Having visited China often（when doing business）, my understanding is that China has actually never been really communist.
If one looks over a period of the last 2000 to 3000 years, the communist decades were a blip on the history line, more like a correction mechanism after the Imperial system had lost its grip and power.
The underlying philosophy is that China has always been and still is a Confucian system, i.e. a technocracy. It might not be a democracy as in the West（where democracy often doesn't work because it has turned into system of greed）but they carefully replace the leaders every few years.
They have a very long term planning, actually 60 years（12 plans of 5 years）. These plans are not like the detailed Sovjet central planning but more like a business plan whereby the execution is left to a highly competitive free market.
The Chinese are also very good organisers. Look at how quickly they built their high speed train network. I have seen cases whereby a 30 km highway was refurbished over a W/E. The same would have taken 1 or 2 years in Europe.
I think that in general, running a country should be more a management/engineering job than a political one. Laywers should only help to create an ethical/moral framework. Beware if they write laws that benefit political interest groups.
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