"It is a report facing problems squarely," a netizen wrote on the China Central Television (CCTV) website on Thursday.

Premier Wen Jiabao's government work report was delivered at the First Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC). Now it is receiving comments from more than 200 million Chinese netizens.

Thousands of messages were posted on forums of portal websites soon after the report was issued.

The CCTV website held an online survey called "voting when watching TV". It found that about 48 percent of netizens considered that the most significant progress of the government in the last five years was that the agricultural tax was rescinded, ending the centuries-old practice of farmers paying taxes.

The second was that free compulsory education was made available to all rural students, while the third was that living standards improved markedly. These two aspects of improvement got 25 percent and 11 percent of the votes, respectively.

About 2 percent of the votes each went to two other aspects. One was the progress in efforts to make China more innovative. The other was the major progress made in the reform of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), the financial system, fiscal and taxation systems, the system of foreign trade and economic cooperation, and the administrative system.

The votes were supported by numerous messages. Netizens regarded the progress on the people's livelihood in the report as the most encouraging achievement. They also believed that the government clearly knew the problems and challenges ahead.