[How the hell does a supposedly Communist country have a stock market?]
It’s the old imperial system dressed up in Marxist cliches. Revere the emperor is rephrased as revere Marx. Think of the Party as the hereditary aristocrats of yore, with occasional infusions of new blood just like in the old days, to co-opt up and coming men of ambition. Xi is already dictator-for-life. When he appoints his daughter, son-in-law or nephew the next leader, he’ll have established dynastic rule in all but name.