A shopper uses a self-service scale in China's first hi-tech "future supermarket" in Hefei, capital city of East China's Anhui province, on Dec 10, 2012. [Photo by Shen Guo/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.