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

> China has more than 10,000 protected areas, covering eighteen percent of the country's land

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

> As of 2022, the 42,826 protected areas covered 1,235,486 km2 (477,024 sq mi), or 13 percent of the land area of the United States.

Can you be more specific? China has areas of protected wilderness, and you can in fact go to many of them and be in nature. What's the practical difference?

A protected area like a national park is pretty much the opposite of what op is talking about.