Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji's government work report delivered at the Third Session of the Ninth National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing Sunday was commended by Hong kong's mass media Monday as being "frank, practical and realistic."

The Chinese language newspaper Ta Kung Pao Monday said in its editorial titled "A practical, realistic government work report" that in the premier's government work report, "there is more practical analyses and figure quotes, and less visionary aged slogans," while touching more and more on the expectations and wishes of the ordinary people.

Premier Zhu Rongji delivered another frank assessment of the country's situation in his third government work report to the Ninth National People's Congress, said South China Morning Post in its an editorial Monday.

The English language newspaper said what made the deepest impression on delegates was probably the admission about anti- corruption in the report. "There could be no illusion that the premier was not serious about the fight against graft," the editorial said.

In a feature about Zhu's report, another Chinese language newspaper Wen Wei Po said the report is realistic and there is no lack of fresh suggestions for work for this year and for the new millennium.

The feature said that the report for the first time did not mention the country's GDP growth rate, and for the first time the government work report sticked out the establishment of a social security system and for the first time in the recent ten years the government work report criticized Lee Teng-hui by name and placed on a par Lee's "two states" statement and "Taiwan's independence." Hong Kong Commercial Daily said in an editorial that the premier's report was permeated with a realistic and enterprising spirit from the beginning to the end. It said that more than one third of the report expounds sticking to the policies on enlarging "domestic demands," restructuring the economic stratagem, keeping on reforming and strengthening management.

Meanwhile, three Hong Kong televisions Sunday broadcast alive the NPC opening ceremony and Zhu's delivering of the report.