World Bank Loaned Sichuan Chongqing Cooperation: Guang'an Demonstration Area Infrastructure Development Project (Intermediate Adjustment) Updated Resettlement Action Plan Guang’an City World Bank Project Management Office November, 2019 Statement of Updated Resettlement Action Plan In October 2019, in order to plan and build a good Linshui Vocational Middle School, the organization of the World Bank Project Office of the Linshui County proposed to adjust the original red line of the original Vocation Middle School plan, and the content of the adjustment was moved to the north side of the whole site and canceled the original planned road on the north side. The main reasons for the change in project location are as follows: 1) The new scheme preserves the original ecological mountain on the north side of the Shiba River, ensuring the continuity of the planned green belt on the south side of the job. 2) The new program reduces the number of land acquisitions and the number of affected households. The original planned land acquisition area is 70 mu, and the new plan land acquisition and using area is 66.53 mu including new land acquisition area 14.52mu and using 52.01mu land which had been acquired. The new plan land acquisition aear is reduced by 3.47 mu than the original plan. The original planned land acquisition affected 134 households with 406 persons, and the updated plan land acquisition will affect 66 households with 225 persons (including new land acquisition affected 37 households and 129 persons; already land acquisition affected 29 households and 96 persons). The updated plan has reduced the land acquisition impact of 68 households with 181 people. Please refer appendix I for the due diligence report for resettlement of the already land acquisition. 3) The new plan will greatly reduce the number of affected households and the number of demolition area. Since the adjustment of the newly acquired land area without house demolition, the adjusted households with the original resettlement plan reduced the number of from 62 households 187 persons to 24 households with 87 persons, and reduced the number of demolished 38 households with 100 persons. The demolition area has a reduction of 22,900 m2 of the original resettlement plan to 4,492 m2. A total of 18,408 m2 of demolition area was reduced in the updated plan. 4) The new scheme reduced the amount of earthwork excavation by about 268,200 m3. Due to changes in the location of the project and the impact of land acquisition and demolition, the original resettlement action plan needs to be updated according to the relevant policies of the World Bank. 1 Contents 1 Project Overview ...................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ..................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Project Introduction ......................................................................................................................... 1 1.3 Project Preparations and RAP Progresses........................................................................................ 5 1.4 Measures of Minimizing Resettlement.............................................................................................. 5 2 Socioeconomic Situation of the Project Area ............................................................................................ 7 2.1 Socioeconomic Situation of the Project Area ................................................................................... 7 2.2.1 Socioeconomic Situation of Guang’an ........................................................................................ 7 2.2.2 Socioeconomic Situation of Linshui ............................................................................................ 7 2.2. Socioeconomic Situation of the Towns/townships Involved in the Project ........................................ 8 2.3. Socioeconomic Situation of the Villages Involved in the Project ...................................................... 8 2.4. Sampling Survey and Analysis on Socioeconomic Situation ............................................................ 8 3 Detail Measurement Survey (DMS) ........................................................................................................ 11 3.1 Land for the Project ....................................................................................................................... 11 3.1.1 Permanent Acquisition of Collectively-owned Land ................................................................ 11 3.1.2 Temporary Use of Land ............................................................................................................ 12 3.2 House Demolition .......................................................................................................................... 12 3.3 Infrastructure Facilities and Ground Appurtenants ....................................................................... 13 3.4 Analysis on the Impacts of Land Acquisition ................................................................................. 13 3.4.1 The Proportion of Land Acquired ............................................................................................ 13 3.4.2 Analysis on the Farmland Losses of Affected Households ....................................................... 14 3.4.3 Analysis on the Income Losses of Affected Households ........................................................... 14 3.5 Affected Vulnerable Groups ........................................................................................................... 14 3.6 Gender Analysis ............................................................................................................................. 15 3.6.1 Female Peoples Affected by the Project.................................................................................... 15 3.6.2 Impacts of the Project on Women ............................................................................................ 15 4 Resettlement Policy Framework ............................................................................................................. 18 4.1 Applicable Policies and Laws ......................................................................................................... 18 4.2 Abstracts of Main Laws, Regulations, and Policies ........................................................................ 18 5 Compensation Standard ......................................................................................................................... 25 5.1 Compensation for Permanent LA ................................................................................................... 25 5.2 Compensation for Crops and Trees ................................................................................................ 25 5.3 Compensation for House Demolition ............................................................................................. 26 5.4 Standard of Compensation for Ground Appurtenants .................................................................... 28 5.5 Compensation for Infrastructure Facilities .................................................................................... 29 6 Resettlement and Production Restoration.............................................................................................. 30 6.1 Resettlement Objectives .................................................................................................................. 30 6.2 Resettlement Strategies................................................................................................................... 30 6.3 Resettlement Tasks ......................................................................................................................... 31 6.4 Resettlement Schemes .................................................................................................................... 31 2 6.4.1 Resettlement Schemes for Land Acquisition ................................................................................ 31 6.4.2 Resettlement Schemes for House Demolition ........................................................................... 36 6.5 Measures for Women’s Development ............................................................................................. 39 6.6 Restoration Measures for Vulnerable Groups ................................................................................ 39 7 Organizations and Implementation Progresses....................................................................................... 41 7.1. Resettlement Implementing and Managing Organizations ............................................................. 41 7.2 Responsibilities of the Resettlement Organizations......................................................................... 41 7.3 Ability of and Trainings for Resettlement Organizations ................................................................ 43 7.4 Implementation Scheduling ........................................................................................................... 44 8 Budget and Sources of Funds ................................................................................................................. 46 8.1 Budget............................................................................................................................................ 46 8.2 The By-year Fund Using Plan ....................................................................................................... 47 8.3 Source of Funds and Procedures of Appropriation ........................................................................ 47 9 Public Participation and Negotiation ...................................................................................................... 49 9.1 Ways and Measures of Public Participation ................................................................................... 49 9.2 Public Participation at the Preparatory Stage ................................................................................ 49 9.3 Public Participation at the Implementation Stage .......................................................................... 50 9.3.1 Participation in the Use and Management of Land Compensation Funds ...................................... 50 9.3.2 Participation in the House-based Resettlement ............................................................................. 50 9.3.3 Participation in Engineering Construction.................................................................................... 51 9.4 Publicity and Release of Information ............................................................................................. 51 9.5 Complaint Channels....................................................................................................................... 51 10 Monitoring and Evaluation ................................................................................................................. 53 10.1 Internal Monitoring ....................................................................................................................... 53 10.1.1 Purposes and Tasks ................................................................................................................. 53 10.1.2 Contents of Monitoring ........................................................................................................... 53 10.1.3 Implementation Procedures of Internal Monitoring .................................................................. 53 10.2 External Independent Monitoring .................................................................................................. 54 10.2.1 Purposes and Tasks ................................................................................................................. 54 10.2.2 The Monitoring Agency ............................................................................................................... 54 10.2.3 Main Indicators of Monitoring and Evaluation......................................................................... 54 10.2.4 Methods of Monitoring and Evaluation ................................................................................... 54 10.2.5 Steps and Contents of Monitoring ........................................................................................... 55 10.2.6 External Monitoring Report..................................................................................................... 55 11 Right Matrix of the Affected People ................................................................................................... 57 Appendix I: Lin shui Vocation Middle School Already LA DDR ......................................................................... 60 AppendixII: Due Diligence on Resettlement ................................................................................................ 77 1 Project Overview and Scope of Due Diligence .................................................................................... 77 1.1 Description of the Project ......................................................................................................... 77 1.2 Resettlement Impact ................................................................................................................. 77 1.3 Scope of Due Diligence .............................................................................................................. 78 2 Socioeconomic Survey on Affected Areas under the Project............................................................... 78 2.1 Socioeconomic Situation of the Affected Area .......................................................................... 78 3 2.2 Socioeconomic Situation of the Affected Towns (Townships) .................................................. 79 2.2.1 Qianfeng Town of Qianfeng District ....................................................................................... 79 2.2.2 Longtang Sub-district of Qianfeng District .............................................................................. 79 2.3 Socioeconomic Situation of the Affected Villages and Village Teams ...................................... 80 3 Progress in Land Acquisition and House Demolition and Review on Resettlement under the Project 80 4 Review on the Resettlement Policies and Standard of Compensation ................................................. 81 4.1 Applicable Policies, Laws, and Regulations.............................................................................. 81 4.2 Standard of Compensation for Land Acquisition .................................................................... 81 4.3 Standard of Compensation for Crops....................................................................................... 82 4.4 Payment of Resettlement Funds ............................................................................................... 82 4.5 Evaluation ................................................................................................................................. 83 5 Survey on Resettlement and Livelihood Recovery............................................................................... 83 5.1 Resettlement Measures for Land Acquisition .......................................................................... 83 5.2 Evaluation on Livelihood Recovery of Affected People and Satisfaction Survey .................... 86 5.3 Evaluation on the Effects of Resettlement ................................................................................ 88 6 Resettlement Organizations ................................................................................................................ 88 6.1 Resettlement Implementing Organizations .............................................................................. 88 6.2 Capability of the Implementing Organizations ........................................................................ 89 6.3 Evaluation ................................................................................................................................. 89 7 Public Participation and Grievances .................................................................................................. 90 7.1 Public Participation .................................................................................................................. 90 7.2 Complaints and Grievances ...................................................................................................... 90 7.3 Evaluation ................................................................................................................................. 91 8 Conclusions of Due Diligence on Resettlement .................................................................................. 91 Attachment I: Approval Documents for Land Acquisition under the Qianfeng Sub-project ....................... 93 4 Table list TABLE1-1 BRIEFS OF THE INTERMEDIATE ADJUSTMENT PROJECTS ......................................................................... 2 TABLE 2-1 STATISTICAL DATA OF PEOPLE OF THE VILLAGE INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT ....................................... 8 TABLE 2-2 STATISTICAL DATA OF LAND IN THE VILLAGE INVOLVED IN THE PROJECT .......................................... 8 TABLE 2-3 STATISTICAL DATA ABOUT AGE OF THE AFFECTED PEOPLE ................................................................ 9 TABLE 2-4 STATISTICAL DATA ABOUT EDUCATION BACKGROUND OF APS (ADULTS BEYOND 18 YEARS OLD) ....... 9 TABLE 2-5 INCOME AND EXPENDITURE OF THE AHS BEFORE LA AND HD ......................................................... 10 TABLE 3-1 PERMANENT ACQUISITION OF COLLECTIVELY-OWNED LAND UNDER THE PROJECT IN ORIGINAL RAP 11 TABLE 3-2 PERMANENT ACQUISITION OF COLLECTIVELY-OWNED LAND UNDER THE PROJECT IN UPDATED RAP 11 TABLE 3-3 SUMMARY SHEET OF RURAL HOUSES TO BE DEMOLISHED UNDER THE PROJECT IN THE ORIGINAL RAP ............................................................................................................................................................... 12 TABLE 3-4 SUMMARY SHEET OF RURAL HOUSES TO BE DEMOLISHED UNDER THE PROJECT IN THE ORIGINAL RAP ............................................................................................................................................................... 12 TABLE 3-5 HD AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS LIST ............................................................................................................... 12 TABLE 3-6 DETAILS OF GROUND FACILITIES AFFECTED BY THE PROJECT .......................................................... 13 TABLE3-7STATISTICAL DATA ABOUT FARMLAND ACQUISITION UNDER THE PROJECT ........................................ 14 TABLE 3-8 ANALYSIS ON FARMLAND LOSSES ................................................................................................... 14 TABLE 3-9 LOSS IN THE INCOME OF AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS ............................................................................ 14 TABLE 3-10VULNERABLE HOUSEHOLDS AFFECTED BY THE PROJECT ................................................................ 14 TABLE3-11 AGES OF THE AFFECTED FEMALE PEOPLE ....................................................................................... 15 TABLE 3-12 ANALYSIS ON WOMEN IN THE AFFECTED AREAS ............................................................................ 15 TABLE 3-13 ANALYSIS ON WOMEN AFFECTED BY THE PROJECT ........................................................................ 16 TABLE 5-1 ANNUAL OUTPUT VALUE AND STANDARD OF COMPENSATION FOR PERMANENT LA ......................... 25 TABLE 5-2 COMPENSATION FEES FOR CROPS OF GUANG’AN CITY ..................................................................... 25 TABLE 5-3 STANDARD OF COMPENSATION FOR FORESTS AND WOODS ON THE ACQUIRED LAND ........................ 26 TABLE5-4 STANDARD OF COMPENSATION FOR GROUND BUILDINGS (STRUCTURE) ............................................ 27 TABLE 5-5 CONTRAST BETWEEN COMPENSATION STANDARD FOR AND REPLACEMENT COST OF GROUND BUILDINGS (STRUCTURES) ON LAND ACQUIRED IN GUANG’AN CITY* ....................................................... 27 TABLE5-6 STANDARD OF SUBSIDIES FOR RELOCATION ..................................................................................... 28 TABLE5-7 CRITERIA OF COMPENSATION FOR RELOCATION OF GROUND APPURTENANTS.................................... 28 TABLE 5-8 CRITERIA OF COMPENSATION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES ...................................................... 29 TABLE 6-1 ENDOWMENT INSURANCE PREMIUM TO BE PAID AND PENSION OFFERED TO LAND-LOSING FARMERS AT ALL AGE GROUPS ............................................................................................................................... 33 TABLE 6-2 VOCATIONAL TRAINING SCHEMES 2018 OF LINSHUI COUNTY .......................................................... 34 TABLE 7-1 STAFFING OF THE LEADING GROUP OF THE PROJECT ........................................................................ 42 TABLE 7-2 INFORMATION OF RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTING ORGANIZATIONS UNDER THE PROJECT ................. 43 TABLE 7-3 SCHEDULE OF TRAININGS ON RESETTLEMENT UNDER THE PROJECT .................................................. 44 TABLE7-4RESETTLEMENT SCHEDULING ........................................................................................................... 45 TABLE8-1 BUDGET FOR RESETTLEMENT AND COMPENSATION UNDER THE PROJECT .......................................... 47 TABLE 8-2 INVESTMENT PLAN FOR RESETTLEMENT .......................................................................................... 47 TABLE 9-1 MINUTES OF MEETINGS INVOLVING PUBLIC PARTICIPATION UNDER THE PROJECT ............................. 50 TABLE11-1 RIGHT MATRIX OF THE AFFECTED PEOPLE ..................................................................................... 57 5 Figure list FIGURE 1-1 LAND RED LINE MAP AFTER PROJECT ADJUSTMENT .......................................................................................... 4 FIGURE 1-2 DESIGN SKETCH OF ORIGINAL PLAN ............................................................................................................ 4 FIGURE 1-3 DESIGN SKETCH OF NEW PLAN................................................................................................................... 4 FIGURE 2-1FIELD SURVEY BY THE PROJECT TEAM ................................................................................................ 9 FIGURE 6-1 DISTRIBUTION MAP OF RESETTLEMENT HOUSES IN LINSHUI COUNTY ................................................ 38 FIGURE 7-1 ORGANIZATIONAL CHART OF THE RESETTLEMENT IMPLEMENTING ORGANIZATIONS.......................... 41 6 1 Project Overview 1.1 Background Qianfeng District of Guang’an City is adjacent to the Huaying Mountain in the east, Huaying City in the south, and the Qu River in the west. It is the youngest district-level administrative unit of Sichuan Province and holds 1 sub-district, 7 towns, and 5 townships. In 2012, Qianfeng had registered people of 364,000, permanent people of 250,000, and urban people of 64,000, with the urbanization rate reaching 25.6%. Linshui County, located in the east part of the Sichuan Basin and the eastern foot of the Huaying Mountain, is subordinated to Guang’an City. Among all the counties of Sichuan Province, Linshui has the shortest distance from the main urban area and theLiangjiang New Area, of Chongqing. Linshui has jurisdiction over 18 towns and 27 townships, with the people reaching 970,000, and territory area reaching 1,919.22km2. The built-up county urban area of Linshui reaches 14.28km2, with permanent people of 150,000. It is clearly presented in the “Eleventh Five-year Plan” of China that the Sichuan- Chongqing area will be developed as the new growth pole of China and both the two cities of Chongqing and Chengdu are recognized as the “pilot area for comprehensive reform in the national urban-rural overall development”. With the advantages in both policy and urban operation, the rise of a new (the fourth) economic growth pole can be expected. The Chongqing-Guang’an-Dazhou Development Belt (“CGDDB”) is one of the five development belts of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone (“CCEZ”). Guang’an, as an important part of the CCEZ, is closely adjacent to the central development area of Chongqing and falls in the one-hour economic circle of the same. As on important node on the CGDDB, Guang’an will definitely get more opportunities from the reform, openness and economic development of Chongqing. However, the obviously backward urban infrastructure has turned out a severe barrier in the way of the economic and social development of Guang’an. Therefore, following requirements of the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) and the Ministry of Finance of China, Guang’an has made great efforts to use the loan from the World Bank to start infrastructure construction in the Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation Exemplary Zone for the purpose of facilitating the development of Qianfeng District and Linshui County and providing sufficient infrastructure services. The total investment on the intermediate adjustment projects for infrastructure construction of the Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation (Guang’an) Exemplary Zone reaches CNY 512 million, including CNY 144 million for the Qianfeng Subproject and CNY 368 million for the Linshui Subproject. 1.2 Project Introduction The intermediate adjustment projects this time are located in Qianfeng District and Linshui County. Qianfeng Subproject includes the comprehensive renovation of the Xiejiawan Park and the Logistics Park section of the Luxi River; Linshui Subproject includes the middle school works, the trunk road overhauling, and phase I and II of the rain-sewage diversion project, of the Economic Development Zone (“EDZ”). Preliminary investigation shows that the land occupied by the Qianfeng Subproject is state-owned land , for the part of the land use, the “Qianfeng District Project Resettlement Due Diligence Report” has been prepared according to the World Bank Safeguard Policy OP4.12. The land use situation is detailed in Appendix II. and details are shown in Appendix I. As for the Linshui Subproject, only the middle school item involves in land acquisition (“LA”) (70mu of collectively-owned land) and house 1 demolition (“HD”) (62 folk houses). Therefore, this original Resettlement Action Plan (“RAP”) is made mainly on the middle school item in the Economic Development Zone (“EDZ”) of Linshui County. In October 2019, in order to plan and build a good Linshui Vocational Middle School, the organization of the World Bank Project Office of the Linshui County proposed to adjust the original red line of the original Vocation Middle School plan, and the content of the adjustment was moved to the north side of the whole site and canceled the original planned road on the north side. The main reasons for the change in project location are as follows: 1) The new scheme preserves the original ecological mountain on the north side of the Shiba River, ensuring the continuity of the planned green belt on the south side of the job. 2) The new program reduces the number of land acquisitions and the number of affected households. The original planned land acquisition area is 70 mu, and the new land acquisition area is 66.53 mu including new land acquisition area 14.52mu and using 52.01mu land which had been acquired, which is reduced by 3.47 mu. The original planned land acquisition affected 134 households with 406 persons, and the updated plan land acquisition will affect 66 households with 225 persons (including new land acquisition affected 37 households and 129 persons; already land acquisition affected 29 households and 96 persons). The updated plan has reduced the land acquisition impact of 68 households with 181 people. Please refer appendix I for the due diligence report for resettlement of the already land acquisition. 