4, the State Council issued “to promote international tourism in Hainan Island, on the construction and development of a number of opinions”, which “will pilot a number of international practices in Hainan tourism sports and entertainment projects, explore the development of sports lottery and quiz-type large-scale international events that lottery”, which Hainan sentence given a lot of imagination. Hainan Governor Luo and the 6th conference, said the State Information Office, the State Council explicitly explore the development of Hainan, and the sports lottery Guess the lottery major international events, compared to other regions have a certain space. Recommended reading
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Luo special stressed that the State Department lottery for Hainan tourism and entertainment for the rich products to set a policy precedent, is with exploratory. Since it is exploratory, compared to other regions have a certain space, but this space is by no means to break the country existing legal provisions in this regard.
“international practice” to open some space
hole bustling South China Normal University, Associate Professor of Law that “opinions” mentioned in the “Tourism and Sports entertainment “mentioned earlier” international traffic “is very important. In the international arena, a great number of sports have been included in large-scale lottery quiz, which includes the major regional organizations football, basketball, tennis, dog racing, horse racing, which means horse in Hainan is ” possible. ”
It is understood that gaming is broadly divided into casino gambling, horse racing, sports competition and several lottery tickets, the latter two are more commonly present in domestic development, the first two are basically limited. For casino gambling, consistent with the object of an interview to be denied; but for horse racing, and the ability to let go to the horse betting Hainan color scale, we have different understanding.
China (Hainan) Reform and Development Institute Summer Research Institute of Hainan Feng told the reporter, we should correctly understand the horse color, it should not be “pornography, gambling,” together. In foreign countries, gambling is already a very mature tourism products, in line with the law, it is a compliant with the market demand.
director of Hainan Provincial Lottery Management Center Pengyun Hong said in an interview, also said, including horse betting, including the color is a neutral thing, it does not involve the political line and the name “Society” name ” capital “of the problem, it can at best be regarded as a means of financing,” the key is who is going to operate, how to operate. ”
However, some experts believe that, “Guess explore the development of large-scale international events sports lottery and the lottery”, this means that the State Council approved the water tested in Hainan Province and the related areas of cultural and sports events, but we can not interpret Hainan to open Ma Cai.
two parties diametrically opposed views.
“experimental field” in the “test seedlings”
behind in this dispute is not satisfactory in Hainan before the lottery results . According to statistics, in 2009, Hainan Province, the total sales of sports lottery only 1 million yuan, sports lottery sales in 31 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in the ranking as in 2008, is the first countdown.
the gaming industry for the development of Hainan should, as early as January last year, Hainan Province, “two sessions”, Jiangxing Jun, 25 CPPCC members on the submitted “on the proposal for opening up the gaming industry in Hainan.”
Xia Feng said that the gaming industry in developed countries, often the remaining funds for charitable and other public welfare undertakings. This has reference to Hainan, Hainan can do if together, we can increase the fiscal revenue to increase education, health care and services to support efforts.
and Hainan in sharp contrast, less than 30 square kilometers area of ??Macao has a remarkable gaming “performance.” It is reported that inbound tourists to Macao in 2008 exceeded 3,000 million exceeded the annual total amount of Hong Kong. In addition, the Macau gaming revenue in 2008 reached the highest ever 1099 billion, almost twice as Las Vegas.
It is understood that the countries to Hainan as “international tourist island”, the Hainan itself as “a laboratory for tourism reform,” the mean. In addition to the development of the gaming industry, and even now “foreign tourist shopping tax refund” rumors, in addition to not including all other preferential policies, Pengyun Hong told reporters, Hainan since it is when the “Reform of the experimental field tourism”, tourism services, of course, also need to follow up. Although the development of Hainan Lottery 10 years, but still in its infancy, if tentative develop the gaming industry in line with China national conditions of the road, then why not?
lifting the ban is a legal question of understanding whether or not
It is understood that in 1993, the Guangzhou Racecourse scenery available, as was the only one of the prizes racetrack betting. Guangzhou Race was the opening 3 times a week, with thousands of horses race horses. The most popular time, a betting turnover of up to thousands of yuan. However, after a bitter scene. In 1999, the Guangzhou Racecourse sadly suspension, which is not the main reason for legalization, in people consciousness, horse racing and gambling still equate.
2008 by the end of Wuhan City, the first race of the Guess pilot, people in the mainland regions Ma Cai expected to be lifted once the appetite, but the thing to end, Wuhan Ma Cai is also based on the hardware but relations, supporting projects related to management personnel and lack of “abortion.”
In Hong Kong, 80% of horse racing betting turnover was returned to racing fans, so entertaining than others. In addition, the race also provides a huge revenue for the government, the construction of public utilities that the government provide financial support.
Pengyun Hong said that the ultimate development of Hainan, including “Ma Cai,” including gambling, depending on the top of the policy and attitude.
hole downtown that the international movement of sports entertainment, including horse racing, horse color has a “Guess the Sports Lottery,” as if the race is a sports entertainment, then formulated since 1994 related laws and Sports Lottery will be able to “box” Come in, this ambiguity does not exist legally disputed.
【author: Peng Guohua Source: Southern Media Network – Southern Daily】
(Editor: Zhang Chao)