RP174 V. 6 April 1, 2003 Resettlement Action Plan of Xiniu Navigation Complex on the Lianjiang River Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences April 1, 2003 Compiling Consultants of the RAP Mai Zhiquan Director of Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau Li Minghua Director of Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences Compilers Chen Zhichao Deputy director of Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau Mai Junjie Chief of the Planning office of Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau Xiao Youji Director of the project office of Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau Jia Yunping Vice research fellow of Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences Li Dahua Research fellow, doctor of Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences Liu Mengqing Vice research fellow of Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences Li Yan Doctor of Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences Miao Xingzhuang Vice research fellow of Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences Wu Weijiang Planning office of Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau Chen Weibin Project office of Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau Integrators Xiao Youji Jia Yunping 2 Contents 1 Basic Situation of the Project 1.1 Project Background 1.2 General Situation of the Project 1.3 Benefit Area of the Project 1.4 Measures Adopted in Xiniu Works 1.5 Project Organization and Preparation for the Resettlement Action Plan 1.5.1 Project Organizations 1.5.2 Preparation for Resettlement Action Plan 2 Socioeconomic Situations in Project Area 2.1 Nature, Society and Economy Background of Regions Involved in the Project 2.2 Socioeconomic Situation of Towns to Be Impacted by the Project 2.3 Socioeconomic Situation of Villages to Be Impacted by the Project 2.4 Economic Situation of the Rural Households to Be Impacted by the project 2.4.1 Distribution of Samples in the Survey of Social Impact on Households 2.4.2 Contents of Family Situations Survey 2.4.3 The Housing Situation of the Villagers' Families in the Land Acquisition Area 2.4.4 Household Economy: Types, Modes and Scales 2.4.5 Income and Expense of Families with Land to be Acquired 2.4.6 Household Income Structure 2.5 The Vulnerable Rural Households 2.5.1 Poverty-Stricken Families to be Impacted by Land Acquisition 2.5.2 Families with a Member Loses Work Ability 3 Impacts of the Project 3.1 Scopes under the Impacts of Land Acquisition for the Project 3.1.1 Scopes under the Impacts 3.1.2 The Impact Contents (Practicality Indexes) 3.2 The Situation of Land Acquisition for the Project 3.2.1 Types of Lands to be Acquired 3.2 2 Property Rights and Operating Mode of Land to Be Acquired 3.2.3 Details of the Land to be Acquired 3.3 The Area of Lands to be Acquired for the Project 3.3.1 Land to be Inundated by Reservoir 3.3.2 The Permanently Acquired Lands for the Construction of Supporting Facilities of the Project 3.4 Description of Land to be Used Temporarily 3.5 Impacts of Land Acquisition on Households' Income 3.5.1 Villager's Groups and Rural Households with Lands to be Acquired 3.5.2 Decrease in Households' Income Caused by Land Acquisition 3.6 Impacts of Land Acquisition for the Project on Rural Economy 3.7 Impacts of the Project on Public Facilities 3.8 Relation of Reservoir Submerge and the Seasonal Flood Hazard 4 Legitimate Framework 4.1 The Legitimate Framework of Resettlement Policy 4.2 The Resettlement Policy Applicable to this Project 4.3 Compensation Rate (refer to Table 8) 4.4 Resettlement Objective and Principle 5 Estimation of the Resettlement Costs 5.1 Compensation Standards for Land Acquisition 5.2 Costs for Land Acquisition Compensation 5.2.1 Costs of land Acquisition 5.2.2 Costs for Green Crops Compensation 5.2.3 Costs for Land Used Temporarily 5.3 Taxes for Land Acquisition 5.4 Monitoring Costs 5.5 Total resettlement expenses 5.6 Flow of the Funds 6 Action Plan for Resettlement and Recovery 6.1 Land Acquisition Settlement Measures in the Past 6.1.1 Measures for Highway Projects in the Past 6.1.2 The Settlement Measures of Land Acquisition for City Construction 6.1.3 Villagers' Choices for Settlement Measures 6.2 The Settlement Plan of This Project for Affected Villagers 2 6.2.1 The Establishment of the Resettlement Plan 6.2.2 The Characteristics and Measures of the Resettlement Plan 6.3 Settlement for Farmers with Land to Be Acquired in Zhengnan, Yuzui and Dongling Village 6.4 Settlement for Farmers with Land to Be Acquired in Xiaowan Village 6.5 Settlement for Farmers with Land Acquired in Xilian Village 6.5.1 Cash Compensation 6.5.2 Land Adjustment 6.5.3 Process of Land Adjustment 6.5.4 The Production Resumption Measure in Xilian Village: Investment Plan and Anticipated Benefit 6.6 Settlement Measures for Farmers Whose Land to Be Used Temporarily for Construction 6.6.1 Economic Compensation for Land Temporarily Rent 6.6.2 Measures for Recovering Cultivation of Land Temporarily Used 6.7 Measures for Vulnerable Groups Settlement 6.8 Protection of Women's Their Rights and Interests 6.9 Monitoring the Use of Compensation Funds for Land Acquisition 6.10 The Impact of Xiniu Construction Site and the Management Measures 6. 11 Resumption of Other Facilities 6.12 Implementation Plan of Resettlement (Schedule in Table 17) 7 Organization Structure 7.1 The Responsible Organizations of the Planning, Management, Implementation, and Monitoring of the Project Resettlement 7.2 Liabilities 7.2.1 Resettlement team of World Bank Financial Office of Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau 7.2.2 Yingde Municipal Resettlement Offices 7.2.3 Resettlement Offices of Xiniu and Hanguang Towns 7.2.4 Village Administrations 7.2.5 Survey Design Organization (Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences) 7.2.6 Independent Monitoring Organization(Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences) 3 7.3 Staffing 7.4 The Institutional Strengthening Measures 8 Participation and Negotiation 8.1 The Purposes of the Public Participation and Negotiation 8.2 The Objects of Public Participation and the Organization 8.2.1 The Organization of Public Participation 8.2.2 Participation in the Negotiation of the PAPs 8.3 The Mechanism and Plan of Negotiation 8.3.1 In the Stage of Planning the Project 8.3.2 In the Stage of Preparing the Project 8.3.3 Project Implementation Stage 9 Complaints and Appeals 9.1 The Organization Receiving Complaints and Appeals 9.2 Complaint Channels 9.2.1 Ordinary Complaint Channels 9.2.2 Further Complaint Channels 9.2.3 Extensive Complaint Channels 9.2.4 Lawsuit 9.3 Experience and Study 10 Monitoring 10.1 Intemal Monitoring and Checking 10.1.1 Implementation Procedures 10.1.2 Monitoring Contents 10.1.3 Staff 10.1.4 Objectives and Liabilities 10.2 Independent Monitoring 10.2.1 Independent Monitoring Organization 10.2.2 Liabilities 10.2.3 The Timetable of Independent Monitoring Office 10.2.4 The Frequency and Reporting of the Independent Monitoring 11 Rights Matrix Appendix I. Details of the Rural Grass Root Organizations in Xiniu Town 4 II. Rural Labor Resources and Composition in Xiniu Town III. Area of Cultivated Land in Xiniu Town IV. Registration Form of Land Contracting Operation Rights of the Villager's Committee of Zhangwu Village and Shangwei Village V. Questionnaire Used in Surveying Situation of Residents to Be Affected by the Guangdong Component of IWW4 Project of China 5 1. Basic Situation of the Project 1.1 Project Background Xiniu Navigation Complex on the Liangjiang River is one of the three sub-projects of the Guangdong Component of IWW4 Project of China. The background of this project is to promote the development and the aid-the-poor work of the poverty-stricken mountain district in the Liangjiang River drainage area. The adjacent area of the Liangjiang River is the main distribution area of limestone mountain area in Guangdong, dotted with a large amount of poverty-stricken villages and population. Liannan, Yangshan, Lianshan, Qingxin and Yingde in the Liangjiang River drainage area are the poorest areas in Guangdon. Wherein, seven towns around the Lianjiang River of Yingde City, Yunling, Qingkeng, Boluo, Jiulong, Shihuipu, Yanbei and Mingjing, have 31 villages with a population of more than 150,000 who are suffering from poverty. In many villages and towns, the number of poverty-stricken families account for over 30% of the total families. The per capita GDP of Guangdong Province in 2000 was 12,855 Yuan, while Qingyuan district around the Lianjiang River was only 3,900 Yuan, about 31% of the average level of the province. The figures of Yingde, Liannan and Yangshan, which are under Qingyuan's administration, were even lower, among which Liannan and Yangshan were only 21% and 25% respectively of the provincial average. The hinterland of Lianjiang River has severe natural conditions and backward transportation infrastructure. Within the drainage area, there is a poverty-stricken minority population of about 172,100. Some minority villages are not open to traffic yet. Peasants there have to carry their agricultural and sideline products by shoulder for sale. Because of the complicated terrain structure, the development of highway is largely limited. The investment environment cannot be improved. And the poverty situation cannot be totally eliminated. Therefore, Guangdong Provincial Government drew up the 10th Five-Year Transportation Development Plan -- by constructing the waterway in the mountain area, the infrastructure and the investment environment of the mountain area will be improved; the regional economic scale and the total economic volume will be expanded; the national economy will be promoted; as a result, the poverty of the region will be eliminated. The construction of the Xiniu Navigation Complex on the Liangjiang River will effectively promote the co-development of the water and land transportation in the drainage area of Lianjiang River, build an effective and scientific transportation network in its drainage area, promote the material communication between mountain areas in the north part of Guangdong and the costal cities, and create favorable conditions for the eventual improvement of the living standards of the poor population (especially the minority) in the limestone areas and the elimination of poverty. Therefore, the construction of this project will eventually realize the canalization of the whole Lianjiang River, connect the North River trunk stream, and play a key role in forming a waterway network whose trunk stream and branches are connected. 1.2 General Situation of the Project Xiniu Navigation Complex Project is situated on the Liangzhou section of the 3.5km Xiniu Town (Yingde City) upper reaches of the Liangjiang River trunk stream. It is the 12th terrace of the Liangjiang River Channelization Project Plan. The water level of the upper reaches of the complex joins the water level of the lower reaches of the Jiaqiaoshi Complex of Hanguang Town, and the water level of the lower reaches of the complex joins the end of the backwater of the Feilaixia Complex Reservior of the Beijiang River. The dominant drainage area of of Xiniu Complex covers 8,557 km2. The average rate of flow of the dam site for years is 314 m2/S, and the average runoff volume for years is 137,500,000m3. This is a comprehensive water conservancy project, which takes waterway as its main purpose, combines electricity generation and takes irrigation, cultivation and tourism into consideration. The Xiniu waterway and navigation lock are of Grade VI. Ships of 100-ton tonnage can pass and the designed pass capacity is 2 million tons. The generator capacity is 6,400 KW, with the annual production of 3,596 KWH. The total investment of the project is 279,128,600 Yuan. The investment will be accomplished in 3 years. The backwater of the Xiniu Complex Reservoir is 12.17km. The terrain of the reservoir area consists of low hills, upland and alluvion plain. The inundated reservoir area will influence Xilian Village and Xiaowan Village of Xiniu Town, and six villages (Yuzui, Dongling, Lingnan, Zhuangzhou, Hanguang and Zhennan) of Hanguang Town, Yingde City. The inundated area includes plowland, rearing ponds, orchards, mulberry farms and flood land. No houses and population need to be resettled. In addition, some land in Xilian Village and Xiaowan Village will be acquired for the supporting facilities and living zones for the project. 2 1.3 Benefit Area of the Project Liangjiang River is situated in the mountain area of the north part of Guangdong Province. Its drainage area covers 10,061 square kilometers, among which 77% are upland and mountain areas. Its main economic hinterland includes Lianzhou City, Yangshan County, Yingde City, Lianshan County and Liannan County of the QingYuan district, and the adjacent counties of Guangxi Province and Hunan Province. The hinterland enjoys subtropical climate, which is characterized by moderate climate, plentiful rainfall and abundant natural resources. It is the grain zone, forest zone and mineral zone of Guangdong Province. But its industry, and trade and commerce are less developed. Due to mountainousness, backward traffic system, lack of plowland and excess of rural labor forces, the economic resources of the hinterland has not been effectively developed and utilized for a long period. The rest 11 terraces of Lianjiang River have been channelized for a long time. Xiniu Navigation Complex is the last terrace of the channelization of the whole Lianjiang River. The construction of Xiniu Navigation Complex can make the I I navigation complex projects of the upper reaches, Feilaixia Complex Project and the Beijiang River Renovation project exert greater investment benefit. 1.4 Measures Adopted in Xiniu Works In the stage of studying the feasibility of the project, the design institution has such two schemes as upriver and downriver Liangzhou for dam's address. Business owner recommended upriver Liangzhou as the address, to avoid acquiring 50 mu of orchards in downriver Liangzhou, and reduce the impacts. In April 2002, in deciding the permanent land to be acquired for working and living, it was decided with Yingde and Xiniu Bureaus of Land and Resources that no basic farmland protection zone be acquired, and that greatest effort be made to reduce acquisition of paddy fields (which is the major foods resources for farmers in local region), and land to be acquired should be sandy land (or dry land) with poor cultivating conditions along The Lianjiang River. In previous time, these areas of land were bottomland scoured out by Lianjiang River. After farmers reclaimed this land, bamboo and corps able to bear dry weather are planted in this land. But the average output of per mu is much lower than that in nearby areas. Besides, quantity of construction-used land for working and living houses is under effective control of business owner and design unit. In selecting corresponding facilities, roads and pipe lines, it has been considered to reduce acquisition of 3 farmland, and to use bottomland along river and land not used for cultivation. In June 2002, for the characteristic that farmland in such villages as Yuzui and Zhengnan tend to be submerged by floods, design unit had made on-the-spot survey for many times, and by many experiments, improved the design of dam's body and water storage in reservoir, which reduced the possibility of being submerged by floods by a large degree. In August 2002, it has been planned to rent about 463.3 mu land used temporarily in Xilian and Xiaowan village. Among this land, there is 205 mu of cultivated land, 53 mu of orchards and 96.2 mu of forest land. In order to reduce the impacts of occupying cultivated land, after negotiating with civic Bureau of Land and Resources, cadres of Villagers Committee and villagers' representatives, business owner and design unit planned to rent less cultivated land, instead, to rent wasteland, sloping fields and bottomland along rivers without corps planted. By these means, more than 70% of land to be rented is that not fit for cultivating, which avoided the impacts of land renting on rural production on the whole. 