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RP282 HANGJIANG HUBEI PROVINCE CUIJIlAYING NAVIGATION AND HYDROPOWER PROJECT RESTTLEMENT ACTION PLAN IBRD-Loan Office of Hubei Provincial Communication Bureau East China Investigation and Design Institute December 2004, Hangzhou   HANGJIANG HUBEI PROVINCE CUIJIAYING NAVIGATION AND HYDROPOWER PROJECT RESTTLEMENT ACTION PLAN IBRD-Loan Office of Hubei Provincial Communication Bureau East China Investigation and Design Institute December 2004, Hangzhou  Approved by: Gong Heping Reviewed by: Qiu Jingsong Checked by: Xu Chunjai Prepared by: Gu Chunrong Zheng Bingbing Xu Chunhai Participated by: Wang Yanghong Du Jinlie Guo Chenglin Deng Zuohai Liu Yaoxing Li Qiang Xing Baoxiong Wang Xiaoli Zhao Yuntao Sang Tao Liang Li  RAP of Cuijiaying Project List of Contents Drawing I: ...... Locatin Map of Cuijiaying Navigation and Hydropower Project vi OBJECTIVES OF RESETTLEMENT PLAN AND DEFINITION OF RESETTLEMENT TERMINOLOGY ........................................................1 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION ........................................................3 1.1 Project background ........................................................3 1.2 Conditions of the project ........................................................4 1.3 Service scope and construction importance of the project ..................... 5 1.4 Project Schedule ............5...........................................5 1.5 Measures for Minimizing Project Impact .................................................6 1.5.1 Planning and design stages ....................................................... 6 1.5.2 Construction stage ....................................................... 6 1.5.3 Resettlement implementation stage ............................................. 7 1.6 Project Design and Approval ......................................................8 1.7 Preparation of Resettlement Plan ........................................................8 1.7.1 Survey of Project Impact ....................................................... 8 1.7.2 Social and Economic Survey ....................................................... 8 1.7.3 Resettlement Plan ....................................................... 9 1.8 Preparation of Resettlement Action Plan .............................................. 10 1.9 Bases and Target of Preparation of RAP ............................................ 10 1.9.1 Policy Frame ....................................................... 10 1.9.2 Target ....................................................... 10 2. NATURAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF PROJECT-AFFECTED AREAS .................................... 12 2.1 Natural conditions .. .................................. 12 2.1.1 Geographical location ................................... 12 2.1.2 Topography and geomorphy ................................... 12 2.1.3 Geology of the Reservoir Area ................................... 12 2.1.4 Hydrography and meteorology .................................... 13 2.1.5 Soil and vegetation ................................... 14 2.2 Social and Economical Conditions of Project-affected Area, Xiangfan City and its Districts ................................... 15 I ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~i  RAP of Cuijiaying Project 2.3 Social and Economic Conditions of Towns (Subdistricts) and Villages in Project-affected Areas ..................................................... 22 2.4 Outline of Farmers' Economic Life in Affected Area ............................ 27 2.5 Basic Household Economic Status for Affected Relocatees .............. 28 2.5.1 Selection of Sample ..................................................... 28 2.5.2 Investigated Result and Analysis . ............................................... 29 3. PROJECT IMPACT ................................................... 36 3.1 Definition of Scope of land requisition and house relocation ............ 40 3.1.1 Reservoir inundation area ....................................... 40 3.1.2 Scope of land requisition for construction site . . 43 3.2 Survey of Indexes in Kind ....................................... 43 3.3 Indexes in Kind Affected by Project ....................................... 45 3.3.1 Permanent land occupation ....................................... 45 3.3.2 Temporary land requisition for construction . .56 3.3.3 Project Affected People ..58 3.3.4 Relocation of houses and appendages . .59 3.3.5 Rural production and living facilities . .66 3.3.6 Scattered trees ..66 3.3.7 Individual industrial and commercial businesses ..67 3.3.8 Enterprises ..67 3.3.9 Project-affected special items ..69 3.3.10 Project affected vulnerable groups . .74 3.4 Analysis on Project Impact .75 3.4.1 Direct Impact on Agricultural Production and Economic Revenue ... 75 3.4.2 Analysis on Impact to regional economic development . 