Scientific Games (NASDAQ:SGMS) has formed a joint venture with a leading Chinese technology company, Inspur, to launch instant tickets in the Shandong Province of China. Shandong Province, among the largest and wealthiest in China, has a population of approximately 92 million and is one of the China Sports Lottery’s top performing provinces.

The joint venture will be responsible for instant ticket game design, marketing, warehousing, distribution, telemarketing, validation and retailer selection and training. Revenues to the joint venture will be paid as a percent of retail sales.

Inspur Group is one of the earliest enterprises engaged in the Information Technology (IT) industry in China, and also the largest provider of IT applications and solutions in the PRC. Inspur Group has three stock companies, “Inspur Information,” “Inspur International,” and “Inspur Software,” and many subsidiaries.

Its business covers such industries and fields as personal computers, servers, tax controlling machines, communication products, information security, software outsourcing, and other applications. Inspur is headquartered in Jinan of Shandong Province and has three marketing and service centers located in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Scientific Games Corporation is the leading integrated supplier of instant tickets, systems and services to lotteries worldwide, a leading supplier of fixed odds betting terminals and systems, Amusement and Skill with Prize betting terminals, interactive sports betting terminals and systems, and wagering systems and services to pari-mutuel operators.

It is also a licensed pari-mutuel gaming operator in Connecticut, Maine and the Netherlands and is a leading supplier of prepaid phone cards to telephone companies. Scientific Games’ customers are in the United States and more than 60 other countries. For more information about Scientific Games, please visit our web site at http://www.scientificgames.com/.