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Banning exchanges and banning use are two different things.

Financial institutions cant deal with it, no exchanges, no ICO's. They shut all the doors a while back. How do you use or own something when all legal avenues are closed unless you just do it illegally which is probably what some are doing.

Private persons could still exchange coins before. This time it is a total ban.

Here's the 2017 announcement: http://www.gov.cn/xinwen/2017-09/04/content_5222657.htm

Here's the one from 2021: http://www.safe.gov.cn/safe/2021/0924/19911.html

There are changes. E.g. the 2017 announcement doesn't mention 衍生品 (derivatives) at all, while the 2021 announcement explicitly lists trading them among the prohibited activities.

Apparently it never gets old.