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On June 26, 1992, Beijing issued the first soccer lottery tickets in the capital. The lottery was sponsored by the Chinese Football Association.
The photo from China Daily shows a man checking 26/37 18/25 28/36 27/38 20/28 25/35 27/35 26/33 20/28 25/33 26/37 18/25 27/35 17/30 28/33 23/35 18/24 19/32 14/26 16/22 26/32 27/35 28/36 25/34 21/27 26/32 S T S S C C C C O C S T O S Sh C Sh C Sh R C S C C Sh T Shanghai Shenyang Shenzhen Shijiazhuang Suzhou Taipei Taiyuan Tianjin Urumqi Wuhan Xi'an Xiamen Xining Yantai Yinchuan Zhengzhou Zhuhai Athens Berlin Brussels Geneva Istanbul London Madrid Moscow Paris Rome Vienna the tickets he bought.
Lotteries in China can be traced back to the 1880s. But after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, authorities banned gambling.
It was not until the country embraced the reform and opening-up policy in 1978 that the government started rethinking lotteries.
In 1986, the State Council, China’s Cabinet, approved a plan proposed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to introduce lotteries. 27/37 21/31 26/32 24/36 24/31 26/33 18/31 24/33 19/27 27/35 23/30 25/32 14/24 21/25 19/31 24/30 25/31 20/28 15/19 14/22 15/21 21/30 16/18 21/30 13/28 14/24 19/23 13/16 C C Sh S D C S C C C D S D D C D Sh D C S S D C S C S D O 27/36 21/31 27/33 25/39 27/33 26/33 18/34 22/36 20/28 27/35 22/31 25/33 14/28 21/30 21/34 25/35 25/32 21/29 14/21 14/21 16/22 22/30 16/18 20/29 14/28 15/25 19/23 14/19 C C Sh S O C S S C C D S C C C R C D D S S D S D C S S D
On July 26 1987, Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, took the initiative by issuing the country’s first lottery tickets.
China has two lotteries: the sports lottery and the welfare lottery. Lottery sales rose 9 percent year-on-year to 41.7 billion yuan ($6.4 billion) in April, official data showed. Sales of welfare lottery tickets were 19.7 billion yuan, while sports lottery sales were 22 billion yuan.
Facing the growing lottery TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Abu Dhabi 28/39 Bangkok 26/31 Colombo 27/30 Dubai 29/39 Hanoi 26/31 Islamabad 26/40 Jakarta 24/32 Karachi 29/35 Kuala Lumpur 24/32 Manila 26/33 Mumbai 25/30 New Delhi 28/41 Pyongyang 19/22 Riyadh 22/40 Seoul 23/25 Singapore 25/30 Sydney 8/16 Teheran 24/38 Tokyo 22/30 Wellington 8/12 Yangon 23/30 S R D S R C D D D R D C R S R R C D D D R 28/41 26/34 26/30 29/41 25/34 26/40 24/32 29/36 24/30 25/33 25/30 29/40 20/27 24/42 21/26 24/29 10/17 25/39 24/30 9/13 23/32 S D D S D C D D D D D C C S D R D S D D R market, authorities have accelerated innovation in the sports lottery. Early this year, the central government announced plans to transform Hainan province into a horse racing and sports lottery hub. BuenosAires 0/11 Caracas 26/27 Chicago 20/22 Houston 28/30 Las Vegas 29/37 Los Angeles 17/19 Mexico city 17/18 New York 22/24 Ottawa 16/21 Rio De Janeiro 22/24 San Francisco 14/17 Sao Paulo 13/21 Vancouver 13/16 Washington 23/26 Cairo 23/35 CapeTown 12/19 Johannesburg 0/12 Lagos 23/25 Nairobi 13/23 S C D D S D D S S S S S D S S C C O D 2/11 S 26/27 D 20/25 R 28/29 D 31/37 S 17/20 S 16/19 D 15/20 C 10/22 C 22/22 D 13/14 S 15/17 C 14/17 C 17/23 D 25/38 S 13/16 D 2/14 S 23/25 D 15/23 D