The World Bank Financed Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Resettlement Action Plan
（Version for Appraisal）
Xiangyang Urban Transport Project Management Office
November 2011
Commitment about the Resettlement Action Plan of
The World Bank Financed Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
The ownership of The World Bank financed Xiangyang Urban Transport Project is Xiangyang Construction Investment Management Co., Ltd(XCIMC). The resettlement office of Xiangyang Urban Transport Project affiliated to XCIMC has developed Resettlement Action Plan fot this project.
The People’s Municipal Government of Xiang Yang City confirms that, the Resettlement Action Planwas developed on the basis of thorough and careful investigation, full consultation with affected villages, households and units, and all the resettlement policies have been approved by relevant government departments of XiangyangCity. All the policies and standards included in this Resettlement Action Plan comply with the involuntary resettlement policy of the World Bank, conform to the relevant regulations of the People’s Republic of China and Hubei Province, and consistent with the relevant local policies and standards in Xiangyang City.
The People’s Municipal Government of Xiang Yang makes the following commitment that,after this Resettlement Action Plan is approved by the World Bank, all the policies and standards included in this plan will be strictly followed during the implementation stage.
The People’s Municipal Government of Xiang Yang City
November 2011
Contents
1. Project Profile
1.1 Project introduction
1.2 Basic information about project area
1.2.1 Basic information about Xiangyang City
1.2.2 Basic information about Panggong Subdistrict
1.3 Affected area of this project
1.4 Measures to alleviate the impact of resettlement
1.4.1 Measures taken during the stage of project design
1.4.2 Measures during the implementing stage of land acquisition and house demolition
1.4.3 Measures taken during the construction period of the project
1.5 Preparation and progress of the Project
1.6 Project Owner
1.7 Project construction and implementation
1.8 Land use and acquisition permit
1.9 Laws and regulations concerning compensation rates
2. Analysis on the Project Impact
2.1 Definition of project impact
2.2 Survey on the project impact
2.3 Overview of project impact
2.4 Land acquisition involved in the project
2.4.1 Requisitioned rural collective-owned land
2.4.2 Requisitioned state-owned land
2.5 House demolition involved in the project
2.5.1 Demolished private houses
2.5.2 Demolished buildings of enterprises and public institutions
2.5.3 Affected stores
2.5.4 Affected attachments
2.6 Affected vulnerable group
2.6.1 Identification of affected vulnerable group
2.6.2 Affected vulnerable families
2.7 Affected infrastructure
3. Socio-economic Survey on the Affected Area of This Project
3.1 Social and economic situation of affected area
3.2 Basic information about affected subdistricts and villages
3.3 Basic information about affected households
3.4 Impact on minority groups and social gender
4. Laws, Regulations and Policies
4.1 Major laws, regulations and policies for resettlement work
4.1.1 Relevant laws and regulation issued by the central government
4.1.2 Regulations and policies issued by the People’s Government of Hubei Province and relevant departments
4.1.3 Regulations and policies issued by the People’s Government of Xiang Yang and relevant departments
4.1.4 Involuntary resettlement policies of the World Bank
4.2 Abstract of major laws, regulations and policies
4.2.1 Abstract of relevant laws and regulations issued by the State Ministries and Hubei Province
4.2.2 Abstract of relevant regulations and policies issued by Xiangyang City
4.2.3 Involuntary resettlement policies of the World Bank
4.3 Resettlement approaches applicable to this project
4.3.1 Policy for acquisition of collective-owned land
4.3.2 Policy for acquisition of state-owned land
4.3.3 Policy for demolishing buildings on state-owned land
4.3.4 Policy for demolishing housing on collective-owned land
4.3.5 Compensation policy for relocated stores
4.3.6 Compensation policy for unlicensed housing
4.3.7 Preferential policy for vulnerable groups
5. Resettlement Compensation Rate
5.1 Compensation rate for requisitioning collective-owned land
5.2 Compensation rate for requisitioned state-owned land
5.3 Compensation rate for demolished house on state-owned land
5.4 Compensation rate for demolished houses on collective-owned land
5.5 Compensation for enterprises and public institutions
5.6 Compensation rate for relocated store
5.7 Compensation for unlicensed houses
6. Implementation Plan for Resettlement and Rehabilitation
6.1 Objective, method and principle of resettlement and rehabilitation
6.1.1 Objective
6.1.2 Methods
6.1.3 Principle
6.2 Resettlement of relocated households
6.4 Rehabilitation of affected enterprises and institutions
6.5 Resettlement and recovering of affected stores
6.6 Rehabilitation of specialized facilities
6.7 Resettlement and recovering of affected vulnerable people
6.8 Schedule of resettlement and recovering
7. Budget and Management of Resettlement Funds
7.1 Constitution of resettlement funds
7.1.1 Compensation fee for land acquisition
7.1.2 Compensation fund for house demolition
