China is at once one of the largest competitive gaming countries on earth and one of the hardest places to bet on it. The state has treated esports as sport rather than vice for years: Chinese teams took the first esports gold medals awarded at an Asian Games in Hangzhou, and the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya programme expands to eleven medal events. The money side is governed by an entirely separate and much older set of rules.
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Gambling is illegal for Chinese citizens under national law, and that includes gambling online and gambling abroad. The two exceptions are the state-run Welfare Lottery and Sports Lottery, which the government does not classify as gambling at all; any other sports betting is prohibited and offshore sites are blocked. This page is context only, and no operator is listed.