Industry

The DR Congo has several potentials to develop its industrial sector, namely:

Abundant and cheap labor;
Diversity of raw materials (wood, oil, minerals, quartz, etc.), favorable to the development of the national industrial fabric;
Global internal market of more than 90 million potential consumers, expandable at sub-regional level;
Existence of 80 million hectares of arable land conducive to the development of agro-industry;
Existence of a large market share in the various industrial sectors, etc.;

The priority industrial sectors of the DRC are:

(i) agro-industry,

(ii) building materials,

(iii) mining and metallurgy and

(iv) packaging as a support sector.