China does a lot of social experiments, including the current Social Credits scheme in Beijing and Shanghai. China experiments with democracy in some cities, with neo-Maoism-collectivism in others, like Chongqing, and with a variety of forms of new social engineering, including rampant capitalism in Hong Kong and here and there. It's a big culture/society and so does massive billion people trials over many years. Of all the people in the world, China studies the Chinese most. At the same time, it has more higher educated and well informed economic analysts of, say, Australian and UK economics than either the UK or Australia have, or could ever have. China studies urban pacification as well. I recall during the 2012 riots in Bangkok, the first-on-the-group foreigners were plane-loads of Chinese tactical analysts, studying the impact of the rebellion, and analysing everything the combatants did. The Chinese invest in Knowledge of other people, as well as themselves. They are a new and old and remarkable and unique human civilisation. One would find most Chinese to be a bit dubious about social experiments like Western democracy when the last really big 'social experiment' most recall and remain damaged by, is the horror of the Cultural Revolution. I guess the Chinese Nation could fall apart, and this is about as likely as Hawaii gaining independence from the USA...or Tibet gaining independence from China, or Canberra in Australia becoming the property of the local indigenous folk...all these things could happen, yeah, but none of them ever will happen.