Washington, Sept. 3 -- President Donald Trump has announced that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the United States on September 24 and said he anticipates "a lot of good things" from talks with the Chinese leader.

Trump shared the date on Wednesday (local time) in a discussion with executives from the US travel sector, covering topics including overseas investment, artificial intelligence and economic rivalry with China.

"By the way, we have the president of China coming on the 24th; it'll be very exciting, be great, love to have him," Trump said.

"We have a lot of good things to... with President Xi," he added, according to a proofread transcript of the meeting.

No detailed programme for Xi's visit was given in those remarks....