How much does modern China care about ancient Chinese history now? It seems the Communists have cut them off from the ancient philosophy (which overwhelmingly rejected anything like modern communism), and so they are shallow. This could work to good as well as ill for the advent of a newer philosophy.
Well, Confucius was a statist on a grand scale - so they like him enough to start re-introducing his teachings. Lao Tzu and Taoism on the other hand, that kind of free thinking and ridicule of authority they don't really care for. :)