Resettlement Planning Document
Resettlement Plan Document Stage: Final Project Number: 37494 May 2009
PRC: Hunan Roads Development III Project
Guzhang-Baojing Local Road Component
Prepared by Guzhang County Heqian Highway Construction Co., Ltd and Baojing County Qianhe Highway Construction Co., Ltd
The resettlement plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB’s Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature.
Resettlement Plan for Building Guzhang-Baojing Highway of Hunan Road Development Project III of the People’s Republic of China
Guzhang County Heqian Highway Construction Co., Ltd
Baojing County Qianhe Highway Construction Co., Ltd
May 2009
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Preface This Resettlement Plan was jointly worked out by Guzhang County Heqian Highway Construction Co., Ltd and Baojing County Qianhe Highway Construction Co., Ltd on the base of laws of the People’s Republic of China, local laws and regulations and Involuntary Resettlement policy of Asian Development Bank. The Resettlement Plan describes such items as Land Requisition and Resettlement for building Guzhang-Baojing Highway. Before working out this plan, we have carried out social and economic investigation on 79 sample households in accordance with the project design. The number of resettled households adopted in this plan is an actual and reliable number surveyed on the spot. After the confirmation of Asian Development Bank, this Resettlement Plan shall be approved by Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture on behalf of Hunan Provincial People’s Government, and be implemented by Guzhang County Heqian Highway Construction Co., Ltd and Baojing County Qianhe Highway Construction Co., Ltd.
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Brief Introduction and Approval to the Resettlement Plan Hunan provincial Department of Communications, through the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Finance, has applied for a loan (Loan No.: 2219-PRC) from Asian Development Bank for building Hunan Expressway III Project. As one part of the local road project in Hunan Expressway III Project, the construction of Guzhang-Baojing Highway must be implemented according to the social safeguards policies of Asian Development Bank. This Resettlement Plan was worked out by Heqian Company in accordance with the laws and regulations of the People’s Republic of China and the social safeguards policies of Asian Development Bank. Having reflected the main demands of Asian Development Bank, this plan is a basis for land requisition, economic compensation and inhabitants resettlement and accords with the Chinese laws and local laws and regulations. We have laid stress on some items and given concrete arrangement to the implementation and supervision to ensure high-quality resettlement. Heqian Company has discussed the details of this Resettlement Plan with the local officials, and this Resettlement Plan has been confirmed by them. Guzhang County Heqian Highway Construction Co., Ltd, Baojing County Qianhe Highway Construction Co., Ltd and Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture Government shall be responsible for raising funds for the budgeted investment and implementing and managing the resettlement in accordance with the Resettlement Plan.
Approved by:
Cao Shikai, Vice-Governor of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture Date: May 15, 2009
______Shi Jinfeng, Manager of Guzhang County Heqian Highway Construction Co., Ltd
Li Guanqun, Manager of Baojing County Qianhe Highway Construction Co., Ltd
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND AND BRIEF INTRODUCTION...... 10 1.1 Brief Introduction...... 10 1.2 Project Background and Explanation...... 10
CHAPTER 2 INFLUENCE OF LAND REQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT...... 13 2.1 Measures for Reducing Inhabitants Resettlement...... 13 2.2 Requisitioed Land and Properties...... 13 2.3 Number of Affected people ...... 14 2.4 Impact on Income Loss...... 15
CHAPTER 3 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS...... 16 3.1 General Situation ...... 16 3.2 Basic Conditions of the Towns and Townships along the Road...... 16 3.3 Social and Economic Investigation ...... 17 3.4 Vulnerable Group...... 25 3.5 Gender Issues ...... 28 3.6 Implications of Socioeconomic Survey Findings to RP Strategy ...... 28
CHAPTER 4 LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND RESETTLEMENT POLICIES...... 30 4.1 Overview...... 30 4.2 Policies, Laws and Regulations ...... 30 4.3 Project Resettlement Policies ...... 31
CHAPTER 5 COMPENSATION COSTS AND BUDGET ...... 37 5.1A Consultation during the Project Prepation Period...... 37 5.1.1 Public consultation...... 37 5.1 Overview...... 37 5.2 Land requisition Compensation Standards and Costs...... 38 5.3 Compensation of Housing and Appurtenances ...... 39 5.4 Other Compensation and Resettlement Costs ...... 40 5.5 General Budget...... 41
CHAPTER 6 PLAN ON RELOCATION AND RECONSTRUCTION ...... 43 6.1 DemandS of Resettlement...... 43 6.2 Tactics on Resettlement ...... 43 6.3 Relocation and Resettlement of Residential Houses...... 43 6.4 Relocation of Poles and Lines ...... 44 6.5 Recovery of Irrigation Water System and Local Roads ...... 44
CHAPTER 7 INCOME RECOVERY PLAN ...... 45 7.1 Background...... 45 7.2 Income Recovery Strategy ...... 45 7.3 Income Recovery by Compensation...... 45 7.4 Livelihood Training...... 46
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7.5 Employment in the Project Construction...... 46 7.6 Gender...... 47 7.7 Vulnerable Families ...... 47
CHAPTER 8 RESETTLEMENT ORGANIZATIONS...... 48 8.1 Resettlement Organizations ...... 48 8.2 Responsibilities...... 49 8.3 Appeal and Complaint ...... 50 8.4 Personnel training and Organization Strengthening ...... 51
CHAPTER 9 PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION...... 53 9.1 Plan on Public Participation and Consultation ...... 37 9.2 Publicity of Resettlement Plan ...... 54 9.3 Measures of Ensuring Participation ...... 54 9.4 Resettlement Information Manual...... 54 CHAPTER 10 IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE, MONITORING, EVALUATION AND REPORTING...... 55 10.1 Schedule of Implementing Land Requisition and Resettlement ...... 55 10.2 Monitoring and Evaluation ...... 55 Appendixes:
Appendix 1 Basic Conditions of the Villages and Towns along Guzhang- Baojing Highway Appendix 2 List of members participating in the consultation
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Executive Summary
I. Project Area and Impact
Guzhang-Baojing Highway is a local road in Hunan Road Development Project III. The project construction shall be implemented by utilizing the loan of Asian Development Bank. With a total length of 42.976km, the non-grade road shall be built into a grade-3 road. The land requisition and resettlement shall influence 18 villages of 5 towns and townships along the road. The on-the-spot investigation shows that the project needs a permanent land requisition area of 813.3 mu (54.2 ha.) and a temporary land use area of 16.2 mu (1.1 ha.). 45% of the permanent land requisition area is cultivated area. 2,365 people shall lose partial land-use right, 324 inhabitants shall be affected by house demoltion, no public installations such as schools, hospitals and factories shall be moved. It is estimated that the project shall bring direct influence to 569 households and 2,365 people. The on-the-spot survey data shows that 77 households shall be relocated, with a total affected population of 324.
II. The Resettlement Plan
The Resettlement Plan (RP) has been prepared by the Guzhang County Heqian Highway Construction Co., Ltd and Baojing County Qianhe Highway Construction Co., Ltd (the two companies are called “Qianhe Company” for short) with assistance from local resettlement experts. The project detailed design formed the core base for the RP, and the impact data used was the results of detailed measurement survey, which has a high reliability. Meanwhile the resettlement social-economic survey covering 79 households and 416 villagers provided robust base for the formulation of the RP. The draft RP has been reviewed by the affected townships and by ADB, and these comments has been incorporated into the RP by Qianhe Company. Once approved by ADB, the RP will be implemented by Qianhe Company. Consultations were conducted with the affected people and their comments and suggestions were reviewed by Qianhe Company to ensure that any concerns are addressed.
III. Policy Framework and Compensation
For people unavoidably affected by the Project, the resettlement objective is to ensure attainment of equal or better livelihoods and living standards in line with the PRC’s Land Administration Law (1998) and the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB’s) Policy on Involuntary Resettlement (1995). The RP is based on the Implementation Measures for the Land Administration Law of PRC in Hunan Province (2000) and the Management Measures on Temporary Land Occupation, Hunan People’s Government, order no. 140 (2001), Decree 28 for Land Administration Law (Promulgated in October 2004) and Hunan Provincial Document No. 24 (February 2005). Qianhe Company will ensure that any people losing land, housing, other assets or other means of production will be assisted in restoring their incomes and living standards to at least the levels without the Project’s intervention. Lost assets will either be replaced or their owners compensated at replacement cost.
The RP also stipulates generic eligibility/entitlement provisions for Project Affected People (AP.) losing land, houses and income losses and provides rehabilitation subsidies.
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Permanent Land losses and Temporary Land Losses will be directly paid to the AP at a rate stipulated as per the RP. House losses will be directly paid to the APs in cash at replacement cost free of demolition expenses and salvaged materials. Crops and tree losses will be directly paid to the APs in cash at rates stipulated in the RP. Resettlement subsidy will be directly paid to each resettled household for transport costs, work loss, transfer costs, medical expenses and temporary housing.
IV. Relocation and Rehabilitation Assistance
The relocation site selection has two options of (1) within the same village and (2) outside of the village.
The proposed income rehabilitation measures are mainly the cash compensation, which will place a considerable responsibility for income restoration on APs themselves. The preference of income restoration by APs include, cash crop plantation, livestock breeding, investing in off-farm activities as establishing small business or migrant workers, and training program if required, to develop specific skills for APs. For the vulnerable groups, special social assistance fund will be provided by the project to secure their livelihood.
V. Implementation Framework and Budget
Hunan Provincial Communications Dapartment (HPCD) will be responsible on behalf of the Hunan Provincial Government for the general administration of the project implementation and the monitoring of the work done by project implementation agency to complete the project. The implementing agencies (IA) of the subproject, Guzhang County Heqian Road Construction Co., Ltd and Baojing County Qianhe Road Construction Co., Ltd. (the two companies are called “Qianhe Company” for short), which are respectively under the jurisdiction of Guzhang County People’s Government and Baojing County People’s Government, are responsible for execution and implementation of the project and the coordination for land removal. The IA of each project will establish a resettlement office with 4 to 5 members, and similar offices will also be formed in both counties, which will be led by a county leader who is followed by 5 to 6 members from such departments as communications, land & resource, environment protection, forestry department, usually one person from each department; related county or town will appoint four members in charge of the resettlement. Under the leadership and guide of the Coordination Leading Group of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, related organizations are established with clear responsibility. Currently EA has already established a Leading Group for Project Implementation. So far the Leading Group has started coordination and internal policy circulation work for the land acquisition and resettlement of the project. Resettlement and land acquisition costs for Guzhang--Baojing section of Local Road Component are estimated at CNY24.19 million including land and buildings compensation, income restoration assistance; management costs; monitoring; and taxes.
VI Stakeholder Participation, Disclosure of RP and Grievances
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At various stages of the project planning, affected people have been informed and consulted about the likely impacts of the project. Various stakeholders consulted include (i) heads of households to be affected; (ii) Village Heads and villagers’ representatives; (iii) local government agencies and departments and (iv) women and other vulnerable groups. The consultation will continue through the project implementation period.
The draft RP prepared by EA is in Chinese, which has been sent to local government agency and stakeholders for review and comments on the policy in general and adequacy of the mitigation measures in particular. Further, EA organized/planned public consultation meetings in each affected townships. Key findings of the consultation indicate full support to the project. The final RP will be summarized and disclosed after the approval from ADB and local government. A working organization for resettlement consisting of officials from Land Administration Bureau and related department, will implement the RP, and claims will be reviewed and resolved within three weeks.
VII. Project Monitoring and Evaluation
The RP will have both internal and external monitoring. EA will take an overall responsibility for the project monitoring during the project implementation phase. The following activities will be monitored by EA: (i) Compensation payments; (ii) House rebuilding/ relocation of APs; and (iii) Grievance Redress. Internal monitoring will be the overall responsibility of the resettlement implementation agency. Qianhe Company will carry out internal monitoring of land acquisition and resettlement so as to guarantee timely and well-done land acquisition and resettlement works following the RP and to protect the interest of the affected people.
Hunan University, an independent agency from the EA and the local governments along the alignment, was contracted as the lead agency to carry out the external monitoring and evaluation work under this RP. The tasks include: (i) review and verification of the compensation payments; (ii) status of land acquisition and payments on land compensation; (iii) assessment of the disbursement of compensation procedure; (iv) appraisal of the grievance procedure; (v) APs reaction/ satisfaction with the entitlements and compensation; (vi) assessment of the resettlement efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability, drawing lessons for future policy implementation, formulation and planning. The external monitoring will be carried out every six month during the resettlement implementation and annually after the completion and until the affected people’s livelihoods have been adequately restored. The monitoring findings will be shared in the form of reports to EA in Chinese and ADB in English.
