THIRTY contractors and two officials of the Ministry of Trade and Industry have left the country for a two-week trade and investment mission to the People’s Republic of China as part of the government’s plan to improve the capacity of local contractors.
While in China, the contractors, who are members of the Association of Road Contractors of Ghana (ASROC), and the ministry officials will hold bilateral talks with their Chinese counterparts.
Majority of the Ghanaian delegation, who were drawn from the association’s leadership nationwide, would also participate in the China Road Summit and Exhibition for 2009.
The tour is under the auspices of the Ministry of Roads and Highways and the Ministry of Trade and Industry.
The Head of Public Affairs at the Ministry of Roads and Highways, Mr M. K. Abissah, said the ASROC members would also hold meetings with the China Export-Import Bank in Beijing from May 11 to 12.
Mr Abissah noted that Ghana had positioned itself to derive the maximum benefit from the new strategic partnership of the China-Africa Forum on Co-operation for the private and public sectors of the national economy.
In February this year, he said the Ministry of Roads and Highways facilitated the meeting of ASROC executives with the Parliamentary Select Committee on Roads and Transport.
At the meeting, he said, the executive of ASROC presented a paper on some of the problems militating against the effective and efficient operations of the construction industry.
Mr Abissah said the tour to China had been designed to address some of the problems the contractors presented to the Select Committee, which included capacity building and inadequate equipment holding, which are some of the major contributory factors militating against the construction industry.
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