76 4. POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR RESETTLEMENT .79 4.2 Relevant Stipulations in Applicable Laws and Regulations .80 4.2.1 Relevant stipulations of the Land Administrative Law of the People's Republic of China .80 4.2.2 Interim Regulations of the People's Republic of China on Taxation of Plowland Occupation 83 ii  RAP of Cuijiaying Project 4.2.3 Implementation Rules of Hubei Provice for Land Administration84 4.2.5 Regulations on Inland River Administarion of The People's Republic of China ........................................................ 86 4.2.6 Relevant Policies in Involuntary Resettlement (0P4.12) of The World Bank ........................................................ 87 4.3 Compensation Criteria ........................................................ 88 4.3.1 Compensation of requisitioned and occupied land .................... 88 4.3.2 Compensation of houses and appendages ................................. 92 4.3.3 Compensation Criterial for infrastrctures ................................... 96 4.3.4 Moving allowance and temporary transition subsidies .............. 97 4.3.5 Compensation of scattered trees ................................................ 97 4.3.6 Compensation of business households ...................................... 97 4.3.7 Compensation of special items ................................................... 98 4.4 Entitlement Matrix ........................................................ 99 5. RESETTLEMENT AND RESTORATION PLANNING . ........................ 103 5.1 Targets and Tasks ................................................ 103 5.1.1 Targets ........................................................ 103 5.1.2 Resettling Population ........................................................ 103 5.2 Policy and Principle of Resettlement Planning .................................. 104 5.2.1 Policy of resettlement planning ................................................... 104 5.2.2 Principle of resettlement planning .............................. 104 5.3 Overall Scheme of Resettlement ..................................... 105 5.4 Resettlement Environmental Capacity Analysis . ....................... 106 5.4.1 Natural condition and land resource ............................................ 106 5.4.2 Resettlement characteristic and relation between land and population ........................................................ 106 5.4.3 Condition of production and living facilities . ..................... 107 5.4.4 Economic development and potential in affected area . ............. 108 5.5 Resettlement Planning of Rural Resettlers . ............................ 108 5.5.1 Restoration plan for production and living .................................. 108 5.5.2 Use and guarantee measures of compensation capital .............. 114 iii  RAP of Cuijiaying Project 5.5.3 Balance of farmland occupation and supplementation ........ ....... 116 5.5.4 Infrastructure plan of host site ..................................................... 116 5.5.5 Disposition of public service facility in host site ........................ 117 5.5.6 Community management and resettler's house construction .... 117 5.5.7 Implementation and management of resettlement . ................. 117 5.5.8 Training plan ............................................... 117 5.6 Resettlement plan of individual business household . ................... 118 5.7 Relocation Plan of industrial enterprise ............................................. 118 5.8 Rebuilding plan of special items ..................................... 119 5.8.1 Rebuilding plan ............................................................. 119 5.8.2 Reconstruction plan of municipal facilities . ...................... 121 5.8.3 Cultural relic protection planning ............................... 123 5.8.4 Protection works planning ........................................................... 123 6. COST ESTIMATE ON LAND REQUISITION AND COMPENSATION FOR RELOCATEES ............................................................. 137 6.1 Basis of Preparation ............................................................. 140 6.2 Principle of Compensation ............................................................. 140 6.3 Estimate on Compensation Investment .............................................. 141 6.3.1 Compensation Estimate on Reservoir Inundation Area ............ 141 6.3.2 Compensation Cost Estimate for Construction Area . .............. 144 6.3.3 Independent Cost ............................................................. 146 6.3.4 Physical Contingency ............................................................. 148 6.3.5 Loan Interest Rate During Construction . ........................ 148 6.3.6 Total Compensation Cost Estimate ............................ 148 7. IMPLEMENTATION RESETTLEMENT PLAN ............................... 162 7.1 Implementation Procedures ............................................................. 162 7.2 Progress Schedule ............................................................. 164 7.3 Fund Flow and fund Allocation Schedule .......................................... 166 7.3.1 Fund Flow ............................................................. 166 7.3.2 Funds Allocation Plan ............................................................. 167 8. INSTITUTIONAL ORGANIZATION ........................................ 169 8.1 Establishing of Organizations ............................................................. 