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Figure 1 Geogrphical Location of Guzhang-Baojing Highway
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CHAPTER 1 BACKGROUND AND BRIEF INTRODUCTION
1.1 Brief Introduction 1 The Resettlement Plan describes such items as Land Requisition and Resettlement for building Guzhang-Baojing Highway, which is one part of the local road project of Hunan Road Development Project III. The Resettlement Plan is worked out in accordance with the Involuntary Resettlement Policy 1, Indigenous Peoples Policy and other social security and development policies of Asian Development Bank, relevant laws of the People’s Republic of China and laws and regulations on Land Requisition and Resettlement of the local governments. 2 From the view of the Chinese government and Asian Development Bank, the Resettlement Plan has the main purpose of ensuring that the people who shall inevitably lose land or property for the influence of the project development shall get compensation, which shall be equal to or exceed what they have lost. All the policies, opinions and compensation measures described in this Resettlement Plan are designed for this purpose. The project implementing agencies were established on September 27, 2007. Guzhang County Heqian Highway Construction Co., Ltd and Baojing County Qianhe Highway Construction Co., Ltd (the two companies are called “Qianhe Company” for short) are separately under the jurisdiction of Guzhang County Government and Baojing County Government, responsible for the construction and management of Guzhang-Baojijng Highway. As an implementing unit of the project, Qianhe Company is directly responsible for working out the Resettlement Plan and implementing and supervising the funds appropriation. 3 The Resettlement Plan is worked out on the following basises: (i) detailed on-the- spot survey data; (ii) on-the-spot investigation implemented along the project; (iii) discussion between the local governments, village cadres and affected people; (iv) on-the-spot social and economic investigation on the affected households. 4 The relocation influence data in the Resettlement Plan comes from the on-the-spot survey within the red line completed in May 2008, and has a high reliability. The resettlement principle and qualifications have been stipulated in the Resettlement Plan. 5 The Resettlement Plan’s scope is in the scope of Hunan Road Development Project III: one of the two local road components, Guzhang-Baojing Highway.
1.2 Project Background and Explanation
1.2.1 Project Background 6 Guzhang-Baojing Highway is a local road in Hunan Road Development Project III. The project construction shall be implemented by utilizing the loan of Asian Development Bank. With a total length of 42.976km, the non-grade road shall be built into a grade-3 road (see Drawing 1: Geographical Location of the Project). 7 The project construction shall begin in October 2009 and be completed in October 2011.
1 Asian Development Bank: Involuntary Resettlement, 1995.11; Handbook on Involuntary Resettlement, 1998.
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8 The project related Guzhang County and Baojing County lie in the west part of Hunan Province. The two counties were appointed as national key poverty allevation counties in 2001. The project implementation shall improve the communication condition of the project area, promote the local agricultural production, quicken the poverty allevation course of the locality, and improve the welfares of the minority nationalities.
1.2.2 Project Description
1.2.2.1 Route Description 9 Guzhang-Baojing Highway begins with Wangcun Bridge, Hexi Town, Guzhang County, across Guangtang River, via Jiatong Township, Duanlong Township, then enters Yangchao Township, Baojing County, finally ends in Meihua Township and links up No.209 National Highway at Baojing County Seat， with a total length of 42.976km. 10 Guzhang-Baojing Highway has a total length of 42.976km and goes through 3 towns and townships of Guzhang County and 2 townships of Baojing County. The terrains along the road are mountains and hilly areas.
1.2.2.2 Main Technical Standards and Costs 11 Table 1 shows the main technical standards. Guzhang-Baojing Highway begins with Post K0+00 and ends at Post K42+976, with a total length of 42.976km. The whole road adopts grade-3 road standard, the vehicle load grade adopts road-II grade, and the design speed is 30km/h. The width of the road bed is 7.5m, the width of the road surface is 6.5m. Cement concrete is adopted for the pavement. It is planned that the project construction shall begin in October 2009 and be completed in October 2011.
Table 1 Main Technical Standards of Guzhang-Baojing Highway No. Item Unit Quantity Remark
01 Road grade Grade-III road
02 Total length Km 42.976
03 Design speed Km/h 30
04 Land requisition mu 813 Permanently requisitioned land
05 Building demolition M2 8001
06 Roadbed width M 7.5
07 Lane width M 6.5
08 Bridge 560m/8 bridges
09 Culvert 154 culverts
Data source: working drawings. The data of Land Requisition and Resettlement comes from the on-the-spot survey.
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12 The project construction needs a total cost of RMB 187 million yuan, which shall be jointly raised by Asian Development Bank and Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. Asian Development Bank provides a loan of USD 4 million. The project construction shall begin in October 2009.
1.2.2.3 Social and Economic Benefits 13 As one section of the X025 County Highway, Guzhang-Baojing Highway is between G209 National Highway and S229 Provincial Highway and links up West Hunan’s two proverty-stricken counties: Guzhang and Baojing. The improvement of this road can perfect the local road network construction. The project shall produce social and economic benefits as follows: 1) increase the transport efficiency of the project areas and shorten the transport time; 2) eliminate the factor that poor road condition limits the economic growth; 3) improve the environmental state of the existing road and reduce the traffic accident risk; 4) provide the villagers along the road with more short-term employment opportunities relating to the project construction. In addition, the improvement of the local road network can bring the local habitants the following benefits: 1) reduce the transport and agricultural input cost; 2) increase the production opportunities of the economic crops; 3) bring more non-agricultural employment opportunities; 4) benefit the local markets, schools and medical facilities.
14 The above-mentioned items will improve the living conditions of the poor people in the project areas and bring favorable influence to the local women and minority nationalities.
1.2.2.4 Impact of Land Requisition and Resettlement 15 The on-the-spot investigation shows that the project needs a permanent land requisition area of 813.3 mu (54.2 ha.) and a temporary land use area of 16.2 mu (1.1 ha.). 45% of the permanent land requisition area is cultivated area. 2,365 people shall lose partial land-use right, 324 inhabitants shall be affected by house demoltion, no public installations such as schools, hospitals and factories shall be moved. It is estimated that the project shall bring direct influence to 569 households and 2,365 people. 16 It is estimated that the project needs a total cost of RMB 24.19 million yuan for implementing the Resettlement Plan.
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CHAPTER 2 INFLUENCE OF LAND REQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT
2.1 Measures for Reducing Inhabitants Resettlement 17 Since the project shall increase the roadbed width from 3.5m to 7.5m, land requisition and resettlement are necessary.
18 For the road widening, we ordinarily increase the width on one side of the original road and change some winding sections into straight ones. When choosing the line in the initial design, we change the original sections which go thruogh the towns into the sections going around the towns, so that that the resettlement quantity is reduced, especially the public service installations such as schools and hospitals are not removed, for the purpose of reducing the project cost.
2.2 Requisitioed Land and Properties 19 In accordance with the Guide to Compiling Road Project Design Documents promulgated by the Ministry of Communications of the People’s Republic of China, we have evaluated the following land and buildings: Land: paddy field, dryland, fruitery, woodland, wasteland and residential land. We have differentiated permanently requisitioned land and temporarily used land (only used in the construction period).
Trees and young crops: fruit tree, economic tree and timber tree
Houses: brick-concrete type, brick-tile type, clay-tile type and wood-tile type
Auxiliary buildings and installations: threshing floor, enclosing wall, pool, well, fishery pond, methane pit and tomb
Infrastructural facilities: communication wire, power wire
Non-residential installations: school, office building and enterprise
20 Table 2 classifies and sums up the land and properties requisitioned for the project construction. The cultivated land amounts for 45% of the requisitioned land, and the paddy field accounts for 38.5% of the cultivated land, the other requisitioned land contains woodland, shrubbery land and wasteland. 77 households shall be relocated due to house demolition. The project construction needs a temporary-use land area of 16.2 mu (1.1 ha.). Table 2 Requisitioned Land and Properties (Summary) Item Guzhang Baojing Total County County Number of related villages /1 12 6 18 Paddy field 70.7 72.8 143.5 Dryland 169.7 59.7 229.4 Total area of requisitioned cultivated land 240.4 132.5 372.9 (mu) Percentage of paddy field in total area of 29.4 55.0 38.5 requisitioned cultivated land (%) Residential land (mu) 55.17 65.79 120.95 Fruitery /economic forest (mu) 88.46 39.37 127.83 Timber forest/shrubbery forest (mu) 0 7.36 7.36 Others* 106.17 78.08 184.26
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Total area of requistioned land 490.2 323.1 813.3 Percentage of productive land in total area of 49.0% 41.0% 45.9% requisitioned land (%) Temporary use land (mu) 15 1.2 16． 2 Number of resettled households 43 34 77 2 Resettled area (m ) 3669.8 4331.2 8001 Infrastructural facilities (m) — single-line length Communication wire 4100 13670 17770 Power wire 7310 17790 25100 Note: it means wasteland Data source: on-the-spot survey
21 The land requisition and resettlement shall influence 18 villages of 5 towns and townships along the road (see Appendix 1), among which 14 villages are influenced in land requisition and resettlement and 4 villages are influenced in land requisition only. None of the 18 villages has its requisitioned cultivated land exceed 5% of its total cultivated land. The village which has the biggest influence in land requisition is Tiemazhou Village, Jiatong Township, Guzhang County. This village has 45.5 mu cultivated land to be requisitioned, accounting for 4.3% of its total cultivated land. 22 Influenced infrastructural facilities: power wire, communication wire and optical cable, in addition, the irrigation system through the existing road needs recovery. Except the power wire and communication wire, the contractor is demanded to ensure normal operation of the other infrastructural facilities in the civil work period in accordance with the stipulations of the contract.
2.3 Number of Affected people 23 The on-the-spot survey data shows that 77 households shall be relocated, with a total affected population of 324. 24 No public installations such as enterprise, school and hospital shall be influenced. 25 It is estimated that 373 mu (24.9 ha.) of cultivated land shall be requisitioned and a population of 2,365 shall be influenced, with a per-capital influenced area of 0.16 mu. 26 The number of affected people is 2,365 and the number of affected households is 569. Table 3 Statistics of Affected people Land wholly Land partially House wholly House partially Influenced public requisitioned requisitioned removed removed installations Town or No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of N.o of township house- people house- people house- people house- people house- people holds holds holds holds holds Hexi 0 100 418 4 17 5 21 None None Jiatong 0 71 312 2 8 5 20 None None Duanlong 0 244 1067 7 31 20 84 None None Yangqiao 0 105 402 14 60 13 54 None None Meihua 0 49 166 5 22 2 7 None None Total 0 569 2365 32 138 45 186 Data source: on-the-spot survey
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2.4 Impact on Income Loss
27 In order to know well the influence of the project and lay a solid foundation for working out the Resettlement Plan, we have collected relevant data of the related villages (see Appendix 1). Besides the assessment of the influence of land requisition and resettlement, we have evaluated the income influence according to the social and economic investigation, the result (see Chapter 3) reflects that little income shall be reduced for land requisition. The investigation shows shows that only one third of the income of the resettled households comes from their agricultural crops, and 54% comes from non-agriculture income. The per-capita land area requisitioned is 0.16 mu, accounting for 1.4% of the per- capita land area of the villages along the road. Only 0.5% of the income shall be reduced. Therefore, the land requisition has little influence to the livelihood of the related villagers.
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CHAPTER 3 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS
3.1 General Situation
28 Guzhang-Baojing Highway lies in Guzhang County and Baojing County, which are under the jurisdiction of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture in thw west of Hunan Province. The two counties has jurisdiction over 28 towns/townships and covers a total land area of 3,039.98km2 including a cultivated land area of 22,950 hectares. 29 In 2006, the two counties had a number of households of 117,800 and a population of 432,900, including an agricultural population of 367,800 and a non-agricultural population of 65,100. The per-household population was 3.67. The female population was 208,400, accounting for 48.1％; the male population was 224,600, accounting for 51.9%. The urban population was 65,100, accounting for 15％ of the total population, equal to one half of the average level of Hunan Province. 30 Table 4 shows the GDP and per-capita annual income of the two counties in 2006.
