Didn't the government mandate them to stop buying foreign chips in the next couple of years? I suspect they are comparing to previous Chinese designs, which were pretty terrible.
Interesting progress and I guess its a start for domestic chips, but like @stairmand said, if its compared to previous indigenous designs, that's still pretty terrible. If it's against recent or even something one or two gens ago from Intel/Nvidia/AMD, it would be actually quite a decent design.