RP1707 V1 REV Sustainable Development Engineering for Resource-based Cities (Huai’nan City) World Bank Funded Project for Comprehensive Treatment and Utilization of Coal Mining Subsidence Area Resettlement Action Plan (Draft for Examination) Project Executive Office for World Bank Funded Project of Comprehensive Treatment for Huai’nan City Coal Mining Subsidence Area September 2014 1 Commitment Letter Resource-based City (Huai’nan City) Sustainable Development Project World Bank Funded Coal Mining Subsidence involves land requisition and relocation, as well as resettlement. Therefore, in order to guarantee the basic rights of the displaced persons, and recover or improve their living and production levels after relocation, according to the World Bank Involuntary Resettlement (OP4.12) and local and state laws and regulations, the resettlement action plan of this project is compiled. This plan is written according to the project feasibility plan and initial social and economic investigation data, and will act as the basis for the implementation of land requisition and relocation as well as the resettlement action plan. The municipal People’s Government of Huai’nan has reviewed the Resettlement Action Plan and agreed to organize the implementation according to the requirements of the resettlement action plan, to make sure that the resettlement funds be provided in sufficient amount and timely, and offer reasonable compensation and resettlement to the affected population. The Project Executive Office of Comprehensive Treatment of World Bank funded Coal Mining and Subsidence Area is obliged to assist relevant units with the implementation and management of the land requisition, relocation and resettlement. People’s Government of Huai’nan City (Public seal) Mayor (or Vice mayor): (Signature) (Date) 2 Preface I. Purpose of the resettlement action plan 1. The RAP was prepared according to the local and state laws of the People’s Republic of China, and the Worldd Bank Policy on Involuntary Resettlement OP 4.12. The purpose of this plan is to “formulate an action plan for resettlement and livelihood restoration of the affected population so that they can benefit from this project, thus improving their living conditions or at least recovering their living level after the project is completed. II. Definition of related terms (1) Displaced persons 2 From the perspective of compensation eligibility, Displaced Persons (DPs) can be classified into the following three types: (a) Persons who have formal and lawful rights over the land (including the consistent and traditional rights approved by the national laws); (b) Persons who do not have formal and lawful rights over the land at the beginning of the general survey but made request on the land or the property – these requirements are recognized by the state laws or can be recognized during the confirmation of the resettlement action plan; or (c) Persons who do not have formal or lawful rights over the land occupied by them 3 Persons under 2(a) and 2(b) can obtain land compensation and other assistance. Persons under 2(c) can obtain resettlement aid as the compensation for the land occupied by them and they will be offered with other necessary assistance to realize the purpose of this policy. However, premise is that their occupation of the project land is earlier than that specified by the borrower or a deadline accepted by the World Bank ①. After ① Generally speaking, the deadline is the date when the survey begins. The deadline can also be the time specified by 3 the deadline, people who occupy the land have no right to obtain compensation or resettlement aid in any form. All the people involved in 2(a), 2(b) and 2(c) can obtain property loss compensation. Compensation and resettlement measures 4 In order to mitigate the negative impacts of land acuqisiton which result in: (i) relocation or loss of shelter; (ii) loss of capital or ways to obt ain capital; or (iii) loss of income source or means of livelihood (whether or not the affected persons have to relocate), a resettlement action plan or resettlement action plan has to be prepared and it shall cover the following contents: (a) Measures shall be included in the resettlement action plan or RAP framework to guarantee the displaced persons, including: i) informed of their right of choice and other rights on the issue of resettlement; ii) understand technical and economic feasibility plans, participate in the negotiation and enjoy opportunities of choice iii) obtain compensation effectively according to the resettlement cost ①, so as to offset direct property loss caused by the project. (b) If the impacts include relocation, then related measures shall be covered in the resettlement action plan or the RAP framework to guarantee the displaced persons, including: i) obtain help during the period of relocation (such as the relocation subsidy); ii) obtain housing or homestead, or obtain site for agricultural production. The production potential, location advantage and other comprehensive factors should at least be equivalent to the advantageous conditions of the previous site. (c) In order to realize the target of this policy, measures should also be included in the the Project Area before the survey, given the premise that the conditions of the project area have been widely spread before the survey and can be advertised after the division of project area to prevent population influx. ① “Resettlement cost” is a way of property valuation, used to determine the property lost due to resettleme nt and the amounts needed for paying the transaction fees. When using this valuation method, housing depreciation shall not be considered. 4 resettlement action plan and resettlement action plan framework to guarantee the displaced persons, including: i) calculate a reasonable period of transition based on the time needed to recover living and working standards, and obtain help during this transition period; ii) can also obtain development aid such as land preparation, credit, training and employment except from the compensation measures mentioned in para. 4 (a) (iii). 5 Cut-off date: The cut-off date is the date publicize the land acquisition notification. After that date, the displaced persons shall not build, expand or modify their housing; shall not change the function of the housing or the land; shall not lease the land, or purchase housing; persons who move into the area of land requisition after the cut-off are not eligible for compensation. 5 Table of Contents PREFACE ............................................................................................................................................... 3 1 BASIC INFORMATION OF THE PROJECT ............................................................................... 11 1.1 PROJECT BACKGROUND ................................................................................................................. 11 1.2 PROJECT COMPONENTS AND CONTENTS OF LAND ACQUISITION AND HOUSE DEMOLITION........... 12 1.3 PROJECT PREPARATION AND RESETTLEMENT PROGRESS REVIEW ................................................. 17 1.4 MEASURES TO REDUCE THE RESETTLEMENT IMPACTS .................................................................. 20 1.4.1 Measures in Project Design Phase ........................................................................................ 20 1.4.2 Measures in the Implementation Process of Land Acquisition and Demolition .................... 22 1.4.3 Measures in the Process of Project Construction .................................................................. 23 1.5 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION CONDUCTED AND MAIN ACHIEVEMENT.................................................... 24 1.5.1 Process of Public Consultation and Negotiation ................................................................... 24 1.5.2 Public Consultation of Resettlement ..................................................................................... 27 1.5.3 Feedback on the Public Participation and Consultation Comments ..................................... 29 1.6 IDENTIFICATION OF THE ASSOCIATED PROJECTS ............................................................................ 30 2 IMPACT ANALYSIS ........................................................................................................................... 1 2.1 DEFINITION OF PROJECT IMPACT ...................................................................................................... 1 2.2 PROJECT IMPACT SURVEY ................................................................................................................ 2 2.3 OVERVIEW OF THE IMPACT OF LAND EXPROPRIATION AND DEMOLITION IN THE PROJECT ................. 3 2.4 IMPACT OF LAND EXPROPRIATION AND LAND-USE RIGHT TRANSFER OF THIS PROJECT ..................... 5 2.4.1 Expropriated and transferred rural collective land................................................................. 6 2.4.2 Occupied state-owned land ..................................................................................................... 6 2.5 DEMOLITION IMPACT OF THE PROJECT ............................................................................................. 7 2.5.1 Demolished residence .............................................................................................................. 8 2.5.2 Demolished enterprise buildings ............................................................................................. 9 2.5.3 Temporarily occupied land. ................................................................................................... 10 2.5.4 Vulnerable groups ................................................................................................................. 10 3 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC OVERVIEW OF IN THE PROJECT AREA ................................. 11 3.1 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC OVERVIEW OF THE CITY/DISTRICT WHERE THE PROJECT IS LOCATED. ....... 11 3.2 OVERVIEW OF THE SOCIETY AND ECONOMY OF THE TOWN/TOWNSHIP WHERE THE PROJECT IS LOCATED ............................................................................................................................................. 14 3.3 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC OVERVIEW OF AFFECTED VILLAGES .......................................................... 16 3.4 BASIC SITUATION OF AFFECTED HOUSEHOLDS. .............................................................................. 19 3.4.1 Households affected by demolition ........................................................................................ 19 3.4.2 Households affected by land expropriation ........................................................................... 22 3.5 IMPACT OF THE PROJECT CONSTRUCTION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF WOMEN ................................ 25 3.5.1 Overview of the women in the affected area .......................................................................... 25 3.5.2 Analysis of the impact of this project on women ................................................................... 30 3.6 SUMMARY ..................................................................................................................................... 32 4 LAWS, REGULATIONS AND POLICIES ..................................................................................... 33 6 4.1 ABSTRACT OF RELEVANT LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF STATE AND PROVINCIAL MINISTRY .......... 36 4.1.1 Regulations on Ownership and Right of Use of Land ........................................................... 36 4.1.2 Regulations on Compensation Standard of Land Requisition and Demolition ..................... 37 4.1.3 Regulations on Resettlement Approach of Land-expropriated Farmers ............................... 39 4.1.4 Policies on Information Disclosure of Land Requisition....................................................... 41 4.2 ABSTRACT OF RELEVANT LAWS AND POLICIES OF ANHUI PROVINCE AND HUAI’NAN CITY ........... 43 4.2.1 Notice of People’s Government of Anhui Province on Adjustment of Land Compensation Standards in Anhui Province (No. 67 [2012] of Anhui Government) ............................................. 43 4.2.2 Notice of Huai’nan Municipal Government of Issuing Compensation and Resettlement Method of Levying Collective Owned Land in Huai’nan City ....................................................... 44 4.2.3 Notice of Huai’nan Municipal Government of Issuing Levying Above Ground Attachments and Green Crops in Collective Owned Land (No.38 [2013] of Huai’nan Municipal Government) ........................................................................................................................................................ 44 4.2.4 Notice on Publication of Monetary Compensation Base Price and Adjustment Coefficient of Urban House Demolition in 2009 and Other Compensations and Subsidy Standard of Urban House Demolition in Huai’nan City (No.91 [2008] of Huai’nan Municipal Government) ........... 45 4.2 RELEVANT INVOLUNTARY RESETTLEMENT POLICY OF WORLD BANK ........................................... 45 4.3 RESETTLEMENT POLICY OF THIS PROJECT..................................................................................... 46 4.3.1 Collective Land Acquisition and Resettlement Policy ........................................................... 47 4.3.2 Transfer of Collective Land-use Right ................................................................................... 47 4.3.3 Policy of Permanent Occupancy of State-owned Land ......................................................... 49 4.3.4 Demolition and Resettlement Policy for Housing on State-owned Land ............................... 49 4.3.5 Temporary Occupancy of Collective Land ............................................................................ 51 4.3.6 Resettlement for Vulnerable Population ................................................................................ 51 4.3.7 Women’s Development ........................................................................................................... 51 5 RESETTLEMENT COMPENSATION STANDARD .................................................................... 52 5.1 COMPENSATION STANDARD FOR RURAL COLLECTIVE LAND EXPROPRIATION ................................. 52 5.2 COMPENSATION STANDARD FOR PERMANENT OCCUPATION OF STATE-OWNED LAND ................... 53 5.3 COMPENSATION STANDARD FOR TEMPORARY OCCUPATION .......................................................... 54 5.4 COMPENSATION STANDARD FOR HOUSE DEMOLITION .................................................................. 54 5.5 RELOCATION ALLOWANCE, TEMPORARY RESIDENTIAL RELOCATION ALLOWANCE AND TRAFFIC ALLOWANCE OF PRIMARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS ................................................................. 55 5.6 OTHER ALLOWANCE ...................................................................................................................... 55 6 RESETTLEMENT AND RESTORATION IMPLEMENTATION PLAN ................................... 56 6.1 PURPOSES, METHODS AND PRINCIPLES OF RESETTLEMENT AND RESTORATION .............................. 56 6.1.1 Purposes of resettlement and restoration .............................................................................. 56 6.1.2 Methods of resettlement and restoration ............................................................................... 56 6.1.3 Principles of resettlement and restoration............................................................................. 57 6.2 HOUSE DEMOLITION AND RESETTLEMENT ..................................................................................... 57 6.2.1 Demolition and resettlement of uncertified self-built housing ............................................... 58 6.2.2 Demolition of enterprise house and resettlement of employees............................................. 59 6.3 RESETTLEMENT OF AFFECTED POPULATION IN CHENXIANG VILLAGE ............................................ 60 6.4 RESETTLEMENT OF PENSION INSURANCE FOR LAND-EXPROPRIATED PEASANTS ............................. 61 7 6.5 EMPLOYMENT PROMOTION AND TRAINING .................................................................................... 62 6.6 RESETTLEMENT OF POPULATION AFFECTED BY LAND USE RIGHT TRANSFER .................................. 66 6.7 RESETTLEMENT AND RESTORATION OF AFFECTED WOMEN ............................................................ 67 6.8 RESETTLEMENT OF VULNERABLE POPULATION .............................................................................. 67 6.9 TABLE 6.1 TIMETABLE FOR RESETTLEMENT AND RESTORATION .................................................... 68 7 RESETTLEMENT FUNDS BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT .................................................... 71 7.1 COMPONENTS OF RESETTLEMENT FUNDS...................................................................................... 71 7.1.1 Compensation for Land Requisition ...................................................................................... 71 7.1.2 Demolition Compensation ................................................................................................... 71 7.1.3 Other Fees Related to Resettlement ...................................................................................... 71 7.1.4 Administration Fees of Resettlement ..................................................................................... 72 7.1.5 Unforeseen Expenses ............................................................................................................. 72 7.2 RESETTLEMENT FUNDS BUDGET ................................................................................................... 73 7.3.1 Allocation Objects of Resettlement Funds ............................................................................. 74 7.3.2 Sources and Flow Direction of Resettlement Funds .............................................................. 75 7.4.2 Management and monitoring of resettlement funds .............................................................. 76 8 ORGANIZATIONS OF RESETTLEMENT ................................................................................... 78 8.1 ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE...................................................................................................... 78 8.2 RESPONSIBILITY OF THE ORGANIZATIONS ..................................................................................... 79 8.2.1 Lead Group ........................................................................................................................... 79 8.2.2 Huai’nan Word Bank Project Office ...................................................................................... 79 8.2.3 Land Acquisition and Demolition Office in Datong District ................................................. 80 8.2.4 Village Committee or Community.......................................................................................... 80 8.3 STAFF AND EQUIPMENT OF RESETTLEMENT AGENCIES AT DIFFERENT LEVELS ...................................... 81 8.4 MEASURES TO STRENGTHEN CAPABILITY OF AGENCIES ................................................................ 82 8.5 FUTURE PLAN TO FURTHER STRENGTHEN CAPABILITY OF AGENCIES ............................................ 83 9 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION .................................................................... 85 9.1 BASIS FOR PUBLIC CONSULTATION ................................................................................................ 85 9.1.1 Laws and Regulations on Public Consultation in Resettlement ............................................ 85 9.1.2 World Bank Policy Requirements on Public Participation in Involuntary Resettlement ....... 88 9.2 APPROACH, MEASURES AND PROCEDURES OF PUBLIC CONSULTATION ......................................... 89 9.2.1 Approaches of Participation .................................................................................................. 89 9.2.2 Measures of Participation and Consultation ......................................................................... 90 9.3 FUTURE PLANS ON CONSULTATION WITH AFFECTED POPULATIONS ............................................... 91 9.4 METHODS FOR AFFECTED POPULATION TO PARTICIPATE IN CONSULTATION DURING IMPLEMENTATION ................................................................................................................................ 92 9.5 POLICY DISCLOSURE AND THE RESETTLEMENT INFORMATION MANUAL .......................................... 93 10 COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS .................................................................................................... 94 10.1 METHODS FOR COMPLAINT COLLECTION .................................................................................... 94 10.2 COMPLAINT AND APPEAL PROCEDURE ........................................................................................ 95 10.3 PRINCIPLES OF COMPLAINT RESOLUTION .................................................................................... 95 8 10.4 CONTENT AND METHODS OF COMPLAINT RESPONSE .................................................................. 96 10.4.1 Content of response ............................................................................................................. 96 10.4.2 Methods of Response ........................................................................................................... 96 10.5 RECORDING, TRACKING AND FEEDBACK OF COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS .................................... 97 10.6 CONTACT INFORMATION FOR COMPLAINTS AND APPEALS ........................................................... 97 11 MONITORING OF RESETTLEMENT ........................................................................................ 98 11.1 INTERNAL MONITORING ............................................................................................................... 98 11.1.1 Purpose and principles of internal monitoring .................................................................... 98 11.1.2 Implementation process of internal monitoring ................................................................... 99 11.1.3 Content of internal monitoring .......................................................................................... 100 11.1.4 Internal monitoring methods ............................................................................................. 101 11.1.5 Internal monitoring organizations and personnel arrangements ...................................... 104 11.1.6 Period and report of internal monitoring .......................................................................... 104 11.2 EXTERNAL MONITORING ............................................................................................................ 105 11.2.1 Purpose of external monitoring ......................................................................................... 105 11.2.2 External monitoring agency and personnel ....................................................................... 106 11.2.3 Obligation of external monitoring agency ......................................................................... 106 11.2.4 Method and procedures of external monitoring ................................................................. 107 11.2.5 Main content of external monitoring (Terms of reference) ................................................ 108 11.2.6 Report system of external monitoring .................................................................................111 12 ENTITLEMENT MATRIX .......................................................................................................... 113 APPENDIX 1 LAND TRANSFER PROGRAM OF CHENXIANG VILLAGE JIULONGGANG TOWN DATONG DISTRICT ........................................................................................................... 115 APPENDIX 2 EMPLOYMENT TRAINING IMPLEMENTATION SCHEME FOR RESIDENTS IN THE NINE MAJOR COAL MINING SUBSIDENCE AREA OF WORLD BANK FINANCED PROJECT IN HUAI’NAN ................................................................................................................. 118 I. GENERAL OBJECTIVES............................................................................................................. 118 II. BASIC PRINCIPLES .................................................................................................................... 119 IV. SPECIFIC ARRANGEMENTS OF TRAINING ....................................................................... 122 (I) TRAINING OF CNC LATHE OPERATOR ............................................................................... 122 (II) PROFESSIONAL ELECTRICIAN TRAINING ...................................................................... 123 (III) GARMENT MAKER TRAINING............................................................................................ 123 (IV) GREENERY WORKER ............................................................................................................ 124 (V) MARKETING WORKER ........................................................................................................... 125 (VI) SECURITY STAFF TRAINING TEACHING PROGRAM ................................................... 125 V. OVERALL BUDGET .................................................................................................................... 126 VII. ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT ............................................................................. 127 3) STRENGTHEN SUPERVISION AND INSPECTION ............................................................... 128 9 4) INTENSIFY GUIDANCE AND SERVICE ................................................................................. 129 APPENDIX 3 RESETTLEMENT INFORMATION BOOKLET.................................................. 131 APPENDIX 4: PLAN OF HOST COMMUNITY IN NO.3 DONGSHAN EAST ROAD ............. 135 APPENDIX 5: QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY ON WORLD BANK FUNDED COMPREHENSIVE TREATMENT PROJECT IN COAL MINING SUBSIDENCE RELATED TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING FOR RESOURCE-BASED CITY (HUAI’NAN CITY) ............................................................................................................................ 136 APPENDIX 6: INVESTMENT BREAKDOWN OF ALL SUBPROJECTS ................................. 146 APPENDIX 7 EXTERNAL MONITORING OUTLINE OF PROJECT-BENEFITED AREA ................................................................................................. ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED. 10 1 Basic Information of the Project 1.1 Project background Located in the middle reach of Huai River, Huai’nan City is in north-central Anhui Province and lies between 116°21′21″~117°11′59″ east longitude and 32°32′45″~33°0′24″north latitude. It adjoins Fengyang County and Dingyuan County of Chuzhou City on the east, Changfeng County of Hefei City on the south, Shou County and Huoqiu County of Liu’an City on the southwest, Yingshang County of Fuyang City, Lixin County, Mengcheng County of Bozhou City on the west and northwest, Huaiyuan County of Bengbu City on the northeast. It boasts an area of 2596.4 km2, including the urban area of 1566.4 km2 and Fengtai County of 1030 km2. It has a built up area 89.44 km2 and a total population of 2.6 million. Coal mining year after year in this city resulted in large scale of ground subsidence, ecological degradation, and damages of various infrastructures, residential quarters and farmland to varying degrees, which seriously threatened the sustainable development of the overall urban ecological environment. In recent years, the government of Huai’nan City has always taken the comprehensive treatment of the subsidence area as the largest livelihood project and has adopted a series of measures and actions to solve this problem. For example, the Regulations on Coal Mining Subsidence Land Treatment of Huai’nan City (2003) was issued in 2003; “Comprehensive Treatment and Rehabilitation Office of Coal Mining Subsidence Area in Huai’nan City” was established in 2009; Comments on Accelerating the Relocation of Villages in the Coal Mining Subsidence Area to Promote the Comprehensive Treatment and Management was formulated in 2010, etc. In addition, the World Bank loan application for treatment of Jiulonggang-Datong Coal Mining Subsidence Area in 2012 was also one of the actions. The Huai’nan Coal Mining Subsidence Area Rehabilitation Project is approved to be listed in the alternative planning World Bank loan projects in the Fiscal Years of 2015~2019 by the State Council on the basis of the project application report 11 submitted by the relevant departments of Anhui Province and through the study and investigation of such project by National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance and the World Bank. It is proposed to apply for 100 million Yuan of World Bank loans for this project. The Jiulonggang-Datong Coal Mining Subsidence Area is chosen for rehabilitation by the World Bank financed project for the following reasons: 1) Jiulonggang-Datong Coal Mining Subsidence Area is located between the old town in the north and the new town in the south, close to the northern foot of Shungeng Mountain. It is the channel connecting the north and south main urban areas and the heartland after the urban expansion, which occupies a very important position in the urban development plan of Huai’nan City; 2) Jiulonggang-Datong Coal Mine has been closed for over 30 years, the subsidence has stopped, and the technical risk of environmental restoration has been reduced greatly; 3) Due to historical reasons, as the responsible body for treatment of Jiulonggang-Datong Coal Mining Subsidence Area has been disintegrated, it is very difficult to raise funds for rehabilitation; and there remain prominent problems with enormous negative impacts. World Bank loan would help a lot to overcome financing difficulties; 4) The ponds and garbage scattered around Jiulonggang-Datong subsidence area, the discarded buildings and scattered waste dumps not only seriously affected the lives of the surrounding residents and the image of Huai’nan City, but also caused a tremendous waste of land resources in the urban area. 1.2 Project Components and Contents of Land Acquisition and House Demolition This is a comprehensive treatment project of the 9.3 km2 Jiulonggang-Datong Coal Mining Subsidence Area in Huai’nan City. It is comprised of three sub-projects: (1) Environmental remediation and water system treatment; (2) Infrastructure improvement and project area exploitation; (3) Project management and technical assistance. See Table 1-1 for details of the sub-projects. Table 1-1 Project Profiles 12 Sub-project Construction Content Objective Name 1) Contain the further deterioration of ecological environment; put every effort to restore the whole plant 1) Environmental remediation: community system, biologic chain system and the local environmental remediation of nature ecosystem within the region; 2) Integrate and the mining wasteland in the complete the landscape elements such as nursery and forest project area, and restoration of with greenways to build an all-round green space which vegetation embraces leisure, recreation, fitness and science demonstration to promote the blending development of the 1. old and now urban areas. Environmental 2) Water system treatment: Remediation repair the water system in the and Water By improving the water system of the subsidence area, project area and meet the System meet the requirements of protection from once-in-30-year requirements of protection Treatment flash floods and drainage of once-in-30-year waterlogging, from once-in-30-year flash and control the water quality to reach Class V Standards. floods and drainage of once-in-30-year waterlogging 3) Closure of old garbage Thoroughly solve the problem of environmental pollution dumps in Datong: close in the surrounding area caused by old garbage dumps, and Datong Garbage Dump to reduce the impact of the leachate and landfill gas from the prevent water, soil and air old garbage dump on the surrounding environment. pollution in this region 1) Improve and build the Infrastructure improvement is mainly to accelerate the necessary road and the related building of the arterial road network and to improve the water supply and drainage traffic conditions, water supply and drainage conditions and infrastructure in the project the investment environment through the construction of the 2. area, restore their functions 4 roads and the pipeline project under the roads in the Infrastructure and connect the area to the project area and the setting a zoned drainage system for rain Improvement other part of the city. water and sewage. and Project 2) Project area exploitation: Area support the facilities Exploitation construction and activities in Construct redevelopment projects including bonsai garden, the project area after nursery, and flower trading market to make it a financially rehabilitation, integrate sustainable project. resources to serve the local development In the process of establishing executing bodies, developing 1) Technical research quality management rules and quality management system 3. Project 2) Project technology of the project, the experts of the World Bank project may Management management provide constructive suggestions and personnel training. and Technical 3) Personnel technical training The leverage effect of World Bank loan and Government Assistance 4) Guidance and counseling financial funds should be amplified through the service employment training of land-lost farmers and poor 13 residents, the risk analysis and policy study for the treatment of the coal mining subsidence area. The Sub-project (1) Environmental Remediation and Water System Treatment is divided into three parts: 1) Environmental remediation: the environmental remediation and revegetation of the mining wasteland of the project area; 2) Water system treatment: renovate the water system in the project area to meet the requirements of protection from once-in-30-year flash floods and drainage of once-in-30-year waterlogging; 3) Closure of old garbage dump in Datong: close Datong Garbage Dump to prevent water, soil and air pollution in this region. The land scale and functions of the “Environmental Remediation” greenway and roadside service point project and the “Water System Treatment” project are shown in Table 1-2. Sub-project (2) Infrastructure Improvement and Project Area Exploitation is divided into two parts: 1) Improve and build necessary roads and related water supply and drainage infrastructure in the project area, restore the original functions and connect the area to the other part of the city. 2) Project area exploitation: support the facilities construction and activities in the project area after rehabilitation; integrate the local resources available in the area for the livelihood development of the local communities, including bonsai garden, nursery, and flower trading market. The land acquisition and house demolition, land scale and functions of the 4 newly-built roads, namely the Zhongxing Road, Jiukong Road, Wanxiang Road and Yanshan Road) in the “basic project improvement” project, and the bonsai garden, nursery, and flower trading market in “Project Area Exploitation” project are listed in Table 1-2 below. Table 1-2 Project land scale and functions Project Content Scale Functions Greenway 24km long, 4.5m wide Leisure, recreation, fitness Roadside Service Point 12.6 mu (a Chinese unit of area, 1 Recreation, service, business 14 mu = 666.67 m2) development 840.5 mu (cover an area of 88.1 Water System Water system treatment mu) Bonsai Garden 111 mu Recreation, business development 819 mu (including 266 mu collective-owned land-use right Environment improvement, Nursery transferred land in Chenxiang landscaping, business development Village) Environment improvement, business Flower Trading Market 125.3 mu development Traffic artery connecting the inside and Zhongxing Road 1.36 km long, 30 m wide the outside of the project area Second-class road in the traffic Jiukong Road 1.39 km long, 10 m wide network within project area Second-class road in the traffic Wanxiang Road 1.52 km long, 25 m wide network within project area Second-class road in the traffic Yanshan Road 4.17 km long, 7 m wide network within project area See Figure 1-1 for the location of the sub-projects and the project. Figure 1-1 Sub-project and Project Location Plan 15 According to the social assessment report, 494 households are living in project subsidence area, including 82 households from Jiulonggang Town and about 412 households from Datong sub-district office. Their houses are located in the relatively stable region in the subsidence area and have not been affected by the land subsidence. Municipal Government and Huai’nan Mining Group Co., Ltd. have no plan to relocate these households yet. Subsidence of the mining area experiences more than 30 years. Affected households have relocated in succession over the last decade. Households who the houses and land production have not been affected don’t be incorporated into the relocation plan after asking for their will. Huai’nan City and the state have issued specific regulations on development and utilization of the subsidence area –prohibit from building permanent building and large infrastructure. In addition, subsidence area is still under unstable conditions, which causes that no developer is willing to conduct real estate development in the subsidence area. In order to maintain these households’ life, the project has no plan to relocate these people. The World Bank worries about that these households will be affected because environment restoration of the World Bank project improves greatly environment of the project area, initiating other project of Huai’nan Municipal Government or real estate development project. After negotiation with the project management office, it is agreed that if residents in the project area are required to relocate during project implementation, the World Bank shall be informed in advance and the policy framework of resettlement prepared to guide the resettlements. Generally, benefit of environment management project has spillover effect. The project implementation forms a benefit belt (having less population and some developable agricultural land) with about 3 km length and 1.5 km width in the neighborhood to the north of the project area. The benefit belt has 2928.15 mu and 13946 populations, west of Huaishun South Road, south of Linchang Road-Jiuda Road (north boundary of the project area), north of Dongshan East Road - link line of Hexu expressway with Huai’nan City - Huaifu railway, and east of 206 State Road around. The World Bank thinks that the project implementation may initiate some development project of municipal government related to the land acquisition and demolition. In order to avoid or eliminate land acquisition and demolition of other project possibly arising from the project implementation, these projects shall be 16 informed to the World Bank in the feasible study stage through consultation with the project management office. The project area involves in 6383 Mu forest land of Huai’nan Mining Group Co., Ltd. and 138 Mu subsided land. The World Bank funded project is only support public projects, therefore, the precondition made by the World Bank to promote the project is that lands of enterprises in the project area shall be resumed by the government. Huai’nan Mining Group Co. Ltd. agrees to free transfer all forest lands and subsided lands to the government after many consultations of the municipal government with the Huai’nan Mining Group Co. Ltd. The two parties signed Forest Land and Subsided Land Transfer Agreement of “Sustainable Development Engineering for Resource-based Cities (Huai’nan City) World Bank Funded Project for Comprehensive Treatment and Utilization of Coal Mining Subsidence Area” on April 9, 2014. 