It may be too early to rename the CCP the Chinese Confucian Party, but this story (hat tip, CDT) certainly demonstrates how seriously the Party takes the revival of Confucianism:

The Chinese Communist Party has selected 53 "national moral models"
in its largest campaign since the foundation of the People’s Republic
of China in 1949 to improve the moral standards of its people.

The identities of the role models were announced at the Great Hall
of the People on Tuesday and they were divided into five categories:
helping another person, acting bravely for a just cause, being honest
and trustworthy, working hard and "making great contributions", and
showing filial piety and love to their parents and family members.

     The notion of exemplary moral leadership, in and of itself, is central to Confucian ethics but the inclusion of filial piety as one of the model categories really clinches the Confucian quality of the whole exercise.

      Interestingly enough, however, nowhere in the story is Confucius mentioned.  It’s not like party leaders can, or really want, to hide the Confucian connection.  Rather, they are straining the make the link to socialist ideology:

The CPC has highlighted the concept of "socialist core value system"
at the Sixth Plenum of the 16th CPC Central Committee in October last
year, to lay the "moral and ideological foundations" for social
harmony.

The Party said the value system should consist of Marxism, Socialism
with Chinese characteristics, patriotism, the spirit of reform and
innovation and the socialist sense of honor and disgrace.

 I don’t remember where Marx invokes the idea of filial piety… was it somewhere in the German Ideology, or was it the Grundrisse?

     It really is rather funny: a political party founded on an ideology that no one really believes anymore, not in China at least, creating a campaign for public morality that obviously draws on tradition but which avoids direct reference to that tradition.  Is this really a way to revive socialism?

      More seriously, I have two candidates for moral model, individuals who have certainly helped other people, acted bravely for just causes, have been  honest
and trustworthy, and have worked hard and made "great contributions:"

      Chen Guangcheng and Gao Yaojie – real moral models!