Xu Liang, representing Jiangsu, practices during a break in a shuttlecock contest at the 7th National Peasant Games in Nanyang, Central China's Henan province, on Sept 19, 2012. [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.