The editor has more than 20 years of experience in the TC-Gaming. During these 20 years, he has watched China's lottery games develop from offline private lottery to today's online lottery game platform. TC-Gaming initially developed a lottery platform. Starting from the system, we have entered the lottery market with a technical background and have witnessed the changes and history of the lottery market in the past twenty years. With the current epidemic situation and China's severe policies, the future of the online lottery game market is also one of the topics that everyone is most concerned about. If we want to predict the online lottery game market and its future, we have to start with the past of online lottery games. The development of online lottery games can be divided into five periods: the embryonic period, the growth period, the peak period, the chaotic period, and the decline period.
Infancy: (1990～2010Year)
Speaking of the earliest prototype of my country’s private lottery, we have to start with Mark Six Lottery. Initially, the scope of origin of private lottery was mainly concentrated in the southeastern coastal provinces. Since it is adjacent to areas with developed gaming industries such as Hong Kong and Macau, "Mark Six Lottery" is a gambling activity in Hong Kong, China. It is a legal lottery game in Hong Kong, so Mark Six Lottery formed the original private lottery game at that time. The real opportunity for private lottery to sprout and develop for the first time can be traced back to the newsstands in rural areas in the south, or in some rural teahouses, taverns, and tourist resorts. At that time, you could see many farmers, workers and other lottery enthusiasts almost everywhere in these places holding different types of tabloid publications such as lottery predictions or shrinkage to study or discuss. This type of lottery tabloid was commonly called "Lottery Scripture". At that time, many lottery fans were obsessed with studying the numerical analysis diagrams in the lottery books and guessing the puzzling "code poetry". In terms of publicity, some newsstand owners who sell lottery information do everything possible to deceive lottery fans into believing that the numbers can be predicted. Some even make up some superstitious stories to mix them in, saying that this newspaper is attributed to a certain person. Zeng Gaoren's prediction of the stars was also said to be derived from the Five Elements and Bagua celestial phenomena, and some even said it came from the "code poems" and "mysterious poems" provided by "Miss Bai" in Singapore. Based on this, it can be regarded as the initial prototype of private lottery. But it is strange to say that there are real lottery fans who have studied lottery knowledge and won. Therefore, these so-called lottery knowledge have also brought great excitement and excitement to the vast number of rural farmers and workers in the southern region who are lottery fans, and also made more people Many people began to become obsessed with studying lottery and dreaming of getting rich overnight. At this time, many local people, gamblers, and newsstand owners with quick brains also began to develop underground lottery betting models that were higher than the official lottery. They became “private lottery bosses”, and these lottery fans with ready-made lottery experience also joined the ranks of buying private lottery tickets and became “private lottery gamblers” because of the temptation brought by high bonuses. In order to further stimulate the enthusiasm of these lottery fans, With the desire to buy lottery tickets, these "private lottery bosses" gradually increase their bonuses to attract more lottery fans, and then organize the development into an agent network model for all levels of society, which also lays the foundation for the development rules of online private lottery in the future.
Time came to 1993, when the National People's Congress promulgated the "Anti-Unfair Competition Law". In May 1994, the General Office of the Central Committee and the State Council issued a fourth telegram to the whole country, requiring strict lottery market management, prohibiting local governments from issuing lottery tickets without authorization, and clearly stipulating that the Chinese people The bank is the lottery agency of the State Council, which plays a strong regulatory role in the lottery market. In the same year, the "China Social Welfare Lottery Fundraising and Issuance Center" was renamed as the "China Social Welfare Lottery Issuance Center", and in 1995 it was officially named the "China Welfare Lottery Issuance and Management Center". With the entry of sports lottery into the market in 1995, the Chinese lottery market was born and an era of flourishing lottery market began. During this period, although the official regulations had explicitly prohibited the sale of private lottery tickets, with the temptation of higher bonuses and the entry of sports lottery into the market, Obviously, this regulation can no longer stop lottery fans from pursuing high bonuses and more exciting private lottery purchases. During this period, offline private lottery tickets also slowly spread from south to north and from east to west to inland provinces. At this time, there were almost traces of private betting in most provinces and regions in the north, mainly distributed in the urban-rural interface of large and medium-sized cities, which is different from the south where most of them are in rural areas and small towns. According to some of the earliest mainstream theories at the time, it was mainly brought there by migrant workers and businessmen from the south. Therefore, private lottery during this period gradually became a semi-public or public gambling activity in rural areas across the country.
After 2000, various lottery methods have been constantly innovated, and the types of lottery have become more and more abundant. At this time, lottery games have also entered a period of rapid development. Shuangseqiu went on sale in February 2003. Less than a year after its launch, Shuangseqiu became one of the seven most popular welfare lotteries in China. The Shuangseqiu lottery game was also known as the "aircraft carrier of the lottery market." At this time, China's annual lottery sales reached 40.2 billion yuan. Since 2000, with the explosive growth of personal computers and smart phones in China, the information circulation on the Internet has developed, and various lottery prediction, shrinkage, planning tools, and various lottery forums have also emerged. It also indirectly promotes the hot sales of lottery games and the growth of lottery fans, and the development of the lottery market becomes more rapid. But at the same time, since 2003, public security agencies across the country have investigated and dealt with more than 76,000 "private lottery" gambling cases, and destroyed more than 22,000 "private lottery" gambling dens. There have been numerous social incidents caused by private lottery such as the arrest of more than 18,000 private lottery dealers, bookmakers, and private lottery bosses. Under the continuous crackdown by the government, some current private lottery companies that had already developed relatively well in the local area have been suppressed. The lottery bosses had to turn their attention to the Internet, which has a larger and broader market, is not subject to geographical restrictions, and is more hidden. Another important feature of this stage is that the fast lottery lottery games have finally been launched. Faster lottery results and more ways to play have quickly become the new favorite of the market. This has also provided a boost to the development of online private lottery platforms. A new spring has ushered in.
On November 6, 2007, the national government, the five major ministries and commissions of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Information Industry, and the State Sports General Administration requested in Announcement No. 36: Stop the lottery sales business of websites sponsored by non-lottery institutions; rectify the use of lottery institutions Internet lottery sales business; strictly investigate and crack down on the use of the Internet to illegally sell lottery tickets. However, this wave of attacks did not stop the continued development of "online private lottery". Finally, on January 2, 2008, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the State Sports General Administration jointly issued a notice (Caizong No. 200784): All lottery agencies should strictly implement the relevant provisions of the "Interim Provisions on the Administration of Lottery Issuance and Sales" (Caizong No. 200213) and shall not use the Internet to issue and sell lottery tickets; lottery agencies and their websites that have used the Internet to carry out lottery sales business will, as of the notice From the date of issuance, the use of the Internet to sell lottery tickets will be stopped. Following this wave of heavy blows from the government, private lottery bosses, gamblers, and bookmakers who had earned enough capital in the past 10 years began to leave China one after another and set out to find a safer online private lottery stronghold in the Philippines.
Our story about the lottery will end here. In the next article, we will talk about the experience during the growth period.