Bitcoin cannot be used in their country if they are going to banned it, but for sure this is going to affect a lot of businesses and companies in China also their economy since bitcoin has a big impact on China's economy.
It's impossible to ban Bitcoin to a point where people can't use it anymore. All they can do explore legal routes most people and businesses will abide by, but in the background there will always be use of Bitcoin.
I don't even know what to believe anymore from all the China articles I read---they are either manipulated on purpose or they are poorly translated where people are presented a false sense of reality, which really really sucks.
I stopped paying attention to China for the most part. It's a huge country but I don't have any understanding of that market nor the contacts that do. In other words, take everything you read with a grain of salt.