SMR: PRC: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project

External Ethnic Minority Development Monitoring and Evaluation Report

# Annual Report July 2011

People’s Republic of China: Hunan Flood Management Sector Project

Prepared by Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. for the Hunan Provincial Government and the Asian Development Bank.

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Loan No.: 2244—PRC

Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

External Monitoring and Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement (No. 4) Sangzhi and Baojing County Subprojects

Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. April 2011

Verified by: Qin Lin

Reviewed by: Xia Jihong

Checked by: Ren Yu

Compiled by: Qin Si

Main Working Staff: Qin Si Li Lin

Qin Lin Xia Jihong

Ren Yu Chen Zizhou

Huang Qingyun Zeng Di

Min Tian Mo Jie

External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

Contents

Foreword ...... 1

1. Background ...... 1

1.1 Project General ...... 1

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas ...... 2

2. Project Implementation Progress ...... 1

2.1 Civil Works Progress ...... 1

2.2 Resettlement Progress ...... 2

3. Implementation of Action Plan ...... 7

3.1 Specific Measures ...... 7

3.2 Fund Availability and Usage Condition ...... 19

3.3 Consultation and Appeals ...... 21

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations ...... 24

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Foreword

The Hunan Flood Management Sector Project Utilizing ADB Loans i.e. the Hunan Urban Flood Control Project for Hilly Area was formally commenced in January of 2007. The external monitoring and evaluation of ethnic minority resettlement for nine subprojects (Sangzhi, Cili, Shimen, Jishou, Fenghuang, Baojing, Jianghua, Jiangyong and Luxi) of the project are undertaken by Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd., which is finally determined by ADB and Hunan project management office through their consultation.

Ethnic minority external monitoring and evaluation of Sangzhi County Subproject was formally commenced at the beginning of 2008. Our corporation submitted external monitoring and evaluation reports of phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 to ADB, the Provincial Project Management Office and subproject owners respectively in March 2008, April 2009 and June 2010.

The external monitoring and evaluation of ethnic minority resettlement of Baojing County Subproject was formally commenced at the end of 2009. Our corporation submitted external monitoring and evaluation reports of phase 3 to ADB, the Provincial Project Management Office and subproject owners in June 2010.

This report mainly covers external monitoring and evaluation of phase 4 for Sangzhi and Baojing County Subprojects.

1. Background

1.1 Project General

1.1.1 Engineering Description

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

The main purposes of Sangzhi County Subproject：

A. Protect Sangzhi County from flood threat;

B. Strengthen management of Lishui River basin, which is an important part of the complete flood control management system in Hunan Province.

The subproject includes the following parts:

Newly build dyke for 8,490 m along Lishui River and Youshui River;

Construct 9 canal locks and 2 pump stations in Sangzhi County so as to form 5 flood drainage areas.

The area protected by the subproject is up to 5.09 km2. The flood control standard is promoted to 1 in 20-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-year recurrence, and the water logging control standard is improved to 1 in 10-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-to-5-year recurrence.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

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A. Protect Baojing County from flood threat;

B. Strengthen management of Yuanjiang River basin which is an important part of the complete flood control management system in Hunan Province.

The subproject includes the following parts:

Newly build the flood control embankment with a length of 2.68 km from Guangyinge to Xiyang bridge protection area; newly build levee revetment with a length of 1.32 km from Youshui No. 2 bridge head to Yang Xia stadium connecting with national road 209;

Newly build 3 pump stations, 2 culvert gates and 3 drainage sluices (from Guanyinge to Xiyang bridge protection circle);

Construct flood-control and command system and necessary management facilities.

1.1.2 Resettlement Description

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

Land acquisition, house demolition and population resettlement are all considered to be the main negative effects.

Seven villages in Liyuan Town will be affected by land acquisition. Permanent land acquisition is planned to be 67.57 mu. Among them, about 78% is farmland, most of which is vegetable cultivated land, and the remaining are river bed, urban house site and unused land. The temporarily occupied land is 127.38 mu, among which 10% is farmland. It is planned to relocate 201 persons of 43 households, among which 88 persons in 18 households choose the cash compensation; 113 persons in 25 households choose the concentrated resettlement through property rights exchange. The area of demolished houses is 16860.04 m2.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

Land acquisition, house demolition and population resettlement are all considered to be the main negative effect.

