Xi inspects elderly care service community in Beijing

Chinese President Xi Jinping visited an elderly care service community in Beijing's Xicheng District on Tuesday.

Xi visited a community canteen for seniors to learn about the meal services provided there.

He also visited an apartment complex for seniors, where he spent time with the elderly, wishing them health, longevity and a happy Spring Festival.

The senior care service community, located in Beicaochang Hutong, has been renovated to be barrier-free and age-friendly for the seniors, providing them with diverse services including canteen, health care, as well as leisure and cultural activities.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged Beijing to advance its economic and social development to strive to serve as an exemplary model for the entire country in achieving socialist modernization.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited primary-level officials and residents in Beijing during an inspection tour from Monday to Tuesday, prior to the Spring Festival.

During the trip, Xi heard a work report by Beijing municipal authorities and gave his approval for the city's progress across the board.

Describing the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030) as key in China's efforts to basically realize socialist modernization, Xi said Beijing must take the lead and make sure "decisive progress" is achieved.

He asked the Chinese capital to seize the opportunity of enlarging the Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region) international sci-tech innovation center to strengthen its innovation coordination and industrial cooperation with Tianjin and Hebei.

It is essential to integrate the development of education, science, technology, and talent, strengthen the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation with industrial innovation, and vigorously develop new quality productive forces, he said.

Xi also asked Beijing to actively develop the modern services sector and move further to comprehensively deepen reform and expand institutional opening up, in a bid to create experience that can be applied elsewhere across the nation.

Xi said that as Beijing strives to build a world-class city that is harmonious and desirable to live in, it must advance urban governance with the highest standards.

This includes strengthening disaster and emergency response capabilities, improving the public service system, promoting green and low-carbon lifestyle, and leveraging technological empowerment to make urban governance more efficient and refined, Xi said.

Xi demanded efforts to further exercise full and rigorous Party self-governance by adopting higher standards and more concrete measures. He also demanded that officials further enhance their ability to advance modernization.