It is all rather odd. China still has capital controls, so it is strange that the regime would endorse something that allows those controls to be evaded.
I thought the same. Why tell the people about an decentralized money that would allow economic freedom, unless its a trap?
Maybe they will open up a state monitored exchange? It will act as a fish net, and show who doesnt 100% believe in the state economy.
Or China understands that it could become the greatest super power ever. With a huge labor force and control of a lot of resources, they have few bottlenecks. Their leader is intelligent enough to understand that communism fails. What if they love Bitcoin? They believe it the end all be all. A truly transparent economic system that would allow their country to reach its full potential.