China Lottery Big Winners

Two people in Zhuhai recently won lottery prizes of more than 50 million Yuan RBM each, which has caused quite a sensation in Zhuhai.

On March 10th, a man won the first prize of the welfare lottery, which was worth 53,300,000 Yuan RMB. Two days Later, another man from Zhuhai won a lottery prize of 50,710,000 Yuan. They both had purchased their lottery tickets for just 40 Yuan RMB. It was reported that previously, a lottery ticket buyer in Gansu Province won a prize of 113 million Yuan RMB in 2007, and this was the highest record lottery prize in China's history.

New jackpot record

A lottery player in Chongqing has won the Super Lotto prize of RMB82 million, setting a new record in the China Sports Lottery. The lucky man Wednesday invested RMB630 to buy the winning lottery ticket, which increased his chances of winnings by 10-fold. The last Super Lotto winning record of RMB41.7 million was set in Henan.

Two Yuan Buyer in Jiangsu Province Turns into Lottery Millionaire

A lottery buyer in east China's Jiangsu Province has won a record 20.56 million Yuan (US$3 million) by spending just 2 Yuan.

The 85th Super Sports Lottery had a prize pool of nearly 130 million Yuan and a prize for the winner of 20.56 million Yuan for one draw, far beyond the 80th lottery's three 11.15 million Yuan first prizes and making history for China's lottery.

The lottery this time also had 11 second prize winners and each of these will collect 770,000 Yuan cash.

The amount for each draw of the third prize was 8,000 Yuan and the total number of draws was.

The lottery yesterday dished out 43.16 million Yuan but there is 102 million Yuan and a 3-million-Yuan bonus left for the next draw.

Buyers nationwide paid 53.39 million Yuan for yesterday's lottery, according to Sina.com.

The Super Lottery has broken lottery records in China several times.

Sales reached more than 50 million for the first time since the 80th drawing this year.

Gansu lottery winner hits record jackpot

A lottery entrant from northwestern China has won the country’s largest individual lottery prize -- 102.7 million Yuan (US$14 million), a newspaper reported yesterday.

The unidentified buyer from Gansu Province bought 20 identical "Double Color Ball" tickets issued by the China Welfare Lottery at a cost of 40 Yuan Tuesday, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.

The buyer chose the same seven sets of two-digit numbers on each, reaping a total of 102.7 million Yuan, the newspaper said.

First prize was more than 5 million Yuan meaning the ticket holder was paid 20 times the top prize.

The man, around 40, drove to a lottery outlet in Jiayuguan City around 2:40 p.m. Tuesday, said Li Zhenjie, the outlet’s owner.

Li said the man had been buying lottery tickets at the outlet for two years.

There was no official information on the winner.

The draw is held every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Two lottery machines pick out six of 33 red balls and one of 16 blue balls to determine the winning combination of numbers.

The former record jackpot was nearly 65 million Yuan, won by a person in Heilongjiang Province in October. The person bought one combination of numbers 15 times, each bringing him the top award of 4.33 million Yuan.

China abolished lotteries in 1949, but launched State-run lotteries in 1987.

The Welfare Lottery Center in Gansu, where farmers make an average of just over 2,000 Yuan a year, was quick to head off a possible lottery-buying stampede the huge prize might trigger.

"The center’s officials were glad to hear of such surprising news, but they would also like to remind lottery-ticket buyers that it is a recreation the State offers the people," said a statement on the lottery’s official Web site.

"They hope everybody can take part in the game with a recreational, relaxed and normal attitude and buy rationally, taking into account their own financial means."