Chinese Aviation Industry

I do wonder if or when China intends to switch to high bypass turbofans entirely for all their special mission aircraft like the US instead of current turboprops. IMO they're almost at that stage now given the various high bypass turbofans design either near or in serial production

China has been developing several turboprop engines so I think this is unlikely. The US has not developed and put into service a whole new turboprop in decades.

There was a turboshaft program for the Blackhawk/Apache which got cancelled. There is the turboshaft in the CH-53K. Even that is based on a cancelled Reagan era turboprop design of decades ago.