It is true- the CCP know that without consistent economic growth and the belief in an ever brighter future they are at real risk of removal. The Mandate of Heaven is perhaps a more efficacious form of governmental incentive that liberal western democracies increasingly farcical 'elections'. In the wests democratic theatrics the corporate sponsors are almost always in charge of which ever political party is nominally elected into power. In China the government still directs capital. In the west capital, has for decades, directed your government.