Cork to celebrate tale of two cities with Shangai

BOTH are port cities and both are second cities. Both are home to pharmaceutical, IT and microelectronics industries. And believe it or not, the telephone code for both cities is 021.

But tomorrow, they’ll have one more thing in common when Cork signs an historic sister city twinning agreement with Asia’s economic power base, Shanghai, which has a population of 17 million.

A 140-strong delegation of political, business and education leaders from Shanghai, and Chinese Ambassador to Ireland Sha Hailin, will be in Cork for a series of events over two days to celebrate the signing.