It occupies a wide range of habitats including grassland, forest edges, and areas with mixed coniferous and broadleaf woodland.

The IUCN Red List states that it is found in valleys and lowlands but not in highland regions or cultivated fields.

[2] The Mammals of China disagrees, stating that suitable habitats include montane and sub-alpine terrain, steppe, shrublands, cultivated land, villages and city parks.

Like other hedgehogs, this is a nocturnal species, emerging at night to forage for small arthropods, especially fly larvae, and earthworms, centipedes, snails, mice, frogs and occasionally fruit.

There are one or two litters in the summer, each consisting of four to six young, and in about October, the hedgehog enters a state of torpor and hibernates until spring.