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China's lottery sales hit 73.56b yuan

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-30 10:53

China's lottery sales in the first seven months reached 73.56 billion yuan ($10.77 billion), up 21.2 percent or 12.89 billion yuan from the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Finance.

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Of the total sales, 41.91 billion yuan went to social welfare lottery, up 6.35 billion yuan or 17.9 percent year-on-year.

About 31.65 billion yuan went to sports lottery, up 6.54 billion yuan or 26.0 percent year-on-year.

In July, sales of lottery reached 10.78 billion yuan, of which 6.22 billion yuan went to social welfare lottery and 4.57 billion yuan went to sports lottery.