Cork County Mayor reflects on valuable trade mission to China

Cork County Mayor, Frank O’Flynn, looks back at valuable connections made on a recent trade mission to China. He talks to Sean O’Riordan 

Cllr Frank O'Flynn, Cork County Mayor, pictured in Jiangsu with Irish and Chinese delegates.

You can’t get more rural than the Mayor of County Cork, living on the outskirts of the small the village of Glanworth (population of less than 1,000).

So, when he visited China on a ‘diplomatic mission’ to encourage more economic links between his county and the second biggest economy in the world he was ‘blown away’ by the size of the city of Nanjing which has a population of nearly 10m.