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BEIJING, Aug. 12-- "A spring breeze blew into Sijiqing." This is how seniors at the Beijing-based nursing home recalled a visit in 2013 by President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission. During the visit to the Sijiqing Home for the Elderly, Xi chatted with senior citizens, asked them about their health, families and lives. Xi stressed the need to improve the management and service quality of elderly care institutions to ensure that every senior citizen can live a carefree, healthy, comfortable and happy life. More than five years on, Liu Jinwen, a member of the elderly fashion models team at Sijiqing, said the visit had a great impact on them. "Senior citizens should maintain a positive outlook on life and spend their old age gracefully," Liu said. "To that end, we set up the models team to make our lives more 'beautiful!'" Liu is just one of the growing number of happy seniors in China. Under Xi's leadership, the country has over the past few years formulated a series of measures to boost elderly care and witnessed a marked improvement of the lives of the senior citizens. BETTER NURSING HOMES The services at nursing homes are related to the happiness of more than 200 million old people in China, especially the 40 million of them who have lost the ability in full or in part to take care of themselves. | 
