It would be surprising if there were not profound differences over one of the biggest issues China faces: how to adapt the political system, organised along Leninist lines and designed for a monolithic commandeconomy, to suit modern China, with a booming private sector and fast-growing middle class.
Interestingly, in the final years of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev launched a charm offensive aimed at Western investors in the hope of keeping a failing communist system on Western life-support until the Kremlin could construct a more viable economic system (one such gambit was the oxymoronic "command market" economy).