1.3 Project Preparation and Resettlement Progress Review From March 18 to March 24, 2013, the World Bank expert panel had identified the Sustainable Development Engineering for Resource-based Cities (Huai’nan City) World Bank Funded Project for Comprehensive Treatment and Utilization of Coal Mining Subsidence Area (hereinafter referred to as Huai’nan World Bank Project) and formed a memo in which the preparation units of the Feasibility Study Report, Resettlement Action Plan and Environmental Impact Assessment Report were initially identified. In March 2013, the project consulting organization Center for Involuntary Resettlement Research of China Three Gorges University (hereinafter referred to as Three Gorges University) received the electronic version of the detailed 1:1000 topography and land type map of the project boundary area sent by Executive Office of Huai’nan World Bank Funded Project for Comprehensive Treatment and Utilization of Coal Mining Subsidence Area (hereinafter referred to as World Bank Project Executive Office), and established a Land Information System with the software ARC-GIS. On March 19, 2013, Three Gorges University received the procurement document Compiling of Resettlement Action Plan Report and the procurement invitation sent by World Bank Project Executive Office. On April 23, 2013, for the compiling of the resettlement action plan, Three Gorges University filled 17 in the document as required and submitted a reply to procurement document and carried out successful negotiations with Anhui Puhua Construction Cost Consulting Firm Co., Ltd., the commissioned organization of World Bank Project Executive Office; the next day, Three Gorges University and the World Bank Project Executive Office signed a working contract. After signing the contract, the Three Gorges University consulted with the World Bank Project Executive Office of Huai’nan City on the issues of physical indicator household survey and economic and social investigation of the relocated families. From April 25 to April 27, 2013, under the strong support and cooperation of Government of Datong District and the communities involved in the project, the investigators of the Three Gorges University and two working staff of World Bank Project Executive Office carried out a three-day pilot survey according to the specified working method and survey content in the related communities of the project area. By means of questionnaire and field observation, together with in-depth interview for a few cases, the investigation team obtained an in-depth understanding of the history, natural endowment, cultural characteristics and socio-economic development status of the project involved area and project impact area as well as the views, opinions and related suggestions from the local residents. There are two outcomes from the pilot investigation: 1) the investigation report is submitted to Project Executive Office; 2) appropriate adjustments are made to the questionnaire and the interview outline according to the local situation. On June 20, the People’s Government where the project locates, Government of Datong District of Huai’nan City, and the World Bank Project Executive Office co-issued a suspending order in the project impact area. On June 21, People’s Government of Datong District, World Bank Project Executive Office and Three Gorges University formed a joint investigation team and carried out a ten-day physical indicators survey. Meanwhile, Three Gorges University conducted a socio-economic survey and a resettlement intention survey of the families of the affected population. Three Gorges University established a database through indoor sorting and analyzing the field survey data and submitted a survey report to the World 18 Bank Project Executive Office on August 12, 2013. Based on the aforesaid surveys and public consultation, Three Gorges University completed the draft of Resettlement Action Plan on September 1, 2013. On September 11-18, the preparation inspection team of World Bank Project conducted a review of the draft. In their opinion, the land ownership in the project area is very complicated, the state-owned land comprising the land of Government of Datong District and of Huai’nan City, and the land of Huai’nan Mining Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Mining Group), in which the land use right of Mining Group must be transferred to the Government of Huai’nan City. This requires an agreement of Land Use Right Transfer between the Government of Huai’nan City and the Huai’nan Mining Group. Apart from the acquisition of collectively owned land for the construction of new roads and water system treatment, the construction of nursery also concerns the transfer of land use right of collectively owned land. The planned area of nursery is 819 Mu, including 266 mu farmland in Chenxiang Village. From October 10 to November 18, with the support of World Bank Project Executive Office and the local government, Three Gorges University carried out two rounds of intention surveys and public consultation in Chenxiang Village on the issue of land-use right transfer. After repeated consultations, the village committee of Chenxiang Village agreed with land transfer and submitted a Land Transfer Program (see Appendix 1) in November 2013. From November 7 to November 14, the Government of Datong District, World Bank Project Executive Office and the Three Gorges University formed a joint investigation team to conduct a supplementary investigation toward the intention of relocated population and the physical indicators. From March 12 to April 8, 2014, the consultants of the World Bank Project Executive Office, Government of Datong District and Three Gorges University held repeated discussions over the Resettlement Action Plan (Revision). In the subsequent project pre-assessment meeting (April 11-18), experts from World Bank also put forward valuable amendments. On this basis, the draft for examination of this 19 Resettlement Action Plan is formed. 1.4 Measures to Reduce the Resettlement Impacts Whether in planning stage or in implementation process of the project, both the World Bank expert panel and the Huai’nan World Bank Project Executive Office regarded resettlement as one of the top priorities for consideration. They have made efforts to minimize the resettlement that may be caused by the project while considering the indicators such as construction cost, social impact and environmental impact in an all-round way. 1.4.1 Measures in Project Design Phase In the project planning and design phase, in order to reduce the local social and economic impact incurred by the construction of the project, Huai’nan World Bank Project Executive Office held joint conferences with participation of various consultancy units and design units for many times to coordinate the optimization of the project design and minimize the socio-economic impact brought forth by resettlement. In the process of communications and consultations, the Anhui Urban Construction and Design Institute in charge of design, the Anhui Coal Design Institute in charge of environmental impact assessment, the Three Gorges University in charge of resettlement expressed their views on the optimization of project from difference perspectives. Finally, as generally coordinated by Anhui Urban Construction and Design Institute, a consistent principle is formed: Firstly, scheme optimization and selection. Consider local social and economic impact of project construction as much as possible. When land occupation is inevitable, occupy vacant land as much as possible and reduce the occupation of farmland. Secondly, when demolition is inevitable, minimize the scale of demolition and take the demolition amount as the key factor in the scheme optimization and selection. Meanwhile, reserve a reasonable room for the link between this project and other municipal facilities. 20 Thirdly, while comparing different design schemes, we shall take into full account the factors of land acquisition and relocation and minimize the amount of land acquisition and demolition. In the project design phase, we shall compare the investigation results of the physical indicators and make appropriate adjustment and optimization to the design of sub-projects to reduce the impact of resettlement. For example, when the road construction scheme is determined, the road width in the original design scheme is that Zhongxing Road for 60 m, Wanxiang Road for 40 m, Jiukong Road for 40 m and Yanshan Road for 40 m. The experts from World Bank pointed out that the roads with such width not only involve large amount of land acquisition and demolition, but also do not conform to the project objective, environmental rehabilitation in function. Therefore, the design unit adjusted the road width in the new scheme: Zhongxing Road for 30 m, Wanxiang Road for 25 m, Jiukong Road for 9 m and Yanshan Road for 7 m. The amount of land requisition and demolition is reduced significantly in the new scheme. In the original planning route of the Zhongxing Road, several settlements shall be involved. After on-the-spot investigation, the Three Gorges University made some appropriate adjustments to the extension direction of the road within the allowable range and completely avoided these settlements. The design unit accepted this scheme and reduced the house demolition amount by 1736 m2. If the Yanshan Road Section which passes through the old residential area of Qishan Garden Spot is adjusted southward and uses the existing road as the foundation in leveling, the demolition area will be reduced by 422 m2 at least. Some buildings that should be demolished for the construction of the planned water system and the planned greenway in the existing scheme can be avoided completely in the implementation process of the scheme. We shall avoid demolition as much as possible to reduce the demolition area of Datong Forest Farm for more than 340 m2. According to the above mentioned adjustment schemes, the demolition of other roads will be completely avoided except for Jiukong Road. The buildings to be 21 demolished for Jiukong Road are just the abandoned buildings of the Third Mining Group with small amount of compensation. Compared with the original scheme, the adjustment scheme can reduce the demolition amount to the largest extent. The planned covering area of nursery construction is 819 mu, which including 266 mu collectively owned land in Chenxiang Village. Currently, the contracting households are farming on these lands, mainly wheat and canola. The acquisition of these lands will affect their livelihood and increase the project cost. Considering that the construction of nursery do not change the agricultural purpose of the land, the World Bank Project Executive Office decided to properly resolve the problem by adopting the method of land-use right transfer. 1.4.2 Measures in the Implementation Process of Land Acquisition and Demolition 1. Strengthen the collection of basic data and make an in-depth analysis on the current situation of local economy and society and the future development combined with the practical and feasible Resettlement Action Plan prepared according to the actual local conditions to protect the affected population of the project against losses on the construction of the project. 2. Actively encourage public participation, listen to the opinions and suggestions of the affected population. 3. Strengthen internal and external monitoring; establish effective and smooth feedback mechanism and channels to ensure the timely resolution of the various problems occurred in the implementation process of the project. Notify part of the affected people in advance, arrange the relocated site and compensate for the losses to shorten the idling period and reduce the operating losses to the maximum extent. 4. In the process of resettlement, help the relocated residents and enterprises obtain the powerful assistance from the relevant local functional departments to provide convenience for them so that the resettlement work can be carried out smoothly and that the burden and losses of the relocated population can be reduced as well. 22 1.4.3 Measures During Project Construction During project construction, the following measures will be adopted to minimize the inconveniences of the affected population brought by the project: 1. Arrange the construction plan and the traffic organization design reasonably to minimize the impact on surrounding environment and the traffic order by the road construction. As to the grooving work for the installation of the pipe network, all kinds of influence factors shall be taken into account in advance and the work of excavation, pipe installation and back-filling shall be completed in a period as short as possible. If the work shall be done in the cross road with heavy traffic, the construction shall avoid peak times (for example, construction shall be done at night to ensure the smooth flow in the daytime). Brutal construction is strictly prohibited; prevent destruction of the existing pipelines; set necessary warning signs, warning lights and road marking to facilitate the traffic. After the completion of the construction, the site shall be cleaned up and open to traffic in time. 2. The spoil excavated in the course of project construction shall be removed in time, and shall not be overloaded during the process of shipping. Measures shall be taken to the truck to ensure that the spoil will not spill along the road. The soil on the wheels of the truck shall be cleaned by high pressure water before leaving the site to prevent the trail of spoils along the road and the environmental impact. A cleaning system shall be applied for the road in front of the construction unit. Spoils shall be cleaned once discovered. 3. Carrying out construction from 10 pm to 8 am within the region 200 m away from the residential area is forbidden. Meanwhile, in selection of the construction equipment and construction method, the construction unit shall give priority to the machinery and construction method with low-noise. For the construction site where construction shall be done at night which produce environmental noise pollution to the surrounding residents, measures shall be taken to eliminate or control the noise of the construction machinery. Furthermore, temporary sound barriers and the like shall be set around the construction site or the residents concentrated area to ensure the 23 acoustic environment quality of the residential area. 4. The project construction unit shall contact the local sanitation department to clean up the domestic waste on the construction site to keep the site of construction area clean and tidy. 1.5 Public Participation Conducted and Main Achievement 1.5.1 Process of Public Consultation Since April 2013, Huai’nan World Bank Project Executive Office have carried out a series of socio-economic surveys and public consultation with the assistance of consultants. The contents of the specific public participation and consultation activities are as follows: From February 2013 to April 2014, Huai’nan World Bank Project Executive Office repeatedly organized the consultation units such as the preparation units of the Feasibility Study Report, Environmental Impact Assessment Report and Resettlement Action Plan to carry out the works of conducting on-site investigation in the project affected areas, publicizing the basic information of the project, investigating the impact indicators of project physical quantity, understanding the social and economic conditions of the affected families and determining the resettlement scheme, etc. The attitude and willingness of the affected population towards the project was understood during the course of social and economic investigation. The result showed that most relocated households support the construction of the project. They held the review that this project can effectively improve the local living environment and ecological environment and promote the local economic development, so as to increase citizens’ employment opportunities, and improve their income and living standard. The willingness of the relocated people to be resettled was also investigated. In the process of public consultation of resettlement, we investigated the affected people’s wishes on compensation and resettlement. Their attitudes and opinions are mainly summarized as follows: the compensation and resettlement policies and the process of the land acquisition and demolition must be open and transparent, and 24 accept supervision from all walks of life; a fair and reasonable compensation on the basis of the relevant laws and regulations shall be made; their working and living conditions can be improved through the relocation from this project. In the preparation phase of the project, the RAP consultant carried out various government agencies, such as Huai’nan Municipal Bureau of Land, Housing and Urban-Rural Construction Bureau, Development and Reform Commission of Datong District, Ethnic and Religious Affairs Bureau of Huai’nan City, Huai’nan Women’s Federation, Township Government of Jiulonggang, Datong Sub-district Offices. Focused group discussions ewere carried out several affected villages such as Chenxiang Village. Coordination and consultation for demolition compensation and resettlement schemes was conducted in the relocated residential area. The consultation was carried in a gender sensitive approach. More than 50% of participants of each focused group discussion are women. See Table 1-3 for the details of the main public participation and consultation activities in the preparation phase of the project: Table 1-3 Main Public Participation Activities in Project Preparation Phase Organiz Main Comments and ation Date Participant Topic Action and Effect Suggestions Unit Understand the history, World Bank Project natural endowment, cultural The local residents and Huai’nan Executive Office, Three characteristics, social and government are very active World Gorges University, economic development Prepare investigation report in supporting the Bank April Jiulonggang Township status of the project so that the local residents construction of the project Project 2013 Government, various involving area and the understand the objective and looking forward to the Executiv affected villages and the affected area, the local and content of the project. early implementation of the e Office neighborhood commissions, residents’ views, opinions project. affected people and related suggestions about the project. Huai’nan World Bank Project Prepare physical quantity World Executive Office, Three investigation result to get June-J Ensure the equity, fair and Bank Gorges University, Project impact physical approval of villagers of uly accurate of the physical Project Jiulonggang Township quantity survey Chenxiang Village, 2013 quantity survey Executiv Government, Datong neighborhood committee, e Office sub-district office, various affected people and 25 affected villages and the enterprises neighborhood commissions, affected people and enterprises World Bank Project Enhance understanding of Executive Office, Three the project, the Huai’nan Gorges University, understanding and World Jiulonggang Township June-J Socio-economical supporting of the Bank Government, Datong Open information; fair uly investigation; resettlement compensation and Project sub-district office, various policies; transparent process 2013 intention investigation resettlement policies, and Executiv affected villages and the get the idea of affected e Office neighborhood commissions, people’s resettlement affected people and willingness enterprises 1. the acquisition of collectively owned land is focused on monetary resettlement, while providing endowment insurance, training and employment promotion; 2. Private house without property ownership 1. Most affected people certificate shall be hoped to get monetary World Bank Project compensated by compensation and require Executive Office, Three construction cost without to make up the losses Huai’nan Gorges University, resettlement, however, caused by land acquisition; World Jiulonggang Township economically affordable Resettlement intention 2. The demolition Bank August Government, Datong houses may be provided for investigation, resettlement compensation standard shall Project 2013 sub-district office, various them to purchase by scheme coordination be set on the basis of the Executiv affected villages and the favorable price; The public current policies of Huai’nan e Office neighborhood commissions, house tenants shall be City; affected people and provided with nearby 3. The affected enterprises enterprises economically affordable require monetary house by 30 m2 per capita resettlement primarily. free of charge. 3. Factory house demolition shall be compensated by replacement price. Shutdown compensation shall be provided to the enterprise which is in operation. The employees in the relocated enterprise 26 must be resettled properly according to Labor Contract Law and be provided with vocational skill training and employment opportunities, and to ensure that the wages are not lower than the current level. World Bank Project Huai’nan Executive Office, Three Willingness investigation 1. Chenxiang Village agrees World Octobe Gorges University, and public consultation on to the ways and rents of Bank r-Nove Jiulonggang Township the collectively owned land Prepare land transfer land transfer Project mber Government, village transfer of Chenxiang scheme (see Appendix 1) 2. The issuance of rent must Executiv 2013 commission of Chenxiang Village within the project be guaranteed e Office Village and villager area representatives World Bank Project Executive Office, Three Huai’nan Decem Gorges University, World Solicit public opinion of ber Jiulonggang Township The Resettlement Plan was Bank Resettlement Plan 2013- Government, various publicized online on July 1, Project (revision), improve March affected villages and 2014. Executiv resettlement scheme 2014 neighborhood committees, e Office affected people and enterprises 1.5.2 Public Consultation of Resettlement During April 24-29, 2013 and July 21-29, 2013, assisted by World Bank Project Executive Office and the People’s Government at various levels in the affected area, Center for Involuntary Resettlement Research of Three Gorges University conducted questionnaire of the public participation opinions and suggestions in the demolition affected Kuangbei Village settlement of Chonghua community, nameless settlement of Zhanhou community and the villagers of land acquisition affected Chenxiang Village, held two focused group discussion and carried out questionnaire survey and individual interview with 127 affected people aged above 15. On August 14-16, the population information of the land acquisition affected households was further investigated. The main results are summarized as follows: 1. Resettlement Standard and Resettlement Method of Housing 27 Compensation This project only involves relocation of six households, of which five houses are uncertified constructions, 1 household is public housing occupant. Information obtained from the resettlement investigation and public participation activities showed that, the demolition of uncertified buildings in Huai’nan City in recent years mainly oriented monetary compensation without providing replacement houses, but economically affordable houses shall be provided for the relocated households to purchase at favorable price. As the household which lives in the public housing has no other house to live in, a resettlement house by 30 m 2 per capita in the residential area of No.3 Dongshan east road will be provided to them. Factory buildings of the five closed enterprises shall be compensated at the standard stated in Table 5.4. One enterprise which is in operation currently expresses that they will cease their business after demolition and they are willing to accept monetary compensation. Therefore, in addition to the compensation of the factory building, compensation for loss of operation suspension and equipment damages shall be provided. The relocated enterprise shall give its employee economic compensation (the expense is included in compensation for loss of operation suspension and equipment damages) according to Labor Contract Law in 2013, the Resettlement Office of Datong District shall provide them with employment training and help them to find new jobs. The jobs generated from this project will be available to them in priority and the wages shall not be lower than their current level. 2. Participation in the Usage Management of Land Compensation Most villagers that are surveyed agree with the approaches of compensation payment based on the prindiples of the government policy which requires: i) for contracted land: compensation will be paid to directly affected farmers; ii) for the land still owned by collective the compensation will be paid to village collective which will be used to pay pension premium for the eligible people affected by land acquisition. 3. Determination of Land Lease Arrangement Most villagers that are surveyed agree with the land lease arraangement. After 28 investigation, we know that the land lease arrangement has been evolved rapidly in Jiulonggang Town in recent years. The rent is generally in 800-900 Yuan/Mu/Year. Through repeated consultations, 1200 Yuan/Mu/Year is adopted in this project, the crop compensation for one season shall be made in the first year. 4. Participation in the Project Construction The project construction will have an impact on the local area more or less. In order to ensure that the affected people will benefit from the construction of the project, they are actively encouraged to participate in the construction. In the aspects of material purchasing and labor employment, the local resources shall be considered in priority. According to the survey, most people support these measures. 1.5.3 Feedback on the Public Participation and Consultation Comments In July – October 2013, the World Bank Project Executive Office and the Center for Engineering Resettlement Research of China Three Gorges University analyzed summarized the comments and suggestions of the affected population. Those comments and suggestions from the affected population are fully considered and adopted in the process of preparing the Resettlement Action Plan. See Table 1-4 below for the feedback of the public participation and consultation comments so far. Table 1-4 Main Views from Public Participation and Consultation and Responses Views of Problem Affected Responses Population Choose a Choice of The resettlement place of residential area of No. 3 Dongshan East resettlement resettlement house in the Road is about 1.5 km north of the demolition place. house neighborhood Part of the affected population The using policy of land compensation fund of this project is to concerned that issue the fund directly to the contracting households by means of Issuance of their passbook or bankcard by the Resettlement Office of Datong compensation compensation fund fund shall be District without any intermediate links. The collectively owned withheld or land shall be left to collectives, and its land usage will be embezzled in determined by the discussion in the village meeting. the intermediate links 29 The rent is 1200 Yuan/Mu/Year, the compensation for crop shall Both the be paid in the first year, and the subsequent rent shall be adjusted villagers and the according to the fluctuations in the State protective grain village committee of procurement prices. If the market price is lower than the Land lease Chenxiang protective price, the rent shall be unchanged. If the market price is Village agreed higher than the protective price, the rent shall be increased in with the land-use right proportion; the lease term expires in the second round of contract transfer scheme period. Guarantee the legitimate rights and interests of the farmers and give priority to the social security and employment issues. They hope Provide pension insurance to elder people affected by land Social security provide pension for elder acquisition based on the government policy. The affected villagers for elder people people have known the relevant policies. affected The relocated Requirement households with The Datong Sub-district has provided minimal subsistence of vulnerable allowances for the patients and arranged a hospital for them to population mental patient accept hospitalized treatment. request for help (1) Provide the endowment insurance policies for the landless farmers including women population as soon as possible. (2) Establish open and transparent information release mechanism of compensation for land acquisition and demolition; ensure that women have rights to receive compensation, right to know and How could signing authority for use and allocation of property equally. affected female (3) The characteristics of women employment were considered in Affected population fully the employment training scheme and dress making training was female population enjoy the project included. development (4) Give full play to the functions of the women’s organizations opportunities? such as the Women’s Federation and Family Planning Association to organize activities of winning the development and opportunities for women to attract and guide them to enjoy the opportunities brought by development. (5) Encourage women’s entrepreneurship and provide small loans in prior to women entrepreneurs. 1.6 Identification of the Associated Projects Associated projects refer to other projects that are directly related with the function of this project or can improve the function of this project in the process of project preparation and implementation. For example, the non-World Bank funded projects which are completed, under construction or to be constructed before the completion of project loan. Three roads constructed by the Government of Huai’nan City are connected with 30 the local main road to form a network, which are respectively, National Highway 206, Huaishun South Road and Linchang Road. The four road constructed with the project fund will play a supportive role from south to north to the road network. The construction of Huai’nan Section of National Highway 206 was completed in 2002, therefore it is not identified as a link project. The construction of Huaishun South Road was completed in 2012 and the construction of Linchang Road was completed in July, 2014. Since the completion of these two roads were completed after the identification dates, they are considered as linked projects. The land acquisition and resettlement activities of these two roads were completed. The compensation standards comply with relevant government laws and regulations of national and local government and is consistent with the requirements of the World Bank Policy on Involuntary Resettlement OP 4.12. The affected people have been paid with timely with full compensation at replacement cost. All affected people are satisfied with the compnestion and no complaints have been received so far. In addition, Jiulinggang sewage pumping station, Zhongxing road water supply pumping station and Longwang drainage are also identified as the linked projects. Jiulonggang sewage pumping station and underground drainage pipeline (including pressure pipeline and gravity pipeline) is within the Huai’nan City First Sewage Treatment Factory. It does not involve in any land acquisition and resettlement impacts. Pumping station on the Zhongxing South Road and connection water pipe will need to acquire 30 Mu of land, which is expected to be implemented between 2015 and 2016. Longwang drainage with 4.816 km length belongs to the Asian Development Bank funded project, its flood control standard is 30 years. The drainage would need acquire 60.5 Mu of land, including 6.4 Mu collective lands, and 54.5 mu of state owned land. The compensation standard is 52000 Yuan/Mu to 68000 Yuan/Mu because of passing different sections of Tianjia'an and Datong District. The state land will be transferred to the project for free without affecting any people. It will involve demolishing 6900 m2 of housing. A resettlement Action Plan has been prepared under the project financed by the Asian Development Bank. The project is expected to be completed in 2019. The more detailed information is included in Table 1-5 below. 31 32 Table 1-5 Associated Projects Project Name Construction Content Amount of Land Acquisition and Construction Period Demolition 5390 m long, 25 m Land acquisition of 72.5403 Mu, in which August 2013 – allocation land accounts for 21.9429 Mu wide with the compensation standard of 120,000 August 2014 Yuan/Mu, State-owned forest land accounts for 50.5974 Mu with the Linchang Road compensation standard of 35,000 Yuan/Mu. All the lands are belong to the state owned Da Tong Forest Farm. The farm has 52 employees. None of them were negatively affected by the land acquisition. 4287.604 m long, 60 m Land acquisition of 385.888 Mu with the August 2011 – wide compensation standard of 150,000 Yuan/ August 2012 Mu; 43 relocated households, of which 14 houses on collective owned land with the compensation standard of 560 Yuan/ M2; Huaishun South Road 29 houses on State-owned land with the compensation method of monetary compensation. All compensation has been paid to the affected people and they are satisfied with the compensation. DN500-1800 The project will be equipment The existing Jiulonggang sewage rehabilitation within the existing pumping pumping house was pumping station and house. The rehabilitatin and the constructed in 2009 underground drainage construction of underground drainage will pipeline not inovle in land acquisiton and structure demolition. DN400-500, Water Construction of the pumping station will Expected from 2016 supply can reach need 30 Mu of land of state onwed land. to 2017 3 27,800 m per day. The site sit in a location of abandoned brick manufacture factory. The land will be Pumping station on the transferred to the project and no any Zhongxing South Road people will be affected by the land transfer. and connection water If the location is changed during the pipeline project implementation and resettlement impacts are involved, the compensation standards will be determined based on their replacement costs at the time of land acquisition and the resettlement implementation will follow all the 33 principles as set forth in the RAP. 4.816km length, flood Land acquisition has 60.5 Mu, including Expected from 2015 control standard is 30 6.4 Mu collective lands; their to 2019 years compensation standard is 52000-68000 Yuan/Mu, and 54.5 Mu state-owned lands, which is obtained by transfer. The land demolition has 6900m2 and the Longwang flood discharge compensation standard is 500-680 Yuan/ m2. The activity is within a project financed by the Asian Development Bank. A RAP has been prepared for the ADB project and the resettlement imapcts of this activity are covered in the RAP of the project financed by ADB. 34 2 Impact analysis 2.1 Project impacts The scope of the inventory survey on the impact of Huai’nan World Bank Funded Project is the actual affected land area, determined by project research organizations, that is, area required for covering the construction of greenway, road, river system treatment, nursery garden, bonsai park, and floral trading market . The project impacts include: (1) Permanently acquired land: Various cultivated and non-cultivated land required for permanent occupation within the project area. Cultivated land mainly includes dry land, vegetable field, fish pond etc.; non-cultivated land mainly includes waste land, construction land and the like. (2) Temporary land use: All kinds of land that are to be occupied temporarily during project construction period and will be recovered to its initial functions after construction. (3) Buildings to be demolished: All buildings within the project area, including frame structures, brick-concrete buildings, makeshift (board) houses and so on. These buildings can be classified into private building and enterprise and institution building based on different nature of ownership,, and can be classified into private residence and enterprise and institution house by different uses. (4) Affected land attachments: Land attachments within the project field, which mainly include fences, wells, fruit trees, floors and the like. (5) Affected public facilities: Public facilities and public services within the project impact area. (6) Affected households: Households who have land, building or land attachment within the project covering area or directly affected area (7) Affected communities: Communities with land, building or land attachment that is within the project covering area or directly affected area (8) Affected enterprises and institutions: Enterprises and institutions with land, building or land attachment that is within the project covering area or directly affected 1 area (9) Affected population: The affected population is comprised of the population in the households and enterprises and institutions that are affected by demolition in each sub-project. (10) Affected labors: Labors who works in the affected enterprises or institutions, or who are engaged in agricultural production in the expropriated lands. (11) The vulnerable groups: Vulnerable group refers to the social groups who become vulnerable, who are lack of adaptability to social changes and who are at a disadvantage in the society due to the lack of social participation ability and social security or due to disability or poverty. Vulnerable groups mainly include the following types: the elderly people with no family, families with single parent (mother), orphans, households who enjoy subsistence allowances, and the disabled etc. 2.2 Project impacts survey According to the specifications and requirements of involuntary resettlement made by World Bank, field survey of the impacts on the resettled population must be done before the implementation of the project. The purpose of the survey is to comprehensively collect the information of the affected population, the house demolition, the types and quantities of expropriated lands in the affected area, to know the status of social and economic development of the affected area, to provide reference data for the design and optimization scheme of the project, and to provide information for the preparation of Action Plan of Resettlement. On July 20, 2013, The Datong District government of Huai’nan City and the Executive Office of World Bank Financed Project for Huai’nan Coal Mining Subsidence Area Comprehensive Treatment and Utilization jointly issued the announcement of the cancellation of the project in the project area. From July 21 to July 29, with the coordination and organization of Huai’nan World Bank Financed Project Office, China Three Gorges University participated in and conducted the survey of real object index. Relevant officials of government of Datong District and 2 the affected Jiulonggang Town and Datong Sub-district Office and cadres of relevant communities and villages together formed the survey group. Through the detailed survey, reliable data base and resettlement plan information were provided for the preparation of the action plan of resettlement. From August 14 to August 16, supplementary survey was also made. The contents of resettlement survey can be divided into three parts as following: 1) Desk review a. Social and economic statistics of Huai’nan City and the district where the project is located; b. National laws and regulations, Anhui provincial laws and regulations, and local laws and regulations of Huai’nan City about land expropriation, demolition and resettlement. 2) Collection of background information on local society and economy a. The basic situation of affected households and the situation of vulnerable households within the surveyed area; b. Public views and suggestions; c. Basic situation of the affected villages within the surveyed area: population, labor, industrial structure, cultivated land etc. 3) Census and inventory survey a. Situation of land requisition and expropriation: location, type, area; b. Demolished buildings and other land attachments: location, type, quantity, property ownership; c. Basic and impact situation of enterprises and institutions. 2.3 Overview of the impact of land expropriation and demolition in the project According to the survey, the basic data of land expropriation and demolition impact of this project are as following: Affected administrative units: Jiulonggang Town and Datong Sub-district of Datong District, Huai’nan City, including 1 administrative village (Chenxiang Village 3 of Jiulonggang Town) and 2 communities (Zhanhou Community and Kuangnan Community of Datong Sub-district). Impact of demolition: Total demolition area: 10179 m2 Affected household by demolition: 6 households; 26 persons; the area of demolished private house is 2552 m2 Affected enterprises and institutions: 5 enterprises; 38 employees; demolition area is 7627 m2. Impact of land expropriation: 177.7 Mu of collectively owned land is expropriated, which are all cultivated land, involving 266 persons in 33 households. (1 Mu=666.67 m2) 1058.2 Mu of state-owned land is expropriated. Impact land lease: Land-use right of 1533 Mu of collectively owned land, which is all cultivated land, is to be transferred in this project for the construction of nursery garden and the rehabilitation of environment, impacting 1042 persons of 306 households. Table 2-1 Schedule of impact of land expropriation, demolition and land transfer in Huai’nan World Bank Financed Project Number of Affected Affected Expropriated Transferred relocated Expropriated enterprises worker of collectively collectively Demolition household/pe Project name state-owned 2 or enterprises owned land owned land area (m ) rson land(Mu) institutions or (Mu) (Mu) (household/p (No) institutions erson) Roadside service 12.7 0 0 0 0 0 0 point Bonsai park 107.7 3.4 0 4161 1 0 6/26 Nursery garden 553.7 0 266 0 0 0 0 Flower Trading 21.7 103.6 0 5780 4 38 0 Market Jiukong Road 5.3 15.6 0 238 0 0 0 Wanxiang Road 37.4 16.1 0 0 0 0 0 Yanshan Road 38.3 5.7 0 0 0 0 0 Zhongxing Road 62.8 0 0 0 0 0 0 River system 72.1 16 0 0 0 0 0 4 treatment greenway 146.5 17.3 0 0 0 0 0 Environment 0 0 1267 0 0 0 0 rehabilitation Collection 1058.2 177.7 1533 10179 5 (Note) 38 6/26 Note: Datong Third Coal Mining Co., Ltd is involved in the demolition of both Jiukong Road and the Flower Trading Market. To avoid repeated calculation, Datong Third Coal Mining Co., Ltd is only accounted as the affected enterprise of the demolition of Flower Trading Market. 2.4 Impact of land expropriation and land-use right transfer of this project According to statistics, 2768.9 Mu of land and land-use right in total are expropriated and transferred in this project, of which expropriated collectively owned land takes up 177.7 Mu, expropriated state-owned land takes up 1058.2 Mu. The use right of the expropriated state-owned land separately belongs to Datong District government, Huai’nan Mining Group, Huai’nan municipal government and land belongs to Datong District government and Huai’nan Mining Group can be subdivided into construction land and forest land (see Table 2-2), and the construction land of Huai’nan Mining Group can be further divided into transferred land and allocated land. 1533 Mu of land-use right is transferred, all of which are collectively owned by Chenxiang Village. Table 2-2 Area of expropriated land and transferred land (Mu) and land ownership Datong District Huai’nan Mining Group collectively government owned land Huai’nan Construction State-o State- Project content City (fruit land Constr summary wned owned Expropr Transf garden) Transf Alloca uction forest forest iated erred erred ted land land land land land land land Roadside service 7.1 5.6 12.7 node Bonsai park 3.4 107.7 111.1 Nursery garden 266 274.3 279.4 819.7 Flower Trading 103.6 21.7 125.3 Market Jiukong Road 15.6 3.5 1.8 20.9 Wanxiang Road 16.1 9.1 7.3 21 53.5 Yanshan Road 5.8 16.1 1.6 20.6 44 Zhongxing Road 33.6 29.2 62.8 5 River system 16 40.2 4.8 5.2 21.9 88.1 Greenway 17.3 82 12.9 12.8 2.3 36.5 163.8 Environment 1267 1267 rehabilitation Collection 177.7 1533 307.9 596 26.6 33.8 7.5 86.4 2768.9 Note: In the table the 596 Mu of state-owned forest land of Huai’nan Mining Group includes 1.1 Mu of subsidence land; the actual forest land area is 594.9 Mu. 2.4.1 Acquisiton and lease of rural collective land In this project, 177.7 Mu of collective land from Chenxiang Village of Jiulonggang Town in Datong District are expropriated, 122 persons in 33 households are affected, and all the expropriated land is cultivated land. In addition to the expropriated land, the use right of 1533 Mu of collective land in Chenxiang Village is to be transferred for nursery production and environment rehabilitation in this project, which will impact 1042 persons of 306 households. 2.4.2 Acquiring state-owned land This project will acquire 1058.2 Mu of state-owned land, of which 656.4 Mu is owned by Huai’nan Mining Group, 93.9 Mu is owned by Datong District government, and 307.9 Mu is owned by Huai’nan municipal government. The land-use nature of Huai’nan Mining Group is complex, including construction land, forest land and subsidence land (unutilized), of which construction land can be subdivided into transferred land and allocated land. The variety of the lands leads to the difference of compensation standard. Huai’nan municipal government and Huai’nan Mining Group reach an agreement on the ownership change and compensation standard of the land within the project area. 1) The agricultural land and subsidence land within the project area owned by Huai’nan Mining Group are allocated to Huai’nan municipal government for environment rehabilitation free of charge, only the land attachments are to be compensated according to standard. 