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THIS IS AMERICA - Hong Kong Gets a Disneyland Park The Walt Disney Company opened its first amusement park in the United States fifty years ago. In September, it opened a similar park in Hong Kong. Today we tell about the company and its creator. (MUSIC) VOICE ONE: The weather was hot. But the heat did not prevent thousands of people from visiting the new Hong Kong Disneyland. They came to try the rides, the shows and all the other things to do at the newest theme park of the Walt Disney Company. Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang, left, Walt Disney Company CEO Michael Eisner, third from left, Chinas Vice President Zeng Qinghong, third from right, and Walt Disney Company CEO-elect Bob Iger, right, pose with Mickey and Minnie Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong and Disney officials held the opening ceremonies. The park is the eleventh that the Disney company has built in the United States and overseas since nineteen fifty-five. The Hong Kong park cost about three and one-half thousand million dollars. Disney characters like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Cinderella paraded at the event. And the park has traditional Disney park rides like the Mad Hatter Tea Cups, Dumbo and Space Mountain. But there was also a good measure of local culture. The Hong Kong Childrens Choir sang. Dancers representing lions and dragons appeared. Fireworks lit the sky. Soon after the opening, Disney official George Mitchell said the company plans to build a second park next to the new one. Visitors watch a giant Mickey Mouse on parade after the grand opening of Hong Kong Disneyland on Monday, Sept. 12. VOICE TWO: Hong Kong Disneyland is the second Disney theme park in Asia. Tokyo got the first one in nineteen eighty-three. There is also Disneyland Park in Paris. Disneyland in Anaheim, California, came first, fifty years ago. Visitors to the new Hong Kong park see a Sleeping Beauty Castle building copied after the one in Disneyland in Anaheim. The Walt Disney Company controls