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Xinhua China-related world news summary at 0900 GMT, Aug. 21

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Chinese President Xi Jinping's forthcoming meeting with his U.S. counterpart Barack Obama is expected to enhance mutual trust, widen win-win cooperation and deliver guidance for management on differences between China and the United States.

"The upcoming meeting between the two heads of state, just as every strategic talk they have held in recent years, will produce very positive and important influence on China-U.S. bilateral relations," Cui Tiankai, Chinese ambassador to the United States, said in a joint interview with Chinese-language news media here on Saturday. (US-Chinese Ambassador-Interview)

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LOS ANGELES -- Hao Jingfang, author of Folding Beijing, became the second Chinese writer to take home a Hugo Award when she won a Best Novelette award on Saturday at the 74th World Science Fiction Convention in the United States.

"I hope the real future will be brighter than my story," the post-80s writer, who graduated from Qinghua University's Department of Physics in 2006, said at the 2016 Hugo Awards Ceremony held in Kansas City Convention Center. (US-Hugo Award-Chinese)

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MANILA -- Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte thanked China on Sunday for offering help in his administration's campaign against drugs.

At a news conference in Davao City early Sunday, Duterte said that "there are countries offering to help," but China was "the first country to offer actually." (Philippines-China-Help)

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NAIROBI -- Chinese firm, China Wu Yi's Building Industrialization Research, Development and Production Base and Supermarket project will help Kenya achieve its industrial goals, a senior government official said on Saturday.

Cabinet Secretary in the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives Adan Mohamed said that when the 101 million U.S. dollar investment is completed, it will revolutionize the construction sector. (Kenya-China-Industrialization)

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SYDNEY -- China's technology hub Silicon Dragon is slowly becoming a force to be reckoned with as some of its tech companies are delivering revenue growth that could give Google and Facebook a run for its money, a columnist said.

Fairfax Media columnist Michael Smith said on Saturday the hub based in Shenzhen near Hong Kong was its version of Silicon Valley, adding that Australia was "dinosaurs in comparison" to the Chinese progress in technology. (China-Australia-High Tech) Endi