Actually, their traditional medicine probably preserves those wild animals because the chinese need them.

Whereas in the US, we simply exterminated most of the animals because they were considered a nuisance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bison_skull_pile_edit.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_pigeon

There are no more wolverines in the wolverine state. There are no california bears in california. And of course we almost wiped out the american bald eagle.

If china wants to catch up to the US or Europe, they had to do a lot more exterminating.