Shan Jixiang, curator of the Palace Museum, delivers a speech on the Royal Caribbean's cruise ship Ovation of the Seas during a cultural activity in North China's Tianjin Municipality, June 26, 2016. [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.