Anyone who knows the origin of sports lottery, please advise. Thank you.

Lottery is a valuable certificate issued by the state to support social welfare undertakings, which allows people to choose and buy voluntarily according to the rules announced in advance and obtain the right to win the prize.

There are two kinds of sports lottery in China, one is the traditional instant lottery, and the other is the computer sports lottery.

China computer sports lottery is a traditional sports lottery sold by using modern computer technology. Issued by the Sports Lottery Center of the State Sports General Administration. Tickets are printed by computers at all sales outlets, and the sales data are sent to the central computer room for centralized processing, unified broadcasting and public lottery. Approved by the People's Bank of China, the Ministry of Finance and the provincial government, China computer sports lottery was officially sold in our province on April 18, 2000. Shijiazhuang, Baoding, Handan and Tangshan were opened in the first phase, and Qinhuangdao, Zhangjiakou, Chengde, Langfang, Cangzhou, Hengshui and Xingtai were opened on July 8. China computer sports lottery is issued all the year round, and the lottery is held every Tuesday and Friday. The price of the lottery ticket is 2 yuan. The lottery ticket is valid in the current period.

Nowadays, there are more and more kinds of computer sports lottery tickets, which are divided into very fine categories.