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It is through control in the Public Sector that there is Socialist control. Socialism, in the Marxist sense, is not simply "workplace democracy." There is democratic control of the government in China, but in a very different model from, say, Western Capitalist economies.
As for how the Democratic model of China is run, your description isn't really accurate. Grassroots elections are held without the CPC's approval, as a quick example ( more on that here ). It also makes sense that CPC members broadly popular within the CPC will have more important positions within it, not sure why you are trying to portray that as a negative thing.
As for how the Chinese people themselves see their system, they broadly approve of it. Well over 90% of Chinese citizens approve of their system. Most believe their input legitimately has an impact on the system at large, unlike in countries such as the US.
I understand that a University course within a geopolitical adversary of China, and a business degree no doubt, would likely highlight the lack of decision-making power of businesses within China's economy, especially Western businesses. Quite right, though, that's the purpose of a Socialist government, to make business subservient to the public and gradually appropriate Capital into the public sphere of influence with the degree to which it has developed. This is the Marxian understanding of the utility of markets within a Socialist economy in a nutshell, nationalize the large and key industries that can be easily publicly planned, and let small ownership and cooperatives flourish and grow to the level at which they can be folded in.
I have given sources on the structure of the democratic makeup of China, and your counters are "it isn't because I said it isn't." You can read pretty easily about how China is structured and why, or why it is democratic in the first place.
Further, you outright ignored the key findings from my linked survey:
Your argument, essentially, is that 1.4 billion people are simply brainwashed into acceptance, which is just chauvanism. On the contrary, studies and analysis directly show that Chinese citizens approve of their system because it has dramatically improved their material conditions. Yet, you say I am the one drinking the Kool-Aid for having done the effort of reading the studies?
Forgive me for trusting the data and statistics freely available, and the conclusions of those who took them, over anecdotes from a (presumably) Canadian trained in standard Western Economics.