Fifteen members from China's 30th Antarctic expedition team arrived at Zhongshan Station in the South Pole on Dec 3, after a 27-day journey of 13,612 km on icebreaker Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, which departed from Shanghai on Nov 7. [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.