 and has grown rapidly and is one of the world’s largest lottery markets in terms of sales volume. Lottery sales increased by around 33 percent
between its launch and 2013 and products have expanded from an initial base of simple weekly draw lotto games to a comprehensive range including weekly draw games, scratch cards, video lottery terminals, sports betting and virtual sports betting.
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the country. Te Welfare Lottery accounts for 54 percent of total sales by the lotteries and Sports Lottery the remaining 46 percent. Te State Council has the power to authorise
the issuance of sports lottery and welfare lottery whilst the Ministry of Finance is responsible for administering, regulating and supervising the national lottery industry. In 2009 the Regulations on Administration of
Lotteries were introduced and these governed the lottery industry and represented a new milestone in the development of this sector. It clarified the administrative system, sales and prize collections. In 2010 the Ministry issued two provisional regulations to look at the online and mobile sectors. Tere are four main product categories run by the two organisations:
Sports Betting – Only the Sports Lottery (Sporttery) is permitted to offer sports products and there are two main game categories – single match betting and traditional football betting. Both permit betting on FIFA Category A soccer matches, although single match betting differs in that players can bet on just one event and
betting is not restricted to football. With single match betting there are two main
sub categories – Jing Cai which is a product allowing pool or pari-mutuel betting on single matches or fixed odds betting on more than one match and Beijing single match (only in Beijing, Tianjing and Guangdong provinces) where all bets are pari-mutuel in nature. Sports betting accounts for 16.1 percent of the
total sales. Tis sector, compared to the other sectors, saw an 81.7 percent growth rate between 2013 and 2014. Of this growth traditional football betting grew by 14 percent and single match betting grew by 97 percent. Strong sales were reported in 2014 due to the
FIFA World Cup and this sector generated 60 percent of national ticket sales growth during 2014.
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