Chinese President Hu Jintao (C), Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff (2nd R), Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (2nd L), Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh (1st L) and South African President Jacob Zuma (1st R) attend the BRICS Summit in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, April 14, 2011. [Li Xueren/Xinhua]
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – together known as the BRICS countries – met in the resort city of Sanya, Hainan Province, for their third annual summit, with South Africa taking part for the first time. The summit highlighted the importance of emerging economies in the changing international political and economic order.