China News Service, Beijing, December 31 (Reporter Zhao Jianhua) The Ministry of Finance announced on the 31st that due to the low base number caused by the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the same period last year and the European Cup from June to July this year, the cumulative sales of lottery tickets across the country have remained overall. Rapid growth.

With the gradual elimination of the low base factor during the same period, the structure of some lottery products has been continuously adjusted and optimized, and some lottery games with strong game properties have been delisted. Since August, the monthly lottery sales have fallen slightly and gradually stabilized.

From January to November, sales of lottery tickets nationwide increased by 14.7%.

  In November, a total of 33.107 billion yuan of lottery tickets were sold nationwide, a year-on-year decrease of 2.935 billion yuan or 8.1%.

Among them, the sales of welfare lottery agencies were 13.188 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.83 billion yuan, a decrease of 12.2%; the sales of sports lottery agencies was 19.919 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.106 billion yuan, a decrease of 5.3%.

  From January to November, the total sales of lottery tickets nationwide were 341.029 billion yuan, an increase of 43.590 billion yuan or 14.7% year-on-year.

Among them, the sales of welfare lottery institutions were 128.021 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 1.197 billion yuan, a decrease of 0.9%; the sales of sports lottery institutions were 213.07 billion yuan, an increase of 44.787 billion yuan, an increase of 26.6%.

  In November, compared with the same period last year, lottery sales in 5 provinces across the country increased, namely Henan, Hunan, Guangxi, Hainan and Sichuan.

From January to November, sales in other provinces have increased compared with the same period of the previous year, except for Jiangsu, Tibet, Shaanxi, and Qinghai.

  According to the news released by the Ministry of Finance on the same day, the overall scale and strength of state-owned cultural enterprises across the country have steadily increased.

According to statistics, as of the end of 2020, there were a total of 20,000 state-owned cultural enterprises nationwide with 1.479 million employees and total assets of 7.3 trillion yuan. The annual total operating income was 1.6 trillion yuan and the total profit was 139.94 billion yuan.

Compared with the end of the “Twelfth Five-Year Plan” period, the number of state-owned cultural enterprises nationwide has increased by 42.9%, and the total assets have increased by 131.3%.

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