169 8.2 Responsibilities .............................................................. 169 iv  RAP of Cuijiaying Project 8.3 Staffing ................................................ 173 8.4 Working Relation between Organizations ........................................... 177 8.5 Measures for Enhancing Capacity of Organizations ......................... 178 9. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION . .......................... 180 9.1 Public participation ................................................ 180 9.1.1 Public Participation in Project Preparation Stage ................. 180 9.1.2 Participation In RAP Preparation . ............................. 181 9.1.3 Participation in Implementation of RAP . ......................... 186 9.2 Responding to Grievance and Appeal ................................................ 187 10. MONITORING AND EVALUATION . . .189 10.1 Internal Monitoring .189 10.1.1 TargetandTasks ..189 10.1.2 Institution and Staff ..189 10.1.3 Indicators to be Monitored ..189 10.1.4 Monitoring procedures ..190 10.2 External Independent Monitoring and Evaluation . .190 10.2.1 Target and Tasks ..190 The external monitoring and evaluation (M&E) by an institution independent to the resettlement execution institutions is to monitor and evaluate whether the target of the land requisition, resettlement and relocation activities are realized, by which evaluation opinions and proposals will be put forward on the resettlement, housing relocation and restoration of the resettler's living standards, and to provide predicting alarm system to the project management, and reflecting channel to the resettlers ..190 10.2.2 Main Indicators to be Monitored and Evaluated. 191 10.2.3 Monitoring and Evaluation Measures .191 10.2.4 Working Processes .193 11. REPORT COMPILING PLAN ..195 11.1 Resettlement report .195 11.2 Progress report .195 11.3 Independent Resettlement Monitoring and Evaluation Report ..196 v  RAP of Cuijiaying Project ATTACHMENT: .............................................................. 198 Attachment 1: List of Villages Affected By Project ..................................... 198 Attachment 2: Visiting Records .............................................................. 200 Attached Drawings: .............................................................. 209 Drawing l: Locatin Map of Cuijiaying Navigation and Hydropower Project Drawing Il: Schematic Drawing of Reservoir Innundation of Cuijiaying Navigation and Hydropower Project Drawing III: Schematic Drawing of Land Acquisition Scope for Cuijiaying Navigation and Hydropower Project vi  RAP of Cuijiaying Project Objectives of Resettlement Plan and Definition of Resettlement Terminology This Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) is prepared according to the Laws and Regulations of PRC and relevant local government, as well as the resettlement policy set in OP4.12/BP4.12 - "Involuntary Resettlement" of the World Bank. 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". A definition of PAPs is given below: "PAPs" means persons who on account of the execution of the project had or would have their standard of living adversely affected; or their 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 their business, occupation, work or place of residence or habitat adversely affected. PAPs may be individuals or legal entities such as a company, a public institution, including: (1) persons who have a title, right, interest, in land (including house plot, land for public facilities, agriculture, forest, husbandry, fishery and sideline production and grazing), structures (private houses and their attachments, enterprises, or public buildings), or any other asset acquired or possessed, in full or in part, permanently or temporarily; (2) persons who use the structures, land or assets described above; or persons whose business, occupation, work, place of residence or habitat adversely affected; or (3) persons whose standard of living is adversely affected as a consequence of land acquisition and/or resettlement activities. In WB's definition of PAPs, all such persons who are affected will need to considered and recorded as PAPs, regardless of their legal connection to assets land or way of living or occupation, therefore, should also include: (1) all those affected by the project regardless of their legal rights or absence thereof to the assets being taken; and (2) persons without residential permit to live in a certain area. 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. 