6 villager groups of 5 villages (communities) will be affected by land acquisition. The permanent land acquisition is planned to be 33.55 mu. Among them about 12.82% is farmland which is commercial vegetable land and the remaining are garden plot, pond, enterprise and public institution land and rural house site. Besides, the temporary land occupation is 79 mu, among which 13.92% is farmland. It is planned to relocate 560 persons of 116 households, among which 312 persons in 78 households choose the concentrated resettlement through property rights exchange; 248 persons in 38 households choose the cash compensation. The area of demolished houses is 12277.5 m2.

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas

1.2.1 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Protected Areas (PPA)

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Liyuan Town in which PPA is located is situated in Sangzhi County town. It is the political, economic, financial and cultural center of Sangzhi County with convenient communication.

It includes 31 village (residential) committees, representing both rural and urban parts of the town. The main agricultural industries of the town are rice, vegetable, fruit and pig breeding, and the key industrial industries are Sangzi Thermal Power Plant and Xinyiyuan Iron Ore Refining and Smelting Process Plant.

The PPA includes 9 communities with 17,978 households and 34,926 persons, which accounts for 58% of the total population of the county town. Among them, 82% are ethnic minorities with 64% as Tujia nationalities, 28% as Bai nationalities and 8% as Miao nationalities. Ethnic minorities get well along with the Han nationality for a long time, representing harmonious national relationship. Going into business and going out for work are the main parts in the household production structure of ethnic minorities. The major source of income of agricultural people is not the land and is diversified. Ethnic minorities enjoy the same rights as the Han nationality in political treatment and land allocation, etc. However, they also enjoy some preferential policies the Han nationality can not enjoy such as in aspects of children entering school and revenue.

Liyuan County in the PPA is one of the most economically developed counties and towns. Amalgamation of ethnic minorities in the county has been lasted for a century, resulting in some common customs. Most of their habits and customs have been changed to be similar with those of Han nationality and only Tujia, Miao and Bai nationalities still keep some special customs.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

Qianlin Town in which PPA is located is situated in Baojing County town. It is the political, economic, financial and cultural center of Baojing County with convenient communication. It includes 6 residential committees and 3 village committees, representing both rural and urban part of the town.

The PPA includes 3 communities and 2 villages with 5,709 households and 14,273 persons, which accounts for 48.7% of the total population of the county town. Among them, 77.6% are ethnic minorities with 83% as Tujia nationalities, 14.6% as Miao nationalities, 1.3% as Yao nationalities, 0.1% as Hui nationalities and 0.2% as other nationalities. Ethnic minorities get well along with the Han nationality for a long time, representing harmonious national relationship. Going into business and going out for work are the main parts in the household production structure of ethnic minorities. The major source of income of agricultural people is not the land and is diversified. Ethnic minorities enjoy the same rights as the Han nationality in political treatment and land allocation, etc. However, they also enjoy some preferential policies the Han nationality can not enjoy such as in aspects of children entering school and revenue.

Most of habits and customs of ethnic minorities in the PPA have been changed to be similar with those of Han nationality and only Tujia, Miao and Bai nationalities still keep some special customs.

1.2.2 Customs of Ethnic Minorities in the PPA

The project carried out in ethnic minority area must respect and protect the ethnic minorities’ religious faith freedom and respect their customs in costume, dietary, residence, marriage, funeral, etiquette, etc., especially in language, production method, religious faith, residence habit, house demolition and building custom and life taboo of ethnic minority closely related to land acquisition and relocation work. It shall be observed that whether preferential policies enjoyed by relocatee change before and after relocation and whether their lawful rights and interests are affected.

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Sangzhi and Baojing Counties are both located in the northwest of Hunan and the mainstream population is ethnic minorities. Tujia, Bai and Miao nationalities account the biggest part of them, whose customs are basically the same.

For the detailed customs of chief ethnic minorities in Sangzhi and Baojing Counties, see the Table 1.2.2.

