By harminka on 2007-12-30 
China is not keen on holding free elections in Hong Kong in 2012, but it is holding the door open to residents of the former British colony electing their own principle administrator in 2017.
At the moment a committee loyal to the Beijing government elects an official to this post. The Chinese government has decided that the city council can be elected in full in 2020.
When Great Britain handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997, the communist state agreed to introduce universal suffrage. However, an exact timetable was never set.
"Source: By Copyright Radio Netherlands 2007
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