When the political power is not widely distributed, you can take care of the elites without hurting the economy.
If the top 100,000 power players and their families are shielded from the fallout, how much will that cost? Few $100 billions or so?
Meaning, that usually internal struggles will prevent the participants to be so generous, cool headed and foreward thinking.
Sure, the Politburo / Central Committee is small, but they still represent hundreds of millions of people, many different regions, cities, to a degree even many ethnic groups.
Usually shielding the elites does not show up as a goal, and differing circumstances of those can easily lead to serious opposition against the generally useful solutions.
We shall see how the current regime handles whatever history throws at them.
The only elite safe is xinjingping. Because he is the dictator