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Table 1.2.2 Summary for Customs and Habits of Main Ethnic Minorities

National cultural activities Main ethnic Language Character Costume Dietary habitS Specific festival Custom (folk song, music and Religious faith Production manners Special living habits Customs and habits in dismantling and building houses minority dance)

"Gannian festival It is a taboo to dismantle and build houses in the fifth day of There are unique customs in the manner of welcoming guest and The staple food was dry crop such as sweet before spring festival", each month; when building houses, it is prohibited to whistle getting along with people, marriage, bearing and bringing up children Tujia language of Commonly- Wrap tattoing cyan potato and corn in the past , but is rice "Sheba festival" in Always wear splendid attire Originally they mainly grew dry rice, but now they changed and sleep in the work site; the living house cannot be oriented as well as funeral. For example, man and woman usually fall in love Tujia Tibeto-Burman used handkerchief in head, wear now.There is no specific taboo in dietary. January (lunar on festivals to gather together Worship ancestor and to grow paddy rice. The original production manners such Mainly pure wooden houses with to right meridian direction; the primary roof beams must be with each other and then get married through singing in antiphonal nationality branch of Tibetan Chinese front-buttoned dress and prefer Besides, there are some kinds of specific calendar), festivals on to sing folk songs and dance the White Tiger. as hunting, fishing, digging potherbs have nearly courtyards and corners. made of trees with two crotches; the newly-built house is style; besides, there is a kind of custom called crying for marriage and family characters to wear silver ornament. national dishes such as Duohefan, bacon April 8th, June 6th waving dance. disappeared now. prohibited to be repaired in three years; it is prohibited to thus the virtue of woman is based on being good at crying for and Hezha,etc.. and July 15th (lunar make new graves behind the house, plant pear trees in front marriage. calendar) of the house and camphor trees around the house, etc.

Most houses are flat “quadrangle It is necessary to invite geomancers to check the geomancy They grow rice in paddy fields which are made by dwellings” made of grey tiles and of the building place and choose a good day to start Men wear white or blue hear transforming hills into plains of unequal size and building wood. The gate of the house is like construction. The house is prohibited to face to due east, Rice is the main food and sweet potato and Benzhu Festival Bai nationality Commonly- wrap cloth and women wear There are unique customs in the manner of welcoming guest and small dykes used to draw water. The handicraft industries the ancient city gate, which is south, west and north and the direction should be slightly corn are their complementary food. But there meaning ancestor language of Tibeto- used embroidered,printed or colorful getting along with people, marriage, bearing and bringing up children The most common dance is Believe in their own include making wheat-straw hats, bamboo weaving, textile commonly called “splayed gate”, the inclined. The primary roof beams should be made of trees Bai nationality are some kinds of particular dishes: cedrela worship on midwinter Burman branch of Chinese head wrap cloth. They as well as funeral.The main custom is admiring white color. They Zhanggu dance. god. printing, etc. since the ancient time, horse caravan had foundation of the house needs to be with two crotches and the trees should be carried back home sinensis fries egg, boil loach and tofu and festival on July Tibetan family characters generally wear front-buttoned prefer liquor made of corn and receive guests with three cups of tea. been the prevalent trade mode, which transported materials situated near the mountain and by the immediately once they are cut down with nobody striding over together and salty dried bean curd. 15th (lunar calendar). jackets and gawn. with large groups of horses and mules but had vanished water, and face to the south, which them. the newly-built house is prohibited to be repaired in now. means missing the motherland- three years; it is prohibited to plant pear trees in front of the Yunnan. house and camphor trees behind the house, etc.

It is necessary to invite geomancers to check the geomancy Miao minorities are good at There are several of the building place and choose a good day to start There are unique customs in the manner of welcoming guest and singing and dancing, and a Originally they mainly grew dry rice by bringing mountain There no particular habit and taboo. They national festivals, Mainly buildings with the upper floor construction before building the house; the primary roof Miao language of Common Wear batik fabric clothes and getting along with people, marriage, bearing and bringing up children reed-pipe wind instrument is slopes under cultivation, but now they changed to grow wet Miao prefer sticky rice wine and always take it as such as festivals on Worship nature, totem for living and the lower floor for laying beams must be made of trees with two crotches; when Miao-Yao branch of Chinese wide waistband; silver as well as funeral. For example, advocate freedom of marriage since their favorite instrument. The rice. The batik technology has been passed down through nationality tea. Besides, there are several kinds of April 8th and June 6th and ancestors. up working tools and rearing making the primary roof beams of trees with two crotches, Sino-Tibetan family characters ornaments prevail for women. ancient times without regard to cash gift and family status; entertain most common dances are thousands of years and the embroidery of Miao is well- specific dishes. (lunar calendar)and livestock, etc. the maker is required to drink enough wine first to have guests mainly with wine and with chilli as auxiliary. Lusheng dance and Houergu known throughout the country. Ganqiu Festival. energy so as to make the primary roof beams at a stretch dance. without stopping, etc.