1  RAP of Cuijiaying Project 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 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: The Resettlement means arrangement of production and livelihood for the PAPs to to ensure that they will benefit from the project, mainly including: 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. The term REHABILITATION includes: The 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  RAP of Cuijiaying Project 1. General Description 1.1 Project background Cuijiaying Navigation and Hydropower Project is one cascade of comprehensive development for utilization of the middle and downstream water resources of Hanjiang River. According to the natural conditions of the river basin, the social economic state and national economic development requirements, in the past several times of water resource comprehensive utility plan, cascade development was put forwards for the Hangjiang mainstream section from Danjiangkou mouth to Xinglong River, and the downstream reach from Xinglong was planned to execute project of introducing water to Hanjiang River to improve navigation, upgrade irrigation and produce hydropower under the perquisite of meeting flood control requirement. Xiangfan City, located in the linking place of Sichuan, Sanxi, Henan and Hubei, is one of intersection centers of east-west and north-south railways and undertaking heavy loading and transportation tasks of railways. It is a main coal transfer point for combined railway and waterway in the state energy transportation frame, and has excellent geographic position and foundation and conditions to be built as comprehensive traffic Project. In the state arterial waterway plan, the rivers in the middle and down stream of Hanjiang River have been listed in grade IlIl channel network with function of corporate transportation of river and ocean meeting 1000-tonnage ship navigational requirement. The construction of Cuijiaying Navigation and Electricity Project can not only pave solid foundation for changing the river sections in the reservoir area into 1 000-tonage channels, but also provide good water and land areas for reconstruction of the ports located in old dense-populated downtown in Xiangfan City and supply good foundation for Xiangfan City to be built as a comprehensive traffic Project city. Hubei Province is much poor in coal resources. According to the prediction from the electricity authority, Xiangfan electrical network will have a shortage of 159MW-640MW in 2010. The construction of the Project can make full use of water resources, install generator 96MW near the load center to annually generate power 439MW.h, and make-up 1/2-1/4 of the electricity gap, which will play a good role for improve industry and agriculture production and construction in Xiangfan area. Meanwhile, after completion of the next stage (Yakou Project), the station can undertake the task of hump modulation. 3  RAP of Cuijiaying Project The Project is developed mainly navigation and also for navigation and power generation. It can make full use of water resources and improve the navigational conditions of the middle and downstream of Hanjiang River, and is an important measures to comprehensively utilize the water resource. Although the Project will not undertake irrigation tasks, by building the Project, the water flow and riverbeds in the reservoir area can be changed and the riverbed conditions like variable bed width, depth and beaches will be improved, which will indirectly stabilize the lifting-pumping and lifting-irrigating intake for urban water supply and farmland irrigation. From the above, in order to meet the requirement of resource and economy development of Hubei Province, make full use of rich water resources, upgrade the regional channels and improve the regional economy development and people's life conditions, it is necessary and urgent to build Cuijiaying Navigation and Electricity Project. 1.2 Conditions of the project Cuijiaying Navigation and Hydropower Project is located in section from Danjiang River mouth to Zhongxiang River of the middle stream of Hanjiang Rive, 17km downstream Xiangfan City, Hubei Province. It is the fifth stage of the nine-stage development in the arterial rivers of Hanjiang River within Hubei Province, 134 km away from Danjiangkou Water Project and 515km from the river mouth. It is a comprehensive development project integrated mainly with navigation also with power generation, irrigation, aquatic product culture, environment protection and tourism. Cuijiaying Navigation and Electricity Project is a low water head runoff type power station, composed of dam, ship lock, drainage lock, station workshop, switch station, connection system and conveyance facilities. The dam top elevation is 66.00m (Huanghai elevation, hereinafter same) and under normal storage level 63.23m, the reservoir capacity is 285 million m3. The power station will adopt riverbed type workshop and install six 1600 KW bulb penetration-flow units of total installed capacity 96,000KW and average annual generated electricity 439 million KW.h The land acquisition for the project will involve 8 towns (subdistricts) and 35 4  RAP of Cuijiaying Project villages (neighborhood committees) in Xiangcheng District, Fancheng District, Xiangyan District and Yuliangzhou Tourism Economy Development Area, 67 families (261 people) will be resettled, the house 58706.8m2 will be removed, and 41952.6 mu land acquisitioned (including collective land 338.4 mu and state-owned land 41614.2 mu), 17975 pieces of trees cut off (including 4672 pieces of economic trees and 13303 pieces of others). The PAPs are all of Han nationality. The works to be impacted include telecommunication works (buried optical cable 6.4km, overhead optical cable 1.6km), 35kV electrical wire 1.4km, historic relics 2 places, some municipal and water conservancy facilities. In addition, 8 enterprises and 5 private-owned traders and some rural production facilities would be impacted. 