1.5 Project Organization and Preparation for the Resettlement Action Plan The project owner and the implementation organization is Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau. The reconnaissance and design work of the Xiniu Navigation Complex on the Liangjiang River will be finished by Guangdong Waterway Reconnaissance And Design Academy. The social survey of the area along the waterway will be accomplished by Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences, with the assistance of the designer and Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau. The preparation of the Resettlement Action Plan will be completed together by Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau and Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences. Yingde Bureau of Land, entrusted by Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau, will conduct the organization and implementation of the Resettlement Action Plan. 1.5.1 Project Organizations Business owner of the project: Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau (GPWB) is the business owner and executor of Xiniu Navigation Complex Project. In-charge person of the project is Mr. Mai Zhiquan, head of GPWB. In October 2001, GPWB appointed its underlying Department of Integral Programming (head of the department is Mr. Mai Junjie) and Office of Projects Using World Band Loan (head of the office is Xiao Youji) as functional departments in charge of settling migrants in 4 this project. The two departments and all of personnel mentioned above have much work experience, their participation in settlement work for migrants in Guangdong Component of IWW2 Project of China which started in 1996. Design unit of the project: Guangdong Institute of Waterway Survey and Design (GIWSD) is the organization responsible for reconnaissance and design. In the middle of 2000, the institute accepted the designing commission from business owner of the project, and in October 2001 finished primary investigation on villages, cultivated land and other buildings along riverside influenced by the project. Corporate representative of the design unit is Li Wanzheng, superintendent of the institute. Person who in charge of the work of survey and design in Lao-long-hu waterway regulation works is engineer Luo Jingsi, and person who in charge of the work of survey and design in Xiniu Navigation Complex on the Lianjiang River is engineer Zou Binsheng. Social impacts investigation organization of the project: Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences (GZASS). The academy is an institute for social science research with the most complete disciplines of academic subjects in Guangzhou, employing a set of researchers majoring in investigating on society, economy and culture. They have taken part in the work of preparing the settling plan for migrants and independently monitoring the settlement of some projects loaned from World Bank in Guangdong province. Projects they have taken part in include: compiling the settling plan for migrants and independently monitoring the settlement in north Guangdong section of Beiing-Zhuhai Freeway project, preparing the settling plan for migrants and independently monitoring the settlement for migrants in Inner Loop Road project of Guangzhou center zone, independently monitoring the settlement for migrants in project of Fokai to Shengshan Freeway, investigating on social impacts and independently monitoring in project of Guangzhou-Foshan way out highway, independently monitoring the settlement for migrants in project of Road Network Regulation of Guangdong province, compiling the settling plan for migrants in Guangdong Component of IWW2 Project of China, etc. Person in charge of these investigations is associate research fellow Jia Yunping, an independent monitor. Preparation for Resettlement Action Plan: is finished jointly by Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau and Guangzhou Academic of Social Science. In-charge persons are associate research fellow Jia Yunping and engineer Wu Weijiang. Executive departments for Resettlement Action Plan: Xiniu Navigation Complex on The Lianjiang River is carried out by Yingde Bureau of Land and Resources. In 5 January 2002, after negotiating with Yingde municipal government, Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau appointed the Bureaus of Communications, Bureau of Land and Resources as executive departments of the two sub-projects in Resettlement Action Plan. Departments mentioned above have organized and carried out much dismantling and moving work of large scale, and they are executive departments appointed by municipal government for resettlement works in traffic road project. In-charge person of the project of Resettlement Action Plan appointed by Yingde Bureau of Land and Resources is Deputy Director General Qian Jinqin. 1.5.2 Preparation for Resettlement Action Plan A. Work Commission, Checkage and Ratification of Tasks' Scope On January 31st 2002, Project Office of Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau invited Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences to take part in compiling Resettlement Action Plan of Guangdong Component of IWW4 Project of China. On February 5th 2002, for the first time, investigators from GZASS reached the locale of Xiniu complex, accompanied by Mr. Yu from GPWB. During the investigation, they investigated both sides of the waterway on ship, and investigated sorts of land planned for acquisition and crops. They also had some discussion with farmers laboring at the locale. The investigators told some information about the construction to these farmers. On March 19th 2002, Director of Project Office of GPWB Xiao Youji presided over a working conference, to make clear the responsibilities of all departments, and to determine the deadline when these works should be finished and in-charge persons of these works. He demanded that GZASS should submit Chinese version of the first draft of Resettlement Action Plan before July 31st 2002, and submit English version of the first draft before August 30th 2002. On April 15th 2002, Jia Yunping had a negotiation with Wu Weijiang on Commission Contract and quoting terms in Resettlement Action Plan of IWW4 Project, to make more clear the scope and period of the works. On May 8th 2002, GZASS and GPWB had a negotiation and compiled terms in Commission Contract for works of Resettlement Action Plan of the project, which basically determine the workload and outlays. B. Determine Link Men for Compiling Resettlement Plan, after Negotiating with Local Governments. On February 5th 2002, Yingde municipal government held a coordinating 6 meeting for land acquisition in project construction. About thirty people attended the meeting, and they are chair-persons of civic Bureaus of Land and Resources, Agriculture and Water Resources, Xiniu and Hanguang town. Business owner formally announced information about the project and scopes of land acquisition to local functional departments, and transferred the information to related Villagers Committees through these departments. GZASS reported to attendants the meanings, purposes and policies of compiling Resettlement Action Plan. Link men in local regions and leaders in charge of compiling Resettlement Action Plan are determined in this meeting. Yingde municipal government appointed Yingde Bureau of Land and Resources as executive department of resettlement, and Deputy Director General of the bureau Qian Jinqin will assist compiling Resettlement Plan. April 2002, Yingde Bureau of Land and its branch Xiniu Land Station and Hanguang Land Station collated the design drawings, preliminarily measured the inundated land and the lands permanently acquired by the project, and checked the classification and area of the land to be acquired by all villages. On April 24th 2002, Jia Yunping of GZASS went to Yingde Bureau of Land and Resources to learn something from Deputy Director General Qian Jinqin, including average output per mu of all kinds of farmland in near three years, compensation prices of land acquisition and compensation standards for land acquisition in previous years. They also learned the characteristics of labor forces resettlement and measures for production recovery after land acquisition in projects of previous years. Deputy Director General Qian Jinqin provided some important files and data. To an elementary degree, representatives of both. sides had a negotiation on the resettlement scheme of land acquisition. C. Consulting & Training From March 13th to 15th 2002, a conference for Guangdong Component of IWW4 Project of China was held in Hubin Hotel. On the problem of migrants resettlement in IWW4, Mr. Zhang Chaohua, World Bank's professor of Resettlement, made a systematic introduction of World Bank's policies and goals for settlement. Mr. Zhang advised to compile Resettlement Action Plan sub-project by sub-project, and then to compile a total Resettlement Action Plan of the whole project. Mr. Zhang demanded business owner and GZASS to compile report on estimation of social impacts, report on Regulation Works on middle reaches of the Beijiang River and report on effects of poverty alleviation in Xiniu complex on the Lianjiang River. 7 During the meeting, on problems of demands for compiling, methods for investigating, and some technical problems in reports mentioned above, Mr. Zhang made his training speech to personnel of GPWB and GZASS. March 19, 2002, to have made the work schedule and the survey form, and prepared the social impact survey and the residents' in door survey. On April 1st 2002, GZASS provided some materials such as outlines for works of surveying social impacts, questionnaire for surveying residents' households in Guangdong component IWW4 Project, syllabus for interviewing enterprises under impacts and questionnaire for investigating residents' attitudes toward the project to GPWB, to ask for suggestions on amending, and asked Project Office to transfer these materials to Mr. Zhang Chaohua of World Bank. On April 16th 2002, persons including Jia Yunping went to Training Center of provincial Department of Communications to consult Mr. Yin and Mr. Yuan about compensation policies of the state for land used in traffic project, especially some problems on reduction and exemption of tax and expense. At the same day, they consulted professionals of provincial Department of Land and Resources on the same problems. In April 2002, Mr. Zhang Chaohua, World Bank's professor of Resettlement, sent an e-mail to provide some advices for modifying the working outlines of social impacts assessment survey submitted by GZASS. April 29 - 30, 2002, to have visited Shaoguan State Land Bureau, with Section Chief Rao Qing and Deputy Chief Li instroducing the characteristics of the plowland in north Guangdong, the situation of plowland used by grain production, plowland area per rural labor, plowland occupied by construction and plowland damaged by disaster. In the afternoon of May 13, to have visited the govemment of Qujiang County, with Deputy Director Zhu introducing the economic situation of the villages and towns along the Beijiang River, the scale of township enterprises, the ability of the township enterprises to admit surplus labor, and also to have visited two villager's committees of the poverty-stricken town. - In the aftemoon of May 23, to have visited Mr. Chen Xudong, Deputy Director of Yingde Bureau of Waterway, he expressed his opinion about the effects of the project on increasing opportunities of employment in the rural area, and he gave some positive suggestions about the resettlement action plan. 8 In the morning of May 28, to have visited Guangdong Waterway Academy, talked with Zhou Bingsheng who was in charge of the project design, exchanged views about the influence of the inundated reservoir area and the land permanently acquired for facilities, passed the worry of the villagers of Yuzui Village to the academy, learned about the measures to eliminate the influence. May 30, 2002, after amendment, the Work Schedule and the Survey Form of the social impact survey were finalized. May 31, 2002, to have consulted Professor Zhou Daming, Anthropology Department, Zhongshan University, about the social survey in villages. June 9, to have consulted the Guangdong Highway Corporation about the settlement of rural labor after land acquisition of the projects in mountain areas, direct influence on poverty-stricken villages and villagers by project construction. June 28, to have visited QingYuan Beijiang River Waterway Bureau, and consulted General Engineer Liu about the problems of the production and daily-life use of water of the boatmen, fish-farming households, dock owners, and residents along the bank, which are aroused by waterway construction. D. Information about Resettlement Was Transferred to Villagers Committees, and Villagers Were Called Together to Make Suggestions. January 2002, to have interviewed peasants on the site when making field investigation in the land classification and crops on the site which is to be acquired as planned. On May 20, a visit was paid to Xiniu town government. Mr. Ma, head of Sector of Land and Resources and Mr. Wang from Political Office of CPC introduced and provided information about population, land, enterprises owned by villages and town, employees' income in Xiniu town and some statistic data about some Villagers Committees. Mr. Ma made an introduction about positive and negative effects caused by the project on local regions, and transmitted Villagers Committees' opinions. In the morning of May 21, a visit was paid to Xilian Villagers Committee. Mr. Zhang Dehua, Secretary of the Committee, convened a working conference including six Villagers Groups, and about twenty representatives attended the conference. GZASS reported the detailed information about construction of the project, land used in the project and compiling of Resettlement Action Plan, and introduced the policies and goals for settlements. Villagers' Representatives introduced their supporting opinions for construction of the project, and they expressed their hopes for a good 9 settlement plan and enough compensation. After the conference, they interviewed three households. From aftemoon of May 21 to moming of May 22, a visit was paid to Xiaowan Villagers Committee, and Hetou and Xinwu Group. Conference situation was the same as in Xilian village. In the moming of May 22, a visit was paid to Hanguang town government. Mr. Chen, Co-head of sector of Land and Resources and Mr. Wang made introduction on society, economy, population of the town and enterprises of village or town-owned. Mr. Chen led to Yuzui village. Mr. Xie, Secretary of the Committee, convened a working conference including six Villagers Groups in Huaba elementary school, and more than twenty representatives attended the conference. GZASS reported to villagers information about the project, scopes of reservoir to be submerged, impacts on Yuzui village, policies goals and primary measures for settlement. Villagers expressed their strong support to construction of the project and made many suggestions on settlement. In the aftemoon, to have investigated the land to be inundated and visited 2 peasant families in Tangxi. In the moming of May 23, to have visited Yongxing Clothes Process Factory in Hanguang Town; to have leamed about he income situation of the staffs, the situation of the enterprise's admitting surplus rural labor; to have talked with the owner of Jinmao Hotel and Tourism about the situation of the food service industry, its employee numbers and non-permanent residents. May 29, lasing for a