Planned economy is not a defining feature of communism, nor is it exclusive to it. >governed by it's native Population It's governed by the CCP that violently suppresses all dissent. >with a public policy centered on general social welfare. I'm sure the people living in huts they just bulldoze to build highways will agree. Communism would be a classless society free from rulers. I see neither condition fulfilled. An important defining feature is ownership of the means of production by **the workers** (not the authoritarian single party government that claims to speak for them and tolerates no dissent). There literally can be no billionaire company owner under communism.