The uneven number of 15cm / 6" guns suggest a 1x2 24cm and 1x1 15cm on the centreline layout. Though it's not impossible that a superfiring 15cm mount over single 24cm / 9,2" mounting was proposed.
 
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Well, basically it was about the 6,000 ton cruisers of IVS, but in the 11 minutes, it was said that in 1930 the Germans offered the Chinese 10,000 tons warships, 75 million Reichmarks, possibly the Deutschland export version
 
I've been recently informed (and asked to draw...) that Chang Kai-shek draw up a fleet plan for the Post War Chinese Navy:
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This file describes a list of ships including A battlecruiser with eight 16 inch guns on 31000t, 9000-10.000t cruisers with eight, nine and ten 8 inch guns respectively.
Apparently the document was from around 1945-47

I've yet to find the original source.

Problem is by 1945, 10.000tons was not enough for such armament for cruisers except if light 2-3" belt and deck armour was used and slower speed of maybe max 32knots
In 1938/39 the RN had trouble designing a 10.000ton cruiser which had adequite protection speed armament and had sufficient AA firepower, and that was before WW2:
 
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Quite possible, the overall shape is clearly similar.
Yep very similar!
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