2) For construction land such as road, river system, bonsai garden, floral trading market, roadside service node and the like within the transferred land and allocated land which is directly occupied by the sub-projects involving earth and stone engineering compensation shall be paid at the appraised price (the area of land of Huai’nan Mining Group occupied by each sub-project is 6 shown in Table 2-3, and the compensation policy and standard is stated in Chapter Four and Chapter Five). Table 2-3 Table of different types of land of Huai’nan Mining Group occupied by sub-projects 8.9 Mu occupied by roads Other sub-projects: 12.9 Mu occupied by Transferred land 4.8 Mu occupied by river green way system 21 Mu occupied by roads Other sub-projects: 12.8 Mu occupied by Allocated land 0 Mu occupied by river green way system 107.7 Mu occupied by bonsai garden 21.7 Mu occupied by Flower 57.9 Mu occupied by Trading Market roads Other 279.4 Mu occupied by Forest land 40.2 Mu occupied by river sub-projects nursery garden system 7.1 Mu occupied by roadside service node 80.9 Mu occupied by greenway 0 Mu occupied by roads Other sub-projects: 1.1 Mu occupied Subsidence land 0 Mu occupied by by greenway river system All sub-projects directly occupy 26.6 Mu of transferred land, 33.8 Mu of allocated land, 594.9 Mu of forest land, and 1.1 Mu of subsidence land. In total 656.4 Mu of land of Huai’nan Mining Group are occupied Most of the lands owned by Datong district government and Huai’nan municipal government are forest lands and fruit gardens, and will be mainly utilized for nursery, road, ecological restoration and river system treatment. 2.5 Demolition Impact of the project According to the real object index survey of resettlement, the total area of various buildings to be demolished in the Huai’nan World Bank Funded Project is 10179 m2. These buildings include: 1) 2552 m2 of private house; 2) 7627 m2 of various buildings of enterprises and institutions. The area of demolished buildings of each affected objects is shown in Table 2-4. 7 Table 2-4 Table of area of different types of demolished buildings of Huai’nan World Bank Financed Project (m2) Simple board Frame structure Brick-concrete Collection houses Private houses 1509 1043 2552 Enterprises or 5418 2209 7627 institutions Summary 5418 3718 1043 10179 In terms of the structures of demolished buildings, the area of frame structure buildings is 5418 m2, the area of brick-concrete buildings is 3718 m2, and the area of simple board houses is 1043 m2. The detailed classification of various buildings is shown in Table 2-4. 2.5.1 Demolishing resident houses This project involves the demolition of 6 households’ houses, of which 5 households’ houses are uncertified self-built houses, 1 household’s house is owned by a public house, all located in a nameless residential area to the west of the previous Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory, officially in the Zhanhou Community of Datong Sub-district. According to the field survey, these residents built their houses here because they lived a hard life or because they were disabled to work in the past. Thus the houses are all simple. Of these households, one (Cheng Demei’s) also built by themselves a simple board house with an area of 1043 m2 for animal husbendry (breeding sheep). 80% of income of this household comes from sheep raising, and the resettlement in the project will have great impact on the family’s livelihood. Table 2-5 Name of resident and house area (m2) and structure Household Structure Name Total area population Brick-concrete Simple board house Shen Songkang 6 321 321 Cheng Demei 7 1447 404 1043 Chen Zhi 4 302 302 Zhang Liangyou 2 0 Xu Guozhong 4 303 303 Wang Yunling 3 179 179 Total 26 2552 1509 1043 8 Note: Zhang Liangyou’s family lives in a public house of Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory with an area of 279 m2, thus it is counted into plant area. Picture 2-1 Zhang Liangyou’s gate Picture 2-2 Cheng Demei’s gate Picture 2-3 Chen Zhi and Xu Guozhong’s Picture 2-4 Shen Songkang’s gate gate (left) and Wang Yunling’s gate (right) 2.5.2 Demolishing enterprise buildings According to the survey and statistics, in total 5 enterprises are to be demolished in the Huai’nan World Bank Funded Project, and the area of demolished buildings is 7627 m2. Except for Huai’nan Tianhe Industrial Boiler Accessories Factory that is still operating, the other enterprises have been closed or shut down. At present Huai’nan Tianhe Industrial Boiler Accessories Factory have 27 contract workers and 11 temporary workers. Table 2-6 Enterprise buildings to be demolished (Unit: m2) Enterprise name Frame structure Brick-concrete Collection Plant of Huai’nan Tianhe Industrial Boiler 2317 600 2917 Accessories Factory Plant of Datong First Coal Mining Co., Ltd 1308 1308 Plant of Datong Third Coal Mining Co., Ltd 867 867 Huangjian Coating Factory 926 926 Plant of Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory 1609 1609 9 Summary 5418 2209 7627 Note: The plant area of Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory has included the house area of Zhang Liangyou’s household; the plant of Datong Third Coal Mining Co., Ltd with an area of 867 m2 is occupied separately by two sub-projects; the area of Flower Trading Market is 619 m2 and the area of Jiukong Rods is 238 m2. 2.5.3 Temporarily use of land. Based on the requirements of project construction, this project will temporarily use some lands for the storage of engineering materials and construction machines, the building of temporary shed, the transformation and construction of roads, and the laying of various pipelines etc. According to the data provided by the research organization, the river system treatment and road construction will temporarily occupy 25.74 Mu of land, of which collectively owned land takes up 12.29 Mu (see Table 2-7). Table 2-7 Land temporarily occupied by the project Sub-project Quantity (Mu) Land Jiukong Road 2.08 Collectively Owned Land Wanxiang Road 2.27 Collectively Owned Land Yanshan Road 17.09 Of these 5.7 Mu are collectively owned land Zhongxing Road 2.03 State-owned land (no need for compensation) River system treatment 2.24 Collectively Owned Land summary 25.74 12.29 Mu of collectively owned land 2.5.4 Vulnerable groups According to the survey and the confirmation of civil affairs department, of these relocated households, Shen Songkang’s family is poor due to illness, and is among the vulnerable groups. Shen Songkang and his wife are both retired from the ferroalloy factory with low income. Their son (42 years old at present) is a psychopath who enjoys subsistence allowances of Huai’nan city (see Picture 2-5). 10 Picture 2-5 Shen Hongguang’s subsistence allowance certification 3 Social and economic overview in the project area 3.1 Social and economic overview of the city/district where the project is located. Chenxiang village of Jiulonggang Town, Zhanhou Community and Kuangnan Community of Datong Sub-district in Datong District, Huai’nan City are affected by the Huai’nan World Bank Financed Project. The general situation of social and economic development of the affected city/county is as following. 1. Huai’nan City, Anhui Province Huai’nan City is administrated under Anhui Province. Located in the north central Anhui beside the Huai River, it is known as “the throat of Zhongzhou and the barrier of Jiangnan”. It administrates 5 districts, 1 county, 1 social development comprehensive experimental district, 46 towns, 19 sub-districts, 229 community residential committees, and 561 village committees. It boasts an area of 2596.4 square kilometers and a population of 2.456 million. Huai’nan has Huai River passing through in its north, and is close to Shungeng Mountain in its south, so it “boasts of both river and mountain, with a colorful ribbon stringing pearls”. Huai’nan is abundant of resources and is known as “five-color Huai’nan”. It has become the granary of east China since ancient times, and it is 11 especially known for its rice and soybean products (which take up 7.5% of its GDP). Huai’nan is a rapidly developing coal city. Since the year 1950 when the city was established in the mining area, its coal production has been rapidly growing. In 2012 the raw coal output of the whole city reached 91.42 million tons. Now it is among the thirteen major coal production bases and the six major coal-fired power bases in China. In 2012, its GDP of the whole year was 78.18 billion Yuan, an increase of 12.7% over the previous year; its fiscal revenue was 16.62 billion Yuan, an increase of 19.7% over the previous year; its industrial added value fulfilled by industrial enterprises above designated size was 45.64 billion Yuan, an increase of 15.0% over the previous year; its fixed-asset investment is 63.97 billion Yuan, an increase of 27.6% over the previous year; the total retail sales of consumer goods was 25.65 billion Yuan, 15.8% higher than the previous year; the total volume of import and export was 350 million USD, 46.1% higher than the previous year; urban residents’ disposable income per capita was 20733.2 Yuan, an increase of 13.8% over the previous year; rural residents’ net income per capita is 7835 Yuan, an increase of 15.3% over the previous year. 2. Datong District of Huai’nan City Datong District is located in the east of Huai’nan, at the northern foot of Shungeng Mountain and to the south of Huai River. In the north it is across the river from Panji District; in its east there is Shangyao Mountain and Gaotang Lake; in the west it borders on Tianjiaan District. It is 15 kilometers long and 17 kilometers wide, with a total area of 350 square kilometers. It has a terrain of higher south and lower north. The southern and eastern region is hilly, while the region between the two mountains and the Huai River is plain. It has a total population of 181000 (at the end of 2012), and it administrates 1 sub-district, 3 towns, and 1 township: Datong Sub-district, Shangyao Town, Luohe Town, Jiulonggang Town, and Kongdian Township. In total it has 17 communities and 51 administrative villages. The government of the district is located in Datong Sub-district. Datong District boasts of particularly favorable geographical environment, superior natural conditions, and profound cultural heritage. As early as over 1400 12 years ago, there was a history of coal mining with indigenous method in this area. The “Ancient Shouzhou Pit” site is known far and wide; the eight sights on the Shangyaodong Mountain and the beautiful Gaotang Lake add radiance and charm to each other from far apart. Huai’nan Economic Development Zone, Luohe Power Plant, and Huai’nan Diary Product Co., Ltd are located in this district. The completion of Huai’nan Connection Line of Beijing-Fuzhou Expressway and the development of Shangyao national experimental townlet, National Forest Park and national “Ancient Shouzhou Pit” site have played a strong role in driving the regional economy and urban construction. As an integral part of the “central urban area” of Huai’nan, the implementation of the master plan of the district and the reconstruction of the old city, the completion of the main avenues of Huai’nan the East Chaoyang Road, East Dongshan Road and South Tianda Road, and the widening and reconstruction of No. 206 National Highway and the construction of First Ring Road in the east have effective driven the demand and optimized the investment environment, and have brought vigor and vitality to Datong District. Table 3-1 Social and Economic Situation of the affected Datong District Datong District, Huai’nan Indicator City Total population (ten thousand) 18.50 Population Rural population (ten thousand) 4.13 Rural labor (ten thousand) 3.49 Total area of cultivated land (hectare) 1680.3 Cultivated Irrigable land (hectare) 2961 land Grain production (ten thousand tons) 11.04 GDP (hundred million Yuan) 49 Output value (ten thousand Yuan) 5.4 Primary industry Proportion (%) 11 Output Output value (ten thousand Yuan) 33.5 Secondary industry value Proportion (%) 68 Output value (ten thousand Yuan) 10 Tertiary industry Proportion (%) 20 GDP per capita (Yuan) 27071.8 Urban residents’ disposable income per capita (Yuan) 20583.6 Income Rural residents’ net income per capita (Yuan) 7614.0 Source of data: Statistic Yearbook of Huai’nan City (2013) 13 3.2 Overview of the society and economy of the town/township where the project is located This project covers 1 town and 1 sub-district, Jiulonggang Town and Datong Sub-district. The overview of the society and economy of the town and the sub-district is as following: 1. Jiulonggang Town Jiulonggang Town is located in south central Datong District. It borders upon Kongdian Township in the south, on Luohe Town and Huai’nan Farm in the north, and faces Gaotang Lake on the east and Datong Farm on the west. It administrates 4 communities: Hongqi Community, Huaishun Community, Chonghua Community, and Xianjian Community, and 8 administrative villages: Xianong Village, Xiacai Village, Caodian Village, Weizui Village, Wanglou Village, Fanggang Village, Jiulonggang Village and Chenxiang Village. The total area of the town is 35.5 square kilometers. Jiulonggang is one of the sources of Huai’nan coalmine. In Jiulonggang coal was mined in indigenous pit since the 17th century, and the Jiulonggang coalmine was built in 1930. During the year 1978 to 1982, the economy of the whole town was mainly supported by Jiulonggang coalmine, and there were almost no township enterprises and few commercial service outlets. In 1982 after the cancellation of Jiulonggang coalmine, township enterprises developed rapidly in Jiulonggang. The Jiulonggang Cement Plant and the Datong No. 11 Pit were established in succession, and the Datong District No. 5 Pit, No. 1 Pit, No. 2 Pit, No. 4 Pit and No. 8 Pit were expanded, forming the development pattern with coal mining industry as the leader and mechanical processing enterprises such as Huaifeng Machinery Factory and Red Pulverized Coal Factory as the backbone. Till 1995 the number of township enterprises had reached 9, the number of village enterprises was 13, and the number of household partnership enterprises was 17. The total industrial output value in 1995 was 136.2 million Yuan. There were 250 commercial outlets and the annual volume of retail sales reached 170 million Yuan. However, with the macro-control of the country, the small coal mines were closed, shut down, acquired, or transformed, the brick 14 factory stopped production, and Jiulonggang was entering an income adjustment and transformation period. The comprehensive treatment of coal mining subsidence area has brought vigor to the sustainable development of the economy of Jiulonggang. As for agriculture of Jiulonggang Town, crops and cash crops such as rice, wheat, beans, peanut, rape and vegetables are grown; the total grain production of the whole town is kept stable around 9000 tons; the coverage rate of improved crop varieties reaches 98%, and the coverage rate of fine breed of livestock reaches 93%. Every year irrigation facilities in cropland receive major investment, making the amount of irrigated cropland above 90%. With the adjustment of rural industrial structure, cow expansion project is carried out vigorously and fruit forest is developed. In the breeding industry, the cow stock has reached 1300 and the annual production of fresh milk is 5800 tons. The ratio of grain crops to economic crops has reached 6:4. 2. Datong Sub-district Datong Sub-district is located in the southeast of Huai’nan unban area. It administrates 5 communities: Yuanwang Community, Zhanhou Community, Jubei Community, Junan Community, and Kuangnan Community. Its office is located in Jichang Road, Juren Village. Datong Sub-district is the location of People’s Government of Datong District. It is connected with Jiulonggang Town in the east, borders on Shungeng Town of Tianjiaan District in the west, and it adjoins Luohe Town in the north and Kongdian Township in the south. It administrates 18 neighborhood committees with a total population of about 30500. The Social and economic overview of Jiulonggang Town/Datong Sub-district is shown in Table 3-2. Table 3-2 The social and economic situation of affected towns (2011) Indicator Jiulonggang Town Datong Sub-district Total number of households 11509 10474 Total population 31500 30500 Population Rural population 12269 106 Total number of labor resource 9048 Total area of cultivated land (Mu) 15520 Cultivated land Irrigable land (Mu) 4720 15 Total agricultural output value (ten thousand Agriculture Yuan) Number of enterprises and units 278 Township enterprise Value added (ten thousand Yuan) 13326 Income Rural residents’ net income per capita (Yuan) 9625 3.3 Social and economic overview of affected villages Located in the west of Jiulonggang Town, Datong District, Chenxiang Village faces Shungeng Mountain in the south and adjoins Xiacai Village, Xianong Village, Huai’nan Farm, Datong Sub-district, and Linxiang Village and Huwei Village of Luohe Town. No. 334 Provincial Highway and Jiuda Road pass through the center of the village. Since the western end of the village is only 5 kilometers away from the downtown area, it has obvious regional advantage. The village consists of 11 groups, with total population of 3250. There is 2750 Mu of cultivated land in the villages, that is, 0.8 Mu per capita. The rural residents’ net income per capita of Chenxiang village in 2012 was 9625 Yuan, making it one of the villages with relatively higher income in Huai’nan City. Agricultural income takes up 60% of the total income of the village, which is sort of unexpected as such a high ratio occurs in an urban area where non-agricultural economy is active. According to a survey, the agricultural economy of the village mainly consists of high output household breeding, facility agriculture (greenhouse), fruit garden and grain crops etc., which are closely related to urban economy. Among the above, poultry breeding, vegetables, peaches, grapes, wheat and rice all have regional advantage. Notwithstanding, as the economy develops, there is a trend that the villagers are becoming less dependent on the income from lands, and that the ratio of non-agricultural income is increasing. Since Chenxiang Village is adjacent to the center of Huai’nan City, with the implementation of Huai’nan’s strategy of expanding to the east and south, a batch of major projects are located here. For example, the first phase of Datong District New Industrial Area occupies more than 300 mu land and 18 enterprises are settled in this area; 1000 Mu’ land has been expropriated and 16 demolished for the Shunfa Zerun Park Project, and the first phase of residential buildings of the project has been substantially finished; the Huai’nan International Automobile Trading Mall Project which occupies 960 Mu has been launched; the Benxin Cow Garden which occupies 60 Mu has been put into use in 2010. Chenxiang Village has become the pioneer of the urbanization development of Jiulonggang Town, Datong District. Therefore, many young people have left their farmland to hunt for a job or engage in trade, which rapidly increases the non-agricultural income from construction, industry and transportation. The number of output labor and the income from output labor also account for a large proportion. From the above analysis, it can be seen that as Chenxiang village is not far away from the center of the city, and with convenient transportation, it is closely related to the urban economy; non-agricultural economy is active and the proportion of agricultural economy in the economic aggregate is gradually descending; the proportion of non-agricultural income in household income is rising by year; In general, most villagers have a higher living standard than the local average level. 17 Table 3-3 Overview of the society and economy of the sampled villages Income of output Among total income of rural economy labor Population (1) Income from farming, forestry, animal husbandry, side-line production and fishery Total Proportio (ten thousand Yuan) income Rural n of Area of Fo Hou Income of rural residen agricultur N Area of cultivat res seho (4) of econo (3) ts’ net al income u cultivate ed land t ld Transp (6) output Town Village my (2) Constr Number income in total m d land per an indu ortatio (5) Service labor Number (ten Anim Industr uction of output per income b (Mu) capita d stry n Trade Industr (ten of Populati thousa Grain al y Industr labor capita of rural er (Mu) Collection fru or Industr y thousa househol on nd crops husba y (Yuan) economy of it side y nd d Yuan) ndry (%) la in -line Yuan) b du prod or str ucti y on 1 Jiulonggang Chenxiang 0 770 3250 2750 0．8 2869 1727 801 24 829 73 292 500 260 50 40 200 720 9625 60 Town Village 1 5 Note: This table is made on the basis of the village committee’s survey and some statistic data. 18 3.4 Basic situation of affected households. To get to know the possible impact on the local residents of this project and the attitude of the affected groups, especially to know the impact of land expropriation and demolition on the residents from the analysis of the production and operation method, the employment mode and job distribution, the income structure and expense, and the social support helps us to understand the social and economic impact of land expropriation and demolition more accurately in order to make a resettlement action plan more conforming to the interest of the relocated population. To analyze the social and economic features of the relocated households in this project, China Three Gorge University has done a survey to the relocated households. 3.4.1 Households affected by demolition The situation of family livelihood of the six households affected by demolition is as following: Cheng Demei: Her family has 7 people. In 1996 they built their house here by themselves. At first they had the two rooms in the front, and then they started household breeding and built another two large rooms with simple boards as sheepfold. Her husband Wan Benshan is a worker at the forest farm and still works there. Her children are both at home running the breeding (of sheep). Her son and her daughter both graduated from junior high school. Her son shepherded the sheep for two years; he is not willing to do it now and has no job. Her daughter has been married but her son-in-law still lives here with them. At present they breed more than 100 sheep mainly by stocking and they have more than 80000 Yuan of income by sheep sales every year, which is the major income source of the family. Shen Songkang: The Shen Songkangs are both retired from the ferroalloy factory. They have a son and a daughter, and two grandsons (one is their daughter’s son), so in total they have 6 people in their family. In 2003 they built their house here by themselves to take care of their son Shen Hongguang, who is a psychopath. The main income source of their family is their retirement pension; the annual income of their 19 family is about 48000 Yuan. In 2014, Datong Sub-district Office gave Shen Hongguang the subsistence allowances. Zhang Liangyou: After he was retired from the ferroalloy factory, he worked at the Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory which was established to solve the employment problem of the workers of the ferroalloy factory and their relatives. After the oil mixture factory was closed, Zhang stayed in the public house provided by the factory as he was the main person in charge of the operation and aftermath of the oil mixture factory. The other three households are retired workers or students who do not live here permanently. The survey to them was made through phone calls. Table 3-4 shows the population and employment status of the six households affected by demolition. Table 3-4 Population of the households affected by demolition 20 Table 3-4 Population of the households affected by demolition Relationship No. of No. of District Sub-district Community Type of Education Current Name Ethnicity Sex Age to People household (County) (town/township) (Village) household level occupation householder Datong Datong Zhanhou Cheng Agricultural 1 Han Female 42 Householder Illiterate Breeder District Sub-district Community Demei household Datong Datong Zhanhou Urban Primary 2 Wan benxi Han Male 43 Husband Worker Sub-district Community household school Datong Junior Datong Zhanhou Urban 3 Wan Chi Han Male 18 Son high Jobless Sub-district Community household school Datong Junior Datong Zhanhou Agricultural 4 1 Wan Man Han Female 22 Daughter high Breeder Sub-district Community household school Datong Junior Datong Zhanhou Agricultural Daughter’s 5 Yan Jian Han Male 22 high Breeder Sub-district Community household husband school Datong Datong Zhanhou Wang Agricultural Husband’s 6 Han Female 71 Preschool Child Sub-district Community Qiangxiu household mother Datong Datong Zhanhou Yan Agricultural Daughter’s 7 Han Male 1 Illiterate Jobless Sub-district Community Fenghaoyu household son Datong Retired Datong Zhanhou Wei Urban from 8 Han Female 62 Wife Illiterate Sub-district Community Yuanying household ferroalloy factory Datong Retired Datong Zhanhou Shen Urban from 9 Han Male 62 Householder Illiterate Sub-district Community Songkang household ferroalloy factory Datong Junior 2 Datong Zhanhou Shen Urban 10 Han Male 42 Son high Jobless Sub-district Community Hongguang household school Datong Junior Datong Zhanhou Shen Urban Employed 11 Han Female 37 Daughter high Sub-district Community Hongxia household worker school Datong Datong Zhanhou Urban Primary 12 Shen Ao Han Male 13 Grandson Student Sub-district Community household school Datong Datong Zhanhou Urban Daughter’s Primary 13 Hu Haibo Han Male 8 Student Sub-district Community household son school Datong Datong Zhanhou Zhang Urban Retired 14 3 Han Male Sub-district Community Liangyou household from 21 ferroalloy factory Datong Retired Zhang Datong Zhanhou Urban from 15 Liangyou’s Han Female Sub-district Community household ferroalloy wife factory Datong Datong Zhanhou Xu Urban 16 Han Male 50 Householder Worker Sub-district Community Guozhong household 4 Datong Datong Zhanhou Yang Urban 17 Han Female 46 Wife Retiree District Sub-district Community Chunfen household Datong Datong Zhanhou Junior 18 Xu Xinzhu Han Female 22 Daughter Student District Sub-district Community college Datong Datong Zhanhou 19 Xie Weifen Han Female 72 Mother District Sub-district Community Datong Datong Zhanhou 20 Chen Zhi Female 46 Householder farmer District Sub-district Community Senior 5 Datong Datong Zhanhou 21 Liang Xiao Male 18 Son high Student District Sub-district Community school Datong Datong Zhanhou 22 Liang Yue Female 22 Daughter College Student District Sub-district Community Datong Datong Zhanhou Liang 23 Male 80 Father District Sub-district Community Yunlian Retired Datong Datong Zhanhou Wang from 24 Female 56 Householder District Sub-district Community Yunling mining 6 bureau Datong Datong Zhanhou Zhang 25 Male 61 Husband District Sub-district Community Jianping Datong Datong Zhanhou Husband’s 26 Zhang Jinke Male 83 District Sub-district Community father 3.4.2 Households affected by land expropriation This project expropriates collectively owned land only in Chenxiang Village, involving 122 people in 33 households. Nine households surveyed will lose all of their land. On average, one household has is 3.8 persons. These nine households have 35 people, 31 of them engage agricultural activities and four people engage non-agricultural activities. Of the 9 households, 5 households live in private house, 3 households live in rented apartment, 22 and 1 household did not provide information about where they live. The 9 surveyed households are all peasant households. The area of fruit garden is 3.67 Mu per households, the area of dry land is 0.85 Mu per household, the area of paddy field is 0.67 Mu per household, and the area of mountain land is 3.61 Mu per household . The main crops are grain crops like wheat, rice and so on. Table 3-5 Structure of income Item Lowest Highest Average Ratio Median Farming 1600 12000 24085.71 29.95% 6000 Fishery 0 0 0.00 0.00% 0 Breeding 0 80000 11428.57 14.21% - Industry 0 0 0.00 0.00% 0 Construction industry 0 0 0.00 0.00% 0 Trade and service industry 0 13000 18571.43 23.09% - Transportation industry 0 0 0.00 0.00% 0 Employment income 0 62000 8857.14 11.01% - Wage income 0 30000 6857.14 8.53% - Other income 0 48000 10628.57 13.21% 25000 Total income 3000 250000 80428.57 - 68000 The average time spent in agricultural production in a year of the surveyed households is 160 days, of which farming is the major part. The income from farming in 2012 is 24085.71 Yuan per household, income from poultry breeding is 11428.57 Yuan per household , income from trade and service industry is 18571.43 Yuan per household, and total income has reached 80428.57 (as shown in Table 3-5). Such a structure of income is consistent with the above statistic data, which shows that the income per capita in Chenxiang Village is generally higher than nearby residents. In 2012 the total amount of production expense of the 9 households is 18914.29 Yuan on average (as shown in Table 3-6), and the cost of purchasing cubs ranks the first, which shows the prosperity of breeding. Table 3-6 Productive expense Item Lowest Highest Average Ratio Median Cubs 0 50000 7142.86 37.76% - Farm chemicals 0 20000 3728.57 19.71% 5000 Fertilizer 0 10000 1685.71 8.91% 100 23 Irrigation 0 0 0.00 0.00% - Epidemic prevention 0 0 0.00 0.00% - Seed 0 800 114.29 0.60% - Other 0 30000 5957.14 31.50% 1300 Collection 0 100000 18914.29 - 2400 The total living expenditure and deposit of the surveyed households in 2012 is 81235.71 Yuan on average, of which deposit reaches 30000 Yuan per household, ranking the first; the second highest one is social spending, reaching 13785.71 Yuan; food expense is 13642.86 Yuan, ranking the third; the forth one is education, which is 10285.71 Yuan (for details see Table 3-7). When asked about the causes to getting rich for households, 7 households answered that hard work is significant, 6 households’ answer was “knowledge, clever mind, and being good at business”, and 5 households answered with “good opportunity” (for details see Picture 3-1) In terms of the method of compensation for the expropriated land, the 9 households all choose cash compensation. When asked of how to reduce the negative effect of land expropriation, most of them gave very positive answers: 5 households answered that more jobs should be created for them to increase income, 2 households answered that the compensation could be used in non-agricultural business, and only 1 household answered that they should ask for as much compensation as possible. Table 3-7 Living expenditure and deposit Item Lowest Highest Average Ratio Median Food 5000 24000 13642.86 16.79% 10000 Clothing 750 6500 3607.14 4.44% 3000 Education 0 40000 10285.71 12.66% 5000 Health care 800 3000 1685.71 2.08% 1000 Transportation expense 300 5000 2000.00 2.46% 1500 Social spending 1000 36000 13785.71 16.97% 5000 Support for the elderly 0 1500 328.57 0.40% - Entertainment 0 0 0.00 0.00% - Fuel expense 300 2500 1260.00 1.55% 1500 Water and electric 720 2400 1240.00 1.53% 1200 charge Telephone fee 800 12000 3114.29 3.83% 1600 24 Other 0 1000 285.71 0.35% 150 Deposit 0 10000 30000.00 36.93% - Collection 18970 199050 81235.71 - 36130 Causes to getting rich for households Other 0.00% Good opportunity 66.67% More farmland and forest land 16.67% Hard work 83.33% Special farming or breeding 0.00% Running a shop 8.33% Having a job 16.67% Knowledge, clever mind, 83.33% and being good at business 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Picture 3-1 The land-expropriated households’ opinions on the causes to getting rich for households 3.5 Impact of the project construction on the development of women 3.5.1 Overview of the women in the affected area Education: The social assessment survey of project impact indicates that the education level of the affected population in the project area is generally low, especially for women. Since the proportion of the population with education level of senior high school or above is very low, there is no point in comparing the male and female population with education level of senior high school or above. Then the comparison between male and female population with education level of junior high school or below is more typical. The proportion of population with education level of junior high school is the highest both in male and in female, but the proportion in female (33.33%) is significantly lower than that in male (47.22%); the proportion of population with 25 education level of primary school in female (20.2%) is also lower than that in male (22.15%). On the contrary, the illiteracy rate for female (28.28%) is much higher than male (10.19%). The education level of the surveyed population is shown in Picture 3-2 The education level of male and female population surveyed Male Female Undergraduate college Junior college Technical secondary school technical school Vocational Senior high school Junior high school Primary school Illiterate/semiliterate Preschool high school / Picture 3-2 Education level of male and female population surveyed Income and status in family: Status in family is the basis of social and political status, while income is the foundation of status in family. According to the survey of the proportion of women’s income in the total income of the family, the proportion of women’s is far lower than that of men’s (as shown in Table 3-8); For 75% of the surveyed households, the proportion of women’s income in the total income of the family is below 10%, and for 84.38% of the households, the proportion is below 30%. The reason is that many of the households are miner families in which women do not have a job and stay at home to take care of the children and the elderly. Table 3-8 Proportion of women’s income in the total income of the family The proportion of women’s income in the total income of the family Below 10% 10%—30% 30%—50% 50%—80% Above 80% 75.00% 9.38% 9.38% 0.00% 6.25% As to the household decision-making, the proportion of decision-making jointly by 26 both husband and wife is the highest (as shown in Picture 3-3). The proportion of decision-making jointly by both husband and wife in “the administering of family property”, “the decision of production type”, “the decision of house selection/building”, “the decision of children’s education and career choice” are all above 30%, the proportion in “the decision of division of labor” is even higher than 40%. All of this shows that women are playing an important role in household decision-making. However, it still can be seen from the separate analysis of husband and wife that men and women are playing different roles in a family and that the status of women in a family is relatively lower. For example, as to “attending the villagers’/residents’ meeting”, the proportion of women is higher than that of men. One reason is that such activities are seldom held, as shown in the survey that the proportion of “not applicable” is 75.93%. The other reason is that generally the husband is working outside and has no time for such activities in the daytime of workdays. However, as to “attending the wedding ceremony and funeral of neighbors”, the proportion of men is much higher than that of women. This is because such activities usually occur on holidays and men could afford the time to attend. Thus it can be seen that in the activities that show the social status of the family, women only plays a supplementary role as a “messager”. As to “instructing children’s lessons” and “the decision of children’s education and career choice”, the proportion of women is higher than or equal to that of men. This is because women are mainly engaged in housework and have more time to take care of children and educate them. 27 Mainly by Analysis of household decision-making husband Mainly by wife Jointly by husband and wife By husband's father By husband's mother By other people 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Not applicable 1 The administering of family property 2 The decision of production type 3 The decision of house selection/building 4 The decision of division of labor 5 The decision of purchasing expensive goods 6 The decision of children’s education and career choice 7 Instructing children’s lessons 8 Attending the villagers’/residents’ meeting 9 The decision of investment or loan 10 Attending the wedding ceremony and funeral of neighbors 28 Picture 3-3 Analysis of status in household decision-making The role difference and the relatively lower status of women in family are more obvious in the division of housework. As to the statement “The best way to run a household well is that the husband works outside and the wife does the housekeeping”, the proportion of “agree very much” and “generally agree” is as high as 60.54%, the proportion of “do not much agree” and “strongly disagree” is below 10%. As to the statement “Job opportunities shall be given prior to men”, the proportion of “agree very much” and “generally agree” reaches 76.92%, while the proportion of “do not much agree” and “strongly disagree” is only 3.85%. The similar proportions occur in other items as well, for example, as to the statement “Major decisions shall be made by husband” and “Housework shall be done by wife”, the proportion of “agree very much” and “generally agree” is far higher than the proportion of “do not much agree” and “strongly disagree”. Social and political status: The status of women in family and the traditional thought that men should work outside and women should do housekeeping have determines that the social and political status of women could never be truly equal to that of men; however, most people believe that the influence of women on public affairs is gradually rising. In the survey we find that the secretary and the chief of Chenxiang Village, which is the most heavily affected village, are both women. In the interview they told that 80% of the current cadres of the village are female. In China, to a large extent, it is considered that women should take care of the family. The traditional thought keeps many women out of their own career. In the survey we often hear women saying that “My career is just my husband’s career”, and that “Only if my husband succeeds will I succeed”. Such statements coming from women themselves shows that traditional thoughts are deeply influencing people’s concept, and also indicates the social pressure women will face to promote their status. The role difference and the status of women in family are of certain risks. Director Jin of Development Department of Huai’nan Women’s Federation told us: 29 “Women have low income, and thus have low status in family; as a result, they have no basis for other things. For example in the questionnaire or in the simple interviews, you can find that women have equal right to sign and right to be informed and can administer family finance and decide children’s education and investment jointly with their husband. However, if women have no income, once something happens to the family or to their marriage, women will immediately get into trouble, and the right to sign, the right to administer family finance and the right to attend activities will all be disembodied. Nevertheless, women shall not tell others about these problems, and the situation may not be reflected in your questionnaire. We know that through long time of work. So women should stand on their own feet. In grass-roots work we also find that a family can be stable if the wife has a good job.” 3.5.2 Analysis of the impact of this project on women 1. Positive impact (1) Improved living environment According to the survey of household, society and economy, the main houses in the project area are all relatively old single-store house with poor structure and facilities. The houses of the relocated households involved in the project are basically all uncertified self-built houses with poorer structure and facilities. Therefore, the construction of this project could improve their living environments. In addition, through the close of the garbage dump, the restoration of vegetation and the treatment of river system, the environment of the project area will be greatly improved, which is beneficial to the living environment of the whole project area and its neighboring area. (2) Increased job opportunities In the project design stage the needs and suggestions of women are to be considered; In the project implementation stage it is ensured that unskilled jobs will be provided prior to vulnerable groups including women; Vocational skill training will be provided in the project and the type of work will tilt towards women (dress making, flower selling etc.); it is ensured that women are allowed to sign to receive 30 compensation for expropriated land... (3) Increased income Most women are looking forward to the construction of the project. They think that the construction of the project will bring them far more opportunities than risks. For example, the construction of the project will make the environment more beautiful and the traffic smoother, thus the cost of traveling will be reduced and it will be safer and more convenient for their husband to go out to work and their children to go to school. In particular, the construction of roads and the improvement of environment will promote the development of ecological agriculture and tourism there and bring to them more opportunities for development. (4) Reduced burden of housework From the field survey and the interviews we know that in most families, men go out to work while women and the elderly become the main undertakers of agricultural production. In this project, part of the land collectively owned by Chenxiang Village will be expropriated, and the land use right of some villagers will be transferred, which will reduce the intensity and time of agricultural labor of the women and the elderly who undertake the main agricultural labor, and will relieve some women out of the intensive agricultural labor who will otherwise have opportunities to attend in other social and economic activities. 