Chinese President Xi Jinping attends a grand welcome ceremony before talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi outside the Quba Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Jan 21, 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.