That is an even more ridiculous claim.
This is based on actual research by experts,maybe I'll reply tommorow in length ,too tired right now.
After the death of chairman mao,the gradual development of the system and market reform interacted symbiotically with the reintegration of the Chinese political & ideological thought with its long history as a unified state, stretching back to the Qin dynasty,221-207 BC,and it's even longer philosophical history stretching back to the Zhou dynasty,11th-221 century BC,it became clear that the regime of CCP is the ancient history of Chinese bureaucracy, based on written tradition with its foundation in the examination system based on the practical application of profound
ethical application.
Meeting the interest of the mass of the population was the core philosophical principle of the bureaucratic government, same as socialist china,a key task for the bureaucracy was nurturing the market to achieve mass well-being through economic prosperity,same as cpc.
Only a small stream of Chinese history departed from the central philosophical core .
Far from crushing the market the state undertakes measures to enable the market to function more efficiently,through pragmatic and intelligent regulations.
The state use to organize huge arrays of public work,both large and small,including water conservancy and transport infrastructure, attempted to stabilize the price of key commodities necessary for mass well being,same as cpc.
Developed comprehensive famine prevention, famine alleviation schemes,and supported the spread of knowledge through encyclopedias .Under this system China led the world in market-driven innovation for two millennia same as what cpc is striving.
China's innovation in this period played a central role in Europe's rennaisance, this included aqua harness, paper and printing, advanced metallurgy through use of blast furnace, porcelain, tubular metal weapons,gun powder,compass, Stern post rudder ,watertight ship compartments,canal lock gates, even the key elements of the steam engine-double acting piston & inversion of rotaty and rectilinear motion,which was the quintessential innovations for the British industrial revolution,were developed independently in China,and found their way from china along the silk road.
Chinese intelligencia formed the core of the bureaucratic system for 2k years ,working within the bureacrating system ,and it was perfectly workable even with severe criticism of the system operated but was never ever targeted for the overthrow of the system itself,
In chinese long history before industrialization of the west,chinese bureaucracy nurtured and supported the market economy through undertaking few function with understanding that the market was not allowed to dominate the economy and society,it was always subject to regulation,by the
ethically guided bureaucratic state.
It's easy to see how CPC retained the ancient chinese bureaucracy ,only the CPC is the true embodiment of ancient chinese bureaucracy style,the western liberal democracy has no similarity to that..
gov mentality is sometimes stuck in the days of empire. When they first started this scheme UK gov was expecting upto 3 million hk people mostly middle class and millionaires. 
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