ACCRA, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- The Annual Industrial Fair and Exhibitions organized by the Association of Ghana Industries (AGI) opened here on Tuesday with Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia pledging government's commitment to ensuring the country's industrial growth.

The three-day event which saw about 100 companies mounting exhibition stands seeks to build international partnerships for value-added industrial and local content development.

"The development priority for our country is to create jobs. It is against this background that the president has articulated a very ambitious program for industrial transformation," Minister for Trade and Industries Alan Kyeremateng noted.

Learning from the experience of some of the most advanced economies in the world, the minister said the government was aware that through industrialization the potential of job creation was maximized. Enditem