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What Marxists consider to be the state and what anarchists consider to be the state are different, because both have different analysis of class. For anarchists, all hierarchy is inherently a class based distinction, but this isn't the case for Marxists, ergo stateless society in Marxism has administration and vertical organization.
China is socialist. The commanding heights of the economy are overwhelmingly publicly owned, and the working classes control the state. It isn't a fully collectivized society yet, but it's on the road towards it.
Ultimately, you are applying criticisms more applicable to anarchism to Marxism, which isn't really a developed reasoning against communism.