The official data also showed an increase in lottery sales in all of the 31 provinces and cities of mainland China authorise to sell lottery tickets except Tibet, which recorded a year-on-year decline of 4.3%.
Growth rates in lottery sales of above 30% year-on-year were recorded in the Jiangxi and Guizhou provinces, said the Ministry of Finance.
According to the data, sales of sports lottery tickets reported a 17.8% year-on-year increase to US$3.32 billion. Sales of welfare lottery tickets reached US$3.05 billion, down by 0.2% from the prior-year period.
Guangdong remained mainland China’s biggest single-province market for lottery products in full-year 2018 (15.9% up), followed by Jiangsu province, where total lottery ticket sales registeed an increase of 25.3%.
Source: GGR Asia