They mainly grow rice and vegetables as well as a little dry It is necessary to invite geomancers to check the geomancy Ethnic mainly Tujia There are unique customs in the manner of welcoming guest and Generall keep faith of Commonly- Generally wear clothes of Han There no particular habit and taboo and there rice. The commercial crops are fruit trees and are of the building place and choose a good day to start minorities in language, combining getting along with people, marriage, bearing and bringing up children their own nationality, used nationality,however, only a few are several kinds of specific national dishes Similar with Han comparatively developed. They breed pigs generally for construction, set off firecrackers and kill chicken for offering Liyuan Town individual as well as funeral, which are not identical with those of Tujia, Miao, Bai Same as Han nationaltiy but meanwhile The same with Han Chinese of the senior still keep some including dishes of Tujia , Miao, Bai and Han nationality their own use but not for sale. The secondary and tertiary sacrifices to gods or ancestors before building the house; it is of Sangzhi nationalities speech and Han nationalities and seem to be the common custom with Buddhism also characters clothes of their own nationality. nationalities. industries are comparatively more developed than those of prohibited to plant pear trees in front of the house and County sounds combination of these nationalites. prevails. other towns and villages camphor trees around the house, etc.

It is necessary to invite geomancers to check the geomancy Ethnic There are unique customs in the manner of welcoming guest and Generall keep faith of They mainly grow rice and vegetables as well as a little dry Commonly- Generally wear clothes of Han There no particular habit and taboo and of the building place and choose a good day to start minorities in Mainly Tujia getting along with people, marriage, bearing and bringing up children their own nationality, rice. The commercial crops are fruit trees and are used nationality,however, only a few there are several kinds of specific national Similar with Han construction, set off firecrackers and kill chicken for offering Qianlin Town language branch of as well as funeral, which are not identical with those of Tujia, Miao and Same as Han nationaltiy but meanwhile comparatively developed. They breed pigs generally for The same with Han Chinese of the senior still keep some dishes including dishes of Tujia , Miao, Bai nationality sacrifices to gods or ancestors before building the house; it is of Baojing Chinese family Han nationalities and seem to be the common custom similar with Han Buddhism also their own use but not for sale. The secondary and tertiary characters clothes of their own nationality. and Han nationalities. prohibited to plant pear trees in front of the house and County nationality through combination of these nationalites. prevails. industries are mainly retail business and migrant working. camphor trees around the house, etc.

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2. Project Implementation Progress

2.1 Civil Works Progress

Civil works of Sangzhi County Subproject include two bid sections: the Gaojiaping protection circle, which was commenced in April 2007, with 95% of the image progress implemented and land acquisition and demolition completed; the main urban protection circle, which was commenced on October 2007, with 90% of the image progress implemented and land acquisition and demolition completed.

Civil works of Baojing County Subproject involve two bid sections and both have been commenced on April 2008. The current completed implementation progress is 90% and 78% respectively. Land acquisition of the first section has completed and demolition is under way; land acquisition of the second section is still under implementation, and demolition has not finished yet.

Refer to Table 2.1-1 for the details of civil works implementation progress.

Table 2.1-1 Statistics Table for Civil works Implementation Progress

Launch situation of Civil works implementation progress Contract price Contract resettlement Name of Commence (RMB 10,000 duration Demolition bid section ment date Current Accumulative Completed Land yuan) (Day) and period progress investment acquisition relocation

Main urban protective 3035.00 720 2007.10.8 30% 90% 112% Finished Finished circles

Goajiaping protective 1069.00 350 2007.4.1 15% 95% 105% Finished Finished circles

First 1985.708 540 2008.4 5% 90% 90% Finished Unfinished section

Second 1949.675 540 2008.4 21% 78% 78% Unfinied Unfinished section

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

Sangzhi County Subproject includes two bid sections: main urban area and Gaojiaping protection circle.