Table 4 GDP and Per-capita GDP of the Two Counties in 2006 Per-capita Rural per- Urban per- GDP index County or Total output Primary Secondary Tertiary Per-capita cultivated capita net capita net (100 in province value industry industry industry GDP (yuan) land (mu) income income 2005) (yuan) (yuan) Guzhang County 0.84 1742 - (10,000 yuan) 55132 12517 12011 30604 109.4 4297 Baojing County 0.78 1868 - (10,000 yuan) 151268 32011 71731 47526 106.5 5555 Hunan Province 0.85 3389.81 10504.67 (100 mil. yuan) 7493.17 1331.31 3123.46 3038.4 112.1 11830 31 In 2006, the rural per-capita net incomes of Guzhang County and Baojing County were 1,742 yuan and 1,868 yuan respectively, equal to one half of that of Hunan; the per- capita cultivated land area were 0.84 mu and 0.78 mu respectively, lower than the average level of the whole province. 32 Both Guzhang and Baojing are national key poor counties. The rural poverty incidence rate is above 30%, equal to 15 times of that of the whole province. Most of the population are minority people, accounting for 3/4 of the total population.
3.2 Basic Conditions of the Towns and Townships along the Road 33 Guzhang-Baojing Highway goes through Hexi Town, Jiatong Township and Duanlong Township of Guzhang County and Yangchao Township and Meihua Township of Baojing County. Table 5 shows the basic conditions of the towns and townships along the road.
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Table 5 Basic Conditions of the Towns and Townships along the Road (2006) Total Agricultural Minority Per-capita Per-capita Per-capita population population population cultivated GDP income land area (yuan) (yuan) (mu) Hongshilin Town 13883 12330 12615 1.08 1682 Guzhang Duanlong 13195 12682 13079 1.15 1466 County Township Yangchao 17173 16754 Baojing Township 15219 1.05 4702 1231 County Qianling Town 52927 22962 43354 0.93 4703 2085 Note: the adjustment of administrative division has changed the names of towns and townships. (The original Hexi township and Jiatong village are combined into Hongshilin township, the original Yangchao village and Xianren village are combined into Yangchao village, the original Qianlin township and Meihua village and Longxi village are combined into Qianlin township). 3.3 Social and Economic Investigation
34 The social and economic information of the affected people mainly comes from the social and economic investigation implemented in May 2007. This investigation was completed by the Rural Economy Investigating Team of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture under the direction of the domestic resettlement experts, for the purposes as follows: (1) find out the social and economic information of the affected people; (2) know the understanding degree of the resettled people on the project; (3) determine the resettled people’s attitude and choice on such matters as land adjustment, house relocation and income recovery.
35 The investigation has collected the basic information of all villages along the road. The investigation adopted two means: village investigation and household investigation. The domestic resettlement experts designed questionnaires for the village investigation and household investigation in accordance with the along-the-road interview. 6 investigators participated in the investigation. The investigation was implemented with the assistance of the town and county-level governments and under the direction and supervision of the domestic resettlement experts.
36 The social and economic investigation coverd 18 villages along the road, relate to 79 households and 416 persons. The investigated households accounted for 13.8% of the total affected households. All the households chosen for the investigation were the households influenced by the project.
3.4 Social and Economic Characteristics of the Affected people 3.4.1 General 37 We applied family life structure frame to analyze the data collected in the social and economic investigation, this analysis method gave consideration on the four aspects of the social and economic characteristics of households: (Remarks: family life structure means the number of persons, education of the persons and the incomes of the persons within one family)
Human resource: population characteristic and education/skill characteristic
Natural resource: land, forest and water source
Material resource: production and life assets
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Financial resource: household income and expense (including financial credit)
38 The following sections give explanation to the above aspects, and another section explains the interviewed people’s attitude to the rebuilding of Guzhang-Baojing Highway.
3.3.2 Human Resource
39 The investigation shows that the interviewed households have an average population of 5.3 (see Table 6). The households with a population of 3-5 account for a fairly high percentage (53%). Among the 416 interviewed people, male people account for 53.8%, female people account for 45.2%.
Table 6 Population Characteristics of the Investigated People Household scale Number of 1-2 3-5 6-7 7+ people Number of households 4 42 26 7 5.1% 53.2% 32.9% 8.9%
Age <5y 6-11y 12-14y 15-17y 18-29y 30-39y 40-49 y 50-59y 60-69y >70y Number of 18 32 18 22 87 70 34 53 31 14 people 5% 8% 5% 6% 23% 18% 9% 14% 8% 4% Vocation Peasant Worker Other vocation* Male 111 25 4 Female 105 20 2 Educatioal level (excluding at-school students and children under 7 years) Junior middle Senior middle College and Illiterate Primary school school school above Male 12 46 59 22 13 Female 21 50 49 16 8 * The other vocation means teacher, public servant, transportman, businessman etc.
40 The population under 17 years account for 24% of the total population, the population above 60 years account for 12%, the population at the age of 20~40 years account for 40%.
41 The employed people above 18 years account for 76% of the total number of the employed people. The students account for 16%, the others are retired people and invalid people. The employed people have a dependence rate of 1.6 persons, the household scale is unrelated with the dependence rate. In a big household, several generations usually live under the same roof. The investigation shows that the unmber of male employees is 140 and the number of female employees is 127, this means that men and women enjoy equivalent employment rate on the whole.
42 All the households are rural ones. 62% of the interviewed people entirely depend on agricultural production. 20% of the interviewed people are engaged in non-agricultural
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work (more than one half of them hire out for work). The number of men hiring out for work is a little bigger than that of women. The other people are mainly engaged in small commerce, transport and artisan (wood and bamboo processing). In general, each of the investigated household has at least 1 person enaged in non-agricultural work, over one half of the investigated households separately have 1 person hiring out for work. The non-agricultural employment rates of different nationalities are equivalent on the whole.
43 The people who hire out for work contain employees getting temporary jobs and employees getting entire-year jobs in other regions, whom separately account for 20% and 18% of the total number of the employed people.
44 Above 89% of the interviewed people at the age of 6 and above have educational level of primary school, 36% of them have educational level of junior middle school, 20% of them have educational level of senior middle school or junior college, over one half of the investigated households separately have at least 1 person with educational level of senior middle school or vocational training. The illiterate proportion of women is higher than that of men (most of the illiterate people are old people), The senior education proportion of men is higher than that of women, this means that the phenomenon of valuing men and belittling women exists in the investigated areas. Most of the children under 15 years are at school. One half of the young people at the age of 15~19 are at school, and one half of them are at labor.
3.3.3 Natural Resource 3.3.3.1 Land Tenure
45 In the middle 1980s, the rural collective economy system adopted in the 1950s was replaced by household contract responsibility system, the land was distributed to the households according to the number of family members. In a village, the land was classified in accordance with the land quality grades. Each household gets land of different grades. All the housholds have signed land contracts (at the beginning, the contract period was 15 years; after 1998, the contract period became 30 years). The households have land use right, but the land ownership belongs to the local villagers’ group.
46 The initial land distribution was fair, but with the lapse of time, the conditions of the household have changed, for example, death, birth, marriage and so on. The pre-stored land can meet the growth of population. However, consistant growth of population (although the growth speed is slow) causes the following problems: (1) the per-capita land area is reduced; (2) the conflict between household scale and cultivated land area is becoming sharp.
3.3.3.2 Land Possession Data
47 Our investigation shows that the 79 investigated households have a total land area of 1,073 mu, with a per-household paddy field area of 3.45 mu, a per-capita paddy field area of 0.66 mu and a per-capita dryland area of 0.32 mu. It is clear that the per-capita cultivated
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land area is small. In addition, the per-capita area of other-category land is also small, except for hilly area. Table 7 shows the land possession areas of all investigated townships and households. Table 7 Land Possession Data of Sample Households (mu) Total contracted Paddy Vegetable land land Dryland Fruitery field Woodland Total 178.7 39.9 10.7 107 3.3 17.8 Hexi Per- Town Guzhang household 13.75 3.07 0.82 8.23 0.25 1.37 County Per-capita 2.84 0.63 0.17 1.70 0.05 0.28 Total 207.3 58.6 32.5 63.5 3.2 49.5
Jiatong Per-
Township household 17.28 4.88 2.71 5.29 0.27 4.13 Per-capita 3.29 0.93 0.52 1.01 0.05 0.79 Total 382.75 110.9 47.1 39.5 9.05 176.2 Duanlong Per- Township household 15.95 4.62 1.96 1.65 0.38 7.34 Per-capita 2.88 0.83 0.35 0.30 0.07 1.32 Total 254.4 56.8 33.2 45 10.9 108.5 Yangchao Per- Baojing Township household 12.11 2.70 1.58 2.14 0.52 5.17 County Per-capita 2.29 0.51 0.30 0.41 0.10 0.98 Total 49.4 6.6 9.8 27.7 4.6 0.7 Meihua Per- Township household 5.49 0.73 1.09 3.08 0.51 0.08 Per-capita 1.45 0.19 0.29 0.81 0.14 0.02 Note: The fruitery here is dispersed trees.
3.3.4 Houses and Subsidiary Facilities
48 Table 8 reflects that most of the residential houses of the influenced villages are of wood structure, belonging to traditional architectural type, accounting for 52% of the total investigated houses. The brick-concrete structure houses account for 34%, the brick-wood structure houses account for 14%. The infrastructural facilities are fairly good. Each household enjoys power supply. 40% of the households enjoy tap water supply. 37% of the households are linked with telephone. Above 80% of the households have their own drying yards. Table 8 Residential House Types of Sample Households House structure Number of households Percentage Wood structure 41 51.9% Brick-concrete structure 27 34.2% Brick-wood structure 11 13.9% Total 79 100.0%
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3.3.5 Financial Resource 3.3.5.1 Incomes of Households
49 Table 9 shows the incomes of the households along the road. 33% of the investigated households get a per-capita annual net income of above 1,500 yuan, 9% of the investigated houses get a per-capita annual net income of below 900 yuan.
Table 9 Per-capita Annual Incomes County Town or Village >1500 1500- 1300- 1100- <900 township 1300 1100 900 Henan 52% 20% 12% 8% 8% Hexi Xianfeng 29% 32% 20% 11% 8% Jiatong 30% 20% 25% 20% 5% Jiatong Tiemazhou 15% 30% 35% 15% 5% Menghuzhou 20% 20% 20% 30% 10% Xilong 10% 20% 25% 25% 20% Guzhang Miduo 10% 20% 40% 20% 10% Xiqiha 40% 25% 25% 5% 5% Duanlong Tianjiadong 40% 30% 20% 10% Baowulie 5% 10% 55% 10% 20% Shangjia 20% 30% 40% 10% Baixiguan 80% 15% 5% Buji 40% 20 % 25% 10% 5% Xizhou 80% 5 % 5% 5% 5% Yangchao Shijia 10% 10% 30% 10% 40% Baojing Yangchao 65% 15 % 10% 6% 4% Datian 40% 40 % 10% 5% 5% Meihua Huajing 70% 10% 10% 5% 5%
Data source: statistic data of relevant towns and townships and on-the-spot investigation in 2007.
50 The investigation data shows that above 78% of the investigated households get a per-capita annual income of above 1,500 yuan, 5% of the investigated houses get a per- capita annual income of below 900 yuan.
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Figure 2 Incomes of Households
20.0% 18.0% 16.0% 14.0% 12.0% 10.0% 8.0% 6.0% 4.0% 2.0% 0.0% <900 900- 1500- 2000- 2500- 3000- 3500- 4000- >4500 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500
Data source: households investigation in 2007
3.3.5.2 Income Source
51 The villages along the road have a wide income source. Table 10 shows the sequence of income sources. The income from going out for work is the main economic source of most villages (except two villages). The project areas have many economic crops, including fruit, vegetable, tea, orange, chestnut and rape. Since the local grain income is very important, all the households plant grain crops. The grain is mainly for the consumption of the villagers (partial grain is used for raising pigs).
Table 10 Income Sources of Investigated Villages County Town or Village Going Non- Economi Breeding township Grain Fruitery out for agricultural c crop industry work activity Henan 2 3 1 6 4 5 Hexi Xianfeng 2 4 1 5 3 6 Jiatong 2 3 1 4 5 Jiatong Tiemazhou 2 1 4 5 3 6 Menghuzhou 1 3 5 4 2 6 Xilong 1 3 4 5 2 Guzhang Miduo 2 3 5 4 1 Xiqiha 2 3 5 4 1 6 Duanlong Tianjiadong 2 3 5 4 1 Baowulie 2 3 4 1 Shangjia 1 3 5 4 2 Baixiguan 2 4 5 3 1 Buji 3 4 2 5 1 Xizhou 2 5 4 3 1 Yangchao Shijia 4 3 2 5 1 Baojing Yangchao 3 5 2 4 1 Datian 1 4 3 5 2 Meihua Huajing 4 3 1 5 2
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Note: 1 means 1st sequence, the rest can be deduced by analogy. Data source: on-the-spot investigation in 2007
52 Table 11 shows the income composition of the investigated households and shows the variety of the economic activities along the road. In the sample group, the wages income accounts for 39.2%, non-agricultural income exceeds one half of the total income of a household. It is very important for the affected households to recover their economy, for their income from grain and economic crops accounts for only one third of their total income, and only 1.4% of their cultivated land is requisitioned. This means little influence to their income.