week, to have processed the collected social economic data of the towns and villages; to have summarized the advice of the land-acquisition compensation and resettlement methods suggested by village committees and villagers; to have reported to the project owner and the design unit. In the moming of June 27 h, accompanied by Director Xie, investigators went to Yuzui Villagers Committee, and reached the place submerged by floods in Hua dam. On the spot, villagers were called together, to leam information about income from crop-planting as a percentage of total income, and to ask for opinions on settlement and compensation schemes. A villager, Mr. Jiang thought that labor-force export was the best method to increase income, but not land adjustment. A visit was also paid to Xilian village. In upriver and downriver Liangzhou, Mr. Zhang, Secretary of Villagers Committee, and villagers of Zhangwu and Shangwei 10 Group were interviewed. The situation was the same with that in Yuzui village. Investigators went to Xiaowan Villagers Committee. Mr. Zeng Siquan, Deputy Director of the committee, convened some villagers to have a meeting. The situation was the same with that mentioned above. Then, investigators had an around look on the locales where collective economic organization of the committee were purchasing vegetables. E. Social Impacts Survey and In-door Interview on Information about Residents' Households Were Started. On June 18th, in Xilian, Yuzui and Xiaowan village, in-door investigators were taught on questionnaire and outlines for surveying work, and demonstrative interview were made. From afternoon of June 18 h to 25, in-door investigations on residents under impacts of Xiniu Complex on the Lianjiang River were started. At the same time, it was started to check public facilities under impacts. On July 15' 2002, it was started and last for a week to make a check, data input and statistic analysis on all of questionnaire and forms. July 2, Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau paid the first installment of survey fund. F. First Draft of Resettlement Plan Was Submitted. On July I 9th, social impacts assessment report were finished(first draft). On July 22 nd, reports on effects of poverty alleviation of the project (the Beijiang River and Xiniu) were finished. On July 25 , first draft of Resettlement Action Plan of Guangdong Component IWW4 Project of China and first drafts of all sub-projects were finished. On July 28th, all of the six reports (first draft) were delivered to Planning and Financial Division of GPWB. 2 Socioeconomic Situations in Project Area 2.1 Nature, Society and Economy Background of Regions Involved in the Project Xiniu Navigation Complex locates within Yingde city. The city has a long history, known as a city with ancient civilization in south of the Five Ridges. It was called Yingzhou in ancient times, famous for its richness in quartzite. The city lies in middle Guangdong, on upper and middle reaches of the Beijiang River, on the place where PRD and mountain areas of north Guangdong are connected, with highland in its north and lowland in its south. The city is divided into east and west parts by Huashi Mountain running from south to north on east side of the Beijiang River. Most of the mountains higher than 1000 meters are distributed in north of the city, and on both sides of rivers there are often river valleys, plains and basins among mountains. In north of the city, Chuandi Peak is the highest peak of the city, with a height above sea level of 1,568 meters. The Beijiang River runs through boundaries of the city, and the Lianjiang and Wengjiang River flow into the Beijiang River from northwest and northeast respectively. There are 33 towns and one tour zone under jurisdiction of Yingde city. Now the city has a population of 1,010,000 and 349,662 among these are agricultural labors forces, 165,015 are female labors forces. Among labor forces, 244,174 are engaged in agriculture, and 10,789 are engaged in industry, while there are 63,987 engaged out of the city. For lake of cultivated land and insufficient employment in the region, there are abundant surplus labor forces in rural areas. Area of the city is about 5,671 kM2, known as the biggest county-level administrative region in Guangdong province. However, agriculture in the city is short of cultivatable resources, with cultivated land of only 788,507 mu (58% of which is paddy field and dry land). There is an annual average runoff quantity of 37.6 billion m3 in three main water systems of the Beijiang, Lianjiang and Wenjiang River and their sixteen branches. Among these, the Beijiang and Lianjiang River are open to navigate ships, and ships of 100 tons level can directly reach Yingde city from Hong Kong, Macau and Guangzhou. In the city, 39 kinds of mine resources have been proven up, and it is rich in Sulfur, Iron, Aurum, Argentine, Cuprum, Zinc, Coal, Limestone, Granite and 12 Quartz, fit to develop industries such as smelting, building materials and chemical industry. Limestone is in great reserve and of high quality. Relying on local resources, industrial system of building materials, chemical industry, agricultural products processing and energy industries have been formed. Yingde city is an important cement production base in Guangdong province. There are 11946 small-scale enterprises of all kinds. Among these, there are 136 owned by towns and 431 owned by villages. Total amount of people in these enterprises is 41,047 and 3.5 as an average per enterprise. Climate in Yingde city belongs to subtropical and monsoon one, with an average temperature of 20.7 'C, an average sunshine time of 1662.2 hours and an average rainfall of 1900 mm in a whole year. Good temperature here is very suitable for comprehensive development in agriculture. What are planted in local region mainly include crops, corns and sweet potatoes, and industrial crops including oranges, teas, bamboo shoots and mulberries. Yingde Teas are famous in China and foreign countries for their notable characteristics of thick aroma and sweet flavor. The whole city has forest of about 3,200,000 mu, and shrubbery of 850,000 mu, with a total woods reserve of 6,200,000 m3. Land on both sides of the large and small Beijiang Rivers and their water system fields are rich in wild textile plants such as bamboos and awns. Therefore, Yingde can provide large amount of raw materials for industries such as forestry products processing, spinning and paper making. 2.2 Socioeconomic Situation of Towns to Be Impacted by the Project The main body of the project and reservoir inundated area are located in Xiniu Town and Hanguang Town under Yingde City. Xiniu Town Xiniu Town is located in the middle south of Yingde City. The Lianjiang Xiniu Navigation Project is within it. The town contains one inhabitants' council and 10 villages, 8,541 households. 7,367 of them are agricultural households, account for 87.2%, 1084 households are non agricultural, that is 12.8%o Population of the town is 38,127, and 34,936 of them are agricultural, that is 91.6%, 3,191 are non agricultural, that is 8.4%. The whole cultivated land area of the town is 30,677 mu (one mu is one fifteenth hectare ), 21,360 mu are paddy field, 9,317 mu are glebe. Per capita area of cultivated land is 0.93 mu. The effective irrigation area is 20,529 mu. Area of ensuring stable 13 yields despite drought or excessive rain is 16,804 mu. Area of irrigation through electric power and machine is 1,246 mu. Mechanized farming area is 7,290 mu. A bituminous macadam passes the town, long-distance bus can arrive at Yingde City. Total laborers of the town are 16,261, population within the working age group is 17107, and 1025 of them study in school, 279 of them are disabled, 856 people who are younger than the working age are in work, 1034 people who are older than the working age are in work, male laborers account for 52.5%, female laborers account for 47.5%. Among the 16,261 laborers, 11,091 engage in planting, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and sidelines, account for 68.2%, among them, 5,856 people engage in planting, account for 36.0% of the total laborers, 1598 engage in forestry, account for 9.8%, 1,625 engage in animal husbandry, account for 10.0%, 1,863 engage in sidelines, account for 11.5%, 149 engage in fishery, account for 0.9%. 481 people engage in industry, account for 3.05%, 752 engage in construction, account for 4.6%, 345 engage in transport, storage, post and telecommunication, account for 2.1%, 245 engage wholesale, retail, trade, restaurant. Account for 1.5%, 3,347 people engage other trades, account for 20.6%. Among the 3,347 people of other trades, 2,941 of them find job out of the town, account for 18.1% of the total laborers. Hanguang Town Hanguang Town is located in the middle of Yingde City, upper reaches of the Lianjiang Xiniu Navigation Complex. Total area of the town is 14200 hectares. The town contains one inhabitants' committee and 21 villages, all villages are accessible by postal and telephone communication, have power supply, and highroads pass through all of them, four villages have tap water supply. The town contains 10,107 households. 7824 of them are agricultural households, account for 77.4%, 2,238 households are non agricultural, that is 22.6%. Population of the town is 47,398, 37,069 of them are agricultural, account for 78.2%, 10,329 are non agricultural, account for 21.8%. 1,738 people come from out, 638 of them come from out of Guangdong Province. The whole cultivated land area of the town is 4,012 hectares, 1,713 hectares are paddy field, 2,299 hectares are glebe. Per capita area of cultivated land is 1.21 mu. 14 The effective irrigation area is 1,907 hectares. Total laborers of the town are 28,349, population within the working age group is 19,703, and 1,592 of them study in school, 868 of them are disabled, 2,857 people who are younger than the working age are in work, 4,547 people who are older than the working age are in work.. male laborers are 14,504, account for 51.0%, female laborers are 13,935, account for 49.0%. Among the 28,349 laborers, 9,670 engage in planting, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and sidelines, account for 34.1 %, among them, 8890 people engage in planting, account for 31.4% of the total laborers, 50 engage in forestry, account for 0.2%, 50 engage in animal husbandry, account for 0.20%, 430 engage in sidelines, account for 1.5%, 250 engage in fishery, account for 0.9%. 2,810 people engage in industry, account for 9.9, 930 engage in construction, account for 3.3%, 1,536 engage in transport, storage, post and telecommunication, account for 5.4%, 2,104 engage wholesale, retail, trade, restaurant. Account for 7.4%, 11,389 people engage other trades, account for 40.2%. among the 11,389 people of other trades, 4,104 of them find job out of the town, account for 14.5% of the total laborers. 1,333 laborers come from out, 578 of them come from out of Guangdong Province. The gross income of the town in 2001 is 122.38 millions yuan, the income of products sale is 38.6 millions yuan, per capita net income of rural resident is 3,258 yuan. Output of grain is 20,437.6 tons, oil-bearing crops is 3,529 tons, output of sugarcane is 82,470 tons, meat output is 2214 tons, thereinto pork is 1,665 tons, aquatic products output is 2,366 tons, fruits is 1,302 tons, vegetables is 29,126 tons. There are 185 enterprises in the town, 152 of them are industrial. Total 4,133 people work in enterprises, 3,852 of them work in industrial enterprises. Total amount of products sales of the enterprises is 214.71 millions MB, total net profit is 16.17 millions yuan, total taxpaying is 18.7 millions yuan. The government revenue in 2001 is 15.16 millions yuan, 9.51 millions yuan is in the budget. The outstanding amount of saving deposits by residents is 183.51 millions yuan by the end of the year 2001. The town has one bus station, one water supply station, 3 banks or rural credit cooperatives, total capacity of telephone exchange is 3,600. The total length of highroad in the town is 32 km. There are two market places, one is synthetic, another is specialized, one cultural station, four physical training places, one hospital, 50 doctors, 129 sickbeds, one beadhouse. There are 22 schools, 8,856 students, 430 15 teachers, 4 kindergartens. There are 2,728 households in the township, population is 11,999, and 1,738 of them come from out of the town. The area of the township is 420 hectares. There are one synthetic market place, one specialized market place. There are 8699 employees in township, 3,915 of them are in secondary industry, 3,044 of them are in tertiary industry. There are 50 enterprises in the township, all are industrial, 3,200 employees in them. All households have tap water and gas for living. 95% households has community antenna television. Per capita floor space of residents is 20 square meters. Table 1: Population and Land Structure of Xiniu and Hanguang Town Total Rural _ Female Arable Land per Population population labor illages land(mu) capita Xiniu 8541 37542 33192 16261 6829 21 30675 0. 924 Hanguang 10107 47398 33000 19082 8777 22 60180 1. 824 Table 2 Economic Conditions of Xiniu and Hanguang Town Town Enterprise Town Village State Owned Employee Mean Numbers Enterprise Enterprise Enterprise Numbers Wage Xiniu .5 5 0 0 475 500-700 yuan/month Hanguang 185 50 135 0 4133 600-900 yuan/month 2.3 Socioeconomic Situation of Villages to Be Impacted by the Project Xlian Village Xilian Village is located in the east of Xiniu Town, contains 21 villager's groups. All the 998 households are agricultural. The population is 4,621, all are agricultural. The area of cultivated lands is 3986 mu, 2,332 mu of the lands is paddy field, 1,654 mu is dry land. The per capita area of cultivated land is 0.86mu. The effective irrigation area is 2,025 mu. Area of ensuring stable yields despite drought or excessive rain is 1,600 mu. Area of irrigation through electric power and machine is 1,246 mu. Mechanized farming area is 110 mu. A bituminous macadam passes the village, long-distance bus can arrive at Yingde City. Total laborers of the village are 2,789 people, population within the working age group is 2,789, 111 of them study in school, 126 of them are disabled, 69 people who are younger than the working age are in work, 218 people who are older than the working age are in work.. male laborers account for 50.1%, female laborers account for 49.9%. 