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I think you should go and read through the post I linked a bit more. China has a lot of democratic input from the workers. States are representatives of classes, in the US that class is the capitalist class, but in the PRC that class is the working class. It's why the PRC regularly punishes billionaires for stepping out of line.
Further, the working class in China does control who they elect, and since change is initially pushed from the bottom, they have control over what gets passed and what doesn't. There's also a good degree of local autonomy, councils, etc.
Your example doesn't fit, because it's entirely different. The CPC are not capitalists for the economy. The USPS isn't run for Trump's personal profits, as an example. Multi-Party systems create competition politically, not cooperation and cohesion, which is why they generally don't exist in socialist countries outside of minor, supoortive countries.
It's the difference between merely formal democracy and substantive democracy.