China - Second National Railways Project : resettlement plan (Vol. 1 of 4) : Resettlement action plan

RP213 Volume 1 Electrification Project of Zhe-Gan Railway RESETTLEMENT ACTION PLAN Foreign-Financing Center of Ministry of Railways, PR China East China Investigation and Design Institute under State Power Corporation May 2004  Approved by: Gong Heping Examined by: Bian Bingqian Prepared by: Xu Chunhai, Zhu Qiang, Mao Zhenjun Participated by: Xu Chunhai, Zhu Qiang, Mao Zhenjun, Li Min'an, Xia Yunqiu, Yu Zhijian, Zhu Jian, Gu Chunrong, Han Xiaojing  Contents OBJECTIVES OF RESETTLEMENT PLAN AND DEFINITION OF RESETTLEMENT TERMINOLOGY ............ . . 1 1Generalss.3 1.1 Project Background ..3 1.1.1 Existing conditions .3 1.1.2 Necessity of of railway electrification .3 1.1.3 Significance of the project .4 1.2 Project Design and Design Approval ..5 1.3 Description of Project ..5 1.4 Project Impacts . . . 7 1.5 Measures To Alleviate Project Impacts ..7 1.5.1 In project planning and design stage .7 1.5.2 In project implementation stage .7 1.5.3 In resettlement action planning and implementation stage .....................................8 1.6 Project Schedule .........................................................8 1 .7 Preparation for Resettlement, Monitoring and Evaluation ............................................... . 8 1.7.1 Breakdown of affected inventories and supplementary survey ...............................8 1.7.2 Social and economic survey .........................................................9 1.7.3 Resettlement plan ..........................................................9 1.7.4 Preparation of resettlement monitoring and evaluation ..........................................9 1.8 Policy Frame and Targets of RAP .........................................................9 1.8.1 Policy frame ........................................................9 1.8.2 Policy Objectives ........................................................ 10 2 Natural Social and Economic Conditions of Project-Affected Provinces ... 11 2.1 Natural Social and Economic Conditions of Zhejiang Province .................. . 11 2.2 Natural Social and Economic Conditions of Jiangxi Province .............................. . 12 2.3 Natural Social and Economic Conditions of Hunan Province . ....................................... 13 2.4 Basic Conditions of Project Affected Households ........................................................ 14 3 Project Impacts ............................................... 20 3.1 Confirmation of the scope of project impacts . . .20 3.1.1 Land acquisition for the project .20 3.1.2 Temporary land for construction .20 3.2 Investigation of project impacts . ..20 3.3 Material index of project impacts . . .21 3.3.1 Land Acquisition/occupation .21 3.3.2 The relocated buildings and auxiliary facilities .27 3.3.3 Population affected by the Project .33 3.3.4 Enterprises, institutions and individual commerce .34 3.3.5 Sporadic trees and graves .35 3.3.6 Special facilities .36 3.3.7 The affected facilities for production and living .37 11 1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  3.4 Analysis of impacts of land acquisition on regional social economy .............................. 37 4 Policy Framework for Resettlement ................................................................. 45 4.1 Policy Basis ................................................................. 45 4.2 Relative Laws and Regulations ................................................................. 45 4.2.1 The relative specifications of "Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China" ................................................................. 45 4.2.2 Main rules for implementation of "Land Management Law of PRC" of Zhejiang province ................................................................. 52 4.2.3 Main rules for implementation of "Land Management Law of PRC" of Jiangxi province ................................................................. 55 4.2.4 Main rules for implementation of "Land Management Law of PRC" of Hunan province ................................................................. 58 4.2.5 Relative specifications of Operational Manual--OP 4.12 ...................................... 59 4.3 Compensation Standards ................................................................. 60 4.3.1 Compensation criteria for rural resettlers .............................................................. 60 4.3.2 Compensation criteria for relocation of enterprises and public institutions ........... 61 4.3.3 Compensation criteria of special item restoration ................................................. 62 4.4 Entitlement Matrix ... .............................................................. 62 5 Resettlement and Rehabilitation Plan ................................................................. 65 5.1 Objectives and Tasks ................................................................. 65 5.1.1 Resettlement target ................................................................. 65 5.1.2 Resettlement Task ................................................................. 65 5.2 Resettlement Guideline and Principle ................................................................. 65 5.2.1 Resettlement Guideline ................................................................. 65 5.2.2 Resettlement Principle ................................................................. 65 5.3 Overall Resettlement Scheme .................................................................. 66 5.4 Analysis on Carrying Capacity for Resettlement . ........................................................... 66 5.4.1 Natural conditions and land resources ................................................................. 