Since its establishment in 1962, the company extended the contract seven times and won the monopoly business contract for 40 years. With a workforce of 6,000 and 10 gambling houses, in 1990s the company invested more than 150 billion Hong Kong dollars annually. It delivered 5.6 billion HK dollars in gambling taxes in 1997, comprising more than half of the government's tax revenues. The company has earned several hundred billion patacas of profits with several million patacas of registered capital and tens of millions of patacas in start-up funds. With numerous tangible and intangible assets, the company, the largest beneficiary of Macao's modern economy, has all but dominated the city's overall economic lifelines.
Practice proves that the gambling industry is Macao's greatest source of public finance.
The casino results in both success and failure. In recent years, public order has become worse in Macao. The reasons are cited as being an incomplete legal system, not following the law strictly. The fringe interests of the casinos are huge commissions worth nearly 5 billion patacas. Part of that amount will become bribes and funds for illicit acts.