The 996 work schedule is illegal and not condoned by the party. They are working on cracking down on it
Even if they do, there is just so much power with corporations that not that much is being done.
So, are you saying the capitalists controlling these corporations are basically more powerful than the party in present-day China?
I don’t know if more, but they certainly have strategic power and the party can’t do anything it wants immediately. Maybe they even do have more power than the party, after all economic power is political power.
It is a sad state of affairs.