16 Among the 2,789 laborers, 1,501 engage in planting, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and sidelines, account for 53.8%, among them, 874 people engage in planting, account for 31.3% of the total laborers, 19 engage in forestry, account for 0.7%, 401 engage in animal husbandry, account for 14.4%, 186 engage in sidelines, account for 6.7%, 21 engage in fishery, account for 0.8%, 42 people engage in industry, account for 1.5%, 208 engage in construction, account for 7.4%, 31 engage in transport, storage, post and telecommunication, account for 1.1%, 60 engage wholesale, retail, trade, restaurant, account for 2.2%, 947 people engage other trades, account for 34.0%. among the 947 people of other trades, 890 of them find job out of the town, account for 31.9% of the total laborers. The per capita area of land for villagers is small, villager's main income depends on planting and some sidelines, hold no enterprises. Some households have some woodland, such bamboo, their income is a little higher then other villagers. Xiaowan Village Xiaowan Village is located in the north of Xiniu Town, contains 14 villager's groups. All the 635 households are agricultural. The population is 2,155, all are agricultural. The area of cultivated lands is 3,112 mu, 2050 mu of the lands is paddy field, 1,062 mu is dry land. The per capita area of cultivated land is 1.44 mu. The effective irrigation area is 2,050 mu. Area of ensuring stable yields despite drought or excessive rain is 1650 mu. Area of irrigation through electric power and machine is 446 mu. Mechanized farming area is 800 mu. A bituminous macadam passes the village, long-distance bus can arrive at Yingde City. Total laborers of the village are 1,432 people, population within the working age group is 1515, 70 of them study in school, 76 of them are disabled, 132 people who are younger than the working age are in work \, 131 people who are older than the working age are in work.. male laborers is 755, account for 52.7%, female laborers is 677 account for 47.3%. Among the 1,432 laborers, 894 engage in planting, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and sidelines, account for 61.0%, among them, 7,475 people engage in planting, account for 33.2% of the total laborers, 17 engage in forestry, account for 1.2%, 162 engage in animal husbandry, account for 11.3%, 220 engage in sidelines, account for 15.4%, 20 engage in fishery, account for 1.4%, 46 people engage in 17 industry, account for 3.2%, 62 engage in construction, account for 4.3%, 39 engage in transport, storage, post and telecommunication, account for 2.7%, 18 engage wholesale, retail, trade, restaurant. Account for 1.3%, 373 people engage other trades, account for 26.0%. among the 373 people of other trades, 216 of them find job out of the town, account for 15.1% of the total laborers. The village has no any enterprise, main income depends on agricultural planting. Some households engage in sericulture, their income is higher than other villagers. Yuzui Village Yuzui Village is located in the upper reaches of the Lianjiang Xiniu Navigation Complex. It is the village that will be affected more seriously than others in Hanguang Town. It contains 17 villager's groups. All the 414 households are agricultural. The population is 1,935, all are agricultural. The area of cultivated lands is 2,547 mu, 1,063 mu of the lands is paddy field, 1,484 mu is dry land. The per capita area of cultivated land is 1.32 mu. Total laborers of the village are 1,616, male laborers are 835, account for 51.7%, female laborers are 781, account for 48.3%. 341 of them find job out of the town. A bituminous macadam passes the village, long-distance bus can arrive at Yingde City. The planting area of early season rice is 510 mu in 2001, total output is 201.45 tons, mean output is 375 kg/mu, The planting area of late season rice is 550 mu, total output is 214.5 tons, mean output is 390 kg/mu. The planting area of corn is 102 mu, total output is 12.14 tons. Yuzui Village is close to Lianjiang River, the topography is relatively low, easy to be impacted by flood. Due to the long distance to the city, industry and commerce is not developed, no enterprises, farmer's income is low. Table 3 Rural Population and Employment Situation Name Total Total Agricultural Total Female Farming Employed Misc households population household labor labor persons No Xilian 998 4621 998 1787 853 869 341 947 Xiaowan 635 2868 635 1432 677 894 165 216 Zhennan 572 2700 572 1701 697 1105 255 341 Yuzui 414 1935 414 1161 487 754 243 164 Dongling 314 1543 314 782 305 Lingnan 466 2351 466 1293 594 Zhuangzhou 462 1990 462 1055 432 Hanguang 1770 8364 445 6694 4349 935 2250 764 18 2.4 Economic Situation of the Rural Households to Be Impacted by the project 2.4.1 Distribution of Samples in the Survey of Social Impact on Households In order to study the conditions of the households to be affected by land acquisition, the research group conducted a sampling survey about the households in the area to be affected. The area contains 8 villages, total 15 villagers groups, about 400 households. 239 households are sampled. Of the samples, 98 from Xilian Village, Xiniu Town; 51 from Xiaowan Village, Xiniu Town; in Hanguang Town, Zhennan Village has 12, Yuzui Village has 40, Dongling Village has l1, Lingnan Village has 9, Town Inhabitant Council has 8, Zhuangzhou Village has 10. 2.4.2 Contents of Family Situations Survey A. Family conditions of the inhabitants in the affected area, quantities and types of cultivated land they owned, employment, style of production, family properties, means of production. B. The living conditions of the inhabitants in the affected area, the composition of the household income and pay out, house condition. Also include their degree of satisfaction about their life, for example, about their relationship between family members, relationships with their neighbors and colleagues, about the work condition and income, social status of their occupation, about the convenience of traffic, education and shopping, about the condition of their house, leisure time life, health, etc. C. The attitudes of the infected inhabitants. Local peoples' perception of project impacts, such as land acquisition, restriction of access to resources, potential employment opportunities, improved navigation and participation etc. Include how much they learn and support the project, their expectance about the compensation, their anxieties and their plans for the future life and work. D. The cultural activities, social interactions, religious believes, entertainments of the affected inhabitants. 2.4.3 The Housing Situation of the Villagers' Families in the Land Acquisition Area The 59.2% houses of the families are bungalow; 33% are two-storied buildings; 6% are three-storied buildings or more; 1.3% are other types of housing. The property rights of all the houses belong to the families. Regarding the house construction, 54.6% are of brick-stone-tile construction; 36.5% are of brick-tile-prefabricated- 19 cement construction; 7.9% are of adobe-brick-wood construction; 1% are of other construction. As for the number of rooms, 9.7% have one room; 27.4% have two rooms, 20.3% have three rooms; 9.3% have four rooms; 9.7% have five rooms; 9.3% have six rooms; 14.3% have sever rooms or more. The most is 15 rooms and the average is 4 rooms. The average house area is 113.1 mi2; the largest is 600 m2 and the smallest is 15 m 2. The average age of the houses is 12.5 years; the longest is 52 years and the shortest is less than one year. The average construction cost is 23,254.8 Yuan; the least is 600 Yuan and the most is 150,000 Yuan. 40.7% of the houses have decoration and 59.3% don't have decoration. The average decoration expense is 10,631.67 Yuan; the most is 50,000 Yuan and the least is 100 Yuan. Regarding the facilities of the houses, 15.2% use private tap water facility; 6.3% use communal tap water facility; 73.8% use private well water; 3.4% use communal well water; 1.2% use river water. 93.2% have regular electricity supply; 6.3% have irregular electricity supply; 0.4% have no electricity supply. 98.5% of the houses have an independent kitchen; 34.9% have an indoor toilet; 34.9% have an outdoor independent toilet; 30.1% use public toilet. 30.3% have a bathroom; 69.7% have no bathroom. 44.8% have a courtyard, with an average area of 76.7 mi2; the largest courtyard is 500 m 2. The average groundsill area is 106.8 M2; the largest is 550 m2 2 and the smallest is 12 m2. 2.4.4 Household Economy: Types, Modes and Scales Household's mean area of agricultural-use land is 10.73 Mu (Chinese unit of area, 1/15 of a hectare), the smallest is 0.3 Mu and the largest is 128.3 Mu. 98.3% have paddy fields, with an average area of 2.52 Mu. 97.9% have glebe; the smallest is 0.2 Mu; the largest is 6 Mu; the mean is 2.11 Mu. 52% have vegetable plots; the smallest is 0.2 Mu; the largest is 3.0 Mu; the average is 0.36 Mu. 26.7% have economic woods; the smallest is 0.2 Mu; the largest is 115 Mu; the average is 4.36 Mu. 15.5% have an orchard; the largest is 40 Mu; the smallest is 0.15 Mu; the average is 0.97 Mu. 4.2% have fishponds; the smallest is 0.3 Mu; the largest is 80 Mu; the mean is 0.43 Mu. As for the family business, 96.5% engage in agricultural crop and plant cultivation; 32.5% engage in other types of plantation; 39.4% engage in forestry; 21.3% engage in animal husbandry; 4.2% engage in fishery; 54.4% have sideline industry; 3.2% have other business such as industry, construction, wholesale and retail business, food and beverage service etc. As for the business models, 96.2% are based on the household-based contract 20 system; 1.3% are individual operation; 2.5% are other business models like cooperative business operation and employment operation. In addition to engaging in family business, some labor work away from home. 56% of the families have member(s) working away from home. For the most, there is a family which has 4 members working away from home. 23% has one member working away from home; 23% have two; 9.2% have three and 0.8% have four. 2.4.5 Income and Expense of Families with Land to be Acquired Family Income In 2001, the average total family income was 15,616.93 Yuan; the most was 118,500 Yuan; the least was 1,000 Yuan; the median was 12,105 Yuan. The income per capita was 3,294.5 Yuan. In 2001, the average income from members working away from home was 1,776.16 per family, accounting 11.37% of the total family income. Family Expenses In 2001, the average total expenses per family were 8,167.1 Yuan; the most was 59,047.5 Yuan; the median was 6,400 Yuan. Living expenses accounted for 68.9% of total expenses; family business operation expenses accounted for 23.6% of total expenses;'The purchase of production assets accounted for 2.0%; Other production expenses accounted for 1.5%; Tax payment accounted for 1.5%; The turned-in collective preservation fund accounted for 0.4%; other social charge accounted for 2.1%. Among the living expenses, expenses of food accounted for 34.2%; expenses of clothes accounted for 7.5%; expenses of durables accounted for 1.5%; expenses of house construction accounted for 16.1%; expenses of transportation accounted for 2.8%; expenses of medical treatment accounted for 9.7%; expenses of education accounted for 16%; expenses of entertainment accounted for 1.0%; expenses of gifts exchanges accounted for 6.2%; other living expenses accounted for 5%. 2.4.6 Household Income Structure The income of the households to be impacted by Xiniu Navigation Complex Project mainly from household business, this part account for 90.0% of the total household income. The income from collective business is only account for 1.5%, income from economic combination is only 0.9%, other non business income account for 7.7% of the total household income. The main impact of land acquisition is on the income of household business. 21 Among the income of household business, income of grain planting account for 37.5%, forestry account for 14.7%, animal husbandry account for 5.0%, fishery account for 0.5%, sidelines account for 25.1%, transport account for 1.5%, construction account for 1.3%, commercial service account for 5.9%, other business income account for 8.5%. Income of planting, forestry and fishery depend on lands directly. Figure 10: Structure of Household Income others 8.5% commerce 5.9% construction 1.3% transport 1.5%L > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~agriculture 37.5% sidelines 25.1% \* > fishery 0.5% \, .forestry 14.7% pastoral staff 5.0% - 2.5 The Vulnerable Rural Households 2.5.1 Poverty-Stricken Families to be Impacted by Land Acquisition Among the families influenced by land acquisition, 26 households had an average per capita income of lower than 1,000 Yuan, accounting for 11.1 % of the total families. The average per capita annual income was 556.8 Yuan, only 16.9% of the average per capital income of the whole population surveyed. These relatively poor families had an average total income of 2,771.9 Yuan in 2001, about 17.7% of the average number 15,616.93 Yuan. Each of such family have a plowland area of 4.12 Mu, about 38.2% of the average area 10.78 Mu. As for their income structure, family business income accounted for a major part 97.9%; other income accounted for only 2.1%. As for the structure of the family business income, 32% was from agricultural plantation; 2.3% from forestry; 3.0% from animal husbandry; 48% from sideline industry; 5.6% from transportation industry; 3.2% from construction industry; 2.7% from commerce and service industry; 3.2% from other business. 2.5.2 Families with a Member Loses Work Ability 22 In the families influenced by land acquisition, four households have one member who loses the ability to work because of oldness, weakness and illness. The oldest is at the age of 90. But the per capita income of these families is not substantially influenced. Their per capita income is 3,239.6 Yuan, only 54.6 Yuan lower than the per capita income 3,294.2 Yuan of the whole population. 23 3 Impacts of the Project 3.1 Scopes under the Impacts of Land Acquisition for the Project 3.1.1 Scopes under the Impacts The construction site and the influenced area of the project are both Xiniu Town and Hanguang Town. The coverage of the project construction includes 8 village committees and 15 village groups. The project is not involved in house movement and population migration. The reservior inundation will influence 8 villages under Xiniu Town and Hanguang Town, including Xilian Village and Xiaowan Village under Xiniu Town, Yuzui Village, Dongling Village, Lingnan Village, Zhuangzhou Village, Zhennan Village and Hanguang Village under Hanguang Town. The construction of the supporting facilities of the project, such as workshops, roads and green belts, needs to permanently acquire 364.5 Mu in Xilian Village and Xiaowan Village. The production and living area of the complex, according to the fixed construction building area layout, will be 26,500 m2 (40 Mu), including 5,500 m2 (8.25 Mu) of the house building area, 15,000 m2 (22.5 Mu) of the road area and 6,000 m2 (9 Mu) of other building area. The outgoing highway will be built according to the Grade 2 Highway Standard (the width of the roadbed is 8.5m; the width of the driveway is 7.0m), linking Yingde-Xiniu Highway, with a total length of 3.5km. The land occupation of the highway is 150 Mu. 3.1.2 The Impact Contents (Practicality Indexes) The project design unit and Yingde Bureau of Land conducted the survey of the index in terms of practicalities in the area influenced by the project in early 2002. The indexes include: Land acquisition: The agricultural land and other land resources will decrease because of the reservoir inundation and permanent land acquisition by the project. Impact on production: the influence on the life and production of the peasants. To be specific, the influence of the decrease of agricultural plantation income caused by plowland decrease. Impact on the social economic development of the towns and villages. Impact on the public infrastructure of the towns and villages: for example, the reservoir inundation will influence 10 domestic water docks and 9 pumping stations. Other Impact indexes: for example, bamboo forest, shortcuts, dikes, etc. 24 3.2 The Situation of Land Acquisition for the Project The acquired land for the project includes the land for reservoir inundation, the permanent land for supporting facilities of the project, and the temporarily-rented land during the construction period. 