Senior residents participate in fishing games in Jinxia Community of Suzhou City, east China's Jiangsu Province, Oct. 12, 2021. (Photo by Hang Xingwei/Xinhua) 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the importance of implementing the national strategy to address population aging, which will ensure senior citizens enjoy happy lives in their twilight years.

Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks in an instruction on the country's work concerning its aging population, ahead of the Double Ninth Festival, China's Seniors' Day, which this year falls on Thursday.