The Hong Kong Wetland Park (HKWP) Project, located at the southern edge of the Mai Po Inner Deep Bay Ramsar Site, is a millennium capital works project designated by the Government of HKSAR. It upgrades a 61-hectare ecological mitigation area to a world class conservation, education and tourism facility. The project is staged in two phases. The Phase 1 of HKWP was opened to the public in December 2000, serving as an early venue for publicity of the HKWP project and promotion on wetland conservation. Phase 2 of HKWP, comprising a 10 000 square-metre Visitor Centre and a 60-hectare Wetland Reserve, is a new eco-tourism initiative to showcase the functions and values of wetlands. Phase 2 is under construction and the entire project will be completed in late 2005 or early 2006.