66 5.4.2 Resettlers' characteristics and relationships ......................................................... 67 5.4.3 Basic Infrastructure Conditions for Production and Living .................................... 67 5.4.4 Economic Development Potential of the Affected Area ......................................... 67 5.5 Resettlement and Rehabilitation Plan ................................................................. 68 5.5.1 Production Rehabilitation Plan ................................................................. 68 5.5.2 House Relocation Plan ................................................................. 69 5.5.3 Resettlers' Administrative Management ................................................................ 70 5.5.4 Administration of Resettlement implementation organizations ............................. 70 5.6 Rehabilitation Plan for Special Facilities ................................................................. 70 6 Cost Estimation on compensation for land requisition . ........................................................... 71 6.1 Compiling basis and principles ................................................................. 72 6.2 Compensate standards ................................................................. 72 6.2.1 Compensation to rural resettlers ................................................................. 72 6.2.2 Compensation for removing of organizations and enterprises ............................. 73 6.2.3 Compensation for reconstruction of special item .................................................. 73 6.2.4 Other Fees ................................................................. 73 ii  6.2.5 Contingency ........................................................ 73 6.2.6 Related tax ........................................................ 74 6.3 Compensation cost ........................................................ 74 7 Resettlement Implementation Plan ......................................................... 76 7.1 Implementation procedures .............................................. 76 7.2 Schedule ........................................................ 78 7.3 Payment by Transfer ........................................................ 79 7.3.1 Principles ........................................................ 79 7.3.2 Institutions assuming financial responsibility for resettlement .............................. 80 7.3.3 Fund flow ........................................................ 80 8 Institutional Organizations ........................................................ . 81 8.1 Institutional Arrangements .............................................. 81 8.1.1 Organizations ............................................. 81 8.1.2 Responsibility of the organizations ............................................. 81 8.1.3 Staffing ............................................. 84 8.1.4 Organization Chart .............................................. 84 8.1.5 Working Relations between Organizations ............................................. 84 8.1.6 Measures for Enhancing Capacity of Organizations ............................................. 85 9 Participation and Grievance Procedure ............................. 86 9.1 Public Participation ............................................. 86 9.1.1 Participation in Resettlement Preparation ............................................ 86 9.1.2 Participation in RAP Preparation ............................................ 86 9.1.3 Participation during Resettlement Implementation ............................................ 89 9.2 Grievance and Appeal .............................................. 90 10 Monitoring & Evaluation ............................................. 91 10.1 Internal Monitoring .............................................. 91 10.1.1 Target and Task ............................................. 91 10.1.2 Institution and Staff ............................................. 91 10.1.3 Monitoring Contents ............................................. 91 10.1.4 Monitoring Procedures ............................................. 92 10.2 External Resettlement Monitoring and Evaluation . ............................................ 92 10.2.1 Target and Tasks ............................................. 92 10.2.2 Institution and Staff ............................................. 92 10.2.3 Main Indicators to be Monitored and Evaluated ............................................. 93 10.2.4 Monitoring and Evaluation Measures ......................................... 93 10.2.5 Working Processes ............................................. 95 11 Reporting . . . 96 11.1 Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) Report . . . 96 11.2 Internal Monitoring Progress Report . . .96 11.3 Independent M&E Report . . . 97 iii  OBJECTIVES OF RESETTLEMENT PLAN AND DEFINITION OF RESETTLEMENT TERMINOLOGY This Resettlement Plan (RP) is prepared according to the Laws and Regulations of PRC and Yunnan Province, as well as the resettlement policy of ADB. The purpose of this document is to set out an action plan for the Resettlement and Rehabilitation of the Project Affected Persons (PAPs) to ensure that they will benefit from the project and their standards of living will improve or at least be restored after the project impact. This RP is a legally binding agreement between the Executing Agency (EA) - Yunnan Provincial Communication Department (YRCD) and both the ADB and the local government offices involved with resettlement implementation, whereby YRCD will take overall responsibility to ensure the action plans are carried out and adequately financed. Acquisition of land and other assets for the project will adversely