Officer Liutang, who has been stationed on the Nansha and Xisha Islands for 20 years in his 32 years'military career, directs a training task for the navy soldiers in Sansha, South China's Hainan province, on May 24, 2013. [Photo /Xinhua]
Sentries patrol along the sovereign stone tablet on Shidao Island, one of the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, on May 24, 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.