Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan, (left), next to South Korean President Park Geun-hye, center, delivers a speech in English at the Global Education First Initiative event at the United Nations, in New York on Sept 26, 2015. [Photo/UN Sina Weibo]
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.