The South Africa International Elevator Exhibition is the largest and most influential professional exhibition for the elevator industry in southern Africa. It is held every year and is the core channel for elevator procurement, technical exchange and agency cooperation in South Africa and southern Africa. With the theme of "Innovation · Safety · Empowering African Urban Development", the 2026 exhibition is expected to break through 8,000 square meters of exhibition scale, and will attract more than 120 exhibitors from more than 15 countries and regions around the world, with more than 6,000 professional visitors, more than 90% of whom are housing and construction departments, real estate developers, engineering contractors, elevator agents and traders from southern African countries such as South Africa, Angola, Namibia, Botswana and Mozambique. This Chinese delegation is uniformly organized by the China Elevator Association. The core planning includes: first, setting up an exclusive themed exhibition area for China's elevator industry, divided into six exhibition sections: passenger elevators, goods elevators, escalators, home lifts, core components, and old elevator transformation, comprehensively displaying the whole industrial chain supply capacity of China's elevator industry, and focusing on adapting to the elevator procurement demand of urbanization construction, new city development, commercial complexes and mining projects in the South African market; second, holding the China-Southern Africa Elevator Industry Cooperation and Development Forum during the same period, inviting the Ministry of Housing and Construction of South Africa, the South Africa Elevator Association, industry institutions and large infrastructure enterprises from various southern African countries to participate, interpreting the access policy, standard requirements, SABS certification system and market opportunities of the southern African elevator market, and promoting the mutual recognition and cooperation between Chinese elevator standards and southern African national standards; third, organizing accurate one-to-one trade matching meetings to provide exclusive matching services for Chinese exhibitors and purchasers, agents and engineering contractors from various southern African countries, focusing on the elevator procurement demand in South Africa's "2024-2030 National Infrastructure Construction Plan"; fourth, setting up a special area for the release of Chinese elevator standards and technical achievements, focusing on releasing the latest national standards, international standards and technological innovation achievements of China's elevator industry, focusing on promoting high-reliability, wide voltage adaptive, easy-to-maintain elevator products adapted to the high temperature, high humidity, heavy wind sand and unstable power grid environment in Africa, and enhancing the brand influence of China's elevator industry in the African market; fifth, supporting the southern African elevator market inspection activities. After the exhibition, Chinese enterprises will be organized to carry out market inspection and industry docking in Johannesburg, Cape Town, South Africa and Luanda, Angola, to deepen the whole industrial chain cooperation between China and southern Africa in the elevator industry. South Africa is the largest emerging elevator market in southern Africa. In 2024, China's export volume of elevators and components to the southern African market increased by 31.2% year-on-year. This participation will further expand the share of Chinese elevator products in the African market and promote the in-depth integration of China's elevator industry with the African infrastructure market.