The visit is President Tshisekedi's first abroad after his inauguration last month.
The Congolese leader was due to have a private meeting with his Angolan counterpart, before leaving for Kenya and later Congo Brazzaville.
One issue presidents Tshisekedi and Lourenço were likely to discuss is the Congolese migrants in Angola.
Shares borders
An estimated over 35,000 people fleeing from the central DRC's Kasai Province have reportedly been living in Angola since 2017.
The Congolese arrived mainly in Dundo, the capital of the north-eastern Luanda Norte Province.
Luanda Norte Province, located 656km north of the capital Luanda, shares borders with both DRC and Congo-Brazzaville.
DRC’s central region of Kasai experienced a spike in violence in September 2017, leaving at least 400 dead in an uprising that erupted when government forces killed a tribal chief and militia leader, Kamwina Nsapu, who had rebelled against former President Joseph Kabila.
The Kasai violence added to the DR Congo's woes, whose eastern side has been wracked by conflict since 1994, when Hutu militias fled across the border from Rwanda after carrying out a genocide against Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
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