A worker adds boiling water to tea leaves preparing for the 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.