“When the economy slows down, the lottery may move forward,” Su Guojing, founder of the non-governmental trade organisation China Lottery Industry Salon, said in an interview with the website of state broadcaster CCTV. Gua gua le sales accounted for 26.1 per cent of the total, representing a 81.4 per cent year on year increase. As of 2022, central and local governments had divided lottery proceeds equally, including income from gua gua le. “In the end, my luck was pretty good, so I’d get a ticket every so often.”But amid the scarcity of gua gua le tickets, it takes Men longer to find tickets. And in the first four months of 2024, 2,105 lottery-related companies registered in China, representing a year-on-year increase of 158.92 per cent.
