Lotteries help boost public welfare funds
China Daily | Updated: 2008-11-28 07:43
A man walks past a lottery billboard in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, last month. Chinese lotteries added more than $14.6 billion to public welfare funding in two decades. China Daily |
More than 100 billion yuan ($14.6 billion) has been added to funds for public welfare through the issuing of lotteries in the past 21 years, the Ministry of Civil Affairs said yesterday.
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