More than one million people have visited Hong Kong Disneyland since its opening two months ago, according to the company.

Attendance of the park was ramping up well, and they were on track to achieving their long-term attendance goals, local radio station RTHK Thursday quoted the park's management as saying.

"Since the beginning of our soft opening, while we were not open every day to the public, Hong Kong Disneyland has welcomed and entertained well over one million guests," said a statement issued by the company.

It's the first time that the company has released its attendance number since the Hong Kong Disneyland started operationon Sept. 12.

The announcement was deemed as a move to dismiss local reports that number of visitors to Hong Kong Disneyland was far less than the park's reception capability.

A few days early, South China Morning Post reported a counting conducted by its staff showed that visitors to Hong Kong Disneyland fell half below its 30,000 daily capacity.

The company's recent decision to discount ticket by 50 HK dollars (about 6.5 US dollars) was also interpreted by some as a sign of visitors lower than target.

Despite of reports, Hong Kong Disneyland was confident about prospect of this year, predicting 5.6 million visitors of the first year of operation.

(Xinhua New Agency November 25, 2005)