3) The new plan will greatly reduce the number of affected households and the number of demolition area. Since the adjustment of the newly acquired land area without house demolition, the adjusted households with the original resettlement plan reduced the number of from 62 households 187 persons to 24 households with 87 persons, and reduced the number of demolished 38 households with 100 persons. The demolition area has a reduction of 22,900 square meters of the original resettlement plan to 4,492 square meters. A total of 18,408 square meters of demolition area was reduced in the updated plan. 4) The new scheme reduced the amount of earthwork excavation by about 268,200 cubic meters. Due to changes in the location of the project and the impact of land acquisition and demolition, the original resettlement action plan needs to be updated according to the relevant policies of the World Bank. See table 1-1 and figure 1-1,1-2 and 1-3 for the detail changes information of the updated RAP. Table1-1 Briefs of the Intermediate Adjustment Projects Subproject Resettlement Project Subproject Construction Contents Components Impact Intermediate The red-line-enclosed area 166mu of state- Adjustment of the park is 170,700m2, owned land will Project for with construction contents be occupied and Intermediate Infrastructure including landscape, roads, related LA work Adjustment Construction of the Xiejiawan Park greening, plank footways, is finished; see Projects in World Bank parking lot, architectures, Appendix I: Due Qianfeng Loaned Sichuan- entertainment and fitness Diligence on District Chongqing facilities, decorations and Resettlement for Cooperation sculptures, etc details. (Guang’an Comprehensive Construction of a new flood 98mu of state- 2 Subproject Resettlement Project Subproject Construction Contents Components Impact Exemplary Zone renovation of control dam with length of owned land will the Logistics 2,575.76m within the be occupied and Park section of 1.3km area of the Logistics related LA work the Luxi River Park section of the Luxi is finished; see River in Qianfeng District, Appendix I: Due regulation of the Luxi Diligence on River, construction of a Resettlement for 1.3km landscape belt along details. each side of the Luxi River, each with width of 20-25m, together with an ecological parking lot. Cover total land area of 66.53mu, and total floor area of 55,000m2, including 24,500m2 of new teaching Additional LA building, 15,000m2 of (66.53mu) and students’ dormitory, The vocational additional HD 5,000m2 of office building, middle school 24households 6,000m2 of dining hall, EDZ campus and 4429 m2 4,900m2 of teachers’ residential dormitory, and a 250m- houses track sports field, together with the procurement of Intermediate related teaching and office Adjustment facilities. Projects in Comprehensive renovation Linshui County of 4 roads with total length of 6,439m, including Yulin Avenue (width ranges from 20-40m), Dafosi East Road Comprehensive (G210 - Yucheng Road) renovation of No LA or HD (width: 24m), Sanhe Road roads in the involved (Xinyu Machine - Guohua EDZ Fire Apparatus) (width: 14m), and Zhongke Road (Guanglin Industry & Commerce - National Road 210) (width: 14m) 3 Figure 1-1 Land red line map after project adjustment Figure 1-2 Design Sketch of Original Plan Figure 1-3 Design Sketch of new plan 4 1.3 Project Preparations and RAP Progresses In the second half of 2011, Guang’an started the application for loan from the World Bank. Later in the first half of 2012, the Infrastructure Construction Project for the World Bank Loaned Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation (Guang’an) Exemplary Zone was included in the national plan 2013-2015 for loans from the World Bank. By now, the project entered the stage of intermediate adjustment. In January 2018, entrusted by the Project Management Office (the “PMO”) of Guang’an, Sichuan Fontal Strategic Consulting Co., Ltd was fully engaged, as the consulting agency, in the preparation of RAP for the intermediate adjustment projects. According to the involuntary resettlement policy (OP 4.12) of the World Bank, the recognition of project affected people (PAP) and physical impacts resulted from the Project ends on April 16, 2018, and people involved in LA under the Project will not be recognized as PAP since then and they are not allowed to build new houses or expand or rebuild their current houses, or change the purpose of their houses or lands, or rent out their lands or sell their houses, and the physical impacts incurred to them from such actions will not be approved. 1.4 Measures of Minimizing Resettlement Construction of the Project involves in LA, HD, and resettlement and will inevitably influence the original living conditions of the local people. Therefore, the Designer and the Owner of the Project have, at the planning stage and the design stage of the Project, taken following effective measures to minimize the socioeconomic impacts of the Project on the local people: At the planning stage of the Project: Take the socioeconomic impacts of the Project on the local people into consideration, as a critical factor, as much as possible when selecting and optimizing the construction scheme; 1) The new program reduces the number of land acquisitions and the number of affected households. The original planned land acquisition area is 70 mu, and the new land acquisition area is 66.53 mu, which is reduced by 3.47 mu. After the adjustment plan, the original plan will acquire 14.52 mu of land and add 52.01 mu. The original planned land acquisition affected 134 households with 406 persons, and the updated plan land acquisition will affect 66 households with 225 persons including new land acquisition affected 37 households and 129 persons; already land acquisition affected 29 households and 96 persons). The updated plan has reduced the land acquisition impact of 68 households with 181 people. 2) The new plan will greatly reduce the number of affected households and the number of demolition area. Since the adjustment of the newly acquired land area without house demolition, the adjusted households with the original resettlement plan reduced the number of from 62 households 187 persons to 24 households with 87 persons, and reduced the number of demolished 38 households with 100 persons. The demolition area has a reduction of 22,900 square meters of the original resettlement plan to 4,492 square meters. A total of 18,408 square meters of demolition area was reduced in the updated plan. Design and optimize the Project such that the impacts of the Project on the local socioeconomic situation and the local people’s livelihood can be minimized and more state-owned land or wasteland and less farmland can be acquisitioned. Reinforce the collection of fundamental data for in-depth analysis on the current socioeconomic situation and the future development of the area involved in the Project (“Project Area”), and make practical and feasible resettlement action plan based on the 5 actual situation of these areas so that to protect the people affected by the Projectfrom any losses resulted from construction of the Project. Reinforce the internal and the external monitoring, set up efficient and smooth feedback mechanism and complaint channels, and shorten the period for information processing so that to guarantee prompt solution of problems emerging in the process of implementing the Project. 6 2 Socioeconomic Situation of the Project Area 2.1 Socioeconomic Situation of the Project Area 2.2.1 Socioeconomic Situation of Guang’an Located in the east part of the Sichuan Basin, Guang’an is one of the seventeen prefecture-level cities under the jurisdiction of Sichuan Province. Guang’an is the hometown of Mr. Deng Xiaoping--the chief designer of the reform and opening-up policy and the socialism modernization, of China, and an important part of the Chengdu- Chongqing Economic Zone as a “Portal of East Sichuan”. Guang’an was officially established as a city in July 1998 with jurisdiction over Guang’an District, Yuechi County, Wusheng County, and Linshui County, and escrow rights over Huaying City. In February 2013, Guang’an set up a new district named Qianfeng with total area of 6,344km2 and total population of 4.7 million. Guang’an lies in a transitional area between the Sichuan Basin and its periphery, with the altitude greater in the east and lower in the west. Guang’an has hilly areas in the mid-west, and parallel canyons and low mountain areas in the east, with the altitude rising from 185m to more than 1,700m. The Qu River goes through the middle part of Guang’an from north to west, andt he Jialing River goes through the west of the same in the same direction. Guang’an has high yield of agricultural products like grains, oil, pigs, cocoons, and fruits, which gains it the reputation as a production base of grains and lean-type pigs and the hometown of silk, of China. The mineral resources here are abundant too, with over twenty varieties represented by coal, iron, limestone, and petroleum, in great reserves and high grade. In 2016, Guang’an realized regional gross domestic product (GDP) of CNY 107.86 billion, creating a year-on-year growth of 7.9%; the per capita GDP reached CNY 33,130, increasing by 7.3%; the three-industry structure changed from the former 16.2: 51.8: 32.0 to 15.8: 51.6: 32.6, with the proportion of the tertiary industry improved by 0.6%; the local public revenue reached CNY 6.42 billion,CNY 3.69 billion or 57.5% were tax revenues; the year-end permanent people hit 3,265,000, including 1,267,000 of urban people and 1,998,000 of rural people, with the urbanization rate reaching 38.8%; the urban per capita disposable income reached CNY 28,218, creating a year- on-year growth of CNY 2,146; and the rural per capita disposable income reached CNY 12,479, creating a year-on-year growth of CNY 1,108. 2.2.2 Socioeconomic Situation of Linshui Linshui County, located in the east Sichuan Basin, is under the jurisdiction of Guang’an of Sichuan Province. Among all the counties of Sichuan Province, Linshui has the shortest distance from the main urban area of Chongqing and acts an important support to the north Chongqing in service, energy, and human resources. Linshui governs 18 towns and 27 townships, with the total territory area reaching 1,919.22km2. Linshui has a long history and abundant resources, including 27 kinds of proven mineral resources mainly represented by coal, gas, pyrite, and phosphorus iron. Among which, coal has the greatest reserve of nearly 400 million tons and the annual capacity of raw coal in Linshui reaches 1.5 million tons, making Linshui one of the top 100 counties with the largest coal production of China. Linshui has abundant gas reserves too and the annual gas output reaches 400 million cubic meters, making it a major production area of the big gas field in east Sichuan. In 2016, Linshui realized regional GDP of CNY 21.19 billion, creating a year-on-year growth (briefly, “growth”, the same below) of 8.4%; the regional per capita GDP hit 7 CNY 29,661, creating a growth of 8%; the three-industry structure became 18.4: 49.0: 32.6; and the local public revenue hit CNY 970 million, including CNY 520 million of tax revenue. In 2016, Linshui had permanent population of 714,700, 258,300 or 36.15% were urban population; the yearly urban per capital disposable income hit CNY 28,163, creating a growth of 8.3%; and the yearly rural per capital disposable income hit CNY 12,195, increasing by CNY 1,078. 2.2. Socioeconomic Situation of the Towns/townships Involved in the Project The Linshui Subproject involves in one town and socioeconomic details of the town are shown below: Chengnan Town of Linshui County Chengnan Town is located in the northwest part of Linshui County. 3km away from the downtown area of Linshui, it has a territory area of 65.84km2 and governs 20 village and 3 neighborhoods represented by Poshi, Tuya, Hongdian, Sanhe, Wenxing, Shiba, Xin’an, Gaoping, Wupen, Paifang, Zhengjia, and Nanya. There are small hydropower stations and enterprises engaged in agricultural machine, coal mining and brick-making, in the town. Agricultural products here include mainly rice, corn, wheat and oilseed rapes, animals bred here are mainly pigs, farm cattle, poultries and cocoons, economic crops are represented by ramie and peanut, and roads anchored by the National Road 210 and provincial-level highways. The per capita disposable income of Chengnan Town in 2016 reached CNY 12,960. 2.3. Socioeconomic Situation of the Villages Involved in the Project This RAP involves one village only: Shiba Village in Chengnan Town of Linshui County. Shiba is an administrative village with total people of 3,459 now, mostly agricultural people. The per capita farmland area here is 0.8mu, while the per capita net annual income is CNY 9,700. See the table below for details. Table 2-1 Statistical Data of People of the Village Involved in the Project Migrant County Town Total Total Agricultural Total Labor Labor Village (District) (Township) Households People People Force (person) Forces (person) Linshui Chengnan Shiba 1,036 3,459 2,984 1,762 1,236 Table 2-2 Statistical Data of Land in the Village Involved in the Project Per Paddy Garden Forest County Town Farmland Dry Land Capita Village Land Land Land (District) (Township) (mu) (mu) Farmland (mu) (mu) (mu) (mu) Linshui Chengnan Shiba 1,568 768 800 0 400 0.8 2.4. Sampling Survey and Analysis on Socioeconomic Situation For the purpose of getting better knowledge about the income and housing conditions of relocating households before and after LA, the Survey Team has, based on actual situation of the area affected by the Project and under aids of the PMO of Linshui County and the government of Chengnan Town, made questionnaire in February 2018, among 24 households affected by the Project in Shiba Village of Chengnan Town, with the emphasis to get information about the affected households, including their family size, age, education background, labor forces, annual family income and expenditure, etc. 8 Figure 2-1Field Survey by the Project Team 2.4.1. Basic Information of the Affected Households The 24 affected households (“AHs”) surveyed have total people of 85 (the average family size: 3.5 persons), 38 or 44.71% are females. The surveyed AHs accountfor 17.91% of the total AHs and the total peopleof the surveyed AHs account for 20.94% of the total affected people (“AP”). The APs are100% rural residents, with the men mainly engaged in non-agricultural work, while the married women and the aged people mostly engaged in housework and easier agricultural production and some engaged in non-agricultural work nearby. 2.4.2. Age and Gender Among the 85 people of the 24 AHs surveyed, 14 or 18.5% are 18 years old or younger; 50 or 50% range from 18 to 59 years old, and 21 or 21.5% are 60 years old or older. See Table 2-3 for more details. Table 2-3 Statistical Data about Age of the Affected People Total Age Male People Female People People Proportion (%) <18 years old 7 7 14 16.47% 18-59 years old 28 22 50 58.82% ≥60 years old 12 9 21 24.71% Total 47 38 85 2.4.3. Education Background Among the surveyed affected people, 16 or 22.54% have the highest education degree of primary school or lower, 35 or 49.30% have the highest education degree of junior middle school, 16 or 22.54% have the highest education degree of senior middle school, and 4 or 5.63% have the highest education degree of college or higher. See Table 2-4 for more details. Table 2-4 Statistical Data about Education Background of APs (adults beyond 18 years old) Educational Background People Proportion (%) Illiterate 3 4.23% Primary school 13 18.31% Junior middle school 35 49.30% Senior middle school 16 22.54% College and above 4 5.63% Total 71 100.00% 2.4.4. Income and Expenditure See Table 2-5 for details about the income and expenditure of the AHs before LA. It can be seen from the statistical data that the main sources of income of the AHs are mainly non-agricultural work and sideline production and the income realized from these two resources account for 94% of the total family income, and the agricultural income accounts very little (nearly 6%) in the total family income. 9 Table 2-5 Income and Expenditure of the AHs before LA and HD Shiba Village Item Per Household (CNY) Proportion (%) Agricultural income 1479 6.09% Wage income 13900 57.24% Family income Business income 903 3.72% Other income (social security, etc) 8000 32.95% Subtotal 24282 100% Agricultural expenditure 620 4.27% Living consumption 9380 64.56% Inevitable family Other expenditure expenditure 4530 31.18% (education/medical care) Subtotal 14530 100% Per capita net annual income (family income – inevitable 9752 family expenditure) 10 3 Detail Measurement Survey (DMS) Field survey on asset inventory affected by the Project shows that the Linshui subproject involves in the permanent acquisition of collectively-owned land only and the demolition of rural houses, ground appurtenants and infrastructure facilities, and no demolition of enterprises, public institutions or stores. The LA and HD involve only Shiba Village in Chengnan Town of Linshui County. The intermediate adjustment projects need 334mu of land in total, including 264mu of state-owned land for the Qianfeng Subproject on which the due diligence has been made (see Appendix I for details); and 70mu of collectively-owned land (60mu of farmland and 10mu of homestead) in Linshui County, with 405 people from 134 households affected. The interim adjustment project will acquire a total of land 330.53 mu, of which the Qianfeng district sub-projects occupy a total of 264 mu of state-owned land. The state- owned land has been dutiful, see Appendix 1; the project of the updated the resettlement plan will acquire 66.53 mu of collective land(including 14.52mu new LA and 52.01mu already LA ) , of which 60.03 mu is cultivated land and 6.5.mu is homestead. There are a total of 66 households and 225 people (including new land acquisition affected 37 households and 129 persons; already land acquisition affected 29 households and 96 persons) affected by the project. The original planned demolition of rural houses involved 6 and 7 groups of Shiba Village in Chengnan Town. A total of 24,900 square meters of demolition area is required, affecting 62 households with 187 people. Project Renovation Plan Rural house demolition involves 5, 6, and 8 groups in Shiba Village, Chengnan Town. A total of 4,492 square meters of demolition area is required, affecting 24 households and 87 people. 3.1 Land for the Project 3.1.1 Permanent Acquisition of Collectively-owned Land Totally 70mu of rural collectively-owned land will be permanently acquired by the Project, including 60mu of farmland and 10mu of homestead, with 406 people from 134 families affected. The project updated the resettlement plan will occupy 66.53 mu of collective land, including 60.03 mu of cultivated land and 6.5 mu of residential land, affecting 66 households with 225 persons. See Table 3-1,3-2 for details. Table 3-1 Permanent Acquisition of Collectively-owned Land under the Project in Original RAP District Village Land Acquisition (mu) Directly Affected People Town Village (County) Team Farmland Forest Land Homestead Households Persons 6 40 0 10 104 315 Linshui Chengnan Shiba 7 5 0 0 12 36 8 15 0 0 18 55 Total 60 0 10 134 406 Data resource: Linshui PMO Table 3-2 Permanent Acquisition of Collectively-owned Land under the Project in Updated RAP plan Su-total Land Acquisition (mu) Directly Affected People District Village Town Village Forest (County) Team Farmland Homestead Households Persons Land Linshui Chengnan Shiba 5 3.8 2.2 0 1.6 9 28 11 plan Su-total Land Acquisition (mu) Directly Affected People District Village Town Village Forest (County) Team Farmland Homestead Households Persons Land New 6 1.9 1.6 0 0.3 2 7 LA 8 8.82 4.22 0 4.6 26 94 total 14.52 8.02 6.5 37 129 Already 5 2 2 0 0 1 3 LA 24.48 Linshui Chengnan Shiba 6 24.48 0 0 13 42 8 25.53 25.53 0 0 15 51 Total 52.01 52.01 0 0 29 96 All in total 66.53 60.03 0 6.5 66 225 Data resource: Linshui PMO 3.1.2 Temporary Use of Land As required by construction under the Project, some land will be used temporarily to store engineering materials and construction machinery, set up temporary work shed, rebuild roads or pave pipelines. However, the current design shows that such land for temporary use will be allocated from the land acquired and thus involves in no people who will be temporarily affected. 3.2 House Demolition The Project involves in demolition of rural houses, ground appurtenants and infrastructure facilities but no demolition of enterprises, public institutions or stores. House demolition under the Project takes place in Team 6 and Team 7 of Shiba Village in Chengnan Town. Totally 24,900m2 of houses will be demolished, affecting 187 people from 62 households. The demolition of rural houses involves 5, 6 and 8 groups in Shiba Village, Chengnan Town in the updated RAP. A total of 4,492 square meters of demolition area is required, affecting 24 households and 87 people. See Table 3-3, 3-4, 3-5 for details. Table 3-3 Summary Sheet of Rural Houses to Be Demolished under the Project in the Original RAP Directly Affected District Village House Demolition (m2) Town Village People (County) Team Brick-concrete Brick-wood Others Households Persons 6 22,000 1,500 500 60 179 Linshui Chengnan Shiba 7 900 0 0 2 8 Total 22,900 1,500 500 62 187 Data resource: Linshui PMO Table 3-4 Summary Sheet of Rural Houses to Be Demolished under the Project in the Original RAP Sub-total House Demolition (m2) Directly Affected People District Village Town Village (County) Team Brick- Brick- Others Households Persons concrete wood 1420.38 5 248.31 1037.61 134.46 7 24 Linshui Chengnan Shiba 6 375.48 114.84 155.04 105.60 1 4 2696.25 8 364.58 1985.17 346.50 16 59 Total 4492.11 624.73 3177.82 586.56 24 87 Data resource: Linshui PMO Table 3-5 HD affected households list Village Team Household HD(m2) Family names Sub-total Brick- Brick- Others population concrete wood Shiba 6 Dengqinglong 375.48 114.84 155.04 105.60 4 8 Daiwenlong 364.58 364.58 5 8 Wukehua 338.53 338.53 6 12 2 Village Team Household HD(m ) Family names Sub-total Brick- Brick- Others population concrete wood 8 Daishiru 239.31 239.31 5 8 Louzhenglan 87.88 43.94 43.94 2 8 Daizeli 134.75 61.33 73.42 3 8 Daishiyun 212.72 212.72 4 8 Daizeyou 27.13 27.13 1 8 Chenchuanzhong 52.50 52.50 2 8 Chenping 162.28 162.28 4 8 Daizetong 160.54 80.27 80.27 4 8 Daishiwen 148.04 117.88 30.16 4 8 Daifei 48.47 48.47 2 8 Chenchangshou 187.64 187.64 5 8 Chenxianpu 302.38 287.38 15 6 8 Daizeling 82.8 52.44 30.36 3 8 Daizezhong 146.7 73.35 73.35 3 5 Lijigang 87.36 43.68 43.68 2 5 Lijixing 90.78 90.78 3 5 Zhoumingchang 817.95 173.34 644.61 8 5 Zhouroong 46.64 46.64 2 5 Zhoufang 103.14 103.14 3 5 Zhoudaozhen 199.54 199.54 4 5 Zhoumingfang 74.97 74.97 2 Data resource: Linshui PMO 3.3 Infrastructure Facilities and Ground Appurtenants Preliminary investigation by the PMOs shows that the infrastructure facilities and ground appurtenants affected by the Project are mainly located in Shiba Village of Chengnan Town, including electric power facilities, telecommunication facilities, and waterlines, etc. See Table 3-6 for details of infrastructure facilities and ground appurtenants affected by the Project. Table 3-6 Details of Ground Facilities Affected by the Project Item Unit Quantity Affected Water well Pcs 25 Cement courtyard m2 1472 Trees Pcs 497 Tombs Pcs 78 Biogas digester Pcs 5 Fences m2 84 Electric pole Pcs 15 Transformer Set 1 Water supply pipe m 2400 Tractor road m 462 Communication cables m 2752 Power cables m 2412 3.4 Analysis on the Impacts of Land Acquisition 3.4.1 The Proportion of Land Acquired Resettlement under the Project involves in 225 people from 66 families (including new land acquisition affected 37 households and 129 persons; already land acquisition affected 29 households and 96 persons), there are 87 people from 24 families to be relocated due to impacts of LA under the Project. The people affected by LA and HD under the Project accounts for 7.54% of the total people of the affected village.The affected village has total farmland of 1,568mu, in which, 60.03mu will be permanently acquired by the Project, accounting for 3.83% of the total. 13 Based on the site survey and assessment, the LA impact to the land-acquired families is limited. Because the agriculture income is not the main source of household incomes for the PAP. While they tend to get more from non-agricultural modes. Together with the compensation and resettlement policies and measures for livelihood recovery to be taken by the local government for land-acquired families, the Project will generally result in not severe adverse impacts to the affected families. Table3-7Statistical Data about Farmland Acquisition under the Project Farmland Total Per Capita Per Capita Decrease of County Agricultural Affected Town Village Acquisition Farmland Proportion Farmland Farmland Per Capita (District) People People (mu) (mu) before LA after LA Farmland Linshui Chengnan Shiba 2984 225 60.03 1568 3.82% 0.53 0.51 3.77% 3.4.2 Analysis on the Farmland Losses of Affected Households Among the 66 AHs, 8 or 11.94% have farmland loss ratio lower than 10%, 17 or 26.12% have farmland loss ratio ranging from 10% to 20%, 23 or 34.33% have farmland loss ratio ranging from 20% to 30%, 10 or 15.67% have farmland loss ratio ranging from 30% to 40%, 5 or 7.46% have farmland loss ratio ranging from 40% to 50%, and 3 or 4.47% have farmland loss ratio ranging from 50% to 70%. See Table 3-8 for more details. Table 3-8 Analysis on Farmland Losses Farmland Losses Village Total Town Less than 10% 10%~20% 20%~30% 30%~40% 40%~50% 50%~70% HH People HH People HH pepole HH People HH People HH People HH People Chengnan Shiba 8 27 17 58 23 78 10 34 5 17 3 11 66 225 3.4.3 Analysis on the Income Losses of Affected Households The loss of land will bring no material impacts to the income of AHs. It is learnt from the social survey that the local farmland is mainly used to plant basic crops represented by wheat and rice, and the agricultural income realized from such crops accounts lower proportion in the total family income of the AHs. An investigation and analysis made on the affected village teams indicate that the family income of the AHs will drop but by less than 30%. To be specific, 59 or 89.55% of AHs have their family income drop by less than 5%, 4 or 5.97% of AHs have their family income drop by 5% to 10%, and 3 or 4.48% of AHs have severe adverse losses in their family income (drop by more than 10%) due to LA or HD. See Table 3-9 for more details. Table 3-9 Loss in the Income of Affected Households Loss in Income Town Village Total Less than5% 5%~10% 10%~20% 20%~30% (Township) (Community) HH People HH People HH People HH People HH People Chengnan Shiba 59 201 4 13 2 7 1 4 66 225 Note: Loss in income = Land loss ratio * income realized from such land/total family income. 