The man, identified only as Mr Li, went alone to the lottery office in Nanning, in the southern Guangxi region, to claim his prize, the Nanning Evening News reported. He wore a bright yellow suit that covered his head in pictures of him accepting the award. “I didn’t tell my wife and child for fear they would be too complacent and not work or work hard in the future,” the man told the newspaper last week. He donated 5 million yuan to charity and said he had not decided what to do with the rest. It grosses about 171.6 million yuan after tax. The man bought the winning ticket at a shop in Litang, a city of about 120,000 people just east of the regional capital Nanning, the Nanning Evening News reported. The day after he realized he won, he drove to the biggest city to present the ticket to the lottery headquarters. “I only slept in a hotel because I was afraid to go out and lose the lottery,” he said. An earlier version of this story misstated the winning lottery coin China’s central government organizes lotteries to raise money for welfare and sports. Players in Guangxi pick six numbers on red balls and one on a blue ball. The man said his winning numbers were the ones he had been playing for years: 2, 15, 19, 26, 27, 29 and 2.
