In this regard, China seems to be closer to Marx' vision of a communist society.
I predict that China will not achieve the communism that Marx had in mind neither. Why? Because I don't believe in predictions about radical changes in highly complex systems. You can make changes, but then you need to watch and see what actually happens instead of sticking with what some guy came up with in his room 150 years ago. Past performance of communism (so-called, but the only one that has ever existed) and current indicators (the autocrats like their power) are stronger predictors than what Marx wrote.
In a possible future if(!) and when AI can do all the work, we might need something like communism, or better extreme social democracy (democracy with massive redistribution), because the alternative is a an economic inequality that makes the Industrial Revolution times in the UK look like 70s Sweden.
However, it is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. Post-scarcity and automation do not guarantee a transition to communism