Online Gambling Overshadows Chinese Lottery

As reported by the Shanghai Daily: "China lottery sales amounted to approximately 70 billion yuan last year, said Wang Xuehong, director of the China Center for Lottery Studies at Peking University.

"According to the center's market survey, illegal betting revenue was tenfold of legal lottery sales, Wang said.

"In recent several years, gambling funds have been increasing year by year, Xinhua news agency said, without giving a comparison figure…"

2006-07-18