From The Southern Weekend, translated by ESWN:
In 1999, an underground system for “Mark 6” lottery was detected in Chaoyang, Guangdong province. From there, this gambling activity quickly moved northwards and is threatening to spread everywhere.
Over the past few years, the various local public security organizations have undertaken a series of clean-up activities. But the “Mark 6 lottery” gambling went underground and spread to most of the rural areas of China with the exception of Tibet. It has spread especially fast in the relatively impoverished western and northeastern regions of the country.
What kind of environment allows underground “Mark 6 lottery” to survive? What are the unique characteristics of the process of spreading and the operational business models? What kind of influence and impact did it have on the locals? This is a special report from this newspaper following similar reports in 2002 and 2004. [Full Text]
