> I honestly believe that even the CCP highest party members want to see the improvement of the Chinese people's lives, it would be completely irrational to believe otherwise...

It's completely rational to, especially now, when Chinese analogue of bolsheviks are now in power in the party.

USSR's elites lived in the most obscene luxuries, and the CPC has beaten that few times over.

Their raison d'etre was to get more of that.