World media are keeping their eyes on the work report delivered Monday by China's top legislator Wu Bangguo, particularly his remarks concerning the system of the top legislative body.

Singapore's leading Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao said Wu stressed that the people's congresses oversee the work of the government, the courts and procuratorates, but this does not mean they are confrontational or create difficulties for the parties they oversee.

"A key task for the NPC is to improve supervision to ensure implementation of major policy decisions and successful accomplishment of this year's tasks for economic and social development," the newspaper quoted Wu as saying in its article.

News agencies also paid attention to Wu's report.

British Reuters said Wu told delegates at the annual National People's Congress (NPC) meeting they must maintain "the correct political orientation."

"Leadership of the Party can only be strengthened and in no way weakened," Wu said.

Wu sought to portray China's system as superior to the Western one, pointing out that even the smallest ethnic minority group had representation in parliament, Reuters reported.

"Deputies are therefore broadly representative and they do not represent a single party or group as members of Western parliaments and congresses do," Wu was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Meanwhile, the French AFP said Wu, in his speech, called on legislators to uphold the leadership of the Communist Party of China and made clear distinctions between China's political system and that of Western democracies.

It said Wu pointed out that "China's system of political parties is a system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, not a Western-style multiparty system."

In addition, the foreign press continued its close watch on China's economic stimulus measure, an 8-percent growth target, as well as its confidence in concerted efforts to tide over the current difficulties.