2. Negative Impact The expropriation of land could relieve part of the agricultural labor of the women and the elderly in Chenxiang Village, thus they will have opportunities to attend in other social and economic activities. However, the expropriation of land will also reduce their income, and if it is not compensated by other methods, their status in family will probably be further lowered. Therefore, the social security after land expropriation becomes their prior concern. Thus it can be seen that it is a fundamental security method for women to provide a reliable pension security to the farmers including women, and it is also of important significance to promote the social and economic status of women. 31 3.6 Summary It is found in the field survey that: 1) The impact of land expropriation and land transfer on the high-output-value facility agriculture is not great; 2) The affected area is located in urban area. In the process of urbanization, the villagers have got used to the constant land expropriation. And with the progressing of urbanization, the secondary and tertiary industry of Datong District are developed, which can provide a large number of non-agricultural job opportunities to the farmers, as they do now; 3) Most of the relocated households and villagers affected by the project believe that this project is beneficial both to the country and to the people, and they are willing to be relocated, to have their land expropriated and to support the construction of the project as long as the compensation is fair, impartial and timely; 4) the land-transferred villagers demand the equal right with land-expropriated villagers in the employment, training and social security. 32 4 Laws, Regulations and Policies The resettlement work of Huai’nan World Bank Funded Project will strictly follow the relevant laws, regulations and policies of the People’s Republic of China, Anhui Province, Huai’nan city and local governments. Meanwhile, the planning and implementation of the resettlement work will fully comply with involuntary resettlement policies of the World Bank. See the following table for the policy framework. Table 4-1 The Resettlement Policy Framework Level Policy document Effective time The Land Administration Law of People’s Republic of China Aug. 28, 2004 Regulation on the Implementation of Land Administration Law of People’s Republic of China (No. 256 of Decree of the the Dec. 27, 1998 State Council) Real Right Law of People’s Republic of China Mar. 16, 2007 Decisions of State Council on Furthering the Reform and Intensifying Land Administration (No. 28 [2004] of the State Oct. 21, 2004 Council) State and central Guiding opinions on Improving Compensation and ministry Resettlement System for Land Requisition (No. 238 [2004] of Nov. 3, 2004 the Ministry of Land and Resources) Circular of the State Council on Intensifying the Land Control Aug. 31, 2006 (No. 31 [2006] of the State Council) Notice the General Office of State Council on Forwarding the Guiding Opinions of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security on Effectively Performing the Career Training Social Security Apr. 10, 2006 Work for the Peasants Whose Land are Expropriated (No. 29 [2006] of General Office of the State Council) 33 Level Policy document Effective time Measures for Announcement of Land Requisition (No. 10 Jan. 1, 2002 [2002] of the State Council) Notice of the Ministry of Land and Resources on Furthering Strengthening Management on Land Acquisition (No.96 [2010] Jun. 26, 2010 of the State Council) Notice on Improving the Policies of Financial Discounts for Small Guaranteed Loans and Accelerating the Women's July. 27, 2009 Start-up Businesses and Employment (No. 72 [2009] of the Ministry of Finance) Regulation on the Expropriation of Buildings on State-owned Jan. 21, 2011 Land and Compensation (Order No.590 of the State Council) Assessment Method for the Expropriation of Buildings on State-owned Land (No. 77 [2011] of Ministry of Housing and Jun. 7, 2011 Urban-Rural Development (MoHURD) ) Regulations on Transference of Rural Land Contract and Jan.19, 2005 Operation Right (No.47 of the Ministry of Agriculture) General Office of Anhui Province on Further Improving Resettlement Compensation for Residents in Mining Nov. 13, 2008 Subsidence Area (No. 58 [2008] of Anhui government Office) Measures of Anhui Province on Implementing Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft Sept. 22, 2000 Revision) Notice of People’s Government of Anhui Province on Publication of Land Compensation Standards in Anhui Dec. 31, 2009 Province (No. 132 [2009] of Anhui Government) Anhui Notice of People’s Government of Anhui Province on province Adjustment of Land Compensation Standards in Anhui May. 15, 2012 Province (No. 67 [2012] of Anhui Government ) Notice of People’s Government of Anhui Province on Issuing Comprehensive Treatment Plan of Mining Subsidence Area July. 29, 2009 (issued by Anhui Government [2009] No.86) Notice of General Office of Anhui Province on earnestly implementing Regulation on the Expropriation of Buildings on Apr. 7, 2011 State-owned Land and Compensation (No.24 [2011] of Anhui Government Office) 34 Level Policy document Effective time Guiding Opinions of General Office of Anhui Province on Employment of Land-requisitioned Farmers and Social Jun. 12, 2005 Security Work (No. 63 [2005] of Anhui Government) Notice of Issuing House Acquisition and Compensation Standard of the State-owned Land (No.99 [2011] of Huai’nan Sept. 1, 2011 Municipal Government) Notice on Publication of Compensation Standard on Levying Above Ground Attachments and Green Crops in Collective Jan. 29, 2011 Owned Land (No.7 [2011] of Huai’nan Municipal Government) Notice on Publication of Monetary Compensation Base Price and Adjustment Coefficient of Urban House Demolition in 2009 and Other Compensations and Subsidy Standard of Urban Dec. 12, 2008 House Demolition in Huai’nan City (No.91 [2008] of Huai’nan Municipal Government ) Notice of Huai’nan Municipal Government on Issuing Compensation and Resettlement Method of Levying Collective May. 31, 2013 Owned Land in Huai’nan City (No.39 [2013] of Huai’nan Municipal Government ) Huai’na n city Notice of Huai’nan Municipal Government on Issuing Levying Above Aground Attachments and Green Crops in Collective May. 30, 2013 Owned Land (No.38 [2013] of Huai’nan Municipal Government ) Notice of Issuing Provisional Regulations on Endowment Insurance of Land-requisitioned Farmers in Huai’nan City (No. Oct. 10, 2006 69 [2006] of Huai’nan Municipal Government) Notice of Issuing Implementation Plan of Provisional Regulations Endowment Insurance of Land-requisitioned Apr. 5, 2007 Farmers in Huai’nan City (No.23 [2007] of Huai’nan Municipal Government) Notice of Issuing Provisional Regulations on Resettlement Compensation for Rural Collective Land Owned Residents in Sept. 5, 2011 Mining Subsidence Area (No.104 [2011] of Huai’nan Municipal Government) local Guidance on Comprehensive Treatment in Mining Subsidence regulatio Area (fourth)—Guidance on Compensation of Relocated Jun. 27, 2011 n of Enterprises, Fields and Stations (provisional) (No.34 [2011] of district Comprehensive Treatment Office for Mining Subsidence Area 35 Level Policy document Effective time and in Huai’nan City) county Notice of Huai’nan Land and Resource Bureau on Compensation and Resettlement Plan of Land Requisition Nov. 9, 2011 (No.30 [2011] of Huai’nan Land and Resource Bureau Acquisition and Resettlement Office) Provisional Compensation Standard from Huai’nan Land and Resource Bureau (No.11 [2012] Provisional plan of Huai’nan May. 4, 2012 Land and Resource Bureau) Notice of Huai’nan Land and Resource Bureau on Provisional Compensation Standard Placement Approach (No.34 [2013] Jun. 25, 2013 Provisional plan of Huai’nan Land and Resource Bureau) Operational Policy OP4.12 on Involuntary Resettlement and Its Jan. 1, 2002 appendixes World Bank Operational Procedures BP4.12 on Involuntary Resettlement Jan. 1, 2002 and Its appendixes 4.1 Abstract of Relevant Laws and Regulations of State and Provincial Ministry 4.1.1 Regulations on Ownership and Right of Use of Land The People’s Republic of China implements a socialism public-owned land system , i.e. , an ownership by the whole people and the collective ownership by the laboring masses . Land in urban districts shall be owned by the State. Land in the rural areas and suburban areas, except otherwise provided for by the State, shall be collectively owned by peasants ; homestead and private plot, private hilly land shall be collectivly owned by peasants.(Article 2 & Article 8 of Law of Land Administration of People’s Republic of China) If for protection of public interests, the collectively owned land, properties and other real estates owned by units and individuals can be expropriated in accordance with 36 permission and procedures provided by law. When expropriating collectively owned land, land compensations, placement subsidies, compensations for ground attachement and young crops and other fees shall be paid in full amount by law.Meanwhile, social security expenses shall be allocated for the land-expropriated peasants, to guarantee their living standards and protect their legal rights and interests. In the case that properties and other real estates owned by units and individuals should be expropriated, demolition compensations shall be provided by law, protecting legal rights and interests of the expropriated units and individuals. If in the case that the private residence should be expropriated, housing conditions of the residence-expropriated persons shall also be guaranteed. (Article 42 of Real Right Law of the People’s Republic of China) 4.1.2 Regulations on Compensation Standard of Land Requisition and Demolition The local People’s government above the county level shall take practical measures to ensure living standards of the land-expropriated farmers will not reduced due to land requisition. It shall be guaranteed that land compensations, placement subsidies, compensations for ground attachment and young crops be paid timely in full amount by law. In those cases that the land-expropriated farmers still cannot maintain the original living level though the land compensations and placement subsidies have been paid in accordance with existing law or that full amount of social security fees cannot be paid to the land-expropriated farmers, the People’s government of province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the central government shall approve to increase placement subsidies. In the case that the sum of land compensations and placement subsidies reaches its legal ceiling, but that the land-expropriated farmers still cannot maintain the original living standards, the local People’s government can use the revenue from compensable use of the state-owned land to compensate for it. The People’s government of province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the central government shall establish and publish the uniform standards of annual output of requisitioned land or the composite land price of requisitioned tracts of land in each city 37 and county, and guarantee the policy of “the same compensation level for tracts of land at the same section” during land requisition. The land requisition fee of national key construction projects should be fully included in budget estimate. (Article 14 of Decisions of State Council on Furthering the Reform and Intensifying Land Administration) The municipal or county government who makes the decision of house expropriation shall make compensation to the expropriated persons, including: (1) Compensation for the value of the expropriated house; (2) Compensation for relocation and temporary resettlement caused by house expropriation; (3) Compensation for the loss resulting from suspension of production or business due to house expropriation The municipal and county-level government shall establish specific policies as standards of providing the expropriated persons with appropriate allowances and rewards. The compensation for the value of the expropriated house shall be not lower than the market price of the similar real estates on the announcement date of the house expropriation decision. The value of the expropriated house shall be determined by the properly qualified real estate appraisal organ in accordance with assessment methods for house expropriation. An application for review may be submitted to the real estate appraisal organ if there is any objection to the value of the expropriated house that is determined through appraisal. If the objection still exists to the review results, the Committee of Experts for Real Estate Appraisal may be invited to conduct appraisal verification. The assessment methods for house expropriation are formulated by the competent authority of housing and urban-rural development of the State Council. And, during the formulation process, public opinions shall be solicited openly among the society (Articles 17 and 19 of Regulation on the Expropriation of Buildings on State-owned 38 Land and Compensation). Uniform standards of annual output of requisitioned land and the composite land price of requisitioned tracts of land shall be comprehensively implemented.. The formulation of uniform standards of annual output of requisitioned land and the composite land price of requisitioned tracts of land is not only an important initiative to improve land requisition compensation mechanism and realize the policy of “the same compensation level for tracts of land at the same section”, but also an inevitable requirement to raise land requisition compensation standard and protect farmer’s rights and interests, so all kinds of construction involving expropriating collectively owned land must be implemented strictly in accordance with this requirement. Land use of the new construction projects must be strictly checked during pre-examination to ensure that the project land requisition compensation fees be counted in accordance with announced uniform standards of annual output of requisitioned land and the composite land price of requisitioned tracts of land and that it fully be included in budget estimate. If the land for construction lies in the area of the same annual output value or land area comprehensive value, land requisition compensation level remains fairly consistent and implements the policy of “the same compensation level for tracts of land at the same section” overland requisition compensation. Each place shall establish dynamic adjustment mechanism for land requisition compensation, i.e., to adjust land requisition compensation standard every 2 or 3 years according to the economic development level and local average income growth, and then raise the land requisition compensation standard gradually. Provinces whose present land requisition compensation standard has exceeded the stipulated number of years shall adjust and revise with the least delay possible according to this requirement. If not, the land use will not be approved. (Notice of the Ministry of Land and Resources on Furthering Strengthening Management on Land Acquisition. June, 2010) 4.1.3 Regulations on Resettlement Approach of Land-expropriated Farmers The local governments above county level shall develop specific measures to 39 guarantee the long-term livelihood of the land-expropriated peasants. For projects with steady profits, the peasants can invest with the legally-approved land use right of construction land. Within the urban planning area, local governments shall incorporate the land-expropriated peasants into the urban employment system and establish social security system for them; beyond the urban planning area, when the collective lands of peasants are requisitioned, local governments shall reserve necessary cultivated land or arrange jobs for the peasants within their administrative regions. Those land-expropriated peasants who cannot reach basic production and living conditions shall be resettled in other places (Article 13 of Decision of the State Council on Furthering the Reform and Intensifying the Land Administration). The land-expropriated peasants can choose from the following resettlement approaches: (1) agricultural production placement: when the peasant collective land outside the urban planning area is requisitioned, the mobile rural collective land reserved in advance, the contracted land returned by the contracting peasants voluntarily, the increased cultivated land generated during the transfer of contracted land use right and the land development and consolidation process shall be used to provide necessary cultivated land to the land-expropriated peasants so that they can engage in agricultural production continuously; (2) Job placement: conditions shall be created actively to offer skill training for free and arrange proper jobs for those land-expropriated peasants. In the same conditions, the land-expropriated peasants shall be given priority by the employers. If the expropriated rural collective land is within urban planning area, the land-expropriated peasants shall be incorporated into the urban employment system and social security system shall be established for them; (3) Investment and bonus placement: for the land for projects that have long-term steady profits, the rural collective economic organizations can negotiate with the land users to invest with the compensation and resettlement costs for land acquisition or the approved land use right of construction land at appraisal price on the condition that the peasants are consent. The rural collective economic organizations shall conclude a contract with the peasants 40 to specify that the profits will be provided in the form of preferred stock; (4) Non-local resettlement: if the area cannot provide basic production and living conditions to the land-expropriated peasants , the non-local resettlement may be conducted under the uniform organization of the government and by fully considering the opinions of the rural collective economic organizations and the peasants (Article 2 of Guiding Opinions on Improving Compensation and Resettlement System for Land Acquisition). 4.1.4 Policies on Information Disclosure of Land Requisition During land acquisition, the peasant collective land ownership and the peasant land contracted operation right shall be maintained. Before land acquisition is reported for approval in accordance with laws, the purpose, land location, compensation standards and resettlement approaches shall be notified to the land-expropriated peasants; the survey results about the current conditions of the land to be requisitioned shall be confirmed by the rural collective economic organizations and the peasants; if necessary, the authority of land and resources shall organize a hearing according to related provisions. The documents concerning the notification to or the confirmation from the land-expropriated peasants shall be taken as essential documents to be submitted for the approval of land acquisition. The establishment and improvement of the system for the settlement of disputes over the compensation for and relocation due to land acquisition by coordination and ruling shall be accelerated to protect the lawful rights and interests of the land-expropriated peasants and land users. The approved matters for land acquisition shall be publicized except for special circumstances (Article 14 of the Decision on Furthering the Reform and Intensifying the Land Administration). The People’s government of province, autonomous region, municipality directly under the central government shall formulate the allocation plan of land requisition compensation fees within the rural collective economic organization under the principle that land compensation fees shall mainly be used for the land-expropriated farmers . The rural collective economic organization with land requisitioned should make the income and expenditure and allocation of land requisition compensation fees known to the 41 members of the rural collective economic organization and accept their oversight. The agriculture department and civil affairs department shall strengthen their supervision within the rural collective economic organization for the allocation and use of land compensation fees. (Article 15 of Decisions of State Council on Furthering the Reform and Intensifying Land Administration) Administrative organs should disclose the government information timely and accurately. If administrative organs find false or incomplete information that impact or may impact social stability and disturb social order, it shall clarify it by publishing accurate government information within the extent of its functions. (Article 6 of Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Disclosure of Government Information) Administrative organs should disclose government information actively through generally known means such as government bulletin, government website, press conference, newspapers, broadcast, television and other media. (Article 15 of Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Disclosure of Government Information) The people's governments at various levels shall set up government information access spot in the National Archives and the Public Libraries, and fit out relevant facilities and equipment, thus to facilitate the citizens, legal person or other organizations to get access to the government information. Administrative organs can set up public reference room, document required spot, information bulletin board, electronic information screens and other sites or facilities as required to disclose government information. Administrative organs should provide government information initiatively to the National Archives and the Public Library. (Article 16 of Regulations of the People’s Republic of China on the Disclosure of Government Information) 42 4.2 Abstract of Relevant Laws and Policies of Anhui Province and Huai’nan City 4.2.1 Notice of People’s Government of Anhui Province on Adjustment of Land Compensation Standards in Anhui Province (No. 67 [2012] of Anhui Government) The land compensation and resettlement subsidies of acquisition of collective land within the administrative area of the province should be implemented according to the new land compensation standard since the date of this notice issued. If the land for construction lies in the area of same annual output value or land area comprehensive value, land compensation level remains fairly consistent and implements the policy of “the same compensation level for tracts of land at the same section” over land compensation. The land compensation standard for large and medium water conservation and power projects shall be governed by the relevant regulations of the State Council. The People’s government of municipal and county level can raise the land requisition compensation standard for special lands according to the real condition. State-owned agricultural (forestry, husbandry, fishery) land shall be governed by the land compensation standard of the village (town, street) area (district) where the agricultural (forestry, husbandry, fishery) land lies . The highest standard will be applied if there are several areas (districts) around. The land compensation standard in each city and county shall be unified by the provincial people’s government and shall be adjusted every 2 years according to the national regulations and the local economic development. Each municipal government shall formulate compensation standard for house, above ground attachments and green crops of the land requisitioned and implement after reporting to the Office of Land and Resources, and it requires to be adjusted every 2 years. 43 4.2.2 Notice of Huai’nan Municipal Government of Issuing Compensation and Resettlement Method of Levying Collective Owned Land in Huai’nan City Disclosure system of land compensation. The district people’s government shall disclose the name of the organizations and members who are responsible for implementing the specific land compensation standard, the procedure of land compensation payment, farmers affected by land acquisition, distribution of compensation, resettlement sites and schedule of housing property exchange in the countryside (town) or village (including group of villagers, hereinafter inclusive), and the period of information disclosure shall last no less than 7 days. Land acquisition compensation includes land compensation and resettlement subsidies, compensation for above ground attachments and young crops. The land compensation and resettlement subsidies shall be implemented by the compensation standard issued by the provincial people’s government. With regard to the land compensation belongs to the collective economic organization, more than 70 percent of the land compensation will be used for the production and living and social security of the land-expropriated . The usage of land compensation fshall be approved through village meeting or villager’s representative meeting held by collective economic organization, and the funds allocation arrangement shall be reported to the village and town government or the sub-district office. 4.2.3 Notice of Huai’nan Municipal Government of Issuing Levying Above Ground Attachments and Green Crops in Collective Owned Land (No.38 [2013] of Huai’nan Municipal Government) The compensation for above ground attachments and young crops in collective owned land within this administrative area (including Fengtai county, Maiji trial plot) is 44 applicable to this standard. Where there are otherwise different provisions in any relevant law or regulation of the state, such provisions shall apply. 4.2.4 Notice on Publication of Monetary Compensation Base Price and Adjustment Coefficient of Urban House Demolition in 2009 and Other Compensations and Subsidy Standard of Urban House Demolition in Huai’nan City (No.91 [2008] of Huai’nan Municipal Government) Cash Compensation Base Price and Adjustment Coefficient of Urban House Demolition in 2009, Other Compensations and Subsidy Standard of Urban House Demolition in Huai’nan City has been approved by 10th executive meeting of 14th municipal government and has come into effect sinceJan. 1, 2009. Cash Compensation Base Price and Adjustment Coefficient of Urban House Demolition in 2009 has confirmed the monetary compensation base price, adjustment coefficient, regional division and adjustment coefficient, residual value rate, residential orientation coefficient, house height coefficient, business occupancy height coefficient, road grade and adjustment coefficient of commercial buildings along the street, coefficient office, production, storage occupancy height and other coefficients of urban house demolition. Other Compensations and Subsidy Standard of Urban House Demolition in Huai’nan City has confirmed compensation standards for interior decoration and attachments, forest tree compensation, green land compensation, residential relocation subsidies, temporary placement subsidies, compensation for suspension of production and business, goods transport freight, equipment installation cost and compensation standard for equipment and facility that cannot return to service. 4.2 Relevant Involuntary Resettlement Policy of World Bank The resettlement shall be connected with the implementation of investment activities of the project. The policy measures include providing compensation or other assistance before relocation, preparation and providing relocation sites with adequate 45 facilities. Particularly, land requisition and underlying asset can only be taken after full compensation is paid. The land-based resettlement strategy shall be given priority for the displaced persons who live on land, including resettling them on public land or the purchased or otherwise obtained private land. The substitute land provided to the displaced persons, if any, shall be at least equivalent to the expropriated land on aspects of potential productivity, location and other factors. If the displaced persons won’t give priority to the land-based resettlement strategy, or if the provided land may have adverse impact on the sustainability of the park or protection zone or if it is impossible to obtain adequate land at a proper price, the non-land-based employment or self-employment resettlement scheme shall be offered in addition to cash compensation for the losses of land and other properties. In case of lack of sufficient land, explanations and records shall be made as required by the bank. Eligibility criteria are the following: The persons who have formal land ownership (including the common law and traditional law acknowledged by the laws of the country); The persons who had no formal land ownership at the beginning of the survey but claimed the possession of the land or assets if such claim is recognized by the laws of this country or is accepted after the confirmation process of resettlement action plan; The persons whose rights or claims on the land possessed by them are not recognized. 4.3 Resettlement Policy of This Project The resettlement policy to be implemented in this project is formulated according to the actual situation of Huai’nan city on the basis of the above policies. It’s in line with the policy of China, Anhui province, Huai’nan city, and the involuntary resettlement policy of the World Bank, meanwhile, it also can meet the needs of the project hereby. The Resettlement Action Plan hereby will be implemented after the approval of the World Bank and Huai’nan municipal people’s government. 46 4.3.1 Collective Land Acquisition and Resettlement Policy The compensation principle, compensation standard, land acquisition procedure and the supervisory mechanism of land acquisition compensation and the resettlement are formulated primarily based on the Land Administrative Law of People’s Republic of China, Regulation on the Implementation of Land Administration Law of People’s Republic of China, Regulation on the Expropriation of Buildings on State-owned Land and Compensation, Implementation Method of Land Administration Law of People’s Republic of China in Anhui Province (Sept. 22, 2000), Notice of the Ministry of Land and Resources on Furthering Strengthening Management on Land Acquisition (Jun. 2010), Notice of People’s government of Anhui Province on Adjustment of Land Compensation Standards in Anhui Province and relevant regulations in Huai’nan city. The compensation standard of the affected area within this project shall be no less than the compensation standard mentioned in the above documents. The compensation for collective land is based on the composite land price, and monetary compensation should be provided for villages and farmers influenced by the land acquisition of this project, and the land acquisition compensation of the contracted land shall all be allocated to the land-expropriated households. It requires to provide varied placement approached, such as providing endowment insurance and job opportunities for land-expropriated farmers and providing free skill training for the the affected farmers so as to guarantee their production and living standard’s stable recovery . The compensation standard is 52,000 Yuan/mu for cultivated land (field)and 2,000 Yuan/mu for its young crops; 52,000 Yuan/mu for orchard and 5,000 Yuan/mu for its young crops. 4.3.2 Transfer of Collective Land-use Right (land leasing) Transfer of collective land-use right is a new trial to confirm the transfer fee and other matters concerned based on the principle of mutual benefit and equal-footed consultation. On the first year, the compensation for young crops will be paid, and the land leasing cost shall be no less than 1,200 Yuan/mu per year. The subsequent rent will 47 be adjusted according to the fluctuation of national grain purchasing protective price, that is: if the market grain price is lower than the protective price, the rent shall remain the same; if the market grain price is higher than the protective price, the rent shall be increased in proportion. Meanwhile, farmers can attend the free training organized by the project office, accept job recommendation, enjoy the same privileges as the land-expropriated and take an occupation on the transferred land, which can help them increase family income, enhance their skills for new job, obtain more opportunities to receive education, and make them meet the requirements of market-oriented economy, especially the development of women. They can enjoy the related preferential policy of laid-off workers in city and town if they start up their own business. The land-transferred farmers can join in the social security; and the medical and life insurance of land-transferred farmers who have settled down in cities or towns and changed from “agricultural to non-agricultural” status can be brought into the local social security administration system. Those land-transferred farmers who still belong to rural registered permanent residence can be brought into the local new type of old-age insurance for rural residents and new type of rural cooperative medical system. Those circulated farmers who are qualified to enjoy the minimum living guarantee shall be brought into the rural subsistence security system. The group who are in difficulties shall be brought into the fund for treatment of serious diseases and fund for the extremely poor. For those enjoying five guarantees can choose to go back to the nursing home under the principle of voluntariness. Land-use right transfer takes the form of tenancy which is ended at the second round of the contract period. The project office authorizes the land acquisition and demolition office in Datong district to sign agreements with farmers on the basis that the rent shall be no less than 1,200 Yuan/mu. The second land contract period is extended for 30 years from 1997-1999 or as, so the land tenancy of the project can reach 13-15 years generally. Consultation and signature of new tenancy contract will be carried out on a voluntary basis after expiration. See appendix 1 about more details of the land use 48 transfer plan. 4.3.3 Policy of Permanent Occupancy of State-owned Land The state-owned land occupied by this project is under the charge of Huai’nan municipal government, Datong district government and Huai’nan Mining Group Co., Ltd. This project belongs to Huai’nan city, so the right to use agricultural land that belongs to Huai’nan municipal government (including Datong district government) can be altered without compensation to the project, and only compensation for the land attachments is required. The compensation for construction land is 50 percent of the standard land price. Huai’nan municipal government has negotiated with Huai’nan Mining Group Co., Ltd. many times for the implementation of the project, and has reached the land use agreement. The principles of the agreement are: 1) The forestry and subsidence area of Huai’nan Mining Group Co., Ltd. which will be used for environmental remediation of the project within the project can allocate for Huai’nan municipal government without any compensation but the compensation for the land attachments according to the standard. 2) The land for construction, such as road, water system, garden displaying potted landscape, floral trade market and road service point, no matter in transferred land or allocated land, if directly occupied by sub-projects involving earth and rock engineering, shall be compensated according to the appraisals. 4.3.4 Demolition and Resettlement Policy for Housing on State-owned Land The house demolition in this project only involves uncertified self-built housing and nonresidential houses for enterpriseson the state-owned land. 1) Demolition and resettlement policy of uncertified self-built housing The demolition and resettlement of this project shall obey the principle of “resettlement before demolition”. According to the requirements of the persons to be settled, the project can resettle them by monetary transitional resettlement compensation, 49 or temporary resettlement houses and transitional houses after taking full account of the actual situation of the affected persons, which aims at “making every relocated person has his home”. Meanwhile, the resettlement household can get house relocation grants and traffic allowance for primary and secondary school students. Residence demolition of this project refers to the demolition of an nameless residential site behind the original Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory which involves 6 households, including uncertified self-built housing of 5 households and 1 public house. It requires to give monetary compensation for the expropriated person of the affected buildings without license, 800 Yuan/m2 for brick-concrete structure and 500 Yuan/m2 for simple board room. And it also requires to provide the relocated households economically affordable houses nearby for their resettlement, the favorable price for them to buy is 3,000 Yuan/m2, and the resettlement house is located on No. 3 of Dongshan East Road. The relocated household can buy economically affordable houses favorably on condition that the housing area is under the demolition compensation fee; if not, the excessive part shall be purchased at market price which is 4,000 Yuan/m2. If the households live in public house by this project, and it is also the only house they occupy, then it requires to provide them economically affordable houses 30 m2 per person for their resettlement; the excessive part shall be purchased at market price. Provide relocation grants and traffic allowance for primary and secondary school students. 2) Nonresidential house demolition and resettlement policy of state-owned land This project involves demolition of 5 enterprises. For the production occupancy, it requires to give the demolition compensation for the house and attachments, compensation for suspension of production and business, compensation for equipment transportation and installation and compensation for equipment and facility that cannot return to service, which shall on the basis of the documents Notice of Issuing House Acquisition and Compensation Standard of The State-owned Land (issued by Huai’nan Municipal Government [2011] No. 99 ) and Notice on Publication of Monetary 50 Compensation Base Price and Adjustment Coefficient of Urban House Demolition in 2009 and Other Compensations and Subsidy Standard of Urban House Demolition in Huai’nan City (issued by Huai’nan Municipal Government [2008] No.91 ) The compensation for enterprise occupancy is based on the replacement price, including compensation for losses resulting from suspension of business and compensation for equipment. Monetary resettlement is the main measure, and the project office-Datong district demolition office provide economically affordable house resettlement or purchase in the settlements on the nearby No. 3 Dongshan East Road. The enterprises carry out monetary resettlement, provide training, offer job opportunities prior and help re-employment. The production occupancy and office occupancy of enterprises: frame structure 1,885 Yuan/m2, brick-concrete structure 1,570 Yuan/m2. 4.3.5 Temporary Occupancy of Collective Land It requires to provide compensation for green crops and rehabilitation for the temporary occupancy of collective land, 2,000 Yuan/mu. 4.3.6 Resettlement for Vulnerable Population This project has formulated special policies for the vulnerable population, and provide them subsistence allowances and medical care. 4.3.7 Women’s Development For the purpose of long-term and overall development of the area, the project office and the local people’s government shall take a series of measures to facilitate participation and development of the affected women of this project. Such as: Provide land-expropriated peasants endowment insurance covering women and guarantee economic status of women; Set up open and transparent mechanism of compensation information for land acquisition and demolition and guarantee that women have access to the same right for compensation and the right to know public information; 51 The precondition to sign the compensation agreement for land acquisition and demolition and to distribute money is that the female family members have been well-informed; Provide dressmaking profession for women specially in the training plan, set up menu-like recruitment and training system and form a coordinated service of labor demands of enterprises, professional training and women’s personal interests, so as to reduce their blindness of employment; Give a full play of women’s organizations such as Women’s Federation and Family Planing Association, integrate the development of women and their access to opportunities with the activities of these organizations, and appeal and lead women to enjoy opportunities brought by development; Encourage women to start up their own business in floral trade market, and provide preferred small loans for women’s start-up businesses. 5 Resettlement Compensation Standard According to the provisions of law policy framework applied in the project, combining with actual situation of affected areas, the project developed various compensation standards after full consultation with all relevant departments in Huai’nan City and affected population in order to restore and improve living standard of affected population in the short term after resettlement. If the People’s Government of Huai’nan City issues new more preferential policies, the new ones will be implemented.. 5.1 Compensation standard for rural collective land expropriation According to The Law of Land Administration of the People's Republic of China, Guiding Opinions on Improving Compensation and Resettlement System for Land Acquisition, Measures of Auhui Province on Implementing Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China (Draft Revision), Notice of People’s Government of Anhui Province on Adjustment of Compensation Standard of Land Acquisition in Anhui Province and Notice of Huai’nan municipal government Issuing Levying Above Aground Attachments and Green Crops in Collective Owned Land (No.38 [2013] of Huai’nan Municipal Government ), the land compensation standard is proposed after consulting with the affected population and combining with actual situation in affected areas. Refer 52 to the Table 5-1 for details. Table 5-1 Compensation Standard for Expropriation of Collective Land in Affected Areas Compensation Standard (Yuan/Mu) Type of land Comprehensive land Expenses of green crops, Total price nursery and land attachment Cultivated land 52000 2000 54000 (crop field) Orchard 52000 5000 57000 According to field survey, although agricultural economy in the area is quite developed, agricultural production management is poor in the affected areas within the project due to subsidence. It is dry land basically and standard farming system is wheat-rice or wheat/cotton with two seasons per year. In general, wheat output is 800 Jin/Mu with 1.2-1.4 Yuan/Jin of unit price, the benefit is about 1000-1200 Yuan/Mu, and the cost is 500-600 Yuan/Mu (fertilizers, pesticides and seeds). Output and costs of rice are similar to that of the wheat, so the net average annual income of cultivated land is 1200 Yuan/Mu. The project standard is more than 43 times of net land income, which is in full compliance with the requirements of the National Land Management Law. 5.2 Compensation Standard for Permanent Occupation of State-owned Land The state-owned land occupied by all sub-projects is 1055.5 mu, involving Huai’nan City, Datong District and Huai’nan Mining Industry (Group) Co., Ltd. Standard for permanent occupation of state-owned land (refer to Table 5-2) is developed upon consultation as per relevant national and local laws and policies and World Bank Security Spirit. 