7.1.3 Compensation fee for all kinds of attachments and public utilities
7.1.4 Other expenses related to resettlement
7.1.5 Administrative expenses for resettlement
7.1.6 Unforeseeable expenses
7.2 Budget of resettlement funds
7.3 Object and flow of resettlement funds
7.3.1 Object of resettlement funds
7.3.2 Source and flow of resettlement funds
7.4 Appropriation, management and monitoring of resettlement fund
7.4.1 Appropriation of resettlement funds
7.4.2 Management and monitoring of resettlement funds
8. Resettlement Organizations
8.1 Organization setting
8.2 Responsibility of each organization
8.2.1 Xiangyang Construction Investment Management Co., Ltd
8.2.2 Resettlement Office of Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
8.2.3 Resettlement Office of Panggong Subdistrict
8.2.4 Independent monitoring organization
8.3 Staffs and facilities of each resettlement organizations
8.4 Measures to enhance resettlement organizations’ ability
8.5 Plan to further enhance resettlement organizations’ ability
9. Public Participation and Consultation
9.1 Activities of public participation and consultation have been conducted
9.2 Feedback to public participation and consultation
9.3 Plan of consultation with affected people in the next stage
9.4 Ways to participate in consultation during implementing phase
9.5 Publicity of policies and the resettlement information Booklet
10. Grievance and Appeals
10.1 Means of collecting grievance and appeals
10.2 Grievance and appeal procedure
10.3 Principles of dealing with grievance
10.4 Content and means of reply to grievance
10.4.1 Content of reply
10.4.2 Means of reply to grievance
10.5 Records and feedback of grievance and appeals
10.6 Contact information for grievance and appeals
11. Resettlement Monitoring
11.1 Internal monitoring
11.1.1 Purpose of internal monitoring
11.1.2 Implementing process of internal monitoring
11.1.3 Content of internal monitoring
11.1.4 Internal monitoring methods
11.1.5 Internal monitoring organizations and personnel arrangement
11.1.6 The cycle of internal monitoring and report
11.2 External monitoring
11.2.1 Purpose of external monitoring
11.2.2 Independent monitoring organization and its staffs
11.2.3 Responsibilities of independent monitoring organization
11.2.4 Methods and steps of external monitoring
11.2.5 Main content of external monitoring
11.2.6 External monitoring report system
12. Entitlement Matrix
Annex I. List of Affected Families’ Relocation Area
Annex II. Resettlement Information Booklet
Annex III. Resettlement Responsibility Report of East Section and West Section of South Line of Inner Ring Road in Xiangyang
Annex IV Disclosure Announce of the Resettlement Policies
List of Tables and Figures
Table 1-1 Composition of road network perfection sub-project of Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Fig. 1-1 Geographical location map of this project
Table 1-2 Composition of World Bank Financed Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Table 1-3 Affected areas by resettlement involved in Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Fig. 1-1 Working staff from different departments conduct field investigation and discuss the optimal scheme
Fig. 1-2 Wangjiawa Primary School partly affected by this project
Table 1-4 Preparation and implementation schedule of this project
Table 1-5 Schedule for land use and acquisition permit
Fig. 3 Resettlement personnel get information from peasants
Fig. 4 Resettlement personnel measure the building area on site
Fig. 5 Working staff and affected population check the attachments to the land together
Table 2-1 Quantities of land acquisition and house demolition involved in Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Table 2-2 Requisitioned collective-owned land in Xiangyang Urban Transport Project (Unit: mu)
Table 2-3 Quantities of requisitioned state-owned land and land status
Table 2-4 Demolished area of Xiangyang Urban Transport Project (m2)
Table 2-5 Classfication of demolished buildings in Xiangyang Urban Transport Project (m2)
Table 2-6 Types and area of demolished private houses
Table 2-7 Demolished buildings of enterprises and public institutions (m2)
Table 2-8 Affected stores in Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Table 2-9 Affected attachments in Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Table 2-10 Affected vulnerable families
Table 3-1 Main indicators of Xiangyang’s economy
Table 3-2 Social and economic situation of Panggong Sub-district and affected villages in 2010
Table 3-3 Basic features of affected population in Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Fig. 3-1 Distribution of employment sectors of affected families
Fig. 3-2 Structure of income source of affected families
Table 4-1 Comprehensive land price for expropriated land in Xiangyang City stipulated by the People’s Government of Hubei Province
Table 5-1 Compensation rates for attachments to the requisitioned land in Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Table 5-2 Compensation rate for requisitioned state-owned land
Table 5-3 Replacement price of demolished house on state-owned land
Table 5-4 Compensation rate for demolished house on collective-owned land
Table 6-1 Construction plan of resettlement sites in Panggong Subdistrict
Fig 6-1 Sketch map of construction plann of resettlement site in Guanyinge Village