1) Main urban area protection circle, with the contract price of RMB 30.35 million yuan, is constructed by Yiyang Hydro & Power Construction Engineering Corporation and supervised by Hunan Yuhui Hydro & Power Construction Consultant Corporation. The project was commenced on October 8, 2007, with 90% of the image progress implemented and land acquisition and demolition completed. Furthermore, the investment of RMB 34 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 112% of its total investment.

2) Gaojiaping protection circle, with the contract price of RMB 10.69 million yuan, is constructed by Hunan Hydro & Power Construction Corporation and supervised by Hunan Jianghe Hydro & Power Construction Consultant Corporation. The project was commenced on April 1, 2007, with 95% of the image progress implemented and land acquisition and demolition completed. Furthermore, the investment of RMB 11.20 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 105% of its total investment.

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(2) Baojing County Subproject

Baojing County Subproject includes two bid sections: Bid section 1 and Bid section 2.

1) Bid section 1, with the contract price of RMB 19.857080 million yuan, is constructed by Hunan Hydro & Power Construction Corporation and supervised by Hunan Hydro & Power Engineering Supervision Corporation. The project was commenced in Apr., 2008. Currently, the investment of RMB 16.9135 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 85% of its total investment.

2) Bid section 2, with the contract price of RMB 19.496752 million yuan, is constructed by Hunan Xingyu Hydro & Power Construction Corporation and supervised by Hunan Hydro & Power Engineering Supervision Corporation. The project was commenced in Apr., 2008. Currently, the investment of RMB 11.1423 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 57% of its total investment.

2.2 Resettlement Progress

2.2.1 Land Acquisition

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

The planning: the planned permanent land acquisition involves 11 administrative villages (residential committees) of Liyuan Town in Sangzhi County. The affected population due to land acquisition is 472 relocatees in 60 householders. The planned land acquisition area of all kinds of land is 67.57 mu, among which the collectively owned land is 54.53 mu, and the state-owned land is 13.04 mu.

Approval for land acquisition: the approval for land acquisition was completed in 2006, with the approval document No. of People’s Government of Hunan Province [2006] ZGTZ No. 561 Approval Document.

Accomplishment in the past years: the actual land acquisition has started since 2005, and the acquired land has counted up to 51.8880 mu until the end of 2007, among which the collectively owned land was 44.546 mu, and the state-owned land was 7.342 mu, accounting for 77% of the planned area. The funds paid for the land have mounted to RMB 2.0468 million yuan. In 2008, 5.9325 mu of acquired land has been completed (all collectively owned land), accounting for 9% of the planned land acquisition area. The funds paid for the land mounted to RMB 0.17 million yuan. No land was acquired in 2009 and 2010.

Accumulated accomplishment: by the end of 2010, the acquired land had mounted to 57.8205 mu, among which the collectively owned land was 50.4785 mu, and the state-owned land was 7.342 mu, accounting for 86% of the planned area. The funds paid for the land mounted to RMB 2.2168 million yuan.

Refer to Table 2.2.1-1 and 2.2.1-2 for Summary Table for Sangzhi County Subproject land acquisition implementation progress.

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Table 2.2.1-1 Summary Table for Sangzhi County Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Planned land acquisition area Accomplished land acquisition area Accomplishment percentage (mu) (mu)

Date State- Collectively Collectively State- Collectively State- Subtotal owned Subtotal Subtotal owned land owned land owned land owned land owned land land

Before the end of 51.888 44.546 7.342 77% 82% 56% 2007

2008 5.9325 5.9325 0 9% 11% 0%

2009 0 0 0 0% 0% 0%

2010 0 0 0 0% 0% 0%

Total 67.57 54.53 13.04 57.8205 50.4785 7.3420 86% 93% 56%

Table 2.2.1-2 Breakdown for Sangzhi County Subproject Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Area of land Area of Payable fund Paid-up fund Name of relocated Land Implememntat Date Stake no. acquisition demolishe (RMB 10,000 (RMB 10,000 enterprise nature ion progress (mu) d housing yuan) yuan)

Residential Collective- 0+000 1+570 Committee of 44.546 1239.19 204.68 204.68 100% ～ owned Before the end of Gaojiaping 2007 Residential State- state-owned Committee of 7.342 None 100% owned land transfer Wuliqiao

Residential Collective- 2008 Committee of 5.9325 17 17 100% owned Wenminglu

2009 0 0

2010 0 0

Total 57.8205 1239.19 221.68 221.68 100%

(2) Baojing County Subproject

The planning: the planned permanent land acquisition involves 2 communities and 6 administrative villages of Baojing County. The total land acquisition area is 33.55 mu, among which the collectively owned land is 18.9 mu, and the state-owned land is 14.65 mu.

