Du Jingchen(R), deputy commander of the Navy of the People's Liberation Army of China and Alexander Fedotenkov, deputy commander of the Russian Navy attend a joint press conference in Novorossiysk, Russia, on May 21, 2015. [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.