Xi urges joint efforts on climate change

China aims for successful Paris summit, president tells Hollande

China and France have agreed that a global climate change pact should require countries to increase their emission cuts every five years, according to a joint declaration issued on Monday.

China firmly supports France in hosting the United Nations Conference on Climate Change, beginning late this month in Paris, and it hopes that the summit will get overall and balanced results, President Xi Jinping said while meeting with visiting French President Francois Hollande.