In the 1990s, hunting was illegal in China unless it was licensed. Beijing educated youth who went to the countryside in Bayanjie Village, Bayan Township, Molidawa Daur Autonomous Banner, Inner Mongolia 40 years ago can still recall the past when black bears entered the village. With a flick of a finger, the cultivated land in Bayan Street increased sixfold, and the birch forest was almost cut down, not to mention black bears and even rabbits. The growth of population, the increase of cultivated land and the construction of towns and roads have increasingly occupied the habitats of wild animals and blocked their breeding corridors. In addition, the indiscriminate hunting caused by market demand has led to the rapid decline of wild animals in decades, and many species are on the verge of extinction. For example, the Northeast Tiger and the South China Tiger, people seem to suddenly find that they have disappeared from all parts of China, leaving only a dozen in the border area of Tumen River and Wusuli River between China and Russia. Protecting wild animals is the first reason why hunting is completely banned in China.

Even in extremely remote areas just out of primitive society, it is forbidden to hunt animals protected by the state. However, hunting habits handed down from generation to generation will not be banned in one morning.

In the past 30 years, China has established more and more nature reserves to protect different types of ecological regions and biodiversity. However, hunting and gathering are prohibited in the reserve, which conflicts with the tradition of "relying on mountains to eat mountains and relying on water to draw water", causing opposition from the communities around the reserve, and poaching and anti-poaching have become extremely complicated. The National Committee of Man and Biosphere of China Academy of Sciences has made a lot of investigations, such as Dalian Laotieshan Migratory Bird Reserve and Guizhou Libo Maolan Karst Forest Reserve. All these have caused great friction between traditional hunting culture and biodiversity protection. Therefore, the government, non-governmental organizations, scientists, protected areas and the media have done a lot of work in recent years, and have made great progress and gained successful experience, from simply cracking down on poaching to finding alternative livelihoods for the communities around the protected areas, not only reducing the pressure on wildlife resources, but also creating ways for the communities to develop their economy and live a well-off life.