Establishment of industrial-development zones, urban expansion and road building are all shrinking agricultural land.

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Certainly, despite its poetically lauded "dreaming spires", Oxford - with its industrial heritage of automotive production, including Morris and Mini cars - feels more urban.

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China's Shanghai Composite Index lost 0.2% after news that industrial production for April and urban fixed-asset investment for the January-to-April period didn't rise as much as expected.

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