Top emerging economies meet to discuss forging bigger world role, Wu Jiao reports from Beijing.

Leaders of the world's five top emerging economies gather in China on Thursday to discuss improving coordination to gain a bigger say in global economic issues.

The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) will meet in the resort city of Sanya, in southern China's Hainan province, for their third annual summit, with South Africa taking part for the first time.