3.5 Affected Vulnerable Groups Vulnerable groups mainly refer to households enjoying the five guarantees, or having disabled family members, or supported by women householders, or living in poverty. Survey on the vulnerable groups proves that the Project involves no vulnerable families other than 11 people from 5 households. Table 3-10Vulnerable Households Affected by the Project Village Villager Family Size Type Households enjoying with the minimum living Luozhenlan 2 Shiba guarantee or having disabled family members Chenchuanzhong 2 Orphan 14 Village Villager Family Size Type Households enjoying with the minimum living Daifei 2 guarantee o Zhourong 2 Households supported by female householders Households enjoying with the minimum living Daizeyou 1 guarantee or having disabled family members 3.6 Gender Analysis 3.6.1 Female Peoples Affected by the Project The 24 AHs surveyed have total people of 85 and average family size of 3.5 person, in which, 38 or 44.71% are female. Among the 38 female persons, 7 or 18.42% are younger than 18 years old, 22 or 57.89% are aged between 18 to 59 years old, and 9 or 23.69% are older than 60 years old. See Table 3-11 for more details. Table3-11 Ages of the Affected Female People Age Female People Proportion <18 years old 7 18.42% 18-59 years old 22 57.89% ≥60 years old 9 23.69% Total 38 100% 3.6.2 Impacts of the Project on Women Investigation shows that women share equal legal powers with men in affected areas under the Project, including the rights for farmland contracting, education, birth control and election. Most of the women interviewed believe that they have the same decision- making power with the men and they can choose to go out for work or start their own business on their free will. Along with flowing of the rural labor force, the male and female labor forces in the family have changed from the traditional mode of “man in charge of the outside affairs and woman in charge of the house affairs” to the current situation of both man and woman equally undertaking affairs inside and outside of the house, but to different extents. That is, the proportion of women engaged in agricultural and household affairs is slightly higher than that of men engaged in the same. As for land ownership, the situation in the affected areas under the Project is similar with that in other places of China. That is, when a girl gets married, the land assigned to her before such marriage will be kept by her parents’ family and she will get a share in the land assigned to her husband’s family, after execution of the household contract responsibility system in 1982. However, this situation is revised among affected villages where the second round of land contracting is undertaken (i.e.: around 1999). If LA, HD, and resettlement are involved, the compensation shall be equally distributed among women and men of each affected family. See Table 3-12 and Table 3-13 for more details. Most of the women are supportive to the Project which in their opinion is beneficial to the local economic development. If the Project can be well executed, the investment environment will be improved, and more jobs will be created to better enable the women to get jobs in the hometown and consequently enable them to better coordinate their job and their family. The women in the affected areas are expecting for early implementation and service of the Project so that to benefit the local people at the maximum. Table 3-12 Analysis on Women in the Affected Areas S/N Indicator Social Analysis Legal rights Women have equal legal rights and interests with men according to Chinese laws, even 1 and interests though some women haven’t realized it. of women 15 S/N Indicator Social Analysis Women in the affected areas under the Project have good social status and all the major events of the family are decided jointly by the husband and the wife upon negotiation. Social status 2 However, man is the backbone of the family and attends, on behalf of the family, of women important meetings of the village, and women have her right to affect the decision made by the man on the meeting. Women have equal rights. The situation in the affected areas under the Project is similar with that in other places of China. That is, when a girl gets married, the land Rights and assigned to her before such marriage will be kept by her parents’ family and she will interests on get a share in the land assigned to her husband’s family, after execution of the 3 land and household contract responsibility system in 1982. However, this situation is revised in properties affected villages where the second round of land contracting is undertaken (i.e.: around 1999). If LA, HD, and resettlement are involved, the compensation shall be equally distributed among women and men of each affected family. Rights on 4 collective Women share equal rights with men. properties There is no restriction on gender. Anyway, in the countryside of China, women are mainly engaged in housework, together with some agricultural activities within their Life and 5 ability. Most of men are engaged in agricultural activities and work out of their gender hometown. Generally, the working hours of women are 1.2 times of that of men. A lot of young women are working out of their hometown. Contribution Revenue by women mainly comes from their work out of hometown and their family 6 to family sideline production, which accounts for nearly 35% of their family income. income Status in Women have the equal voice with men. When men are working far away from their 7 family hometown, women need to make her decision on a lot of events. Girls have the same right to get education with boys. If the kids study hard, the parents 8 Education will try their best to support their study. Women are in good health condition and show no significant difference in nutrition Health 9 with men. However, the proportion of medical expenses in the family expenditures is conditions increasing, which may worsen the burden on women. Women representatives exist in most village committees. Women have good informal Village-level network in the village or village teams. Women can select or be selected as members 10 government of the village committee; the local government has attached great important to the agencies development of women, especially in the aspect of poverty relief. Women in the affected area have good status without any restriction on gender or role. General Although women seldom participate in decision-making of public affairs of the village 11 assessment collective, they can express their opinions by various ways (such as through male and main risks members of their family) Table 3-13 Analysis on Women Affected by the Project Gender S/N Stake/Risk Impacts of the Project Countermeasures Problems (1) Men and women share equal rights in Women may be Women may be more severely compensation and Land, deprived of land affected by LA, HD or resettlement resettlement from LA properties and 1 or properties or than men considering that women are and HD; compensation the right for undertaking more burdens and (2) Cash compensation or right compensation housework in agricultural activities. improve quality of residual land or adjust crops. Women will be All the AHs are losing only part of (1) Women will get Recovery of affected their land; (1) Men and women share compensation for LA production more equal rights in compensation and equally with men; 2 and income severely resettlement from LA and HD; (2) (2) In addition to monetary after LA and get less Cash compensation or improve compensation, other assistance quality of residual land or adjust measures will be taken 16 Gender S/N Stake/Risk Impacts of the Project Countermeasures Problems crops. Therefore, the AHs will lose to help women recover but only part of income. The AHs can income (women will decide the use of compensation enjoy priority in provided to them and only those construction jobs under severely affected by the Project need the Project, skill to change their sources of income. training and follow-up After LA, women may face more supports); challenges than men in the process of (3) During the getting a new job and new income. construction, Loss of agricultural income may management and impair the status and voice of women operation period of the in their family. Project, at least 30% of non-technical jobs will be offered to women; at the operation period, at least 30% of permanent jobs will be offered to women. The land will be improved and sufficient compensation The Project will not result in gender will be offered to help inequality. Few families will be women modify the planting Resettlement significantly affected by Increased structure (such as, plant results in heavier resettlement. However, since women 3 gender more cash crops) to increase burden or less undertake more in agricultural inequality income; skill training and opportunities activities and housework, they may job opportunities will be be more adversely affected by LA offered to women. and HD than men do. Monitoring will be conducted. Community The Project involves in no HD and Damaged social 4 network thus will in no way affect the social No impact. network system network. Health problems or severe social No severe impact will be generated The women’s federation and Impair problems due to under the Project. However, some the civil affairs department health/increase 5 pressure of severely affected households and the will provide assistance. social resettlement vulnerable groups may have Monitoring will be problems (violence, spread difficulties. conducted. of AIDS, etc) 17 4 Resettlement Policy Framework The Resettlement Action Plan (“RAP”) under the Project will be prepared strictly following requirements of related laws and regulations of the People’s Republic of China and Sichuan Province, and related policies of the World Bank, and the resettlement work will be carried out strictly following the standard of compensation and the resettlement schemes defined in the RAP. 4.1 Applicable Policies and Laws LA, HD, and resettlement under the Project will be carried out strictly following requirements and implementation methods of China and Sichuan Province, related files of Guang’an City, and safety policy (OP4.12/BP4.12 Involuntary Resettlement) of the World Bank. Main laws, regulations and policies include: The Land Management Law of the People’s Republic of China dated August 1998 (revised on August 28, 2004 according to the Decision as to Revise the ‘Land Management Law of the People’s Republic of China’); TheDecision of the State Council as to Deepen Reform and Conduct Stricter Land Management (GF [2004] No. 28); The Instructions as to Make Perfect the Compensation and Resettlement System for Land Acquisition (GTZF [2004] No. 238); The Regulations on the Implementation of the Land Management Law of the People’s Republic of China (Decree No. 256 of the State Council, dated December 1998); The Regulations for the Protection of Basic Farmland, dated December 1998; The Regulations of Sichuan Province as to Implement the Land Management Law of the People’s Republic of China (executed since December 10, 1999); The Notice of the General Office of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province as to Forward the ‘Opinions of the Department of Land and Resources on Several Problems as to Adjust the Standard of Compensation and Resettlement for Land Acquisition’ (CBH [2008] No.73, April 13, 2008); The Notice of the General Office of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province as to Further Well Carry out the Social Security Work for Land-losing Farmers of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province (CBF [2008] No. 15); The Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2013] No. 13); The Circular ofLinshuiPeople’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Linshui County (LFF [2013] No. 34); The Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2018] No. 11); The social security policy OP/BO4.12 of the World Bank: Involuntary Resettlement; Design files, drawings and results of designs and surveys under the Project. 4.2 Abstracts of Main Laws, Regulations, and Policies The Land Management Law of the People’s Republic of China The compensation funds for the acquisition of farmland includes land compensation, resettlement subsidies and compensation for ground appurtenants and crops. The land compensation is six to ten times of the average annual output value realized on the land 18 in the latest three years. The resettlement subsidy is subject to the number of agricultural people to be resettled, which is determined by dividing the quantity of farmland acquired with the per capita farmland area, before such LA, of the unit where LA takes place. The resettlement subsidy offered to each agricultural person to be resettled is four to six times of the average annual output value of the acquired farmland in the latest three years before such LA. However, the maximum amount of resettlement subsidy for each hectare of acquired farmland may not exceed fifteen times of the average annual output value of such land in the latest three years before such LA. The standard of land compensation and resettlement subsidy for other land acquired shall be determined by the related province, autonomous region or direct-controlled municipalities based on the standard of land compensation and resettlement subsidy for the acquisition of farmland. The standard of compensation for ground appurtenants and crops on the acquired land shall be determined by related province, autonomous region and direct-controlled municipality. For suburban vegetable plots acquired, the user of such land shall pay the fund for construction of new vegetable plots according to existing related national rules. If the land compensation and resettlement subsidy offered according to paragraph II of this part fail to enable the farmers to be resettled keep their original living standard, additional resettlement subsidy can be offered upon approval of the people’s government of the related province, autonomous region or direct-controlled municipality. Nevertheless, the total amount of land compensation and resettlement subsidy may not exceed thirty times of the average annual output value of the acquired land in the latest three years before such acquisition. The State Council can enhance the standard of land compensation and resettlement subsidy for acquired farmland under special conditions according to the social and economic development level. The Decision of the State Council as to Deepen Reform and Conduct Strict Land Management (GF [2004] No. 28) For the purpose of further strengthening land management, the State Council of China issued the Decision of the State Council as to Deepen Reform and Conduct Strict Land Management (GF [2004] No. 28) in 2004, which raises new requirements to further improve the compensation for land acquisition. Main requirements are shown below: Article 12 reads: “Make perfect the compensatory approaches f or land acquisition. The county-level people’s government or above shall take practical measures to prevent dropping of the living standard of land-losing farmers; the land compensation, resettlement subsidy and compensation for ground appurtenants and crops shall be paid in time and in full amount; the people’s government of related province, autonomous region or direct-controlled municipality shall approve to increase resettlement subsidy if the land compensation and resettlement subsidy offered according to existing laws and regulations are not enough to enable the land-losing farmers to keep their original living standard or pay the social security expenses for farmers losing all the land due to land acquisition; or the local people’s government can offer additional subsidy with proceeds from paid use of state-owned land if the total amount of land compensation and resettlement subsidy, reaching upper limit defined in related laws, is not sufficient to enable the land-losing farmers to keep their original living standard. The people’s government of related province, autonomous region and directly-controlled municipality shall formulate and announce the unified annual output value or regional comprehensive land price of the involved counties or cities and the principle of “same 19 price for same land” shall be observed in the compensation for LA. For national key construction projects, the cost of land acquisition shall be fully included in the budget. The standard of compensation and the resettlement method for land acquisitioned for construction of large or medium-sized water conservancy projects or hydropower projects shall be determined separately by the State Council”. Article 13 reads: “Resettle the land-losing farmers properly. The county-level people’s government or above shall formulate specific measures to guarantee the long-term living standard of the land-losing farmers. For projects with stable proceed, the farmers can become a shareholder of such projects by contributing his/her use right on the land approved for construction of such projects. If in the urban planning area, the local people’s government shall include farmers losing all the land due to land acquisition into the urban employment system and set up the social security system; if the village collectively-owned land shall be acquired in the urban planning area, the local people’s government shall reserve necessary farmland or arrange jobs, in the local administrative areas, for land-losing farmers. Land-losing farmers without basic conditions for production or living shall be resettled in other places. The labor and social security authority shall work together with other related authorities to give guidelines, as soon as possible, on the establishment of the job training and social security systems for land- losing farmers.” TheNotice of the General Office of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province as to Forward the ‘Opinions of the Department of Land and Resources on Several Problems as to Adjust the Standard of Compensation and Resettlement for Land Acquisition’ (CBH [2008] No. 73) Average annual output value of the previous 3 years: The average annual output value of farmland in the 3 years before LA shall be determined by the people’s government of related counties (cities, districts) together with the land and resources, finance, pricing, agriculture, forest and statistical authorities based on related statistical survey data of the local administrative area in the previous 3 years and the result shall be reported to the people’s government of the city (prefecture). The people’s government of such city (prefecture) will later report to the provincial department of land and resources. Later, the people’s government of such city (prefecture) and the provincial department of land and resources will review the average annual output value of the previous 3 years determined by the people’s government of related counties (cities and districts), based on related data, and give suggestions for revision. Later before the end of each April, the people’s government of related counties (cities and districts) will announce such average annual output value to the public. Calculation of land compensation and resettlement subsidy for land acquisition: The land compensation for acquired farmland shall be 10 times of the average annual output value realized on such land in the previous 3 years. The resettlement subsidy is subject to the per capita farmland area of the related collective economic organization, to be specific: the resettlement subsidy shall be offered, to each mu of land, at the rate of 6 times of the average annual output value of such land in the previous 3 years if the per capita farmland area reaches 1mu and more; or the resettlement subsidy shall be offered, to each person to be resettled, at the rate of 6 times of the average annual output value of his/her land in the previous 3 years if the per capita farmland area is less than 1mu. The land compensation and resettlement subsidy for acquisition of non-farmland shall be half of those for acquired farmland. Standard of compensation for ground appurtenants and crops: the standard of compensation for ground appurtenants and crops shall be revised by the people’s government of related city (prefecture) once per 3 years and take effect immediately 20 after being reported to and approved by the related provincial people’s government. The people’s government of related city (prefecture) can make adjustments according to the price of local commodities. Cash compensation will be made to villages and RHs affected by land acquisition under the Project at the rate of CNY 37,600/mu (compensation for crops excluded). Compensation funds for the acquisition of farmland and other land and the subsidy for resettlement will be paid directly to the village where LA takes place. The village will then deduct from such compensation the portion of unemployment insurance premium, for labor forces that are converted from agricultural people to non-agricultural people, to be paid by the collective, and later distribute the balance upon resolution reached on the village meeting and make public the use and management of such fund. Resettlement of land-losing farmers: if LA shall be made in urban planning areas, the people’s government in charge of such LA and resettlement shall determine the number of land-losing farmers to be resettled in the urban area by dividing the area of land to be acquired with the per capita land area of the related collective economic organization before such LA and include such farmers in the urban employment range and reinforce employment training on them so that to improve their employment ability and try all the measures to help them get employed, especially those families with no member employed. The corresponding social security system shall be set up too. If LA shall be made on a separate land out of the urban planning area and the per capita farmland area shall be relatively abundant after such LA, agriculture-based resettlement can be offered upon willingness of the land-losing farmers and include them into the current rural social security system; or if the per capita farmland area is rare after such LA and no premises for basic production or living are available, the land-losing farmers shall be included in the urban employment range and corresponding social security system shall be set up. If HD is involved in LA, effective measures shall be taken as required so that to guarantee basic housing of the land-losing farmers. The basic housing floor area provided by the government executing LA and HD shall be no less than 30m2 per person and the farmers relocated will not pay for the resettlement housing or enjoy the compensation for the demolished house if the housing area provided to them is within the basic housing floor area. If the area of the demolished house is greater than that of the resettlement house provided, compensation shall be made according to the standard of compensation for ground appurtenants. If resettlement buildings shall be built and provided, the construction of such buildings shall be planned early and the principle of “construction first and demolition later” shall be observed theoretically. If transition period is inevitable, the houses for transition shall be made available and the transition subsidy shall be paid, so that the basic living and housing conditions of the farmers relocated can be guaranteed. The transition period shall not exceed 1 year, or the transition subsidy shall be doubled. The Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issu ing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2018] No. 11) defines following social security measures: Article 15 reads: the people aged 16 years or above as of the approval date of the land acquisition resettlement plan whose land is acquired and resettled in the city should participate in the basic endowment insurance of the enterprise. The land acquirer shall purchase the basic endowment insurance expenses for certain years in a lump sum, and the payment base shall be 60% of the average wage of all on-the-job employees of the previous year as of the land acquisition compensation and resettlement plan which has been approved by the government, and the payment proportion is 20% (the acquirer 21 shall pay 12%, and the affected farmers shall pay 8%).The endowment insurance expenses to be paid by individuals shall be withheld by the acquirer from the gained land acquisition compensation expense (i.e. the surplus after the deduction of the payable labor unemployment insurance expenses to be paid by individuals), and the insufficient part shall be borne by the acquirer. After the acquirer fully makes payment of the basic endowment insurance expenses, the social insurance organization shall establish personal account based on 8% of the payment base. The basic endowment insurance premium shall be paid in lump sum according to the principle of one additional payment of yearly premium for each two additional ages beyond 16 years old (according to actual age of the land-losing urban residents to be resettled) as of the approval date of LA and resettlement schemes by the government (namely, 1 year of premium payment if 16 years old, and 2 years of premium payment if 18 years old and so on, the same below) and the total payment period no greater than 15 years. The land-losing farmers settled in urban areas shall further pay the basic endowment insurance premium as required if they fail the requirements to get the basic pension. The land-losing farmers with the total payment period of endowment insurance premium reaching 15 years (included) can apply to handle with the basic pension formalities when they are 60 (male) or 55 years old (female) and pick up the basic pension from the next month after approval by the social insurance agency and they are entitled to adjustment policies of basic pension defined by the government. The basic pension consists of the basic pension and the pension on special account of the beneficiary. The amount of basic pension is the average of the monthly average salary of in-service employees of the whole province and the average monthly salary of the beneficiary based on which the endowment insurance premium is paid plus 1% for each additional one year of payment. The amount of individual pension provided shall be the total deposits in the special account divided with the number of months in which such pension is provided. If the land-losing farmers settled in urban areas die before reaching the requirements to get the pension or die after picking up the pension, the balance in their special account and interests accrued will be paid to their legal successors or designated beneficiary by the social insurance agency. If the land-losing farmers die during the period when they are picking up the basic pension, the social insurance agency will stop paying the basic pension from the month next to their death but just pay the funeral expenses and the one-off pension for their families. Article 18 reads: For land-losing farmers settled in urban areas who are unemployed but beyond 16 to 60 years old (male) or 55 years old (female) as of the approval date of LA and resettlement schemes by the government and desire to get a job, they will be included in the unemployment insurance system. The LA agency will handle with the unemployment insurance for them and the employment service agency will issue the Certificate of Employment Registration of Sichuan Province. Article 19 reads: Land-losing farmers resettled in urban areas who are 60 (men) or 55 (women) years old as of the approval date of the LA and resettlement schemes by the government shall join in the basic medical insurance system for urban residents and enjoy the basic medical insurance benefits. Article 21 reads: For land-losing farmers settled in urban area but with actual family difficulties and satisfy the requirements to get the subsistence allowance for urban residents, they will be included in the system of subsistence allowances for urban 22 residents of the local city so that the principle of “allowances provided to those who need allowances” can be realized. Involuntary Resettlement Policy of the World Bank The operational policies and business procedures (OP4.12 and BP4.12) of the World Bank for involuntary resettlement have clearly defined the involuntary resettlement policies and the main provisions related to this Project include: ⚫ Targets of the resettlement policy 1. Discuss all feasible design schemes for the Project and try to avoid or minimize involuntary resettlement; 2. If resettlement is inevitable, it shall be designed and implemented as a sustainable development scheme. Sufficient funds shall be provided so that the resettled people can share benefits of the Project. Seriously negotiation shall be made with the migrants so that they can participate in the planning and implementation of the resettlement scheme. ⚫ Measures to realize the target 3. Measures shall be defined in the resettlement plan or resettlement policy framework to guarantee that: (1) The affected people are informed of their options and rights in the resettlement; (2) Negotiate with the affectedpeople about alternatives which are feasible both technically and economically and provide such opportunities and alternatives to these people; (3) Provide quick and effective compensation to offsetdirect property losses resulted from the project. 4. If the impacts include relocation of physical properties, the resettlement plan or resettlement policy framework shall define related measuresto guarantee that: (1) Assistance will be provided to the affected people (e.g. relocation allowance) during relocation; (2) Provide a house or homestead to the affected people, or a place for agricultural activities according to related requirements. The production potential, location advantages and other comprehensive factors of the place for agricultural activities shall be at least equal to favorable conditions of the original place. 5. If it is necessary to accomplish targets of the policy, the resettlement plan or the resettlement policy framework shall define related measures to guarantee that: (1) Estimate the transition period according to possible time required for rebuilding the livelihood and living standard after demolition and assistance can be provided to the affected people during the transition period; (2) Assistance for development of the affected people can be provided, such as land consolidation, credit service, training or job; ⚫ Special attention shall be paid to needs of vulnerable groups among the affected people, especially those living under the poverty line or having no land, the aged 23 people, women and children, indigenous people, ethnic minorities, or other people who are probably out of the protection of the national law on land compensation; ⚫ For the affected people depending on land for living, the land-based resettlement strategies shall be preferred among others. These strategies may include resettling these people on the public land or some private land purchased for the purpose of resettlement. No matter at what time the replacement land is offered, the potential productivity, geographical advantages and other factors of the land provided shall at least be equivalent to advantages of the land acquired. If land is not selected as a top scheme for compensation by the affected people or the land provided will result in adverse impacts on the sustainability of the park or conservation area, or no sufficient land can be obtained at reasonable price, a scheme with job or independent living-earning opportunities but not land, as the emphasis, shall be provided in addition to cash compensation for land and other property losses. If no sufficient land is available, explanation and records shall be made according to requirements of the bank. ⚫ Cash compensation for property losses may be applicable to following conditions: (a) the affected people depend on the land for living but the land acquired by the Project accounts for little in the damaged properties and the remaining land can develop independently in the aspect of economy; (b) Active land, housing and labor market is available and the affected people can use such market; or there is sufficient supply of land and housing; or (c) the affected people don’t depend on the land for living. The amount of cash compensation shall be such that the losses in land and other properties can be made up sufficiently according to replacement cost of the local market. ⚫ Provide related information to the affected people and their community in time; negotiate with them on the resettlement plans and provide them with opportunities to plan, implement, and monitor the resettlement work; set up corresponding and convenient complaint mechanism to these groups. ⚫ Provide necessary infrastructure facilities and public services in the new resettlement sites or main communities to help improve, recover or keep the accesses and services of the communities; provide replaceable or similar resources to make up losses in the community resources available for use (such as fishing area, pasturing area, fuel or forage); ⚫ Set up community organizations matching the new environment based on the selection of the affected people. Conserve the existing social and cultural mechanism of the affected people and communities in possible conditions and respect opinions of the affected people. 24 5 Compensation Standard The compensation standard for LA and HD under the Project are finally determined according to related laws, regulations and policies of China and Sichuan Province, related files of Guang’an City, and the safeguard policy of the World Bank: OP4.12/BP4.12 Involuntary Resettlement and based on the survey on opinions of the affected people on the standard of compensation for land acquisition and their public participation. The standard of compensation under the Project is made based on opinions of the affected people and approved by the local government. It observes the policies, laws and regulations of China and Sichuan Province and the economic conditions of related areas and is capable to guarantee the recovery of production and the development of livelihood of the affected people. 