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Download People rushed to try their luck at a lottery agency in Beijing's Sanlitun area that sold winning tickets to someone who hit the country's biggest jackpot of more than 570 million yuan ($89.74 million) on Wednesday. "Is this the place that gave birth to the jackpot of 570 million yuan?" Liu Dongsheng, a driver who has been playing the lottery for about five years, asked a staffer at the outlet. After hearing the answer was yes, he pulled 40 yuan from his wallet and placed a bet in the game Dual-Colored Ball, just as the jackpot winner had done. Liu said he read the big news from his mobile phone and immediately drove to the lottery station, hoping to also strike it rich. The website of zhcw.com, an information portal for the China Welfare Lottery Issuing and Management Center, showed that the jackpot ticket holder spent 220 yuan to buy numbers picked randomly by a computer. Regular players of the lottery gathered at the shop, which is inside a tiny room on the first floor of a hotel in Sanlitun, for news and gossip. "It definitely depends on luck. No one can expect such a jackpot. In the past, the biggest prize was 600,000 yuan in our store," said Hou Shunxiang, a salesperson at the lottery outlet. Hou said it was too early to tell whether the jackpot will boost their business, adding that on average the store has sold about 100,000 yuan in lottery tickets every month. | 