1.3 Service scope and construction importance of the project After the project is completed, the river channels from Danjiangkou to Cuijiaying will be upgraded to Class IlIl standard for the navigational of 1000-tonnage ships (fleets), which will improve the poor natural conditions and variable river features in this river, and promote resource and economy development of the south of Shaaxi Province and the areas along Hanjiangg River within Hubei Province. Cuijiaying Navigation and Electricity Project is very near the load center and it will mitigate the tight situation of power supply in Xiangfan city and play an important role in economic construction and city development. In addition, Tangbaihe river basin, a branch of Hanjiang River is the area of the least rainwater in this province, the Project construction will improve Dagang Pump Station intaking conditions, meet the requirement on irrigation of 1.77 million mu farmland in Tangdong area and improve the benefits of comprehensive utilization of water resources. 1.4 Project Schedule According to the general project schedule, the construction of the main project structures will start in Julu 2005, the reservoir impoundment will start in Sept. 2008, the first generating unit operates in Oct. 2008 and the project will be completed in Nov. 2009. The total construction period of the project is 4 years and 5 months. Based on the general project schedule, the preparatory work for resettlement has been completed and preparation of the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) is underway according to the World Bank Guidelines. The implementation of resettlement work will be started in the second half of 2005, including continuing of formality procedures of land requisition and housing relocation and displacement of inhabitants. The implementation plan of land requisition and inhabitant resettlement are detailed in Chapter 7 hereof. 5  RAP of Cuijiaying Project 1.5 Measures for Minimizing Project Impact 1.5.1 Planning and design stages During project planning and design stages, the design organization and the project owner have adopted a series of effective measures to reduce the impact of the project on the local social and economic status. A. In the planning stage, the resettlement schemes were optimized and selected with due consideration in social and economic impact of the project, and such impact was taken as the key factors in selective comparison of the schemes. B. The layout of the project complex (including shiplock, switchyard, living quarters, etc.) is so arranged as to reduce occupation of cultivated land and keep away from the resident concentrated areas and enterprises (such as Sanlida Cement Factory and Qianying Substation, etc.) The normal reservoir water levels is rationally selected to minimize the negative impact of the project to irrigation and municipal facilities. C. Efforts is made to adopt engineering measures for reducing the reservoir inundation losses. It is planned to adopt engineering measures to protect the unstable sections of the reservoir banks (such as those between Lijiaxiang - dam site, Qinghekou - Zhangwan on the left bank, and those between Yuanjiaxiang - dam site, Tanbaihe estuary on the right bank) and build conventional protection or retaining wall at some important sections based on the local geological conditions, so as to prevent bank collapse. D. The construction design was optimized to shorten the construction period and the time period of house removal and resettlement were rationally arranged with due consideration of construction progress so as to reduce the property loss of the resettlers to a minimum. For example, the house removal and rebuilding are generally arranged in the slack seasons and use of the requisitioned land after the crops are harvested. 1.5.2 Construction stage A. Strengthening public participation mechanism Before project construction, the public notice was issued in the project affected areas and the new resettlement areas clearly inform the planned project schedules, the compensation policies of land requisition, inhabitant resettlement and house removal so as to receive the public supervision. In the construction period, the local construction materials will be first considered, and the local transportation means and local labors will be first adopted so far as they can meet the technical requirement. The purpose is to make the PAPs benefit from the project. 