China's top legislature has received a report from Leung Chun-ying, Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), on possible revisions of how the region's chief executive and local legislature will be elected in the future, it was announced on July 15.

Under the Basic Law of the HKSAR, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) has final say on whether to revise the election methods of the HKSAR's chief executive in 2017 and its Legislative Council in 2016, a statement from the NPC Standing Committee read.

The report from Leung is based on the results of a public consultation by the HKSAR Government from December 4 last year to May 3, the statement said.

The NPC Standing Committee will make the decision according to law, it added.

The current chief executive was elected by an election committee in 2012. Hong Kong plans to introduce universal suffrage in the election in 2017.