What 89 Tiananmen incident did to China is it change the political atmosphere in China.
After Tiananmen, there are alot less political movement/activities in China.
The Chinese people truly say goodbye to the political struggle era that start with the Cultural revolution.
From then on, the central theme for Chinese is political stability and economic development.
Instead of the constant jostling for political power to gain from the gov't hence collective coffer, the Chinese spend all their energy and time on generating value and wealth.
Instead of fighting for share of the cake, we make the cake bigger.
The hundreds of million of Chinese peasant in the country side support the cities industry to compete internationally.
Today, it is payback time. That's why, nobody in China would complain about spending trillion of gov't fund in poverty alleviation for the country side.
The "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" maybe too ideological in a farm collective, but it could be done at least in spirit on longer term.
China is after all, a unitary state from more than two thousand years ago. Working as a team just comes naturally.