53 Table 5-2 Compensation Standard for occupation of state-owned land Type of land (Mu) Standard (Yuan) Remarks Green crops price (full Huai’nan City Orchard 5000 bearing period) (including Forest land 2000 Green crops price (Woodlots) Datong District) Construction land 100000 Refer to allocation land Huai’nan Non-agricultural Assignment 150000 Assessment price Mining Industry land Allocation 100000 Assessment price (Group) Co., Forest land 2000 Green crops price (Woodlots) Ltd. Subsiding land 0 Wasteland 5.3 Compensation Standard for Temporary Occupation There is no temporary occupation during construction of green road, nursery, bonsai garden and flower market in the project through the use of existing facilities and construction arrangement. However, temporary occupation of collective land exists during water system treatment and road construction, and the compensation standard is 2000 Yuan/Mu. 5.4 Compensation Standard for House Demolition Compensation and resettlement policies of house demolition in major municipal construction projects of Huai’nan City in recent year are mainly based on documents issued by the People’s Government of Huai’nan City—House Acquisition and Compensation Standard of the State-owned Land in Huai’nan City (No. 99 [2011] of Huai’nan Municipal Government) and Notice on Publication of Monetary Compensation Base Price and Adjustment Coefficient of Urban House Demolition in 2009 and Other Compensations and Subsidy Standard of Urban House Demolition in Huai’nan City (No.91[2008] of Huai’nan Municipal Government), the latter has specified compensation standard for house demolition and resettlement of Huai’nan City. The project established compensation standard for house demolition in state-owned land (Refer to Table 5-3) based on these documents and actual situation of the project areas Table 5-3 Monetary Compensation Price of House Demolition on State-owned Land Structure Price (Yuan / m2) RC 1850 Brick-concrete structure 1570 Uncertified self-built housing: monetary compensation shall be given for five uncertified self-built housing based on cost price. Cost of brick-concrete structure is 800 Yuan/m2, and cost of makeshift house (sample room) is 500 Yuan/m2 upon calculation. 54 5.5 Relocation allowance, temporary residential relocation allowance and traffic allowance of primary and middle school students 1) Relocation allowance: Relocation allowance is calculated based on 4 Yuan/m2 of floor area of the demolished house. If the relocation allowance is less than 180 Yuan, remover shall pay 180 Yuan. 2) Temporary residential relocation allowance: It is calculated based on 6 Yuan/m2 per month of floor area of the demolished house.. If temporary residential relocation allowance per month is less than 200 Yuan, remover shall pay 200 Yuan. Transitional period of temporary residence shall not exceed 18 months. 3) Traffic allowance of primary and middle school students: It is 300 Yuan/person for primary and middle school students in relocation area. The allowance shall be paid based on actual number of primary and middle school students but not exceed two in each family. 5.6 Other allowance 1) Allowance for economic losses caused by suspense of business Compensation and resettlement agency shall pay allowance for economic losses arising from suspense of business caused by house expropriation to units to be expropriated. Allowance standard: it is 240 Yuan/m2 per month for commercial buildings and it is 220 Yuan/m2 per month for industrial house, warehouse and office. It is all calculated by six months. 2) Allowance for equipment and facilities Tianhe Industrial Boiler Accessories Factory expresses their willingness that they won’t operate in the future. Existing equipment shall be compensated. Compensation standard is subject to assessment. 3) Land –use right transfer allowance According to field survey, rent of land-use right transfer nearby is about 800-1200 Yuan/Mu per year. The standard is 1200 Yuan from tenancy term at the first stage to contract period in the second round. Because it will be profitable after 3-5 years of nursery construction, the land use-right transfer allowance will be paid within first five years (project period), and follow-up funds shall be handled by operator developing sub-projects. 55 6 Resettlement and Restoration Implementation Plan Appropriate resettlement for land-expropriated (including land-use right transfer) households and relocated households is an important content of resettlement and also an issue that has been discussed repeatedly between the World Bank Project Office and the affected population 6.1 Purposes, methods and principles of resettlement and restoration 6.1.1 Purposes of resettlement and restoration According to involuntary resettlement policy of World Bank and requirements specified by relevant national laws and regulations, general purpose of the World Bank loan for resettlement to improve urban traffic of Huai’nan City is to restore and improve living standard of affected population and production as soon as possible. The detailed purposes are as follows: 1) Affected relocation households shall be resettled appropriately in order to reach the living quality and environment at least at the level before the demolition or above. 2) All affected land attachments shall be compensated based on replacement cost price. 3) The infrastructures shall be compensated and restored to their original functions. 4) Labor force affected by the land acquisition and use right transfer shall be resettled appropriately to ensure long-term livelihood and no farmer will lost permanently sufficient source of income due to land acquisition and use-right transfer. 6.1.2 Methods of resettlement and restoration Resettlement and restoration of affected population shall be carried out simultaneously in two aspects of living and production. Resettlement and restoration of living is mainly about houses demolition and construction and recovery of living facilities, including: 1) Provide monetary compensation for demolished houses and provide affordable housings for selection and purchase. Production resettlement and restoration is mainly to arrange employment and production facilities, including: 2) Conduct reasonable compensation for expropriated and user-right transferred land to ensure that no affected population lost sufficient source of income due to land acquisition and use right transfer. 56 3) Provide help for production and employment of affected population to make sure that long-term livelihood won’t be influenced by land acquisition and use right transfer. 6.1.3 Principles of resettlement and restoration 1) Affected population participates in whole process of resettlement. Affected population or representatives shall participate in some items like compensation standard of houses and facilities, selection of resettlement location, arrangement of demolition time and restoration time, funds allocation, use and management of resettlement funds and recovery measures of production and business and then reach an agreement. Negotiation shall be conducted by holding representative symposium with affected population and consultation meeting with affected community resident or villager. 2) All private compensations shall be fully distributed to property owners directly, any unit or individual should not retain or embezzle the compensation. 3) Provide assistance to the vulnerable groups. 6.2 House demolition and resettlement There are many methods on house demolition and resettlement in Huai’nan City, including monetary resettlement, property right displacement, reconstruction in transferred homestead and promotion and training of employment etc. The project involves demolition of enterprise factories and personnel resettlement, demolition of uncertified self-built housing. Therefore, there are no methods of property right displacement and reconstruction in transferred homestead. Project executive office developed relevant resettlement plans, resettlement models adopted for house demolition of residents include: (1) monetary compensation; (2) purchase economical housing based on preferential price (3000 Yuan/m2) in host communities after monetary compensation. Displaced person can purchase house in other places without preferential price. Relocated person can select different resettlement method based on own economic conditions and individual needs after monetary compensation. In order to meet individual needs, relocated person can purchase commercial residential building in host communities of Datong District, make other investments or purchase commercial building in other places. Project executive office won’t intervene. 57 6.2.1 Demolition and resettlement of uncertified self-built housing The families affected by the demolition in the project are six households, 26 persons in total, including five households with uncertified self-built housing of 2552 m2. There are some problems like inadequate indoor supporting facilities and living facilities, aging structure and poor lighting and ventilation at different levels and the supporting conditions around community is poor without water supply and drainage facilities. From June 21 - 30 and from November 7-14 2013, World Bank, project executive office and resettlement consultancy conducted extensive and in-depth investigation and consultation among affected population, finding that five uncertified self-built housings were built because of hardship or work convenience. For example, Cheng Demei’s husband and father-in-law worked in Datong tree farm, but the original residence was located in Shannan that is far away from the tree farm. The building was constructed by them 20 years ago. The building was expanded into a makeshift shelter house for breed aquatics because of life difficulty. It was known through visiting that they support project construction and was willing to remove and accept the monetary compensation. Considering that their family was engaged in breed aquatics production and their livelihood shall be influenced after resettlement, therefore, the project executive office promised to provide vocational skills training for Cheng Demei’s children, and accept them to work in nursery garden for breed aquatics related works after project completion through negotiation between project executive office and relocated households. Shen Songkang shall be given extra care because he belongs to a poor family. Refer to section 6.8 for details. Other residents do not often live here. Surveys of them are failed because they are always not at home. At last, the survey was conducted by telephone. According to present relocation and compensation policy of Huai’nan City, monetary compensation shall be issued for uncertified self-built housing based on the cost price and resettlement shall not be performed. However, through negotiation with project executive office and relevant departments as well as affected population, Datong District Government agrees that economically affordable housing can be provided in community (host community) of No. 3 Dongshan East Road for relocated households based on preferential price.. 58 Except for the five uncertified self-built houses, Zhang Liangyou’s family is living in public house of Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory. Zhang Liangyou was a cadre of original ferroalloy factory, the Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory of collective ownership enterprise was set up to solve the employment problem of staff families in ferroalloy factory. Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory closed later. Zhang Liangyou, as the original factory director, left here for handling the aftermaths. But he does not often live here now. Resettlement house in community (host community) of No. 3 Dongshan East Road can be provided free of charge based on 30 m2 per person upon negotiation and relocation allowance and transitional fee will be given based on the existing living area. Community in No.3 Dongshan East Road is only 1.5 km from unnamed settlement. Roads, schools and other infrastructure facilities are fully equipped. Resettlement house with 18 months of work-period is under construction now. Refer to Appendix 4 for residential design drawing. Preferential price of affordable house in Huai’nan City is 3000 Yuan/m2. Relocated households can purchase resettlement house of equivalent areas to demolition at preferential price. Areas beyond the demolition shall be purchased at price of commercial residential building. At present, commercial residential building in surrounding areas is 4000 Yuan /m2. Unnamed settlement is only 250m from old garbage dump to the south. It is stinking and flies are rampant in summer, there is no water supply and there’re many stock dumps. The load-carrying vehicles with coal gangues or coals drive on road on the north unsurfaced road. Dusts cover all the sky on fine days and the road is slippery and muddy on rainy days. Most residents have moved from here due to bad living conditions (survey is performed by phone), families of Cheng Demei and Shen Songkang live here because they need operate breed aquatics and take care of their sick family members. They have house in other place (Shen Songkang have two sets of house in other place). The demolition has no effect on their actual living area. 6.2.2 Demolition of enterprise house and resettlement of employees There are five enterprises involved: Tianhe Boiler Accessory Factory, Datong Third Mine Field (closed in 2012), Datong First Mine Field (closed in 2000), Huangjian Coating Factory (stop production in unknown time) and Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory (stop production in unknown time). The policy regulation since 1998 caused the closure of Datong Third Mine Field and Datong First Mine Field. Huangjian Coating Factory 59 and Huai’nan Oil Mixture Factory were closed due to low economic benefit and failed to switch to other production for several times. These enterprises only left their plants at present, which involves no employee allocation problems. Monetary compensation shall be done just for abandoned plants and buildings as per standards in table 5.3. The survey shows that the person in charge of enterprise don’t want to continue to operate because of poor finances of Tianhe Boiler Accessory Factory in recent years, and the person hopes to get monetary compensation for other investment and resettlement of employees can be considered before demolition. Therefore, except compensation of plant, the compensation fee and equipment fee for economic loss caused by stop production shall be offered (Table 5-4). Table 5-4 Enterprise, personnel and equipment on business Personnel Name of enterprise Equipment price Regular Contract Temporary (million Yuan) worker worker worker Huai’nan City Tianhe Boiler 180 27 11 Accessory Factory For resettlement of personnel (38) after stop production, monetary compensation shall be provided according to Labor Contract Law issued in 2013 (extracted from economic compensation fee for stop production). It is understood that the wage of the workers is not high generally due to poor performance in recent years. Taking the livelihood of workers into account, the project executive office promises workers that they will provide relevant vocational and skills training for whom with desire to work (see Appendix 2 for specific training program) after consultation. Through skills training, their employment channels can be increased, and employment information can be provided to help them find new jobs in the labor market at the same time. A large number of job opportunities will be generated in the project implementation process and after the completion, if workers are willing to participate in the project, it will give priority to them for selection to make sure that their wages and benefits are not lower than the current level. Employees who have desire for the training will be given priority 6.3 Resettlement of affected population in Chenxiang Village Expropriated collectively owned land of Chenxiang village in the project covers 177.7 Mu, involving 33 households and 122 persons. The field investigation found that 60 land resource of Chenxiang Village is scarce. As it is located within the city, along with the development of urban construction, considerable area of land has been expropriated in recent years. Currently there is only 2750 mu of cultivated land as per statistics in 2012 and area per person is only 0.8 Mu (see Table 3.3). The 177.6 Mu of land will be expropriated, accounting for 6.34% of the total cultivated area, which will further aggravate tensions between people and land. However, the cultivated lands to be expropriated are within the project area. The quality of cultivated land is not good because it is impacted by land subsidence for a long-term. The management is poor. There are many dry lands and many of them have not been cultivated because it is far away from residential areas. Therefore, land requisition of the project has no big effect on local agriculture with high production facilities. Village committee already has rules on resettlement of land-expropriated peasants because the land in Chenxiang Village has been expropriated continuously in recent years. 1) Land compensation and resettlement allowance for collective contract land shall be issued to contract households and the village shall not retain any money. 2) The compensation of non-contract land will be used to handle the pension insurance for people with land-expropriated in whole or in part. Most displaced persons think that environment and transportation condition are improved significantly, and the job opportunities are increased after implementation of the project during investigation and consultation. World Bank and Project Executive Office make commitments that: 1) Skill training will be done for land-expropriated peasants with desire to work (see Appendix 2 for training schedule) 2) Job opportunities generated during implementation and after completion shall be given priority to land-expropriated peasants. In particular, a lot of job opportunities will be produced due to formation of the bonsai garden, nursery garden and the flower market after implementation of the project. The land-expropriated households shall participate in so as to increase their income. 6.4 Resettlement of pension insurance for land-expropriated peasants According to the Notice of Issuing Provisional Regulations on Endowment Insurance of Land-requisitioned Farmers in Huai’nan City, social security plan for displaced person is developed based on the actual situation of resettlement. 61 1. Security object All farmers affected directly by expropriation shall be incorporated into social security system of land-expropriated farmers. 2. Social security funds source Pension insurance fund of land-expropriated farmers is composed of unified planning fund and individual account fund. (1) Unified planning fund source 20 Yuan shall be charged per square meter within the urban planning area, and 10 Yuan shall be charged per square meter beyond the urban planning area, which is only used as pension of land-expropriated farmers. (2) Individual account fund source Land-expropriated farmers can pay supplementary pension insurance based on the voluntary principle. The payment standard is 3000 Yuan, 6000 Yuan or 9000 Yuan. The land-expropriated farmers can choose one of them to pay based on one-off payment or annual payment. 3. Pension distribution standard (1) If the land-expropriated farmers do not pay the supplementary pension insurance, 100 Yuan of basic pension can be distributed per month for every person. (2) If the land-expropriated farmers pay the supplementary pension insurance with 3000 Yuan standard, 130 Yuan of pension insurance fund can be distributed per month every person, including 100 Yuan of basic pension and 30 Yuan of supplementary pension. (3) If the land-expropriated farmers pay the supplementary pension insurance with 6000 Yuan standard, 160 Yuan of pension insurance fund can be distributed per month every person, including 100 Yuan of basic pension and 60 Yuan of supplementary pension. (4) If the land-expropriated farmers pay the supplementary pension insurance with 9000 Yuan standard, 200 Yuan of pension insurance fund can be distributed per month every person, including 100 Yuan of basic pension and 100 Yuan of supplementary pension. 6.5 Employment promotion and training A lot of job opportunities will be generated by the project itself, and a large number 62 of non-agricultural employment opportunities will also be generated due to economic development in Datong District. Project Executive Office and Datong District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau agree that priority of jobs shall be given to people affected by the land acquisition and demolition, but they need to conduct the necessary free vocational training. Therefore, Project Executive Office and displaced person preparation unit jointly develop Implementation Scheme of Employment Training for Residents in Coal Mining Subsidence in Huai’nan City of the World Bank Load Project (see Appendix 2). Datong District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau investigates the basic condition of employment demand from 18th to 20th in 2014, which is divided into two parts: the first part is to ask the project feasibility study unit to calculate the jobs generated by implementation of project and late management and operation, the second part is to know development condition of industrial park through visiting Management Committee of Datong Industrial Park and Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Huai’nan Economic and Technical Development Zone and ask them to fill in the enterprises labor survey form of the industrial park. 1. Project demand A large number of jobs will be generated by management and operation during implementation and use. These jobs shall be given priority to the land-expropriated households and affected staffs and land-circulated peasants so as to increase their income. Flower market: 8 garden maintenance personnel, 4 garden design (trim) personnel, 15 professional management personnel, 6 security personnel, and 4 sanitation workers. The total number of personnel needed in flower market is 37. Nursery garden: the number of management personnel, technical personnel in training center, financial personnel and sales and procurement personnel is determined by operation unit of nursery garden based on specific condition. 27 general staffs engaged in daily production and maintenance are needed which is arranged as per one person/two hectares. Their main work is the daily management and production of nursery stock base, including weeding, watering, spray insecticide, trim, plant of seedlings and digging, binding and loading of grown seedlings and so on. The bonsai garden: the staff allocation is determined by the production scale of business households. 1 person is needed for small business households, 2 persons for 63 medium-scale business household, and 3 persons for large-scale business household. The number of people needed is about 54. Their duties include daily production, processing and maintenance in bonsai garden such as binding, design and trim of bonsai garden and so on. 100 jobs can be provided by the environmental ecosystem restoration sub-project. In addition, more than 4000 stalls can be provided by flower market to serve a good platform for land-expropriated farmers, relocated households and other worker to start a business. Use right of a large area of the collective land in Chenxiang Village needs to be transferred for nursery garden and ecological restoration, which can increase stable income of farmers, and decrease labor time and money used in agricultural production at the same time, so as to give them opportunity of operating other industry and increase their income. 2. Demand of industrial development There are four (Two Zones and Two Parks for short) enterprise concentrated distribution areas such as Datong Industrial New Zone, Shangyao Industrial Concentrated Zone, Pharmaceutical Packaging Industrial Park and Clothing Industrial Park in the Datong District, covering mechanical processing, electronic terminology, garment processing and other industries. It includes more than 20 mechanical processing enterprises like Dongdian Chemical Machinery Factory, Tangxing Hydraulic Machinery Co., Ltd., and Shanxi Automobile Group Co., Ltd., more than 30 new electronic enterprises like Huai’nan Jieti Electronic Technology Co., Ltd. and more than 6 garment processing enterprises. Total industrial output value of Two Zones and Two Parks reached RMB 1.84 billion in 2013. Huai’nan Economic and Technical Development Zone was established in 1988, and it was approved as a Provincial Development Zone by People’s Government of Anhui province in 1993. Huai’nan Economic and Technical Development Zone was upgraded to a National Economic and Technical Development Zone by the State Council in March, 2013 to implement current policy of national economic and technical development zone. The Huai’nan Economic and Technical Development Zone was classified as a jurisdiction of Datong district due to administrative division in 2013. More than 190 enterprises exist in Huai’nan Economic and Technical Development 64 Zone, including many industries such as biological medicine, textile printing and dyeing, software development, machinery processing, food processing and electronic appliances. According to the employment survey for a part of enterprises desiring to expand the production scale in 2015-2018 in above-mentioned Huai’nan Economic and Technical Development Zone and Datong Industrial New Zone, there are 1421 job vacancies at present in the surveyed enterprises, and it can be increased by 4900 after expansion, which mainly need CNC workers, electricians, vehicle maintainers, clothing production workers and marketing salesmen. Now Datong District and Huai’nan City are inviting investment actively. Daton g New Zone and Huai’nan Economic and Technical Development Zone are going to commence the second phase work and plan the third phase work to attract more and larger enterprises, which will expand the labor demand in the future. Two surveys above-mentioned show that the project and the surveyed enterprises can provide 5000 jobs, and more than 4000 employment platforms. Seen from the posts provided, demand for skilled worker is pushed into first place, mainly concentrated in the CNC worker, electrician, vehicle maintainer, and clothing production workers and other fields. The management is the second place, mainly concentrated in the enterprise management and garden professional management. The last is service, mainly concentrated in the market sales, cleaning, security and green worker. These kinds of works are totally suitable for the farmers and residents. At the same time, their employment needs can be fully incorporated by the social needs. Some enterprises have difficulty in recruitment. In the process of the survey, enterprises reflect difficulty in recruiting, for example, Tangxing Hydraulic Machinery Co., Ltd. has increased more than 30 various types of CNC equipment in recent years, but equipment operator shortage problem exists for a long time, which seriously affects the promotion of enterprise productivity. Total annual output value of clothing production, as labor-intensive industry, can reach 1.248 billion Yuan at present, but the lack of front-line production employees has already become a bottleneck restricting the enterprises development. Enterprises have difficulty in recruitment for many reasons, but the vocational training shall be strengthened specifically according to the market demand to solve the problem of mismatches between enterprise requirements and 65 worker quality as well as information asymmetry between enterprise recruitment and job search of employee. 3. Training Scheme Select some types of job like CNC worker, electrician, green worker, marketer, and security to develop a five-year training plan involving 965 persons on the basis of above-mentioned surveys, which covers almost all the affected population (see Appendix 2 for details). Project Executive Office has already signed contract with Human Resources and Social Security Bureau in Datong District. It shall be directed and supervised by the Project Executive Office and implemented by Human Resources and Social Security Bureau in Datong District. 6.6 Resettlement of population affected by land use right transfer Collective land-use right needs to be transferred in Chenxiang village is 1533 Mu and all is cultivated land, which affect 1042 persons and 306 households. According to Table 3.3, cultivated land was 2750 Mu in 2012; the population was 3250 with 770 households. The cultivated land-use right transferred accounts for 39.74% of the total areas, 32.98% of total population and 39.74% of total households. Therefore, land-use right transfer of Chenxiang Village has a big effect on agricultural production. In order to properly resettle these farmers, the following measures are developed through the negotiation between the Project Executive Office and Village Committee of Chenxiang Village as well as some land contracting households. 1) The rent is RMB 1200Yuan/year, compensation for green crops shall be provided in the first year. The subsequent rent shall be adjusted according to the fluctuations in the State protective grain procurement prices. If the market price is lower than the protective price, the rent shall be unchanged. If the market price is higher than the protective price, the rent shall be increased in proportion. Lease term lasts till the end of second land contract period. 2) All Rents shall be issued to land-use right transfer affected households. 3) For affected households who wish to get employed, a free skill training shall be provided to them as the same case for land-expropriated peasants. (See Appendix 2 for training scheme). 4) Land-use right transferred households shall be given priority of employment opportunities generated in implementation of the project and operation stage. Especially 66 for a large number employment opportunities generated in bonsai garden, nursery garden and flower market, which is very suitable for peasants and women. According to the survey, flowers and trees market in the project will fill in the blank of centralized operation of floral products in Huai’nan, which meets the demand for such kind of markets of operators and consumers in Huai’nan. The first large-scale flower and trees market with unified planning and management will be established. The market prospects will be bright in the future. 6.7 Resettlement and restoration of affected women World Bank, Project Executive Office and local people’s government will take a series of measures to provide various conveniences for affected women considering long-term and overall of regional development. The pension insurance shall be provided for land-expropriated farmers including women to guarantee women’s economic status as soon as possible. Open and transparent mechanism issued the compensation information on land expropriation and demolition shall be established to ensure women's equal compensation right and their right to know related information. Compensation agreement of land expropriation and demolition is signed and fund is issued for each family provided that female family members know that. Cloth making shall be set up for women in training scheme specifically. Menu-like structure labor training system can be created to form one package service including enterprise employment demands, training discipline and women’s interest in order to decrease employment blindness. Playing the role of organizations like Women's Federation and Family Planning Association, and combine development and opportunity of women with activity of these organizations in order to attract and lead women to enjoy these development opportunities. Encourage women to start their business in flower market and provide petty loan for women preferentially. 6.8 Resettlement of vulnerable population Shen Songkang’s family becomes very poor because of their son (42 years old), who has metal illness. The couple has retired from ferroalloy factory. Mental hospital rejects their son because he has violence tendency and infectious diseases, which is the 67 reason why they build house by themselves here in 2003, so as to take care of their son and be isolated from other people. They support the project construction and are willing to relocate, but they want to get assistance from the project. Land expropriation and relocation office helped to apply for a minimum living allowance for Shen Hongguang and sent their son to special ward of mental hospital for hospitalization after connection with Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and hospital. 6.9 Table 6.1 Timetable for Resettlement and restoration Civil project is intended to start in January, 2016 and complete in 2020. In order to link up with the resettlement schedule and project construction schedule, the resettlement shall be completed within three months before civil project commencement. The detailed time schedule shall be determined as per resettlement situation. Refer to table 6.1 for all resettlement. 68 Table 6.1 Timetable for Resettlement 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017-2020 Contents 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 World Bank Office Establishment of resettlement organization at town level Survey on land acquisition and demolition Preliminary Discussion of resettlement plan Resettlement Action Plan draft Supplementary survey Revision of RAP Re-discussion of the resettlement plan 69 Improvement of resettlement plan Approval of resettlement plan Implementation of resettlement plan Internal supervision External supervision 70 7 Resettlement Funds Budget and Management 7.1 Components of Resettlement Funds The cost of this resettlement project mainly includes compensation fees for land requisition, demolition compensation fees, other fees related to resettlement, administration expenses of resettlement and unforeseen expenses. 7.1.1 Compensation Fees for Land Requisition Compensation fees for land requisition include compensation fees for land expropriation and all types of taxes and fees payable which cover compensation fee for land requisition, farmland occupancy tax, management fee of land requisition, other types of taxes and fees to be payable, etc. New construction land use fees paid by land standards: 24 Yuan/m2 or 15999.84 Yuan/mu. (Refer to Notice of Adjustment of the New Construction Land Use Fees Collection Grade CZ [2009] No. 24) Farmland occupancy tax standard: 37.5 Yuan per square meter or 24999.75 Yuan per acre. (Refer to Implementation Measures of Farmland Occupancy Tax in Anhui Province CNC [2008] No. 367) Farmland reclamation fee standard: 8 Yuan per square meter or 5333.28 Yuan per acre. (Refer to Farmland Reclamation Fee Collection and Use Practices in Anhui Province CZ [2001] No. 1061) Special assurance fees paid to the landless peasants. 7.1.2 Demolition Compensation Fees The demolition compensation fees include: 1) Compensation fees for house demolition; 2) Subsidies for removal; 3) Losses of suspension of production and business; 4) Cost of equipment. 7.1.3 Other Fees Related to Resettlement Other fees related to resettlement mainly include the costs incurred during the 71 preparation and implementation of resettlement, such as the resettlement monitoring and assessment fees of the external monitoring organization during land requisition and demolition, work and service expense of measurement and assessment on the demolished object and the expropriated land during land requisition and demolition, land transference expenses, etc. These fees shall be defined according to the charge standard of this industry or by referring to the charge standard of similar project. (See Table 7-1) 7.1.4 Administration Fees of Resettlement The administration fees of resettlement mainly includes all kinds of expenses used for institution enhancement, organization coordination, internal and external monitoring, business and foreign affairs reception, job training, progress reward to the project implementation organization for land requisition and demolition, information collection and release, pre-preparation, personnel salary and welfare social assurance, purchasing and using of transportation tools, vehicle maintenance, business communication and daily management, etc. related to land requisition and demolition work. 7.1.5 Unforeseen Expenses The unforeseen expenses include unexpected fees for material and price (not including the expenses incurred by temporary engineering design change), and the above two are calculated based on 10% of basic expenses. Table 7-1 Standard of Charging Taxes and Fees for Project Resettlement Receiving No. Item Charging standard Basis object Collection by Land and Farmland 37.5 Yuan/m2 or 24999.75 HCNC [2008] 1 Resources occupancy tax Yuan/mu No. 367 Bureau on behalf Land and New construction 24 Yuan/m2 or 15999.84 HCZ [2009] Resources land use fees Yuan/mu No. 24 Bureau 2 Farmland 8 Yuan/m2 or 5333.28 Yuan/mu HCZ [2001] Land and 72 Receiving No. Item Charging standard Basis object reclamation fees No. 1061 Resources Bureau Land and Management fee Calculated by 10% of land 3 Resources of land requisition requisition charges Bureau Service fees of Calculated by 3% of basic land 4 land requisition requisition and demolition and demolition charges Calculated by 2% of basic land Migration Administration 5 requisition and demolition execution fees charges agency Entrusted house Migration Calculated by 1% of 6 demolition execution demolition charges charges agency Calculated by 1% of basic land Technical training 7 requisition and demolition fees charges Immigrant planning and Calculated by 1.5% of basic internal 8 land requisition and demolition monitoring and charges assessment charges Land transfer cost Contractors 9 in the first five 1200 Yuan/mu of affected years land Social Special assurance 【2006】No. 29 Within urban planning region Security 10 expenses to the Document released 20 Yuan/m2 Administrati landless peasants by NSC on Calculated by 10% of the 11 Unforeseen fees above charges 7.2 Resettlement Funds Budget According to the compensation standards and statistical quantities of all kinds of affected items, the total the World Bank loan for the resettlement expenses of Huai’nan project is 68524137 Yuan. The specific funds budget is shown in Table 7-2. Table 7-2 Budget for Resettlement Compensation of Huai’nan Project Loaned by the World Bank (Refer to Appendix 6 for each sub-item) 73 No. Item Expenses(Yuan) Rate (%) Expropriation of collective 1 9595800 14.00 land Occupancy of state-owned 2 11024300 16.09 land 3 Temporary land occupancy 24580 0.04 Subsidies for demolition and 4 removal of house without a 1742860 2.54 license Enterprise demolition and 5 15682230 22.89 relevant expenses 6 Farmland occupancy tax 4442456 6.48 New construction land use 7 2843172 4.15 fees 8 Farmland reclamation fees 947724 1.38 Management fees of land 9 825787 1.21 requisition Service fees of land 10 1142093 1.67 requisition and demolition 11 Administration fees 1016204 1.48 Entrusted house demolition 12 169864 0.25 charges 13 Technical training fees 508102 0.74 Immigrant planning and 14 internal monitoring and 762153 1.11 assessment charges Land transfer cost in the first 15 9198000 13.42 five years Special assurance expenses to 16 2369345 3.46 the landless peasants 17 Unforeseen fees 6229467 9.09 18 Total 68524137 100.00 Notes: The 500,000 Yuan of external independent monitoring fees for the five-year migration is paid through loan from the World Bank. 7.3.1 Resettlement Funds Flow According to the property ownership of the affected items, the allocation funds of this project shall be allocated to different objects, and the details are shown in Table 7-2. To really ensure that the compensation funds can be allocated to the affected individuals and units completely and timely, the internal and external agency as well 74 as the national audit institution shall play a full role on one hand, and intermediate links shall be reduced as far as possible to issue the allocation funds to individuals and units directly in a simple and practical way. Table 7-2 Resettlement Funds Flow Entity Types of expenses Village Compensation fees of collective land not contracted collective Family Contracted land compensation fees, land transfer fees, compensation fees of house household and demolition, compensation fees of green crops (only for households whose green enterprises to be crops are expropriated), removal fees, transition fees, equipment fees, business demolished suspension loss fees, etc. Other All kinds of taxes and fees for land expropriation, etc. departments 7.3.2 Sources and Flow Direction of Resettlement Funds The implementation unit is responsible for raising resettlement funds of the World Bank loan Huai’nan project and all the funds are local supporting funds. During the project implementation, according to the compensation policies and standards defined in the immigrants resettlement planning, based on resettlement compensation agreement signed between the People’s Government of Datong District (Land Acquisition and Demolition Office) and the land requisitioned and demolished units/family households, the land requisition and demolition compensation fees shall be directly paid to the affected units or family households. The flow chart of migration funds payment is shown in Figure 7-1. 75 Figure 7-1 Payment Flow Chart of Migration Funds 7.4 Appropriation, Management and Monitoring of Resettlement Funds 7.4.1 Funds Appropriation of Resettlement The appropriation of this project’s resettlement funds shall be complemented in accordance with the following principles: All the expenses related to land requisition and demolition shall be calculated into the total engineering cost estimation, and the compensation fees for land requisition and demolition of each sub-items shall be audited and appropriated by the implementation unit; All kinds of compensation fees to be paid to units and family shall be issued through the special account of the district government resettlement office; The compensations fess for land requisition shall be paid within three months after the land requisition is approved. 