3.2.1 Types of Lands to be Acquired There are two types of lands in the lands to be acquired -- agricultural land and non-agricultural land. The agricultural land includes cultivated land (paddy fields and dry land), woodland, orange garden and mulberry fields. The non-agricultural land includes land used for town construction, land used for industry and mines, and hirst land. 3.2 2 Property Rights and Operating Mode of Land to Be Acquired Among agricultural land to be acquired, property rights of farmland to be acquired in Xiniu Navigation Complex are mainly collective ownership of Villagers Groups, while some cultivated land and forest land are collectively owned by Villagers Committees. Land owned by Villagers Committee and Groups have been distributed to villagers by means of household contract responsibility system with remuneration linked to output. Durations of these contracts are different from ten to thirty years. Some agricultural land collectively owned by Villagers Committees are not distributed to villagers by this means, but operated by economic organizations formed by Villagers Committees, and profits from this land are used for villages' collective careers development. Most of villages (given Longquan and Xilian village as examples) promised to make a partial adjustment on cultivated land operated by means of household contract responsibility system with remuneration linked to output, according to the changed labor forces situation of villages and households. The adjustment should be subject to strict working process. Non-agricultural land to be acquired is mainly land along river beaches, as well as land used for city or town construction, industrial and mining enterprises-used land. They are state owned. No compensation or settlement for Villagers Committees and villagers is required in acquisition of this land. 3.2.3 Details of the Land to be Acquired Paddy fields: for paddy mainly. There are two crops a year on land to be acquired in Xiniu works, with a per mu output from 350 to 800 kg. There are only few paddy fields in local region, with a low crop output. Farmers should hand in grains from 25 40kg to 60kg per mu as tax to collective state. Crops they harvested are used mainly for foods at home, with few sold at markets. Per mu output value is from RMB 700 to 800 Yuan, with a net value about RMB 200 Yuan after expenditures on chemical fertilizers, pesticide and seeds were deducted. Dry land is mainly used for planting potatoes, coms and peanuts. Output of peanuts can reach 200 kg/mu, mainly used for extracting oil, self-use or sale. Outputs of potatoes and corns are a little higher, used by farmers for complementary foods or sale of surplus parts. Most forestland, mulberry and orange fields are those improved land along river breaches. Forestland mainly refers to bamboo fields along river sides. Villagers plant bamboo for selling, at a price from RMB 0.8 to I Yuan per twig. Every household usually has three to five bamboo clusters, with an output from 30 to 50 pieces of bamboo per cluster. Mulberry fields are also those improved land along river breaches. Every year, silkworms are harvested for two times, with an output value of about RMB 800 Yuan per mu. Agricultural land to be acquired in Xiniu complex project are mainly formed and filled by erosion of the Lianjiang River. There are a high percentage of sands included in soil, hard to keep nutrient. Especially, harm of seasonal flood on the Lianjiang River is very severe, once flood overflows above river bank, crops will be submerged, which makes farmers get nothing. According to local villagers' introduction, there are flood on the Lianjiang River every year, with agricultural production threatened in five to six out of ten years. Therefore, farmland is in low protection from flood or drought. It was found from investigation that, there are 89 and 210 mu of cultivated land in Xinchen and Zhangwu village respectively, but areas of land under harvest guarantee are only 24 and 80 mu, accounting for 27% and 38% of total amount of cultivated land respectively. This situation led to a low per mu output and low cash income for farmers from cultivated land in this year. The land to be acquired of the project are all situated on the bank-side of Lianjiang River. They perennially suffer from floods and have very low coefficient of insurance of stable yields despite drought or excessive rain. Therefore, the yield per Mu is very low. 3.3 The Area of Lands to be Acquired for the Project The lands to be acquired by the project include (1) lands to be inundated by reservoir; and (2) permanent lands for supporting facilities of the project. The two types of lands to be acquired total 1,787 Mu. 26 The land acquisition of the project has minor influence on the local agricultural production and plowland. Of all the lands to be acquired, the state-owned flood land and wasteland are 1,315.8 Mu, accounting for 74%; paddy fields and dry land are 281.1 Mu, accounting for 16%; orchards, woodland and mulberry fields total 173.3 Mu, accounting for 10%; lands for town construction and industry and mines are 16.7 Mu, accounting for 0.9%. Structure of Lands to be Acquired Orchards, woodland and mulberry fields: 10% Plowland: Lands for town construction and industry and mines: 0.9% \ Flood land and wasteland: 740/ 3.3.1 Land to be Inundated by Reservoir The reservoir will inundate 1,422.5 Mu of various types of lands, of which 29.5 Mu are plowlands, 105.2 Mu are woodlands, 1,250.5 Mu are flood lands and 37.3 Mu are lands for other uses. The situation of the acquired land inundated by reservoir is shown in Table 4. Table 4: Details of Land to be Submerged by Reservoir unit:mu Village Paddy Dry Woods Rsdne Overflow WilId grass Total field land land Residence land land Xilian 16.70 151.10 3.80 171.60 Xiaowan 73.20 74.60 147.80 Zhennan 4.60 6.00 421.00 21.30 452.90 Yuzui 1.90 14.20 10.10 6.20 267.00 299.40 Dongling 8.80 5.20 124.50 138.50 Lingnan 143.60 143.60 Hanguang c 40.60 40.60 Zhuangzhou 28.10 28.10 Total 1.90 27.60 105.20 12.20 1250.50 25.10 1422.50 27 3.3.2 The Permanently Acquired Lands for the Construction of Supporting Facilities of the Project 364.5 Mu of lands will be acquired permanently for the construction of supporting facilities, houses of work and living, alleyways, etc. The lands to be acquired are in Xilian Village and Xiaowan Village, of which 348 Mu are in Xilian Village, accounting for 95% of the permanently-acquired lands. In the permanently-acquired lands, 251.6 Mu are plowlands (paddy fields and dry land); 68.1 Mu are orchards, woodlands and mulberry fields; 4.5 Mu are lands for industry and mines; 40.3 Mu are flood lands. The permanently-acquired lands are mostly in Xilian Village. Therefore, the land acquisition of the project has important influence on Xilian Village. Table 5: Permanent Acquired Land for Supporting Facilities unit: mu Factory River Paddy Dry Orange Mulberry Woods Village and mine overflow Total fDeld land orchard yard land lad an land land Xilian 54.2 194.0 3.8 26.8 24.4 4.5 40.3 348.0 Xiaowan 3.4 13.1 16.5 Total 54.2 197.4 3.8 26.8 37.5 4.5 40.3 364.5 3.4 Description of Land to be Used Temporarily Land of 463.3 mu should be temporarily rent and used for pilling up materials, discharging mud and sandstone in Xiniu works. Scopes of land rent are in Xilian and Xiaowan village. Among these, 175.2 mu are rent in Xilian village and 288 mu in Xiaowan village. Land to be rent is mainly wasteland and land along river beaches, and a little is cultivated land and forest land. 3.5 Impacts of Land Acquisition on Households' Income 3.5.1 Villager's Groups and Rural Households with Lands to be Acquired 15 Villager's groups, which include 400 households and 1840 persons, will be influenced by the land acquisition. The lands to be acquired are mainly located in Zhangwu, Shangwei, Dacun, Tangbei, Yangbei, and Zhujing, six Villager's Groups under Xilian Village. Each household in Zhangwu, Shangwei and Tangbei has a certain amount of cultivated land within the land acquisition scope. In Dacun, Yangbei and Zhujing, parts of the villagers have contracted land within the land acquisition scope. There are total 286 households of the six Villager's Groups in Xilian Village 28 that will be influenced by land acquisition. In Hetou under Xiaowan Village, there are 3.4 Mu contracted dry lands of 11 households within the land acquisition scope. In Xiaowan Village, 86.3 Mu woodlands will be acquired. More than 60 households of the Hetou, Tianliao, Tangyi and Tanger Villager's Group will be influenced by the woodlands acquisition. In Yuzui Village, 16.1 Mu plowlands and 14.2 Mu woodlands will be inundated. Totally 38 households in three villager's groups will be influenced. In Dongling Village, 8.8 Mu dry lands along the river will be acquired. 12 households with contracted business in three villager's groups will be influenced. In Zhennan Village, 4.6 Mu dry lands along the river, which belong to 8 households in two villager's group, will be acquired. 3.5.2 Decrease in Households' Income Caused by Land Acquisition After land acquisition, area of agricultural cultivation in Xilian village will decrease by 248.2 mu (54.2 mzu of which are paddy fields, and 194 mu are dry land), accounting for 6.22% of total. In Zhangwu village, which is under jurisdiction of Xilian village, 40 mu of cultivated land are to be acquired and used for construction of auxiliary facilities in the project, accounting for 19% of total. Land acquisition will impose impacts on production of 210 peasant households, and cause decreases in their incomes from planting, and decreases in households' operating incomes by 7.1%. For land acquisition, households' incomes in Shangwei, Tangba, Angba and Zhujing will decrease by 3.1%, 1.5%, 3.4% and 2.9% respectively. Originally, there is forest land of 266.8 mu in total and 0.64 mu per capita in Hetou and Tianliao village which are under jurisdiction of Xiaowan village, and incomes from forest land account for 14.7% of total households' incomes. After land acquisition, forest land will decrease by 86.3 mu, which make households' incomes decrease by 4.7%. Garden land and mulberry fields of 30.6 mu are to be acquired, which make farmers' households' operating incomes decrease by 3.18% in Zhangwu, Shangwei and Dacun. In addition, land acquisition will impose indirect impacts on incomes from animal husbandry and sideline production, but it is difficult to calculate the impacts. There are slight impacts on other incomes, such as incomes from transporting service, building industry and business service. Analyzed on the whole, Impacts of land acquisition in the project are relatively dispersive, and do business with many villages. Because cultivated land is not centralized in villages, and convenience in getting water has to be taken into 29 consideration, farmers cultivate on small stretch of scattered land. Therefore, when land are to be acquired along river sides, almost every household has some land to be included, different from 0.01 to 1.20 mu. Quantity of land to be acquired in Zhangwu village is relatively high, with under relatively great impacts Table 6: Cultivated Land to Be Acquired in Xilian Village and Incomes Decrease in Agricultural Planting Present Land Land Income Village Plowland Households Acquired reduction Reduction (mu) (mu) (%) (%) Zhangwu 210 37 40 19 7. 1 Shangwei 120 19 10 8.3 3. 1 Dacun 729.6 130 76.6 10.5 3.9 Tangbei 205 34 8.5 4 1.5 Angba 727 108 66 9 3.4 Zhujing 605 101 47.1 8 2.9 3.6 Impacts of Land Acquisition for the Project on Rural Economy There are 8 Villagers Committees under jurisdiction of Xiniu and Hanguan town are to be impacted by permanent land usage, land submerged by reservoir and temporary land usage in the project. These impacts can be described as: decrease in land resources in rural areas, especially decrease in resources of arable land, leads to decrease in total quantity of rural collective economy; factors mentioned above will lead decrease in collective benefits, and decreases in per capita cultivated land area, per labor cultivated land and per labor allotment in Villagers Committees and Groups. Despite degrees of impacts on eleven Villagers Committees are different, only Xilian village of Xiniu town is under the greatest impacts. In the whole village, per capita cultivated land will decrease by 6.22% after land acquisition, and the next are Longquan and Wangshan village, with a decrease of 3.5% and 2.8% respectively. Other villages are under relatively slighter impacts, with decreases in land by less than 1% of total cultivated land. According to statistics, it is found that not any household has its major part of plowlands be acquired, and not any village team has all its plowlands be acquired. The land acquisition will not result in that the per capita plowland of any household is less than 0.3 Mu. The land acquisition does not have any obviously unfavorable effect on rural labor employment. 30 Table 7 Land Resources in Rural Areas and Impacts of Land Acquisition Longquan 5021 3770 1251 == 1599 1.02 2.18 4782.7 3. 5 0. 99 Wangshan 328 300 28 _155 0.45 0.85 318.81 2. 8 0. 44 Xilian 3986 2332 1654 1109 286 660 0. 86 2.23 3738 6. 22X 0. 81 Xiaowan 1 3112 2025 11062 = 100 1 00 90 1 08 2. 17 13108. 6 0. 1X 1. 08 Zhennan 5476 2168 3308 _2.02 3.21 5471 0. 08X 2. 02 Yuzui 2547 1063 1484 == = 1.31 2.19 2530 0.63%i 1.30 Dongling 1587 1178 409 1. 02 2. 02. 1578 0. 55X 1. 02 Lingnan 1304 850 454 0.55 1304 0 0. 55 Zhuangzhou 2425 991 1434 _ . 21 2. 3 2425 0 1. 21 Hanguang 798 539 259 0.48 0.85 798 0 0.48 3.7 Impacts of the Project on Public Facilities The construction of the project will have influence on the operation of some public water facilities, domestic water docks and pumping stations. Totally 10 simple domestic water docks and 9 pumping stations will be affected. These pumping stations and domestic water docks were built by the local govemment more than 20 years ago, with the main purpose of serving for the needs of the production and daily life of villagers. They do not belong to any individual. Comparatively speaking, Xiniu Town is a poor agricultural town, with agriculture as its economic backbone. 3merefore the influence on public facilities will not have negative effect on Xiniu Town. Hanguang Town will be seriously influenced by the reservoir inundation. It is a comparatively rich town in Yingde City, with developed township industry. Its paid-in taxes rank the highest among the towns in Yingde City. Because commercial economy and waterway transportation rely much on public facilities, the dismantling of public facilities caused by the project will negatively impact Hanguang Town. 3.8 Relation of Reservoir Submerge and the Seasonal Flood Hazard The project is a low-dam channelization project wito the main purpose of improving the waterway situation in low-water seasons. The impact of the inundation of lands on upper reaches and the risks aroused has been carefully considered in the feasibility study. According to the conclusion, the check-dam is designed based on the standard of "occurrence once in ten years". The water level before the dam is 34.75m. 31 The time of flood drainage will not be increased. At the next stage of the project design process, the project owner and the design unit will increase the flood drainage ability of the reservoir area and reduce the frequency of flood danger by optimizing and improving the design, and finally realize the goal of eliminating the flood danger of Lianjiang River. As for the issue of the relation between the inundated reservoir area and seasonal flood danger of the towns, on November 16 and December 10, 2002, the unit in charge of the survey of the project social influence had a meeting with the cadres from towns and villages and villager representatives, and communicated and explained the issue. The villagers also expressed their understanding and recognition. 32 4. Legitimate Framework The resettlement policy of the project is based on the "land acquisition and relocation regulation" of Chinese govemment and the "non-voluntary immigration guideline" (OD 4.30) of the World Bank. 4.1 The Legitimate Framework of Resettlement Policy In China the land acquisition and relocation regulations are at three levels. The first level is the law framework set up by the central govemment which publish the national rules and implementation guidelines; the second level is the general or specific regulation issued by the provincial government in order to implement the national law or rules; the third level is the specific regulation of a certain period or project issued by municipal or county government. The relevant laws are as follow: a. Land management law of PRC, effective from Jan. 1, 1999; b. Land management implementation practice of PRC, effective from Jan. 1, 1999; c. Land management implementation practice of Guangdong province, effective from Nov. 27, 1999; d. Primary farming land conservation district management implementation practice of Guangdong province, effective from July 26, 1996; e. River bank management statute of Guangdong province, effective from Dec., 1996. 