The first reserve on the China coast properly to protect migrating shorebirds and waterfowl was set up in 1975 in Hong Kong, at Mai Po, and is now run by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

• 中国沿海的第一个保护迁徙海鸟和水禽的保护区是1975年在香港建成的米埔保护区，现在由世界自然基金会管理。