The CCP returning to Chinese cultural roots?

I just read an article on the online East Asia Forum online. The tile is "The CCP returns to Chinese cultural roots" The author is Yingjie Guo, from the University of Sydney. Here are the main ideas:

1. One of the reasons China's CCP is having a challenge forming a relationship with the US may lie partly to the fact that the CCP is moving away from its Marxist ideology to cultural identity formation.

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2. Unlike the past, the only political party of China, the CCP or Chinese Communist Party has turned its focus from class struggles to cultural identity formation. This can be seen from the following events noted by Yinggie Guo:

 In November 2013, he visited Qufu — the birthplace of Confucius — and the following year attended an official commemoration of the sage’s birthday. During the same period, the Ministry of Education released a set of guidelines on teaching traditional Chinese culture in educational institutions. Party officials are now required to attend ‘study sessions’ at Party Schools and State Administration Colleges. More recently, Xi has added ‘cultural confidence’ to the ‘three confidences’ that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wishes to boost, which include ‘ideological confidence’, ‘confidence in the [socialist] road’, and ‘confidence in the [socialist] system’.

One can only notice the proliferation of the Confucius institutes around the world (http://english.hanban.org/)