4.2 The Resettlement Policy Applicable to this Project A. Land compensation refer to clause 30 of Land management implementation practice of Guangdong province: The paddy field shall be compensated 8 to 10 times of the average annual production value of the last three years before the land acquisition. Other arable land shall be compensated 6 to 8 times of the average annual production value of the last three years before the land acquisition. The fish ponds shall be compensated 8 to 12 times of the average annual production value of the paddy field nearby of the last three years before the land acquisition. The other farming land shall be compensated 5 to 7 times of the average annual production value of the last three years before the land acquisition. The unexplored land shall be compensated 50% of the average 33 annual production value of arable land nearby of the last three years before the land acquisition. The collective-owned non-agricultural construction land shall be compensated at the same rate as the other arable land nearby. The average annual production value is calculated according to the grass root statistic annual report audited by local statistic department and the recognized unit rate by the price department. B. Green crop compensation refer to clause 30 of Land management implementation practice of Guangdong province: The short term crops shall be compensated one season. The perennial crops shall be reasonably compensated on the basis of the planting period and growing period. C. Attachment compensation refer to clause 30 of Land management implementation practice of Guangdong province: The wells, tombs and other attachment of the acquired land shall be compensated at the rate decided by the county government based on the actual situation. D. Resettlement subsidy refer to clause 30 of Land management implementation practice of Guangdong province: In case of arable land acquisition, the subsidy that each PAP is entitled to shall be 4 to 6 times of the average annual production value of the last three years before the land acquisition. But the subsidy of each hectare shall not exceed 15 times of the average annual production value of the last three years before the land acquisition. In case of the land acquisition of other agricultural land, the subsidy shall be 3 to 5 times of the average annual production value of the last three years before the land acquisition. If the land compensation and resettlement subsidy made as per the above rules can't maintain the original living standards of the PAPs, the resettlement subsidy can be increased with approval of the provincial government. But the total amount of land compensation and resettlement subsidy shall not exceed 30 times of the average annual production value of the last three years before the land acquisition. No subsidy shall be made to the acquisition of homestead land and agricultural tax-free land. The acquired land shall be relieved of agricultural tax from the next year of land acquisition. Also refer to clause 26 of "land management implementation practice of PRC": The resettlement subsidy shall be used for the sole purpose of land acquisition, 34 and not for other purposes. If the rural village collective organizes the resettlement, the subsidy shall be paid to the village collective and at its management. If other units organizes the resettlement, the subsidy shall be paid to the unit and at its management. If the resettlement doesn't need overall resettlement, the subsidy shall be paid to the individual PAPs or to pay the premium for the PAPs. E. Temporary land acquisition compensation refers to clause 37 of Land management implementation practice of Guangdong province: The compensation shall equal to annual average production value of the last three years times the period of temporary use. F. Reduction or relief of land reclamation fee refer to clause 8 of "Primary famning land conservation district management implementation practice of Guangdong province": The water conservancy, transport, energy, communications, national defense military industry, public ware fare projects which are mainly invested by the nation can apply for reduction or relief of land reclamation fee as per "Primary farming land conservation regulation" and "Primary farning land conservation district management implementation practice of Guangdong province" after approval of provincial departments of planning, finance, national land and agriculture. G. Construction land regulation refers to clause 44 of "national land management law of PRC": If the land used by the road, pipe or cable, major infrastructure projects approved by the provincial, autonomous governments or municipality directly under central govemment, or projects approved by the state council is changed from agricultural land to construction land, it shall be approved by the state council. Refer to clause 45 of "national land management law of PRC": The following land acquisition shall be approved by the state council: a. Primary farming land; b. Arable land other than primary fanming land exceeding 35 hectares; c. Other land exceeding 70 hectares. 4.3 Compensation Rate (refer to Table 8) 35 Table 8 Compensation Rate(times) Lianjiang Xiniu project Category . Resettlement Land compensatbon subsidy times Paddy field 10 7 Dry land 10 6 Orange orchard 6 4 Woods land 10 6 Mulberry land 8 3 4.4 Resettlement Objective and Principle The world bank resettlement policy is that the non-voluntary migration shall be avoided or the scale shall be reduced. If the resettlement can't be avoided, the original living standards of financial income of the PAPs shall be improved or at least rehabilitated. The resettlement principle: a. To reduce the impact scope of land acquisition and to reduce the number of non-voluntary migrants to the least; b. The land acquisition of collective land shall be reasonable compensated. The compensation shall be made to the collective for the exclusive purpose of developing collective economy. c. To implement the equivalent compensation principle. All public facilities, docks, bridges shall be compensated for the replacement value. d. All the compensations of the land acquisition shall be paid within three months from the approval of resettlement plan. 36 5 Estimation of the Resettlement Costs The resettlement costs consist of four items, including land acquisition costs, temporary land costs, expenses of taxation and supervision expenses. The relocation expenses of public facilities such as docks and water facilities are not calculated in the cost evaluation. The construction unit will restore and reconstruct the public facilities at the reconstruction costs. 5.1 Compensation Standards for Land Acquisition See Table 9: Itemized Prices of Cmpensation for Land Acquisition in Xiniu Navigation Complex 37 Table 9: Itemized Prices of Cmpensation for Land Acquisition in Xiniu Navigation Complex Unit: mnu /Yuan Items Expenses for Expenses for ) -1 Z f o land settlement 0 c C X I c compensation compensation o0 3 a 0 CD O OS 0 (,~~~~~0:- -0 60 6 65 30 a 30 10 - 9 = 0 'C: ~h C:ul o ,0 0F- ;' Orange yards 870 5220 870 3480 800 3600 800 3330 10000 285 9324 36839 ~~~~ Mu1be~ ~ ~~~~~~~~~~=S: = " 361 ) 00 932 391 Paddy fields 81000 8000 1000 3000 1000 3600 800 3330 10000 360 9324 39420 fields __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ ;z Forest land 500 5000 500 3000 500 3600 800 3330 10000 255 9324 35809 Industrial and 9324 21324 0 Mining-UsedL 12000 o and Cities and 9324 21324 3 towns' land 12000 River beaches 6000 9324 15324 Wasteland 6000 9324 15324 38 5.2 Costs for Land Acquisition Compensation 5.2.1 Costs of land Acquisition The costs of land acquisition total 12,215,857 Yuan, of which: Acquisition costs of village plowlands (including woodlands, mulberry fields and orchards): composed of the land compensation fee and the resettlement subsidy. The land compensation fee is 2,580,909 Yuan and the resettlement subsidy is 1,539,148 Yuan. The basic costs of land acquisition total 4,120,057 Yuan. Acquisition of state-owned lands of overflow lands, town lands, and industry and mine lands: totaling 8,095,800 Yuan. Table 10: Costs (by Classification of Land) for Land Acquisition Compensation in Xiniu Complex Contents Areas of land Land Settlement Green crop I etbacompensation compensation compensat Total Ite m to be acquired (Yuan) (Yuan) ion Paddy fields 56. 1 374748 262324 36465 673537 Dry land 225 1258425 755100 123750 2137275 Orange yards 3. 8 19836 13224 3040 36100 X~ Mulberry 26.8 214400 80400 26800 321600 fields__ _ _ _ _ ;L1. Forest land 142. 7 713500 428100 71350 1212950 Industrial and Mining-Used 4.5 54000 _. Land Cities and towns' land 12. 2 146400 River beaches 1290. 8 7744800 Wasteland 25. 1 150600 Total 1787 2580909 1539148 261405 12477262 39 Table 11: Compensation Costs of Xiniu Complex by Villages Unit .yuan Amount of Land Acquisition Costs of Land Compensation Costs of Resettlement Compensation Village Paddy Dry Woods Paddy Dry Orchard Mulberry Woods Paddy Dry Woods Total field land Orchard Mulberry land field land land field land Orchard MLlberry land Zhangwu 12 28 2. 1 2 80160 156604 16800 10000 56112 93968 6300 6000 425944 Shangwei 3 7 1.2 L4 20040 39151 9600 7000 14028 23492 3600 4200 121111 Dachun 15 61.6 3.8 7 4.5 100200 344529 19836 56000 22500 70148 206730 13224 21000 13500 867667 Tangbei 1.2 7.3 5.5 8 8016 40829 44000 40000 5611 24499 16500 24000 203455 Angba 11 55 13.2 11.5 73480 307615 25600 57500 51436 184580 9600 34500 744311 Zhujing 12 35.1 7.8 13.7 80160 196314 62400 68500 56112 117796 23400 41100 645782 Hetou 3.4 17 19016 85000 11410 51000 166426 Tianliao 16.6 83000 49800 132800 Tangyi 23 115000 69000 184000 Tanger 29.7 148500 89100 237600 Zlhennan 4.6 25728 15438 41166 YuLzU i 1. 9 14.2 10. 1 12692 79421 50500 8884 47655 30300 229452 Dangling 8.8 5.2 49218 26000 29533 15600 120351 Total 56. 1 225 3. 8 26.8 142.7 374748 1258425 19836 214400 713500 262324 755100 13224 80400 428100 4120057 40 Table 12 Details of Compensation for Permanent Land Acquisition Area Yield per Mu Young crops Comprehensive Unit Amount Types of lands (Mu) (Year/Yuan) (Mu/Yuan) Price (Mu/Yuan) (Yuan) Paddy Fields 54.2 668 650 12000 650400 Dry lands 197.4 559.3 550 9500 1875300 Orange gardens 3.8 870 800 9500 36100 Mulberry fields 26.8 1000 1000 12000 321600 Woodlands 37.5 500 500 8500 318750 Land for industry and mines 3.5 12000 54000 Overflow lands 40.3 6000 241800 Total 364.5 3497950 Table 13: Details of Compensation for the Inundation of ReservoirArea Type of lands Area (Mu) Compensation Amount (Yuan) Standard (Yuan) Paddy Fields 1.9 12000 22800 Dry lands 27.6 9500 262200 Orange gardens Mulberry fields Woodlands 105.2 8500 894200 Land for industry and mines 12.2 12000 146400 Flood lands 1250.5 6000 7503000 Waste grasslands 25.1 6000 150600 Total 1422.5 8979200 5.2.2 Costs for Green Crops Compensation Expenses for green crops compensation in Xiniu Navigation Complex are RMB 261,405 Yuan. Expenses for Xilian village are 192,320 Yuan, Xiaowan village 45,020 Yuan, Yuzui village 14,095 Yuan, Zhengnan 2,530 Yuan and Dongling village 7,440 Yuan. 5.2.3 Costs for Land Used Temporarily 41 Per year expenses for land used temporarily are calculated at the price of 1000 Yuan/nmu. A total rent of RMB 1,853,000 Yuan is to be paid to 463.3 mu of land with a rent period of four years. 5.3 Taxes for Land Acquisition The taxes for land acquisition will be paid by the project owner to the relevant authorities. These taxes are not included in the compensation costs of the land acquisition. The taxes for land acquisition include plowland assart costs (15 Yuan per m2 plowland occupation tax (5 Yuan per m2), management fees for land acquisition (3% of the total compensation fee of land acquisition), and compensation fee for use of land (14 Yuan per m 2). The taxes total 7,277,105 Yuan. Table 14: Taxes for Land Acquisition of the Project Items Area (Mu) Charge Standard (Yuan / Mu) Amount (Yuan) Plowlandassart 281.1 10000 2811000 costs Plowland 281.1 3330 936063 occupation tax Management fees 454.4 3% of the total compensation 131444 for land acquisition fee of land acquisition Compensation fee 364.5 9324 3398598 for use of land Total 7277105 5.4 Monitoring Costs Intemal monitoring expenses: 200,000 Yuan per year; totally 800,000 Yuan for four years. Extemal monitoring expenses: 150,000 Yuan per year; totally 600,000 Yuan for four years. Total monitoring expenses: 1,400,000 Yuan. 5.5 Total resettlement expenses The total resettlement expenses are 23,007,000 Yuan (excluding the reconstruction expenses of public facilities). 42 Table 15: Total Resettlement Expenses Unit: 10,000 Yuan Items Amount Note Land acquisition expenses 1221.6 Young crops expenses 26.1 Temporary land expenses 185.3 Taxes 727.7 Monitoring 140 Total 2300.7 5.6 Flow of the Funds The land acquisition is entrusted to Yingde municipal resettlement office by the project owner. Yingde resettlement office is directed by the major leader of municipal communist party committee. The municipal national land bureau is responsible for the resettlement office which is jointly set up by the municipal waterway bureau and water conservancy bureau. The office is located in the national land bureau and some employees of the land bureau are concurrently the administrative staff of the resettlement offices. Guangdong Provincial Waterway Bureau will pay the land acquisition cost to the Yingde municipal resettlement office (municipal land bureau). Municipal resettlement office is responsible for the land acquisition and the resettlement of PAPs. The municipal resettlement offices will allocate the compensation to the affected towns. The town governments will allocate the compensation to the affected village administrations. The village administration will pay the green crop compensation and the resettlement subsidy to the PAPs, if no land adjustment is necessary. Funds Flow Chart Government at Households the town level whose lands are Guangdong ge tate Village Va Waterway Land Bureau Comitt Gro Yingde Collectives of Taxation Village Group 43 6 Action Plan for Resettlement and Recovery According to the Land Management Law of P.R.C. and Regulations for the Implementation of Land Management Law in Guangdong Province, business owner should pay costs for land acquisition, expenses for settlement compensation and expenses for green crops compensation to rights and interests holders of the land, and other taxes and expenses should also be paid. Business owner should undertake the obligation of assisting persons under impacts to raise their living standards. As for the idle labor which needs to be settled due to land acquisition, the specific settlement scheme will be set down according to the situation of the village collective lands, the situation of the per capita plowlands after land acquisition, and the will of the households whose lands are acquired. 6.1 Land Acquisition Settlement Measures in the Past The land acquisition of this project will influence several villagers groups, which are far away from the central market town and have few construction projects. Land acquisition seldom happens there. Some villages and villagers groups never encounter any land acquisition. But for the villages near Xiniu Town and Hanguang Town, they have the experiences of land acquisition and settlement for some times. According to the introduction of the town cadres and villagers, the land acquisition settlement measures of the past projects were fixed according to project characteristics and the scale of land acquisition. 