SAR chief executive wins support from Xi

The central government fully acknowledges the efforts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's government in handling the situation after the local legislature turned down a motion on universal suffrage to elect the region's next chief executive.

President Xi Jinping endorsed the region's government and its Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying when meeting with Leung in Manila on Wednesday, as both were in the Philippines to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation 2015 Leaders' Week and other related meetings this week.

It was Xi's first meeting with the Hong Kong chief executive after the Legislative Council voted down the motion in June.