affect the livelihood of persons who live, work or earn their living on the land that will be acquired for the project. PAPs are defined as those persons whose income or livelihoods will be adversely affected by land acquisition for the project. PAPs include the following categories: a) persons who have a title, right, interest, in structures (houses, enterprises, shelters, or public buildings), land (including residential, agricultural, and grazing land) or any other asset acquired or possessed, in full or in part, permanently or temporarily; b) persons who use the structures, land or assets described above; or persons whose business, occupation, work, place of residence or habitat adversely affected; or c) persons whose standard of living is adversely affected as a consequence of land acquisition and/or resettlement activities. A definition of PAPs is given below: Definition of the PAPs: "Affected Persons" means persons who on account of the execution of the project had or would have their: a) standard of living adversely affected; or b) right, title or interest in any house, land (including premises, agricultural and grazing land) or any other fixed or movable asset acquired or possessed, temporarily or permanently; or c) business, occupation, work or place of residence or habitat adversely affected, and "Affected Person" means individually all those who qualify as "Affected Persons." PAPs may be individuals or legal entities such as a company, a public institution. Definition of PAPs is not limited or restricted to their legal registration or permission to live or conduct business in the affected location, or their title to property. Thus it includes: a) all those affected by the project regardless of their legal rights or absence thereof to the assets being taken; and b) persons without residential permit to live in a certain area. Therefore all such persons who are affected will need to considered and recorded as PAPs, regardless of their legal connection to assets land or location. If there is more than one person, family or household using or holding a title to the same land or property that is acquired, they will be compensated and rehabilitated according to the loss they suffer, their rights, and the impact on their living standards. The definition of PAPs is linked directly to the adverse effect of the project, regardless of legal rights title or interest. All PAPs are entitled to the improvement or at least restoration of their standards of living, and compensation for the material losses they suffer. Compensation for assets will cover replacement cost. No deductions or discounts will be applied to the compensation amount for I  depreciation or other reasons. All PAPs deriving an economic benefit from the affected land and property are entitled to receive rehabilitation benefits in addition to the compensation for their assets lost. Those PAPs without title, authorization or legal permission to reside, conduct business, cultivate land or construct structures are eligible for rehabilitation of their livelihoods and compensation for their assets on an equal footing with those with formal legal title, authorization or permission to the assets. The term RESETTLEMENT includes: a) the relocation of living quarters; b) finding acceptable new employment for those whose jobs are lost or severely affected; c) restoration (or compensation) of affected productive resources such as land, workplaces, trees and infrastructure; d) restoration of other adverse effects on PAPs' living standards (quality of life) through land acquisition, indirect resettlement impacts or other project impacts; e) restoration of or compensation for affected private and public enterprises; f) restoration of adversely affected on cultural or common property. Rehabilitation means: the restoration of the PAPs' resource capacity to continue with productive activities or lifestyles at a level higher or at least equal to that before the project. The objective of this RAP is to provide a plan for the resettlement and rehabilitation of the PAPs so that their losses will be compensated and their standards of living will be improved or at least restored to the pre-project levels in a sustainable manner. Affected productive resources of businesses, enterprises (including shops) and public facilities will also be improved or at least restored to their pre-project levels. 2  1 Generals 1.1 Project Background 1.1.1 Existing conditions The Zhe-Gan Railway runs within Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hunan provinces, starting in the east from Hangzhou, Yiwu, Jinhua, Shangrao, Hengfeng, Guixi, Yingtan, Xiangtang, Pingxiang to Zhuzhou in the west, totally 942.648km long. This railway connects the Hu-Hang Railway, Xuan-Hang Railway and Xiao-Yong Railway at its east end, and links the Jing-Guang Railway and Xiang-Qian Railway at its west end. It runs across the Jing-Jiu, Ying-Xia, Wan-Gan, Heng-Nan and Jin-Wen railways. The Zhe-Gan Railway serves for passengers and goods transportation between the East China Region, South China Region and Southwest China Region, and is the busiest railway trunk connecting the east and west of China and the important component of the "8 -Longitudinal-plus-8-Transverse Railway Network" and the "4-Longitudinal- plus-4-Transverse Express Railway Network" of China. The Railway is under the jurisdiction of three railway bureaus, i.e., Shanghai, Nanchang and Guangtie Railway Group, respectively managing the railway section KO+000- K324+531.59 (324.634km long, by Hangzhou Branch of Shanghai Railway Bureau), railway section K324+531.59 K889+670 (563.138km long, by Nanchang Railway Bureau) and railway section K889+670-K944+546 (54.876km long, by Changsha Company of Guantie Group). From Hangzhou to Zhuzhou, the Zhe-Gan Railway has 111 railway stations (including six complex railway stations at Hangzhou, five at Yingtan, and two at Zhuzhou), 42 railway stations under the management of Shanghai Bureau, 62 under Nanchang Bureau and 7 under Guantie Group. Along the railway length, there are four key passenger stations (i.e., Hangzhou, Jinhuaxi, Yingtan, and Zhuzhou), two marshalling stations (i.e., Yingtandong and Xiangtangxi) and one regional station (Jinhuadong). 