6.1.1 Measures for Highway Projects in the Past Land acquisition settlement measures for highway projects: It is the linear-type land acquisition. The number of households that are influenced by land acquisition is large. But the average decrease of plough land area is small. As a common practice, after the village committee gets the land acquisition funds, it will pay a part of the fund (usually a large part) to villagers. The villagers can put the money into agricultural production and business freely. The land acquisition fund paid to villagers is not further divided into the land compensation fees and labor settlement subsidy. Some villages even allocate all the funds to villagers and make no collective preservation at the village level. 6.1.2 The Settlement Measures of Land Acquisition for City Construction This type of land acquisition includes large-scale acquisition of rural plowlands 44 in order to expand the city area. It belongs to the block-type land acquisition. The plowlands of some villages will be substantially decreased. Some peasant households will have no lands after the land acquisition. The settlement measures under such situation fall into two types. The first is the land settlement measure. This measure is to reclaim mountainous lands and allocate the reclaimed lands to households affected by land acquisition, and to improve the quality of plowlands, change dry lands into paddy fields and increase the yield per Mu. If the conditions for reclamation do not exist, then the town government will hold a meeting with village committees, village teams and villagers, and adjust the lands within the scope of the village or nearby village teams in order to guarantee the per capita plowlands not to be less than 0.5 Mu. And the land acquisition funds will be paid to villagers who give up part of their lands. The second measure is the money settlement. Villagers don't receive any re-allocated lands. They only receive compensation fees. After they are compensated, they will engage in the industrial, commercial or service industry in the newly established city areas, for example, to manage restaurants, grocery's, transportation service, and sales of agricultural and sideline products. Although this type of settlement measure has certain risks, but the peasants' living standards have been improved. 6.1.3 Villagers' Choices for Settlement Measures In the survey of social impact assessment, it is found that 2/3 of the villagers in Xilian Village and Yuzui Village whose lands will be acquired want to have money compensation. Some villagers explained that the plowland quality near the Lianjiang River isn't good, the sediment concentration is high and the yield per Mu is much less than the plowlands of other towns. In addition, the flood is serious in Lianjiang River in spring and summer. The flood overflows the riverbed and inundates the farmlands on the riverside, which decreases the yields. What's more, most peasants choose money compensation because the acquired land cannot create enough cash income. It can only solve the problem of family-used grain. Most of the peasant families have members working out and engaging in industry. The income from working away from home is the main cash income and the most important source of income of these families. Generally speaking, in the past projects, villagers didn't prefer to the land adjustment settlement measure. The main reasons are (l) the land quality and the yield are low; (2) plowlands on the Liangjiang riverside are vulnerable to flood and have poor harvest; (3) it's not easy to create cash income by farming. On the contrary, 45 if the quality of the plowlands and the yields can be guaranteed, and there is no flood damage, then the land adjustment measure is acceptable for some peasants. Traditional Land Acquisition Settlement Measure Project Land 10 Cash Adjustment Acquisition Settlemen Compensation 6.2 The Settlement Plan of This Project for Affected Villagers 6.2.1 The Establishment of the Resettlement Plan During the process of the social impact survey and the establishment of the resettlement plan, the survey group hold meetings to discuss the settlement plans respectively with the municipal state land bureau, town state land bureau, village cadres and villager representatives in the influenced areas. According to its resources superiority and practical situation, each village put forth its preliminary settlement plan and got the recognition of the local government and the impacted villager representatives. According to the relevant requirements of the OP4.12 of the World Bank, the local government and the project owner should study the environmental capacity of the villages after the land acquisition, and make sure that the villagers influenced by the project will be settled in the same community so that the villagers can maintain their original way of production and life and the original social relations will not be affected. 6.2.2 The Characteristics and Measures of the Resettlement Plan After the economic development scale, characteristics of the agricultural economic structure, per capita occupation of lands, and the income composition of villagers being analyzed, the plan of production settlement and resumption was formed on the basis of the opinions of the villager representatives. The measures of the production settlement and resumption of the villages fall into two types: (1) direct cash compensation, which is suitable for those villages and households with only a small amount of lands to be acquired; (2) organizing the villages to implement production resumption measures; to improve the cultivated land yield, improve but 46 not reduce the agricultural income under the situation of the decrease of cultivated lands; and to finally realize the settlement aim of production resumption and improvement of living standards. Villages who use the cash compensation measure will get all the settlement subsidy of the acquired lands. The land compensation fee will be paid to the village collective. If some villagers do not agree with the settlement plan and hope to use other measures, the project owner will coordinate with the municipal state land bureau to solve the problem and help those villagers realize the settlement aim by using adequate measures. 6.3 Settlement for Farmers with Land to Be Acquired in Zhengnan, Yuzui and Dongling Village Decrease in cultivated land: there will be 1.9 mu of paddy fields and 27.60 mu of dry lands to be acquired in the three villages for being submerged in reservoir. Land to be acquired belongs to eight Villagers Groups, fifty-eight cultivated land contractors. Every household's land to be acquired is very little, and none was found to have more than 10% of their total cultivated land they contracted to be acquired. The impacts of land acquisition on households' operating incomes can be neglected. Measures for settlement: funds for land acquisition compensation will be paid to Villagers Groups (collectivity) through Villagers Committees, and cash for settlement will be fully paid to villagers and dominated by them to use for production or other investment. No land adjustment will be made for these farmers. 6.4 Settlement for Farmers with Land to Be Acquired in Xiaowan Village Decrease in cultivated land: there will be 3.4 mu of cultivated land (dry land) to be acquired in Xiaowan village, as well as 86.3 mu of woods land. Such four Villagers Groups as Hetou, Tianliao, Tangyi, Tanger Group will be impacted by land acquisition, and there are 60 households to be impacted. None was found to have more than 10% decreases in their total cultivated land. Measures for settlement: for those who have dry land to be acquired, Xiaowan Villagers Committee has planed to fully paid expenses for settlement to these farmers. According to villagers' opinions, the Committee hasn't planed to adjust cultivated land. There are also some uncontracted cultivated land and woods land. If farmers to be impacted by land acquisition plan to increase areas of their cultivated land, and if permitted by Villagers' Congress, Villagers Committee will distribute some 47 collectivity-used land to households with land acquired in each Group by contracts. Then the expenses for land compensation and expenses for settlement will be dominated by the Committed and used for rural economic development. 6.5 Settlement for Farmers with Land Acquired in Xilian Village 6.5.1 Cash Compensation In Xilian Villagers Committee, there are six Villager Groups and 286 households having 251.6 mu of cultivated land (542 mu of paddy fields) to be acquired. It was negotiated with Xilian Villagers Committee and each Group and villagers' representatives that, farmers having paddy fields and dry land to be acquired can select to be settled with land adjustment, and those who having less than 20% of their total contracted cultivated land to be acquired are mainly compensated with cash. All of the expenses for settlement will be paid to these farmers. For those (thirty households) who have more than 20% of their total contracted cultivated land to be acquired, they have been planed to be compensated with land adjustment in small scope of Villagers Group, under the overall charge of Villagers Committee. Table 16: Details of Cultivated Land to Be Acquired in Each Group of Xilian Village Total Area of Per capital Per capital Percentage of Agricultural cultivated land cultivated land cultivated land decrease in per Villagers Population cultivated to be acquired before land after land capita Group (capita) land area in the project acquisition acquisition cultivated land ( mu) (nmu) (mu/capita) (mu/capita) (%) Zhangwu 227 210 40 0.93 0.75 19.3 Shangwei 112 120 10 1.07 0.98 8.4 Dacun 694 727 76.6 1.05 0.94 10.5 Tangbe 253 205 8.5 0.81 0.78 4.1 Angba 727 479 66 0.65 0.56 13.8 Zhujing 655 605 47.1 0.92 0.85 7.8 6.5.2 Land Adjustment Each Group under jurisdiction of Xilian Village always has the custom to adjust cultivated land in small scope once for every five years, to be adapted to the changing situation of population, especially change of labor forces of the village. The latest land adjustment happened in the beginning of 1999, and a new land adjustment in small scope is expected to be made in the beginning of 2004. The adjustment will be made through villagers spontaneous signing, the Committee's discussing, and it can 48 be passed if it receives affirmative votes from more than two-third of representatives who attend the Congress. Farmers with land acquired can request to adjust land or not. For those who don't require adjusting land, the expenses for settlement will be paid to them through Villagers Groups; for those who require adjusting land, the expenses for settlement and the expenses for land acquisition compensation won't be paid to them, but kept in village collectivity and used as investment in construction some projects. After land adjustment, it can be guaranteed that per capita and per labor cultivated land of each household are not below the average standard in local town. Besides land adjustment, the expenses for settlement and the expenses for land acquisition compensation kept in collectivity will be used as investment in construction in economic recovery plan. 6.5.3 Process of Land Adjustment According to the policy's regulation in land acquisition announcement and Resettlement Action Plan, Villagers Committee should in three months advance announce villagers the name list of farmers who have land to be acquired, and make public settlement plan at the same time; Those who want to adjust their land should apply the Committee to be settled by land adjustment by oral or in writing. Then, the Committee should convene villagers' representatives to attend Villagers' Congress, to determine the name list, land location and time for land adjustment, by means of democratic consulting and representatives' voting. There should be more than two schemes of contracting cultivated land for villagers to select. As a substitution, land can also be selected by lots drawing; in a week after land adjustment (selection), villagers will sign new agreements on contracting and operating land with Villagers Committee; relative agreements on contracting land should be handed to Yingde Bureau of Land and Resources, Project Office of GPWB and kept as records. 6.5.4 The Production Resumption Measure in Xilian Village: Investment Plan and Anticipated Benefit A. Building two aqueducts (each is 0.6 meter wide and 1500 meters long), to improve diversion and water irrigation facilities. Expert of Xiniu town in water irrigation has estimated that a total funds of RMB 240,000 Yuan should be invested, for an average investment of RMB 160 Yuan/m. The expert thought that, after 49 complete of the diversion and irrigation aqueducts, area percentage of land having stable yields despite drought of excessive rain will increase greatly from 40% to more than 80%. Ability of drought and flood prevention in cultivated land will be greatly improved and average per mu output value of the land is expected to have an increase of 30% to 50%. This measure for production recovery will be taken into overall consideration of Xilian Villagers Committee, and planed to be implemented in 2004, in step with the implementation of Xiniu Complex works. This work will receive positive coordination and assistance from GPWB and the unit of construction. B. Transforming dry land to paddy fields, to improve quality of cultivated land. This measure will be implemented through coordination of Xilian Villagers Committee and six Villagers Groups. Xilian Villagers Committee and representatives of every Villagers Group thought that, with helps from construction unit, in less than two years, they will be able to gradually transform dry land of about 800 mu to paddy fields, to transform deteriorated paddy fields (used as dry land) to new paddy fields of high yields, in step with improving diversion and water irrigation facilities. By these, annual per mu output value of cultivated land can be raised to RMB 1000 to 1500 Yuan from about 550 Yuan at present. The six Villagers Groups' detailed objectives of transforming dry land to paddy field in first phase are: 35 mu in Zhangwu, 10 mu in Shangwei, 80 mu in Dacun, 30 mu in Tangba, 30 mu in Angba and 15 mu in Zhujing. The transforming will begin with dry land along riversides and low-yield paddy field used as dry land and a little abandoned cultivated land in some Groups will be included into the plan of transforming together. C. Inaugurating vegetable fields of about 300 mu along riverside. Villagers Committee thought, once the diversion aqueduct is completed, water irrigation facilities will be in a complete set, and the degree of ensuring stable yields despite drought of excessive rain will be raised. The Committee will guide each Group to inaugurate a vegetable base of 300 mu without environmental pollution, just like Xiaowan village, by coordinating with company of purchasing and selling agricultural products, to transport produced fresh vegetable without environmental pollution to Yingde, Guangzhou, PRD and other tourism places. Referring to Xiaowan village's way of doing, the annual output value of vegetable land can reach RMB 1800 to 2000 Yuan/mu. On the premise of stable market, output value of vegetable land is two times of that of paddy field, and three to four times of that of dry land or forest land. This is 50 the important reason why many towns in Yingde city develop vegetable without environmental pollution. The objectives in six Groups' plan of inaugurating vegetable land are: the total of the village is 300 mu, and planed to be implemented by two steps. The first (from 2004 to 2005), the plan will be implemented only in six Groups mentioned above, and vegetable land of 115 mu is planed to be inaugurated. Among these, 20 mu in Zhangwu, 5 mu in Shangwei, 20 mu in Dacun, 10 mu in Tangba, 10 mu in Angba and 50 mu in Zhujing. The second step (2006), the plan will be spread to other Groups of the Villagers Committee. Representatives of Zhangwu thought, if the measures for recovery mentioned above can be implemented as planning, although there are 40 mu of cultivated land to be acquired in Zhangwu, accounting for 19% of total, output value of left cultivated land can reach more than RMB 1500 Yuan. Counted at output value of 600 Yuan/mu before land acquisition, the total is RMB 126,000 Yuan. After land acquisition and implementation of measures for recovery, for the left 170 mu of cultivated land, counted at output value of 1500 Yuan/mu, incomes from planting can reach RMB 255,000 Yuan, more than double of that before land acquisition. 