Former NBA basketball player Yao Ming attends the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) in the Great Hall of the People inBeijing, March 3, 2013. [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.