The value of lottery sales in mainland China fell 18.5% year-on-year to 34.08 billion yuan ($4.77 billion) in August, according to official figures. The results marked the seventh consecutive month of such a drop in sales, according to official data from China\'s finance ministry.

Sports lottery sales fell 19.0% year-on-year to nearly 19.48 billion yuan in August, official statistics showed. 릴게임사이트 Welfare lottery sales fell 17.9% to nearly 14.61 billion yuan in August, the data showed.

The finance ministry said all types of lottery sales in mainland China fell 18.2% to 279.41 billion yuan in the first eight months of 2019, compared with the same period in 2018. Welfare lottery sales fell 13.6% year-on-year to about 127.41 billion yuan, while sports lottery sales fell 21.7% to nearly 152 billion yuan.

Sichuan, in southwestern China, was the only province to see an increase in total sales of lottery products in the first eight months of the year. Lottery sales in Sichuan increased nearly 10.8 percent to 12.54 billion yuan in the January-August period, according to data from the Ministry of Health and Welfare.