1.1.2 Necessity of of railway electrification The traveling speed-raising of the Zhe-Gan Railway by electrification has great profound significance not only in the state's energy policy adjustment and energy source restructuring, lowering of environmental pollution, improving environmental quality, but also in self-development of railway transprtation industry, enhancing the capability of trunk railway in the network, increasing trunk railway quality, raising train traveling speed, updating the service level, strengthening the competitiveness in transportation market, decreasing the operation cost, increasing the benefit of railway transportation and realizing the sustainable development of the railway transportation industry. At the same time, the scientific and technological level in railway transportation industry can be heightened and modernization of railway service can be promoted. Therefore, it is of great importance to raise the transportation speed of the Zhe-Gan Railway by electrification. A. Necessary for state's energy policy adjustment and energy source restructuring energy utilization Taking electricity as driving power can facilitate using of wide range of natural resources, which enable the state to use the energy in an economically rational way, and is favorable to realize common-sharing of resources and optimum distribution of resources. This can avoid additional long-distance transportation cost caused by oil consumption of railway itself, avoid the non-normal oil loss in storage and transportation, thus, reducing the operational cost of railway operation. This will safeguard the energy supply and prevents the impact of oil price rise caused by the international oil price escalation, thus, getting rid of the impact of oil crisis and obviating the risk. This is also beneficial in take the full advantages of the electric facilities along the railway route and in solving the environmental pollution caused by burning of diesel oil, thus, promoting the environment-friendly development of energy industry. 3  Therefore, rebuilding of the Zhe-Gan Railway by electrification fully reflects the state's energy policy, coincides with the state's orientation in energy development, benefit the implementation of sustainable development strategy of the country. It is the need for state's energy policy adjustment and energy source restructuring energy utilization. B. Favorable to rational distribution of electrified railways The China's Main Technical Policy for Railways points out that electric power driving method should be adopted along the main busy trunk railways, express railway, specific coal-transporting railways, and railways on long inclined slopes and in long tunnels. As a key trunk railway, the electrification of Zhe-Gan Railway will contribute to realizing of electrified railway network in Each China. C. Necessary for improving operational conditions and shooting at even greater market shares The rebuilding of Zhe-Gan Railway by electrification will be favorable to raising the passenger train traveling speed, and arranging passenger trains arriving destinations with a half day, and will improve the service condition to a great extent by which the passengers and cargo owner can be satisfied in traveling speed requirement, cosiness, quickness and keeping on schedule, thus, well positioning the railway service in the future transportation market. D. Necessary for raising traveling speed, lowering operation cost and increasing benefits The Zhe-Gan Railway will not only increase the traveling speed, greatly improve the conditions of attracting passengers, satisfy the demand of transportation volume and enhance the competitiveness in transportation market, but also expedite the circulation of the locomotives and compartments, thus, lowering the operation cost and the benefit of the railway utilization. E. Favorable for reducing pullution to environment and improving environmental conditions After electrification of the railway, except few internal-combustion engine locomotiveswhich will be used for local branch railways, the Zhe-Gan Railway will totally adopt electric-power driven locomotives, which will greatly reduce the pollutant emmision volume. It is estimated that the quantity of emitted smoke volume will be reduced by 38.6%, S02 by 26.7%, NOX by 87% and CO by 48.5%. The energy consumption will be reduced by 250500 tons, and the local environment along the railway routes and around the machine repair spots will be definitely improved. 