Casinos and Gaming industry will help development of backward Western China

Borrowing a page from US, using casino and gaming industy to develope the remote western areas.
It will help population movement to places people normally don't want to go.

sure, unregulated gambling can leads to crime and lawlessness. but Well regulated casinos and gaming industry can help the the development for sure.

Right now, places like tibet, qinhai, xinjinag have vast areas and little population. There's a need to move the overpopulated areas of China to the west and be more balanced and spread out.

Casino and gaming industry along with effective water diversion projects will help to transform the backwardness of the underpopulated vast, western regions of China.

besides, having casino and gaming are kind of fun, let the tibetan and uygh folks do some gambling and have some fun, indulged abit they will care less about revolting. good for political stability as well.

The Gambling industry if well planned and managed it could create several million jobs as well as adding to the government coffers.It could possibly divert some of the money from the illegal gambling activities, thought to amount to several hundred million dollars.
However does'nt gambling in general go against communist ideology? with several diehard cadres totally against it.

Actually that was a stupid question cause capitalism is against communist ideology....lol

It will create sets of new industries, man. It's truely a game changer. Plus shift of population.

It will create economy stability as well as political ones. CCP are way more practical and not really into ideology. I think they should explore into that.

Here’s an old story about the possibility of gambling in China, Some of the invited comments if one is interested enough to visit the site, gives food for thought




OPPORTUNITIES are sparse for China’s small-time speculators. So it was with a certain ebullience that 7,000 residents of Wuhan recently gathered at the Orient Lucky City racecourse to indulge in what the central leadership terms a “social evil”. They were the first people in mainland China to be given official approval to win money from horse races since the Communist Party outlawed gambling in 1949.
To the disappointment of hardened punters, depravity was lacking. No gambling, as such, was allowed. Racegoers could pick a horse for nothing in two of the five races and, if it won, were awarded 20 lottery scratch cards, giving them the chance to win 30,000 yuan ($4,400). One lucky winner scooped 4,000 yuan; most won less than a taxi fare home. The big hitters who had flown in from Sichuan could be heard cursing the impotence of their bulging wallets.
Tentative as it was, the race meeting in November was a significant move towards opening the country’s vast betting market. In the same month the World Poker Tour introduced Chinese poker, or Tuo La Ji, to television viewers. As the economy falters, the incentives for the government to trade ideology for profit are compelling. A Chinese researcher has claimed that a nationwide betting industry for horse racing would create 3m jobs and 40 billion yuan in tax revenues. And the government might also rescue some of the estimated $700 billion lost to illegal betting each year.
But the Communist Party’s conservative factions will need persuading. They regard horse-race betting as immoral for the masses, a challenge to social stability and a throwback to colonialism: British merchants plying the Yangzi River set up racing in Wuhan in the early 1900s.
Wuhan’s new racing crowd has been converted. One spectator, a teacher-turned-entrepreneur, trotted out a bit of wisdom from Deng Xiaoping to dismiss the morality debate: “No matter if it is a white cat or a black cat; as long as it can catch mice, it is a good cat.” Others enthusiastically followed the advice of the course commentator who compared picking a winning horse to finding a pretty woman (“Look for a big chest and slim waist”).
The racecourse operator, Orient Lucky Horse Group, owned by Jacky Wu, a Hong Kong businessman, enjoys rare central-government backing—the vice-minister of sports opened the meeting—but is terrified by government fickleness. With a stud farm and a training facility under construction, Mr Wu has a lot to lose (as do the 93 students who are studying for a degree in horse racing at a local university). The group has seen racing operations shut down in the past as unauthorised betting went too far, notably in Beijing in 2005. Caution is now its prime policy.

I don't think they should do gambling in central overpopulated areas like Wuhan. They should strictly use gambling industry to develope poor western China like xinjinag, qinhai, gansu, tibet maybe along the border places with other countries.

Just like US, gambling mostly in Nevada, desert places or remote areas where people normally don't go.

Places like Wuhan need its real industry. Gambling takes away its concentration.

Maybe one gambling mecca more inland couldn't hurt but from the numbers coming from Macau's gaming industry, with the current global economy, a lot less people are gambling and Macau lost $3.2 billion in the third quarter of 2008. That's a decline of 10% and negative growth is expected to continue throughout 2009.

lol sounds like a good idea. keep those corrupted officials from going to Macau LOL.

Gaming is still a service industry, no real wealth is produced, not exactly what China needs most at the moment.

King_Comm said:

Gaming is still a service industry, no real wealth is produced, not exactly what China needs most at the moment.

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well China doesnt have enough domestic demand to digest all of its productions so its overproducing. even if this gaming thing does materialize it'll play a very small role in China's economy but creates a lot of jobs for that region. i can just imagine 4000 60yr old ladies playing mahjong in one huge lobby LOL. it could be a good way to control underground gambling. like how some countries legalize marijuana to keep it under control

the last thing china needs right now is an increase in unemployment, due to gambling addicts going broke. Increasing the Chinese population in Tibet, with Casino isn't gonna ease the tension. Tibetians/Supporters complain about how the Chinese "Han" people are trying to "takeover Tibet" by pouring in Chinese influence and population. All I can see if this happens is riots and violents. So placing Casino in Tibet isn't a wise move. Some other form of economics growth should be implemented in Tibet.