China - Shijiazhuang Urban Transport Project : social assessment

21443 Shijiazhuang Urban Transportation Proiect Financed bv World Bank Shijiazhuang Urban Transportation Project Social Assessment Report (Second Version) Shijiazhuang Urban Transportation Project Office January 2000  Contents 1 SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT ...................................... 1 1.1 A Brief Introduction to Project's Background, Aims and its Components 1 1.2 Socioeconomic Investigation ................................................1I 1.2.1 Demographic Situation ................................... 3 1.2.2 Characteristics of Occupation and Labor Force .............................. 4 1.2.3 Employment and Income Condition .................. ................. 5 1.2.4 Concerned Organizations and Institutions ...................... .......... 6 1.2.5 Social Investigation Results ....................................6 1.2.6 Peoples' Attitudes Towards the Project ................................... 7 1.3 Socioeconomic Impact ............ . . 9 1.3.1 Social Environmental Impact .................... 9 1.3.2 Environment Impact .................... 13 1.3.3 Natural Resources Impact .................... 13 1.3.4 Socioeconomic Impact .................... 14 1.3.5 Analysis of Social Risk .................... 15 1.4 Social Benefit Assessment ................................................ 16 1.4.1 Benefit Results from the Improvement of Public Traffic ................. 16 1.4.2 Improving the traffic conditions of Shijiazhuang City ................. ... 18 1.4.3 Employment ................................................ 18 1.4.4 Other Social Benefits ........ ........................................ 19 2 The Project's Social Development Objectives And Its Realization ..... ............ ... 20 2.1 The Project'S Social Development Objectives . . .....................2.......... - 20 2.2 Fundamental Principles of Project's Social Development ................. ... 20 2.3 Justness and Equity ........ ............................. ....... 20 2.4 Public Participation ............................................ 22 2.5 Sustainable Development ..... . ..................................... 23 2-5.1 Infrastructure Component ............ . ..... .23 2.5.2 Road Maintenance Component ................................. .. .. 24 2.5.3 Public Traffic Component .................. ....... 25 2.5.4 Traffic Control and Safety Component ................ .......... 27 2.5.5 Improve Computer Skills in Management Agencies .............. 28 2.6 Institutiorn Development .. .... . .. . . . . 30 Prini iime 10-2-14i116 50 1  2.6 1 The overall organization Charts and their Function 31 2.6.2 Block Diagram For Infrastructure Component . .35 2.6.3 Block Diagram of Public Traffic Component and its Duties.. 37 2.6 4 Public Control Component and its Duties . . 40 2.6.5 Block Diagram of Road Maintenance Component and its Duties 43 2.7 Woman . .46 2.8 Poverty ..................... .......,,,,.. - 47 2.9 Traffic Safety ..47 2.10 Resettlement . . .49 3 Stockholder Analysis .50 3.1 Ordinary Citizens ..50 3.2 The Employees Of Enterprises And Shops In Project Zone .. 50 3.3 Resettlement .. 51 3.4 Stakeholders of the project and their basic attitudes to this project ..51 4 Strategies to Eliminate Negative Impacts . . .58 4.1 Resettlement Strategies ..58 4.1.1 Resettlement aims ............ ; 58 4.1.2 Impact analysis of the project to resettlers .58 4.1.3 Resettlement Policy .60 4.1.4 Resettlement Risks and Risk Control ..................................... 61 4.1.5 Resettlement and Social Economic Development .62 4.2 Environment Protection Strategy . . . 63 4.2.1 Control Measures for Air Pollution in Operating Period .. .. 63 4.2.2 Measures for Controlling Noise Pollution in Operating Period .... 64 5 Conclusion and Recommendation .... 66 5.1 Conclusions ... ...................... 66 5.2 Recommendations . . . ..................... 66 Print lime 00-2-141116 50 11  Social Assessment Report of Shijiazhuana Transportation Project 1 SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACT ASSESSMENT 1.1 A Brief Introduction to Project's Background, Aims and its Components Shijiazhuang, the capital of Hebei province, is an important hub of railway and highway transportation and is also a core city in the southem region of North China. Since the reform and opening, especially along with the successive constructions of national expressways (Peijing-Shijiazhuang Expressway, Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan Expressway and Shijiazhuang-Angqing Expressway), Shijiazhuang's economy has been developing at a greater pace and its economic scale now is larger than that of anytime ever before. After many years' construction, this city's traffic condition has been greatly improved, but it is still unsatisfactory and resent years' great economic development makes this deficiency increasingly emerged. It has become a bottleneck of economic development and is urgently to be improved. Just under this background, to