A staff member responds to customers' online questions at the headquarters of a Tmall online shop in Guangzhou, capital of South China's Guangdong province, Nov 5, 2013, ahead of the "Singles' Day" shopping promotion on Nov 11. [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.