The Research On Integrity Of Lottery Business

Lottery tickets are the vouchers of the chance to win a prize in a lottery, following some specific rules. Lottery tickets are issued with authoritative permission, sold under laws, bought by the natural men with their own will. Lottery is helpful in collecting the public funds for the government and in developing social welfares. In nature, lottery tickets cannot produce value by themselves. They are only means to re-dispose the social resources.As a kind of special"commodity", lottery stands for publicity and integrity. This paper argues the importance of integrity in the lottery business, the harm of integrity loss, and the way to establish integrity in future development. By establishing the integrity, people follow the principles of fair, justice, and publicity. Then the mistakes, incidents and mis-operation will be avoided to guarantee the safe issue of lottery tickets. People will see a normal, orderly and healthy lottery market. The main parts of this paper go on as follows: I. lottery and lottery businessLottery, also called"Dove Tickets", emerged in ancient Rome 2000 years ago. The similar wager game appeared in Nansong Dynasty in China. The earliest sports lottery came out in 1922. The British Liverpool football team invited the fans to bet on scores of the match. In 1934, Sweden issued the first sports lottery, basing on the football matches. In old China, the sports lottery came into being together with the western horse racing. It was done in big cities as Shanghai, Tianjin, Wuhan, etc. with Shanghai as the place of origin. After the issue of reform and open-door policy, China set up"China's Social Welfare Lottery-Attached Fundraising Committee"and"NPCSC Sports Lottery Administration Center"in 1987 and 1994 respectively, and began to issue welfare lottery and sports lottery. The treasure branch of the State Council is in charge of the supervision and administration of lottery business, while the Civil branch and Physical Executive department are responsible for the national social welfare lottery and sports lottery according to their different duty.II. The importance of integrity in lottery businessThis part introduces the meaning, nature and role of integrity. Integrity is very important in lottery business. It is the cornerstone of the existence and development of the lottery business. Integrity can assure the public welfare fund of supreme amount. Lottery business is the necessary pare and pillar of public welfare enterprises. The issue of lottery must rely on the strict integrity system. The staff of issue and sales department must foster the strong sense of integrity. Integrity can win the lotterizens'heart as well as the broad market, finally devote to the social public welfare.In recent two decades, the lottery business, sticking to the principles of publicity and integrity, works its way from a small scale to a big one, from a simply instant game to currently three types covering instant game, quizzes type, and lotto. People began to know more about lottery than before, changed from being crazily aimless to rational purchase. The issue developed from random competition to lawful manipulation. In all, the lottery business is in the state of quick developing. Till the end of 2010, China's lottery sales has passed 23 years, with its sales amounting to RMB 8800 billion collecting public welfare fund 2770 billion of which 1100 billion is from sports lottery.III. The harm and cause of integrity loss in the lottery businessIntegrity is closely related with benefit. The amount of the cost of integrity loss depends on two factors: the possibility to find and look into the discreditable acts and the dimension to punish them. In the sales, some betting shops and salesmen are not faithful, this will affect the dealing conditions and the income. They will lose the usual lotterizens and the income diminishes. If the whole group lose the integrity, the damage will be great. People will be doubtful about and have no confidence on the fairness of lottery, and the damage to the intangible asset will be unpredictable. The integrity loss happens in the links of printing, storing, drawing, selling, announcement of prize, and cashing, etc. IV. Strengthening the construction of integrity in lottery businessIn order to perfect and consummate the lottery market, lottery issue needs the moral integrity and publicity under laws. It can not only be limited on the moral denouncement, but also legal constraints. Law can bring lottery legal status and function, normalize the issue, sale, and purchase acts, therefore provide lottery business a stable, broad, and healthy space to develop.To achieve this goal, it needs to change segmentation of the departments, mixture of the state and enterprises. The administration mode that fits the market, decrease in cost should be carried out.Lottery business follows the regularity of development, forms the integrity system, maintains fairness, justice and publicity for avoiding mistakes and technical accidents. Low cost, high efficiency and maximized benefit is highly advocated. Lottery business abroad has a long history of development, and has rich experience. It is proper to learn from them. Some methods can be taken. Public welfare fund can be under the budget management, supervised by the treasure branch to lessen the malignant competition. It is reasonable to bring in the nongovernmental capital to enlarge the profit.