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The chinese social welfare lottery

04 August 2008

Every nation seems to have a lottery for their citizens. Dating back to ancient eras, such as China, Greece, and Rome, the powers-that-be would hold prize drawings for their citizens. Various forms of raffles would take place, mostly to prevent upheaval by and large.

Lotteries have grown since then, and we now see them scattered all over the world. The Chinese, in particular, hold their social welfare lottery. This lottery originated from prize-associated fundraising activities which were organized by the civil affairs department as a particular means of performing social relief work.

It was urbanized from conventional charitable fundraising under the socialism market economy conditions. The total number of welfare lottery tickets sold was valued at 114.5 billion during the period of “ten 5-year plans.” And this helped to raise more than 40-billion in funding for the country. The money went to caring for the elderly, disabled, helping orphans, and attempting to alleviate poverty.

China, contrary to popular belief, has a very long history of performing charitable acts for its less fortunate. However, since the People’s Republic of China formed, the nongovernment charitable activities in China had almost stopped until the 1980s.

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