5.1 Compensation for Permanent LA It is defined in the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2018] No. 11) that: the unified annual average output value of the land acquired shall be subject to the unified annual output for LA announced by the people’s government of Guang’an City after being approved by the provincial government. The standard of land compensation and resettlement subsidy for LA shall be: the land compensation fees for 1mu of farmland acquired shall be 10 times of the unified annual averageoutput value of such land, while the resettlement subsidy shall be calculated based on the per capita farmland area. To be specific, the amount of resettlement subsidy shall be 6 times of the unified annual average output value of the farmland acquired for each mu of acquired farmland if the per capita farmland area is 1mu or more; or if the per capita farmland area is less than 1mu, the amount of resettlement subsidy shall be 6 times of the unified annual output value of the farmland acquired for each person to be resettled. The compensation under the Project is nearly 20 multiples of the annual average output value. The land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies for the acquisition of other land shall be half of those for the acquisition of farmland. The land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies for ponds, reservoirs, pools and gardens acquired shall be equal with those for the acquisition of farmland. See Table 5-1 for more details: Table 5-1 Annual Output Value and Standard of Compensation for Permanent LA Standard of Annual Average Standard of District Compensation Compensation for Town Output Value Compensation for (County) Multiple Other Land (CNY/mu) Farmland (CNY/mu) (CNY/mu) Linshui Chengnan 18,80 20 37,600 18,800 5.2 Compensation for Crops and Trees It is defined in the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2018] No. 11) that: the compensation fees for crops on the land acquired shall be 60% of the unified annual output value if major crops and 40% of the same if minor crops. Table 5-2 Compensation Fees for Crops of Guang’an City Compensation for District Annual Output Value Compensation for Town Major Crops (County) (CNY/mu) Minor Crops (CNY/mu) (CNY/mu) Linshui Chengnan 1,880 1,128 752 For protection forests, special forests, fruit trees and other economic trees, mulberry 25 trees, tea trees, garden trees, and flowering shrubs planted in big size (0.5mu or more), compensation fees defined in Table 5-3 shall apply and such trees or shrubs shall be cut down or transplanted by the owner after getting compensation fees. Compensation fees for ground appurtenants and crops on the land acquired shallbe paid to the owner by the agency engaged in the work of LA compensation and resettlement. Table 5-3 Standard of Compensation for Forests and Woods on the Acquired Land Compensation Items Standard of S/N Unit Compensation Name Growing Period Remarks (CNY) Within 3 years of fixed Seedling mu 2,000 planting 3 or more years of Glorious orange, blood Sapling fixed planting mu 3,000 orange, navel orange, At primary fruit In the 3rd to 9th years of 1 summer orange, mandarin mu 6,000 Fruit period period fruiting) orange, grapefruit and th tangerine At full In the 10 year of mu 8,000 productive age fruiting At end mu 5,000 productive age Seedling Height less than 1m mu 2,000 Height greater than 1m Sapling mu 3,000 but hasn’t fruited Peach, cherry, plum, pear, rd th At primary fruit In the 3 to 11 apple, apricot, mu 6,000 Fruit period 2 period years of fruiting) persimmon, green date, th At full In the 12 year of loquat, and prunes mu 8,000 productive age fruiting At end mu 5,000 productive age At full productive Ground diameter mu 8,000 age greater than 5cm At moderate Ground diameter mu 6,000 production age between 2-5cm 3 Grape Ground diameter At primary fruit age mu 5,000 between 1-2cm Ground diameter less Sapling mu 2,500 than 1cm Seedling Not fruited yet mu 2,000 Sapling At primary fruit age mu 3,500 Tea-oil tree, tung-oil tree, 4 Mid-grown tree At moderate fruit age mu 4,500 Chinese tallow tree At full fruit age mu 5,000 Grown tree Aged mu 3,500 Note: Compensation for scattered forest trees shall be made in proportion to the criteria above. 5.3 Compensation for House Demolition It is defined in the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2018] No. 11) that cash compensation or returning house shall be preferred as resettlement for house demolition involved in land acquisition in urban planning area. If resettlement with returning house is preferred, the demolished households will enjoy the basic housing area at a standard of 35m2 per person. The demolished households whose original housing area is within the basic standard will not have to pay the purchase price or enjoy the original demolition compensation. Family members of the demolished households enjoying the basic housing area shall meet with following requirements: 1. He/she is a member of the rural collective economic organization 26 where LA takes place; 2. He/she is a member registered under the household of the owner holding legal files. If the house demolished has an area greater than 35m2/person, compensation shall be made according to the compensation stdandard shown in Table 5-4 and Table 5-7. Demolished households with 4 or more family members can choose two resettlement houses reaching the standard of basic housing area. For houses failing above requirements, cash compensation for house structure will be made for resettlement. See Table 5-4 and Table 5-7 for the standard of cash compensation. Table5-4 Standard of Compensation for Ground Buildings (Structure) S/N Item Compensation Standard (CNY/m2) 1 Frame structure 900 2 Semi-frame structure 830 3 Brick-cement structure 750 Brick (stone)-wood structure (including old-fashioned or 4 550 rubble houses) 5 Color steel shelter 300 6 Simple structure (including pigpen etc.) 150 Table 5-5 Contrast between Compensation Standard for and Replacement Cost of Ground Buildings (Structures) on Land Acquired in Guang’an City* Replacement Cost on Local Market Compensation Labor Cost (Machinery S/N Item Standard (CNY/m2) Material Cost and miscellaneous items included) 1 Frame structure 900 600 260 2 Semi-frame structure 830 580 220 3 Brick-cement structure 750 500 190 Brick (stone)-wood structure 4 (including old-fashioned or rubble 550 Not built any longer houses) 5 Color steel shelter 300 200 70 Simple structure (including pigpen 6 150 80 40 etc.) *Note: landvalue is not included since it had been considered in LAcompensation. It can be seen from the table above that the standards of compensation provided by the resettlement agency for all kinds of houses are all higher than replacement cost of such houses. Subsidies for relocation are provided in lump sum to all the AHs to help them move materials, rent houses, or set up sheds, etc. The criteria of subsidies are CNY 600 for each AH with family size of 1-3, and CNY 800 for each AH with family size of 4, and CNY 1,000 for each AH with family size of 5 and more. As for the relocation of fixed telephone and internet access, compensation of CNY 500 is provided to each AH. The registered account owner of such telephone and internet access is kept after relocation and the related service agency charges for materials and labor forces only for re-installation. As for the relocation of cable TV, compensation of CNY 500 will be provided to each AH after relocation and the registered account owner will be kept too and the related service agency charges for materials and labor forces only (not greater than CNY 500) for re-installation. For other interior decoration, compensation of CNY 1,500 will be made to each AH. 27 Table5-6 Standard of Subsidies for Relocation Item Unit Criteria of Subsidy 600 (1-3 family members) Relocation subsidies CNY/household 800 (4 family members) 1000 (5 or more family members) Subsidy for relocation of fixed CNY/household 500 telephone and internet access Subsidy for relocation of cable TV CNY/household 500 5.4 Standard of Compensation for Ground Appurtenants All the ground appurtenants and scattered trees influenced by LA or HD under the Project will get compensation and support for recovery. See Table 5-7 for details: Table5-7 Criteria of Compensation for Relocation of Ground Appurtenants Compensation S/N Item Unit Standard (CNY) Random riprap and earth fence m2 30 1 Fence Brick and stone fence m2 50 lime-clay-sand yard m2 25 Courtyard (threshing Brick, stone, cement mortar m2 35 2 ground) Slab stone m2 30 2 Earthen m 6 Earthen pit pcs 50 3 Manure pit Cement and lime-clay-sand pcs 100 Stone strip pcs 200 Earthen pcs 300 Stripe stone pcs 800 4 Well Hand-operated pcs 800 Motor-pumped pcs 1300 Ordinary earth tomb pcs 1000 Brick, stone & cement tomb pcs 1400 5 Tomb Brick, stone & cement tomb together with tombstone made of pcs 2000 marble or other materials Gas-producing digester pcs 2500 6 Biogas digester Non-gas-producing digester pcs 1000 Stone strip & stone roller m3 130 3 Concrete m 150 7 Ridge-like fort Random riprap m3 60 Cement mortar m3 80 Single-stove pcs 100 Double-stove pcs 200 Earthen pcs 50 8 Cooking stove Red brick bench pcs 200 Tiled or cement pcs 200 Fuel-efficient stove (facilities pcs 200 included) What deserves special explanation is that the tombs in the affected area are generally built behind the house of the tomb owner and there are no clusters as seen in Guangzhou and other cities in South China. The tombs in the affected area are simple in structure (mostly in the structure of hillock + tombstone). Therefore, the local government provides three options for resettlement: 1) Deeper burial; 2) Relocate to other places nearby; 3) Public cemetery provided by the government for free. Reasonable cash compensation will be provided for whatever option selected. Historical data show that local people were satisfied and no complaints or grievances were raised. 28 5.5 Compensation for Infrastructure Facilities All the infrastructure facilities affected by LA or HD under the Project will be rebuilt or recovered. See Table 5-8 for detailed criteria of compensation: Table 5-8 Criteria of Compensation for Infrastructure Facilities S/N Item Unit Compensation Fee (CNY) 1 220V power cable pole pcs 1,000 Poles for broadcasting, TV, and telephone 2 pcs 800 facilities Water tower, power distribution room, and 3 set Subject to related laws & regulations. pump station, etc The amount of compensation shall be 10KV and 35KV power cable poles (more determined between the land acquirer and the than 220V) and other civilian 4 owner; or can be assessed by intermediate communication facilities, and oil or gas agent upon authorization of the acquirer and pipelines the owner. 29 6 Resettlement and Production Restoration 6.1 Resettlement Objectives The general objective of resettlement under the Project is to provide proper measures for living and family development so that the living standard of affected people can be restored at least to the standard before construction of the Project. Objectives of resettlement policies offered to households affected by LA and HD under the Project include: ⚫ Take engineering, technical and economic measures to avoid or minimize the physical quantity of impacts resulted from LA and HD; take effective measures to minimize impacts on the production and living of local residents when LA and HD are inevitable; ⚫ Make sure the AHs can be resettled as appropriate and get cash compensation according to replacement price of their losses so that their living quality and environment can be improved or at least reach the living quality and environment before such LA and HD; ⚫ Get compensation for appurtenants on the affected land according to replacement price of such appurtenants; ⚫ Get compensation for infrastructure facilities or such facilities can be restored and play original functions; ⚫ Public facilities and environment of the affected communities can be improved or at least restored to the quality before such LA and HD; ⚫ Labor force affected by LA can be resettled as appropriate so that their long-term livelihood can be guaranteed and their living conditions can be improved or at least will not drop. The RAP of the Project will be prepared strictly following related laws and regulations of the People’s Republic of China and Sichuan Province as well as related policies of the World Bank. The local government will carry out LA, HD, and resettlement measures strictly following related laws and regulations, well arrange for living and production of the land-requisitioned farmers, and carry out job training and social security work concerning the land-losing farmers. 6.2 Resettlement Strategies The RAP shall sufficiently represent participatory work methods and ideas and show respect to willingness of the affected people and conserve their traditions of production and living. Considering the fact that the Project is implemented in urban planning area and the affected villages have gone through LA for years and have no land for land- based resettlement, and agricultural production is no longer a major income source in the affected area, no agricultural-style resettlement is adopted for LA under the Project. According to the result of field surveys and negotiation with affected people, cash compensation will be provided to the affected people or villages for the purpose of improving the current production conditions or investing in subsidiary businesses or non-agricultural production activities. The RAP shall include contents explaining how the living standard of poverty-stricken people and other vulnerable groups affected adversely by the Project is improved. As for registered agricultural people who have lost all or most of their land due to construction of the Project and enjoy contracting right on rural collectively-owned land at the time of LA under the Project, they will be provided with resettlement measures 30 including converting from agricultural residents to non-agricultural resident and social security resettlement for land-losing farmers. Furthermore, the employment authority will provide, for free, vocational education and training to the affected people and recommend jobs to the same. 6.3 Resettlement Tasks According to the physical indicators on site and surveys on affected people, totally 129 people from 37 households shall be provided with land compensation fees and economic restoration measures due to LA under the Project, including 87 people from 24 households to be relocated, namely, households with land acquired under the Project. 6.4 Resettlement Schemes 6.4.1 Resettlement Schemes for Land Acquisition The Designer of the Project has, during the process of engineering design, sufficiently considered adverse impacts of LA on the socioeconomic development, production and living system of the affected area and has constantly optimize the engineering design, controlled and optimized the width and construction size of roads to minimize the coverage of LA and HD under the Project to relieve impacts of engineering construction on the production and living conditions of local people. The Project involves in permanent acquisition of 66.53mu collectively-owned land, 60.03mu of which are farmland. Most of the AHs have not fully lost their land, thus, LA under the Project hasn’t resulted in severe impacts on the agricultural production of the AHs. Almost all of the AHs are supportive to the Project and they believe that the implementation of the Project will improve the poor traffic conditions, and the sewage plant will significantly improve the eco-environment. Furthermore, the compensation funds for resettlement will mainly be used to buy social security and hold training activities on labor skills, etc. 1. Agricultural resettlement The Project is implemented in urban planning area and the affected villages have gone through LA for years and have no land for land-based resettlement, and agricultural production is no longer a major income source in the affected area, no agricultural-style resettlement is adopted for LA under the Project. 2. Cash compensation and its distribution Cash compensation will be provided to villages and RHs affected by LA under the Project at the rate of CNY 37,600/mu (compensation for crops excluded). As required by the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an Cit y (GAFF [2013] No. 13), the land compensation fees for acquisition of farmland and other land and the resettlement subsidies will be directly paid to the village where LA takes place and the village will deduct from such compensation the portion of unemployment insurance premium, for labor forces that are converted from agricultural people to non-agricultural people, to be paid by the collective, and later distribute the balance upon resolution reached on the village meeting and make public the use and management of such fund. Resettlement subsidies for LA will be paid to the affected person in lump sum after handling the agricultural-to-non-agricultural formalities in principle. For affected person joining in the social security system, the resettlement subsidies will, after deducting the portion of unemployment insurance premium to be paid by the 31 beneficiary, firstly be used to pay the portion of basic endowment insurance premium to be paid by the beneficiary and then paid directly to the beneficiary. For the portion of social security funds to be paid by the beneficiary from the resettlement subsidies for acquisition of farmland, such portion shall be paid to the social security agency in lump sum in 15 days after handling the agricultural-to- non-agricultural formalities. Living (resettlement) subsidies payable to land-losing farmers who have been converted from agricultural resident to non-agricultural resident and aged less than 16 years old will be paid to the legal custodian of such farmers after handling the agricultural-to-non-agricultural formalities. 3. Social security measures The Basic Endowment Insurance According to Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2018] No. 11), the people aged 16 years or above as of the approval date of the land acquisition resettlement plan whose land is acquired and resettled in the city should join in the basic endowment insurance for enterprise employees. The land acquirer shall purchase the basic endowment insurance expenses for certain years in a lump sum, and the payment base shall be 60% of the average wage of all on-the-job employees of the previous year as of the LA compensation and resettlement plan which has been approved by the government, and the payment proportion is 20% (the acquirer shall pay 12%, and the affected farmers shall pay 8%).The endowment insurance expenses to be paid by individuals shall be withheld by the acquirer from the gained land acquisition compensation expense (i.e. the surplus after the deduction of the payable labor unemployment insurance expenses to be paid by individuals), and the insufficient part shall be borne by the acquirer. After the acquirer fully makes payment of the basic endowment insurance expenses, the social insurance organization shall establish personal account based on 8% of the payment base. The number of land-losing farmers to be settled in urban areas is determined by dividing the area of land acquired with the per capita farmland area before such LA. The per capita farmland area of the village team where LA takes place is the result of dividing the total farmland area of such village team with the total registered agricultural people of that village team. Estimation shows that nearly 75 people converted from agricultural identity to non-agricultural identity will be resettled under the Project. The basic endowment insurance premium shall be paid in lump sum according to the principle of one additional payment of yearly premium for each two additional ages beyond 16 years old (according to actual age of the land-losing urban residents to be resettled) as of the approval date of LA and resettlement schemes by the government (namely, 1 year of premium payment if 16 years old, and 2 years of premium payment if 18 years old and so on, the same below) and the total payment period no greater than 15 years. The land-losing farmers settled in urban areas shall further pay the basic endowment insurance premium as required if they fail the requirements to get the basic pension. The land-losing farmers with the total payment period of endowment insurance premium reaching 15 years (included) can apply to handle with the basic pension formalities when they are 60 (male) or 55 years old (female) and pick up the basic pension from the next month after approval by the social insurance agency and they are entitled to adjustment policies of basic pension defined by the government. 32 The basic pension consists of the basic pension and the pension on special account of the beneficiary. The amount of basic pension is the average of the monthly average salary of in-service employees of the whole province and the average monthly salary of the beneficiary based on which the endowment insurance premium is paid plus 1% for each additional one year of payment. The amount of individual pension provided shall be the total deposits in the special account divided with the number of months in which such pension is provided. Table 6-1 Endowment Insurance Premium to Be Paid and Pension Offered to Land-losing Farmers at all Age Groups Endowment Insurance Endowment Insurance Premium to be Paid by Pension Offered When to Get Age Group Premium to be Paid by the Farmer in Lump (CNY) the Pension the Government (CNY) Sum (CNY) 50 years old and The month next 47,376 71,064 >550 more to the birthday of 40-49 41,059-47,376 61,589-71,064 >550 legal retirement 20-39 9,475-37,900 14,213-56,851 >550 age (60-year-old (men) or 55- 16-19 3,158-6,317 4,737-9,475 >550 year-old (women)) Unemployment Insurance For land-losing farmers settled in urban areas who are unemployed but beyond 16 to 60 years old (male) or 55 years old (female) as of the approval date of LA and resettlement schemes by the government and desire to get a job, they will be included in the unemployment insurance system. The LA agency will handle with the unemployment insurance for them and the employment service agency will issue the Certificate of Employment Registration of Sichuan Province. The unemployment insurance premium of the land-losing farmers settled in urban areas will be paid jointly by the country, the collective and the beneficiary. The standard of unemployment insurance premium payable is the funds required for full unemployment insurance entitled by the beneficiary at the local place on the very day when the compensation and resettlement plan is approved by the government. In which, the portion to be paid by the beneficiary shall be 1% of the 60% of the average in-service employees of the place where the permanent residence of the beneficiary is registered in the previous year and shall be paid for 10 years, and such portion is deducted from the resettlement subsidies provided to such beneficiary, and the remaining portion shall be paid by the land acquirer (80%) and the village team (20%) where LA takes place. The portion to be paid by the village team and the beneficiary will be withheld by the competent land resources bureau when appropriating the LA expenses and paid, in full amount and in time, to the special account of unemployment insurance fund. For land-losing farmers settled in urban areas, the unemployment insurance benefits are available for 24 months at the maximum and the amount of such unemployment insurance benefits, other treatments and management services shall be equal to those of local urban residents. However, the unemployment insurance benefits are unavailable to land-losing farmers who reach the legal retirement age and get basic pension. At present, the amount of unemployment insurance benefits is CNY 1,008 to CNY 1,200 per month. Medical Insurance Land-losing farmers settled in urban areas who are 60 (men) or 55 (women) years old as of the approval date of the Land Acquisition and Resettlement Scheme by 33 the government shall join in the basic medical insurance system for urban residents and enjoy the basic medical insurance benefits. The local government shall fully pay, in lump sum, 15 years of basic medical insurance premium according to local policies concerning the basic medical insurance for urban residents and the farmers need not to pay. The part to be paid by the farmers will be paid by the government from proceeds on the land. The insurance situation of the farmer shall be declared by the insurance handling agency as required. For land-losing farmers resettled in urban areas who are below 60 (men) or 55 (women) years old as of the approval date of land requisition and resettlement schemes by the government, if such farmers get employed in urban areas, they shall join in the basic medical insurance for urban employees along with their employers, or join in the same as required if they are employed in flexible ways, or join in the basic medical insurance for urban residents if they are unemployed. The local government will provide subsidies covering certain years of their medical insurance premium according to the age of such farmers, the type of insurance and the required years of premium for medical insurance, so that they can be included in the medical insurance system. Funds required here will be undertaken by the land acquirer and included in the proceeds from the assigned or sold land. The subsidy will be provided as follows: 7 years of basic medical insurance premium will be provided for farmers aged from 50 and 60 years old (men) or from 45 to 55 years old (women); or 5 years if the farmer is between 18 to 50 years old (men) or 18 to 45 years old (women); The social security funds required for land-losing farmers resettled in urban areas shall be jointly undertaken by such residents, the related village collective economic organization, and the land acquirer in principle. The funds to be paid by the land-losing farmers for their social security will be directly deducted from the resettlement subsidy payable to them; or if the resettlement subsidy is insufficient to cover such funds, the land acquirer will include the balance into the cost of assigned or transferred land. For land-losing farmers settled in urban area but with actual family difficulties and satisfy the requirements to get the subsistence allowance for urban residents, they will be included in the system of subsistence allowances for urban residents of the local city so that the principle of “allowances provided to those who need allowances” can be realized. 4. Measures for skill training The competent labor and social security affairs agency is responsible to carry out skill training and re-employment work for land-losing farmers, prepare training schemes, set up reporting system on the training courses and training work, and adjust training schemes according to actual labor demands. Along with construction of the development park and the settlement of enterprises in such park, more and more labor forces will be needed in the park. The management department of the industrial park has made skill training schemes in details based on actual needs of the local enterprises for skills of workers and these schemes will, not only guarantee that the farmers involved in involuntary resettlement due to construction of the World Bank projects can get, for free, some skills for living after losing the land, but also cover other farmers living in the industrial park but not involved in the World Bank project. Table 6-2 Vocational Training Schemes 2018 of Linshui County Occupation (Type of Expected Number of Year Training Activities Work) Participants 2018 (1,000 person- In-service training to workers of CNC lathe worker 50 34 Occupation (Type of Expected Number of Year Training Activities Work) Participants times) enterprises in the Economic Electricians 30 Development Zone (“EDZ”) Bench worker 50 Training on surplus rural labor Computer application 100 forces Automobile service 50 Rural sunshine training Computer application 100 Employment training on people Bench worker 100 who haven’t finished junior or Automobile service 50 senior middle school study Lathe worker 120 Lathe worker 100 Job-transfer training on coal Electrician 50 miners Bench worker 100 Improvement training on low- Low-level managers 100 level managers 5. Measures for employment promotion Analytical prediction shows that the Project will offer more than 150 of temporary jobs during the construction and operation stage and nearly 30% of these jobs require non-skilled workers only and each will bring about CNY 2,200 to CNY 4,000 of income every month. During the implementation and operation process of the Project, the World Bank PMO of Guang’an will take measures to make sure the affected person under the Project get such jobs with salary no less than average salary of the same type work at the local place. At the construction stage of the Project, workers engaged in management, engineering and other work are required by positions including design, contract management, and contract supervision, including skilled workers (machine operators, electricians, and welders, etc) and non-skilled workers (excavation workers, porters, cleaners and landscape workers). At the operation stage of the Project, the sewage plant, the training center, the agency for maintenance of infrastructure facilities (electricians and plumbers, etc) and other fields (waiters/waitresses, security, cleaners, etc) will have greater labor demands. 