You're probably right. I know the Chinese government are control freaks. They can't stand anything getting out of their hands.
So China may go to central control of the strong sort and choke off incentive, at which time Chinese products will be junk again, like Russian manufactured goods.
From my own experience, I don't think it was play out this way. Russians never owned anything and were serfs for hundreds of years. In China, a merchant class developed, probably because of China's location. They are the Jews of Asia.