China - Fuzhou Urban Transport Project : involuntary resettlement plan (Vol. 1 of 2) : Involuntary resettlement plan

Fuzhou Urban Transport Project Involuntary Resettlement Plan  Objectives of the Resettlement Plan and definition of resettlement terms The Resettlement Plan(RAP) was prepared according to the relevant laws and regulations of the P.R. China and the local governments and the World Bank guidance document OP4.12 on Involuntary Resettlement. The purpose of the preparation of this document is to work out a resettlement and rehabilitation action plan for the project affected people (PAPs) so as to ensure that the PAPs will gain benefit from the proposed project and improve their standard of living or at least to rehabilitate their standard of living after the completion of the project. For a development project, acquisition of land or other properties will bring adverse impacts on the people who have labored at the said land or lived on the said land. The "project affected people" (PAPs) refers to those whose production or living are detrimental affected by the land acquisition for the project. Which includes: 1) Those whose land (including the land for household plot, public facilities, agriculture, forestry, stockbreeding, fishery and sideline), structures (including private housing and attachments, enterprise buildings or public buildings etc.), entitlements or other properties are partially or wholly, temporarily or permanently acquired and occupied. 2) Those who have used the said land, structures or properties, or whose business, occupation, habitation or habits and customs are detrimentally affected. 3) Those whose living standard are detrimental affected due to the land acquisition and resettlement. Definition of the "project affected people" The "project affected people" refers to those whose living standard is or will be detrimental affected, or whose ownership of housings, entitlements, land (including household plot, farmland and rangeland) or other personalty or real asset are temporarily or permanently acquired or occupied, or whose business, occupation, habitation or habits and customs are detrimentally affected. The project affected people may be an individual or a artificial person like enterprises and institutions. The definition of the project affected people will not define their legal registration, living permit or ongoing business within the project affected area or neither restrict the compensation to their properties. Therefore