People carry lanterns to celebrate the coming Lantern Festival in Houpu township of Shantou city, South China's Guangdong province, March 3, 2015. The Lantern Festival falls on March 5 this year. [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.