Liu Hao, a junior high student in Changsha city, Central China's Hunan province, shows his national patent-winning invention, a stampede-proof staircase, on Nov 29, 2012. [Photo/asianewsphoto]
An unusually heavy downpour hit Durban for two days before the BRICS summit's debut on African soil, but interest for a better platform for emerging markets were still sparked at the summit.