Approval for land acquisition: in Oct. 2005, the preliminary review of land acquisition was passed by Land and Resources Bureau of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. In Nov. of the same year the land acquisition formalities was done and at the same time the approval for land acquisition was obtained.

Accomplishment in the past years: by the end of 2009, the land acquisition had mounted up to 23.0773 mu, accounting for 69% of the planned area, among which the collectively owned land was 13.6843 mu, and the state-owned land was 9.393 mu. The funds paid for the land came to RMB 0.459686 million yuan. No land was acquired in 2010.

Accumulated accomplishment: by the end of 2010, the land acquisition had mounted up to 23.0773 mu, accounting for 69% of the planned area, among which the collectively owned land was 13.6843 mu, and the state-owned land was 9.393 mu. The funds paid for the land came to RMB 0.459686 million yuan.

Refer to Table 2.2.1-3 and 2.2.1-4 for Baojing County Subproject land acquisition implementation progress.

Table 2.2.1-3 Summary Table for Baojing County Subproject Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Planned land acquisition area Accomplished land acquisition area Accomplishment percentage (mu) (mu)

Date State- Collectively Collectively State- Collectively State- Subtotal owned Subtotal Subtotal owned land owned land owned land owned land owned land land

By the end of 2009 33.55 18.90 14.65 23.08 13.68 9.39 69% 72% 64%

2010 0 0 0 0 0 0 0% 0% 0%

Total 33.55 18.90 14.65 23.08 13.68 9.39 69% 72% 64%

Table 2.2.1-4 Schedule Table for Baojing County Subproject Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Area of land Payable Paid-up fund Name of relocated IImplememntation Date acquisition Land nature fund (RMB (RMB 10,000 enterprise progress (mu) 10,000 yuan) yuan)

Collective- Xiquexi Community 8.31 18.939 18.939 100% owned

Collective- Zhaoyang Community 5.37 27.03 27.03 100% owned

Baojing County Hydrological 0.14 State-owned 100% Station By the end of 2009 Baojing County Marine Office 1.13 State-owned 100%

Baojing County Port Affairs 7.35 State-owned 100% Station

Baojing County Ethinic 0.78 State-owned 0% Minority School 2010 0.00 0 0 0%

Total 23.08 45.97 45.97

2.2.2 Housing Demolition

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

The planning: houses with the areas of 16860.04 m2 are planned to be demolished, 201 relocatees in 43 households will be resettled in line with the planning, among which 176 people within 37 households need build new houses for resettlement and the rest 6 Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 4 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

slightly-affected households need only simple housing demolition, the area of demolished housing to be demolished will be 16860.40 m2.

Implementation status in current period: No demolition and resettlement.

Accumulated accomplishment of this project: houses with the areas of 1239.19 m2 have been demolished and 12 relocatees in 4 households have been resettled.

Refer to Table 2.2.2-1 and 2.2.2-2 for the details of resettlement progress and national composition of rolacatees.

Table 2.2.2-1 Statistics Table for Resettlement Progress of Sangzhi County Subproject

Items Unit Qty. Remarks

Demolished houses m2 16860.04

Planned relocation No. of relocatee households Household 43

No. of relocatees Person 201

Demolished houses m2 1239.19 Accomplishment by the No. of relocatee households Household 4 end of 2007 No. of relocatees Person 12

Demolished houses m2 0 Accomplishment between No. of relocatee households Household 0 2008 and 2010 No. of relocatees Person 0

Demolished houses m2 1239.19 Accumulated No. of relocatee households Household 4 accomplishment No. of relocatees Person 12

Demolished houses 7% Accumulated accomplishment No. of relocatee households 9% percentage No. of relocatees 6%

Table 2.2.2-2 National Composition of Rolacatees Involved in Sangzhi County Subproject

Items Han Tujia Miao Bai Total

Planned Relocation Household 12 15 8 8 43 and Resettlement Population 54 78 32 37 201

Actual Relocation Household 0 3 1 4 and Resettlement Population 0 10 2 12

(2) Baojing County Subproject

The planning: houses with the area of 12277.5 m2 need to be demolished; 560 relocatees in 116 households need to be resettled.

