ANDREW DOWD
Gui hangs up his cellphone. An inexorable grin stretches across his face. He has just been told that he had won the lottery. Yet this was no conventional jackpot. He did not defy odds even greater than being struck by lightning. In fact, Gui is one of tens of thousands of people in China that have profited from fapiao, or a receipt lottery, which was first introduced by the government in 1998.