Infrastructure is one of the priorities of the Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Considerable efforts are being made to rehabilitate and modernize the country’s basic infrastructure to consolidate the country’s economic integration.

The DRC has several assets in the infrastructure sector, including the following:

• National road network: 152,400 km of which + 2% are paved
• Roads of general interest: 58,125 km, of which +19.5% are in good condition.
• Railways: 5.033 Km, of which +95% is to be modernized or rehabilitated
• Sea, river, and lake waterways: 16,238 km to be marked, dredged, and exploited for the most part
• Runways: 500, of which 101 are open to public traffic and 4 to international traffic (Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Kisangani, and Goma), most of which require rehabilitation and modernization.

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;
• The global internal market of more than 90 million potential consumers, expandable at the 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.;

Source: ANAPI, 2021.