Lottery museum to open in Shanghai
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SHANGHAI Welfare Lottery Culture Museum opens free to the public today to mark the second China Charity Day.
The museum in Huangpu District is China's first municipal welfare lottery culture museum, showcasing the 30-year history and development of Shanghai’s welfare lottery and how the lottery funds are used in social construction and improving social welfare.
The city’s 5 million yuan (US$765,000) lottery jackpot has been won by 613 people in the past 20 years.
The welfare lottery funds “are mainly used to help and support the elderly, the disabled, orphans and needy people,” said Shanghai Welfare Lottery Issuing Center.
Located on 105 Puyu Road W. inside Shanghai Gongyi Xintiandi, a government-subsidized charity program park, the museum opens from 9am to 4:30pm from Tuesday to Sunday.
In nearly 20 years, 1,045 people had won 1 million yuan or more each from welfare lottery tickets. Last year, Shanghai’s welfare lottery sales hit a record 4.5 billion yuan.
Between 2009 — when China’s lottery management regulations were implemented — and last year, it is estimated that 4.03 billion yuan had been used for various livelihood programs across the city.
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