The amendment of Hong Kong"s electoral system has come at the right time and will anchor the stability and prosperity of the city, according to scholars and experts from around the world.

The Standing Committee of the National People"s Congress, China"s top legislature, voted unanimously on Tuesday to adopt the amended Annex I and Annex II to the Basic Law of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

The first of the two annexes concerns the method of selecting the HKSAR chief executive, and the second is about the formation and voting procedures of the Hong Kong"s Legislative Council.

The amendments" approval was a step in the right direction of affirming the Hong Kong SAR as an inalienable territory of China, and at the same time ensured the principle of "one country, two systems", said Gerald Mbanda, a researcher and publisher on China-Africa cooperation.

The vote allows comprehensive political and electoral reforms that enable better governance of Hong Kong while filling gaps that were exploited by some foreign interests, he added.

"Since 1997, when Hong Kong was returned from being a British colony to where it naturally belonged, anti-China and separatist elements backed by foreign countries found their way into the governing structure of the SAR, disrupting peace and order," Mbanda said.