Xi encourages BRICS countries

'Let your voices be heard', president tells ministers from emerging nations

The BRICS countries should push forward with international order to develop in a more fair and reasonable direction, President Xi Jinping said on Monday, while also calling for joint efforts to create a new golden decade for the BRICS bloc.

The BRICS members - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - each face similar tasks of maintaining stability of development, Xi said while meeting with the emerging nations' foreign ministers in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.