Fig 6-2 New market under construction, used for resettling proprietors of demolished market
Fig 6-3 Practice workshop of Xiangfan Industrial School built nearby
Table 6-2 Impact on affected enterprises and public institutions and resettlement methods
Table 6-3 Schedule of resettlement activities
Table 7-1 Budget sheet of resettlement funds for the Resettlement Office of Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Table 7-2 Object of resettlement fund
Fig.8-1 Resettlement organizations of the Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Table 8-1 Member list of each resettlement offices
Table 8-2 Staff arrangement of each resettlement organizations
Table 8-3 Facilities of each resettlement organizations
Table 8-4 Training plan of resettlement staffs
Table 8-5 Further training plan of resettlement offices
Fig. 9-1 soliciting the opinions and suggestions of affected people
Table 9-1 Activities about the publicity and consultation of resettlement information
Table 9-2 Summary sheet of public opinions and suggestions
Table 9-3 Informaiton about public participation, consultation and feedback in the World Bank Financed Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
Table 9-4 Time arrangement for consultation with affected people
Table 10-1 Registration form of grievance and appeals about resettlement
Table 11-1 Progress of land acquisition
Table 11-2 Progress of use of funds
Table 11-3 Staffs of implementing organizations in internal monitoring
1
1.Project Profile
1.1 Project introduction
The World Bank Financed Xiangyang Urban Transport Project is the key construction project of XiangyangCity. The project content includes building and improving the trunk road network in PanggongSubdistrict, improving the urban public transport facilities and enhancing the capability of traffic management organizations. This project aims to establish a complete traffic network system in PanggongSubdistrict, promote the development of this district, and improve the public transport system in XiangyangCity, enhance the capability of traffic management organizations and improve traffic control. This project is expected to be launched in 2012 and completed in 2014.
Xiangyang Urban Transport Project consists of four sub-projects: (1) Public transport sub-project; (2) Urban roads sub-project; (3) Traffic management sub-project; (4) Institutional development and capacity building sub-project. Here is a brief introduction to the content of each sub-project:
(1) Public transport sub-project: this construction project focuses on the main urban area of XiangyangCity. The main content of this sub-project includes building bus maintenance station and optimizing all the bus stops in the main urban area of XiangyangCity, etc. Meanwhile, the construction of bus bays will be carried out along with road network perfection sub-project. The total investment for public transport sub-projec is RMB128 million Yuan and it includes the following contents:
1) Bus priority corridor: priority corridor for 13-road buses, renovation of bus bays and purchase of high-performance vehicles;
2) Bus station: Xianshan Bus Maintenance Station, Bus Maintenance Station in Xiangyang Economic Development Zone in Xiangzhou District, and renovation of bus terminal at railway station;
3) Public transport intelligent dispatching: GPS system;
4) Bus bays: bus bays of 13-road buses, bus bays for newly-built road in PanggongSubdistrict.
(2) Urban roads sub-project:The sub-project includes Eastern section project of south line of Inner Ring Road , Xingguang Avenue,Jianghua Road,Xiangyang Road,Zhakou 2nd Road ,Panggong Road and ,Planned 13th Road and related urban road network.. The total investment of road network perfection sub-protect is about RMB 1.119 billion Yuan(including cost of the land use), the construction cost of road network and public facilities is about RMB 601million Yuan..See Table 1-1 for the basic information of these roads.
Table 1-1 Composition of road network perfection sub-project of Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
No. / Road / Property / Width (m) / Length (m) / Cost of construction(ten thousand RMB Yuan）
1 / Eastern section of south line of Inner Ring Road / Trunk Road / 60 / 2046.8 / 7670.3
2 / Zhakou 2nd Road / Trunk Road / 40 / 3081 / 7697.3
3 / Xingguang Avenue / Trunk Road / 50-80 / 3187 / 15924.2
4 / Jianghua Road（west of Zhakou 2nd Road） / Trunk Road / 30 / 259 / 485.3
5 / Jianghua Road（east of Zhakou 2nd Road） / Trunk Road / 40-50 / 1694 / 5290.2
6 / Panggong Road(west of Zhakou 2nd Road） / Trunk Road / 30 / 215 / 402.9
7 / Panggong Road（east of Zhakou 2nd Road） / Trunk Road / 40-50 / 1820 / 5683.6
8 / Xiangyang Road / Trunk Road / 40 / 1798 / 4492.0
9 / Planned 13th Road / Trunk Road / 40 / 3264 / 8154.5
10 / Branch roads network / Branch roads / 4300
(3) Traffic management sub-project: in order to ensure the overall improvement of public transport system, this sub-project will enhance the integration of public transport with traffic management, and improve the traffic monitoring facilities, traffic control and safety information system, traffic control facilities and traffic safety facilities in the entire urban area including south line of Inner Ring Road. The total investment of this sub-project is RMB 76million Yuan.
