Leo Liu, Platform CFO, Huawei South Africa
Huawei hosted the Huawei eKit Forum as a breakaway session at Huawei South Africa Connect 2026, bringing distribution partners together under the theme Grow with Huawei eKit: Distribution Solutions & Partner Program.
The forum introduced the HUAWEI eKit 4+10+N SME Intelligence Solutions, an extensive portfolio of over 400 products built for South Africa's SME market, and reaffirmed Huawei's partner-led, installer-centric approach to distribution.
Opening the forum under the banner Driving Sustainable Growth Together, Leo Liu, Platform CFO, Huawei South Africa, set out the scale of investment behind Huawei's distribution ambitions. Huawei's research and development spending represented 21.8 percent of its total revenue.
Liu said the distribution market, alongside the NA and commercial markets, is one of the three strategic focuses for Huawei's enterprise business and serves as a core engine for Huawei to expand into mass markets and achieve rapid overall performance growth. It is a core strategy, built on trust and the belief that when our partners grow, South African businesses grow with them.