1.1.3 Significance of the project The Zhe-Gan Railway is the core section of the Shanghai - Kunming Passage, and serves for most of passengers and goods exchange between the East China Region, South China Region and Southwest China Region. The southwestern China has abundant unique resources and is a labor souse concentrated area, thus, having strong economic complementary effect with the East China Region. Along with implementation of Western-Development Strategy, the social and economic deveopment in the western China has geared up on quick track, the connection between the east and west will be more and more tightend and frequent. The Zhe-Gan and Jing-Jiu railways will jointly provide a simpliest and quickest in-land passage between the Yangtze River Delta and Zhujian River Delta, and will provide a good condition for enhancing the connection between the two major economic developed areas. Meanwhile, the Zhe-Gan Railway is also one of the key passages in the East China Region. Therefore, the Zhe-Gan Railway plays an important role in connecting the eastern and western and southern China as well as the internal connection of East China Region, promoting the economic development in the areas along the railway routes, and 4  implementing Western-Development Strategy and shortening the gaps between the eastern and western China. The Zhe-Gan Railway is the important component of the "8-Longitudinal-plus -8-Transverse Railway Network" and the "4-Longitudinal- plus-4-Transverse Express Railway Network" of China. It connects quite a few of trunk and branch railways and is the most important busy railway running across the eastern and western China on the south of the Yangtze River, playing an important role in communicating the East China with Mid China Region, South China Region and Southwest China Region. The Zhejiang Section of the Zhe-Gan Railway is the only railway passage of Zhejiang Province to Fujian Province and Jiangxi Province as well as to the Mid-China Region and Southwest China Region. It is also the key component of the City-to-City Express Railway Network in the Yangtze River Delta. Upon completion of the electrification of Zhe-Gan Railway the traveling speed and cargo capacity of the Railway will be greatly increased. The project is in coincident with the state's policy of energy restructuring and sustainable development strategy, and will promote the social and economic development of Zhejiang Province. 1.2 Project Design and Design Approval The feasibility study report of the project had been completed by March 2002 and was examined at mid March same year by Planning Department and Engineering Appraisal Center of Ministry of Railways. The railway route measurement was completed in mid February - mid May in 2002. The preliminary design of the project by No.2 Railway Investigation and Design Institute (herein after referred to as No. Institute) was completed from April 1St 2002 to end of June same year based on the (draft) examination comments to the feasibility study report, which was examined at mid July in Beijing by the Engineering Appraisal Center of Ministry of Railways. According to the examination comments to the feasibility study report and pre-examination comments to preliminary design of speed-raising project, the preliminary design for expanding capacity and electrification for speed raising component of the project was completed in Oct. 2002. The construction drawings for speed raising project was completed in the first season of 2003. In May 2003, the rebuilding of Zhe-Gan Railway for speed raising was re-studied as requested by the ministry, and the re-design scheme passed the examination organized by the Planning Department of the Ministry in June 2003, and the revised design report was submitted to the Ministry for approval on June 20th and passed the examination of the Engineering Apraisal Center on August 20th 2003. The railway route was re-measured from September 1 st 2003 and the preliminary design report was completed in October 2003. The feasibility study report has been approved by the State Council, and the project listed as one of the 12 new large-scale projects to start constructing in 2003. 1.3 Description of Project The Zhe-Gan Railway is 912.248km long at present (from K30+400-K944+546). In the rebuilding project, 472.242km length will have double lines. After rebuilding, the Railway will be 885.667km in total, which is shortened by 26.581km as compared with the existing Railway. The railway length within the scope of respective railway bureaus is shown in Table 1.1. 5  Railway Length Within Scope of Respective Railway Bureaus Table 1-1 Description Shanghai Nanchang Guangtie Total length Bureau Bureau Group Existing length (left line) 294.234 563.138 54.876 912.248 Length after Left line 281.586 550.534 53.547 885.667 rebuilding Right line 282.308 549.612 53.632 885.552 Single line building plus 18/10.587 37/21.68 32.267 ssingle line rebuilding Two line rebuilding 15/27.108 64/92.441 2/4.902 124.451 Single bypass line 14/20.516 14/46.248 4/13.082 79.846 ._ buildinge Two bypasildines 37/302.479 89/351.489 6/53.952 707.920 building x< Total (counting by single 360.69 511.858 71.936 944.484 In which: shifting 2, distance 0'0.2m 33.04 75.82 4.484 113.344 G Relocatiing distance 27.197 65.661 5.041 97.899 0.2~-2m After rebuilding of the Zhe-Gan Railway, 34 railway stations on trunk line will be closed, they are Puyang, Zhufu, Hongmen, waicheng, Anhua, Suxi, Guantang, Xiaoshun, Gufang, Huzhen, Anren, Nianlijie, Xiazhen, Xhaxi, Luoqiao, Jiudu, Zhujiakeng, Hetanfu, Liujia, yangxi, Siqian, Xiafuji, Zhangwangmiao, Xiaoxiangkou, Tuochuanfu, Xinju, Changfu, Shuixi, Jieshui, Xiapu, Wanghua, Xuanfeng, Laoguan, Banshan. The existing Baiyuan and Lilingdong Railway stations will be changed into the branch railway stations After completion of the electrification of the Railway, a total of 69 railway statiions will be arranged, they are Lingpu, Meichi, Zhujidong, Zhuji, Paitou, Pujiang, Yiwu, Yiting, Tangya, Dongxiao, Jinhuadong, Jinhuaxi, Bailongqiao, Jiangtang, Tangxi, Shilipu, Longyou, Zhangshutan, Quzhou, Houxijie, Jiangshan, Shangpu, Hecun, xintang (totally 24, within the management of Shanghai Bureau); Huyan, Yushan, Guangfeng, Lingxi, Shangrao, Fenglingtou, Kengkou, Hengfeng, Yiyangdong, Hetanfu (at the existing Hantan Railway Station), Guixi, Tongjia, Yingtandong, Yingtan, Yujiang, Dongxiang, Yaqian, Jinxian, Wenjiazheng, Liangjiadu, Xiangtangxi, Jiangjia, Tangang, Fengcheng, Zhangshhu, Zhangjiashan, Lingjiangzhen, Huangtugang, Luofang, Xinyu, Hexia, Fenyi, Bingjiang, Yichun, Xicun, Luxi, Quanjiang, Pingxiangbei, Yaojiazhou, Dengxinqiao (totally 40, within the management of Nanchang Bureau); and Liling, Yuanmenpu, Yaojiaba, Wulidun, Zhuzhou (totally 5 within the management of Guangtie Group). A total of 21 railway stations will be equipped with substations specially to railway operation, they are Zhuji, Yiwu, Jinhuandong, Shilipu, Quzhou, Jiangshan, Yushan, Shangrao, Hengfeng, Guixi, Yujiang, Xiafuji, Xiangtangxi, Fengcheng, Lingjiangzhen, Xinyu, Bingjiang, Xicun, Pingxiangbei, Liling, Yaojiaba and Zhuzhoubei (existing one). There will be 23 railway stations with electric power connecting networks, they are Meichi, Zhuji, Yiwu, Jinhuadong, Longyou, Quzhou, Jiangshan, Yushan, Shangrao, Hengfeng, Guixi, Yingtan (existing one), Yujiang, Jinxian, Xiangtangxi (I, II), Qingyunpu, Fengcheng, Linjiangzhen, Xinyu, Yichun, Pingxiangbei, Liling, Zhuzhou. Of which, the Jinghuadong, Shangrao, Xiangtangxi II and Xinyu are the key stations. 6  The railway stations serving as sub-district stations are Meichi, Pujiang, Xiaoshun, Jiangtang, Anren, Houxijie, Xhaxi, Kengkou, Hantan, Yingtandong, Dongxiang, Zhangwangmiao, Tangang, Zhangshu, Huangtugang, Jieshui, Yichun, Luxi, Laoguan, Banshanpu, and Zhuzhou. The Xiangtnagxi will serve as switching station and the Yingtandong will serve as both sub-district station and switching station. 1.4 Project Impacts The Jiangxi Section of the Zhe-Gan Railway (K324+500- K887+950km) runs through 22 counties/cities/districts, including Yushan, Guangfeng, Xinzhou district of Shangrao city, Shangrao, Hengfeng, Yiyang, Guixi, Yuehu District of Yingtan city, Yujiang, Dongxiang, Jinxian, Nanchang, Fengcheng, Zhangshu, Yushui, Xiannuhe District, Fenyi, Yuanzhou District of Yichun city, Luxi, Anyuan Econoimc District, Anyuan and Xiangdong districts of Pingxiang city. The project land requisition and house relocation will affect 252 administrative villages (neighborhood committees) in 71 towns/townships/ street communities, farms and development zones. A total of 12187.9 mu of various kinds of lands will be requisitioned, including 8600.5 mu of farmland, 2218.9 mu of woodlands, 1300.8 mu of building lands, 69.9 mu of unused lands. The project will temporarily ocuupy 3177.2mu lands, including 2276.6 mu of farmland, 614.8 mu of woodlands, 276.3 mu f building lands and 9.5 mu of unused lands. A total of 422017m2 houses will be relocated, they belong to 5277 PAPs of 1421 households in 70 administrative villages of 46 towns (townships/ street communities/ farms/ development zones), including 262491m2 of brick-concrete houses, 145806m2 of brick-wood houses, 13529m2of clay-wood houses and 191 m2 of simple houses. In addition, the project will also affect 87137 trees scattered in the project affected areas and a few sppecial items. 1.5 Measures To Alleviate Project Impacts 1.5.1 In project planning and design stage The project construction will certainly cause land requisition, house relocation and inhabitant displacement, and will unavoidably affect the existing living and production conditions of the local inhabitants. During project planning and design stage, the designer and project owner have envisaged some measures to alleviate project impacts to local social and economic conditions, including: A. In design scheme optimization and comparison, due considerations have been made in project impacts to local social and economic conditions and the project impacts were taken as key factors in the optimization and comparison of the design scheme. B. In order to reduce the quantity of requisitioned land and number of displaced inhabitants, the designer follows the principle of "keeping the prject site away from the densely populated area and reduce quantity of house relocation where possible, and minimizing the area of requisitioned land and farmland as well". C. Efforts were made to optimize the construction design, shorten the construction period, and reasonably schedule the house demolishing and rebuilding and construction time. 1.5.2 In project implementation stage A. Enhance the public participation mechanism. Before project construction, public notices were distributed, stating the construction commencement date, and planned construction schedules, and publicizing the compensation criteria for resettlement, house relocation and land reuisition. This is aiming at receiving the public supervision of the project affected sites. B. Adopt dust-reducing measures. In order to keep the project construction sites in a clean and neat environment condition and to reduce the impact of construction ot the surroundings, water spraying for preventing dusts from the construction access roads in the population densed areas in those days with fine weather and wind. The The contractors are required to timely remove the excavated soil and rock through the well-planned mucking 7  routes, prevent overloading of the vehicles and adopt measures to avoid rock and soil spilling out of the vehicles along the access roads. C. Treatment of wastes produced at construction sites. As the project construction period is long, there will be a large number of construction staff and workers, and a large quantity of living rubbish and wastes of various kinds will be produced at the construction sites, the project owner and contractors should timely clean off the rubish and wastes according to the local environmental and sanitation authorities so as to keep the sites clean and prevent epidemics. D. During project construction, the local construction materials should be first adopted and the local transportation service and labors should be used first so far as technically feasible, so that the PAPs can be benefited from the project construction. 