Table 11 Income Composition and Per-capita Net Income of Sample Households
Average value of Net income of households in 2006 (yuan) samples %
Income from wages 5292.8 39.2% Income from agriculture and forestry 4853.7 35.9% Income from sideline production 1389.4 10.3% Income from enterprise management 951.5 7.0% Income from transfer or property 1024.9 7.6% Total 13512.3 Production cost* 2039.1 - Per-capita net income (yuan/person) 2643.3 - /1 including fertilizer, agricultural chemical, seed and other cost for breeding and non-agricultural activities Data source: on-the-spot investigation in 2007 3.3.5.3 Expenditure and 53 The expenditure data of 79 sample households shows that the per-household annual expense was 14,260 yuan in 2006, with a per-capita expense of 2,673 yuan. The per-capita consumption expense was 2,050 yuan. In the consumption mode of the affected households, the biggest consumption item was basic demand, covering food, clothes and residential house and accounting for 70% of the total expense (see Table 12), with a per- capita expense of 1,870 yuan. This consumption level is on the whole equivalent to that of the other rural areas. It means that the affected households have extricated themselves from poverty.
Table 12 Expense Mode of Affected households
Consumption Production Expense of transfer and expense expense property Per-household expense (yuan) 9975.8 2039.1 2246.0 Percentage 70.0% 14.3% 15.7%
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3.3.6 Matters Relating to the Road Construction 3.3.6.1 Understanding on Guzhang-Baojing Highway
54 The social and economic investigation reflects that all the households along the road have known that Guzhang-Baojing Highway shall be built, for this information is widely spread among the local people.
55 Above 95% of the interviewed people consider it very necessary to build Guzhang- Baojing Highway. They think that building Guzhang-Baojing Highway shall quicken the flow of people, goods and information and produce great economic and social benefits. Among the 79 investigated households, 68 households shall have land requisitioned, 11 households shall have land requisitioned and houses removed. 17 households (20%) consider that the project shall influence their life and production, 37 households (50%) consider that the project shall exert a little negative influence to their life and production, 25 household (30%) consider that they shall benefit from the project.
3.3.6.2 Attitude to Guzhang-Baojing Highway
56 The investigated households consider that Guzhang-Baojing Highway shall bring such advantages as convenience in going out and concenience in selling their agricultural products. They pay attention to such issues as land requisition and resettlement. The local village cadres frankly pointed out the negative influence of the project, but they think that the positive influence is much bigger than the negative influence.
3.3.6.3 Affected people's Preferences
57 We have carried out an investigation among the affected households on the measures for alleviating the influence of land requisition and resettlement. Table 14 sums up the answers of the interviewed households. Their main opinions are as follows:
（1） 67% of the sample households hold the tendency that the land compensation money should be directly paid to the households who are cultivating the land and possess land use right; 30% of the sample households hold the tendency that the land compensation money should be shared by the local villages and the affected households and that 20% of the land compensation money should be used for developing the collective economy.
（2） In addition, if the land compensation money is directly paid to the affected households, 39% of them will invest this money in the education of their children; 29% of them will invest this money in the improvement of their residential conditions; 10% of them will invest this money in their small business; 11% of them will deposit this money for their old-age pension; only 1% of them will use this money in technical training.
（3） If their residential houses are removed, 77% of the affected households hope
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to build new houses near the old houses; 22% of them hope to build new houses in the local villages; only 1% of them are willing to move out of their villages. Table 14 Preferences for Mitigation Measures Mitigation measures after land requisition
b. Have a land adjustment c. Invest all compensation The compensation a. Directly pay within the village money for developing collective money is shared by compensation money to economy village and households households 53 1 1 24 67% 1% 1% 30% Use of compensation money* a. Education b. Improving c. Investing in d. Deposit for old- e. Technical training f. Others of children residential small business age pension conditions 58 43 15 16 8 7 39% 29% 10% 11% 5% 5% Relocation places of the resettled households
a. Near the old houses b. In the local village c. Proper places outside the village 61 17 1 77% 22% 1%
3.3.7 Land Adjustment 58 The compensation policy of exchanging land with land lies on whether there is surplus land for cultivation and whether the land adjustment is feasible. The on-the-spot investigation and discussion clearly indicates that all the cultivated land has been contracted in the contract responsibility system. This means that there is no surplus land for the adjustment. Fortunately, the land losses at the household level will be small (5% to 10%) in most cases. If a household wants replacement land, they can negotiate with other villages; but generally, this is not the preference of the local people because the good farmland is limited and other land is mountainous..
3.4 Vulnerable Group
3.4.1 Poor Population 3.4.1.1 Poverty State of the Project Area
59 Both Guzhang and Baojing are national poverty alleviation counties. Above 70% of the population are minority people. PPTA of Hunan Road Project III finds that the poor populations of the two counties respectively account for 34% and 33%. In the investigated sample households, there are 4 poor households, which belong to Tujia nationality. However, the village-level investigation shows that there are 1,350 poor households in the 18 villages along the road. For details, please refer to Table 16.
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County Table 15 Population in the Project Area Total Rural Population Minority Rural Poor Population Population Number % Number % Number % Guzhang 137,400 98,200 71.50% 117,000 85.20% 41,000 34.56% Baojing 286,600 215,000 75.00% 220,200 76.80% 74,500 33.11% Hunan 66,628,000 44,307,600 66.50% 6,921,000 10.40% 1,102,300 2.49% Sources: 1. Provincial Poverty Reduction and Development Office; 2. Hunan and Xiangxi Statistics Yearbooks (2004 and 2003)
60 During the on-the-spot investigation, we find that poor people usually suffer from permanent (physical, intelligent or social) deformity and are not able to carry out effective agricultural activities. Lack of professional knowledge is another cause for poverty.
61 Besides the government assistance, the poor households shall get direct support of the project during the project construction and shall enjoy the treatment which is equal to the government assistance to “five-gurantee household” (guarantee food, housing, clothing, medical cure and burial expenses), including relief funds and materials regularly provided.
Table 16 Indexes of Poor Households Type Vulnerable Group* Government Support from the Total assistance* project Number of Number Number of Number Number of Number Number of Number households of households of households of households of people people people people Deformity 186 366 110 215 76 151 186 366 Aged 310 412 310 412 0 0 310 412 Single 322 836 142 369 180 467 322 836 female parent family Poverty 532 2980 122 685 410 2295 532 2980 Total 1350 4594 684 1681 666 2913 1350 4594 *Data source: village-level investigation
3.4.2 Minority Nationalities 62 In the project area, there are a large number of minority people, they mainly belong to Miao nationality and Tujia nationality. The minority populations of Guzhang County and Baojing County respectively account for 85.6% and 79.3%. In Guzhang County, most of the minority people belong to Tujia nationality, while in Baojing County, most of the minority people belong to Tujia and Miao nationality. The minority population of the villages along the road accounts for 89%.
63 The social assessment of the project shows that relevance exists between the poor households and minority nationalities in the big project area, but such relevance is not obvious in the villages along the road. In the past years, some minority people who live in
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the Han people areas began to seek the roots of their families2, but the other people only nominally belong to minority nationalities.
64 Table 17 shows the distribution of the minority nationalities in the 18 villages, with a total population of 20,629 including 17,528 Tujia people and 1,861 Miao people, the Han people only account for 15%. Among the 18 villages, 15 villages are regions entirely inhabited by minority nationalities.
Table 17 Data of Minority Nationalities in 18 Villages Town or Village Total Minority Percentag County township populatio nationalit Miao Tujia Others e ( %) n y Henan 760 760 100% 760 Hexi Xianfeng 983 983 100% 983 Jiatong 787 787 100% 780 7 Jiatong Tiemazhou 1121 1121 100% 1121 Menghuzho 893 893 u 893 100% Guzhan Xilong 1150 1150 100% 1150 g Miduo 993 993 100% 993 Duanlong Xiqiha 689 689 100% 668 Tianjiadong 638 638 100% 596 Baowulie 689 689 100% 689 Shangjia 835 835 100% 831 4 Baixiguan 532 532 100% 532 Buji 1432 1432 100% 286 1146 Yangcha Xizhou 2056 2056 100% 180 1876 o Shijia 533 353 66.2% 20 278 55 Baojing Yangchao 2465 2465 100% 493 962 Datian 3468 2415 69.6% 352 2063 Meihua Huajing 3030 1818 60.0% 530 1206 82 23054 20609 Total 1861 17527 148 89.4% Data source: investigation in 2007
65 In order to quicken the social and economic development of the minority nationality areas, the Central Government has formulated a series of preferential policies, which are being implemented by the local governments. These policies contain the following content: (1) provide special minority nationality development fund for the projects in the minority nationality areas (e.g. school, road, water conservancy, religion etc.); (2) grant poverty alleviation loan and reduce or remit taxation to promote the economic development; (3) a rural minority nationality couple can give birth to 3 babies, while a rural Han nationality couple can only give birth to 1-2 babies; (4) preferential policy benefits minority nationality students in the national university entrance examination for their favorable enrollment; the officials of county minority nationality affairs bureau are appointed to be responsible for implementing the minority nationality development plan in the villages respectively in the charge of them.
66 ADB's Indigenous Peoples Policy requires that ethnic minorities are not adversely affected, are adequately consulted and supportive of the project, and that benefits will be inclusive of ethnic minorities, particularly vulnerable groups, and the project and related measures and benefits are implemented in a culturally appropriate and sensitive
2 During the plan economy in 1970s, the government advocated Han people and college graduates to work in the faraway poverty-stricken areas, this resulted in the phenomenon that the minority nationalities were assimilated by the Han culture.
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manner with the participation of affected persons. Hunan Road III Project has formulated Ethnic Minority Development Plan to ensure that minority nationalities can benefit from the project. The alleviation measures to be applied in the project are also applicable to the sub-projects. 3.5 Gender Issues
67 The people’s Republic of China undertakes gender equality and legally stipulates that women and men enjoy equal rights. Besides doing lots of housework, the women in the project area plays an active role in the economic production, for example, many of them are engaged in the agricultural production, some of them hire out for work, especially go to distant places (such as Guangdong and Guangxi) for proper jobs. The investigation on the villages along the project shows that most of the women are engaged in such industries as clothes, electronic products and foodstuff. The investigation also reflects that women’s family status is rising for the increase of their economic income.
68 Women and men on the whole enjoy equal right in the decision of family affairs, but men have bigger right to speak in the decision of major family affairs. In the investigated rural areas, the divorce rate is very low and the families are quite stable. Information and experience are important factors for women and men to participate in decision. The construction of the road network shall help the local women get more information. The women along the national highway and in the towns are mainly engaged in community service work, while the men go out for work. The women who are engaged in such work have more opportunities to get more information from the governmental departments. 3.6 Implications of Socioeconomic Survey Findings to RP Strategy
69 After a comprehensive consideration of the income from economic crops and non- agricultural activities, the people influenced by the land requisition and resettlement along Guzhang-Baojing Highway are relatively rich people. 30% of them have a per-capita annual income of above 3,390 yuan (average value of Hunan province). 2/3 of the households are engaged in non-agricultural business activities, but such activities still belong to primal agricultural economy. 2/3 of the households obtain more than one half of their income from agricultural production. Although grain is the most important crop, grain brings a small part of the cash income.
70 In the traditional significance, the importance of agricultural economy reflects that loss of main land means loss of main income. However, the resettlement investigation shows that the land requisition shall not cause serious influence, for the income from cultivated land only accounts for 20% of the gross income of the households.
71 Most of the interviewed households are willing to get cash compensation for their free disposition. Only 1% of the households are willing to accept land readjustment. Most of the interviewed people hope to invest the compensation money in agricultural production, non-agricultural actvities, planting economic crops, small business or transport service, for they think that Guzhang-Baojing Highway will bring them more development opportunities
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and add new vitality for the economic growth. In general, the interviewed people pay more attention to the development of non-agricultural economy.
