Chinanews.com, April 29. The Ministry of Finance website released on the 29th the national lottery sales in March 2021. In March, a total of 29.81 billion yuan was sold nationwide.
Among them, sales of welfare lottery institutions were 10.942 billion yuan, and sales of sports lottery institutions were 18.868 billion yuan.
From January to March, the total sales of lottery tickets nationwide totaled 84.522 billion yuan.
Among them, the sales of welfare lottery agencies were 33.996 billion yuan, and the sales of sports lottery agencies were 50.526 billion yuan.
The Ministry of Finance specifically stated that due to special factors such as the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the same period last year, plus various factors such as policy adjustments, lottery sales are not comparable year-on-year, and single-month and cumulative sales year-on-year are temporarily not included in statistics.
Data show that in March, the sales of lotto digital lottery tickets were 13.017 billion yuan, quiz-type lottery tickets were 10.233 billion yuan, instant lottery sales were 5.093 billion yuan, video-type lottery tickets sold 0.001 million yuan, and keno-type lottery tickets sold 1.467 billion yuan.
In March, the sales volume of lottery lottery, quiz, instant, video, and Keno accounted for 43.7%, 34.3%, 17.1%, 0.0%, and 4.9% of the total lottery sales respectively.
From January to March, total sales of lotto digital lottery tickets were 44.792 billion yuan, quiz-type lottery sales were 24.459 billion yuan, instant lottery sales were 12.267 billion yuan, video-based lottery sales were 0.003.8 billion yuan, and keno-type lottery sales were 3.004 billion yuan.
From January to March, the sales volume of lottery lottery, quiz, instant, video, and Keno accounted for 53.0%, 28.9%, 14.5%, 0.0%, and 3.6% of the total lottery sales respectively.
The sales of lottery tickets by region are as follows: In March, among the 31 provinces in the country, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Shandong, Jiangsu, and Henan had the highest lottery sales, which were respectively 3.110 billion yuan, 2.166 billion yuan, 2.108 billion yuan, 2.084 billion yuan and 1.823 billion yuan. .
The Ministry of Finance pointed out that lottery agencies at all levels should closely follow up and analyze new situations and new problems, and earnestly strengthen lottery issuance and sales to ensure the smooth operation of the market.
Financial departments at all levels should further strengthen supervision, actively create a good external environment, maintain the normal order of the market, and promote the healthy development of the lottery industry.
*Remarks: Lotto numbers count sales according to the end time of the sales period; guessing lottery traditional football games and regional online single-game guessing games calculate sales according to the end of the sales period, and national online single-game guessing games of lottery guessing are based on the content of the betting draw time Statistic sales; instant lottery counts the sales according to the time of sale; video lottery counts the sales according to the time of sale; Keno-type lottery counts the sales according to the end of the sales period.