7.4.2 Management and monitoring of resettlement funds The payment of resettlement funds must be executed strictly in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations of land requisition and demolition as well as the 76 policies in resettlement Action Planning, and must be based on the assessment report strictly not to be lower or less than the compensation standards and ranges defined in the resettlement action planning Land Acquisition and Demolition Office in Datong district (or its entrusting unit) shall report and submit the monthly construction progress plan to the project implementation unit every month, and audit the payment statement with the approval signature of the head of Land Acquisition and Demolition Office in Datong district, then report and submit the payment statement to the financing department for funds appropriation. Afterward the project implementation unit shall pay the affected units and individuals through the Land Acquisition and Demolition Office in Datong district according to the progress approved with the signature of the Land Acquisition and Demolition Office in Datong district; The land and house compensation fees, appendages compensation fees, moving expenses, transition fees, etc. shall be audited and approved by the Land Acquisition and Demolition Office in Datong district. The Word Bank Project Office shall employ specialized agency to conduct internal examination on the use of resettlement funds. The financial and audit departments in Huai’nan City shall monitor and audit the use of special funds. The external monitoring agency of resettlement shall track and monitor the implementation of compensation funds to the affected families and units during external monitoring. 77 8 Organizations of Resettlement 8.1 Organizational Structure To better perform the resettlement work of Huai’nan’s World Bank loan project, Huai’nan governments at all levels put great efforts to perform preparation works including the organization establishment and capability enhancement to ensure the successful implementation of project preparation and resettlement work. Since February, 2013, the World Bank loan project lead group of Huai’nan People’s Government and Huai’nan resource-based city sustainable development project in comprehensive treatment and utilization of mining subsidence area (referred to as the “Lead Group”), the World Bank loan project executive office of Huai’nan People’s Government and Huai’nan resource-based city sustainable development project in comprehensive treatment and utilization of mining subsidence area (referred to as the “Word Bank Project Office”) and agencies related to the resettlement work at all levels were established one after another, and the responsibilities of all organizations have been clarified. The main organizations related to resettlement activities in this project include: (1) The World Bank loan project lead group of Huai’nan People’s Government and Huai’nan resource-based city sustainable development project in comprehensive treatment and utilization of mining subsidence area (referred to as the “Lead Group”); (2) The World Bank loan project implementation office of Huai’nan People’s Government and Huai’nan resource-based city sustainable development project in comprehensive treatment and utilization of mining subsidence area (referred to as the “Word Bank Project Office”, set in Huai’nan Financial Bureau) (3) Land Acquisition and Demolition Office in Datong District (4) Resettlement work group of affected units and village migration (6) Resettlement consultancy—China Three Gorges University Research Center for Involuntary Migration 78 The organization network of resettlement is shown in figure 8-1. Figure 8-1 Organizations of resettlement for Huai’nan Urban Communication Project 8.2 Responsibility of the Organizations 8.2.1 Leading Group Lead the project preparation and implementation work on overall direction; Make a strategic decision on the major policy of resettlement; Coordinate the relationship between resettlement agency and relevant governmental departments. 8.2.2 Huai’nan Word Bank Project Office Responsible for application of land use planning and land use construction permit to relevant departments; Coordinate relevant departments with the formulation of all kinds of policies about resettlement action planning; Coordinate the implementation progress of project construction and resettlement action planning; Coordinate the works of relevant resettlement organizations; Provide trainings to migration heads at all levels; Report the implementation progress of resettlement work; Communicate and coordinate with other departments during the implementation 79 of resettlement work; Audit and check the resettlement funding planning of each sub-project; Guide and monitor the implementation of each sub-project; Responsible for management of resettlement data and file; Responsible for the internal monitoring work of resettlement; Responsible for reception work of the World Bank resettlement experts during preparation and implementation stages; Deal with complaints and appeals from immigrants during resettlement; Responsible for the communication work with external monitoring agency during the implementation of resettlement. 8.2.3 Land Acquisition and Demolition Office in Datong District Responsible for organizing detailed investigation on resettlement; Specifically responsible for the resettlement implementation work of the project; Responsible for formulation and report of project resettlement funding plan; Responsible for tracking and urging the appropriation of project resettlement funds; Responsible for dealing with complaints and appeals from migrants during resettlement; Responsible for cooperation with external monitoring agency of resettlement; Responsible for the collection and arrangement of all kinds of data and materials necessary for project internal monitoring report; Responsible for submitting the resettlement documents and files to the World Bank Project Office; Responsible for reception of the World Bank immigration experts with the World Bank Project Office about examination. 8.2.4 Village Committee Be responsible for handling complaints and appeals from displaced population; Be responsible for tracking and supervising allocation and payment of resettlement funds and land transfer; 80 Be responsible for assisting in implementation of resettlement details survey; Be responsible for organizing resettlement implementation; Participate in and organize training of displaced population; Be responsible for coordinating with External monitoring agencys; Participate in consultation of resettlement funds use of households and assist housewife in management of household resettlement funds. 8.3 Resettlement Agencies at Different Levels The environment and resettlement group of the World Bank Project Office is in charge of the resettlement work of this project. There is a staff of 3 people who have strong ability to organize and coordinate and are equipped with proficient computer skills and other capabilities. The resettlement organizations in Urban North District and Huangzhong County are made up of high-quality and experienced staff who absolutely are competent for resettlement work, and Table 8-1 shows the member list of it. Table 8-2 shows the member list of resettlement organizations at different levels and Table 8-3 shows the equipment of resettlement organizations. Table 8-1 Member List of Resettlement Offices at Different Levels Resettlement agency Person in charge Staff name World Bank Project Office in Yao Guofei Sang Li Huai’nan City Land Acquisition and Demolition Wang Tao Su Wei Office in Datong District Table 8-2 Member list of Resettlement Agencies at Different Levels Resettlement number of Qualifications of the staff working period agency staff Staff who know foreign language, World Bank computer and engineering technology Apr. 2013 to the end of the Project Office in 2 and is familiar with environment and resettlement work Huai’nan City resettlement policies Land Acquisition Staff who have been long engaged in and Demolition Apr. 2014 to the end of the 2 similar work, and at least high school Office in Datong resettlement work graduated District Table 8-3 Equipment Provided in Resettlement Agencies at Different Levels 81 Computer Vehicle for Agency Camera (set) Office (m2) (set) work (set) World Bank Project Office 2 1 1 100 Land Acquisition and Demolition Office in 2 1 1 100 Datong District 8.4 Measures to Strengthen Capability of Agencies For the purpose of improving staff quality in resettlement agencies at different levels, strengthening the capability of resettlement agencies, making the staff more familiar with resettlement related laws and regulations and better understand the requirements for involuntary resettlement from the World Bank, and guaranteeing smooth progress of the resettlement work, the World Bank Project Office has organized staff to study similar projects at home, which made them be familiar with resettlement procedure of world bank loan project and equipped them with a better understanding of the involuntary resettlement policies. The World Bank has provided a series of training for the staffs to learn the resettlement laws and policies in our country and the operational policies OP4.12/BP4.12 of World Bank and to study operational skills of settlement work. Table 8-4 shows the training schedule that has already been done. Table 8-4 Professional Training Schedule for Resettlement Staff Agency in Training content Targeted participants Training time No. charge A B C D Training for resettlement work World Bank Staff of World Bank 1 procedure, arrangement and Feb. 2013 Project Office Project Office survey World Bank Computer operation and data Staff of World Bank 2 Mar. 2013 Project Office process Project Office Study related policies about World Bank resettlement in China and the Staff of World Bank 3 Apr. 2013 Project Office operational policies of World Project Office Bank Latest policies about land World Bank Staff of World Bank 4 acquisition and demolition in May. 2013 Project Office Project Office China 5 World Bank Fund appropriation procedure, Staff of World Bank Jun. 2013 82 Project Office management and monitoring Project Office World Bank Resettlement information Staff of World Bank 6 July. 2013 Project Office process approach Project Office Learn from the experience of World Bank Staff of World Bank 7 World Bank project Aug. 2013 Project Office Project Office resettlement in other provinces World Bank experts interpret World Bank Staff of World Bank 8 world bank resettlement Sept. 2013 Project Office Project Office policies World Bank advisory World Bank consultant introduces World Staff of World Bank 9 Nov. 2013 Project Office Bank information disclosure Project Office and public consultation World Bank advisory World Bank Staff of World Bank 10 consultant share experiences of Mar. 2013 Project Office Project Office other places Staff of World Bank Project Office and Land World Bank Discussing resettlement 11 Acquisition and Mar. 2014 Project Office policies and plan Demolition Office in Datong District World Bank Staff of World Bank 12 Project pre-appraisal Apr. 2014 Project Office Project Office 8.5 Future Plan to Further Strengthen Capability of Agencies To better implement Resettlement Action Plan, guarantee to benefit the affected persons and meet the overall schedule of the project, the World Bank will take the following measures to strengthen capability of organization agencies and to improve efficiency. 1. Leadership responsibility system: form strong resettlement leading group, as the main leaders of the World Bank Project Office take the lead. 2. Equip with high-quality staff: staffs of resettlement agencies at different levels should have good understanding of policy and professional ability, especially the mass work experience. 3. Clarify job responsibilities: clarify the responsibilities of resettlement offices at different levels according to the requirements of the World Bank and related state laws and policies . 83 4. Resettlement staff training: based on the requirements of settlement work, undertaking irregularly scheduled training for resettlement staffs on resettlement policy, information management and other aspects. Communicate with the experienced agencies and learn from them through the way of “inviting and getting out”. 5. Play the supervision role of the masses and public opinions: disclosing all the resettlement documents to the masses and the public, issuing resettlement manual, providing consulting and complaining hot line and accepting the supervision from the masses and public opinions at any time. 6. Irregularly convene the resettlement briefings hosted by the World Bank Project Office and issuing it to resettlement agencies at different levels in the form of bulletins. 7. The World Bank Project Office shall provide necessary vehicles and office facilities to meet the need of work. Table 8-5 shows the future plan to strengthen the agencies and the training schedule. Table 8-5 The Next Operational Training Schedule of Resettlement Agencies Planed training Agency in charge Training content Targeted participants No. time A B C D Study related policies about Staffs of World Bank World Bank resettlement in China and Project Office and 1 2014-2016 Project Office the operational policies of resettlement district and World Bank county Staffs of World Bank Lessons and experience of World Bank Project Office and 2 resettlement work in other Aug. 2014 Project Office resettlement district and places county Staffs of World Bank World Bank Computer operation and Project Office and 3 Sept. 2014 Project Office data process resettlement district and county Resettlement procedure and Staffs of resettlement World Bank 4 policies of World Bank loan district and county and Oct. 2014 Project Office project resettlement group in 84 village Staffs of resettlement World Bank Resettlement policies and district and county and 5 Nov. 2014 Project Office practicality resettlement group in village World Bank International experience Staffs of World Bank 6 2015-2020 Project Office study of resettlement work Project Office 9 Public Participation and Consultation In order to build a solid foundation for the resettlement work of the World Bank-funded project for Huai’nan coal mining subsidence area, protect the legal rights and interests of displaced persons and groups, and reduce potential discontents and disputes, the World Bank Project Office attaches great importance to public participation and consultation. The Resettlement Action Plan has been prepared after ample consultation with the affected population, and proper information disclosure. During the decision-making process for the project’s planning, design and implementation, the World Bank Project Office, Datong District’s relevant authorities and committees of Jiulonggang Town, Datong Sub-district and Chen Xiang Village together with the consultative agencies publicized the basic situation of this project by various means, inquired different affected groups, and consulted them on questions of common concern through survey of physical quantities, socio-economic survey and public consultation for resettlement. The results of public participation and consultation have provided foundation for improvement of the resettlement plan. 9.1 Basis for Public Consultation 9.1.1 Laws and Regulations on Public Consultation in Resettlement The following table shows the domestic laws and regulations related to public consultation during land acquisition and resettlement: Table 9-1 Domestic Laws and Regulations Related to Public Consultation During Land Acquisition and Resettlement Type Policy file name Related articles Main contents of the policy 85 Constitution of The people administer state affairs and manage economic, the People’s Article 2 in cultural and social affairs through various channels and in Republic of China Chapter 1 various ways in accordance with the law. (2004) Within the duration of land contracting and management, in the event of appropriate adjustment of land contracted Land Article 14 &16 among individual contractors, it must have the consent of Administration in Chapter 2, over two thirds of the members of the villagers’ conference Law of the Article 48 in or over two thirds of the villagers’ representatives for People’s Republic Chapter 5 approval. of China (1998) Disputes over land ownership and the right to use shall be resolved by the parties interested through consultation. Regulation on the Laws Implementation of The overall plan for land utilization and land acquisition Article 10 in the Land plan in township/town shall be noticed in its administrative Chapter 3, Administration area after approval. The resettlement compensation fee for Article 25 & Law of the land acquisition is for a fixed purpose and shall not be used 26 in Chapter 5 Peoples Republic for any other purposes. Confirm the land acquisition result. of China (2003) A villagers’ assembly shall be held in the village, and Article 22 &16 Organic Law of decisions made by the villagers’ assembly shall require & 28, Article the Villagers’ approval of over half of the villagers present at the assembly. 29 & 30 in Committees of the Villagers’ committees shall adopt the system of open Chapter 5, People’s Republic administration of village affairs. The administrative Article 15 in of China (2010) authorities shall proactively disclose government Chapter 3 information. Regulation of the Article 9: Administrative organs shall take the initiative to Regul People’s Republic Article 9 & 11 disclosure government information that comply with one of ations of China on the the following basic requirements: 86 Disclosure of 1. Information involving vital interests of citizen, legal Government persons or other organizations; Information 2. Information needed to be widely known or participated by (2008) the public; 3. Information about establishment, function, and service procedure of this administrative organ; 4. Other information required to be disclosed proactively in accordance with the laws, regulations and other relevant provisions of the state. Article 11: Key government information to be disclosed by municipal governments with districts, people’s government at the county level and their underlying departments shall also include the following content: 1. Major issues in urban and rural construction and administration; 2. Situation of social and public welfare undertakings; 3. Distribution and expenditure of compensation and subsidies in land expropriation or acquisition and house demolition; 4. Management, usage and allocation of funds and material used in rescue and relief work, special care, relief work, social donations and etc.. Article 3: Effectively handle letters and visits by Regulations on conscientiously dealing with letters, receiving visitors, Letters and Visits heeding people’s comments, suggestions and complaints and Article 3 & 4 No.431 of Decree accepting their supervision, so that the people’s interests are & 5 &12 of the State best served. Council of Article 4: In adherence to the principles of territorial People’s Republic jurisdiction, responsibilities assumed at different levels, the 87 of China department in charge being the department responsible and combination of the need to solve problems lawfully, timely and locally with persuasion. Article 5: Prevent contradictions and disputes at source from leading to letters and visits and solve contradictions and disputes timely. Article 12:A letter-writer or visitor shall, in general, be present in the form of letter or phone; Where visits are needed, they shall choose representatives, and the number of representatives shall not exceed five. The Decision of the State Council on Furthering the Improve the land acquisition procedure. The rural collective Reform and Article 14 & economic organization of land expropriated shall disclose Intensifying the 15 in Chapter 3 the income and distribution of compensation fee for land Land acquisition timely and accept supervision. Administration Policy (2004) files Guiding Opinions on Improving Compensation Organize land acquisition hearing; disclose the approved and Resettlement project of land acquisition; the villagers’ assembly shall be Article 11&21 System for Land held by the village committee and a villagers’ assembly shall Acquisition be held. (2004) 9.1.2 World Bank Policy Requirements on Public Participation in Involuntary Resettlement The operational policy OP4.12 Involuntary Resettlement of World Bank clearly 88 demands that emphasis be put on public consultation during preparation and implementation of the resettlement plan, which includes requirements to “undertake a serious consultation with displaced persons and provide them with opportunities to participate in the design and implementation of the resettlement plan”; to ensure the displaced persons to “know the technically and economically feasible plans, participate in the consultation and be allowed to choose between them”; “to provide timely and relevant information to the displaced populations, their communities, and the communities they resettle in, consulting with them on the resettlement plan and providing them opportunities to participate in the design, implementation and monitoring of the plan. 9.2 Approach, Measures and Procedures of Public Consultation 9.2.1 Approaches of Participation Before the physical quantity and socio-economic surveys of the project, work guidelines were prepared using advice from local governments regarding the content, method and requirements of the surveys. Members of local governments were dispatched to the survey teams. During the general population survey, officers of the towns (sub-district offices), villages (residents committees) and groups as well as affected residents were invited to participate in the survey. They were informed of the significance, benefits and effects of the project, principles for compensation, and resettlement schedule, and participated in discussion for possible resettlement plans. During the resettlement planning phase, members of the resettlement planning staff shall discuss with related departments of the affected area, town (sub-district office) and listen to their opinion, requirements and existing problems before choosing the resettlement sites. The local people and workers of related departments shall participate in the discussion of resettlement plan during the field survey and resettlement plan selection, which has a positive meaning for the successful implementation of the resettlement plan. Displaced persons can participant in the consultative activities in the following approaches based on the principle of effectiveness and operability: 89 1) Focus group discussion Focus group discussion covering all the affected population in the resettlement affected village and group. The targeted participants included the common residents affected by land acquisition, with proper proportions of the old, women, the disabled and other special population. 2) Structured questionnaire survey Structured questionnaires were designed based on characteristics of project preparation and design phase, fully understanding the wishes of the affected persons regarding the resettlement plan, and focusing on opinions and suggestions on the reconstruction of resettlement plan. In the public consultation in mid-June of 2013, a questionnaire survey about resettlement wishes was conducted among the land-expropriated households in Chen Xiang village and the relocated households in North Mine community. 3) Symposiums and individual interviews Depending on the contents of public engaged activities, different kinds of symposiums and individual interviews focusing on individuals shall be held respectively to collect information. 9.2.2 Measures of Participation and Consultation Public participation and consultation mainly adopt the way of symposium and sampling survey. Clarifying the purpose, content and significance of the project construction to the affected population through these ways and discussing relevant issues of resettlement planning with the affected population. Opinions of public participation and consultation will be taken into full consideration through the survey, and the building resettlement plan and production placement method shall approach to wish of the displaced population, thus to plan reasonably and satisfy the displaced ones. Symposium and sampling survey will still be adopted during the implementation of resettlement to collect information and understand wish of the displaced population, thus to improve the resettlement plan. Meanwhile, the masses can complain or offer 90 opinions and suggestions to the village committee, resettlement department or monitoring and assessing department at different levels, and the resettlement office shall feedback treatment methods in accordance with the procedure. To guarantee residents in the affected area and the local government totally understand details of the resettlement plan and the compensation and resettlement plan of this project, national resettlement laws and regulations and the involuntary resettlement policies of the World Bank shall be publicized to the displaced population through public participation (symposium and activities of other forms ) and the local news media (such as TV and internet) from the very beginning to the implementation of the whole resettlement, in order to inform the displaced population of the physical quantities, computing methods and compensation approaches of the compensation standards, resettlement measures, the appropriation and expenditure of compensation subsidies, the rights and preferential policies enjoyed by them and other issues. Meanwhile, relevant resettlement information shall be disclosed to villagers in host communities, to inform of the statuses of expropriated lands, land compensation standard, expenditure of the fund and situation of displaced populations in host communities. The transparency of the resettlement work shall be improved to gain support and trust from these two groups of people and to guarantee the successful implementation of the resettlement work. 9.3 Future Plans on Consultation with Affected Populations As mentioned in Chapter 1, public participation and consultation activities in the preparation stage have been carried forward along with the project preparation and implementation, and World Bank Project Office and resettlement offices at different levels will undertake further consultative activities, including: Detailed opinions on compensation policy of land acquisition and demolition from the affected populations. Compensation for the relocated households and arrangement of disbursement of resettlement funds. Statuses of resettlement sites construction. 91 Signing of land use-right transfer contracts. Other issues of common concern by the affected population. The further consultative schedule between resettlement offices at different levels and the affected population is indicated in Table 9-2. Each district or county, together with the masses within the affected area, can hold irregularly scheduled consultative meeting on issues need to be negotiated and report it to the World Bank Project Office in form of report. Monitoring agency will independently consult with the affected population on other monitoring issues and collect their complains and suggestions except for joining in the consultative activities held by to the World Bank Project Office, and then provide monitoring information to land acquisition and demolition department at different levels. Table 9-2 Consultation Schedule with the Affected Population Consultation content Scheduled time Participant organization Further publicization of World Bank Project Office, resettlement compensation policy of land Jun.-Aug, 2014 staffs of Datong district office, and external acquisition and demolition monitoring agency World Bank Project Office, resettlement Placement method and specific Jun.-Aug, 2014 staffs of Datong district office, design implementation plan department and external monitoring agency Whole process of World Bank Project Office, resettlement Rehabilitation of affected project staffs of Datong district office, and external infrastructures implementation monitoring agency Whole process of World Bank Project Office, resettlement Problems appear during project project staffs of Datong district office, and external implementation implementation monitoring agency World Bank Project Office, resettlement Signing of land use-right transfer 2016 staffs of Datong district office, and external contracts monitoring agency Whole process of World Bank Project Office, resettlement Collect complains and project staffs of Datong district office, and external suggestions implementation monitoring agency 9.4 Methods for Affected Population to Participate in Consultation During Implementation 1) Direct participation 92 Focusing on the central issues of common concern among affected population through the symposium with representatives of affected population or village cadres, and collecting their opinions, and then seek for opinions about these issues from villages and towns, sub-district and village committee. 2) Indirect participation Complains, opinions and suggestions can be offered to the village committee, land acquisition and demolition department or monitoring and assessing department at different levels, and the resettlement office shall respond with treatment methods in accordance with the procedure. 9.5 Policy Disclosure and the Resettlement Information Manual In order to make the affected population understand the resettlement policy and implementation details of this project in a timely and thorough manner, and to make the resettlement work truly open, fair and transparent, resettlement agency of the project at different levels shall take the following measures to ensure the openness of resettlement policy: Posting the resettlement policy and compensation standard of this project on the government website or other media before July 1st, 2014; Disclosing affected situation of the community, compensation standard, resettlement measures, complain channels and other information in the affected village committee and other public places; Issuing the resettlement action plan of this project in he affected village committee and other public places before Jan. 31, 2015, so all the affected people can consult at any time; Issuing Resettlement Information Manual to every affected household before the start of land acquisition and demolition. Resettlement Information Manual will give a detailed list on affected situation of every affected household, resettlement policy and compensation standard that are applicable to this project, implementation schedule, discontents and complains solving procedure for the affected population and other contents. Resettlement Information 93 Manual will be issued to the affected population, see its patterns and formats in appendix 3. 10 Grievance Redress Mechanism Resettlement is a complicated mission that involves a wide range of tasks and impacts the fundamental interests of the residents. Therefore it is inevitable for the affected populations to have opinions and complaints during the implementation of resettlement and compensation. In order to ensure the successful and swift resolution of complaints, the World Bank-Funded Project Office will establish a highly transparent and streamlined procedure for collection and resolution of complaints that may respond to any grievances with fairness and efficiency. 10.1 Methods for Complaint Receiving From the reports by village committees and district resettlement offices: including complaints, progress, measures taken, and existing issues. From the construction logs by construction contractors, delivered to the project owners by fax each day, which shall report any event where the construction progress was affected by unsatisfied residents. Any problems of coordination in expropriation and resettlement, discovered by the owners’ inspections of construction sites. Relevant information reported by the External monitoring agency. Letters and visitations from affected residents. Report from the work stations set up as outreach organizations of project owners. Related issues reported from the inspections conducted by departments of auditing, disciplinary inspection, etc. The expenditure status of expropriation and resettlement funds according to account details provided by banks. 94 Special investigations by the internal monitoring institution. 10.2 Complaint and Appeal Procedure Stage 1 The affected residents will voice their complaint to the village committee or the Datong District resettlement office orally or in writing. For oral complaints, the village committee or office must make proper written records. They must provide a clear response within two weeks. If the issue is significant enough to warrant consulting the higher resettlement office, an attempt must be made to obtain a response from the higher authorities within two weeks. Stage 2 If the complainers find the response from Stage 1 unsatisfactory, they may appeal to the World Bank-Funded Project Office within one month after receiving the Stage 1 decision. Project Office will decide on the resolution of the appeal within three weeks. Stage 3 If the complainers are still not satisfied with the response from Stage 2, they may appeal to a civil court within 15 days after receiving the response from World Bank Project Office. Village committee Datong Resettlement Office Huai ’nan World Bank-Funded Project Office Civil Court Fig 10-1 Complaint and appeal flowchart 10.3 Principles of Complaint Resolution For any issues raised in complaints, resettlement workers must conduct field investigations, gather opinions from the populations, be patient in negotiation, and provide fair and reasonable suggestions based on legislation and the standards and principles stipulated in the Resettlement Action Plan. Workers must report issues that 95 they are incapable of solving to higher authorities promptly, and provide assistance in their investigation. The complainers have the right to appeal to the next stage of authorities when the decision making institution in a previous stage failed to respond within the provided term of resolution. Women may have complaints and appeals different from men, therefore the World Bank-Funded Project Office require Datong District Land Expropriation and Resettlement Office to employ at least one female worker for the reception of complaints from women. Local authorities and non-government organizations such as Bureau of Civil Affairs and Women’s Federation will also provide monitoring to the resettlement work to protect the rights of affected residents, women in particular. 10.4 Content and Methods of Complaint Response 10.4.1 Content of response Summary of the complaint. Result of investigation. Pertinent laws and regulations, and the principles and standards stipulated in the Resettlement Action Plan. Suggested solution, and details of its reasoning. A reminder that the complainer has the right to appeal to a higher level of resettlement institution, or pursuit litigation at a civil court (litigation expenses will be assumed by the project institutions). 10.4.2 Methods of Response For complaints regarding individual problems, the response will be delivered directly to the complainer in written form. For prevalent issues with multiple complaints, the community will be informed by a villager meeting or public notification document. Regardless the method of response, documents on the response must be delivered to the responsible institutions. 96 10.5 Recording, Tracking and Feedback of Complaints and Appeals During the execution of the Resettlement Action Plan, documents on complaints and results of their resolution must be kept and managed, and compiled into a written document to be submitted to Project Office once each month. Project Office will conduct periodical inspection for the registration of complaints and their resolution. A registration form for complaints and appeals by affected populations has been prepared by Project Office, as shown in Table 10-1. Table 10-1 Registration Form for Complaints and Appeals in Resettlement Receiving Date: Location: Institution: Appellant Appeal Considered Demanded Solution: Actual Status: Name: Content: Solution: Appellant Recorder (Signature) (Signature) Note: The recorder shall record the content and demand of the appellant factually. The appeal process shall not be disturbed or obstructed in any way. The appellant shall be informed of the considered solution within the designated period. The main content of this chapter will be disclosed to affected populations of the project. Pamphlets will be delivered to each affected family before implementation of resettlement. 10.6 Contact Information for Complaints and Appeals Project Office will assign dedicated workers for collection and reception of complaints and appeals. Their names, addresses and telephone numbers are shown in Table 10-2. Table 10-2 Contact information for complaints and appeals Contact Institution Address Telephone Person Floor 9, Jinhai Building, Chendong World Bank-Funded Project Sang Li Road, Tianjia’an District, Huinan 05542689807 Office City, Anhui Land Expropriation and Wang Tao Floor 4, District Government 15955409929 97 Demolition Office of Datong Building, Datong District, Huinan District City, Anhui 11 Monitoring of resettlement 11.1 Internal monitoring 11.1.1 Purpose and principles of internal monitoring Internal monitoring refers to the continuous internal monitoring and control on the execution of Resettlement Action Plan from within by Project Office and various levels of resettlement institutions through a top-to-bottom management system, in order to maintain complete, timely and accurate knowledge of the resettlement progress, discover and resolve problems, and provide a basis of decision making. The purpose of internal monitoring is to regulate and guide the work of Project Office and resettlement institutions, ensure the resettlement works are in strict adherence to the Action Plan, ensure the evaluation of the works can be conducted in an orderly and efficient manner, so that all relevant parties can be informed of the status of the works in time, and discover and rectify any issues in the execution. The principles of internal monitoring consist of: periodical investigation and evaluation of the status of Action Plan execution; accurate acquisition and analysis of data to ensure the accuracy of monitoring results; scientific and objective evaluation of Action Plan execution; prompt reporting to Project Office and World Bank that informs them of the project progress for their decision making. The functions of internal monitoring: internal monitoring is an important part of the project’s internal management, where the status of Action Plan execution is investigated, a resettlement information management system is created and utilized to collect, analyze and share data on the progress, funding and quality of resettlement works, existing or potential issues are discovered and analyzed, and their solutions are suggested. The internal monitoring will be carried out by the World Bank-Funded Project 98 Office and resettlement execution institutions. The project owners will periodically submit an internal monitoring report to World Bank. 11.1.2 Implementation process of internal monitoring Internal monitoring works are divided into two stages, preparation and implementation. The preparation stage starts with the project identification stage in the overall World Bank-Funded Project cycle, moving through the stages of project preparation, project preliminary evaluation, and project evaluation, ending at the project approval stage. The implementation stage starts as the resettlement works enter implementation, and ends with the fulfillment of resettlement goals. 1) Preparation of internal monitoring The World Bank-Funded Project Office and the local government will establish institutions for resettlement affairs in the project’s early preparation stage. Project Office will establish an internal organization dedicated to resettlement affairs, with dedicated and capable workers, in order to provide comprehensive information, and assist the cooperation of other institutions and organizations. Arrangements for internal monitoring will be made during the project preparation period. Preparations to be made by Project Office include: * Organize the training of Project Office and resettlement institution workers on the resettlement policies and experiences of World Bank, the policies of China, the Resettlement Action Plan, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of resettlement, etc. * Employ professional organizations and experts for the preparation of the Action Plan as early as possible; organize social and economic surveys; prepare the Action Plan with the assistance of professional organizations and experts. Preparations to be made by resettlement institutions include: * Negotiate detailed work contracts with owners regarding the implementation of resettlement; * Establish or improve resettlement institutions at each level, with needed work staff; 99 * Organize training of resettlement workers; conduct social and economic survey with owners and their entrusted professional organizations; participate in the preparation of Action Plan; * Establish the resettlement management information system. 2) Implementation of internal monitoring The tasks of Project Office in the implementation stage include: * Oversee the internal monitoring of resettlement according to the Action Plan; * Submit a detailed internal monitoring report to World Bank every half year; * Provide timely updates of resettlement statistics, and improve the resettlement management information system. 