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The winner of $17m jackpot receives his prize in a monkey mask. [Photo/Sina Weibo]

A man who won a lottery of over 110 million yuan ($17 million) received the prize wearing a monkey mask in Kunming, capital city of Southwest China's Yunnan province on Wednesday, sports.sina.com.cn reports.

This is the biggest prize ever received by its winner in person in the history of the lottery in Yunnan province.

The prize is also the 20th lottery prize over 100 million yuan ($15 million) in the history of Chinese double chromosphere lottery.

But the identity of the winner was disguised behind the mask and his name is not known. The only fact the media learned is that he bought his winning lottery ticket for 20 yuan ($3 dollars).