China - Seventh Railway Project - resettlement action plan (Vol. 2 of 2) : Appendix

RP-0006 VOL. 2 The Capacity Expansion Project of Wuchang-Guangzhou Railway Line of The Seventh World Bank Financed Projects The Appendix of the RAP July 1998  Appendix 1 Socioeconomic Conditions of the Affected Areas I General Situation (1) The railway linking Wuhan and Guangzhou spans over 10 cities in Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong provinces economically developed with a combined area of 120 thousand square km that includes a population of 37350 thousand. (2) Technical renovation in each station along the line will be minimized during the implementation of the project according to the principle of "electrification based on the current status", which will result in only slight impact on the small stations. Impacts will by and lange concentrate on Wuhan railway pivot, Changsha area, Zhuzhou railway pivot and Gangzhou railway pivot. The following is a brief introduction of the socioeconomic status of the above-mentioned 4 areas. 2 A Survey of Wuhan City Wuhan had a population of 7.23 million by 1997, including an urban population of 4.22 million and rural population of 3.01 million, with an annual birth of rate of 8.98% and death rate of 5.97%, a natural growth of 3.01%. Its gross domestic output was 91233 million yuans in 1997, an increase by 16% over the previous year, including 7879 million yuans from primary industry (taking up 4.63% of the gross output), 42206 million yuans from secondary industry (46.3% of the gross output) and 41148 million yuans from tertiary industry (the service sector, 45.1% of the gross output), with an average gross domestic output topped 10000 yuans per capita. The average annual salary of the on-the-job staff and workers being 6406 yuans, those worling for sate- owned economy had 6897 yuans per capita, those for collective-owned economy 4021 yuans and those for private-owned economy, foreign-funded enterprises and economy of other forms 7306 yuans. 1  Wuhan City has altogether 11 districts and 2 counties under its jurisdiction. The following tables are about the land conditions in 1997 and the economic status of its districts and counties: Cultivated Land Aroa In Wuhan City Unit: thousand hectares 1996 1997 Land area early in the year 225.75 224.85 Paddy field 136.67 135.75 Dry land 89.08 89.1 Land area decreased in the year 1.13 1.43 Land acquired for national capital 0.37 0.47 construction _ Land used by village or township 0.25 0.41 Land used by villagers to build housing 0.06 0.04 Actual land area by the end of the year 224.85 223.59 Pad field 135.75 135.17 Dry land 89.1 88.42 2  Personnel Employed in Wuhan Unit: ten thousand 1996 1997 Total 406.42 411.83 Primary industry 91.43 92.97 Secondary industry 154.60 154.22 Tertiary industry 160.39 164.64 Differentiated in terms of ownership State economy 164.50 161.91 Collective economy 163.00 162.02 Private economy 25.22 28.22 Individual economy 40.48 45.76 Integrated economy 0.40 0.53 Shareholding system economy 8.37 8.70 Foreign funded economy 1.37 1.94 Hongkong, Macao and Taiwan 3.02 2.73 funded economyv. Economy of other forms 0.06 0.02 3  Gross Domestic Output of the Districts and Counties of Wuhan City Unit: hundred million yuan Gross domestic Primary Secondary Tertiary output industry industrv industry Jiang'an District 16.91 0.61 6.45 9.85 Jiangkou District 15.45 0.02 3.36 12.07 Qiaokou District 16.56 0.15 5.27 11.14 Hanyang District 12.92 0.83 4.63 7.46 Wuchang District 15.22 - 2.19 13.03 Qingshang District 6.21 - 0.99 5.22 Hongshang District 42.58 5.88 16.80 19.90 Caidian District 44.10 8.45 21.08 14.57 Jiangxia District 57.93 15.54 22.29 20.10 Dongxihu District 22.56 6.81 10.15 5.60 Hannan District 7.57 2.98 2.14 2.45 Huangpi District 64.07 18.32 23.36 22.39 Xinzhou District 59.00 16.03 29.99 12.98 4  t1urs-ahaor iGt 52 ir @d WarDiars :an do MG overagc Salary IA t