China Center for Lottery Studies (CCLS) at Peking University

www.ccls.pku.edu.cn

The China Center for Lottery Studies (CCLS) at Peking University is a self-financed nonprofit academic institution.  The Center is committed to promoting interdisciplinary research and professional training regarding China s rapidly developed lottery industry.  Although a relative young research facility, the CCLS engages in a wide range of activities, possesses diverse capabilities, and employs a professional and highly motivated staff.

In 2002, encouraged by the Ministry of Finance, Peking University established the CCLS with the mission of facilitating a health development of the Chinese lottery and gaming industry. It is the first research institute in lottery and gaming studies (and has been the only one up to now) in China. The main activities of the CCLS have focused on: (1) promoting rigorous and interdisciplinary scholarship in China through a variety of research, training, and scholarly communication programs; (2) fostering international academic links and integrating Chinese lottery and gaming studies into the international community; (3) providing institutional assistance for Chinese and international scholars conducting research in the industry in China; and (4) generating and disseminating systematic social and economic data relevant to the industry for scholars, as well as for relevant government agencies and the business community; (5) sponsoring scholarly and professional conferences and workshops, publishing monographs, developing library resources, and producing journals and website.

Professor Shen Mingming (Ph.D., University of Michigan) was appointed as the Center s first Director; and Dr. Wang Xuehong (Ph.D. and MBA in gaming management, University of Nevada, Reno) as the Executive Associate Director. Under their tenure the CCLS seeks to establish itself as a world class research and training facility for the lottery and gaming studies.