72 It is fortunate that the number of poor households is small in the affected households. Most of the poor households become poor for the reason of lack of skills and knowledge, not for the reason of backward production conditions or infrastructural facilities. Being a prevention measure, the Plan on Minority Nationality Development can ensure that the minority nationalities shall not be influenced because of cultural difference. In any case, the minority nationalities shall get equal compensation, and the income recovery plan applicable to the other affected people is also applicable to the minority nationalities. In addition, the Resettlement Plan has provided the vulnerable people and low-income households with a series of preferential measures to satisfy their additional demands.
73 We shall inform relevant women about the compensation payment, training program and other auxiliary measures under the project. They are able to get the resettlement information and economy recovery measures, the negative influence shall be reduced to the fullest possible entent, and they shall obtain benefits as much as possible. No gender discrimination shall exist in the compensation payment and income recovery measures, for example, the training program shall improve the women’s skills and bring them more employment opportunities. For monitoring on the resettlement work (e.g. baseline investigation), an independent investigation should be implemented on the resettlement influence to the men and women. If possible, the investigation should be done according to the categories of sexes and minority nationalities.
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CHAPTER 4 LEGAL FRAMEWORK AND RESETTLEMENT POLICIES
4.1 Overview
74 There are two parts to constitute the legal framework and resettlement policies, that is, China's laws and local regulations, ADB(Asian Development Bank)'s policy requirements. 4.2 Policies, Laws and Regulations
75 The following are the laws and regulations applied in this project: z "Law of Land Administration of the People's Republic of China" (promulgated by Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 8 on September 29, 1998, and effective as of January 1, 1999); z "Regulations on the Implementation of the Land Administration Law of the People’s Republic of China" (came into effect on February, 2, 1991) (promulgated by Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No. 256 on December, 27, 1998, and effective as of January 1, 1999); z Land Management Law Decree No. 28 (released in October, 2004) and the Hunan Provincial Decree No. 24 (February, 2005) z "Regulations on the Protection of Basic Farmland" (Decree No.257 of the State Council of the People's Republic of China) (promulgated on December 27, 1998, came into effect on January 1, 1999); z "Regulations for the Implementation of Forestry Law of the People's Republic of China" (Decree No.258 of the State Council of the People's Republic of China) z “Regulations for the Implementation of Law of Land Administration of the People's Republic of China in Hunan Province” (came into effect on March 31, 2000) z ADB’s “Non-voluntary Resettlement Policies” in 1995 and “Handbook for Resettlement, Guide to Practice” in 1998
76 ADB's Involuntary Resettlement Policies include the following principles: (1) Involuntary resettlement should be avoided as long as possible. (2) When the resettlement can not be avoided, it is necessary to explore all possible options for the project in order to minimize the population of the migrant. (3) All people who have to relocate should be compensated and helped to make their economic and social prospects as favorable as if the project had not taken place. (4) The influenced persons should be fully informed and be consulted with according to resettlement compensation package.
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(5) The existing social and cultural institutions of migration and their hosts should be supported, and made full use of. Migrants should economically and socially enter into the host comMunity. (6) Some influenced persons have no formal legal property in land, but it should not become obstacles to their access to compensation. Such vulnerable groups as families with women as the head of the household, indigenous population and ethnic minorities should be paid special attention to and provided appropriate assistance to help them to change their current status. (7) Involuntary resettlement should be considered as a part of the project as far as possible. (8) ADB policies state that special attention should be paid to the demands of poor families, women-headed households and other social groups. These vulnerable groups should be offered appropriate assistance to help them improve their situation.
ADB's Indigenous Peoples Policy requires that ethnic minorities are not adversely affected, are adequately consulted and supportive of the project, and that benefits will be inclusive of ethnic minorities, particularly vulnerable groups, and the project and related measures and benefits are implemented in a culturally appropriate and sensitive manner with the participation of affected persons.
4.3 Project Resettlement Policies
4.3.1 Overall Objective and Principle
77 The compensation and resettlement policies to migrants in the project area take laws and regulations of China and the ADB’s policies and requirements into consideration. The main objective of the arrangement for relocation household is to recover the income and standard of living of the people influenced by resettlement, and to avoid disruption of their existing socio-economic environment as far as possible. The Resettlement Plan has been prepared and will be implemented to achieve this goal. The requirements of poor people, minorities and vulnerable groups shall be paid special attention to, which is the main principle of the plan. 78 The project resettlement principles reflect the laws of China and the requirements of ADB policies. Table 19 provides an overview of the principles of resettlement; the key is to ensure that civil works shall not commence until the affected people have been compensated at replacement value and/or relocated and all affected people to get adequate compensation and assistance so that they can recover income, production and life after resettlement.
Table 19 Summary of Resettlement Principles
Principles 1 The compensations and rights for influenced persons should at least maintain their standards of living at the time "without project" and could improve their life. 2 Any influenced person, regardless of whether having a legal capacity, should be compensated and given resettlement assistance.
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3 If the land per person on an average after land expropriation, cash compensation or other income-generating alternatives should be taken. 4 The influenced personnel should have a full understanding of the qualifications, methods and standards of the compensation, the plans of production and income recovering plans, and the project time, and participate in the implementation of Resettlement Plans. 5 No lands should be taken over before the affected people are satisfied with the compensation and resettlement (program). 6 Implementing agencies and independent / third-party will monitor the implementation of the compensation of resettlement. 7 Vulnerable groups should receive special assistance or treatment to ensure a better life. 8 The affected people should have the opportunity to benefit from the project. The Resettlement Plan should be consistent with the general plan of the county and the town. 9 Special attention and support will be provided to ethnic minorities, particularly vulnerable 10 households, to assist them with relocation and rehabilitation in a culturally appropriate and sensitive manner. Civil works shall not commence until the affected people have been compensated at 11 replacement value and/or relocated.
4.3.2 Land Adjustment
79 Cash compensation will be given to farmers influenced because the local road reconstruction project is carried out based on the existing highway, along which little land has been taken over, and there is no additional land for adjustment in the village. If necessary, village leaders can assist affected households (i) contract reclaimed farmland or (ii) to negotiate land exchange with other households that no longer have need, or labor resources, to farm their land. This is possible because the affected land area is small. However, the vast majority of affected perosons prefer cash compensation anyway.
4.3.3 Compensation Qualifications and Expiration Date
80 All individuals or (private or public) units who lost their lands, houses / structures, crops or sources of income Must be compensated in accordance with the quantities and types of (temporary or permanent) loss. And the types and quantities should be investigated and determined by the Design Institute and Qianhe Company; temporary loss shall be decided during the construction period.
81 During the construction design in March 2008, the local government issued a notice to provide that no new construction should be done in the scope of the proposed highway. New buildings, crops and trees planted to obtain additional compensation can not be compensated.
4.3.4 Compensation Standards
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82 The following sections describe the compensation standards of the plan. For detailed compensation rates and budget, see Chapter 5.
4.3.4.1 Compensation of Cultivated Land
83 The land compensation fee: As for cultivated fields for permanent acquisition, a compensation fee of 8 times of the average annual output value of the first 3 years will be given to the individuals, units or entities with the use rights of the fields.
84 Resettlement subsidies: 6 times of the above-mentioned average annual output value will be directly paid to the individuals, units or entities with the use rights of the fields.
85 Reclamation fee of cultivated land: the fee is 20 times of the average annual output value which is 18,600 Yuan/Mu, paid directly to the land and resources administration departments.
86 As for cultivated land for temporary occupation, the fee will be paid directly to the influenced individuals. A fee of twice of the average annual output value of annual will be paid. After use, the unit will return the land to the previous status or pay corresponding money to the influenced individuals
4.3.4.2 Housing, Homestead and Appurtenances
87 Homestead, housing / building and ancillary facilities will be compensated directly by the replacement cost, but compensation does not include the relocation costs and residual material. Homestead compensation will be paid directly to influenced farmers.
4.3.4.3 Young Crops
88 All influenced personnel, including tenant farmers and those having no contractor's agreement will be paid an average of twice of the annual output value in cash to compensate for young crops.
4.3.4.4 Resettlement Subsidies for Homeowners
89 In addition to housing and land compensation, there are relocation subsidies, including the relocation damages, materials or goods transport expenses from the old house to the new one, charge for loss of working time during the process of housing construction and demolition and medical subsidies for the possible injury in the course of demolition. The relocation subsidies will be paid at one time. Households relocated usually need to build new houses, and need to live with relatives and friends during the transition. If they can not live with friends and relatives’ home for free, then the relocation transition costs shall be paid to a maximum of four months.
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4.3.4.5 Training Program
90 This training program applies to all relocation staff. By the end of 2008, local government should have developed a training program for those personnel who are to the county and township (town) to participate in the training, and have required to pay accommodations and transportation expenses for two weeks of training. The relevant regions will arrange special funds for special training. Qianhe Company is responsible for submitting the training program to the ADB, report the progress of training to ADB. There are about 1,200 people in the training, and the budget is 230,000 yuan (figured on 2 people per household, and 200 Yuan per person), see section 115.
4.3.4.6 Vulnerable Families
91 Those who have problems (such as the old, the vulnerable, the sick, female heads of household, etc.), or vulnerable groups caused by demolition, especially poor households, and minority households, should be given special attention to. As mentioned above, in many areas there is certain relativity between poverty and ethnic minority, but it is not significant along the road. In order to make sure the relocation work to proceed smoothly while not bringing difficulties and inconvenience to these vulnerable populations, every town and village sets up a support team led by cadres of towns and villages to provide timely assistance to vulnerable groups.
4.3.5 Flow of Funds and the Compensation Package
92 The principle of compensation is that the compensation shall be paid directly to the institutions or individuals responsible for the reconstruction or income restoration of facilities. In accordance with the aforementioned compensation policies and standards, Qianhe Company will sign the resettlement agreement with local land/resettlement office, infrastructure sector and so on, providing detailed payment of compensation. Compensation payments will be paid based on signed agreements at the specified time.
93 Sectors with reconstruction of public facilities, relocated individuals or enterprises and public institutions will be compensated directly. Compensations for young corps will be given directly to farmers or related forest department. The demolition subsidies and temporary land grant compensation will be paid directly to individuals, and land reclamation fee paid to the departments responsible for land development.
94 Land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies will be paid directly to the farmers influenced by land requisition and be arranged by them.
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95 Figure 3 outlines the process of compensation payment.
Figure 3 Compensation Payment Procedures
Qianhe Company Resettlement Office
County Resettlement Office
Forestry Public Farmer Land Dept. Dept. Dept. Housing and land compensation, Land Forest Wire, relocation subsidy, reclamation fee compensation Cable temporary land compensation
4.3.6 Compensation Rights and Qualifications
96 The compensation rights and qualifications of relocation personnel of this project can be seen in Table 20, which shows the compensation objects and compensation standards of various types of losses (such as land, housing, income, relocation, etc.), and summarizes the foregoing measures, methods and standards.
4.3.7 Use of Land Reclamation Fee
97 The land reclamation fee of this project will be paid to the provincial departments of land. Counties along can forMulate land reclamation plan according to actual situations because land reclamation fee is used to balance cultivated land. If there are land resources that can be reclaimed in the village, priority should be given to reclamation projects, especially those in poor villages along the route. New lands reclaimed should be contracted out to relocated households without charging additional costs. Reclamation of land should be done and supervised by the project coordinator headquarters.
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Table 20 Entitlement Matrix Loss type Occupancy or Units or Total of units or Compensation policies Compensation Implementation steps damage reason individuals to individuals principles be enjoying the right compensated of compensation Permanent Farmland within land user 569 households Land compensation fees and resettlement fees. Total compensation Responsible for implementing land the scope of of farmers after If feasible, priority should be given to land paid to farmers training when necessary. requisition highway land land acquisition reclamation plan to the village's arable land. Affected farmers can contract reclamation farmland.
Temporary Highway land user (determined Compensate a fee of three times of the average Total compensation Inform village/household in land construction site during annual production value within three years according to the advance and pay requisition near the site of construction) before the temporary acquisition. By the end of compensation highway land the land requisition period, back to the pre- standard acquisition state. Woodland Woodland within Local forestry (undetermined) In accordance with the relevant standards and In the charge of the forestry the scope of departments / regulations of Hunan Province to compensate department highway land forestry in cash to the forestry sector.
Housing the housing or Housing or 77 households Cash compensation for housing, etc. according Paid to 77 housing New housing site residents, homestead building to the replacement costs owners homestead influenced or owners Relocation grants: moving expenses, relocation and within the scope of transitional costs, transportation costs and appurtenanc highway land medical subsidies es
Non-farming Non-farming lands farmers 569 households Cash compensation 569 households According to the compensation lands within the scope of standard drawn up in the highway land project.
