Sun Guofang's father (right) and Li Fangdong's father (left) wait outside the operating room in a hospital in Jinan city, Shandong province on March 10, 2015. [Photo by Li Yipo/IC]
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.