6  RAP of Cuijiaying Project B. Measures to reduce floating dusts To maintain a clean environment in the construction site and reduce the construction impact to the surroundings, the construction roads at the inhabitant concentrated places will be water sprayed in case of continuous windy fine days to prevent floating dusts. The contractors will be requested to timely treated the earth/rock transportation roads, overloading of vehicles is not allowed and measures should be adopted to prevent spilling out, so as to keep a neat construction environment. C. Strengthening epidemic disease prevention and control During construction, large number of population will move onto the project area to provide various services. To maintain the public security and the health of the people in the area and prevent propagation and contagion, the project owner will request the local governments to strengthen the public security patrol and request the contractors to clean up the living wastes at the construction sites according to the requirement of the local environmental sanitation authorities. The people from outside will be registered for quarantine and receive bacterin. Monitoring will be strengthened on epidemic diseases, and various epidemic diseases and diseases of natural epidemic focus will be regularly recorded and analyzed. New disease will be treated whenever found. Generally, statistics of diseases will be made once each season, and the reporting system of epidemic situation will be established, and the epidemic case should be reported in shortest time and corresponding measures should be adopted to control the contagion. 1.5.3 Resettlement implementation stage In case that the land requisition and house removal are unavoidable, the following measures should be adopted to reduce the project impact to the local situation. A. Basic data collection should be strengthened, and in-depth analysis on local social and economic status and development trends. The implementation plan that is practical to the local situation should be formulated to ensure that the living standard of the PAPs not be lowered by the construction of the project. B. Measures will be adopted to minimize the project impact. For example, in planning the resettlement, efforts will be made to use the natural bays in the reservoir for aquiculture, and to improve the land utilization condition and increase land sources in combination of the reservoir bank protection. C. The internal and external monitoring should be strengthened and the efficient 7  RAP of Cuijiaying Project information feedback system and channels should be established to shorten the information processing cycle to a possible extent. It focuses on the timely solving the problems rising in the implementation of the resettlement. 1.6 Project Design and Approval The project is designed by the Hubei Provincial Communication Planning and Design Institute. The institute completed the Feasibility Study Report of Cuijiaying Navigation and Electric Power Project on Hanjiang River (revised edition of 2003, which passed the appraisal and approval of the China International Engineering Consulting Co. and Ministry of Communication. During design of the project, the designers have made technical and economic studies by comparison of several selective dam sites with various selective normal reservoir storage levels. For the proposed selective project schemes, the designers determined the final scheme based on the economic justification involving, among others, various aspects such as the project impact to the local economy, land requisition and inhabitant resettlement, environmental impact assessment, geological structure, hydro-geology, topography and geomorphology, and construction conditions, etc. The project owner will soon arrange the preliminary design approval and construction design. 1.7 Preparation of Resettlement Plan 1.7.1 Survey of Project Impact According to the scope of inhabitant resettlement and land requisition defined by the design institute, the project owner, Hubei Provincial Communication Bureau entrusted Hubei Provincial Communication Planning and Design Institute to organize a survey team to carry out the overall survey for the project with the technical guidance of East China Investigation and Design Institute. The survey, which lasted for more than one month from the end of June 2004 to the beginning of August 2004, was performed on the indexes in kind, including buildings and their appendages, land, special items and scattered trees and status of PAPs in the project affected areas. The survey teams were actively supported and assisted by the local governments, village committees and the PAPs. According to the type of the affected objectives, the project impact survey were categorized into land requisition, house and appendage relocation, scattered fruit tree felling, enterprises relocation, special items relocation and PAPs to be resettled due to house relocation and land requisition. All the survey outputs were confirmed by the PAPs or the concerned organizations. 1.7.2 Social and Economic Survey For analysis on the project impact and formulation of feasible RAP, the competent departments of Xiangfan City and various districts organized, with the uniform arrangement by the project owner, the detail social and economic survey in 8  RAP of Cuijiaying Project the districtz (town, subdistrict), villages, village groups and resettlers in the project affected area and resettlement host areas. The survey is performed by collecting existing statistic data and site sample surveying, and can be divided in two aspects. (1) Basic conditions, social and economic status quo and development plan: Collecting from the planning, statistics and price management departments of the local governments data and information, documents and yearly statistic reports about