future future is an ongoing process now. Steadily encroaching on private elements (party elements in sector, heavy regulation) is a gradual process that makes it so by the time they hit near future they can have a smoother road cracking down gradually and efficiently to slice the remaining hydra heads of capital within their barriers. Capital, having consolidated the means of production in a socialist country, then finds itself irreparably weakened as China continues down the socialist road.

China is approaching the transition from state capitalism to socialism as a gradient. By the time they are in effect, "socialist", it won't feel like a major transition.