(VOVworld)- Hong Kong’s government revealed a constitutional reform package Wednesday designed for election of the Special Administrative Region (SAR)'s next top leader by universal suffrage in 2017, according to China’s Xinhua news agency.

Chief Secretary Carrie Lam announced the "one person, one vote" chief executive election package in front of all lawmakers at the SAR's Legislative Council.

Candidates for the next chief executive election will be picked by a 1,200- member nominating committee which will be from four sectors consisting of 38 sub-sectors similar to the committee that elected the current Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying in 2012.

Carrie Lam called the first universal suffrage election in Hong Kong’s history a major step in the development of Hong Kong’s constitution.