China never even advertize themselves as a communist country, the official speak is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristic” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics , but often being moked as another way to say “state-sponsored/authoritarian capitalism”.

In the party’s official narrative, socialism with Chinese characteristics is Marxism adapted to Chinese conditions and a product of scientific socialism. The theory stipulated that China was in the primary stage of socialism due to its relatively low level of material wealth and needed to engage in economic growth before it pursued a more egalitarian form of socialism, which in turn would lead to a communist society described in Marxist orthodoxy.[2]