6. Financial measures including small-sum guaranteed loans for women According to the Opinions as to Further Push Forward and Make Perfect the Interest Subsidy Policies for Small-sum Guaranteed Loan to Facilitate Women’s Entrepreneurship and Employment of Linshui County (LWBF [2013] No. 13), assistance shall be made to help urban and rural women meeting with requirements for small-sum guaranteed loans to apply for such loan and put the interest subsidy policy into practice to solve fund problems hindering the women’s entrepreneurship and employment. Linshui Women’s Federation has, in the aspect of home-staying flexible employment, set up a home-staying flexible employment platform among the government, market, villages, and rural families and a flexible employment system, by ways of policy support and guidance, so that to further push forward the development of home-staying flexible employment of women. Loans are available to urban and rural women meeting with requirements as follows: aged 18 to 55 years old, in good health, diligent and kind-hearted, honest and trustworthy, fully capable of civil conducts, and free of bad social or business credit records; registered urban unemployed women, job-waiting female college students, and job-waiting migrant women, desiring for entrepreneurship, in urban areas; and rural women having feasible production or business projects, desiring and capable to start their business and capable to pay back the loan, in rural areas. 35 The loans are mainly used for micro-profit projects complying with national rules, such as business, service, production, processing, or planting. The amount of loan shall not exceed CNY 80,000 for single individual or CNY 100,000 on average for each person if partnership or organization for employment; the term of the loan shall not exceed 2 years, and the interest rate shall be the base rate announced by the People’s Bank of China plus no greater than 3%. The procedures of applying for the loan: the applicant submits the application for loan on his/her free will; the women’s federation or government checks, recommends, and selects a guarantee company and appoints an in-service person getting salary from the government’s fiscal authority, as a guarantor; submit related files to the women’s federation for approval; related financial institutions handles with loan issues. 6.4.2 Resettlement Schemes for House Demolition The Project involves in HD of 24,900m2, with 187 people from 62 households affected. The houses demolished have common problems including imperfect supporting facilities, old-fashioned structure, and poor lighting and ventilation to different extents, and the living conditions nearby are poor. The resettlement for HD under the Project will be an opportunity to improve the living conditions of the AHs. It is defined in the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2018] No. 11), cash resettlement or resettlement with returning house shall be preferred for HD involved in AL in urban planning areas. 1. Criteria for HD Resettlement It is defined that the family members of the demolished households enjoying the basic housing area shall meet with following criteria: 1) He/she is a member of the rural collective economic organization where LA takes place; 2) He/she is a member registered under the household of the owner holding legal files. 2. Cash resettlement For houses failing above requirements, cash compensation will be made for resettlement and the house owner shall demolish his/her houses and not build a new one in other places. See Table 5-4 and Table 5-7 for the standard of cash compensation. 3. Resettlement by returning house Resettlement by returning house will be adopted for houses meeting the above criteria. To be specific, following provisions will be observed: (1) The demolished households will enjoy the basic housing area at a standard of 35m2 per person. The demolished households whose original housing area is within the basic standard will not have to pay the purchase price or enjoy the original demolition compensation. (2) Area exceeding 35m2 per person of the demolished house shall be acquired at a criterion specified in Table 5-4; (3) The people’s government of the district, county and city shall organize to build the resettlement houses or build the house against the auction of land, or purchase commodity houses for resettlement from the market. (4) Land will be allocated to build resettlement houses. 36 (5) The resettlement houses shall be built as a commodity-house residential quarter, and these houses can be built into multi-storey buildings, small high- rise buildings or large high-rise buildings according to the planning and resettlement needs. The water supply, power supply and gas supply authorities shall make through water, power and gas supply in the built-up resettlement houses; the residential quarter shall have complete supporting facilities; the design scheme shall be checked and provided by the housing and construction authority, and implemented after taking opinions of the AHs. The site of resettlement houses shall be such that opinions of the AHs are respected and municipal utilities like water, power and gas shall be fully taken into account. (6) The resettlement houses consist of three types (subject to floor area): 70m2/house, 105m2/house and 140m2/house. (7) The AHs with family size of 4 or more can choose two settlement houses meeting requirements on the basic housing area; (8) The AHs with family size of 1 can choose a 70m2apartment. After verification with the Chengnan Town Demolition Office, the project affected 24 households with 87 persons all meeting the resettlement standards. The affected households can choose to resettle their houses or choose monetary resettlement. At present, AHs choosing resettlement by returning house under the Project may choose to resettle in Dongcheng Resettlement Site in Linshui County. This resettlement site is located in Wenxing Village of Chengnan Town in Linshui County and the Owner is the Linshui Urban Construction and Investment Co., Ltd. Covering total land area of 52,682m2 and total floor area of 269,987m2, this resettlement site will hold 2,248 households according to the design. Up to now, the preparatory work such as pre-design has been completed, and the construction unit has begun to level the construction of the site and will start to construct the resettlement housing. It is expected that the resettlement houses will be completed before close of the World Bank loan project. If the proposed resettlement apartments can not be completed before project closing. Linshui PMO and Chengnan Town Demolition Office should negotiate with AHs and provide other appropriate methods to make sure all AHs can be resettled properly before project closing. See the picture below for map of the built-up resettlement quarters: 37 Figure 6-1 Distribution Map of Resettlement Houses in Linshui County 4. Transition subsidies The AHs preferring resettlement by returning house will be provided with transition subsidies, in lump sum, for an one-year transition period commenced from the date of signing the resettlement agreement, at the rate of CNY 4,000/year for each AH with family size of 1-3, CNY 6,000/year for each AH with family size of 4-6, or CNY 7,000/year for each AH with family size of 7 and more. The transition period for resettlement by returning house shall not exceed one year, or otherwise the transition subsidies shall be doubled. The AHs choosing cash compensation and building new house by themselves, a transition period exists too. For these AHs, temporary transition subsidies covering 6 months will be provided at the rate equal to those listed in the preceding paragraph. 38 5. Resettlement for houses carrying no ownership certificate Although it is defined in Chinese laws that no compensation will be made to the owner of houses carrying no ownership certificate, the World Bank’s policy requires making compensation at the replacement cost of such house on the market. The deadline for the recognition of the affected households and the quantity of physical influences is April 16, 2018. Houses carrying no ownership certificate but getting registered before such date can get compensation equal to the replacement cost of such house and no compensation will be made to similar houses failed to be registered before that date. Furthermore, the local resettlement agency will reinforce supervision and policy publicity to guarantee solution of such problems upon negotiation with the affected people. 6.5 Measures for Women’s Development During the process of resettlement under the Project, sufficient respects will be shown to the women’s rights and benefits and emphasis will be attached to play the important role of women in socioeconomic activities and the process of resettlement. Specific measures adopted under the Project to push forward women’s development include: 1. Small-sum guaranteed loans for women According to the Opinions as to Further Push Forward and Make Perfect the Interest Subsidy Policies for Small-sum Guaranteed Loan to Facilitate Women’s Entrepreneurship and Employment of Linshui County (LWBF [2013] No. 13), assistance shall be made to help urban and rural women meeting with requirements for small-sum guaranteed loans to apply for such loan and put the interest subsidy policy into practice to solve fund problems hindering the women’s entrepreneurship and employment. Linshui Women’s Federation has, in the aspect of home-staying flexible employment, set up a home-staying flexible employment platform among the government, market, villages, and rural families and a flexible employment system, by ways of policy support and guidance, so that to further push forward the development of home-staying flexible employment of women. 2. Enterprises settled in the Economic Development Zone will provide more jobs to women. 2. Women have equal decision-making rights to prefer resettlement schemes for their family For the purpose of safeguarding women’s equal rights and benefits in the resettlement activities and playing the important role of women in the same, all the village meetings and village team meetings concerning resettlement work and held under the Project in the implementation stage of resettlement will have sufficient number of women participants and equal rights will be given to women to express their opinions and make decisions. To safeguard the equal rights and benefits of women in resettlement activities, it is required that the resettlement agreement under the Project shall be invalid unless being signed, or confirmed in person, by both the husband and the wife of the affected family. 6.6 Restoration Measures for Vulnerable Groups Vulnerable groups under the Project include the disabled people and the poverty- stricken families. As for vulnerable groups in the traditional sense, the local government has set up a complete and effective assistance system with following specific resettlement measures: (I) Assistance policies for poverty-stricken families The local government will include the poverty-stricken families in the minimum 39 living guarantee system which consists of the urban minimum living guarantee and rural minimum living guarantee. Furthermore, the land-losing farmers in the area involved in the Project will, after becoming urban resident, enjoy the unemployment benefits and endowment insurance. See Paragraph 6.4.1 for more details about the standard of such benefits. (II) Assistance policies for the disabled people 1)The “Sunshine Home Plan” initiated by the Chinese Disabled Persons’ Federation (“CDPF”) and covering the whole territory of China provides subsidies to each level I disabled person at the rate of CNY 50/person/month; 2) Nursing subsidies are provided to severely disabled person of Sichuan Province at the rate of CNY 50-80/person/month; 3) Intermediate agencies are appointed every year to provide vocational training to the disabled people on jobs suitable to them, including welder and chef, etc. As for vulnerable groups under the Project, the local government has taken a series of special measures to help them get more benefits from the Project in addition to those general assistance measures provided by the central government. (I) For poverty-stricken families: an important reason resulting in poverty of people in affected areas under the Project is the lack of labor skills. Thus, the local government takes following measures to help these families during the stage of implementation of the Project: (1) Provide skills training firstly; (2) Recommend jobs to them firstly; (II) For the disabled people: the local government provides different assistance measures for the disabled people, including: (3) For the disabled people capable to work, the government will try to provide jobs to them; the government will not only appoint intermediary agency to provide vocational trainings to the disabled people, but also provide them firstly with outsourced jobs inside the government, such as cleaners, securities or warehouse keepers in factories in the Economic Development Zone, etc; (4) For the disabled people incapable to work, the government sets up the rehabilitation center and the fostering center to help them restore the life ability as soon as possible. 40 7 Organizations and Implementation Progresses 7.1. Resettlement Implementing and Managing Organizations For the purpose of guaranteeing the smooth implementation of resettlement work and the realization of expected effects, it is a must to set up a full set of organizations during the implementation process of the Project so that to make convenient the planning, coordinating and monitoring on resettlement activities. The resettlement work has huge coverage and requires coordination and cooperation of all the related departments. The Project Management Office is responsible for general coordination to implement the resettlement work. The organizational chart under the Project is as follows: Leading Group of the Project Project Management Office (the Management External Internal Monitor Monitor Committee of the Economic Development Zone) Responsible person of affected towns (townships) Responsible person of affected villages People affected by LA People with other physical and HD properties affected Figure 7-1 Organizational Chart of the Resettlement Implementing Organizations 7.2 Responsibilities of the Resettlement Organizations The Leading Group of the Project For the purpose of reinforcing management for the intermediate adjustment projects for infrastructure construction in the World Bank Loaned Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation (Guang’an) Exemplary Zone, guaranteeing the availability of funds required, and the smooth progress of engineering construction, Linshui County has set up a leading group for the Project to undertake following responsibilities: Organize the resettlement work under the Project and formulate policies guiding the resettlement activities; Coordinate relationship between resettlement organizations at all levels; Coordinate the work of related governmental agencies at the preparatory and implementation stage; Make decisions on important issues during construction and resettlement processes under the Project. 41 Table 7-1 Staffing of the Leading Group of the Project The Leading Group for Intermediate Adjustment Projects in Linshui County Name Organization and Title in the Organization Chief Huang Yonghong Chief of Linshui People’s Government Deputy Chief Wu Qilei Deputy Chief of Linshui People’s Government Deputy director of the Bureau of Education, Science and Sports of Hu Yixue Linshui County Director of the Management Committee of the Economic He Yongbin Development Zone Members Vice Director of the Management Committee of the Economic Li Di Development Zone Vice Director of the Planning and Construction Bureau of the Luo Yong Management Committee of the Economic Development Zone The Project Management Office (the Management Committee of the Economic Development Zone) The Owner of the Project keeps closes contact and cooperation with related counties, districts and cities, towns and townships, and villages at all levels; guides the LA and HD office to handle with issues concerning LA, HD and resettlement under the Project, and coordinates, in a comprehensive way, the Project. To be specific, responsibilities of the Owner include: Organize and coordinate the LA, HD and resettlement work under the Project; formulate the LA, HD, and resettlement action plan together with the Land Resources Bureau; sign the resettlement work agreement with the LA, HD and resettlement authorities of counties, towns and townships at all levels, and appropriate the compensation funds in time and in full amount; Look into and study the resettlement work, ask for opinions of affected units and individuals, and respond to their complaints and grievances quickly; Check and supervise the release and use of compensation funds; Guide the affected towns and villages to formulate the economic recovery plan; Prepare and publicize resettlement files and communicate related information, well carry out the assignments by higher authority, and guarantee the smooth implementation of work of the Project Management Office. The Bureau of Land and Resources of Linshui County Responsible for LA; responsible to work together with affected towns (townships) to identify the people to be resettled, and make clear the people, number of households, area, and types of structure involved in LA and HD and related records, and statistics; put forward with resettlement schemes and report the schemes to the people’s government of related county/district for approval; responsible for the supply of land for construction of resettlement houses, and related resettlement work, etc. The Bureau of Finance of Linshui County The Bureau of Finance is mainly responsible to check the amount of resettlement compensation determined by the Bureau of Resettlement Work and the Bureau of Land and Resources of Linshui County, remit the compensation funds to the special account of the Owner or the related families as required; strictly observe financial and economic disciplines and reinforce financial management and well control and use the resettlement funds; appropriate the compensation for physical losses, relocation and transportation and the resettlement subsidies offered to the affected people; comply with the financial control system, strictly carry out approval procedures, supervise the 42 expenditures, and assist the audit and censorship authorities audit and supervise resettlement funds. The People’s Government of Chengnan Town Mainly responsible for HD; the people’s government of affected towns (townships) is the main body responsible for resettlement, with duties of organizing related communities (neighborhoods and villages) to hold coordination meetings among affected households, carry out HD involved in LA and construction of the resettlement quarters, prepare the distribution schemes of resettlement houses, help solve problems emerging in the process of construction, and organize the affected households to move in the resettlement houses. The village collective organization Villages and village teams are the most primary-level organizations for LA, HD and resettlement. This level of organizations has no right of decision-making, but plays critical role in the implementation process and their performance directly decides or influences the quality of resettlement work. Responsibilities of villages and village teams include: Well carry out survey on physical losses of each affected households and survey on affected people; Help release the compensation funds and assist the vulnerable groups; Report to upper authorities the problems emerging in the work and well communicate between the upper authority and the affected people; Help carry out training and job recommendation for labor forces; Help carry out house demolition, distribution of resettlement houses, and move-in of affected households to resettlement houses. Table 7-2 Information of Resettlement Implementing Organizations under the Project LA and HD Implementing Organizations under the Project and Their Responsible Persons Organization Name Title Vice director of the EDZ Management The Management Huang Xiaolong Committee (General Leader) Committee of the Economic Responsible person of the House Demolition Development Zone Yang Shengjun Office of the EDZ Management Committee The Land and Resources Deputy Director of the Land and Resources Zhang Jun Bureau Bureau of Linshui County Chief of Chief of Chengnan People’s Yang Yong Government (General Leader) Deputy party secretary of Chengnan Town (in Chengnan Town Pu Pengcheng charge of the Project) Director of the Economic Development Office Zhang Shanglin (House Demolition Office) of Chengnan Town Party branch secretary of Shiba Village, Zhou Hongjun Shiba Village Chengnan Town Wu Yong Director of Shiba Village, Chengnan Town 7.3 Ability of and Trainings for Resettlement Organizations To guarantee the implementation of the RAP and make sure it is beneficial to the affected people, it is a must to provide special training to personnel of the implementation agency and other organizations to strengthen their ability of planning and managing. The Owner is responsible to organize trainings and provide funds for such trainings. Lecturers are experts experienced of resettlement under World Bank assisted projects, while trainees are personnel of the implementing agency and training 43 contents include: ⚫ Laws and regulations of China and local government on land acquisition and resettlement; ⚫ Policies and requirements of the World Bank; ⚫ Resettlement plans; ⚫ Experiences concerning the procedures and operation of resettlement and land acquisition; Table 7-3 Schedule of Trainings on Resettlement under the Project Date Place Way of Training Trainees Training Contents Resettlement policies of the Lecture and Resettlement World Bank and July, 2018 Linshui County discussion personnel implementation of land acquisition and resettlement Resettlement October, 2018 Linshui County Lecture Training on resettlement work personnel Exchange and discuss on Exchange and Resettlement March, 2019 Linshui County experiences of and problems in lecture personnel the resettlement work 7.4 Implementation Scheduling According to plans and arrangements concerning implementation schedule of the Project, the LA, HD and resettlement schedule under the Project will be associated with construction schedule of the same. Main work plans concerning LA, HD and resettlement will be made and finished from April to December 30, 2019. The general scheduling of resettlement under the Project is made and is subject to adjustments made as appropriate based on the overall progress of the Project. See Table 7-4 for more details. 44 Table7-4Resettlement Scheduling 2018 2019 2020 Contents 2 4 6 8 10 12 2 4 6 8 10 12 2 4 6 8 1. Project planning and feasibility study 2. Measurement and determination of land to be acquired and house to be demolished 3. Hold various consultative meetings and resettlement meetings 4. Formulate compensation and resettlement schemes and training plans in details. 5. Disclose the resettlement plan to affected people. 6. Sing the LA and HD agreements with affected villages and households 7. Settle the compensation funds 8. Land acquisition 9. Restoration and production and living of affected people. 45 8 Budget and Sources of Funds 8.1 Budget Resettlement funds under the Project mainly include the compensation fees for LA, HD, and demolition of various appurtenants, administrative expenses, training fees, taxes and contingency costs, etc. See Table 8-1 for more details. Total budget for resettlement under the Project is CNY 10.700192 million, including new resettlement fees CNY 5.275036 million, already resettlement fees 5.425156. the new resettlement fee will include CNY 4.146972 million of basic resettlement fees directly used as compensation funds to the affected people, CNY 713.365 thousand of taxes, duties and management fees, and CNY 414.7 thousand of contingency costs. 46 Table8-1 Budget for Resettlement and Compensation under the Project Compensation S/N Item Unit Quantity Amount (CNY) Criteria (CNY) I New resettlement fees 5,275,036 1. Basic expenses 4,146,972 1.1 Expenses for LA 423,752 Farmland mu 8.02 37,600 301,552 Non-farmland mu 6.5 18,800 122,200 1.2 Crops, trees, and appurtenants 309,047 Crops mu 8.02 1,128 9,047 Ground appurtenants 300,000 1.3 Compensation for HD 2,614,173 Brick-concrete m2 624.73 750 468,548 Brick-wood m2 3,177.82 550 1,747,801 Earth-wood m2 586.56 400 234,624 Resettlement subsidy Family 24 800 19,200 Transition subsidies (12 months) Family 24 6000 144,000 Expenses for Recovery of 1.4 800,000 Infrastructure Facilities 2. Related expenses 713,365 2.1 Tax on occupancy of farmland mu 8.02 16,000 128,320 2.2 Fees for farmland reclamation mu 8.02 30,000 240,600 Fees for paid use of new land for 2.3 mu 8.02 9,338 74,891 construction Expenses for the RAP and RAP monitoring and evaluation (0.5% of the basic 2.4 20,735 expenses) Other related expenses concerning the cleaning work after HD, and the fees for 2.5 41,470 assessment and audit agencies (1% of the basic expenses) 2.6 Administrative fees for resettlement (5% of the basic expenses) 207,349 3. Contingency costs (10% of the basic expenses) 414,700 Already Resettlement fee 5,425,156 All in total fees 10,700,192 8.2 The By-year Fund Using Plan For the purpose of avoiding impacts on the production and living conditions of land- losing farmers before construction or during implementation of the Project, the investment is planned to be made by stages. See Table 8-2 for more details about the investment plan. Table 8-2 Investment Plan for Resettlement Year 2018 2019 2020 Sub-total Investment (CNY 10,000) 500.0000 428.0000 142.0192 1,070.0192 Proportion (%) 47% 40% 13% 100% 8.3 Source of Funds and Procedures of Appropriation The Owner will, according to compensation policies and criteria defined in the RAP, sign the Agreement on Land Acquisition and the Agreement on House Demolition with resettlement organizations at all levels of the affected county/district. These resettlement organizations will later sign the Agreement on Land Acquisition and the compensation contracts with the affected households. The Owner of the Project (the “Owner”) will, as required by related policies, pay the compensation funds for land acquisition, crops, and other appurtenants, to the bureau of finance of the affected county/district and this bureau of finance will later pay to the affected villages and affected people for the recovery of living and production conditions. 47 The Owner willpay the compensation funds to the bureau of finance of related counties/districts according to the contents, quantity, and time of compensation funds defined in the house demolition agreement, and such bureau of finance will later pay to the affected people, as the compensation for house demolition and construction of resettlement quarters. The fund for recovery of infrastructure facilities will be paid by the Owner to the bureau of finance of the affected counties/districts, and such bureau of finance will later pay to the related owner of such infrastructure facilities for the relocation, recovery, or reconstruction of such infrastructure facilities. 48 9 Public Participation and Negotiation Following related policies, laws and regulations on LA, HD, and resettlement, of China, Sichuan Province and Guang’an City and for the purpose of safeguarding the legal rights and interests of the affected people and the relocated organizations and minimizing complaints and disputes, the principle of negotiation goes through the whole Project for communicating with the affected people. After the final selection of construction site for the Project, the resettlement organizations have for many times, negotiated and communicated with the affected villages, village teams and representative villages, to take their opinions and advices. 9.1 Ways and Measures of Public Participation The outlines of work which define the contents, methods and requirements of field surveys are prepared before carrying out such field surveys. Opinions of the local government are taken and representatives appointed by the local government are included in the survey team. During the baseline survey period, responsible persons of the affected towns (townships), villages and village teams, and representatives of the affected people, are invited to carry out field survey together and the necessity, impacts, compensation policies and resettlement scheduling are communicated with them, and discussion is made with them on possible options of resettlement. At the stage of resettlement planning, the resettlement planners have discussion with leaders of the affected counties, districts and towns, to take their opinions, requirements and reports on existing problems. According to the principle of effectiveness and operability, public participation of the affected people is realized mainly in following ways: 1. The focus group interview Focus group interviews covering all the affected people are held in villages affected by resettlement, with the interviewees including general residents and special groups like the aged people, women and the disabled people, affected by LA and/or HD. It is learnt from the interview that they have no special requirements but just the timely and full payment of the compensation funds for LA and HD. 2. The structured questionnaire Structured questionnaire is designed based on the features of the preparatory and the design stages of the Project, for the purpose of fully learning the resettlement willingness of the affected people and taking advices and suggestions on the reconstruction and resettlement solutions in rural areas. 