Wang Jiarui, right, gives María Dolores de Cospedal a gift of silk scarves after the meeting in Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, April 23, 2013. [Photo by Xu Jingxing/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.