Premier Li Keqiang, front center, talks with staff members and customers at a rural credit cooperative center in earthquake-hit Minxian county in Northwest China's Gansu province, on Aug 18, 2013. [Photo provided for China Daily]
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.