Crops / trees All affected All owners As for the loss of crops, compensate according Total compensation people losing to the price after harvest. paid directly to trees/crops As for trees, compensate according to the owners compensation standard drawn up in the project.
* Note: land reclamation fee has nothing to do with the affected people, not included in this table.
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CHAPTER 5 COMPENSATION COSTS AND BUDGET
5.1A Consultation during the Project Preparation Period
5.1.1 Public Consultation
98 The public consultation of the project starts from a series of feasible investigations done by Traffic Designing Institute of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture in 2002, including the first on-the-spot investigation and the first socio-economics survey carried out by the designers. The on-site investigation aims at drawing the villager’s attention to the ongoing project of Guzhang-Baojing Highway and making the designers understand the road situation and the villager’s concerned issues, such as setting enough crossroads and maintaining irrigation water system and so on. A majority of related staff have gained some understanding about the project by now.
99 The sample investigation on socio-economics shows that the construction of the Guzhang-Baojing Highway earns great support from each side. The villager’s primary concerns are: (i) the arrangement of the relocation time; (ii) employment under the construction. Public consultation is a significant component of the project preparation work. This investigation and consultation form an important part of the project consultation. Those involved in the consultation are listed in Appendix 4.
100 Policy of the Resettlement Plan and form of compensation, especially the establishment of compensation stand, cash compensation and other income recovery policies are influenced deeply by those meetings and investigating results. 5.1B Overview
101 After extensive consultations between Qianhe Company, Xiangxi Design Institute of ComMunications and the county, town governments and the local villagers, and taking national, provincial and Municipal compensation laws and regulations related to projects as well as other projects standards into consideration, the following items of compensation standards are determined to be the final compensation standards. Any change will be reported to ADB without delay.
102 The types of land requisition and resettlement costs are as follows: - Land compensation, including trees and young crops compensation; - Housing / Construction and appurtenances compensation; - Reconstruction of infrastructure costs; - Other related expenses.
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5.2 Land requisition Compensation Standards and Costs
5.2.1 Compensation for Cultivated Land
103 Cultivated land compensations are as follows:
- Land compensation fee; - Land settlement fee; - Young crops compensation; - Cultivated land reclamation fee.
104 The average annual output value of the first three years (AAOV) is the basis of all land compensation to be calculated on. After in-depth discussions with the along county government officials, village cadres and local people (participators involved in the discussions are listed in Annex 2), annual output values of a variety of lands (paddy field, dry land, vegetable field) are determined.
105 According to "Law of Land Administration of the People's Republic of China" and “Regulations for the Implementation of Law of Land Administration of the People's Republic of China in Hunan Province”, land compensation will be calculated according to the following Multiples: - Land compensation fee: 8 times of the average annual output value; - Resettlement subsidy: 6 times of the average annual output value; - Young crops compensation: If the crops are damaged, twice of the average annual output value will be offered;
106 Compensation fee given to the village / group or individual land is identical to 14 times of the average annual output value.
107 Land reclamation fee is 20 times of the average annual output value. The average value of paddy fields and dry land is 18600 Yuan /Mu.
108 Tax on land occupation is 0.2 Yuan / m2, that is, 1333.3 Yuan/ Mu.
109 Table 21 describes every county's cultivated land compensation standards, compensation calculated in this standard will be paid directly to the villages.
Table 21 Compensation Standards of the Occupied Cultivated Land
Times x AAOV AAOV Total Land type Land compensation resettlement (Yuan)* (Yuan/ Mu) subsidies Paddy field 930 8 6 13,020 Dry land 500 8 6 7,000
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* Derived from the resettlement survey and the interview with local cadres and people. Remarks: Guzhang and Baojing county are all in mountain region, and they can get only one crops per year.
5.2.2 Compensation of Other Lands
110 Compensations of other lands (including land compensation and resettlement subsidies) are as follows: - Orchards: 7812 Yuan / Mu - Wastelands: 930 Yuan / Mu - Water ponds: 13,020 Yuan / Mu - High forests: 3906 Yuan / Mu - Others (e.g.: homestead): 7812 Yuan / Mu.
111 Compensation of trees are mainly based on their size. Mature trees can be sold after being felled; they are generally compensated according to cutting costs and transportation costs and usually calculated by the age and size. And the fruit trees are generally compensated according to the cost of transplantation. As for fruit trees which can not be transplanted, compensate should be paid according to the cost of planting new trees.
5.2.3 Compensation of Temporary Lands
112 Temporary lands may include paddy fields, dry lands, woodlands, etc., and the compensation is in accordance with the highest value -- the average annual output value of paddy fields: 930 Yuan/Mu. Assume a 2-year occupation, the compensation standard will be the 1860 Yuan/Mu.
5.3 Compensation of Housing and Appurtenances
113 After extensive consultations with along local governments at all levels, houses of individuals, groups, or enterprises are compensated by the replacement cost listed in Table 21. In order to compare, Table 22 also sets out the actual replacement costs of various counties and districts obtained by resettlement investigation and second-hand resources. Compensation does not include depreciation or deduct old materials.
Table 22 Compensation Standards of Houses and Building Unit: Yuan/m2 Structure Brick-concrete Brick-wood (tile) Clay-wood (tile) Wood-tile Bunkhouse
Standard 280 220 180 160 90
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Remarks: Guzhang and Baojing county are all in mountain area, there are plenty of wood so the wood is very cheap there and is easy to be found.
114 Compensation of appurtenance structure, see Table 23: Resettlement Cost Estimates.
115 The compensation standard of infrastructure is determined by the relevant departments in charge of the reconstruction of these facilities, see Table 23: Resettlement Cost Estimates. The restoration of irrigation water charges (530,000 Yuan) and the restoration of local roads (630,000 Yuan) are included in the civil works costs.
5.4 Other Compensation and Resettlement Costs
5.4.1 Relocation Compensation
116 Relocated owners of housing, stores and so on will get the following relocation subsidies (depending on the needs of placement of temporary housing):
(I) transportation costs 200 Yuan / household (II) charge for loss of working time 200 Yuan / household (III) loss of relocation 100 Yuan / household (IV) medical expenses 200 Yuan / household (V) relocation transition costs (temporary housing) (300) Yuan / household Total 1,000 Yuan /household
5.4.2 Training Program 117 Training cost is computed based on two persons (one man and one woman) per household and 200Yuan per person. There are 569 households for land occupation; therefore, the training cost is estimated to be 227,600 Yuan.
5.4.3 Support for Vulnerable Families 118 Support measures are offered for the poor families, especially for poor families of minority people, a budget of 4 million Yuan is provided in the Resettlement Plan. 5.4.4 External Monitoring and Evaluation 119 External supervision fees are calculated as follows: 1) Assessment surveys after settlement: one expert works for a month, 600 Yuan/day; five investigators work for 1 week, 200 Yuan/day, about 25,000 Yuan in all, plus transportation, data processing and reporting cost is 5,000 Yuan, a total of 30,000 Yuan. 2) Semi-annual monitoring surveys (PRA approach): an expert works for a month, 600
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Yuan/day; two investigators work for 1 week, 250 Yuan/day, together with the report charges, it is about 22,500 Yuan, a total of 45,000 Yuan for two years. 3) Contingency: an additional follow-up survey cost of 22,500 Yuan
120 Therefore, the external monitoring and evaluation cost is 105,055 Yuan.
5.4.5 Others
121 Management fee: the management fee of local government organization responsible for the implementation of resettlement and rehabilitation is 3% of the reasonable compensation total.
122 Contingencies: it refers to the costs increased by the design changing, linetype changing or other unforeseen circumstances in the process of resettlement. Resettlement will be completed 2 years before the project implements, so it is estimated that there will be no price increases. The budget is based on information prepared by the construction design, so it is of high accuracy. Qianhe Company sets aside only 10% of the contingency, it is sufficient to meet the contingency and price increases in the resettlement project. If this 10% of the contingency is not enough because of price increases or other unforeseen factors, Qianhe Company will adjust the budget.
5.5 General Budget
123 Table 23 lists the resettlement-related costs in details, including compensation type, standard, quantity and total cost.
124 The total cost of land requisition and resettlement is 24,198,421 Yuan, including about 1/4 costs for land requisition including young crops compensation, and 7% for housing, building demolition and transitional costs.
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Table 21 Budget of Resettlement Costs
No. Item Category Unit Quantity Unit price Budget (yuan) (yuan) 1 Land compensation 5,647,881 Paddy field Mu 143.50 13,020 1,868,370 Dryland Mu 229.40 7,000 1,605,800 Pond Mu 0.00 13,020 0 Timer forest Mu 7.36 3,906 28,748 Economic forest/fruitery Mu 127.83 7,812 998,608 House site Mu 120.95 7,812 944,861 Others Mu 184.26 930 171,362 Temporary use land Mu 16.20 1,860 30,132 2 Compensation for houses and buildings 1,711,711 Residential house Brick-concrete house M2 3587.8 280 1,004,584 Brick-tile house M2 428 220 94,160 Clay-tile house M2 180 0 Wood-tile house M2 2470.7 160 395,312 Bunkhouse M2 1514.5 90 136,305 Subsidiary building Well 6 1,000 6,000 Enclosing wall M 275 50 13,750 Tomb 77 800 61,600 3 Trees 1364 25 34,100 4 Compensation for resettlement 92,400 Transport cost Household 77 200 15,400 Cost for loss of working time Person 154 200 30,800 Loss of relocation Household 77 100 7,700 Medical expense Household 77 200 15,400 Relocation transition expense Household 77 300 23,100 5 Infrastructural facilities 740,280 Power wire Km 25.1 6,800 170,680 Communication wire Km 17.8 32,000 569,600 6 Cost for land and vegetation recovery 8561073 Land reclamation expense Mu 372.90 18,600 6,935,940 Forest reclamation expense Km 135.19 4,000 540,760 Tax on land occupation 813.30 1333.3 1084373 7 Training expense Person 1138 200 227,600 8 Budget for supporting vulnerable people Household 3,996,000 1-8 sub-total 21011045 9 Management expenses 987519 Expense for resettlemen 3.0% 630,331 Expense for working out plan 0.2% 42,022 Personnel training 0.5% 105,055 Internal monitoring 0.5% 105,055 External monitoring 0.5% 105,055 1-9 sub-total 21,998,564 10 Contingency Unforeseen expense for resettlement 10% 2,199,856 Total 24,198,421
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CHAPTER 6 PLAN ON RELOCATION AND RECONSTRUCTION
6.1 DemandS of Resettlement
125 The whole project has two resettlement demands: (1) relocation of some private houses; and (2) relocation of three kinds of poles.
6.2 Tactics on Resettlement
126 Most of the relocated households choose to build new houses in the village in order to keep the current community relations, and regain income in a short term.
6.3 Relocation and Resettlement of Residential Houses
127 In this project, about 77 households in 14 villages need relocation. The resettlement investigation indicates that over 90% households are willing to build houses nearby or in some suitable places in the village and there is no need to develop resettlement sites in other place. Besides, from the resettlement situation of other project, the standard of the new houses of the relocated will be higher than that of the current houses.
128 Most of the households will and are willing to build new houses in their contracted farm land, because in this way, the compensation of the house site, house and accessories will be paid to them in cash. (Remarks: In north China, usually the village committee will appoint a place for the relocated household, while in south China, the peasants lived in dispersion around his own cultivated land, usually they will choose by themselves a place for the new house, but they need to first get the approval of National Land Administration.)
129 If the resettlement site is offered by the village, then the compensation of the house site will be paid to the village, the compensation of the house and the accessories will be paid to the individual, who at the same time will get the resettlement compensation aforementioned.
130 After the signing of resettlement agreement and the construction plan of new house with the households, the compensation should be paid before cleaning the land for highway.
131 Qianhe Company will give overall supervision for matters about resettlement except for the choice of resettlement site and the construction of new houses, which will be the households’ own responsibility.
132 The town governments and villagers’ committees of the two counties should pay a regular visit to the vulnerable families and take their suggestions. The local government and
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the project unit should provide relevant support according to the real demands of the vulnerable families.
6.4 Relocation of Poles and Lines
133 In order to ensure the normal service of communication, power supply and so on, the old facilities should be removed after the new power lines and communication lines have been erected.
134 Electrical lines with a total length of 25.1km and communication cables with a length of 17.8km along the road need relocation. The details and compensation standard are indicated in Chapter 5.
135 The relocation of poles and lines will be the responsibility of relevant department.
6.5 Recovery of Irrigation Water System and Local Roads
136 The recovery of irrigation water system is a part of the land construction contract, and relevant fees are listed in the comprehensive unit price of road bed, bridge and culvert etc, including the recover of the temporary and permanent water system; The recovery and clear passage of roads are similar. Therefore, relevant fees are not included in the resettlement budgets.
