The contract was awarded to Shenzhen-based Shenzhen Suicai Technology Development Co., Ltd. (深圳市穗彩科技开发有限公司) following an open public tender.
Unlike a terminal-purchase contract, this is about keeping Henan’s existing retail network operational: hardware repairs, replacement parts, software support, inspections and technical assistance over a 366-day period.
It provides a useful view of the less visible market surrounding China’s state lotteries. Selling the terminal is only the beginning; maintaining thousands of machines across an entire province creates a recurring service business of its own.
What the contract covers
The buyer is the Henan Welfare Lottery Issuance Centre (河南省福利彩票发行中心), which also operates under the name Henan Elderly Care Development Centre (河南省养老事业发展中心).
According to the official award notice, the work covers terminals currently operating or circulating within Henan, including:
Replacement parts and hardware repairs.
Terminal software maintenance and upgrades.
Technical support for retail outlets.
Inspections and preventive maintenance.
Continued connectivity with the province’s lottery sales systems.
Most of the machines are distributed across Henan’s 18 prefecture-level cities. Two models — the SN-CP7200 and SN-CP7210 — are concentrated mainly in Zhengzhou (郑州), Luoyang (洛阳) and Xuchang (许昌).
The contract runs for 366 days and was awarded for RMB 5,160,600.37, just below the procurement budget of RMB 5.161 million.
That works out at roughly RMB 622 per terminal for the full service period, or about USD 87, although the real economics will vary depending on the number of repairs, replacement components and on-site interventions required.
The supplier behind the contract
Shenzhen Suicai is not a new entrant attempting to break into China’s lottery market.
The company develops lottery terminals, sales software and operating systems and is part of the lottery technology business controlled by Shenzhen-listed Telling Telecommunication Holding Co., Ltd. (天音通信控股股份有限公司).
Corporate filings show that Suicai has supplied software and hardware to provincial welfare and sports lottery centres across China. Its product portfolio also includes domestically developed lottery systems and terminals designed around China’s broader technology-localisation requirements.
That context matters. Provincial lottery contracts may be publicly tendered, but experience with existing systems, terminal specifications and local service requirements creates a significant advantage for suppliers already inside the network.
The Henan award received an evaluation score of 93.42 points. The procurement documents also required a province-wide service structure capable of supporting machines across multiple cities, making this more than a remote software-maintenance agreement.
Henan’s terminal network is expanding
The scale of this contract is also larger than Henan’s previous maintenance cycle.
The province’s 2025–2026 programme covered approximately 6,246 terminals. The new contract covers around 8,299, an increase of more than 2,000 machines.
This does not necessarily mean Henan installed 2,053 entirely new terminals during the year: the scope can change as machines are deployed, redistributed or brought under a different maintenance package. But it does show that the serviceable network included in the provincial contract has expanded substantially.
Henan is not the only province investing in physical lottery infrastructure. As we reported in Beijing’s recent procurement of 400 Android lottery terminals, provincial and municipal lottery centres continue to purchase and maintain specialised hardware even as sales channels become more digitally managed.
Together, these tenders reveal a market that extends beyond the machines themselves: operating software, payment peripherals, cybersecurity, spare parts, field maintenance and integration with central lottery systems.
The number of terminals covered by Henan’s provincial maintenance programme increased from approximately 6,246 in the 2025–26 cycle to 8,299 in 2026–27. The figures describe the contracted service perimeter and do not necessarily represent newly installed machines. Source: Henan government procurement documents.
What this tells suppliers
The contract has already been awarded, so it is not an open opportunity.
Its value is as market intelligence.
Henan’s procurement documents show the operational capabilities expected from companies competing for provincial lottery work: local maintenance coverage, access to spare parts, fast response times, compatibility with existing systems and the ability to support several terminal models simultaneously.
It also gives context to China’s newly revised lottery market adjustment fund rules. Those rules allow provincial funding to support sales security, systems, facilities, terminals and channel modernisation from the 2027 budget cycle.
Henan shows what that spending can look like once it becomes an actual contract.
A single provincial maintenance award may be worth less than USD 1 million, but similar requirements repeated across China’s provincial lottery networks create a much larger addressable service market. The companies best placed to capture it will not necessarily be those with the most attractive terminal. They will be the ones capable of keeping thousands of machines operating, connected and compliant every day.
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