What's the point? Other than Beidou and military satellites, the rest of space has no strategic need. Space is completely exposed. Anything you put into orbit can be tracked and destroyed with ease. So, you cannot put anything valuable that is actually useful in a Superpower war.
In a true superpower war between US and China, all the satellites will be destroyed as a first priority. Then we are back to old ways of fighting without GPS and without constant sat surveillence.
Elon Musk's starlink: How is it useful when fiber optic cable internet exists all over the world. its another pointless technology to be honest. And if you are going to bring war time uses of Starlink, they won't survive in a superpower war. So, only potential use of Star link is in a proxy war like Ukraine.
Reusable space technology is nice to have but not strategic.
China's space program is one of the lowest budget items in China's govt spending. They probably use 2-3 billion dollars per year on this. China focuses more on infrastracture on the ground. Things like roads, rails, computer chip fabs and so on.
BTW, if we are counting numbers. China has 260+ military satellites according to IISS, more than US.
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