137 In accordance with the construction design, the length of the reconstructed irrigation water system is 2.8km and the recovery fee is 530 thousand Yuan; the length of the reconstructed local roads is 3.5km and the recovery fee is 630 thousand Yuan.
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CHAPTER 7 INCOME RECOVERY PLAN
7.1 Background
138 The overall target of income recovery is to ensure all the influenced villagers (refer to the people after land requisition) are able to keep the present income and living standard at least.
139 The construction of Guzhang-Baojing Highway requires land acquisition of farm land with an area of 372.9mu, which will cause partial land loss for an estimated 2,365 persons. The socio-economic investigation indicates that over 60% peasants have non- agricultural income, and the income from crops only accounts for about 20% of the total income. Therefore, the living standard of the peasants after land requisition will not be seriously influenced.
140 The land compensation standard of this project is 14 times of the average annual output in three years, that is, the compensation of dry land and paddy field between 7,000 to 13,020 Yuan/ Mu will be paid directly to the villagers; if young crops are destroyed, the compensation according to the market price will be paid to the person directly.
7.2 Income Recovery Strategy
141 Any income recovery strategy should reflect the willing of most of the relocated people to the utmost, and to a large extent, the formulation of strategy lies on the allocation of land compensation between the collective and the individual. The resettlement investigation (investigation of households and villages) displays that a majority of villagers are inclined to cash compensation.
142 In order to formulate the income recovery plan, wide consultation to the local government officials and relevant village cadres in the 5 townships (towns) along the line were done in May 2007. All the officials at different levels agreed to the direct payment of compensation to the peasants, which is also the practice in Hunan.
143 On the basis of the above-mentioned discovery, all the land compensation will be directly paid to the influenced peasants who are responsible for the income recovery. 7.3 Income Recovery by Compensation
144 As all the land compensation will be paid to the individual, the influenced should be responsible for income recovery. Presently, the economical crops and the service industry in the project area are swiftly increasing, and with the construction of the project, this demand will increase probably, so personal investment may appear in various fields.
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145 The social and economic investigation shows that the interviewees are strongly inclined to invest in non-agricultural economy, for example, do popular business and work away from hometown. But during the consultation, we also discover that 50% of the people are also inclined to expand agricultural production and livestock breeding, for instance, new breeds introduction, and fish farming in floating rope cage. Besides, some households with foresight will use them for the education for their children and they will have a better future.
7.4 Livelihood Training
146 Although all the land compensation is paid to the individual who is responsible for income recovery, and there is no single training plan in the project, the local government at different levels organize a series of training every year. The relocated households interested in this can choose any training program and the training budget has been listed in the resettlement budget. The main training items are as follows: - Technology on animal breeding/fish farming
- Technology on planting economic crops
- Training of sewing and knitting skills for women
- Technology on repairing motor vehicles and agricultural machinery
- Maintenance of electronic equipments/computers
- Register and management of small business
147 The training will be done in the training centers on-site, in the country or village, and the training fee will be paid directly to the training institutes for example agricultural department, women’s federation. The trainees left their own villages will get training compensations. Women interested in this can also take part in the training.
7.5 Employment in the Project Construction
148 The construction of Guzhang-Baojing Highway needs a lot of temporary workers. The local peasants are very willing to take part in these work, which can expand their income and help to recover the living.
149 After discussion with Qianhe Company, under the same condition, the relocated people will be first employed. The owner and the contractor will ensure this with the help of the local government. The green worker or long term worker will be trained by the contractor.
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7.6 Gender
150 Women are mainly responsible for housework, but they are also very important to the economical development of the project area. They enjoy the same rights with man in getting information, payment of compensation and training etc. Women will receive at least 50% of the livelihood training opportunities and contractors will be encouraged to hire women for temporary construction jobs. Xiatou will hire some wome for road maintenance. The new houses will be registered in the names of both spouses.
7.7 Vulnerable Families
151 Besides the governmental support, the vulnerable family in urgent support need will get the direct assistance for example relief fund from the project. The vulnerable family in ethnic minorities will be specially concerned.
152 The healthy members from the vulnerable families should be preferably considered in the employment.
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CHAPTER 8 RESETTLEMENT ORGANIZATIONS
8.1 Resettlement Organizations
153 Hunan Provincial Department of Communications (HPDC)is responsible for the implementation of the project on behalf of Hunan Provincial People’s Government, and the Project Office under HPDC is in charge of the coordination and contact with all the related units and Asian Development Bank.
154 The implementing agencies (IA) of the subproject, Guzhang County Heqian Road Construction Co., Ltd and Baojing County Qianhe Road Construction Co., Ltd., which are respectively under the jurisdiction of Guzhang County People’s Government and Baojing County People’s Government, are responsible for execution and implementation of the project and the coordination for land removal. The IA of each project will establish a resettlement office with 4 to 5 members, and similar offices will also be formed in both counties, which will be led by a county leader who is followed by 5 to 6 members from such departments as communications, land & resource, environment protection, forestry department, usually one person from each department; related county or town will appoint four members in charge of the resettlement.
155 Under the leadership and guide of the Coordination Leading Group of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, related organizations are established with clear responsibility. Figure 4 shows the organization framework. Figure 4 Organizations for Land Requisition and Resettlement
Resettlement Office of Guzhang Resettlement Office of Baojing Heqian Road Construction Co., Ltd Heqian Road Construction Co., Ltd Director：Shi Jinfeng Director：Li Guanqun
External Supervision Organisation
County Resettlement Office County Resettlement Office
3 Village/ Town Resettlement Office 2 Village/ Town Resettlement Office (3×3 person) (2×3 person)
12 Village Committees 6 Village Committees
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8.2 Responsibilities
8.2.1 Responsibilities of Coordination Leading Group (Prefecture Communications Bureau) of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture 156 The main responsibilities of the Coordination Leading Group of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture are as follows: (1) On behalf of Hunan People’s Government, examine and approve related migrant reresettlement policy, and organize & coordinate relations among migrant organization at all levels; (2) Organize and coordinate the compilation and implement of Migrant ReResettlement Planning Report; (3) Direct, coordinate and supervise the migrant reresettlement implement activities and their progress; (4) Deal with relevant appeal and reply as quickly as possible.
8.2.2 Responsibilities of County Road Construction Headquarters 157 It is in charge of formulating policies of migrant resettlement activity, organizing and coordinating relations between migrant organizations at all levels, and supervising as well as examining the payment and application of resettlement compensation.
8.2.3 Responsibilities of Resettlement Office of Qianhe Company 158 The Resettlement Office of Qianhe Company is chiefly responsible for the compilation and implement of Resettlement Plan. Details are as follows: 1) Organize and coordinate land requisition and resettlement work, payment of compensation fee and sign an agreement of resettlement with County Resettlement and Coordination Office; 2) Survey and research resettlement work, take advice of coherent units and individuals, handle pertinent appeal & complain and give reply as quickly as possible; 3) In charge of the management, allocation and supervision of migrant funds; 4) Preside over and inspect internal monitoring activity, and take charge of compiling progress report of land requisition and resettlement; 5) Determine external monitoring mechanism and support external monitoring activity.
8.2.4 Responsibilities of County Resettlement Office
159 The County Resettlement Office is mainly in charge of the implement and supervision of land requisition and resettlement work. The main responsibilities are as follows:
1) According to the depositions and requirements of Qianhe Company, check the quantity of relevant land, houses, and infrastructure;
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2) Evaluate the values of relocated land and houses and determine the compensation standards;
3) Sign an agreement of land requisition and resettlement with the relocated unit and individual;
4) Pay compensation fees to related unit and individual;
5) Supervise and check the payment and application of compensation;
6) Supervise the implementation status of country (town and village) Resettlement Plan; 7) Report regularly the resettlement status to the Land requisition and Resettlement Office of Qianhe Company, and submit relevant statistics and report forms on request.
8.2.5 Responsibilities of Township (Town) Resettlement Offices
160 The responsibilities of Township (Town) Resettlement Offices are as follows: • Investigate, supervise and record the resettlement work of this township (town); • Inspect the recovery situation of land requisition, house relocation and infrastructure; • Examine training and employment status.
8.2.4 Responsibilities of Villagers’ Committees
161 The responsibilities of villagers’ committees and villagers’ groups are as follows: (1) Report: - The quantity of land requisition; - The attribution of land, house and so on; - The situation of population and land. (2) Participate in the on-the-spot investigation; (3) Help households select resettlement place and construct new house; (4) Deal with appeal issues; (5) Supervise and report resettlement progress.
8.3 Grievance Redress
162 In order to ensure channels of redressing grievance for the in satisfied affected people, detailed procedures for the redress of grievance have been established by the project, which aim at redressing grievance in a public and fast way. The procedures are so simple, feasible, open and fair that it is not complicated for the unsatisfied people to redress grievance. In other ways, the grievance will be settled inside the organizer, thus the procedure will be more effective and the project progress won’t be influenced.
163 In order to avoid the damage of the relocated unit and individual, their grievances and appeals should be reported according to the following steps:
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164 Step 1: People with grievances can report in oral or written form to the village committee or country or town resettlement office (an oral grievance should be written by responsible people in the village committee), which should reply in written form or settle the problem within 2 weeks.
165 Step 2: if not satisfied with the result in step 1, within one month after receiving the reply of step 1, he or she can appeal to the County Resettlement Office which will settle the problem within two weeks.
166 Step 3: if still not satisfied with the reply of the County Resettlement Office, within one month after receiving the reply of step 2, he or she can report and appeal to the Road Construction Company which will settle the problem within 3 weeks.
167 Step 4: if still not satisfied with the reply of the Road Construction Company, within 15 days after receiving the reply, he or she can appeal to the local people’s court according to Code of Civil Law.
168 The affected people can appeal various aspects on resettlement and recovery plan, including the established compensation standards. Specified appeal & complaint procedure will be publicized in the resettlement manual and in the process of public participation of the Ninth Chapter to all of affected people. The information will also be conveyed to the relocation staff ahead of the public meeting of land requisition.
169 During the whole project construction period, the grievance redressing procedures mentioned above will be always open to relocation staff to ensure that the villagers can take advantages of these procedures to deal with infrastructure issues, such as the recovery of irrigation system, the position and size of the culvert & channel, lines of channel, culvert & bridge, temporary land and so on. Therefore, villagers can make those issues known to Qianhe Company and the contractor by efficient path, or by public discussion and make them handled timely. Besides, names and contact for example the phone numbers will be provided to the village leaders. When issue of relevant construction project occurs, villagers can report to them.
8.4 Personnel training and Organization Strengthening
170 A series of measures will be adopted to reinforce the abilities of resettled people and to ensure the efficient implement and control of Resettlement Plan. It includes: (1) Establish report mechanism, once per month; (2) Hold a coordination meeting quarterly to strengthen information communication; (3) Issues put forward by relocation staff will be reported gradually by resettlement offices at different level;
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(4) Issues occurred during the construction will be reported first to the direct leader by the onsite engineer. If necessary, it can be reported gradually. The problems of the relocation staff and the contractor can be submitted to the village committee, and the Township (town) Coordination Department of Project Construction. If it is serious one, it can be submitted to Qianhe Company and County Road Construction Coordination Headquarters.
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CHAPTER 9 PARTICIPATION AND CONSULTATION
9.1 Plan on Public Participation and Consultation
171 Even though the public consultations have been done repeatedly, in the process of land requisition and resettlement, consultations are still needed. The leading activities are as follows: a) To publish and hand out the resettlement information manual compiled in standard Chinese, whose contents are resettlement policy, rights of villages, compensation standard, appeal & complaint, resettlement, and land requisition plan. b) Table 18 about the public consultation plan shows the time arrangement and the contents of activity.
172 Table 18 about the public consultation plan shows the time arrangement and the contents of activity.
Table 18 Plan on Public Consultation
Affected Purpose Task Time EA Remark people 1.Public 12/1/2008- Qianhe All resettlement plan Hand out 12/15/200 Company, Hand out to all the affected and time resettlement 8 County/Town people arrangement information Resettlement manual Offices
2. Hand out the 1/2009 Qianhe All ultimate Hand out Company, Hand out to all of influenced resettlement plan resettlement County/Town villages plan Governments (Chinese)
3. Perfect and 8/2009- County/Town All (i) Selection implement Village-level 9/2009 Resettlement and distribution of new resettlement meeting Offices and house site plan village cadres (ii) Give compensation to peasants.
