HK democracy project on right track

Some college students in Hong Kong started a week-long class boycott from Sept 22 in "protest" against the reform plan for the 2017 chief executive (CE) election. It seems the "protesters", in their misplaced pursuit of "democracy and true freedom", have failed to realize that the reform plan is best suited to democracy in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

They should be aware that the central authorities' basic policies toward Hong Kong have not changed and will not change, just as the Chinese top leader Xi Jinping reiterated on Monday. He said the central authorities will firmly support Hong Kong to promote democracy in line with the law.

The National People's Congress Standing Committee has announced that, starting from 2017, the CE for Hong Kong would be elected through universal suffrage and the election could be contested by two to three candidates, each of whom have to get more than half of the Nominating Committee's votes.