This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2019-06-26 07:47
Editor's note: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of New China.
In June 1992, Beijing issued the first soccer lottery tickets in the capital as seen in the item from China Daily. The lottery was sponsored by the Chinese Football Association.
Lotteries in China can be traced back to the 1880s. But after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, authorities banned gambling.
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