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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 1600 GMT, Aug. 20

Xinhua, August 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

Kenya and China have vowed to strengthen bilateral ties as well as reinforce cooperation in the area of public health systems and policies to ensure health safety.

Kenya's health ministry said such collaboration will help the two countries achieve the universal health coverage and health security. (Kenya-China-Public health)

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ULAN BATOR -- An annual China-Mongolia press forum that is now in its seventh year has helped the people of the two countries better know each other, giving a boost to the bilateral relations.

Chinese and Mongolian media representatives gathered on Saturday in the Chinggis City, capital of Mongolia's Khentii province, for the forum with the theme of "deepening media cooperation and creating a bright future." (Mongolia-China-Media forum)

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NEW DELHI -- On the southern bank of river Ganga in Patna, capital of the eastern Indian state Bihar, an industrial park has recently received a Chinese business delegation looking for investment opportunities.

The industrial park is the largest in Bihar, a populous Indian state with a rich Buddhist heritage and a long history as a center for power and culture. (India-China-G20)

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AUCKLAND, New Zealand --Cao Wenxuan, one of China's most popular authors of children's fictions, received the Hans Christian Andersen Award here on Saturday, becoming the first Chinese writer for the most distinguished international honor for children's literature.

Cao shared the prize, handed out every other year, with German illustrator Rotraut Susanne Berner who was absent from the grand prize-giving ceremony was attended by some 300 readers, publishers and members of the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY). (New Zealand-Chinese writer-Andersen Award)

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ISTANBUL -- Turkey has been joining efforts to make the G20 summit a success, which is slated for early September in Hangzhou, China, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday.

Turkey, host of the last G20 summit last year, has been working hard under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek to make the Hangzhou summit a success, said Yildirim in meeting with the foreign press in Istanbul. (Turkey-China-G20) Endi