11.1.3 Content of internal monitoring Internal monitoring will encompass the following: Organizations: Establishment and designation of institutions related to resettlement, and assignment and training of their staff. Policies and compensation standards: Formulation and execution of resettlement policies; execution of various compensation standards for damages (permanent and temporary land expropriation, building demolition, relocation of businesses, public institutions, and special facilities). In particular, all issues require clarification that whether the standards stipulated in the Action Plan had been executed, with causes provided for any deviation. Progress of land expropriation, demolition and resettlement: Overall schedule; schedule of the year; progress on establishment of institutions, assignment of workers, permanent and temporary expropriation of land in the project zone, adjustment and allocation of resettlement zone land (including lands for production, residence, and public facilities), building demolition, construction of relocation buildings, relocation of residents, construction of public facilities, construction or relocation of special facilities, and other activities. The format of internal monitoring report on expropriation, demolition and resettlement is shown in Table 11-1. Resettlement budget and its execution: The amount and time of resettlement 100 funding allocation at each level, utilization and management of funding at each level of institution, amount and time of compensation paid to owners of affected properties (buildings) and lands and their users, utilization and management of compensation for collectively owned land at village level, and supervision and auditing of funding use. The format for internal monitoring report on funding use is shown in Table 11-2. Livelihood of relocated populations: Main livelihood and numbers of relocated rural residents, protection of vulnerable groups (families without able males, families with only senior members, disabled residents, etc.), re-cultivation of temporarily expropriated land, results of resettlement, etc. Construction of resettlement houses and quality of life: Method and location for relocated rural residents, type of resettlement houses, compensation, public facilities (water, electricity, road, etc.), relocation works, etc. Complaints, appeals, public participation and discussion, information disclosure and external monitoring: Channels, procedures and responsible institutions for complaints and appeals, main content and resolution of complaints and appeals, activities that require public participation and discussion and their forms, results of public participation and discussion, pamphlets and information disclosure, activities and results of external monitoring. Treatment of issues from the memorandum of World Bank inspection group. Outstanding issues and their solutions. 11.1.4 Internal monitoring methods Internal monitoring is the top-down monitoring activity of the resettlement implementation process conducted within the resettlement system. It requires a standard, unobstructed, and down-top resettlement implementation information management system to be established between the Project Office and resettlement implementation organizations at all levels related to project implementation to track and report the progress of resettlement implementation in each area. Resettlement organizations at all levels utilize the information management system to report progress, capital use, effect and the other information of resettlement implementation, 101 and then process and analyze the information. The advanced management information system established by Project Office can store and manage all data of project implementation comprehensively, timely and accurately. The following methods will be taken to conduct internal monitoring according to the implementation status of the project: 1) Standard system of statistical report Project Office prepares a uniform report form according to the requirements of resettlement implementation. The report form should indicate the allocation progress of resettlement fund and the completion status of expropriated and relocated physical quantities. The report form is regular monthly report, which is usually submitted down-top at the end of a month when fund is allocated, and then the work progress is known through fund allocation table. 2) Regular or occasional feedback Various forms are used among resettlement organizations at all levels to exchange the problems occurred in resettlement implementation and relevant information, and to propose solutions. 3) Meetings held regularly At the beginning of each month, Project Office will hold a resettlement coordination meeting; officials from district/county and village level resettlement offices will attend the meeting mainly to give reports, to feedback the implementation progress and the existing problems, or to exchange work experience and to study the measures to deal with the problems. 4) Inspection Project Office will conduct regular and occasional special inspection on the resettlement work of subordinate resettlement organizations, and will carry out in-depth field research to handle problems in land expropriation, demolition and resettlement on-site and to verify work progress and implementation of resettlement policies. 5) Information exchange with external monitoring agency 102 Project Office and local resettlement implementation organizations keep regular contact and information exchange with external monitoring agency, and take the monitoring results and assessment opinions of external monitoring agency as reference for internal monitoring. 6) Survey Project Office conducts the survey with the combined method of questionnaire and household interview to inspect resettlement implementation status. Sampling method is used in the survey of households: a certain number of households or collective units are taken as samples, and the report forms of their resettlement situation which shows the fulfilling degree of compensation, relocation fee and the like are inspected to check if resettlement is implemented in strict accordance with the resettlement action plan. Project Office will carry out the first inspection after the affected objects receive the first amount of compensation. After the inspection, Project Office will take improvement measures according to the inspection results and the problems fed back through the approach of complaint collection, and carry on with the follow-up survey on the implementation of the improvement measures. The follow-up survey is done through occasional questionnaire to track the labor settlement and land reallocation of the affected objects and the solution results of the complaints fed back, as well as to collect the opinions and suggestions of public negotiation, house selection and so on. Table 11 Progress of land expropriation and demolition Organization:________________________________ Report Date: ________/______/______ (YYYY/MM/DD) Amount of Amount Accumulated Proportion in Resettlement activity Unit plan finished amount finished total amount (%) Permanent exproprated land Mu Temporarily occupied land Mu Demolished house m2 Ten Compensation for land thousand 103 Yuan Ten House demolition payment thousand Yuan rebuilt house m2 Prepared by: Responsible official (signature): Stamp: Table 11-2 Progress of capital use ________District ________Town _______Village (Community) Date /____/______ (YYYY/MM/DD) Proportion of Accumulati Amount of received Amount of ve amount Quantity compensation compensation Affected unit Brief description capital need of received (Unit) received during in total (Yuan) compensati report (Yuan) compensation on (%) Prepared by: Responsible official (signature): Stamp: 11.1.5 Internal monitoring organizations and personnel arrangements The implementation organizations and personnel of monitoring are shown in Table 11-3. Table 11-3 Implementation organizations and personnel of internal monitoring Total number of personnel during Resettlement organization Regular personnel peak period Project Office 2 3 Datong District Land Expropriation 2 3 and Demolition Office 11.1.6 Period and report of internal monitoring Internal monitoring is a successive process and comprehensive monitoring shall 104 be done at least once a quarter; during the crucial phases such as relocation, the frequency of monitoring will be increased. During the project preparation period, internal monitoring organizations will prepare regular or occasional work report with the combination of the inspection conducted by World Bank, and the form of the work report will vary with project and stage as required by World Bank. Once implementation begins, brief weekly report and monthly report of project with significant impact are required, as well as detailed quarterly report, semiyearly report and yearly report; brief quarterly report of project with relatively small impact is required, as well as detailed semiyearly report and yearly report. Special report is required according to the need of project management. Summary report will be made after the implementation of the project. Resettlement implementation organizations at all levels will submit internal monitoring report to the people’s government of the same level, to the superior resettlement implementation organization, and to Project Office. Every half year Project Office will submit an internal monitoring report to World Bank. 11.2 External monitoring As required by World Bank, during the implementation process of the project, Project Office will hire an independent institution that has relevant experience and has been engaged in relevant business for more than 5 years through broad comparison and selection as the external monitoring agency to take charge of independent monitoring and assessment of the resettlement work in the project. 11.2.1 Purpose of external monitoring External monitoring and assessment is the assessment of resettlement work provided by agencies independent of government organizations. The purpose of external monitoring is to inspect the implementation of resettlement in the long run, to monitor and assess the achievement level of the objective of land expropriation, resettlement and relocation, to propose opinions and suggestions, and to take remedial measures and follow-up actions timely so as to ensure the implementation effect of resettlement. 105 In external monitoring, land expropriation, demolition and resettlement will be tracked to monitor and assess whether the resettlement: 1) Complies with national laws and regulations on resettlement; 2) Complies with the polices on involuntary resettlement of World Bank; 3) Raises the living standard of affected population to a level higher than pre-resettlement level or at least recovers to pre-resettlement level. 11.2.2 External monitoring agency and personnel Personnel of external monitoring agency shall meet the following basic requirements: 1) Personnel engaged in external monitoring shall have participated in similar work, have abundant experience of social and economic research, understand the policies and requirements of World Bank on involuntary resettlement, and master national and local laws and regulations on resettlement. 2) Personnel engaged in external monitoring shall have the ability to undertake social research independently, shall have high communication skill, and shall bear hard work. 11.2.3 Obligation of external monitoring agency External monitoring agency will undertake the following activities: Before the beginning of resettlement activities, external monitoring agency shall conduct a benchmark survey on living standards to grasp the basic status of production and living of the affected population. During the process of resettlement, external monitoring agency shall track and monitor the resettlement implementation. External monitoring agency shall collect the opinions and complaints of the affected population, feed back to Project Office and local resettlement offices timely, and submit monitoring report to Project Office and World Bank; External monitoring agency shall track and survey the changes of production and living standard of affected population, and make assessments on the resettlement activities and measures; 106 On the basis of research and survey and adequate negotiation with affected population, external monitoring agency should propose constructive suggestions to Project Office and local resettlement offices to ensure the smooth progressing of resettlement work and the quick recovery of the production and living standard of affected population. In addition, the external resettlement monitoring unit will also monitor the implementation of the mechanism to benefit local people from land value increase and include the findings as a part of the biannual resettlement monitoring report. The detailed mechanism and monitoring indicators are included in the ESMP. 11.2.4 Method and procedures of external monitoring The following methods will be taken for resettlement monitoring by external monitoring agency: 1) On the basis of resettlement research, external monitoring agency will create a database of the information of affected population and conduct regular household interviews. External monitoring agency will make full use of the data of social and economic research and the resettlement information management system built by Project Office to practice dynamic management of the basic information of relocated households, and to keep track of the resettlement information. According to information shown in the database, external monitoring agency will go to the houses of the affected residents to conduct face-to-face interviews, to learn the progress of resettlement work, to listen to their grumble, complaints and suggestions, as well as to propagandize relevant policies of the country, requirements of World Bank and information of the project construction. External monitoring agency will conduct household interviews independently and will not be accompanied by officials of local resettlement organizations or local administrators after receiving the list of affected population and relevant information from the grass-roots organizations. When the external monitoring agency conducts household interviews, the interviewer will be relatively fixed, that is, one official will 107 conduct interviews in one affected area for many times. Thus it will be easier to build mutual trust between the interviewer and the affected population and will be helpful for performing the work. 2) External monitoring agency will organize the affected population to hold forums occasionally in the area where affected population are concentrated. In the area where affected population is concentrated, external monitoring agency will hold forums to listen to the opinions of affected population on the significant issues of project impact. The forum could be formal or informal; the external monitoring agency may or may not invite officials of grass-roots resettlement organizations, depending on the specific circumstance at the time. 3) Field Survey. Officials of external monitoring agency will visit the resettlement site regularly or occasionally to inspect the resettlement status on-site. 4) Case research. External monitoring agency will focus on the anatomy of a few outstanding cases that may occur in the process of resettlement, analyze the source of the problems, find out solutions to the problems and propose reference opinions. 5) Questionnaire. External monitoring agency will carry out a sample survey on the recovery of the production and living of the displaced persons and opinions on resettlement, analyze the result timely, and solve the existed problems to provide reference for the resettlement work of the next year. 11.2.5 Main content of external monitoring (Terms of reference) 1) Monitoring on the resettlement of relocated households Resettlement of the relocated population will be a major monitoring object of external monitoring agency. External monitoring agency will focus the main monitoring indicator of such affected population on: Whether the compensation price for houses is set in compliance with the principle of replacement cost; Whether the compensation is allocated in full and on time; Whether the timing of relocation is reasonable; Whether the transition fee and relocation fee are paid; 108 Whether physical compensation is discounted; Whether the water, electric power, road and the other facilities are complete in the new settlement site and who is in charge of the supply of such facilities; Whether it is convenient to go to hospitals, schools and other places from the new settlement site. 2) Monitoring on the production rehabilitation of displaced persons Based on the characteristics of the affected land and its operation, external monitoring agency will focus on the following respects in the monitoring of production placement of land-expropriated persons: Whether the compensation standard of various expropriated land is set in compliance with related national laws; Whether the allocation procedure of land compensation could ensure that the affected village groups could get the deserved money; Whether the quantity of expropriated land, compensation standard and compensation amount are disclosed throughout the village and in what form are they disclosed; How the scope of release is determined if land compensation is directly released to individuals; Whether there is an explicit and feasible plan of the centralized use of land compensation; Whether the advice of interest-related villagers is taken in the making of the plan of land compensation use, and how is the plan determined finally. 3) Monitoring on the operation of resettlement organizations Highly capable, professional and highly efficient resettlement organizations are reliable assurance of the smooth progressing of resettlement for the project. Monitoring on the operation of resettlement organizations is also important in external monitoring. Monitoring on resettlement organizations is conducted mainly by field visit to resettlement organizations, verification of their work data and records and so on. The main contents include: Whether the staff composition of the resettlement organizations at all levels 109 could satisfy the requirements of resettlement; Whether the resettlement organizations at all levels are equipped with necessary work conditions; Whether the quality of the resettlement organization personnel could satisfy the requirements of resettlement; Training of the resettlement organization personnel; Management of internal work data of the resettlement organizations. 4) Monitoring on the resettlement of vulnerable groups Vulnerable groups are the special groups for whom special attention shall be paid by resettlement organizations and special care shall be given by external monitoring agency in the process of external monitoring. External monitoring agency will track the vulnerable groups affected by the project by methods of household interview, questionnaire, and case analysis. The main monitoring indicators are: The preferential policies the vulnerable groups enjoy in the resettlement; Whether the affected poor households receive aid in the process of house demolition and relocation; The recovery measures in production placement of affected poor households; Whether the special needs of affected women are adequately considered in resettlement measures; Whether the vulnerable groups, especially women, could get job opportunities related to the project, and how many people of vulnerable groups are employed in the construction of the project; Whether female officials of resettlement organizations take part in the handling of female affairs. 5) Benchmark survey on the living standard of affected population Before resettlement is formally launched, external monitoring agency will create the resettlement benchmark data of the World Bank Financed Huai’nan Urban Transit Improvement Project by sample survey. The sample survey will be done by structured questionnaire. All affected households involved in the social and economic survey during project preparation will be taken as sample base for sampling in categories. 110 The samples of living standard benchmark survey are 10% of relocated and land-expropriated households. The main contents of the benchmark survey on living standards of affected households include household population, production and operation, construction area of house, household annual income, employment structure, household annual expense, traffic conditions, water supply, electric power supply, living environment and the subjective assessment of production and living conditions 6) Monitoring and assessment of resettlement effects After the implementation of resettlement, external monitoring agency will incessantly track the implementation effects of resettlement. External monitoring agency will conduct track monitoring on the affected households half a year after their resettlement. Similar to the benchmark survey of living standard, the track survey will also be done by sampling; the impacts of resettlement on the living and production of the survey objects will be reflected in the structured questionnaire to assess the effects of resettlement. In principle the selection of samples of track survey is the same as that of the living standard survey, and shall include the surveyed objects of living standard benchmark survey as many as possible. After the living standard benchmark survey is finished, a database shall be created for all survey samples as the sample basis. As for a few surveyed objects that are impossible to track due to various factors, the database of social and economic survey in the early period shall be taken as the clue to replace the surveyed objects with similar affected households in the same community. The content of track survey shall be well bridged with the living standard benchmark survey for the comparative analysis of changes of living and production of affected households before and after resettlement. Meanwhile the subjective assessment of the affected population on the resettlement shall be taken as reference for the assessment of resettlement effects. 11.2.6 Report system of external monitoring External monitoring agency prepares the external monitoring report based on the 111 data obtained from observation and survey. The purpose of the report is to subjectively feedback the progress of resettlement work and the existed problems to World Bank and Project Office, and to assess the social and economic effects of resettlement, to propose constructive opinions and suggestions, and to improve and refine the resettlement work. The period of report to World Bank and Project Office made by external monitoring agency is as following: Before July 31 of each year, external monitoring agency shall submit a midyear monitoring report of the resettlement status in the first half of the year to World Bank and Project Office. Before January 31 of each year, external monitoring agency shall submit a yearly monitoring report to World Bank and Project Office. Half a year after the completion of all resettlement work, external monitoring agency shall submit a comprehensive report of the after-resettlement status. The contents of regular monitoring report shall at least contain the following issues: 1) the monitoring objects of the report; 2) the progress of resettlement work; 3) the main monitoring result of monitoring agency; 4) the main problems existed; 5) basic assessment opinions and suggestions of external monitoring agency. The external monitoring report will be submitted to resettlement experts of World Bank and Project Office with both Chinese and English version. Before formal submission, external monitoring agency will notify relevant personnel of resettlement offices and ask for their opinions to communicate with them about the contents and form of the report. 112 12 Entilement Matrix Type of loss Scope of application Person/group who have the right Compensation policy Right to compensation Compensation standard The village groups and peasant households affected by land Collectively owned land shall be compensated at the Cultivated land (cropland): 52000 The village collective of Chenxiang expropriation of the project shall price of complex area; compensation for land of Yuan/Mu, with compensation for green Village, Jiulonggang Town and the have the right to receive monetary Land within the occupied area of the contracted land shall all be released to crops 2000 Yuan/Mu; Permanently village groups and peasant compensation. They have the right to project, especially collectively owned land-expropriated households. Pension insurance shall Fruit garden: 52000 Yuan/Mu, with lost land households who contract land: 122 receive various resettlement land: 177.7 Mu be provided for the land-lost farmers, and job compensation for green crops 5000 people and 33 households are measures like training, employment opportunities and skill training shall provide prior to Yuan/Mu affected. and so on to ensure the stable them. recovery of their production and living standard. They have the right to get rent, to Rent: 1200 Yuan/year; The rent shall be fair and reasonable. Skill training receive various resettlement Transferred 1042 people of 306 land-contracting Compensation for green crops of one Transferred land collectively owned by shall be provided to land-transferred farmers; job measures like training, employment collectively households are involved in land season in the first year; Chenxiang Village: 1533 Mu opportunities shall be provided prior to them; and so on to ensure the stable owned land transfer. Lease will expire till the end of the employment promotion measures shall be taken. improvement of their production and second contract period. living standard. Uncertified self-built residential house Uncertified private houses shall be compensated at cost Monetary resettlement is the main The cost price of uncertified self-built and enterprise house within or affected 5 households living in uncertified price and will not be resettled, but nearby resettlement method. Project Office house is 800 Yuan/m2, and the cost Loss of house by the occupied area of the project. Total self-built houses and 1 household economically affordable houses could be provided for and Datong District provide price of simple board house is 500 and 2 area to be demolished: 10169 m , of living in public house are affected households living in uncertified private houses to economically affordable houses for Yuan/m2. The preferential price of attachments which the area of uncertified self-built by demolition, with total population purchase; For households who live in public houses resettlement or purchase at the economically affordable houses at residential house is 2552 m2 and the area of 26, and 5 enterprises are affected. and have only one house, resettlement house shall be nearby No.3 residential area of East resettlement site is 3000 Yuan/m2 of enterprise house is 7617 m2 provided for free with 30 m2 per person, relocation Dongshan Road; enterprises are (while the market price is 4000 113 allowance and traffic allowance of primary and high resettled by monetary resettlement. Yuan/m2); school students shall also be provided. Enterprise Affected people are provided with Production house and office house of houses shall be compensated at replacement price, training, prior job opportunities and enterprises and institutions: frame including allowance for closure cost and re-employment assistance. structure house: 1855 Yuan/m2, compensation for equipment. brick-concrete house: 1570 Yuan/m2 Collectively They have the right to receive owned land Collectively owned land occupied Compensation for green crops shall be provided and Land owner and contractor compensation for green crops and to 2000 Yuan/Mu occupied temporarily by the project: 12.29 Mu occupied land shall be restored have their occupied land restored temporarily Affected people shall be exempted of All charges and management fee involved in the appeal all charges and management fee All affected Within the occupied area of the project All affected population/ enterprises on resettlement issues of land expropriation and involved in the appeal on types demolition of affected people shall be exempted. resettlement issues of land expropriation and demolition 114 Appendix 1 Land Transfer Program of Chenxiang Village Jiulonggang Town Datong District As 1533 mu collectively owned agricultural land shall be occupied for the construction of World Bank financed project, an agreement has been reached to transfer the land use right of this part to the Project Executive Office through consultation between Project Executive Office, government of Jiulonggang Town and the village committee of Chenxiang Village in the principle of avoiding land acquisition as much as possible. Combined with the actual conditions, this program is formulated according to Law of the People’s Republic of China on Land Contract in Rural Areas and Comments on the Transfer of Right to Rural Land Contractual Management of Anhui Province. I. Subject of Land Transfer Subject of Land Transfer, Transferer: farmer household, village committee, Transferee: Project Executive Office II. Form of Land Transfer Lease Ⅲ. Procedure of Land Transfer The affected farmer households shall commission the Village (Group) to take the lead to agree the land transfer in written form. The land transfer form, term and subject matter shall be determined through consultation in village meeting or villagers’ representative meeting, and the Village (Group) shall organize the farmer households to sign written Land Transfer Contract with the Transferee in a unified way. IV. Land Transfer Mode and Approach The Project Executive Office commissioned the leading enterprise of agricultural industry to transfer the land in the form of renting to set up production base and develop moderate-scaled operation. V. Safeguard the Legitimate Rights of Both Parties of Land Transfer (Ⅰ) The lowest protective price shall apply in the land transfer. Since the date of transfer, the young crops for one season shall be compensated in the first year. Both parties of the land transfer shall determine the transfer fee in the principle of mutual benefit and equal consultations on the basis that the land transfer price is no less than 1200 Yuan/Mu/Year. The subsequent rent shall be adjusted according to the fluctuation of national grain 115 purchasing protective price, that is: if the market grain price is lower than the protective price, the rent shall remain the same; if the market grain price is higher than the protective price, the rent shall be increased in proportion. The payment time and method of transfer fee shall be agreed upon in the contract signed by both parties. (Ⅱ) Properly resolve the employment issue of the land transfer farmers. The farmers whose lands are totally transferred will enjoy equal treatment as the landless farmers in the aspects of attending the employment training and obtaining job recommendation. In case of self-employment, they can enjoy the preferential policies with reference to the ones of urban laid-off workers. (Ⅲ) Properly resolve the issue of social securities of the land transfer farmers. The medical and endowment insurances of the land transfer farmers who have settled in the urban area and become non-agricultural status in household registration shall be included in the urban social security management system in their domicile place. For the land transfer farmers whose household registration type are still agricultural, their medical and endowment insurances shall be include in the new-type rural social endowment insurance and new rural cooperative medical system in the local place. All the ones who can reach the criteria for receiving subsistence allowances shall be included in the rural minimum livelihood guarantee system. The group who are in great difficulty shall be included into the scope of local serious illness relief and exceptional poverty relief. The objects of the “Five-guarantee System” can go to live in the township Nursing Home in accordance with the voluntary principle. (IV) Protect the Transferee’s land investment. If the land quality is improved as result of the Transferee’s investment during the period of rural land transfer, when the transfer contract expires or the land was taken back by the transferer according to law in advance before the expiration of the term of use, the transferee shall be entitled to get corresponding compensation. The specific compensation method and the amount shall be agreed upon in the transfer contract. The newly added land area as the result of land consolidation shall be owned by the one who conduct the consolidation during the land transfer term. (V) The land shall be returned under special circumstance. During the term of land transfer contract, the transferee fails to maintain operation owing to force majeure, the land shall be returned to the transferer in time. (VI) Implement the various policies of subsidies for farmers. During the term of land transfer contract, the problem related to the various State agricultural subsidies shall be 116 consulted by both sides of the land transfer according to the regulations of relevant policies. The results of consultation shall be clarified in the land transfer contract, if not, the State agricultural subsidies shall be enjoyed by the Transferer. (VII) Fulfill obligations conscientiously. Both parties of rural land transfer shall perform their contractual obligations conscientiously. Either party who fails to perform or under-perform their obligations hereunder will be liable for breach of contract. If any dispute occurs due to land transfer, both parties can solve it through mutual consultation or request the local village committee or township government to coordinate. If no agreement is reached through consultation or the parties are not willing to coordinate, they may bring a suit to Datong District people’s court. VI. Working Procedure (I) Before the implementation of the project in 2016, the Project Executive Office will commission the relevant land transfer departments of people’s government of Datong District to conduct a complete check of the land to be transferred within the project area to get a clear picture of the land plots, land category, land rents and land contractors, etc. and record the data with computer for archive. (II) Establish and improve land transfer management and service agencies and systems to conduct substantial land transfer before June, 2015. 117 Appendix 2 Employment Training Implementation Scheme for Residents in the Nine Major Coal Mining Subsidence Area of World Bank Financed Project in Huai’nan The project of comprehensive management of the nine major coal mining subsidence area is a significant livelihood project using the foreign investment approved by the State Council in Huai’nan. Through the implementation of this project, the inferior conditions of ecological environment in the coal mining subsidence area can be improved, the residents in the subsidence area and the surrounding farmers can enjoy the employment security to increase the income, a livable and pleasant ecological environment can be built and restored according to the special local conditions. It is of important and far-reaching demonstration significance for exploring new pattern of development of the economic transformation and sustainable development of resource-based cities. In order to effectively assists the residents within the project area to seek employment and re-employment and properly address the problems of the basic livelihood and long-term development of the residents within the project area, this implementation scheme is formulated by integrating the relevant involuntary resettlement policies of the World Bank project executive office according to the requirements of Huai’nan Municipal Committee, municipal government and the Huai’nan Mining Group based on the actual investigation result and the demand of the local job market. I. General Objectives 1. Planned total participants of the training: 965 persons of vocational skill training in five years from 2015 to 2019. 2. After the training, the qualified rate of the participants shall be more than 90% through strict examination. The qualified participants of the training who take part in the assessment of professional skill verification organized by the municipal vocational skills certification agencies shall have a qualified rate over 80%. 3. The person who passed the training assessment, attended the assessment of professional skill verification and obtained the vocational qualification certificate can be recommended by the district Human Resource and Social Security organizations to the related enterprises to ensure the 118 employment in the same year. The employment rate of all the training participants in the same year shall be no less than 85%. 4. The one who get a job shall enjoy equal salary treatment of the same type of work and same position and constantly improve the income level with the development of the enterprise. The livelihood of himself or herself and his or her family can be improved gradually. II. Basic Principles 1. Actively support to promote development. For the human capital loss from resettlement, the countermeasure is to support skills training actively to recover and enhance their employability. 2. Identify key issues and highlight the features. Focus on the landless farmers and residents who have difficulties in employment, and provide skills training for all the working-age population to facilitate the employment transferring. Sticking to market-orientation and highlighting the professional features of skills training of service and manufacturing sectors in the training and improve the training participants’ competitiveness in the job market to achieve stable employment. 3. The combination of employment guidance and employment support. Provide employment service and encourage self-employment for the group with good employability to help them find employment through market approach. Give key support to the group that have difficulties in finding a job and implement employment assistance. 4. Overall planning and focus on policy cohesion. Strengthen the policy cohesion with the existing education and training policies. No duplicated and replaced policy measures and the policies shall be planned uniformly and implemented step by step. III. Overall Plan of Training Training Objects 1. The residents in the nine major coal mining subsidence area and the landless farmers within the legal working age who have labor capacity and employment aspirations and willing to attend the vocational skills training; 2. The affected population surrounding the project area who have labor capacity and employment aspirations and willing to attend the vocational skills training. According to the field survey, there are a total of 6 communities (Hongqi Community, Huaishun Community, Chonghua Community, Xinjian Community, Zhanhou Community and Kuangnan Community) and 1 incorporated village (Chenxiang Village) involved in the project area and its surrounding area. Nearly 20,000 people affected directly or indirectly by the project. 6 households are affected by the demolition from the project which involves 26 people, 10 labor 119 forces and 8 people who need skills training (see Table 1). Of all the enterprises to be demolished for the construction of the project, only Tianhe Boiler Appliance Factory is still under operation, 21 employees of the factory may require further skills training for the re-employment. 177.7 Mu collectively owned land in the Chenxiang Village of Jiulonggang Town shall be expropriated and 1533 mu land shall be transferred for the project. Almost all the households of Chenxiang Village involved in the resettlement. In 2012, there are 1015 labors in Chenxiang Village, they all belong to the training objects. Table 1 Training Objects Directly Affected by the Project Type Number (People) House demolition 8 Training objects due to demolition Corporate relocation 21 Training objects due to land acquisition and land transfer 1042 Total 1071 According to community surveys, the Jiulonggang Town and the Datong street office involved in the project provided the list of persons in need of vocational skills training currently in their justification (see Table 2). Table 2 Summary of people in the affected towns and streets in need of skills training (Number) Huaishun Community 234 Xinjian Community 252 Jiulonggang Hongqi Community 251 Town Chonghua Community 274 Subtotal 1011 Zhanhou Community 271 Junan Community 258 Datong Yuanwang Community 293 Street Jubei Community 305 Office Kuangnan Community 198 Subtotal 1325 Total 2336 Adding up the numbers of the two parts, the total population affected directly or indirectly by the project for attending training is 3407. Training Mission: Although the number of people is 3380, not all these people need training, for example, there are about 1/3 of the labors in Chenxiang Village are employed or those who do not want to 120 change their work; among the data of people who need vocational training provided by Jiulonggang Town and Datong Street, Yuanwang Community (293 people) and Jubei Community (305 people) in Datong Street are not adjacent to the project region (namely not region affected by the project), and most of the rest have been arranged in other training plan (In recent years, Huai’nan City has been intensifying its efforts in vocational training, and the target of its the Twelfth Five-year Plan is to make sure that all the people who need training can at least obtain one training opportunity). According to the number of trainees and the actual conditions of the employment training institutions, the training amount shall be determined by the proportion of 30% on the premise that the training quality and job placement after training can be ensured. It is planned that in the five years from 2015 to 2019, 965 people shall be trained in total, and 180-210 people in average shall be arranged to attend the vocational skills training of the related type of work every year. Training Method: In order to ensure the quality of training, the skills training method of theoretical teaching and practice shall be applied in the training, and the training time for practice shall be not less than 60% of the total training hours. For some types of work, such as gardener, marketing salesmen and security guards shall arrange certain training hours for on-site visiting and studying according to the characteristics of the training work types. Work Type Selection: By analyzing the demand of management operation after the implementation of the project and investigating the labor demand of the enterprises in Huai’nan Economic Development Zone and Datong New Industrial District, numerical control lathe operator, electrician, automobile mechanic, clothes-maker, gardener, security guard, marketing salesman, cleaner are selected as the training work type. According to the analysis of the project requirements, after the implementation of the project, more than 200 workers are needed in landscaping, more than 4000 workers are needed in flower conservation and sales. The labor demand survey of 62 enterprises in the industrial park showed that in the following 3 years, 3475 technician, 505 salesmen, 830 management staff are needed. The surveyed enterprises only account for 30% of the all the enterprises in the industrial park. Currently, the work types of CNC machine tools and clothes making have labor shortages. Training Place: According to the actual conditions of the region, the training place is arranged in the public employment training base of Datong District. The public employment training base of Datong District covers an area of 600 square meters, 121 equipped with standardized audio-visual rooms, lecture rooms and offices which can accommodate 100 people/period of the training requirement. Currently, 8 free subjects of computer, electric welding, lathe operation, appliance repair, Chinese cooking, Chinese pastry, multimedia producer and text typist can be established with the capacity to fulfill the main training mission. Based on the public employment training base of Datong District, together with other related training places, the training mission of the 6 work types can be fulfilled successfully. IV. Specific Arrangements of Training (I) Training of CNC lathe operator 1. Course task and description It is required that all the trainees can master the theoretical knowledge and operating skills of CNC lathe operator in the process of training. After training, the trainees shall have the basic knowledge of the CNC lathe operator and possess the essential operation skills to operate independently in the post and become skilled workers needed by the enterprise. In the teaching process, the theoretical teaching shall be positioned as basic theory, the training focus on strengthening skills training to enable the trainees master the operation skills and the related basic theory. 