Tea experts appraise tea at a tea contest held in Xiamen, southeast China's Fujian province, Dec 20, 2014. Over 1,000 kinds of tea attended the contest in Xiamen on Saturday. [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.