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BRICS trade ministers to meet ahead of summit

Trade ministers from the five BRICS countries will meet in Shanghai on Tuesday and Wednesday ahead of next month's leaders' summit in Xiamen, Fujian province. China is expected to further open its market for imports from Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa, and spearhead an anti-protectionism campaign. In the past six months, China's imports from the four countries jumped 33 percent year-on-year.