The "China Model" is another word for socialism with Chinese characteristics, but seeks to elaborate on the ideological desires of contemporary China with regards to other nations from a more abstract perspective. Put simply
The fundamental approach of the "China Model" is that China will lead by example and urge other to develop approaches suitable to their own conditions.
Roland Boer
A large factor in this ideology can be traced back to the struggle sessions between Mao and Stalin after the Jiangxi-Fujian Soviety were removed by popular vote. The desire to not have another nation's revolutionary theory applied wholesale to another developing socialist nation.