4. Develop 2/2009 Qianhe All mechanism of Put up Company, (i) Offer appeal procedure posters County/Town appeal and and channels; And send Resettlement (ii) Establish system for information out leaflets. Offices and accepting appeal; publicity. local cadres (iii) Publicity in each influenced villages.
EA：： Executive Agency IA Implementating Agency
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9.2 Publicity of Resettlement Plan
173 Resettlement is an important social work which should be publicized ahead of time to ensure that all concerned people understand the purpose of the project, related policy and procedure, including procedures of land requisition, relocation, compensation, payment, appeal etc. EA has already handed out the information manual of draft resettlement plan in March 2009 to the villages along the project, and the resettlement plan with the approval of the Asian Development Bank will also be handed out to all of the influenced villages in September 2009.
9.3 Measures of Ensuring Participation
174 The success of project closely correlates with the persistent participation of the affected people. As mentioned above, we have consulted the villages, towns and counties in the preparation period of the project. By non-government interference, during the implementation process, consultation plans have been arranged several rounds. The main contents are reaching an agreement in compensation, measures of assisting and rights protection. After starting of resettlement, compensation and assisting work, further consultations will be done. The relocated staff will take part in formal meetings, and discuss the detailed measurement survey DMS), payment of the compensation, and management of resettlement.
9.4 Resettlement Information Manual
175 The EA handed out resettlement information manual in March 2009 in order to keep the affected people and villages informed. The contents are as follows: (i) project content; (ii) influenced areas of the project; (iii) compensation standard and policy; (iv) compensation form; (v) organizer/ arrangement of implementation; (vi) appeal procedure. The manual should be handed out in the project area and be consulted in the resettlement office of each county (district) and village committee
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CHAPTER 10 IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE, MONITORING, EVALUATION AND REPORTING
10.1 Schedule of Implementing Land Requisition and Resettlement
176 The social and economic investigation was implemented in May 2007. The on-the- spot survey wthin the red line was completed in September 2008. The information manual of draft resettlement plan has been completed in February 2009 and has already been handed out in March 2009 to the villages along the project, and the resettlement plan with the approval of the Asian Development Bank will also be handed out to all of the influenced villages in September 2009. The civil works will start in October 2009. See Figure 10-1.
10.2 Monitoring and Evaluation
177 In accordance with the Construction Supervision Standards promulgated by the Ministry of Construction of the People’s Republic of China in 2006, the construction project must accept supervision according to the regulations. In addition, Asian Development Bank has demand as follows: monitoring and evaluation must be implemented on the major resettlement matters of the construction projects by utlilizing the loan. In order to ensure that the plan on land requisition and resettlement can be implemented according to the requirements, internal monitoring and external monitoring must be carried out during the project construction. Besides the external monitoring carried out every half year, Asian Development Bank demands to carry out comprehensive mid-term inspection and completion inspection on the resettlement implementation.
10.2.1 Internal Monitoring
178 During the project construction, Qianhe Company shall be fully responsible for monitoring and inspection of the project, including the following items: ⑴ payment of the compensation money; ⑵⑶ relocation and reconstruction of the houses/buildings; settling of appeals; ⑷⑸ plan on income recovery and training; support to the vulnerable people.
179 The general goal of the internal monitoring is to ensure that the resettlement work can implemented in accodance with the approved Resettlement Plan. The detailed objects are as follows: ⑴ check whether the requirements of the Plan are satisfied and whether the expenses exceed the budgeted funds in the course of land requisition and resettlement (including the preparation phase); ⑵ ensure that a smooth exchange and consultation channel is set up between the project execution personnel and resettled people; ⑶ ensure that the compensation money is paid in time and in full amount; ⑷ ensure that appeals are settled within the specified stipulated time limit; ⑸ ensure that the land compensation money
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and resettlement allowances are distributed in legal and approved procedures to avoid occurrence of corruption; (6) settle the unsettled matters and take alleviation measures.
180 As the execution agency of the project, the Resettlement Office of Qianhe Company is fully responsible for the internal monitoring. The Resettlement Office shall set up a three-member group to be responsible for the internal monitoring on the land requisition and resettlement, ensure finishing the work in time and safeguard the interests of the resettled people.
10.2.2 External Monitoring
181 The objects of the external monitoring and evaluation are as follows: ⑴ determine whether the welfare level of the resettled people is recovered and kept after the resettlement work is finished; if not, find out the reason and seek solution for settlement; ⑵ carry out an overall assessment on the efficiency, result, influence (including behavior reaction of the resettled people) and work continuity of the resettlement; if finding problems, make an analysis and put forward feasible measures to Qianhe Company.
182 In Hunan Road III Project, since Jiushou-Chadong Expressway Project has entrusted Hunan University to act as an independent monitoring and evaluation agency, Qianhe Company also entrusts Hunan University to implement the external monitoring and evaluation for the Resettlement Plan of this project. 10.2.3 Methods and Means
183 The common methods contain supervising the land requisition and resettlement work, assessing the influence of the project, and ensuring the participation of all related personnel, especially women, minority nationalities, poor households and vulnerable people. The monitoring means are qualitative and quantitative:
1） Baseline investigation: it is a sampling investigation in categories of sex, income and nationality for the purpose of obtaining relevant information including payment of compensation money and efficiency, result, influence (including behavior reaction of the resettled people) and work continuity of the resettlement, the sampling proportion is 10%, the target group should contain representatives of the vulnerable people. 2） Group discussion: The monitoring personnel discuss with the related persons (government officials, on-the-spot resettlement personnel, non-government organizations, leadera at all levels and resettled people). 3） Interview key persons: interview the persons who have relevant experience and knowledge relating to the resettlement work, such as local leaders, village cadres and villagers. 4） On-the-spot meeting: hold on-the-spot meetings to spread the resettlement information. 5） Structural on-the-spot observation: carry out on-the-spot investigation on the implementation of the resettlement, and interview individuals and organization for carrying out cross examination. 6） Informal investigation or interview: adopt non-sampling method to carry out informal
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investigation or interview of the resettlement personnel, relocated village, resettled people and project execution personnel. 10.2.4 Requirements on Reporting
184 The report on internal monitoring and inspection should be submitted every quarter to the prefecture, county and township governments and Asian Development Bank. The report submitted to Asian Development Bank should be done in English.
185 The baseline investigation report prepared by the external monitoring agency should be submitted in electronic version to Qianhe Company and submitted in English version to Asian Development Bank. The reports submitted afterwards should sum up the main findings, list the key indexes and give qualitative and quantitative description of the main changes of the social and economic conditions of the resettled people and resettled villages, so as to obtain conclusion and enlightenment. If necessary, other measures and supports should be adopted.
186 Qianhe Company should submit the report on project completion inspection to Asian Development Bank. This report should contain the following content: description of resettlement course, financial statement, payment of compensation money, measures taken for recovering the living and production state of the resettled people and experience and lessons drawn from the resettlement work, for better formulation and implementation of the future policy.
187 During the resettlement, the external monitoring agency should submit a report on external monitoring to Asian Development Bank every half year until the resettled people’s living state is completely recovered.
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Figure 10-1 RP Planning and Implementation Schedule安置计划实施进度表
Activities 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 5 6 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 I II III IV I II III Project Procedure
Feasibility study preparation and approval 工可报告批复 Detailed design approval 施工图设计批复 Preparation of bidding documents and bidding starting 招标文件准备和开始招标 Civil work construction from commence to completion 土建工程开工到完工 Planning of Land Acquisition and Resettlement 征地和安置计划 Finalize the scope of LAR 确定安置计划的工作范围 Conduct socioeconomic survey 进行社会经济调查 Determine compensation standards and RP 确定补偿标准 Prepare resettlement plan 准备安置计划 Conduct the on-the sopt survey within the red line 进行红线范围调查 Institutional setup and training 机构设立和培训 Permanent Land Acquisition and Resettlement 永久征地和安置 Apply for the Land Use Certificate 申请土地使用证 Hold mobilization meetings and publicize policies 召开动员大会和公示安置政策 Announce public notification 对公众公示通知 Disburse compensation payment and acquire land 支付补偿费和征用土地 Monitoring and Evaluation 监督和评价 Establish internal monitoring system & formats 建立内部监督系统和程序 Engage monitoring agency 聘用监督机构 Approve TOR by ADB 亚行批准任务大纲
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Training of resettlement staff 安置人员培训 Monitor LAR activities 监督征地安置活动 Monitor income restoration programs 监督收入恢复计划 Conduct external evaluation 进行外部评价
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APPENDIX 1 Basic Conditions of the Villages and Towns along Huayuan-Fenghuang Highway
Village of Ethnic Group Agricul- Impact Assessment No. of which, Poverty No. of Total culti- % of Relo- % of Relo- Villa-
District/ No. No. of Popu- Number tural Culti- culti- cation Relo- Cated Affected Ges Township Villagers affected of Popu- House- Labor Vated land Vated County Name Households lation Popu- Vated affected Cation house- persons without Group village House- lation holds force area (mu) land loss Land House- Affected Holds ≥20% relo- holds lation ≥5% group Loss holds Persons ≥5% cation 1 4 2 170 760 170 760 10 760 300 1255 2.6 2.4 26.3 0 0 1 0 Hexi Henan 2 Xianfeng 10 4 202 983 202 983 16 983 432 1676 1.0 2.5 22.2 0 0 1 0 3 Jiatong 5 5 213 787 213 787 50 787 588 1570 2.7 3.3 23.1 0 0 1 0 Jiatong 4 Tiemazhou 9 3 224 1121 224 1121 45 1121 670 1063 4.3 11.6 0 0 0 1 5 Menghuzhou 12 7 227 893 227 893 60 890 450 1220 1.2 1.3 20.3 0 0 1 0 6 Xilong 12 4 267 1150 184 1150 32 1150 800 2012 1.6 2.2 10.4 0 0 0 0 Guzhang 7 Miduo 10 5 242 993 242 993 25 993 457 1170 3.0 3.3 18.6 0 0 0 0 8 Xiqiha 7 2 184 689 184 689 40 689 400 950 1.6 2.7 3.6 0 0 1 0 Duanlong 9 Tianjiatong 6 6 132 638 132 638 20 592 194 1347 0.5 1.5 31.3 0 0 0 0 10 Baowulie 7 2 184 689 184 689 40 689 400 950 0.4 3.6 0 0 0 1 13 Shangjia 7 3 250 835 250 835 40 831 474 1140 1.1 1.6 29.9 0 0 1 0 12 Beixiguan 8 2 184 532 184 532 42 532 358 780 0.6 0.5 15.2 0 0 0 0 13 Buji 4 3 354 1432 354 1432 20 1462 650 1862 1.4 2.3 5.4 0 0 0 0 14 Xizhou 3 2 585 2056 585 2056 164 2056 780 1378 1.2 7.2 0 0 0 1 Yangzhao 15 Shijia 5 1 108 533 108 353 80 524 240 531 1.4 5.6 12.6 0 0 0 0 Baojing 16 Yangzhao 6 3 523 2465 523 2465 23 493 985 2261 1.0 2.5 4.4 0 0 0 0 17 Datian 21 2 813 3468 813 2415 81 3468 2031 2887 0.3 2.4 0 0 0 1 Meihua 18 Huajin 13 3 760 3030 456 1818 73 760 1572 2221 2.3 1.5 2.7 0 0 0 0 total 149 59 5622 23054 5235 20609 861 18780 11781 26273 1.4 1.5 10.3
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APPENDIX 2: List of members participating in the consultation
Name Agency Position Telephone
Tian Lan Xiangxi Coordination and Deputy 13907438876 Leasing Group director
Shi Planning & Condtruction Div, Chief 13907439335 Jiabing Xiangxi Communication Bureau Wang Xiangxi Communication Deputy 13907435878 Weibo Bureau director
Li Gang Financial Div, Xiangxi Chief 13908437771 Communication Bureau
Peng Xiangxi Communication Deputy 13907439743 Detan Bureau chief engineer Tang Xiangxi Prefecture Deputy 13508438383 Qingshan Communication Design director Institute Wang Xiangxi Prefecture Deputy 13508430146 Yong Communication Price Center director
Xiang Guzhang County Director 13907437028 Minghong Communication Bureau
Ye Guzhang County People's Deputy 13907437179 Yongqing Government director
Li Baojing County Deputy 13707432197 Guanqun Communication Bureau director
Ge Baojing County Director 13762162988 Xiaohong Communication Bureau
Xiang Baojing County People's Deputy 13974312999 Shizhong Government governor
Wu Baojing County 13574352777 Shenyong Communication Bureau