My take is that Xinhua is a government-run news agency, and they jumped the gun. Boilerplate stories of an expected event is common, even in the West. News agencies have "Team A/TeamB WINS Sporting Championship!" type stories ready to go the moment the final buzzer sounds.
I think there are some people who still just can't wrap their heads around the idea of a nation going from everybody riding bicycles to manned spaceflight in 30 years. Having spent some time there, I have no doubts that the PRC can accomplish whatever Beijing sets their minds to. If they want something built, they don't spend time with planning committees, environmental impact assessments, vendor bidding, oversight of the vendor bidding, etc. They just grab the nearest 10,000 people and say "Go build it." I stood in a cutting-edge university campus in Hanghzou that was 5,000+ acres and had a man-made river running through it. Then one of the local university admins casually mentioned that "Yeah, six months ago this was all rice paddies." Part of the reason they can do that is because they took the umpteen thousand farmers displaced from their land, turned them into construction workers, used them to build the campus, then either resettled them in farmland elsewhere, or put them in a city high-rise and left them as construction workers.
Now, I'm not saying that that's a necessarily great society to live in, or a benevolent way to treat your citizens, or even that super-fast construction is a great thing. But you have to admit that it's effective. If there's one thing autocratic governments are good at, it's directing resources towards things they really want. And they really want a manned spaceflight program.
My take is also that YouTube is full of stupid shit.