1.5.3 In resettlement action planning and implementation stage In case when the house relocation and land requisition are unavoidable, the following measures should be adopted to reduce the project impact ot the local conditions. A. Strengthening the basic date collection, in-depth analysis on the existing and future development of the local social and economic conditions, and an operatable RAP should be worked out with due consideration of the local reality, so as to safeguard that the living standard of the PAPs will not be lowered as a result of the project construction. B. Enhance the internal and external monitoring and establish the effective message feedback mechanism and channels. Efforts should be made to shorten the information handling circle to ensure the problems encountered to be handled in time. C. Effective measures should be adopted by the contractors to minimize the project construction ot the local production system. 1.6 Project Schedule According to the general project schedule, the project construction commenced on Feb.28th 2004. The planned construction period is about four years, in which 20 months will be for the speed-raising works (completed in Oct. 2005) and 14 months for electrification works (completed in Dec. 2006). According to the general project schedule, the preparatory work for resettlement implementation has been completed and the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) prepared in the light of the World Bank guideline will be submitted in March 2004 to the World Bank for appraisal. The resettlement implementation started in Feb. 2004. The official formalities for land requisition, house relocation and inhabitant displacement are underway now and the resettlement work are planned to complete before Jun. 2005, and the monitoring and evaluation on the land requisition, house relocation and inhabitant displacement will be followed according to the World Bank requirements. 1.7 Preparation for Resettlement, Monitoring and Evaluation 1.7.1 Breakdown of affected inventories and supplementary survey In Jan. - Mar. 2004, under the leadership of Ministry of Railways, Shanghai Railway Bureau, Nanchang Railway Bureau and Guangtie Group, the Project Investigation Working Group was established, which is staffed by the persons from the Zhe-Gan Railway Project Command Offices of Shanghai Railway Bureau, Nanchang Railway Bureau and Guangtie Group, resettlement advisory unit, local government departments at different levels and relevant organizations along the railway (Jiangxi Section). With the technical guidance of East China Investigation and Design Institute (the resettlement advisory unit of the Project) the Working Group broke down the affected inventory indexes provided by No.2 Institute in Oct. 2003, which resulted from the survey within the scope of land requisition and resettlement as determined in the revised preliminary design, and carried out supplementary survey. In addition, based on the survey into the social and economic conditions and environmental capacity for resettlement in the project-afected areas, the resettlement 8  advasory unit provided the technical guidance and consultation in analysis on environmental capacity for resettlement and formulation of the plans of land requisition, house relocation and inhabitant displacement. The work in these two months was actively supported by the local governments at all levels as well as the village (neighborhood) committees and the PAPs. Inventory breakdown and supplementary survey cover different affected objectives including various types of requisitioned land, affected population, relocated houses and annexes, fruit trees and woods and relocated special items, etc. 1.7.2 Social and economic survey In order to analyze the project impact and formulate a feasible PAR, the project command offices of Shanghai Railway Bureau, Nanchang Railway Bureau and Gunagtie Company, resettlement consulting unit, local governments, and relevant units along the railway, conducted detailed social and economic survey at the project affected areas and host sites. The survey covered the land resources, industrial structures, economic level, income and expense condition, population, living mode, culture and custom, traffic condition, natural resources and possible future development, etc. The survey was carried out by data collectin and sampling, and based on the data and information obtained, the existing local social and economic conditions and actual living and production conditions were analyzed. 1.7.3 Resettlement plan The resettlement planning of the project was carried out under the leadship of the local county (city,district) governments, which was based on the project affected scope, and quantity of the affected inventory. The plan was prepared based on the opinions of the villagers and resettlers and the actual conditions of the affected townships, (towns, farms, development districts) and villages. The main measures to be adopted in the resettlement are re-allocating the land within the original villages and village groups, improving the infrastructures, developing the secondary and tertiary industies, economic compensation and procuring endowment insurance. It is to carry out the principle of production-developable reseettlement so as to ensure that the host sites possess the basic materially living conditions and the potential for future development, and to combine the resettlement with the regional economic development so that the PAPs can restore their living standard or even better than that before resettlement. 