ease the tense transportation condition, to further improve the investment environment and enlarge domestic demands, Shijiazhuang Urban Transportation Project (SUTP) came into consideration. SUTP is planed to use a loan provided by World Bank (WB). The goal of this project is 'to create a convenient movement environment for man and goods (including different traffic manners, such as public traffic, bicycle, ambulation, motor vehicle) and enhance the operating efficiency of Shijiazhuang Urban Transportation System; to increase the total serviceability of Shijiazhuang City's traffic infrastructure, and so as to answer this city's growing transportation needs and make this city's economy can more fast and quickly developed." This project is composed by 4 Components, including: * Infrastructure Construction Component 1. Reconstructing and newly building 6 roads, including: (1) Newly build Jianhua Avenue (north section: Heping Road-North Second Ring, south section: Donggang Road-South second Ring) as a 6-lane road. (2) Reconstructing Shigang Avenue (Heping Road-North Second Ring) as a 6-lane road. (3) Reconstructing Zhonghau Avenue (Cangan Road-He ping Road) as a 6-lane road, including the straightlization of north section. Print time 00-2-141116 50 1  Social Assessment Report of Shjiazhuang Transportation Project (4) Reconstructing Huainan Road (Qiaotou Street-East Second Ring) as a 6-lane road. (5) Newly building Jianshe Avenue (Diying Street-South Second Ring) as a 4-lane road. (6) Reconstructing Tiyu Avenue (North Second Ring-Huainan Road) as a 6-lane road. 2. Newly building 6 overpasses (1) Heping Road-Zhonghua Avenue Overpass, transmeridionally spanning, and the. east section is connected with west section of Heping Road Railway Viaduct. (2) Zhonghua Avenue -Cangan Road Overpass, transmeridionally spanning, and the east section is connected with west section of Cangan Road Railway Viaduct. (3) Heping Road-Tiyu Avenue Overpass, transmeridionally spanning. (4) Huainan Road-Tiyu Avenue Overpass, transmeridionally spanning. (5) Huainan Road-Jianshe Avenue Overpass, transmeridionally spanning. (6) Huainan Road-Pingan Avenue Overpass, transmeridionally spanning, 3. Crossing Railway Works, including 6 bridges underpass for railway. (1) Heping Road crossing Jingguang Railway Viaduct, the west section of which starts from the east section of Heping Road--Zhonghua Avenue Overpass, and crosses Jingguang Railway, Beichadao Overpass and Pingan Avenue. (2) Cangan Road crossing Jingguang .Railway Viaduct, the west section of which is connected with zhonghua Avenue and east section of Cangan Road Overpass, the east section of which is located in Qiaotou Street. (3) Yuhau Road Underpass (4) Heping Road Bridge Underpass (for Shitai Railway) (5) Shigang Avenue Viaduct (for Shitai Railway) (6) Tiyu Avenue crossing Shide Railway Viaduct, south section of which starts from the south of the bridge underpass and the north section crosses Fengshou Road. 4. Two Bridge Underpasses are to be built (1) Jianhua Avenue Bridge Underpass that crosses through Shide Railway (2) Gongnong Road Bridge Underpass that crosses through Jingguang Railway * Road Maintenance Component 1. Road Maintenance Works (1) Yuhua Road (East entrance to the Underpass - Jianshe Avenue), will be rebuilt and extended to a 6-lane road prinit time 0O-2-14'1116 50 2  Socma' Assessment Report of Shijiazhuang Transportation Project (2) Cangan Road (West Second Ring -West Section of Zhonghua Avenue), will be rebuilt and extended to a 6-lane road. (3) Yuejin Road (Jianshe Avenue -Tangu Avenue) will be rebuilt. (4) Quying Avenue (Heping - Huainan Road), the pedestrian crossing of which is to be rebuilt. 2.Establishment of a Computer Management System * Public Traffic Component (1) Reconstruction of General Junction of Public Traffic in Railway Station Area (2) Rebuilding of Second Ring Public Traffic Overhaul Ground and North Second Ring Public Traffic Parking Area (3) Newly building 5 starting stations(Development Area Starting Station, Tianyuan Starting Station, Baifo Starting Station, Taoyuan Starting Station and Donggucheng Starting Station) (4) Establishment of Computer Public Traffic Management System * Traffic Control Component 1. Bicycle Special Road, connecting Gongnong Road with Huaibei Road 2. 15 Pedestrian Overpass Bridges( or underpasses) 3. Improving Traffic Management System, which includes Signal Control Management, Reformation of Monitoring System, Interchange Channelization, Improvement of Safety Facilities, Public Traffic Preferential System, Parking Management, Improvement of Pedestian System and Improvement of Bicycle System 4 Sign Line of Newly Built Roads 1.2 Socioeconomic Investigation 1.2. 1 Demographic Situation In 1998, the total population of Shijiazhuang City was about 8.673 million, among which, the urban population was about 1.572 million within 445.3 thousand households, and non-agricultural population was 1.339 million In the same year, the natural population growth rate of Shijiazhuang City was 6. 15