24 households are involved in the questionnaire. 9.2 Public Participation at the Preparatory Stage The Owner, related organizations of the affected county/district, and the leaders of affected towns/townships in charge of engineering construction and resettlement, and other related responsible persons have carried out a lot of working meetings; a lot of meetings involving public participation have been held among leaders of affected towns, townships, villages, and village teams, and villager representatives on the implementation of the Project, scheduling of the resettlement work and compensation schemes under the Project, so that to publicize the Project and take opinions of the affected people about the resettlement work. The final resettlement schemes meeting 49 with willingness of the affected people are determined by ways of listening to and taking these opinions. See Table 9-1 for topics, contents and participants of meetings held under the Project. Table 9-1 Minutes of Meetings Involving Public Participation under the Project Number of Time Place Participants Contents/Results Participants Discuss preparatory work Guang’an Functional departments under the Project, and 2018.1.20 Development and 20, 5 are women under the Project explain security policies Reform Commission of the World Bank The Land and Resources Bureau, the Women’s Federation, leaders of affected Carry out trainings on the The people’s towns/townships, the Project and explain 2018.2.1 government of Bureau of Human 35, 8 are women security policies of the Linshui County Resources and Social World Bank Security, the Bureau of Employment, and the Government Office, of Linshui County To learn basic The Management Leaders and villager socioeconomic conditions Committee of the representatives of 2018.2.2 7, 2 are women of the village and fill in EDZ of Linshui affected villages in the the social assessment County EDZ report and questionnaire To learn basic The People’s Leaders and villager socioeconomic conditions Government of representatives of 2018.2.2 10, 3 are women of the village and fill in Chengnan Town, affected villages of the social assessment Linshui County Chengnan Town report and questionnaire Shiba Village Publicity of policies, Committee of Villager representatives introduction to the 2018.2.3 80, 30 are women Chengnan Town, of the affected village Project, and Linshui County questionnaire. Note: There are women representatives in all the meetings held among functional departments of the government, such as the women’s federation and the civil affairs department, etc; in the meetings held among villagers and village leaders, women participants account for higher proportion in all participants (more than one third according to actual survey), and the possible reason can be the effective protection of the women’s rights and interests in Sichuan Province. 9.3 Public Participation at the Implementation Stage 9.3.1 Participation in the Use and Management of Land Compensation Funds It is required that the land compensation funds provided to the village collective and the compensation funds for other properties of the village collective cannot be intercepted or embezzled by any unit or individual. The compensation funds shall be managed by the village collective for designed purposes after reaching the village collective. Furthermore, the use of the compensation funds shall be determined upon discussion on the village meetings and get supervision by the villager representatives. 9.3.2 Participation in the House-based Resettlement The standard of compensation for house demolition is related to the rights and interests of the affected households directly. Related resettlement organizations have, before the 50 commencement of house demolition, negotiated with the affected households on the standard of house demolition and sign the agreement; the results of negotiation is required to be published and announced after signing the agreement so that to get supervision of the public. Furthermore, according to results of the survey on opinions of the affected people, most of the affected people prefers joint resettlement in their towns/townships. The resettlement organization and the local government will provide corresponding assistance at all stages of the resettlement work. 9.3.3 Participation in Engineering Construction The engineering construction will inevitably bring impacts to the local people. For the purpose of guarantee that people affected by the Project can get benefits from the engineering construction under such Project, the participation of local residents in construction of the Project is encouraged and convenience will be provided to the local people in the use of materials and labor forces. 9.4 Publicity and Release of Information Publicity and release of information start in April 2018. Meetings among the affected people are a major way for release of information. These meetings are held for the purpose of enabling the participants to learn the implementation status of land acquisition, the policies and criteria of compensation, and the resettlement policies, and getting feedbacks of such participants. The release of information and the publicity of the resettlement plan under the Project shall, through multiple media, extensively publicize the purposes and significances, time and place of construction, of the Project, specific provisions formulated by the provincial, prefecture, and county governments as to implement national policies on land acquisition and house demolition, and the standard of compensation and resettlement schemes, under the Project. The following three measures will be taken for the publicity and release of information about the land acquisition and house demolition work under the Project: 1. Put up notices in the affected villages and village teams to explain the basic contents, compensation standard, and resettlement schemes of land acquisition and house demolition under the Project so that to enable the affected people to learn basic information of the Project and their rights and interests in the Project. 2. Release on mainstream newspapers of the local area the core contents of the Resettlement Action Plan for the Intermediate Adjustment Projects for Infrastructure Construction of the World Bank Loaned Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation (Guang’an) Exemplary Zone for publicity; 3. Announce the Resettlement Action Plan for the Intermediate Adjustment Projects for Infrastructure Construction of the World Bank Loaned Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation (Guang’an) Exemplary Zone on official website of the people’s government of both Guang’an City and Linshui County; With publicity and announcement by taking the abovementioned three measures, it can be guaranteed that most of the affected people in the affected area can learn and get clear about basic information and related resettlement work under the Project through their own ways. 9.5 Complaint Channels As for difficulties, complaints and dissatisfactions emerging during the process of LA, HD, and resettlement under the Project, in addition to the official procedures of handling with these difficulties, complaints and dissatisfactions, there are many other opportunities, such as public meetings, hearings, inspection activities and site visits, to enable the affected people to communicate with Project officers, government leaders, 51 PMOs, representatives of the bid winner, and officers of the resettlement monitoring agency, which enables to affected people to tell their concerns. Although these are not required procedures to solve problems, they may solve the difficulties, complaints and dissatisfactions before such difficulties, complaints and dissatisfactions reaching the following agencies. The affected people can report their difficulties, complaints, and dissatisfactions through the 5 channels below: 1. Report to the resettlement agency of related counties/districts/cities or the town- level land and resources bureau It is defined in the administrative duties of the local government that when problems or dissatisfaction emerge in the land acquisition or resettlement work, such problems or dissatisfaction shall be firstly solved by the local land and resources authority and the affected person can, if the local land and resources authority fails to solve such problems or difficulties, turn to other complaint channels; 2. Report to governments at all levels (town, city, or prefecture-level) If the problems reported by the affected person fail to be solved by the local resettlement agency or the land and resources authority, the affected person can turn to the “complaint division” of the local government at all levels which is set up to collect opinions and complaints (on land acquisition, house demolition or resettlement) of the public. The “complaint division” mechanism has played important role in the administrative institutions of the Chinese government at all levels. The affected person can report his/her complaints, in written or oral, to the “complaint division” and such division will organize related department to solve such complaints, or report to leaders of the local government if unable to solve the same. 3. Report to the Owner The Owner, as the final user of the land, has the responsibility to solve problems emerging during land acquisition or house demolition. In this regard, the Owner has set up a special service and complaint hotline. 4. Report to the external monitoring agency The external independent monitoring agency carries out follow-up survey on the production and living conditions of the affected people at regular intervals every year during the monitoring period, evaluates the resettlement work, and reports the conclusion of monitoring and evaluation to the Owner, the local agency implementing land acquisition and house demolition, and the World Bank. Therefore, the affected person can report his/her complaints and dissatisfaction to the external monitoring agency. It is one of the duties of the external independent monitoring agency to listen to and learn the dissatisfaction and complaints of the affected people. 5. Lawsuit The affected person can, from time to time, file a lawsuit at the local court and submit his/her complaints to the same for hearing and resolution. 52 10 Monitoring and Evaluation For the purpose of guaranteeing smooth implementation of the RAP and realizing the good resettlement of affected people, monitoring covering the whole process of land acquisition, house demolition, and resettlement under the Project is carried out, as required by the operational policy of the World Bank (OP4.12: Involuntary Resettlement) and the Business Guide for Resettlement Monitoring and Evaluation of Chinese Items with Loan from the World Bank. The monitoring is carried out in two ways: the internal monitoring of the resettlement organization and the external independent monitoring. 10.1 Internal Monitoring 10.1.1 Purposes and Tasks The internal monitoring is carried out for the purpose of guaranteeing that the resettlement organizations at all levels can play good functions in the implementation process of the Resettlement Action Plan (“RAP”) under the Project, and the legal rights and interests of the affected people under the Project will not be encroached, and the engineering construction of the Project can be pushed forward smoothly. Auditing agencies at all levels will exercise their power to supervise, through auditing, on related units in the jurisdiction area, as required by related laws and regulations. In addition, to make sure that all the resettlement organizations will follow the principles and timeline of the RAP to carry out the resettlement work, it is required that all the responsible units shall monitor the work of their subdivisions. 10.1.2 Contents of Monitoring Main contents of the internal monitoring include: 1. Appropriation and use of compensation funds for resettlement; 2. Construction progress of resettlement houses and the process of resettlement; 3. Assistance to vulnerable groups; 4. Vocational training for the affected people; 5. Release of subsidies for land resettlement; 6. Implementation of social-security-based resettlement; 7. Restoration of special facilities; 8. Timeline of all the above activities; 9. Implementation of policies and regulations defined in the RAP; 10. Participation of and negotiation with the affected people during the implementation stage; 11. Staffing, training, and work schedule, and operation of the resettlement organizations at all levels. 10.1.3 Implementation Procedures of Internal Monitoring During the implementation period, the Project organizations monitor the samples, gather and make records of resettlement information, and submit records of the real time activities to the PMOs so that to keep continuous monitoring on implementation. The PMO carries out periodic checks on the implementation. 53 10.2 External Independent Monitoring 10.2.1 Purposes and Tasks The external monitoring mainly refers to the periodic monitoring and evaluation carried out on the LA, HD, and resettlement work from outside of the resettlement organizations and its purpose is to evaluate whether the resettlement targets are realized. Evaluation opinions and suggestions will be raised on the whole process of resettlement and the restoration of living and production conditions of the affected people based on the external monitoring and evaluation work, so that to provide early warning to the engineering management authority and channels for the affected people to report their opinions. 10.2.2 The Monitoring Agency The Owner determines the resettlement monitoring agency by bidding. The bid winner shall have related monitoring experience on resettlement under World Bank loaned projects and can keep objective, fair, and independent and is approved by the World Bank. The external independent monitoring agency will implement all the basic monitoring work by providing technical assistance to the Owner and the implementation organizations, and carrying out surveys on resettlement and surveys on the living and production conditions of the affected people as required. 10.2.3 Main Indicators of Monitoring and Evaluation Main indicators of the external resettlement monitoring include: 1. Progress: Include preparations, implementation, and results, of resettlement for LA and HD, etc; 2. Quality: Include the quality of engineering construction and the satisfaction of the affected people during the implementation process of LA, HD, and resettlement; 3. Investment: Include the appropriation and use of funds for LA, HD and resettlement. 10.2.4 Methods of Monitoring and Evaluation The monitoring and evaluation activities are carried out based on the survey data provided by the design organization and the resettlement implementing organizations under the Project. The evaluation is realized by sampling survey and rapid evaluation on the premise of complete investigation and knowledge. The external monitoring and evaluation agency carries out following work too: 1. Survey on living conditions of the affected people Carry out complete survey on the Project and choose survey samples; design the questionnaire on living standard and such questionnaire is made up of indicators measuring the production and living conditions and the dynamic changes of the same indicator before and after LA, HD, and resettlement will be used to reflect changes in the production and living conditions. Whether the selected indicators can actually reflect changes in the production and living conditions of the affected people can be verified during the baseline investigation and improved subject to actual situation, so that to guarantee that the information obtained can truly and completely reflect the quantity and quality of production and living of the affected people. 2. Opinions of the Affected People In the process of external monitoring, the external monitoring agency will pay 54 visits to the resettlement organizations of affected towns, townships and villages to collect opinions of the affected people and meet, through formal or informal interviews, with the affected people having opinions, and report the opinions and requirements of the affected people and the affected collective organization and advices for work improvement will be raised to make the implementation of resettlement more effective. 3. Other Duties The external monitoring agency provides advices to the resettlement office to help formulate the resettlement plans and monitor the implementation of the resettlement implementation activities showed in the following paragraph. 10.2.5 Steps and Contents of Monitoring The external monitoring work will be carried out in following steps: 1. Prepare outlines of monitoring and evaluation work; 2. Prepare outlines of survey, the questionnaire, and make record cards about the affected resident, typical enterprises, and public institutions; 3. Design the sampling survey schemes; 4. Baseline investigation. Carry out baseline investigation required by the independent monitoring and evaluation on residents involved in the LA and HD under the Project so that to get basic data of the living conditions of the affected people surveyed. 5. Set up the monitoring and evaluation information system Set up the monitoring and evaluation information system and establish the database by classification of data concerning resettlement monitoring and evaluation, so that to provide assistance for the analysis and follow-up monitoring. 6. Monitoring, evaluation, and survey (1) Evaluate the capability of the resettlement implementing organization: Look into the work ability and efficiency of the resettlement implementing organizations; (2) Monitor the process of and criteria of compensation for resettlement, and affected households recognized as model in different modes of payments; (3) Public participation and consultation: Refer to public participation activities held among affected people during the preparation and implementation stage of the resettlement action plan under the Project; monitor the effects of the participation of affected people. (4) Complaints of the affected people: Monitor the registration and processing of complaints reported by the affected people. 7. Process monitoring data and set up database; 8. Contrast analysis; 9. Prepare the monitoring and evaluation report according to the monitoring plan; 10.2.6 External Monitoring Report The external monitoring agency prepares the external monitoring report based on the data obtained from observation, survey and investigation, and submits such report independently to the PMO and the World Bank. 55 1. Time and period According to requirements of the World Bank, the resettlement external monitoring and evaluation agency shall, in the resettlement implementation period after commencement of the LA and HD, carry out twice of external independent monitoring and evaluation in the peak season of resettlement activities, or once of the same in regular seasons, every year, based on the progress of resettlement implementation, until the production and living conditions of the affected people are recovered. 2. Contents of the external monitoring report (1) Baseline survey; (2) The process of LA, HD, and resettlement activities; (3) Production resettlement and restoration; (4) House demolition, relocation, and reconstruction; (5) Standard of living conditions for replacement; (6) Availability and use of resettlement funds; (7) Assistance to vulnerable groups; (8) Existing problems and suggestions. 56 11 Right Matrix of the Affected People Table 11-1 shows the right matrix of the affected people determined between the resettlement organizations and the affected people upon negotiation according to related compensation policies and the participation-based mode of working adopted: Table11-1 Right Matrix of the Affected People Affected Compensation Impacts Land/Appurtenants Town (Township) People Criteria/Resettlement 1. Compensation for farmland (the compensation for land acquisition is equivalent to 10 multiples of the average annual output value of the land acquired in Chengnan CNY 37,600/mu the latest three years before being acquired; the resettlement subsidy is 6 multiples of the same (unit: CNY/mu) Half of the 2. Compensation for Chengnan compensation criteria non-farmland for farmland CNY 1,128/mu for 3. Compensation for Chengnan major crops; CNY 752 crops (CNY/mu) for minor crops Earthen CNY 30 Land Fence (m2) Farmers Stone CNY 50 Acquisition lime-clay-sand yard CNY 25 Brick, stone, Courtyard CNY 35 2 cement mortar (m ) Slab stone CNY 30 Earthen CNY 6 4. Ground Earthen CNY 300 appurtenants Slab stones CNY 800 Well (pcs) Hand-operated CNY 800 Motor-pumped CNY 1,300 Gas-producing Biogas CNY 2,500 digester digester Non-gas-producing (pcs) CNY 1,000 digester (1)Cash compensation for affected households; 5. Compensation and (2)Join in social resettlement for security; (3)Vocational land acquisition training; (4)Small-sum loans. (1)Provide specific 6. Special assistance advices; (2)Offer to vulnerable additional living groups subsidies; (3)Offer with priority in getting other 57 Affected Compensation Impacts Land/Appurtenants Town (Township) People Criteria/Resettlement economic assistances. CNY 900/m2 for frame structure, CNY 830/m2 For affected for semi-frame households structure, CNY 750/m2 1. Cash choosing for brick-concrete compensation cash structure, CNY 550/m2 compensati for brick-wood on structure, and CNY 150/m2 for simple structure. Enjoy the basic housing area of 35m2/person; no need to pay and no right to get compensation if For affected area of the demolished households house is 35m2 or less 2. Resettlement by choosing per person; additional returning houses resettlement area exceeding by returning 35m2/person will be houses purchased by the land acquirer if area of the demolished house is greater than 35m2/person. CNY 600 for each affected household with family size of 1-3, CNY House Rural 800 for each affected demolition households 3. Moving subsidies household with family size of 4, and CNY 1,000 for each affected household with family size of 8 and more. CNY 4,000/household/year for each household with family size of 1-3, or CNY For affected 6,000/household/year households for each household with choosing family size of 4-6, and resettlement CNY by returning 7,000/household/year 4. Transition houses for each household with subsidies family size of 7 and more; the criteria shall be doubled if the transition period is longer than one year. For affected Temporary transition households subsidy covering 6 choosing months will be paid in cash lump sum according to compensati standards shown above. on Relocation (1) Compensation Affected 1. To be demolished and funds for infrastructure by the construction reconstruction infrastructure facilities dept. of the Project of facilities will be 58 Affected Compensation Impacts Land/Appurtenants Town (Township) People Criteria/Resettlement infrastructure paid directly to the facilities affected person; (2) To be directly restored by constructors under the Project during 2. To be rebuilt by the the process of owner of the construction, such infrastructure as rural roads and facilities with canals, etc; compensation (3) To be rebuilt or funds provided by removed by a the Owner. professional team hired with funds from Owner of the Project. 59 Appendix I: Lin shui Vocation Middle School Already LA DDR Linshui County Vocational Middle School Project Due Diligence Report for Already Land Acquisition 1. Project Background Linshui County, located in the east part of the Sichuan Basin and the eastern foot of the Huaying Mountain, is subordinated to Guang’an City. Among all the counties of Sichuan Province, Linshui has the shortest distance from the main urban area and theLiangjiang New Area, of Chongqing. Linshui has jurisdiction over 18 towns and 27 townships, with the people reaching 970,000, and territory area reaching 1,919.22km2. The built-up county urban area of Linshui reaches 14.28km2, with permanent people of 150,000. It is clearly presented in the “Eleventh Five-year Plan” of China that the Sichuan-Chongqing area will be developed as the new growth pole of China and both the two cities of Chongqing and Chengdu are recognized as the “pilot area for comprehensive reform in the national urban - rural overall development”. With the advantages in both policy and urban operation, the rise of a new (the fourth) economic growth pole can be expected. The Chongqing-Guang’an-Dazhou Development Belt (“CGDDB”) is one of the five development belts of the Chengdu-Chongqing Economic Zone (“CCEZ”). Guang’an, as an important part of the CCEZ, is closely adjacent to the central development area of Chongqing and falls in the one-hour economic circle of the same. As on important node on the CGDDB, Guang’an will definitely get more opportunities from the reform, openness and economic development of Chongqing. However, the obviously backward urban infrastructure has turned out a severe barrier in the way of the economic and social development of Guang’an. Therefore, following requirements of the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) and the Ministry of Finance of China, Guang’an has made great efforts to use the loan from the World Bank to start infrastructure construction in the Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation Exemplary Zone for the purpose of facilitating the development of Qianfeng District and Linshui County and providing sufficient infrastructure services. The intermediate adjustment projects of Linshui Subproject include the vocational middle school, the trunk road overhauling, and phase I and II of the rain-sewage diversion project, of the Economic Development Zone (“EDZ”). In the Linshui County subproject, the original resettlement plan only needs 70 mu of collective land for the middle school project in the Economic Development Zone, and there are 62 houses demolished. In October 2019, in order to plan and build a good Linshui vocational middle school, the Linshui County world Bank Project Office proposed to adjust the red line of the land acquisition in the original plan. The adjustment of the content was the whole move of the land to the north side and canceled the original planned road on the north side of the middle school. After the adjustment of the plan, the new plan will acquire and use a total of 66.53 mu of land, of which 14.52 mu of the newly acquired land will be retained and had prepared RAP for the new LA; 52.01 mu of land already acquired will be utilized. To this end, it is necessary to conduct due diligence on the 52.01muland that has already been acquired according to the requirement of OP4.12 of World Bank. 60 2. Basic situation of Already LA (1) Impact Scope The already LA of the World Bank Loan Vocational Middle School project has affected three villager groups in Groups 5, 6 and 8 of Shiba Village, Chengnan Town in Linshui County. In 2018, there are 718 persons in the three groups(including 231 persons in No 5 group;252 persons in No 6; 235 persons in No 8 group), the total cultivating area of is 362.67 mu(including 124.8 in No 5 group; 124.99 mu in No 6 group; 112.88 mu in No 8 group). The total already land acquisition area of the World Bank loan project of the vocational middle school is 52.01 mu, all of which are cultivated lands. The land acquisition affected 29 households and 96 people. See Table 1 for details of the already acquired land that the World Bank loan project will use. Table 1 already LA for vocational middle school Finance by WB Su-total Land Acquisition (mu) Directly Affected People District Village Town Village Forest (County) Team Farmland Homestead Households Persons Land 5 2 2 0 0 1 3 Linshui Chengnan Shiba 6 24.48 24.48 0 0 13 42 8 25.53 25.53 0 0 15 51 Total 52.01 52.01 0 0 29 96 Data resource: field survey Average loss of AHs in cultivated land area after LA was about 20%. Only 1 household in No 5 lost 79% land of his family total land. It is because the project affected area is within in Linshui EDZ, a lot of land was acquired in recent more than 10 years, and resulted in average cultivated land per household decreased largely. However, average loss of AHs in household income was 5%. It is because the cultivated land area per household is small, agricultural income from rice and corn planting is very small and less than 20% of the total household income. Most income of AHs is from salary jobs or temporary non-agricultural work in urban areas. Table 2 Income Loss of Households Affetced by already LA Cultivated Land Cultivated Land Income Household Town Village Group Per HH Before Land Per HH Loss Per Loss Per (HH) LA (mu) After LA (mu) HH HH Chengnan Shiba 5 1 2.54 0.54 79% 15.8% 6 13 1.60 1.28 20% 4% 8 15 1.63 1.26 22% 4.4% Total 29 Data resource: field survey (2) LAR Procedure 1) Sichuan Provincial Government CFT [2017] No. 543 document approved the third batch of urban construction land in Linshui County in 2016, and acquired the 5, 6 and 8 groups of Shiba Village in Chengnan Town for the construction of vocational middle schools. 2) In May 2017, land acquisition and mobilization were carried out. In June 2018, the land acquisition department issued a land acquisition announcement, held a village meeting, and then cleaned up the land and ground attachments. 