No, no.
This is a copy of the second version of Russia’s Kirov-style aircraft-cruisers: Jump deck forward with smaller aft decks than US carrier, more deck armament.
The Russian carriers that China purchased/extorted/borrowed from also had several fires in their years of service. Lots of political back-and-forth/negotiations between Russia-China-Turkey-Ukraine for many years. Fires while in shipyard and re-construction are easy to start, hard to put out, very-very hard to recover from with many months of rework and replacement of cables, electronics, electrical, steel, and piping.
Thanks. I’ve no clue on navy ships. Article just sounds like China stole blueprints and engineering schematics. Whether from Russia or us. They’re incredibly good at spying (aka Diane Feinstein), and sometimes they have people like Bill Clinton handing them stuff. If more toward Russian maybe China actually bought the plans from one of those upstanding oligarch’s?