GNP, national income, output value of industry and agriculture, financial revenue, income level of local people, price information of agricultural products and sideline products, agricultural cultivation structures, area of plantation, output per mu and plowland holding condition. All the information collected was analyzed and sorted into various economic indexes which can macroscopically reflect the local economic and social conditions. (2) Existing living and production conditions of the inhabitants in the area: The living and production indexes of the inhabitants in the land requisition and resettlement areas are established and sample survey of the affected objects are conducted. The data collection and sample survey were performed simultaneously with the survey of indexes in kind. According to the data actually surveyed, the actual living and production conditions of the local inhabitants and the existing social and economic conditions were analyzed. 1.7.3 Resettlement Plan The resettlement of the project is to be carried out on the developable base, that is, the resettlement host area is provided with basic materials for people's living and at the same time has the potential for long-term development. The resettlement will be incorporated into the regional economic development so that the resettlers are able to gradually become well off and their life will be equal to or better than before resettlement. The resettlement planning is under the leadership of the Xiangfan City government and the governments of ffected districts. The detail survey was first made into the residual land sources on the village group base and the remaining resettlement capacity was determined. Then, after collecting the villagers' opinions and based on the actual conditions of each town (subdistrict) and village (neighborhood committee), the resettlement method and scheme were drafted and discussed by the village management. As the project construction will not much influence the local economy, the resettlement is basically by re-allocating part of farmland within the village and village group or reclaim the wasteland or adjusting the plantation structures, so that the resettlers living and production condition can be restored or better than before resettlement. Meanwhile, in order to strengthen the leadership and coordination of the resettlement work, the concerned cities, counties (prefectures) established Project 9  RAP of Cuijiaying Project Resettlement Leading Groups successively. 1.8 Preparation of Resettlement Action Plan The preparatory work for resettlement action planning was organized by the project owner (Hubei Provincial Communication Bureau) and participated by the concerned design institute, resettlement consulting organization and local governments at different levels. East China Investigation and Design Institute provided the technical guidance, the project designed set the boundaries of resettlement areas and the local government was responsible for formulation of the resettlement schemes for the territory under their jurisdiction. Since June 2004, the resettlement organizations at different levels were successively established, the project affected areas were defined, the work outlines of RAP was prepared, and the survey of indexes in kind, social and economic survey, policy formulation, resettlement schemes and compensation estimation were completed. Now, the Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) of the project and the preparation of resettlement monitoring and evaluation have been completed. 1.9 Bases and Target of Preparation of RAP 1.9.1 Policy Frame A. Land Law of the People's Republic of China B. Interim Regulation of the People's Republic of China on Taxation on Land Occupation C. Measures of Hubei Province for Implementation of Land Law of the People's Republic of China D. Measures of Forest Land Management of Hubei Province E. Regulations on River Channel Management of Hubei Province F. Implementation Regulations of Hubei Province of Land Occupation Taxation G. Non-Voluntary Resettlement, Operational Policy OP 4.12 of the World Bank 1.9.2 Target 1. Adopt engineering, technical and economic measures to avoid or minimize the land requisition and house relocation to a possible extent. When the land requisition and house relocation are unavoidable, efforts should be made to adopt effective measures to reduce the impact on the local living and production conditions. 2. In project preparation stage, the social and economic survey should be conducted and corresponding resettlement plan prepared. 3. The resettlement should be based on the surveyed indexes in kind and the 10  RAP of Cuijiaying Project compensation criteria, and should aim at upgrading or at least restoring the original living and production level of the resettlers. 4. Initiate the developable resettlement. The rural resettlement should be on the basis of land and creates job opportunities in the local secondary and tertiary industries. 5. Encourage the resettlers and the inhabitants in host areas to participate in planning the resettlement. 6. The PAPs should be resettled in their original communities, as a first priority. 