Half of Legco's 60 seats are currently returned by "functional constituencies" in which certain professions and industries select their own legislators.
The rest will continue to be elected by what are called functional constituencies, in which each seat represents a particular business, industry or profession like banking, insurance or law.
And in both countries there are other constituencies which feel horrified by those gestures.
The real challenge is satisfying those two constituencies, which want very different things.
The changes would also create constituencies which have electorates between 72,810 and 80,473.
The GHMC area contains 24 State Legislative Assembly constituencies, which form five constituencies of the Lok Sabha (the lower house of the Parliament of India).
The complex system that was devised allowed some direct elections and some indirect ones, via a carefully selected "election committee" (the mechanism also used to choose the chief executive), and some "functional constituencies", the majority of which would do what China told them.
Their votes, added to those of the handful of directly elected pro-government legislators, ensure that on most issues the government and its backers in Beijing get their way.Pro-democracy politicians demand that functional constituencies be scrapped by 2020, which is when China has promised "universal suffrage" for Legco elections.
30 seats from functional constituencies are directly elected by a smaller electorate, which consists of corporate bodies and persons from various stipulated functional sectors.
A Byzantine process, in which most members of the election committee are chosen by sectoral interests ("functional constituencies"), ensures that the committee has a majority ready to toe the line.
