The Associated Press reports: "The Chinese and French presidents announced Monday they have agreed that a global climate change pact should require countries to review their emissions pledges every five years, in an important signal four weeks before world leaders meet in Paris…The support of China, the world's biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is significant to any global deal to combat climate change…China has promised it will try to cap its rising emissions before 2030 as part of its national pledge ahead of the Paris conference. It has also seen a decline in coal consumption and has become a leader in renewable energy."

The Wall Street Journal reports: "China unveiled plans to develop the C919 in 2006 as part of a decades long effort to create an advanced aerospace sector capable of breaking the Airbus and Boeing duopoly. Coming after an abortive effort in the 1970s and early 1980s to develop a large commercial jetliner, the C919 was meant to help satisfy growing air-travel demand on the mainland, competing with the likes of Airbus's A320 family and Boeing's 737 series…Industry analysts nonetheless expect Comac to secure a significant chunk of China's aviation market, thanks to virtually guaranteed sales to domestic carriers amid booming demand. Boeing, for its part, projects China's commercial airplane fleet to nearly triple to more than 7,200 aircraft by 2034, including demand for some 4,630 single-aisle planes."

The New York Times reports: "The Communist Party has expelled the recent editor in chief of the official newspaper of the volatile western region of Xinjiang for openly discussing party policy and for corruption… Xinjiang is a vast region on China's western borderlands where security forces are trying to suppress violence and protests by angry and frustrated members of the Uighur ethnicity. The Uighurs are a Turkic-speaking, mostly Sunni Muslim group whose members often complain about discriminatory policies set by the Han, the dominant ethnic group in China… The official announcement about the ouster said Mr. Zhao's main violation was 'discussing the party central's policies and decisions, and openly publishing comments against party central and the Xinjiang party committee's important orders and demands.' It did not give further details on the violations."