3) In July 2018, the Chengnan Town Government and the County Land and Resources Bureau applied to the county government for payment of social security funds for land-expropriated farmers. See Annex 1 and Annex 2 for details. 61 4) In October 2018, the Linshui County Land and Resources Bureau and the Shishui County People's Government forwarded the "Guang'an Municipal People's Government Printing and Distributing the Compensation and Resettlement Measures for the Land Acquisition of Guang'an City" (LFF [2018] No. 19) and Shiba Villages N0 5, 6, and 8 groups signed the Agreement on the Registration of Land Acquisition Compensation (Relocation) in Linshui County. The registration forms for land acquisition compensation (relocation) for group 6 and 8 are shown in Figures 1 and 2. 5) In October 2018, the County Land Resources Bureau and the Chengnan Town Government paid relevant social security funds (including endowment insurance, medical insurance and unemployment insurance) to the social security department according to the list of social security resettlement personnel of the land-expropriated farmers. At the same time, the affected land acquisition households will be compensated for the young crops and ground attachments. 6) In November 2018, the land-expropriated farmers who reached the legal age of pension insurance began to receive endowment insurance, and the land-expropriated farmers who met the conditions for receiving unemployment insurance began to receive unemployment insurance. The pension insurance is 1100 yuan/month, and the unemployment insurance is 1,300 yuan/month. 50 people have received unemployment insurance and 20 have received pension insurance. 7) On October 24, 2019, the Chengnan Town Government applied for payment of the remaining compensation for land acquisition compensation. See Annex 3 for details. 8) At the end of November 2019, the remaining land acquisition compensation fees will be paid to the affected group, and the group will then distribute the land acquisition compensation fee according to the population of the group. Compensation for young crops and attachments will be paid directly to affected households. (3) Compensation standards and fees The compensation rates for already land requisition are shown in Tables 3, 4 and 5. The total compensation for land acquisition is 5,425,156 yuan, of which the basic cost of land acquisition compensation is 2,414,243 yuan, and the related expenses are 3,010,913 yuan. The total compensation expenses are shown in Table 6. Table 3 compensation standards for cultivated land for already LA Annual Average Standard of Town Output Value Compensation Multiple Compensation for (CNY/mu) Farmland (CNY/mu) Chengnan 18,80 20 37,600 Data resource: LFF[2013] No.34 Table 4 compensation standards for young group for already LA District Annual Output Compensation for Major Compensation for Minor Town (County) Value (CNY/mu) Crops (CNY/mu) Crops (CNY/mu) Linshui Chengnan 1,880 1,128 752 Data resource: LFF[2013] No.34 62 Table 5 Standards of Compensation for Forests and Woods on the already LA Compensation Items Standard of S/N Unit Compensation Name Growing Period Remarks (CNY) Within 3 years of fixed Seedling mu 2,000 planting 3 or more years of fixed Sapling mu 3,000 Glorious orange, blood planting orange, navel orange, summer At primary fruit In the 3rd to 9th years of 1 mu 6,000 Fruit period orange, mandarin orange, period fruiting) grapefruit and tangerine At full productive In the 10th year of fruiting mu 8,000 age At end productive mu 5,000 age Seedling Height less than 1m mu 2,000 Height greater than 1m but Sapling mu 3,000 hasn’t fruited Peach, cherry, plum, pear, At primary fruit In the 3rd to 11th years of mu 6,000 Fruit period 2 apple, apricot, persimmon, period fruiting) green date, loquat, and prunes At full productive In the 12th year of fruiting mu 8,000 age At end productive mu 5,000 age Ground diameter greater At full productive age mu 8,000 than 5cm At moderate production Ground diameter between mu 6,000 age 2-5cm 3 Grape Ground diameter between At primary fruit age mu 5,000 1-2cm Ground diameter less than Sapling mu 2,500 1cm Seedling Not fruited yet mu 2,000 Sapling At primary fruit age mu 3,500 Tea-oil tree, tung-oil tree, 4 Mid-grown tree At moderate fruit age mu 4,500 Chinese tallow tree At full fruit age mu 5,000 Grown tree Aged mu 3,500 Data resource: LFF[2013] No.34 Table 6 already LAR Compensation fees Quantity Compensation S/N Item Amount (CNY) Remark (mu) Criteria (CNY) I Basic expense 2,414,243 1 Cultivated land 52.01 37,600 1,955,576 2 Young crops 52.01 1,128 58,667 3 Forest and trees 200000 4 Above ground attachment 200000 II Related expenses 3,010,913 Tax on occupancy of 1 52.01 16,000 832,160 farmland Fees for farmland 2 52.01 30,000 1,560,300 reclamation Fees for paid use of new 3 52.01 9,338 485,669 land for construction Basic 4 Management fees 5% 120,712 expenses Basic 5 Other fees 0.50% 12,071 expenses Total 5,425,156 63 Data resource: Chengnan town government Figure 1 LAR Registration form for N0.6 group Figure 2 LAR registration form for No.8 group (4) Resettlement measures 1) Cash compensation and its distribution Cash compensation will be provided to villages and RHs affected by LA under the Project at the rate of CNY 37,600/mu (compensation for crops excluded). As required by the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Lan d Acquisition 64 Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2013] No. 13), the land compensation fees for acquisition of farmland and other land and the resettlement subsidies will be directly paid to the village where LA takes place and the village groups deducted from such compensation the portion of unemployment insurance premium in October 2018, for labor forces that are converted from agricultural people to non-agricultural people, to be paid by the collective. The remaining part will be formed after the resettlement department in November 2019 will pay the remaining land acquisition compensation to the land acquisition team. The resolution decides on its own allocation and will disclose the use and management of this fee to the village affairs. and later distribute the balance upon resolution reached on the village meeting and make public the use and management of such fund. 2) Social security resettlement In October 2018, the villagers of the land-requisitioned group received social security resettlement according to the resettlement population calculated by the resettlement department, including pension insurance, medical insurance and unemployment insurance. About 20 people have received pension insurance and about 50 persons have received unemployment insurance. 3) Skills training The responsible unit of labor and social security shall undertake the implementation of skills training and reemployment of land-losing farmers, formulate training programs, set up a training system for training courses, and adjust training plans according to the needs of employment. Up to now, 20 people have been trained and 10 people are recommended. (5) Public consultation and satisfaction survey During the due diligence period, a total of 9 households affected by the 5, 6 and 8 affected groups in Shiba Village, Linshui County were surveyed (31% sampling ratio). The detailed investigation is shown in Table 7. Table 7 statistics for sampled households Town Village Groups Affected Sampled Names Family Attitude to Sample HH HH Household numbers LAR ratio (H) (H) head (P) (%) Chengnan Shiba 5 1 1 Zhouzhanyou 3 BS 31% 6 13 4 Jianfangyong 5 S Zhangyou 5 S Zhangxiaojun 3 BS Zhangbin 4 S 8 15 4 Zhangliangbo 4 BS Zhangxianfu 8 S Zhangcaiming 6 S Ganyuancheng 4 BS Total 29 9 Data resource: field survey Notes: BS= basic satisfaction; S=satisfaction The survey results show that among the 9 households surveyed, they are basically satisfied with the land acquisition and resettlement program. The affected people's livelihood recovery effect is better and improved than before land acquisition. Older people are eligible for endowment insurance if they meet the age requirements. Middle-aged people who have no jobs also receive unemployment insurance. Others find jobs that suit them. The photo of the live interview is shown in Figure 3. 65 Figure 3 field sample interview 3. Public Participation During of the past land acquisition, village and group discussion meetings were held to fully respect the will of the affected persons, and achieve orderly public participation. In addition to the village and group meeting, the public participation also included household surveys, public consultations, and public announcement, etc. A land acquisition mobilization meeting for the LA was held in May 2017. The land acquisition publicity and announcement were completed by media publicity and site interview. The bound was identified and accepted by the signature of the village and the group. The land acquisition compensation and resettlement scheme were announced in June 2018. During the land acquisition, the affected persons were organized for many times to attend the project briefings, land acquisition mobilization meetings, forums and village group seminars, etc and guarantee the affected person's right to know and participate. 4. Grievance Redress Mechanism If any affected person complains or appeal for the land acquisition or other issues, various approaches are used for appeal. The appeal channels are basically as follows: Channel 1: if the resettled person is dissatisfied, the resettled person may make an appeal verbally or in written form to the Village Committee or the towns, and for the verbal appeal, the Village Committee or the towns will treat the appeal and make a written record. The Village Committee or the towns will treat the appeal within 2 weeks. Channel 2: if the resettled person is dissatisfied with the decision made in Channel 1, the resettled person may make an appeal to Land and Resources Bureau, Social Affairs Bureau after reception of the decision, and Land and Resources Bureau, Social Affairs Bureau shall make decision within 7 days after reception of the appeal. Channel 3: If the resettled person is still dissatisfied with the decision made in Channel 2, the resettled person may make an appeal to Project Management Office, and Project Management 66 Office shall make decision within 2 weeks after reception of the appeal. If the resettled person is still dissatisfied with the land acquisition or the problems, the resettled person may make an application to the administrative body with jurisdiction level by level for arbitration according to the Administrative Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China. The affected person may make the appeal with respect to any aspect of the land acquisition and the demolition, including the compensation standard, etc. The affected persons are noticed of the above channel by meeting and other modes to fully understand their appeal right. It is required to arrange and record the comment and suggestion of the affected persons, and they are submitted to relevant organization for timely research and treatment. According to the investigation of the project group, the affected persons have fully understood their own rights and the complaint and appeal channels. In the process of land acquisition and demolition, the villagers were basically satisfied with the land acquisition compensation without complaint and appeal. 5. Conclusion (1) The already LA of the World Bank Loan Vocational Middle School project has affected three villager groups in Groups 5, 6 and 8 of Shiba Village, Chengnan Town in Linshui County. In 2018, there are 718 persons in the three groups(including 231 persons in No 5 group;252 persons in No 6; 235 persons in No 8 group), the total cultivating area of is 362.67 mu(including 124.8 in No 5 group; 124.99 mu in No 6 group; 112.88 mu in No 8 group). The total already land acquisition area of the World Bank loan project of the vocational middle school is 52.01 mu, all of which are cultivated lands. The land acquisition affected 29 households and 96 people. (2) During the past land acquisition for vocational middle school, the local governments and relevant organizations organized the public participation in different forms for many times to fully respect and implement the opinion of the affected persons. (3) The local governments have helped the affected persons in life and livelihood recovery by various compensative measures; and most of the resettlement compensations were timely paid in full. (4) During the implementation of the past land acquisition, the complaint and appeal channels were smooth, and so far, the affected persons are more satisfied with the compensation standard without complaint and appeal. (5) There is no any leftover problems for the already LA. (6) It is suggested that during the Project implementation, attention shall be continuously given to the LA and resettlement from the past, and the local governments shall continue monitoring to satisfactorily complete resettlement and rehabilitation of affected households from the past LA. 67 Annex1 Payment Request of Chengnan Town Government applied for No.8 group of LAR personnel pension insurance and other fees 68 69 70 Annex2 Payment Request of land bureau applied for No.6 group of LAR personnel pension insurance 71 72 73 Annex 3 Payment Request of Chengnan Town Government applied for No.8 group of LAR fees 74 75 76 AppendixII: Due Diligence on Resettlement 1 Project Overview and Scope of Due Diligence 1.1 Description of the Project Among the Intermediate Adjustment Projects for Infrastructure Construction in the World Bank Loaned Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation (Guang’an) Exemplary Zone, the Qianfeng Subproject will use 264mu of state-owned land for construction. Engineering contents include:theXiejiawan Park with the red-line-enclosed area of 170,700m2 where landscape, roads, greening, plank footways, parking lot, architectures, entertainment and fitness facilities, decorations and sculptures, etc, will be built, on a state-owned land with area of 166mu; Comprehensive renovation of the Logistics Park section of the Luxi River where a new flood control dam with length of 2,575.76m within the 1.3km area of the Logistics Park section of the Luxi River in Qianfeng District, regulation of the Luxi River, construction of a 1.3km landscape belt along each side of the Luxi River, each with width of 20-25m, on a state-owned land with area of 98mu. 1.2 Resettlement Impact The Qianfeng Subproject of the Intermediate Adjustment Projects for Infrastructure Construction in the World Bank Loaned Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation (Guang’an) Exemplary Zone will permanently occupy 264mu of collectively-owned land in Youku Road Community (the former “Qianfeng Village”), Longtang Village, and Daya Village of Longtang Town, and Shuangshi Village of Qianfeng Town, including 147mu of farmland, with 365 people from 126 households being affected by land acquisition. No demolition of residential houses, ground appurtenants or infrastructure facilities involved. The component “Xiejiawan Park” occupies a land with area of 166mu. This land has finished the acquisition work in July 2014 as a state-owned land for construction. See Table 1-1 for more details. The component “Comprehensive innovation of the Logistics Park section of the Luxi River” occupies total land area of 98mu. In which, the land occupied in Team 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the Youku Road Community (the former Qianfeng Village) has finished the acquisition work in two steps in April 2014 and March 2016 respectively; and the land occupied in Team 4, 5, 8 and 9 of Longtang Village has finished the acquisition work in November 2017. See Table 1-2 for more details. Table 1-1 Land Involved in the Xiejiawan Park Project Garden Other Unused Town Village Affected Affected Farmland Construction Village Total Plot Agricultural Land (Township) Team Households People (mu) Land (mu) (mu) Land (mu) (mu) Longtang Daya 1 38 93 84.65 45.35 5 0 17.45 17 Sub-district 4 7 22 23.55 6.45 1.2 5.55 5.6 4.75 Qianfeng Shuangshi 5 15 50 43.65 18.65 7.5 0.15 8.6 8.75 Town 6 5 17 14.15 5.56 1.0 0.89 3.52 3.18 Total 65 182 166 76.01 14.7 6.598 35.17 33.68 77 Table 1-2 Land Involved in the Comprehensive Renovation Project of the Logistics Park Section of Luxi River Garden Other Unused Town Village Affected Affected Farmland Construction Village Total Plot Agricultural Land (Township) Team Households People (mu) Land (mu) (mu) Land (mu) (mu) 3 10 27 15.35 10.35 1.8 1.85 1.35 0 Youku 4 7 21 12.69 8.15 0 2.86 1.48 0 Road 5 6 19 11.24 7.35 0 2.04 1.85 0 Community Longtang 7 3 9 4.95 4.55 0 0.4 0 0 Sub-district 4 12 35 18.5 13.75 3.27 1 0.48 0 Longtang 5 14 40 18.06 12.5 2.58 1.52 1.46 0 Village 8 6 22 11.1 9.53 1.02 0.42 0.13 0 9 3 10 6.11 4.82 0.27 0.92 0.1 0 Total 61 183 98 71 8.94 11.01 6.85 0 1.3 Scope of Due Diligence The Due Diligence on Resettlement is carried out for the Qianfeng Subproject of the Intermediate Adjustment Projects for Infrastructure Construction in the World Bank Loaned Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation (Guang’an) Exemplary Zone, and the scope of due diligence is limited to villages and village teams where the land acquisition work under the Project is finished. In February, 2018, the due diligence team visited the construction site to check the situation of land acquisition and house demolition involved in the Project, gathered documents and vouchers, conducted door-to-door interviews, and summed up the scope of impacts, the standard and scheme of compensation and resettlement, and the effects and influence of resettlement, of the Project and made comprehensive evaluation based on such summary. Fig. 1-1 Field Survey by the Project Team 2 Socioeconomic Survey on Affected Areas under the Project 2.1 Socioeconomic Situation of the Affected Area Qianfeng District, formerly known as Qianfeng Town of Guang’an District, was established as a town in1968. Later in 2013, upon approval of the State Council, the Provincial Department of Civil Affairs of Sichuan took the Qu River in the urban downtown of Guang’an as the boundary and set up the Qianfeng District on the land east to the Qu River. Covering a territory area of 505km 2, Qianfeng District holds the Kuige Sub-district, the seven towns of Qianfeng, Daishi, Guantang, Hu’an, Guangxing, Guangge, and Guixing, and the five townships of Guanghui, Longtan, Xiaojing, Xinqiao, and Hucheng. Qianfeng District is a cluster of materials and a labor force provider in the northeast Sichuan Province. The Xiangyang-Chongqing Railway goes through the whole Qianfeng District, the Guang’an Railway Station is built here, and the Guangqian Avenue and Quhua Road go through the whole district too, constituting a very convenient traffic network here. In 2016, Qianfeng District realized regional gross domestic product of CNY 16.03 billion, including CNY1.46 billion, CNY 12.13 billion, and CNY 2.44 billion realized from the primary, the secondary, and the tertiary 78 industries, with the three-industry structure reaching 9.1: 75.7: 15.2; the per capita GDP hit CNY 61,996, increasing by 5.8%; the number of industrial enterprises above designated size in Qianfeng District reached 105, creating total industrial output value of CNY 42.36 billion in the year; the year-end registered people reached 369,000; the year-end permanent resident people reached 261,000, including 84,000 or urban residents and 177,000 of rural residents, with the urbanization rate reaching 32.0%; the urban per capita disposable income hit CNY 28,346, creating a year-on-year growth of CNY 2,101; and the rural per capita net income reached CNY 12,581, creating a year- on-year growth of CNY 1,131. 2.2 Socioeconomic Situation of the Affected Towns (Townships) The Project involves in one town and one sub-district and their socioeconomic situation is explained below: 2.2.1 Qianfeng Town of Qianfeng District Qianfeng Town lies in the mid-west part of Huaying Mountain east to the Sichuan Basin. As the place where the people’s government of Qianfeng District is located, Qianfeng Town is adjacent to Guixing Town in the east, Daishi Town in the west, Xinqiao Township in the south, and Xiaojing Township in the north. Qianfeng Town covers a territory area of 36.84km2 and holds 19 villages and 4 communities, with 14,144 registered household and 38,576 of the registered residents, 19,101 of which are non- agricultural residents. The urban permanent people of Qianfeng Town reaches 46,000 and the number of economic and legal entities settled in Qianfeng Town reaches 2,000. Qianfeng Town has convenient traffic network. It lies in the junction area of the three traffic systems of Xiangyang-Chongqing Railway, the first-class Guang’an-Qianfeng Highway, and the Quxian-HuayingRoad, and acts an important traffic hub in northeast Sichuan. Qianfeng Town has 23 villages (communities) and all have cement roads paved. These roads and railways constitute a huge traffic network getting through nearby provinces, districts, towns, villages, and communities. There is 1 Grade III bus station and 1 Grade II railway station which make the Guang’an downtown reachable in 30 minutes, Dazhou City reachable in 108 minutes, and Chongqing City reachable in 104 minutes. With these advantages, Qianfeng acts an important hub for the Sichuan people to go northward to the Central Plains and southward to the Yangtze River Delta. Qianfeng has annual people mobility reaching 1,600,000 person-times. 2.2.2 Longtang Sub-district of Qianfeng District Longtang Sub-district was set in Qianfeng District of Guang’an City in May, 2016, upon the approval of Sichuan provincial government. The management mode of “integration of the administrative region and the economic development region” is adopted in both the Longtang Sub-district and the Qianfeng Trade and Logistics Park, an exemplary area of the Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation, that is, the integrated operation of the “two regions managed by the same team”. Longtang Sub-district and Guang’an Trade and Logistics Park are both located in the northeast part of the urban area of Qianfeng District and the mid-west part of Huaying Mountain and the place where Guang’an Railway Station is located. They are adjacent to Huaying Mountain in the east, the Qu River in the west, the national-level economic and technology development zone in the south, and Dazhou City in the north, and neighbor to Dafosi Sub-district, Xinqiao Township, Dashi Town, Xiaojing Township, and Guixing Town. Longtang Sub-district holds 18 administrative villages (communities) and 134 village (community) teams, with the registered people of 27,000, the permanent resident people of 44,000, and the territory area of 25.78km2. Guang’an Trade and Logistics Park, relying on the Xiangyang-Chongqing Railway in Qianfeng Town, covers some area of 79 the Dafosi Sub-district and Xiaojing Township, with the planned area reaching 10km2. Longtang Sub-district has the altitude higher in the east and lower in the west, stable geology, abundant rainfall, mild climate, and good human habitat. There are 12,088mu of farmland, 16,234.2mu of forest land in Longtang, together with rich production of top-quality grains, edible oil, poultries, livestock, vegetables, fruits and aquatic products, etc, abundant reserves of raw coal, limestone, shale, rock salt, natural gas, forest and other natural resources, and complete infrastructure facilities like finance, insurance, bus stations, communication, schools, hospitals, markets, water, power and gas supplies, and full availability of production elements including energy, cement, steel, and drainage facilities, and the seamless interlink of the three traffic systems of railway, highway and waterway. Four major traffic hubs meet with each other here, including the Xiangyang-Chongqing Railway, the Guang’an-Qianfeng Highway, the Quxian- Huaying Highway and the Gangqian Avenue. Till the end of November 2016, Longtang Sub-district finished CNY 1.56 billion of investment on fixed assets, and realized CNY 450 million (growth: 7.6%) of added value in the logistics industry in the first three seasons of the year. 2.3 Socioeconomic Situation of the Affected Villages and Village Teams Villages affected by the Project mainly include the Youku Road Community (the former “Qianfeng Village”), Longtang Village, and Daya Village, of Longtang Town, and Shuangshi Village of Qianfeng Town. The socioeconomic situation of these villages is shown in Table 2-1 and Table 2-2 below. Table 2-1 People of Affected Villages under the Project Total Migrant Total County Total Agricultural Labor Labor Town Village Number of (District) People People Force Forces Households (person) (person) Daya (Team 1) 54 235 0 84 55 Qianfeng Shuangshi 367 1,361 575 876 410 Qianfeng District Youku Road 869 2,179 439 1,400 260 Longtang 458 1,764 944 840 680 Sub-total 1,748 5,539 1,958 3,200 1,405 Table 2-2 Land Resources of Affected Villages under the Project Per Farmland Paddy Forest County Dry Land Garden Capita Town Village Area Land Land (District) (mu) Plot (mu) Farmland (mu) (mu) Area (mu) (mu) Daya 0 0 0 0 0 0 (Team 1) Qianfeng Qianfeng Shuangshi 486 228 258 0 / 0.42 District Youku Road 200 0 200 80 1000 0.45 Longtang 210 0 210 0 2000 0.5 3 Progress in Land Acquisition and House Demolition and Review on Resettlement under the Project The due diligence team has had informal discussions, for many times, on the resettlement work with personnel of the resettlement implementing organizations and checked the resettlement files, agreements and other literature, to get sufficient knowledge about the impacts of land acquisition and the implementation of resettlement under the Project. The component “Xiejiawan Park” occupies 166mu of land in total, with Team 1 of Daya Village and Team 4, 5 and 6 of Shuangshi Village being affected. Totally 166mu of 80 land will be acquired from these four village teams and the related land acquisition work is fully completed according to the Reply of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province on the 3rdBatch of Construction Land in Towns/townships of Qianfeng District of Guang’an in 2014, which results in 56 affected persons converted from agricultural residents to non-agricultural residents. The component “Comprehensive innovation of the Logistics Park section of the Luxi River” occupies total land area of 98mu. In which, the land occupied in Team 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the Youku Road Community (the former Qianfeng Village) has finished acquisition work in two steps in April 2014 upon the Reply of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province on the 3rdBatch of Construction Land in Towns/townships of Qianfeng District of Guang’an in 2013 and in March 2016 upon the Reply of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province on the 2ndBatch of Construction Land in Towns/townships of Qianfeng District of Guang’an in 2015; the land occupied in Team 4, 5, 8 and 9 of Longtang Village has finished acquisition work in November 2017 upon the Reply of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province on the 3rdBatch of Construction Land in Towns/townships of Qianfeng District of Guang’an in 2017. See the Attachments hereto for details of the approval files on the acquisition of these lands. 4 Review on the Resettlement Policies and Standard of Compensation 4.1 Applicable Policies, Laws, and Regulations Land acquisition and resettlement under the Project shall be carried out strictly following requirements and implementation methods of China and Sichuan Province, related files of Guang’an City. Main laws, regulations and policies include: ⚫ The Land Management Law of the People’s Republic of China (revised and passed on the Fourth Session of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People’s Congress dated August 29, 1998); ⚫ The Interim Regulations on the Farmland Occupation Tax of the People’s Republic of China (GWYF (1987) No. 27: Notice of the State Council about the Release); ⚫ The Decision of the State Council as to Deepen Reform and Conduct Stricter Land Management (GF [2004] No. 28); ⚫ The Regulations of Sichuan Province as to Implement the ‘Land Management Law of the People’s Republic of China (executed since December 10, 1999); ⚫ The Notice of the General Office of the People’s Government of Sichuan Province as to Further Well Carry out the Social Security Work for Land-losing Farmers (CBF [2008] No. 15); ⚫ The Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2013] No. 13); 4.2 Standard of Compensation for Land Acquisition It is defined in the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2013] No. 13) that: the unified annual output value of the land acquired shall be subject to the unified annual output for land acquisition announced by the people’s government of Guang’an City after being approved by the provincial government. The standard of land compensation and resettlement subsidy for land acquisition shall be: the land compensation fees for 1mu of farmland acquired shall be 10 times of the unified annual 81 output value of such land, while the resettlement subsidy shall be calculated based on the per capita farmland area. To be specific, the amount of resettlement subsidy shall be 6 times of the unified annual output value of the farmland acquired for each mu of acquired farmland if the per capita farmland area is 1mu or more; or if the per capita farmland area is less than 1mu, the amount of resettlement subsidy shall be 6 times of the unified annual output value of the farmland acquired for each person to be resettled. The land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies for the acquisition of other land shall be half of those for the acquisition of farmland. The land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies for ponds, reservoirs, pools and gardens acquired shall be equal with those for the acquisition of farmland, but no agricultural resident may be converted to non-agricultural residents due to such land acquisition. The standard annual output value of farmland in Guang’an was CNY 1,450/mu in 2013 and CNY 1,880/mu in the second half of 2014 according to the schemes of the Sichuan Province for the adjustment of the annual output value of farmland for land acquisition and related compensation. 