There are so many useful ways to let people flourish by following their passions.
You know that’s sort of the opposite of how China operates, right? I mean, to be fair they have 1.4 BILLION people and a very centrally-planned authoritarian government that doesn’t have much flexibility. When the Chinese government is doing their planning they’ll often designate entire regions of the country like, “these folks will be textile workers” or “these folks will be farmers”. The last thing they want is for any large number of people to “follow their passions” because it would completely screw up their plans!
I’m sure they expect–and hope–some useful deviants emerge from their centrally-planned education and economy but I’m positive they’d prefer it if at least 99.9% of the population just falls in line.