A handmade carpet by the Linxia Xingqiang Carpet Co Ltd, three meters long by two meters wide, costs around 20,000 yuan. [Photo by Yan Weijue/chinadaily.com.cn]
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.