4.3 Standard of Compensation for Crops It is defined in the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2013] No. 13) that: the compensation fees for crops on the land acquired shall be 60% of the unified annual output value if major crops and 40% of the same if minor crops. The standard annual output value of farmland in Guang’an was CNY 1,450/mu in 2013 and CNY 1,880/mu since the second half of 2014. 4.4 Payment of Resettlement Funds The Project involves in nearly CNY 7,234,500 of land acquisition expenses (compensation for crops included) to be directly paid to the villages and individuals affected by land acquisition under the Project. See Table 4-1 for details. Table 4-1 Compensation Funds for Land Acquisition (currency: CNY 10,000) Compensation Crop Item Village Time Others Total for LA Compensation Daya, Xiejiawan Park 2014.7 363.98 14.29 21.65 399.92 Shuangshi Youku Road Comprehensive Community renovation of 2014.4 (the former 137.88 6.41 13.40 157.69 the Logistics 2016.3 Qianfeng Park section of Village) Luxi River Longtang 2017.11 141.93 7.63 16.28 165.84 Total 643.79 28.33 51.33 723.45 For the purpose of guaranteeing that compensation funds under the Project can be paid in full amount and in time to the affected people according to related policies and standards, a perfect payment system is set up under the Project. Furthermore, strict financial management and supervisory system are set up to guarantee the safe payment of all the compensation funds. It is learnt by the due diligence team that during the implementation process of the Project, the compensation fund for land acquisition and the compensation fund for crops have been paid, when the land acquisition work is finished, in full amount and in time by the financial treasury of Qianfeng District, and the social security funds have been paid to buy the social security in time for the land-losing farmers. 82 Fig.4-1 Some Payment Vouchers under the Project 4.5 Evaluation Investigation shows that the standard of compensation for land acquisition and the resettlement policies under the Project meet with related policies, laws and regulations of the People’s Republic of China, Sichuan Province, and Guang’an City with good compliance and great transparency of policies. Furthermore, the compensation funds for land acquisition and the compensation funds for crops have both been paid in time. Fig.4-2 Notice of Hearing Information for Land Acquisition under the Project and Letter of Conformation of Survey Results 5 Survey on Resettlement and Livelihood Recovery 5.1 Resettlement Measures for Land Acquisition 1. Agricultural Resettlement Considering that the Project is located in urban planning areas of Qianfeng District where the land resources available in the affected village teams are limited and thus agricultural resettlement is impossible, resettlement measures including cash compensation, agricultural-to-non-agricultural resettlement, and job-based 83 resettlement are offered to rural households affected by the Project. 2. Cash Compensation and Its Distribution Cash compensation has been offered to villages and rural households affected by land acquisition under the Project. It is defined in the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2013] No. 13) that compensation funds for the acquisition of farmland and other land and the subsidy for resettlement will be paid directly to the village where land acquisition takes place. The village will then deduct from such compensation the portion of unemployment insurance premium, for labor forces that are converted from agricultural people to non-agricultural people, to be paid by the collective, and later distribute the balance upon resolution reached on the village meeting 3. Social Security Measures The Basic Endowment Insurance According to the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2013] No. 13), people aged 16 years or above as of the approval date of the land acquisition resettlement plan whose land is acquired and resettled in the city should participate in the basic endowment insurance of the enterprise. The land acquirer shall purchase the basic endowment insurance expenses for certain years in a lump sum, and the payment base shall be 60% of the average wage of all on-the-job employees of the previous year as of the land acquisition compensation and resettlement plan which has been approved by the government, and the payment proportion is 20% (the acquirer shall pay 12%, and the affected farmers shall pay 8%).The endowment insurance expenses to be paid by individuals shall be withheld by the acquirer from the gained land acquisition compensation expense (i.e. the surplus after the deduction of the payable labor unemployment insurance expenses to be paid by individuals), and the insufficient part shall be borne by the acquirer. After the acquirer fully makes payment of the basic endowment insurance expenses, the social insurance organization shall establish personal account based on 8% of the payment base. The basic endowment insurance premium shall be paid in lump sum according to the principle of one additional payment of yearly premium for each two additional ages beyond 16 years old (according to actual age of the land-losing urban residents to be resettled) as of the approval date of LA and resettlement schemes by the government (namely, 1 year of premium payment if 16 years old, and 2 years of premium payment if 18 years old and so on, the same below) and the total payment period no greater than 15 years. Unemployment Insurance For land-losing farmers settled in urban areas who are unemployed but beyond 16 to 60 years old (male) or 55 years old (female) as of the approval date of land acquisition and resettlement schemes by the government and desire to get a job, they will be included in the unemployment insurance system. The land acquirer will handle with the unemployment insurance for them and the employment service agency will issue the Certificate of Employment Registration of Sichuan Province. The unemployment insurance premium of the land-losing farmers settled in urban 84 areas will be paid jointly by the country, the collective and the beneficiary. The standard of unemployment insurance premium payable is the funds required for full unemployment insurance entitled by the beneficiary at the local place on the very day when the compensation and resettlement plan is approved by the government. In which, the portion to be paid by the beneficiary shall be 1% of the 60% of the average in-service employees of the place where the permanent residence of the beneficiary is registered in the previous year and shall be paid for 10 years, and such portion is deducted from the resettlement subsidies provided to such beneficiary, and the remaining portion shall be paid by the land acquirer (80%) and the village team (20%) where LA takes place. The portion to be paid by the village team and the beneficiary will be withheld by the competent land resources bureau when appropriating the land acquisition funds and paid, in full amount and in time, to the special account of unemployment insurance fund. Medical Insurance Land-losing farmers settled in urban areas who are 60 (men) or 55 (women) years old as of the approval date of the Land Acquisition and Resettlement Scheme by the government shall join in the basic medical insurance system for urban residents and enjoy the basic medical insurance benefits. The local government shall fully pay, in lump sum, 15 years of basic medical insurance premium according to local policies concerning the basic medical insurance for urban residents and the farmers need not to pay. The part to be paid by the farmers will be paid by the government from proceeds on the land. The insurance situation of the farmer shall be declared by the insurance handling agency as required. The amount of premium of the basic medical insurance to be paid in lump sum for urban residents is the disposable personal income of urban residents in the previous year before the approval date of land acquisition and resettlement schemes by the government * 2.6% *15 years. For land-losing farmers resettled in urban areas who are below 60 (men) or 55 (women) years old as of the approval date of land requisition and resettlement schemes by the government, if such farmers get employed in urban areas, they shall join in the basic medical insurance for urban employees along with their employers, or join in the same as required if they are employed in flexible ways, or join in the basic medical insurance for urban residents if they are unemployed. The local government will provide subsidies covering certain years of their medical insurance premium according to the age of such farmers, the type of insurance and the required years of premium for medical insurance, so that they can be included in the medical insurance system. Funds required here will be undertaken by the land acquirer and included in the proceeds from the assigned or sold land. The subsidy will be provided as follows: 7 years of basic medical insurance premium will be provided for farmers aged from 50 and 60 years old (men) or from 45 to 55 years old (women); or 5 years if the farmer is between 18 to 50 years old (men) or 18 to 45 years old (women); 4. Measures for Skill Training The competent labor and social security affairs agency is responsible to carry out skill training and re-employment work for land-losing farmers and prepare training schemes. 5. Small-sum Guaranteed Loans for Women This loan system is set up for the purpose of helping urban and rural women meeting with requirements for small-sum guaranteed loans apply for loans and put the interest subsidy policy into practice so that to solve fund problems hindering 85 the women’s entrepreneurship and employment. Women’s Federation of Qianfeng District has, in the aspect of home-staying flexible employment, set up a home- staying flexible employment platform among the government, market, villages, and rural families and a flexible employment system, by ways of policy support and guidance, so that to further push forward the development of home-staying flexible employment of women. 5.2 Evaluation on Livelihood Recovery of Affected People and Satisfaction Survey 5.2.1 Survey on Basic Information of Affected Households For the purpose of getting better knowledge about the income and housing conditions of relocating households before and after land acquisition, the Survey Team has, based on actual situation of the area affected by the Project and under aids of the town government, made questionnaire in February 2018, with the emphasis to get information about the affected households, including their family size, age, education background, labor forces, land resources, and annual family income and expenditure, etc. The 22 affected households surveyed have total people of 79, 37 or 46.8% are females. The affected people is 100% urban residents, with the men mainly engaged in non- agricultural work or their own business, while the married women and the aged people engaged in housework orsome engaged in non-agricultural work nearby. 1. Age and Gender Among the 79 affected persons in the 22 households surveyed, 20 or 25.3% are aged less than 18 years old, 42 or 53.2% are aged 18 to 59 years old, and 17 or 21.5% are aged over 60. See Table 5-1 for more details. Table 5-1 Statistical Data about Age of the Affected People Total Age Male Female Number Proportion <18 years old 12 8 20 25.3% 18-59 years old 21 21 42 53.2% ≥60 years old 9 8 17 21.5% Sub-total 42 37 79 2. Educational background: Among the surveyed people, 31 or 39.2% have the highest education degree of primary school or lower, 27 or 34.2% have the highest education degree of junior middle school, 13 or 16.5% have the highest education degree of senior middle school, and 8 or 10.1% have the highest education degree of college or higher. See Table 5-2 for more details. 86 Table 5-2 Statistical Data about Educational Background of Affected Adults Educational Background of Total Male Female Adults Number % Primary school or lower 18 13 31 39.2% Junior middle school 15 12 27 34.2% Senior middle school/technical 5 8 13 16.5% secondary school College and above 4 4 8 10.1% Sub-total 42 37 79 3. Land Resources The village affected by the Project is near to the downtown area of Qianfeng District and has little per capita farmland even before land acquisition under the Project. The per capita farmland area after land acquisition under the Project drops to 0.3mu, very close to total loss of land resources. See Table 5-3 for more details. Table 5-3 Land Resources Owned by the Affected People Total Per Capita Area of Land Number of Contracted Per Capita Land People Land Area Acquired Households Area before Area after LA (mu) before LA (mu) (mu) LA (mu) 22 79 46 0.58 34 0.15 5.2.2 Survey on Resettlement Effects and Livelihood Recovery For the purpose of getting better knowledge about the resettlement effects and the livelihood recovery of the affected people after land acquisition, the Survey Team has made careful survey on the impacts of land acquisition on the affected people and their losses on agricultural income, and their production and living conditions after the resettlement. The Survey Team has made survey and contrastive analysis on the source of income and expenditures before and after land acquisition of the 22 households. The survey result and contrastive analysis indicatethat the main source of income of these surveyed households were salary and business income, which accounted for 55.86% of their total income, while the agricultural income accounted for only 12.81% of the same, before land acquisition under the Project. After the land acquisition under the Project, it can be seen that thanks to the year-on- year development of the local industrial section, the income from salary and business running increases stably and accounts for 63.84% of the total family income, while the agricultural income account s for only 3.15% of the same, after the land acquisition. Then, it is reasonable to say that the income generated from the farmland accounts for very little in the total family income before and after the land acquisition. The implementation of land compensation and other integrated resettlement measures has provided long-term guarantee to the production and livelihood of the affected households and their family income is improved stably from year to year. 87 Table 5-4 Income and Expenditure of Surveyed Families before and after Land Acquisition Before Land Acquisition After Land Acquisition Item Amount (CNY) Proportion (%) Amount (CNY) Proportion (%) Salary and 15,260 55.86% 20,500 63.84% business income Annual family Agricultural 3,500 12.81% 1,010 3.15% income income Other income 8,560 31.33% 10,600 33.01% Total 27,320 100.00% 32,110 100.00% Agricultural 1,845 10.58% 850 4.08% expenditure Expenditure for Annual family living 9,800 56.18% 12,700 60.91% expenditure consumptions Other expenses 5,800 33.25% 7,300 35.01% Total 17,445 100.00% 20,850 100.00% Per capita net 7,608 8,942 income 5.2.3 Survey on Satisfaction of the Affected People During the process of survey, the Survey Team has also made satisfaction survey among the affected people on the compensation provided under the Project and the results are shown in Table 5-5 below. As for satisfaction with the compensation policies and resettlement schemes for land acquisition under the Project, survey on the 22 households indicate that the compensation policies and resettlement schemes are acceptable because the land acquisition took place earlier (the earliest land acquisition took place in 2014 when the standard of compensation are definitely different from those now) and the standard of compensation at that time were poorer than those today, according to their opinions. Most of the surveyed affected people thought the land acquisition process was consistent with related laws, regulations, and policies and was transparent and open. Most of the survey people are satisfied with the recovery of their income. Table 5-5 Satisfaction of Surveyed Families Item Satisfied Acceptable Dissatisfied Criteria of compensation for land 33% 67% 0% acquisition Resettlement schemes for land 0% 100% 0% acquisition Current recovery of income 67% 33% 0% Compliances of land acquisition 100% 0% 0% Transparency and openness of 100% 0% 0% land acquisition 5.3 Evaluation on the Effects of Resettlement Resettlement measures under the Project includecash compensation, endowment insurance for land-losing farmers, unemployment insurance, recommended jobs and trainings, and assistance for development of the tertiary industry. All these measures have been implemented to great extent, which has guaranteed and even improved the production and living conditions and income of the affected people. In a word, the effects of resettlement under the Project have reached the general objectives of the World Bank on resettlement. 6 Resettlement Organizations 6.1 Resettlement Implementing Organizations 88 Implementing organizations of the Project mainly include the Land and Resources Bureau of Qianfeng District, the People’s Government of Qianfeng Town, the Longtang Sub-district Office and the village committees of affected villages. The Bureau of Land and Resources Qianfeng District is responsible for the early survey for land acquisition under the Project, the implementation of land acquisition and related compensation work, and the approval work concerning land acquisition. The land acquisition and compensation work shall be made strictly following related laws and regulations and measures shall be taken to prevent unauthorized use of the compensation funds for land acquisition. The People’s Government of Qianfeng Town and the Longtang Sub-district Office, as organizations responsible for the actual implementation of land acquisition and house demolition, have set up a coordinating team for land acquisition with main responsibilities including: participate in the survey on the quantity of physical impacts of the Project, organize public participation activities and publicize the resettlement policies; implement, check, monitor and make records about all the resettlement activities within the village; pay and manages the land compensation funds, supervise the acquisition and use of land; report to the city-level and district-level land and resources authority and the resettlement management office about the land acquisition and resettlement situation; and help solve contradictions and problems in the work. The village committee of Hongxing Village, affected by land acquisition under the Project, has set a special land acquisition team to help handle with resettlement issues. The resettlement work team of the affected villages and village teams is made up of main cadres of such village and village teams, with main responsibilities including: participate in the survey on physical assets affected by the Project; organize for public participation and publicize land acquisition policies; organize and carry out agricultural and non-agricultural production resettlement activities; take charge and appropriate related funds; report the opinions and suggestions of the affected people to higher authorities; report the progress of resettlement work; organize and hold the villager meetings; provide assistance to vulnerable groups. 6.2 Capability of the Implementing Organizations For the purpose of guaranteeing smooth implementation of the resettlement work, all of the resettlement organizations at all levels under the Project have appointed specific personnel and developed unobstructed information channels. The resettlement organizations are mainly made of administrative staffs and professionals, with the staff size ranging from 3 to 6. All these staffs have certain expertise and management ability, as well as rich experience in land acquisition. Furthermore, staffs experienced of land acquisition are appointed in the affected village and cooperative organization to help handle with land acquisition issues, especially to organize public participation activities. 6.3 Evaluation During the implementation process of resettlement work under the Project, the Owner has signed an entrust agreement with all the implementing organizations and this agreement defines the responsibilities and obligations of both parties. Staffs of the PMO have rich work experience, while the resettlement organizations have complete staffing and their staffs are good in quality and familiar with the business of land acquisition and related policies, laws and regulations; both the PMO and the resettlement organizations are greatly experienced in land acquisition and resettlement work and they are capable to put into practice all the policies about land acquisition and perform their own responsibilities and duties. It is believed by the Survey Team that high efficiency is realized during the implementation of land acquisition and resettlement under the 89 Project. 7 Public Participation and Grievances 7.1 Public Participation As required by related policies, laws and regulations concerning land acquisition, compensation and resettlement and for the purpose of safeguarding legal rights and interests of the affected people and minimizing complaints or disputes, great importance has been attached to the information disclosure and consultation at the preparatory and implementation stages of land acquisition, and opinions of social organizations, governmental sectors, village committees and the affected people are taken into consideration, and details of the land acquisition, compensation and resettlement work are disclosed to the public. Public participation has gone through the whole process of land acquisition under the Project. The table below shows some contents of public participation in the Project and these contents are summarized based on the informal discussion between the Survey Team and the land acquisition team of the government of Qianfeng Town and the Office of Longtang Sub-district, and the reference to related files and documents. Table 7-1 List of Public Participation Activities concerning Land Acquisition Village Times and Time Place Contents (Community) Participants Publicize land acquisition Office of January-June, policies, announce areas of 10 meetings, 100 Daya Village 2013 land to be acquired, discuss participants Committee distribution schemes Publicize land acquisition Office of Youku Road policies, announce areas of 8 meetings, 40 March, 2014 Village Community land to be acquired, discuss participants Committee distribution schemes Publicize land acquisition Office of policies, announce areas of 12 meetings, 200 Longtang May, 2016 Village land to be acquired, discuss participants Committee distribution schemes Publicize land acquisition Office of policies, announce areas of 12 meetings, 50 Shuangshi August, 2013 Village land to be acquired, discuss participants Committee distribution schemes 7.2 Complaints and Grievances For the purpose of guaranteeing the rights and interests of the affected people, Qianfeng Town and Longtang Sub-district have set up a highly transparent mechanism to gather and process complaints and grievances in an objective, fair, and efficient way so that to guarantee the smooth implementation of resettlement. To be specific, complaints and grievances are processed in four stages: Stage 1: the affected person can, in oral or in written, report their complaints to the village-level or town-level local resettlement office and the office shall, make a written records about the complaints (if made in oral) and give a clear reply within two weeks. If severe problems are involved and the complaints shall be reported to the county-level competent authority, such office shall try and within two weeks, to get reply from the district-level competent authority. Stage 2: If the affected person is dissatisfied with the reply given in stage 1, he/she can report his/her complaints to the one-level higher resettlement office within one month after getting the reply from stage 1. The district-level resettlement organization shall 90 make decisions within three weeks. Stage 3: If the affected person is still dissatisfied with the reply given by the district- level authority, he/she can, within one month after getting the reply given in stage 2, report his/her complaints to the city-level or provincial-level competent authority. The city-level or provincial-level competent authority shall give a reply within 4 weeks. Stage 4: The affected person can file a lawsuit at the people’s court from time to time. There is no any complain for the LA and HD of the project till now. 7.3 Evaluation It is found by the due diligence team that during the whole process of resettlement, the public participation and the democratic decision-making policy has been strictly observed. In all the benefit distribution events showing important influences, such as the distribution of compensation funds for land acquisition and the purchase of social security for the land-losing farmers, public participation and public appeals are fully taken into consideration. The due diligence team believes that the public participation policy and the complaints and grievance mechanism under the Project have played very good role in the process of resettlement. 8 Conclusions of Due Diligence on Resettlement Qianfeng Subproject of the Intermediate Adjustment Projects for Infrastructure Construction in the World Bank Loaned Sichuan-Chongqing Cooperation (Guang’an) Exemplary Zone will occupy 264mu of collectively-owned land in Youku Road Community (the former Qianfeng Village), Longtang Village, and Daya Village, of Longtang Town, and Shuangshi Village of Qianfeng Town, including 147mu of farmland, with 365 people from 126 households being affected. Qianfeng Subproject doesn’t involve in the demolition of residential houses, ground appurtenants or infrastructure facilities. The component “Xiejiawan Park” occupies a land with area of 166mu. This land has finished the acquisition work in July 2014 as a state-owned land for construction. The component “Comprehensive innovation of the Logistics Park section of the Luxi River” occupies total land area of 98mu. In which, the land occupied in Team 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the Youku Road Community (the former Qianfeng Village) has finished the acquisition work in two steps in April 2014 and March 2016 respectively; and the land occupied in Team 4, 5, 8 and 9 of Longtang Village has finished the acquisition work in November 2017. People affected by land acquisition and satisfying the social security requirements after land acquisition will be registered as urban residents and get resettled properly according to the Circular of Guang’an People’s Government on Printing and Issuing the Measures for Land Acquisition Compensation in Guang’an City (GAFF [2013] No. 13) and other related laws and regulations. In February, 2018, the due diligence team made sampling survey on the recovery of income and the satisfaction with resettlement, among affected people on this land. It can be seen from the results of survey on the recovery of income that all the villagers have, after land acquisition, got land compensation funds, together with other effective resettlement measures. Thanks to the compensation funds and these measures, the affected households have their family income increased and their production and living conditions improved. As for the villagers’ satisfaction with resettlement, the result of survey shows that the criteria of compensation and the resettlement schemes are just acceptable in their opinion. Nevertheless, all the surveyed villagers express that the process of land acquisition work is transparent, open, and consistent with related laws 91 and regulations and most of the affected households are satisfied with their current income. Public participation and information disclosure about the land acquired under the Project are made during the process of resettlement in an open and transparent way. The land-losing villagers are generally satisfied with the compensation policies and resettlement schemes for land acquisition with no complaints or grievances reported. In conclusion, the land acquisition procedures under the Project are reasonable and consistent with related laws, regulations, and policies. All the compensation funds and subsidies payable to the households affected by land acquisition have been paid in time and in full amount, all the resettlement measures are carried out, and the complaint and grievance channels are smooth and effective. The income and living conditions of the affected people are generally recovered and improved and great satisfaction is realized, which realizes the objectives of related Chinese laws and regulations on resettlement. No outstanding problems are left on the acquisition of collectively-owned land and related compensation. 92 Attachment I: Approval Documents for Land Acquisition under the Qianfeng Sub- project 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100