The trees in Jiangbin Park of Jilin city, Northeast China's Jilin province, is covered in ice on Dec 5, 2012. The temperature dropped to 29 degrees below zero Celsius on Wednesday. [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.