1.7.4 Preparation of resettlement monitoring and evaluation The project owner has entrusted Importing and exploiting Researching Office of Xinan Jiaotong University to carry out the independent resettlement monitoring and evaluation for the project. The preparation of resettlement plan was organized by the project owner and participated by the project design unit, monitoring and evaluation unit and local governments at all levels. The monitoring and evaluation unit provided the technical consulting service, the design unit defined the resettlement scope and the local governments were responsible for formulating the specific schemes for land requisition and house relocation and inhabitant resettlement. Since March 2004, a great deal of work has been completed, including successive estaablishment of resettlement organizations, determination of project affected scope, work outline of the the RAP, survey of the project affected inventories, social and economic survey, research work for policy adoption, formulation of the resettlement schemes, cost estimate for resettlement compensation, etc.. The RAP of the project was finalized and preparation for resettlement monitoring and evaluation was completed. 1.8 Policy Frame and Targets of RAP 1.8.1 Policy frame This RAP is prepared maily based on the current state laws and statutes, relevant implementation regulations of relating provinces, the safeguard policy of the World Bank, and the design documents of this project, which mainly include: 9  (1) The Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China (Promulgated by Order No.8 of President of the Peoples' Republic of China on August 29, 1998, and effective as of January 1, 1999); (2) Implementation Regulations for Land Administration Law of the Peoples Republic of China (Promulgated by Order No.256 of the State Council of the Peoples Republic of China on December 27, 1998, and effective as of January 1, 1999); (3) Rural Land Contract Law; (4) Organization Law of Villager Committees; (5) Land Administration Law and Land Administration Regulations of Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Hunan Province; (6) Non-Voluntary Resettlement, Operational Policy OP 4.12 of the World Bank; (7) Design documents, relevant drawings and survey results of the project; (8) Othe relevant documents and information. 1.8.2 Policy Objectives (1) Adopting engineering, technological, economical measures to avoid and reduce land requisition and house relocation; however, when land requisition and house relocation is unavoidable, effective measures should be adopted to reduce impacts on production activities and living conditions of local residents. (2) In the preparation stage of the project, social economic investigation should be conducted and relative resettlement plans should be compiled. (3) Resettlement plan should be based on the affectted property indexes and compensation standards to improve, and at least to restore the original living standard of resettlers. (4) Promoting developmental resettlement. Resettlement of rural part should be based on the land, and supported on advanced local second and third industries to. seek more employment. (5) Encouraging resettlers and original residents in the resettlement area to take part in the resettlement plan. (6) Resettlement will be first settled in the original communities (7) Resettlement and original residents in the resettlement area will benefit for the project. l0  2 Natural Social and Economic Conditions of Project-Affected Provinces 2.1 Natural Social and Economic Conditions of Zhejiang Province Zhejiang Province is located at the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta along the southeast coast, which is named after the largest river called Qiantang (or Zhejiang) River. There are two cities at sub-province level, nine cities at prefecture level, 36 counties, 22 cities at county level and 32 districts under the jurisdiction of cities. This province is famous as called "a land of fish and rice, home of silk and tea leave, country of historic relics and scenic area for tourist". The province is one of the smallest province, having a total land of 101800 sq. km, accounting to 1.06% of the country. Among the whole land, hills and knaps account to 70.4%, plains and basins account to 23.2% and rivers and lakes to 6.4%. Zhejiang Province has a vast sea area densely dotted with islands, the coast line of the province is totally some 6400km, ranking the top of the country. There are 3061 islands which has land area over 500 sq.m., ranking the top of the country. The province can be divided into six topographical zones, i.e., North Zhejiang Plain, West-Mid Zhejiang Hilly Land, Jinya Basin in Mid Zhejiang, South Zhejiang Mountainous Zone, Southeast Coastal Zone and Island Zone. The coast line in Zhejiang Province zigzags along the sea shore, which forms a number of bays, such as Hangzhou Bay, Xiangshan Bay, Sanmen Bay and Yueqing Bay, etc. The Hangzhou Bay is the largest of all, where the horn-shape Qiantang River estuary runs into the sea. The tidal effect at the estuary causes the famous Qiantang Bores at haining County. There are many rivers running in the province, forming eight major river systems, they are Qiantang, Oujiang, Lingjiang, Tiaoxi, Nanjiang, FeiyunJiang, Aojiang and Cao'ejiang river system. The Qiantang River is about 605km long and is the longest one in the province. Besides, the Grand Canal starts from Hangzhou and runs 129km distance in the province, and it flows across the middle part of the Hang-Jia-Hu Plain. The West Lake in Hangzhou, East Lake in Shaoxing, South Lake in Jiaxing and Dongqian Lake in Ninxian County are the four most famous lakes of the province. The sub-tropic climate prevails over the Provice, where the four seasons are clearly divided and sunshine is sufficient. At the main cities, the annual average temperature is 18