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China lottery ticket sales reach $11b in 2009

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-01-28 11:28

The lottery ticket sales in China reached 75.6 billion yuan ($11.1 billion) in 2009, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said Wednesday.

Related readings:  China's welfare lottery sales exceed 70b yuan  Officials play lottery game with the poor  No lottery tickets, no welfare funds  Lottery is for the public welfare  17.8% of lottery sales used to fund social security in '08

The figure was up 25.2 percent, or by 15.2 billion yuan, from a year earlier, the ministry said in a statement at the national lottery ticket work conference in Guangzhou.

The sales helped to raise more than 24 billion yuan of public welfare fund.

Sales in the southern booming province of Guangdong hit 8.3 billion yuan last year, continuing ranking first among all the provinces and municipalities nationwide.

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