6.6 Settlement Measures for Farmers Whose Land to Be Used Temporarily for Construction Most of land used temporarily for construction is state-owned land along river beach and wasteland (70%), and little is cultivated land and forest land (30%). Scope of land temporarily rent is in such Groups as Yuanwo and Angba Group of Xilian village, Xincheng and Jiezai Group of Xiaowan Village. After negotiating with town governments, Villagers Committees and Groups which own the land to be temporarily used, and after discussing with and under permit of Xilian and Xiaowan Villagers Committees and villagers' representatives, business owner decided to adopt these major measures for settling villages and farmers who have land to be temporarily rent, and they are: 6.6.1 Economic Compensation for Land Temporarily Rent Most of the compensations for land temporarily rent are to compensate annual per mu output value of this land. The compensation will be paid to farmners who will be impacted through Villagers Committee and Groups. This land will be temporarily rent for three years, but a four-year rent should be paid. The forth year is the period of recovering cultivation. 51 6.6.2 Measures for Recovering Cultivation of Land Temporarily Used The forth year is the period of recovering cultivation. According to opinions of Xiniu town government and Villagers Committees, and under business owner's permit, rent land will be recovered for cultivating by being cleared and leveled. For recovering cultivating conditions of these rent land, business owner will include it into construction contracts to charge the construction unit who get the bid to carry in the fourth year after start of the project. Renovation of water irrigation facilities also has been included into reconstruction and recovery of cultivation in rent land. Villagers Committees, representatives of villagers and business owner will make an on-the-spot check, evaluation and recognition on leveling and cultivation recovery in land temporarily used. 6.7 Measures for Vulnerable Groups Settlement Two characteristics of vulnerable groups are found in investigation of the project, and they are: households who have old people (especially those losing their laboring abilities); and households who mainly rely on cultivating. Usually, some vulnerable households have the two characteristics at the same time. In view of these characteristics of vulnerable groups, after negotiating with Villagers Committee and vulnerable households, business owner decided to adopt the following measures for settling these groups: Assisting vulnerable households to provide for old people. According to the custom in local villages, when old people in village lose their laboring abilities, their children (mainly their sons) will be duty-bound for their daily life and to provide for them. Their children should bear all of the expenses for providing for them. If old people to be impacted by land acquisition aren't really willing to continue cultivating, or they will have no cultivating ability, business owner will pay expenses for settlement to these vulnerable groups (or their children) through Villagers Committee. By means of family providing for them, settlement for these old people can be realized. If incomes of old people who will be impacted by land acquisition are mainly from planting and these households want to adjust land for themselves, Villager Committees have agreed that, priority will be given to consider meeting their needs of increasing cultivated land from the land reserved by collectivity or by land adjustment in small scope. When the Committees implement the collective plan of inaugurating land, such as the plan of cultivating vegetable fields in large scale, priority will be 52 given to these vulnerable households to the plan or rent their cultivated land. According the custom of respecting and sympathizing old people in local villages, Villagers Committees will pay visit to old people' family to be impacted in important traditional festivals. Through the periodical visit, the committees can understand life of these vulnerable groups, and find out difficulties in their life, and feedback these situations to business owner and independent monitors in time. According to different practical situations, business owner will take corresponding measures. 6.8 Protection of Women's Their Rights and Interests In the scope under the impacts, the percentages of populations of males and females to total population are basically balanced, and they are 51% and 49% on average. Among those households with land to be acquired, none is composed mainly of single female labor force who have lost her husband or divorced or been forsaken. In villagers and communities which will be impacted, women have the same legal rights as men, such as rights of contracting cultivated land, receiving educations, birth control and participating villages' or communities' election. Among female labor forces who have been interviewed, most think that they have the same rights with male citizens, such as deciding on production and operation by themselves, or deciding to do manual work, business, or cultivate land in villages. Of course, in villages, men and women have different labor divisions in families' life and production. Most women often decide to be engaged in housework, planting or doing some dickers of agricultural products, handicrafts articles or native products, while except some men are engaged in planting or dickers, most young men go out to seaside regions doing some manual work for eaming money. Construction of the project and land acquisition won't impose obvious exceptional impacts on women. In regions where land is to be acquired, there are standing organizations protecting women's rights and interests, such as town's Women's Federations which pay periodical visit to women in villages, to leam the situation of women's rights and interests protection, and act for women to sue for discrimination on them; in such a grass root as Villagers Committee, there is also Women's Committee or Women's school which is in charge of safeguarding women's rights and health training in village. These organizations have their own working systems, and usually have independent funds for work. By such means as periodical visit, holding women's representatives conference or organizing recreational activities for women, they aim 53 to realize such goals as uniting women in villages, increasing their education level, eradicating domestic violence and gender discrimination. In surveying social impacts, business owner and investigation organization have put enough importance on safeguarding women's rights and hearing women's voices. Under assistance of the director of Women's Committee in each village, they have convened some symposiums including women's representatives in small scope, to announce the details of the project's impacts, and to widely collect these women's representatives' opinions on the means of compensation and settlement, compensation standards and plans for recovery of families' economy. Because many women are in charge of households' expenditures, and directly engaged in planting and services, they have strong wishes to increase their families' operating income. Therefore, they have proposed many valuable suggestions to business owner and investigation organization, and these suggestions have been accepted and put into the resettlement plan. During the period of project construction, business owner will convene a symposium including women's representatives once a year, pay periodical visit to some families, to collect women's suggestions and complaints at any time, and receive their consulting. For women's complaints about settlement, compensation and economic recovery, women's Committees in villages will report these to business owner in one week, and business owner should assign representatives to reply for these complaints or solve the problems in the following week. During the whole process of settlement, independent monitors have paid special attentions to hear women's voices, and receive their complaints. Besides attending a conference of negotiating with women once a half year, they established stable working and coordinating relationships with directors of women's committees to work more efficiently for decreasing negative impacts of the project and safeguarding women's rights and interests in villages. 6.9 Monitoring the Use of Compensation Funds for Land Acquisition One month before implementation of land acquisition, Villagers Committees should announce to the whole village the Resettlement Action Plan, budgets of expenses for land Acquisition compensation, villages' investment plans for recovery, by ways of bulletins, broadcasting or CATV, and two weeks before land acquisition, the committees should convened Villagers' Congress to explain and announce to 54 villagers every item in plans and budgets mentioned above. After land acquisition begins, for anything related to the use of compensation funds for land acquisition and settlement, Villagers Committees should make financial situation public in bulletin board every month; When Villager Committees compile investment plans, they should announce contents, implementation time and expected returns of the plans to all representatives of villagers, to solicit villagers' opinions; when the investment plans for recovery are implemented, all of the villagers should be announced through bulletin board at least once a half year. Villagers Committees should make open archives about compensation funds for land acquisition and the implementation of investment plans. These archives should be true, complete and normative, and preservation times of these archives should be the same as the finance and account books. If Villagers Committees couldn't make their finance public, or there is no enough transparence in the use of compensation funds for land acquisition, after receiving villagers' complaints, town or county governments and other departments responsible for the work should charge the Committees to make their finance public by prescribed time. 6.10 The Impact of Xiniu Construction Site and the Management Measures During the project construction period, the villages near Xiniu Town will be influenced because of the production and daily life of the construction workers. These influences specifically refer to: The influence on environment and sanitation: The production and daily life of the construction workers will influence the environment and sanitation of the villages nearby, for example, the problems of the increased domestic waste, food sanitation, collection and treatment of garbage and sewage. The influence of floating population: There will be floating population gathering around the construction area. The floating population has no local registered permanent residence. But they notice the needs of the daily life of the construction workers, so they temporarily live there and engage in grocery's, food and beverage, hairdressing, repairing and other business. The floating population can provide some services, but most of them are from other provinces and have a high fluidity. Therefore, it's hard for the Xiniu Town government to manage the floating population. If the floating population cannot be managed well, the local employment, education 55 and other public utilities will be influenced. The influence on social security: During the construction period, because the floating population has some needs for life and entertainment, there will be some public security cases like gambling, harlotry and theft, which will have negative effect on the local social security. As for the possible above-said impacts, the project owner has talked with the government of Yingde City, Xiniu Town and Hanguang Town. And measures will be taken to avoid such influence in order to protect the original order of daily and production. The measures include: To assist the construction unit to constitute and implement management regulations about the environment and sanitation of the construction area; To let the construction workers have physical examination once a year; To strengthen the industrial and commercial administration of the persons engaging in food and beverage, entertainment and other service industries; to supervise and urge them to have physical examination; to have necessary supervision on their business activities in order to prevent any sale of unhealthful food and offer of immoral entertainment activities. To assist the town government constitute and implement the policies of management of floating population; to cooperate with the management work of the town government; to prevent and reduce the happening of security cases. 6.11 Resumption of Other Facilities 10 domestic water docks and 9 pumping stations around the reservoir area need to be relocated. In order not to affect the domestic water use by local residents and the agricultural irrigation, the project owner has preliminarily decided the basic scheme of the relocation of domestic water docks and pumping stations as followed: To include the relocation plan of domestic water docks and pumping stations into the whole construction plan of the Xiniu Project; thus to take the relocation plan as part of the project construction. By the means of bidding, to entrust the successful bidder with the planning and design of the relocation of docks and pumping stations based on the scientific and convenient principle. The design scheme will be optimized and determined after collecting the opinions of the town government, village committees and villager representatives. According to the design, the project owner will put forward their budgetary 56 estimates, and entrust the successful bidder with the relocation work of the docks and pumping stations with high quality and within the stipulated time. The project owner will examine and accept the docks and pumping stations together with the town government, village committees and some villager representatives. In order to provide convenience for villagers to use water, the project owner will insist on the build-before-removal principle. Before the new docks and pumping stations are put in use, the old docks and pumping stations will remain in use. Only after he new docks and pumping stations are put in use, the old docks and pumping stations can be removed. 6.12 Implementation Plan of Resettlement (Schedule in Table 17) 57 Table 17: Timetable of Implementation Plan of Resettlement __ 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Actions 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 |10 11 121 I . To establish provincial resettlement r team > 2. Project survey and feasibility study _ _ - - - - - g | 3. Social economic survey of affected | areas and population n 4. To set up county, city resettlement offices I. To verify the details of the effect 2..To negotiate with the local governments and affected people to - - - - finalize the compensation policy 3. To prepare resettlement action plan _____ 4. To sign resettlement agreement with the city El 5. To apply and obtain the land use - planning permit m 6. To apply and obtain the land use construction permit o 7. To start living standard background @
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