(4) Institutional development and capacity building sub-project: providing special research, personnel training, project investigation, consulting service and study tour for the smooth implementation of this project, normal operation in future and sustainable development of urban transportation. The total investment of this sub-project is RMB 26million Yuan.
As the core of this project, road network perfection sub-project is located in PanggongSubdistrict, in the eastern part of Xiangcheng District, XiangyangCity. The planned area starts from Huancheng East Road, to Shengli Street, to first line of Xianshan Road in the west, and extends to Han River in the east, north and south, covering a total area of 1,533.42 hectare. 3 sides of the planned area are facing to the river, forming a semi-circular region enclosed by Huancheng East Road, Shengli Street, Xianshan Road and Han River. See Fig. 1-1 for the geographical location of this project.
Fig. 1-1 Geographical location map of this project
PanggongSubdistrict is located at the first terrace of Han River, with maximum width of about 3.5km from west to east and maximum length of about 5.5km from north to south. The district is adjacent to AncientXiangyangTown in the west, facing FanchengTown across the river in the north and facing Yuliangzhou and Dongjin Group in the east. It is just at the intersection of main development vein, and it is the key area to implement the urban space development strategy.
As the Inner Ring Road is put through, the traffic conditions in PanggongSubdistrict will be dramatically improved. The traffic bottleneck that has always restrained the development of PanggongSubdistrict will be broken through to a large extent. Meanwhile, with the construction of municipal administrative and cultural center, PanggongSubdistrict will become the core area and hot spot of Xiangyang in the future. In this context, the reasonable planning and construction of traffic network in PanggongSubdistrict can play a significant role in improving residents’ life, upgrading the image of the city and promoting the economic and social development of XiangyangCity.
According to the plan of Xiangyang Construction Investment Management Co., Ltd, the road network perfection sub-project will be implemented stage by stage. The first stage of road network perfection sub-project includes five roads: Xingguang Avenue, Jianghua Road, Xiangyang Road, Zhakou 2ndRoad and Eastern Section of South Line of Inner Ring Road.
This Resettlement Action Plan is prepared for land acquisition and house demolition involved in road network perfection sub-project and public transport sub-project during the first stage of this project. The specific content includes Xingguang Avenue, Jianghua Road, Xiangyang Road and Zhakou 2nd Road in road network perfection sub-project, and Xianshan Bus Maintenance Station and Bus Maintenance Station in Xiangyang Economic Development Zone, Xiangzhou District in public transport sub-project.
As an integral part of Xiangyang Inner Ring Road construction project, land acquisition and house demolition involved in the south line of Inner Ring Road has been completed as early as 2010. The eastern section of south line of Inner Ring Road is a part of World Bank financed project, and the resettlement work of this part will be reflected in Responsibility Report attached to this Resettlement Action Plan. Meanwhile, the western section of south line of Inner Ring Road, which is under construction, is identified as the related project of this project by the World Bank, and the land acquisition and house demolition has also been completed in 2010 and the resettlement work will be reflected in Responsibility Report as well.
In addition, Resettlement Policy Framework will be prepared for Panggong Road and Planned 13th Roadand newly-built resettlement sites. Detailed information about resettlement and relevant policy will be provided after the project design is completed.,and a brief RAP will be developed out and implemented with the approval from the World Bank.
Table 1-2 Composition of World Bank Financed Xiangyang Urban Transport Project
No. / Sub-project / Land acquisition / House demolition / RAP / Policy frameworkI / Public transport sub-project
1 / Bus priority corridor / Χ / Χ / √
2 / Xianshan Bus Maintenance Station / √ / Χ / √
3 / Bus Maintenance Station in Xiangyang Economic Development Zone / Χ / Χ / √
4 / Renovation of bus terminal at railway station / Χ / Χ / √
5 / Public transport intelligent dispatching / Χ / Χ / √
6 / Bus bays / Χ / Χ / √
II / Urban Roads sub-project
1 / Xingguang Avenue / √ / √ / √
2 / Jianghua Road / √ / √ / √
3 / Xiangyang Road / √ / √ / √
4 / Zhakou 2nd Road / √ / √ / √
5 / Panggong Road / √ / √ / √
6 / Planned 13thRoad / √ / √ / √
7 / Eastern section of south line of Inner Ring Road / √ / Χ / √
III / Traffic management sub-project / Χ / Χ / √
IV / Institutional development and capacity building sub-project / Χ / Χ / √
V / Related project (Western section of south line of Inner Ring Road) / √ / √ / √
Information source: Feasibility Study Report for Road Network Perfection Sub-project under the World Bank Financed Xiangyang Urban Transport Project, Feasibility Study Report for Public Transport Sub-project under the World Bank Financed Xiangyang Urban Transport Project, from Central and Southern China Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute, October 2011.