7. The resettlers and inhabitants originally living in the host areas should be benefited from the project. 11  RAP of Cuijiaying Project 2. Natural and Socioeconomic Conditions of Project-affected Areas 2.1 Natural conditions 2.1.1 Geographical location Xiangfan City, the second largest city of Hubei Province, where Cuijiaying Navigation and hydropower project is located, lies in the northwestern part of Hubei Province and on the middle reaches of the Han River. It covers from 11 0O45'-1 13043' east longitude to 31014'-32037' north latitude. Its east starts from the eastern end of Xinshi Town, Zhaoyang City neighboring Shuizhou City, Hubei Province and Tongbai County, Henan Province; and ends in the western end of Maqiao Town, Baokang County in the west, intersecting with Fang County, Shiyang City, 220km from east to west. Its south begins from the southern end of Donggong Town, Nanzhang County linking with Jingmen City and Yuan'an County, Yichang City; and its north ends in the northern end of Zhaogang Township, Laohekou City linking with Xichuan County, Henan Province and Dengzhou City, 154km from the south to the north. It has a boundary line of 1332.8 km and a total land area of 19724.41km2. Refer to the attached drawing No.1 for geographical location of the project. As the only big city in Qingba Economic Corridor, Xiangfan City is divided into two cities by the Han River, the largest tributary of the Yangtze River, Fancheng in the north and Xiangcheng in the south, which are linked together by two bridges on the Han River. 2.1.2 Topography and geomorphy The topography of Xiangfan is high in the west and low in the east with undulation between the west and east. Its geomorphy characteristics is as follows. The eastern part is distributed with hills mostly at El. 90m-250m, the highest point is Yuhuangding at El. 778.5m at the juncture of Hubei and Henan provinces. The middle part is mostly of hillocky plains between Tongbai and Wudang mountains at El. 85m-140m. Bajiaomiao at El. 44m in Yicheng City is the lowest point of Xiangfan. The hillocky land is mainly distributed in the whole Laohekou and partial town(ship)s of Zhaoyang City and Xiangyang County. High mountains are in the western regions including the whole Baokang County, partial town(ship)s of Gucheng and Nanzhang counties most at El. over 400m. The highest point is in Guanshan Mountain in Baokang with an elevation of 2000m. 2.1.3 Geology of the Reservoir Area The reservoir area is located in the junction of two Class 1 tectonic structure units. The north of the site is the southern edge of Nanxiang Basin, a Cenozoic faulted basin in the south spanning the south of the east section of Kunlun-Qinling 12  RAP of Cuijiaying Project mountain system in the central China and its southwestern corner belongs to the Yangtse deformable zone in western Hubei of Yangtse metaplatform. And thus flabelliform river landscape, broad in north section and contractive in south section, is formed. The effects of modern up-and-down movement, river scouring and washed drift resulted primarily in relative uplift in circumferences in the neotectonic movement of Nanxiang Basin and intermittent subsidence or relatively slow uplift of the main body, which made geomorphic development have a given regularity, namely, Grade II to III terraces are often formed in basin circumferences; Grade II terrace in river valley is well developed with plain river valley, broad riverbed and developed shoal; and continuously developed Grade I terrace is found along both banks of the Han River. The basin is generally at El. 90m and the lowest in Xiangyang urban district is at El. 65m. Accordingly, Tangbai River, Gun River and Xiaoqing River which originate from the basin gather together from the west, north and east to the south respectively and flow into the Han River in Xiangfan City. For the basin deformable zone in western Hubei, parallel fracture of Strike NNW groups and array in opposite direction resulted in a series of graven and horst in strike NNW. Neotectonic movement is mainly of differential uplift of fault blocks, which produces hillocky land and plain and makes south bank of the Han River be of the topography of banded hill slope composed of flood alluvium and loose alluvium in broken slopes. 2.1.4 Hydrography and meteorology Xiangfan is of subtropical monsoon climate, cold in winter and hot in summer with plentiful lighting power and rich heat. There is a long nonfrost period and ample rainfall with rainy and hot period in the same season. Owing to the complicated geomorphy, there appear regional differences and vertical differences in the climate, which is favorable for developing in all-round way diversified economy of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline and fishery. However, due to the various changes in time of monsoon coming and going and its strength every year as well as difference of year-to-year changes in rainfall and temperature, the meteorologic disasters such as drought, waterlogging, continuous overcast and rain, low temperature and chilling injury, hail and gale, etc. frequently occur and cause adverse impacts on high and stable yields of agriculture. Mean temperature all over Xiangfan is generally between 15 - 16