Fu Qiping, left, asks for information regarding PM2.5 at a monitoring station in Tengtou village, Fenghua city, in East China's Zhejiang province, Feb 26, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]
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.