The DRC officially launches the construction of the Sino-Congolese industrial city, first phase of a project to develop $50 billion. The collaboration agreement was signed on 23 October 2025 between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Sino-Congo Special Economic Development Zone (SCSZ), during a ceremony chaired by Prime Minister Judith Suminwa.

The Congolese government and a consortium of Chinese companies have taken a decisive step in achieving of the Sino-Congolese Industrial City project. Located in Maluku, the resort will extend over 7,500 hectares and will host eight industrial parks, a district commercial and a working-class neighborhood. An emblematic project of economic diversification that the country hopes to complete by 2030. This Agreement marks the official launch of a project presented as one of the most structuring the program to extend the city of Kinshasa. La Cité industrial is part of an urban and economic project more vast, estimated at $50 billion, which aims to build a new city on 43,000 hectares in the town of Maluku, east of the capital.

The Industrial City is part of a larger urban and economic project, estimated at $50 billion, which aims to build a new city on 43,000 hectares in the town of Maluku, east of the capital. Located about sixty kilometers from the city center, the site has direct access to the Congo River and major roads of the region. It should make it possible to alleviate the demographic pressure of Kinshasa, while creating an integrated industrial and commercial hub. A first phase of 12 billion dollars on 7,500 hectares Initially Estimated at 8 billion dollars, the cost of the Industrial City has been revalued to 12 billion. This sum concerns the first phase of the project, which will extend on 7,500 hectares.

The authorities have not yet detailed the outlines later phases, but they say that this first step will pose the foundations of a vast industrial, logistical and residential complex. The development of the area, classified as a Special Economic Zone (SEZ), will offer a preferential tax and customs regime designed to attract investors foreign and local.