2. Teaching Content and Total Training Hours The main teaching contents are divided into machining preparation, CNC programming, CNC lathe operation, routine maintenance and fault diagnosis of CNC lathe. Total training hours: 480. 3. Teacher Arrangement 3 professional senior training instructors of mechanical foundation of lathe operator, CNC machining and machine maintenance of CNC lathe operator are invited to assume the teaching work of the training. 4. Training Materials Labor version: CNC lathe training material 5. Place of practical teaching Huai’nan Tangxing Hydraulic Machinery Co., Ltd. 6. Training Cost The total training hour is 480 hours, 8 hours/day, a total of 60 days. Budgeted training cost: the training cost covers the costs for teachers, materials, tools, water and electricity, books, management and premises. See the Table below for details (Unit: RMB yuan) 122 Work Cost Type Number Personal Total of People Water and Cost Teachers Materials Tools Books Management Premises electricity CNC 140 60480 37240 81200 3360 2800 5600 19600 21280 1502 lathe (II) Professional electrician training 1. Goal To train electricians with some professional proficiency who have a good grasp of basic and professional electrician knowledge and operational skills. 2. Requirement Trainees are required to have education of junior middle school or above. 3. Content and hours The content and hours are determined according to National Vocational Standard: Electrician and practical needs. The content consists of basic electrician knowledge and professional electrician knowledge. The number of total hours is 360. 4. Trainers Three advanced trainers specializing in electrician techniques, electrician electronics, and electrical repairs. 5. Location of practical training Related businesses in the district 6. Cost The course lasts for 360 total hours, with 8 hours each day for 45 days. Budget: the cost mainly consists of expenses for trainers, materials, tools, electricity and water, books, management and space, with specifics in the following table (Unit: RMB Yuan). Occupation Cost Average No. of Total Per Trainees Trainers Materials Tools Water/Elec. Books Mmgt Space Capita Electrician 140 45360 65800 42000 1960 1680 3360 8400 168560 1204 (III) Garment maker training 1. Goal To train garment makers with some proficiency who have a good grasp of basic knowledge and work skills of garment making, capable of working as a garment worker. 2. Content and hours The content and hours are determined according to National Vocational Standard: Garment Making and practical needs. The content consists of body measurement, garment specification standards, usage and maintenance of garment making equipment, tailoring process, sewing 123 process, etc. Based on the general requirement for peasant worker training in technical occupations by labor and social security authorities, the number of total hours is 120. 3. Education plan Textbook: “Garment Making” by Labor and Human Relations Press. Classes: classes are organized based on the education, professions and demands of trainees. Trainer: Chen Yun, garment making technician (former teacher of Suzhou Garment School). 4. Location of practical training Dezhong Knitwear Co., Ltd 5. Cost The course lasts for 120 total hours, with 8 hours each day for 15 days. Budget: the cost mainly consists of expenses for trainers, materials, tools, electricity and water, books, management and space, with specifics in the following table (Unit: RMB Yuan). Occupation Cost Average No. of Total Per Trainees Trainers Materials Tools Water/Elec. Books Mmgt Space Capita Garment 275 29700 110000 66550 825 4125 11000 24750 246950 898 making (IV) Greenery worker 1. Goal Trainees shall obtain basic theoretical knowledge and practical skills for the occupation after training, meeting the standard for greenery worker specified by the Ministry of Construction. 2. Content and hours Theoretical knowledge consists of basic knowledge on plants, soils and fertilizers, plant diseases and pests, etc., and form, features and cultivation of common local plants. Practical skills consist of proficiency in greenery cultivation and maintenance, with quality and progress according to specification. The number of total hours is 200. 3. Education plan Textbook: “Training Textbook for Greenery Workers” by Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Landscape Classes: classes are organized based on the education, professions and demands of trainees. Trainer: Local forestry engineers and gardening engineers with experience in education and practice will be employed. The education will combine theory and practice. 4. Location of practical training Datong District Environmental Sanitation Office; Huinan Municipal Nursery 5. Cost The course lasts for 200 total hours, with 8 hours each day for 25 days. 124 Budget: the cost mainly consists of expenses for trainers, materials, tools, electricity and water, books, management and space, with specifics in the following table (Unit: RMB Yuan). Occupation Cost Average No. of Total Per Trainees Trainers Materials Tools Water/Elec. Books Mmgt Space Capita Greenery 140 23474 78247 65205 2608 2608 10433 7825 190400 1360 worker (V) Marketing worker 1. Goal Trainees shall obtain relatively systematic knowledge of the basic theory, knowledge, skills and methods of marketing, understand basic process of organizing and controlling marketing activities, and improve their practical abilities for analyzing and solving issues in marketing management. 2. Content and hours The content of classroom study mainly consists of marketing, consumer behavior, marketing survey and product strategies. It is divided into four units: introduction, marketing, product strategies, strategies of promotion and distribution. The practical work consists of internship in marketing. The number of total hours is 160. 3. Textbook “Basic Knowledge of Marketing” 4. Trainers Two trainers with experience in the education and practice of marketing will be employed. 5. Location Datong District Center for Public Vocational Training Practice 6. Cost The course lasts for 160 total hours, with 8 hours each day for 20 days. Budget: the cost mainly consists of expenses for trainers, materials, tools, electricity and water, books, management and space, with specifics in the following table (Unit: RMB Yuan). Occupation Cost Average No. of Total Per Trainees Trainers Materials Tools Water/Elec. Books Mmgt Space Capita Marketing 220 31692 20633 57771 1651 13755 11004 7825 150260 683 (VI) Security staff training teaching program 1. Goal Excellent security staff 2. Contents and hours 125 Theory teaching: basic theoretical knowledge for security staff, professional ethics knowledge of security staff, relevant basic legal knowledge, relevant laws, administrative regulations, rules, etiquette of security staff. Skills operation: basic physical ability, unarmed attack and defense skill, unarmed skill of taking away, binding skill, basic skill of on-site first aid, general rescue skills, computer operation skill, comprehensive review, practice and assessment. Hours: 160 3. Trainers Two professional trainers with rich experience will be employed. 4. Location Huai’nan white-collar worker vocational training school. 5. Cost The course lasts for 160 hours, with 8 hours each day for 20 days. Budget: the cost mainly consists of expenses for trainers, materials, tools, electricity and water, books, management and space, with specifics in the following table (Unit: RMB Yuan). Occupation Cost Average No. of Total Per Trainees Trainers Materials Tools Water/Elec. Books Mmgt Space Capita Security 50 3852 3908 12383 413 2752 5504 13759 38700 774 staff V. Overall budget The overall training budget is specified in the following table: No. Of Cost per Quantity Training type Total (Yuan) trainees(person) unit(Yuan/day·person) (day) Numerical control 140 1502 60 210,280 worker Electrician 140 1204 45 168,560 Garment maker 275 898 15 246,950 Greenery worker 140 1360 25 190,400 Marketing worker 220 683 20 150,260 Security staff 50 774 20 38700 Total 965 / / 1,005,150 VI. Implementation plan 126 Six types of training are included in the overall plan, which will cover 970 workers from 2015 to 2019 and will be implemented within 5 years. Considering the current “labor shortage”, it will increase the training number of numerical control workers and garment makers for the first two years, but cut down the number of marketing workers whose demand are less influenced by time. Meanwhile, it will postpone security staff training to the later two years, aiming to make full use of the training resources. If the labor demand of enterprises changes within 5 years, other training plan shall be made and reported. The detailed implementation plan is shown in the following table: Annual No. 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 Total Training type Numerical control 42 42 28 14 14 140 worker Electrician 28 28 28 28 28 140 Garment maker 82 82 57 27 27 275 Greenery worker 28 28 28 28 28 140 Marketing worker 28 27 55 55 55 220 Security staff 25 25 55 Total 208 207 196 177 177 965 VII. Organization and management 1. Organization The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Datong district takes the lead to coordinate with related officials of the association of science & technology of district, labor union of district, administrative committee of “two parks and two districts ”, development zone, white-collar worker vocational-technical school, so as to organize the “lead group of residents training in coal mining subsidence area of World Bank Funded loan project in Huai’nan” and to guide and coordinate implementation, management and daily inspection of the project. 2. Supporting measures 1) Implement management by objective Human Resources and Social Security Department in Datong district, together with the labor union, the Science and Technology will issue the notice on skill training of residents in coal mining subsidence area to the labor union, the association of science & technology and the Women’s Federation in Datong district. Clarify task and liability subject, make obligation to people and carry out layer upon layer. Establish skill training quarterly report system and regular 127 bulletin system in the subsidence area; know and report the progress of work in time. Improve the examining method and combine daily examination with periodical examination. 2) Set up working mechanism Adhere to the direction of marketization and socialization of skill training in the subsidence area, and the government provides training service and purchases the fruit of training, combine market allocation of training resources with the effective government regulation, integrate public training service with social training service, and free training with proper subsidies. ①The overall training plan are scheduled according to the 2015-2019 annual arrangement. ②The number of trainees acquiring qualification certificates reaches 200, and adhere to the rolling development and expand training scale gradually. ③Training agency: public employment training base in Datong district, Huai’nan white-collar vocational school. 3) Strengthen supervision and inspection (1) Supervision department and scope of supervision Human Resources and Social Security Department of Datong district shall be responsible for the overall supervision of training quality, and shall supervise the entire process to the job training undertaken by designated training agencies. (2) Supervision system a. Class inspection system. For the first class in each training period, the inspector shall be present to check trainees’ and the teacher’s identity, demonstrate policies related to job training, and put all cases on record. In the case that the inspector fails to be present in the first class, the inspection shall be made up before completion of training in this period. b. Verification system for training process. During the training, the inspector shall conduct at least two times of random spot inspection for training class in each period. In the case that spot inspection cannot be completed, random inspection by phone must be conducted. The number of trainees randomly inspected shall be no less than 30% of the total number of trainee in a class, and should also put all cases on record. The implementation status of teaching plan is the key point of inspection, including checking whether the teaching plan and teaching journal of the teacher is in accordance with the course schedule, checking teaching progress and the spot teaching organization, verifying whether the actual training hours, training site and spot training facilities reach the standard or not, ensuring that the spot training station and spot training materials are enough and verifying whether the people actually attending in the training is in line with the people applying for training. 128 c. Identification, surveillance and assessment system. During the graduation test for training class, the inspector should go to the identification spot to patrol, and the inspection should focus on identifying whether the trainee agrees with the person trained, whether the test is conducted according to the provisions. Then the inspector should keep all cases on record. d. Random inspection system for employment status. Telephone follow-up inspection aimed at the employment status of the trainees randomly selected from the system should be conducted, and the number of trainees randomly selected should be no less than 20% of all the employed people in the training class. All the inspection cases shall be put on record. e. Violation handling and evaluation system. For those violations found during supervision and inspection, the inspector should point them out on the spot and ask the training agency to submit the rectification report and rectify within a time limit. For cases of gross violation, order them to stop training to make corrective measures, if not, disqualifying them from designated training agency (3) duties of the designated training agency a.The designated training agency shall organize teaching strictly according to the teaching facilities and device, teacher preparation, teaching plan and teaching programme provided in the bidding documents, and establish an normal teaching order. b. The designated training agency can only organize training class within the scope of accepted training fields, and contracting or sub-contracting of the training projects is not allowed. c.The training site prepared by the training agency should provide the training device and training facilities in accordance with the requirement of relevant training profession; renting the training site or facilities from other units to conduct training is not allowed; the training site cannot be altered without permission of the Human Resources and Social Security Department in Datong district. d. The cases that training agencies falsify, falsely claim or defraud the national founds by all means, once found, shall be seriously handled. For those cases of gross violation, the training qualification shall be canceled; the cases which constitutes a crime shall be handed over to relevant authority to give criminal sanctions according to law. 4) Intensify guidance and service Public employment service agency shall irregularly investigate and disclose supply and demand of the labor market and regularly disclose occupational supply and demand and wage level about residents’ of different occupation at different levels in the subsidence area, and guide the training agencies to open training occupation and program as needed. Organize skill training and pairing activities for residents in subsidence area and improve their employment after 129 training. Vocational skill evaluation organ shall provide timely and convenient vocational skill evaluation service for residents in subsidence area. For the job hunters who want to start up their own business, especially for women and the vulnerable group, help them apply for small loans or give them other assistance. If the implementation of the job training plan in coal mining subsidence area of World Bank Funded loan project in Huai’nan is approved, the Project Office, Human Resources and Social Security Department in Datong district and the training agency shall earnestly implement it and spare no efforts to make contribution for the development of social economy and continuous improvement of people’s livelihood. 130 Appendix 3 Resettlement Information Booklet Dear Mr. /Ms.: As the World Bank funded comprehensive treatment project in coal mining subsidence related to sustainable development engineering for resource-based city (Huai’nan City) will be built in the place where your family is located, we release this information booklet to help you know the basic information of this project, relevant national policies on land acquisition and house demolition and the influence on your family. I. Project information The World Bank funded comprehensive treatment project in coal mining subsidence related to sustainable development engineering for resource-based city (Huai’nan City) is composed of three parts: environmental restoration and water treatment, improvement of foundation project and development and utilization of project area, project management and technical assistance. The preliminary plan starts from 2014, with a construction period of 3 years. II. Laws, regulations and compensation rates on land acquisition and house demolition Policies about land acquisition and demolition of this project are made based on following laws and regulations: The Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China, which was put into effect in January, 1999 and amended on August 28th, 2004; The Decision on Furthering the Reform and Intensifying the Land Administration released by the State Council on October 21st, 2004. The Guiding Opinions on Improving the Compensation and Resettlement System for Land Acquisition released by the Ministry of Land and Resources (November 3rd, 2004); Notice of People’s government of Anhui Province on adjustment of land compensation standards in Anhui Province (issued by Anhui government [2012] No.67) on May 15, 2012. Notice of General Office of Anhui Province on earnestly implementing Regulation on the Expropriation of Buildings on State-owned Land and Compensation (No.24 [2011] of Anhui Government Office) on April 7, 2011. Notice of Huai’nan municipal government on print and distribution of compensation and resettlement method of levying collective owned land in Huai’nan city (issued by Huai’nan municipal government [2013] No.39 ) on May 31, 2013. Notice on publication of monetary compensation base price and adjustment coefficient of urban house demolition in 2009 and other compensations and subsidy standard of urban house demolition in Huai’nan city (issued by Huai’nan municipal government [2008] No.91 ) on 131 December 12, 2008. World Bank operational policy OP4.12 Involuntary Resettlement and Appendixes, coming into force on January 1, 2002; World Bank business procedure BP4.12 Involuntary Resettlement and Appendixes, coming into force on January 1, 2002. See the following table for compensation policies related to land repulsion in this project. Category Compensation Standards I. Land requisition 54000 Yuan/Mu for cultivated land, and 57000 Yuan/Mu for orchard compensation Housing: 800 Yuan/ m2 for brick-concrete structure house, and 500 Yuan/ m2 for makeshift shelter house II. Houses Plants: 1880 Yuan/ m2 for frame and 1570 Yuan/ m2 for brick-concrete structure III. Land attachments IV. Special infrastructure III. Impact on your family (working place) Compensation Due Items Quantity Remarks standards compensation 1 2 3 4 Total IV. Planned timetable of the project Item Time Releasing the announcement related to land requisition and demolition Paying funds Land requisition and demolition Moving into new houses Preparation for the project Project construction V. Rights and obligations of affected people 132 (I) Rights of the affected people The affected households can obtain all due compensations in accordance with the above standards, and reflect their opinions and suggestions to those agencies at different levels in the order of village committee, sub-district office and the World Bank Project Executive Office in Datong District and Huai’nan. To be specific, they can voice their opinions on the following aspects: base amount of the quantity of compensation, compensation standards, payment time for the compensation and the selection of house reconstruction site. All village committee and sub-district office must make replies to the complaints from the affected people within 15 days after receiving them. (II) Obligations of the affected people Be cooperative with the project construction Do not build new structures within the area under the investigation when the resettlement survey is over; otherwise, no compensation shall be paid. VI. Complaint and grievance procedures You can express your complaints and grievance about the resettlement work via the following procedures: Stage 1 The affected people can express their complaints orally or in writing to the village committee or sub-district office. In case of oral complaints, the village committee or sub-district office must record them in written form and make clear replies in two weeks. In case of severe matters concerned which need the instruction from the superior, they must try to get replies from the superior within two weeks. Stage 2 In case that the replies at Stage 1 are not satisfactory, the complainants can appeal to Huai’nan World Bank Project Executive Office within one month after receiving the replies at Stage 1. And the Huai’nan World Bank Project Executive Office must make decisions about how to handle the complaints within 30 days. Stage 3 In case that the replies at Stage 2 are still not satisfactory, affected people can appeal to the civil court within 15 days after receiving the replies at Stage 2. VII. Organizations related to land acquisition and resettlement Organizations at city level The World Bank Project Executive Office in Huai’nan Address: The Ninth floor, Jinhai building, Chendong Road, Tianjian District, Huai’nan City, 133 Anhui Province Telephone No.: 05542689807 The external monitoring organization TBD Address: Telephone number: VIII. Authority for the interpretation of this booklet Huai’nan Project Executive Office has the authority for the interpretation of this booklet. Thank you for your support! Huai’nan Project Executive Office 2005 134 Appendix 4: Plan of host community in No.3 Dongshan East Road 135 Appendix 5: Questionnaire Survey on World Bank funded comprehensive treatment project in coal mining subsidence related to sustainable development engineering for resource-based city (Huai’nan City) Dear residents: According to the arrangement of the municipal government, we are trying to conduct the resident survey on environment improvement of subsidence area, which needs your help. Please tick (√) on the selection meeting your opinion or situation as per prompts on the questionnaire survey. Thank you very much! No.: Name: Street (town) name: Date: Committee: Name of investigator: I. General information A1 Who is head of your household? (1) I (2) spouse (3) son (4) daughter (5) father (6) mother (7) daughter-in-law (8) brother (9) others A2 How many people in your family? Family members: (please fill in the family member information table, attention: write down on the first row to answer the information of survey respondents). Me Relationship Gender Age Nationality Education Marriage Occupation Registered Type mb with head 1. Male 1. Han background status 1. Be engaged in 1. agricultural er 1. I 2. Female 2. Mongol 1. Never 1. Single agriculture at 2. Non- agricultural No. 2. Spouse 3. Hui 2. Primary 2. Married home 3. Children 4. Other 3. Junior 3. Divorced 2. Be engaged in 4.Daughter-in-l (Please 4. Senior 4. Widowed non-agriculture at aw and specify) 5. Technical 5. Separated home son-in-law school (specify the 5. 6. Junior detailed Grandchildren college occupation) 6. Parents 7. University 3. Migrant 7. Grandparent or above workers 8.Brothers and 4. Government sisters staffs (including 136 9. Others contract staff and (Please specify) retired staff) 5. Teacher 6. Student 7. No job without labor force 8. Keep house 9. Early retired, laid-off or unemployed 10. Others II. Living and travel B1 How were you acquired with your house? (1) Assigned by my or families’ unit, but the property right has already been bought (2) Assigned by my or families’ unit, but the property right has not been bought (3) Private house (self-built or inherited from an ancestor) (4) Commercial residential building purchased (5) Rented house (6) Others (Please specify) B2 If the house has already been bought, how much did you pay for it? Million Yuan B3 If the house is private, when was this house built? Year Cost: Yuan B4 Building area (m2) Area of storeroom (if any) (m2) B5 The structure of your house is: (1) brick-concrete structure (2) brick-wood structure (3) earth-wood structure (4) earth-concrete structure (5) simple house B6 If your house has been rented or used for business (1) Yes (2) No If yes, rooms rented, rooms used for business B7 If the house you are living is rented, how much is the rent per month? Yuan B8 Could I ask you if you satisfy the following conditions in the place where you are living Very good Good Fair Needs Very poor improvement Work (distance) Transportation Shopping Hospital 137 Primary school Middle school Water supply Public security Air quality Green B9 Generally, what do you thinks of your house situation? (1) Very good (2) Good (3) Fair (4) Needs improvement (5) Very poor III. Production and operation C1 The total number of contacting or owning the land: Mu Fen, including: Orchard Vegetable Paddy Fishpond Mountainous Homestead Ground(land on Total field field region land Non-residential base and open space) C2 Main output and sales Type of products Output Quantity of use Quantity of sale Place of sale for family as products Grain (Jin) Vegetable (Jin) Fruit (Jin) Breed (Pig) (head) Sheep Cow C3 Mainly operation activities engaged in your family at present? (Multiple choice) (1)Grain (2) Other cultivation (3) Forestry (4) Animal husbandry (5)Fishery (6) Avocation (7) Industry (8) Transportation (9)Construction (10) Business (11) Service (12) Others C4 Generally, when are you engaged in productive labor in year? C4A How many days do you work for agricultural production? Day C4B How many days do you work for non-agricultural production? Day 138 C4C How many days do you go out for work? Day C4D Where did you go for work? C4E What kind of job have you done outside? __________________ C4F How much is your average outside income per month? _____Yuan C5 Generally, when is your wife/husband engaged in productive labor? C5A How many days does your wife/husband work for agricultural production? Day C5B How many days does your wife/husband work for non-agricultural production? Day C5C How many days does your wife/husband go out for work? Day C5D Where did your wife/husband go for work? C5E What kind of job have your wife/husband done outside? __________ C5F How much is your wife/husband’s average outside income per month? _____Yuan C6 As you know, which mainly technology is used by rural production at your living area at present? (Multiple choices) (1) Machinery (Tractors and harvesters etc.) (2) Planting technology (fruit tree and greenhouse vegetable etc.) (3) Cultivation technique (Breed and aquaculture) (4) Folk craft technique (embroidery and knit) (5) Others (please specify) C7 How do you think of economic benefit from the technologies used (1) Good (2) Fair (3) Poor (4) Loss C8 The role of women in the production technology: C8A Farm machinery (1) leading role (2) helping role (3) no big role C8B Planting technology (1) leading role (2) helping role (3) no big role C8C Cultivation technology (1) leading role (2) helping role (3) no big role C8D Folk craft technology (1) leading role (2) helping role (3) no big role C9 Source of technologies used (Multiple choices) (1) Promoted by the government (2) Introduced by relatives (3) Impacted by the village and neighborhoods (4) Learned from the city (5) Helped by friends (6) Learned by self though journal or TV IV. Income and expenditure D1 The total income of your family business the whole last year is about: Yuan, including: D2 After deducting each cost, the estimated net annual income you earn by cultivated land per Mu is about Yuan The estimated net annual income you earn by forest land per Mu is about Yuan 139 The estimated net annual income you earn by water per Mu is about Yuan D3 Constituents of total income last year Item Planting Fishery Breed Industry Constru Business and Transpor Work in Wage Others Total ction clothing tation the city Income (Yuan) D4 Transportation and communication tools used by your families Name Yes No Yes No Intend to Don’t intend Intend to Don’t intend buy to buy buy to buy Motorcycle Car Tractor Bicycle Suction Agricultural pump motor vehicles D5 Expenditure of your family last year Yuan, including: (1) Food costs Yuan (including: rice, noodle, meal, fish, egg and vegetable and so on) (2) Clothing cost Yuan (3) Education cost Yuan (including tuition and textbooks) (4) Health care cost Yuan (including seeing the doctor, medicines or hospitalization etc.) (5) Transportation cost Yuan (go to village, town or other city for study, work or visiting) (6) Cost of all social transaction Yuan (7) Cost of supporting the elderly Yuan (8) Entertainment cost Yuan (9) Fuel cost Yuan (10) Utilities cost Yuan (11) Telephone bill Yuan (12) Other Yuan (13) Savings cost Yuan D6 What do you think of your financial situation in the village /community (1) Superior (2) Better (3) Medium (4) Lower (5) Inferior D7 How do you feel about the importance of the following factors on family to get rich? (1) Be knowledgeable and brainy and know how to do business (2) There are family working in the city 140 (3) Build a business (4) Engaged in the characteristic planting (5) Hard-working (6) Have many lands and greenwood (7) Good opportunity (8) Others ( ) The first: The second: The third: D8 In your opinion, which factors are the main causes of low income and poverty for a family? (1) Illiteracy, no ability and poor earning capacity (2) Funding shortage and information block (3) Poor economic base (4) Less workforce or workforce loss (5) Less production resources (6) Less job opportunity (7) Have many children and heavy burden (8) Lazy and complacent (9) There is an ill person in family (10) Inconvenience traffic and difficulty on economic transaction outside The first The second The third V. Division of labor and decision E1 Who decides/participates the following things? Dominated Dominated Decided Father-i Mother-i Others No by husband by wife by couples n-law n-law Male Female existence Management of family property (deposit and title deed for house) Decision on type of production engaged Selection/building of house Decision on division of labor Decision on purchase of high-grade goods/large production tools Decision on education and occupation of children To guide children to study Participating in village/community meeting Deciding investment or loan Participating in wedding or funeral of neighborhood E2 The best way of improving a family is that the husband works and makes a living outside and the wife manages at home. What’s your opinion? (1) Strongly agree (2) Agree (3) Not clear (4) Disagree (5) Strongly disagree E3 If the job opportunity is not enough; priority shall be given to the man. What’s your opinion? (1) Strongly agree (2) Agree (3) Not clear (4) Disagree (5) Strongly disagree E4 If the economic difficulty cause that the children can’t be educated, couples shall try their best 141 to make the son go to school. What’s your opinion? (1) Strongly agree (2) Agree (3) Not clear (4) Disagree (5) Strongly disagree E5The husband shall have priority to make major decision in a family. What’s your opinion? (1) Strongly agree (2) Agree (3) Not clear (4) Disagree (5) Strongly disagree E6The housework (taking care of children, washing and cooking) shall be done by the wife. What’s your opinion? (1) Strongly agree (2) Agree (3) Not clear (4) Disagree (5) Strongly disagree E7 As you know, influence of women on local public affairs is: (1) Leading role (2) Gradually grown (3) Gradually declined (4) No effect (5) Others VI. Social connection F1 Who will you call help firstly if you have financial difficulty? (Choose two items) (1) Husband’s relatives (2) Wife’s relatives (3) Married son (4) Married brother (5) Village cadres (6) Township cadres (7) Neighbors (8) Classmates (9) Current colleagues (10) Current leader (11) Friends (12) Previous unit (13) Others F2 Who will you call help firstly if you meet family dispute? (Choose two items) (1) Husband’s relatives (2) Wife’s relatives (3) Married son (4) Married brother (5) Village cadres (6) Township cadres (7) Neighbors (8) Classmates (9) Current colleagues (10) Current leader (11) Friends (12) Previous unit (13) Others VII. Project impact and expectation G1 How do you think of problems related to the city/region where you live and environment? Very important Important Fair Less important Much less important Water pollution control, water resource conservation and water environment treatment Air pollution control Soil pollution control Collection and disposition of industrial waste Collection and disposition of 142 household garbage Greenland construction Noise control Not throw paper, plastic and rubbish in random Soil salinization treatment G2 If environment improvement shall be carried out in the area where you live (such as governance of abandoned dump and construction of green belt), you need to relocate or your land needs to be expropriated under the condition that constructor will compensate you. What’s your opinion? (1) Very willing (2) Willing (3) Fair (4) Reluctant (5) Extremely reluctant G3 Did you know that governance of abandoned dump and construction of green belt will be performed in this area? (1) Yes (2) No G4 If yes, how do you know? (Multiple choice) (1) Broadcast, TV or newspaper (2) Notice issued by government/department at all levels (3) Relative or friends (4) Neighbors (5) Others G5 In your opinion, what kinds of influence can governance of abandoned dump and construction of green belt generate for your family? (1) Occupy your land (2) Need relocation (3) Both (1) and (2) (4) No direct effect G5 Do you think that this project will bring development opportunity for you? (1) Yes (2) No (3) Not sure (4) Don’t know G6 What are the benefits of the project for you? (Multiple choice) (1) Water quality improvement (2) Air purification (3) Possible to improve housing conditions (5) Increase income earning opportunities (6) Possible to improve the asset (7) Give job opportunities (8) No benefit (9) Others ( ) G7 Do you think that the project will bring benefit for your village (or community)? (1) Yes (2) No (3) Not sure (4) Don’t know G8 If you will cooperate with the government or relevant units for construction of the project? (1) Yes (2) No (3) Don’t know (No answer) G8 If your land will be expropriated for this project, what kinds of compensation do you want? (Multiple choice) 143 (1) Monetary (2) Land (3) Job opportunities (4) Handle social insurance using land compensation (5) Others G9 If compensation is offered by monetary, what kinds of way do you want? (1) One-time payment (2) Amortization (3) Whatever G10 If you are willing to relocate for construction of the project? (1) Yes (2) Yes if the compensation is appropriate (3) No (4) No answer G11 If yes, what kinds of compensation do you want? (1) Money to built by self (2) Built new house (3) Low-rent housing (4) Others G12 If you will relocate, what do you think about the location of building reconstruction? (1) Unified planning and concentrated construction (2) Select the resettlement location by self (3) Others G13 In what way you and your families try to reduce the negative influence arising from land expropriation (Choose two items). (1) Make full use of the rest of the cultivated land for intensive cultivation and management (2) Strive for more job opportunities to increase non-agricultural income (3) Perform the non-agricultural income by compensation to make up the loss (4) Don’t know how to make up the loss and resign the fate (5) Make sure that the compensation can obtained as many as possible by various protests (6) Others (please specify) G14 If you are not satisfied with the land requisition and compensation, what kinds of way you will take to express (Choose three items) (1) Tolerance (2) Visit alone (3) Solve problem by directly visiting relevant government or administrative department alone (4) Solve problem by judicial channel alone (5) Visit with others (6) Visit relevant government or administrative department with others (7) Follow the crowd (8) Others (Please specify) G15 What’s your attitude on your unit/village/community’s work? (1) Very concern, and put forward own comment/suggestion often (2) Regardful, but I don’t say generally (3) Just do own jobs and don’t want to care other things (4) Concern, and put forward own comment/suggestion sometimes (5) No interest on things of unit/village/community The following questions is provided for women 1. How old are you? 144 (1) 20 or below (2) 20－25 (3) 25－35 (4) 35－45 (5) 45 or above 2. What’s you occupation (1) Worker(types) (2) Cadre (3) Farmer (4) Housewife (5) Student (6) Individual household (7) Liberal professions (8) Others ( ) 3. Do you make decision in your family? (1) Yes (2) No(3) Decide with husband (4) I decide trivial matters (5) Others 4. Do you think what factors influenced your job? (1) No chance (2) Need to take care of families (3) No ability (4) Don’t want to work (5) Family object (6) Others 5. Do you take part in community activities positively? (1) Yes (2) Do it if there are something happen (3) Just want to know (4) No (5) No interest 6. Do you think that the project has negative effect on you? (1) Resettlement and compensation is bad for women (2) It is hard to adapt to new life (3) Daily life becomes inconvenience (4) The family status has been weaken (5) The life expenditure pressure has been increased (6) Others 7. Do you think that the project has positive effect on you? (1) Enhance the job opportunity (2) Dispense “agriculture” (3) Enjoy city life and civilization (4) Guarantee the pension (5) Obtain more participation and development opportunity (6) Others 8. What is the percentage of women income in family? (1)10% or below (2) 10－30％ (3) 30－50％ (4) 50－80％ (5) 80 or above 145 Appendix 6: Investment Breakdown of all subprojects Cost of land expropriation and demolition Construction land of State-owned State-owned Name Expropriated Collective mining group Temporary Orchard of Construction and No. forest land of forest land of land land Granted Allocation occupation cost Huai’nan City of Datong District mining group Datong District land land Environment restoration and 1 water treatment Environment restoration Green road 4616200 934200 164000 1935000 1280000 230000 73000 Water treatment 2232680 864000 80400 720000 4480 520000 43800 Improvement of infrastructures 2 and development and utilization of project area Service pitch 25400 14200 11200 Bonsai garden 399000 183600 215400 Nursery garden 1930300 558800 1371500 Flower market 5637800 5594400 43400 Jiukong Road 857160 842400 7000 4160 3600 Wanxiang Road 4087140 869400 18200 1095000 2100000 4540 Yanshan Road 632600 307800 32200 240000 11400 41200 Zhongxing Road 226400 58400 168000 Total 20644680 9595800 1192000 3990000 3380000 24580 1539500 750000 172800 146 Investment Breakdown of all sub-projects (continued) Cost of expropriation and demolition Taxes and charges Service cost of Compensation Demolition Management Demolition of expropriation Paid use cost of Enterprise Compensation for economic Equipment Relocation cost of cost of uncertified Subtotal demolition new construction demolition for relocation losses due to cost subtotal entrusted expropriated building (survey and land stop business house land assessment) 1355360 138486 184648 276797 1110948 66980 89307 255997 1778 762 1016 2526130 1728700 14160 4268990 397183 140040 38318 15960 54399 135121 57909 77212 9361350 849600 1800000 12010950 7056502 529463 120102 225512 1657583 1145150 1145150 1036594 60069 11444 34286 249598 1246727 122614 163486 257597 384380 18978 25304 91199 15848 6792 9056 13032630 1728700 14160 849600 1800000 17425090 12740441 1142093 169864 825787 2843172 147 Investment Breakdown of all subprojects (continued) Taxes and charges Land transfer Assessment cost Technical Occupation reclamation Administrative cost at the of planning and Unexpected Percentage Pension of training Total taxes of cost of expense first five internal pay (%) expropriated expense cultivated cultivated years monitoring farmer land land 7602000 760200 8362200 12.20 432496 92266 230668 119431 59716 89573 624028 6864309 10.02 399996 85332 213334 66873 33436 50154 349409 3843500 5.61 0 0.00 544 272 408 2840 31241 0.05 84999 18133 45334 101303 50652 75978 529311 5822416 8.50 41308 20654 1596000 30981 375436 4129801 6.03 2589974 552528 1381340 494105 247053 370579 2581699 28398687 41.44 389996 83199 208001 60778 30389 45584 317565 3493220 5.10 402496 85866 214668 106677 53339 80008 557389 6131280 8.95 142499 30400 76000 20340 10170 15255 106274 1169018 1.71 4845 2422 3634 25315 278464 0.41 4442456 947724 2369345 1016204 508102 9198000 762153 6229467 68524137 100.00 148 149