China is absolutely not an autocracy. Here are a few resources on how the system actually works in China, and if you think that's an autocracy then you really have no clue what autocracy is.

• https://news.cgtn.com/event/2019/whorunschina/index.html
• https://news.cgtn.com/event/2021/who-runs-the-cpc/index.html

Here's how elections work in China https://nitter.net/thinking_panda/status/1305784641262026752

Turns out, people actually living in China see their system as a democracy, pretty sure they have a better idea of what their system is than you do

• https://web.archive.org/web/20230511041927/https://6389062.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6389062/Canva%20images/Democracy%20Perception%20Index%202023.pdf
• https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-06-26/which-nations-are-democracies-some-citizens-might-disagree
• https://web.archive.org/web/20201229132410/https://en.news-front.info/2020/06/27/studies-have-shown-that-china-is-more-democratic-than-the-united-states-russia-is-nearby-and-ukraine-is-at-the-bottom/

In fact, far more people in China see their system as being democratic than in any western nation.

A Harvard study also shows that the government has mass popular support from the public, another phenomenon we don't see in any western nation calling itself a democracy https://ash.harvard.edu/publications/understanding-ccp-resilience-surveying-chinese-public-opinion-through-time

Maybe learn how Chinese political system actually works in China instead of just regurgitating misinformation you've been spoon fed by western propagandists?