Implementation during this phase: no demolition or resettlement is carried out.

Accumulated accomplishment: houses with the area of 4883.87 m2 have been demolished and 115 relocatees in 28 households have been resettled.

Refer to Table 2.2.2-3 and 2.2.2-4 for the details of resettlement progress and national composition of rolacatees.

Table 2.2.2-3 Statistics Table for Resettlement Progress of Baojing County Subproject

Items Unit Qty.

Demolished houses m2 12277.5

Planned Relocation No. of relocatee households Household 116

No. of relocatees Person 560

Demolished houses m2 4883.87

By the end of 2009 No. of relocatee households Household 28

No. of relocatees Person 115

2010 Demolished houses m2 0

No. of relocatee households Household 0

No. of relocatees Person 0

Demolished houses m2 40% Accumulated accomplishment No. of relocatee households Household 24% percentage No. of relocatees Person 21%

Table 2.2.2-4 National Composition of Rolacatees Involved in Baojing County Subproject

Items Han Tujia Miao Yao Total

Planned relocation Household 54 51 8 3 116 and resettlement Population 261 252 35 12 560

Actual relocation and Household 0 27 1 0 28 resettlement Population 0 112 3 0 115

2.2.3 Investment for Resettlement

Planned investment for resettlement and accomplishment of resettlement investment for Sangzhi and Baojing County Subprojects are indicated in details in Table 2.2.3-1.

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Table 2.2.3-1 Statistics Table of Planned Resettlement Fund and Accomplishment of Resettlement Investment

Items Sangzhi Baojing

Planned total investment (RMB 10,000 yuan) 2050.95 1443.52

Available resettlement fund (RMB 10,000 yuan) 420.00 1263

Percentage of available resettlement fund in the planned total 20% 87% investment

Accomplished investment in 2007 (RMB 10,000 yuan) 377.12

Accomplished investment in 2008 (RMB 10,000 yuan) 16.99

Accomplished investment in 2009 (RMB 10,000 yuan) 0.00 845.01

Accomplished investment in 2010 (RMB 10,000 yuan) 0.00 363.00

Accumulative accomplished investment (RMB 10,000 yuan) 394.11 1208.01

Percentage of accumulative accomplished investment 19% 84%

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

The planned total investment for resettlement is RMB 20.5095 million yuan. No fund has been inputted in current period. The accumulative accomplished investment for resettlement is RMB 3.9411 million yuan, accounting for 19% of the total investment. The fees for the accomplished land acquisition and relocation have already been paid in lump sum, without default or underpayment.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

The planned total investment for resettlement is about RMB 14.4352 million yuan. By the end of 2010, the accomplished resettlement investment for this period is RMB 12.0801 million yuan, accounting for 84% of the total investment. The fees for the accomplished land acquisition and relocation have already been paid in lump sum, without default or underpayment.

3. Implementation of Action Plan

According to the requirements of Ethnic Minority Development Plan, each subproject should take certain measures to avoid or reduce the influence on the minority and provide assistance and support for those affected minorities during the implementation of the subproject.

3.1 Specific Measures

3.1.1 Mitigation Measures

 Mitigation Measures for Construction-related Disturbances

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Sangzhi County, the construction of flood control works and related facilities will directly affect 9 minority villages of Liyuan Town, and the total minority population affected by construction noises and other hazards from these residential committees or villages will hit 28659.

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The supervisor of this phase was told that most construction of the construction party was carried out in daytime and a little was implemented at night to avoid the rest time and simultaneous operation of noisy equipment was prevented through proper arrangement to reduce the influence of the noises on the residents near the work sites. During the college entrance examination in June, the construction was even stopped for two weeks to avoid interfering with studies and preparation for the examination of the students nearby. Except for rainy days, everyday the construction party arranged watering carts for dust prevention of the construction roads for three or four times to reduce construction damages to the health of the residents nearby and the environmental hygiene of the county. As for those construction vehicles in and out of the county, all were cleaned uniformly so as to prevent bringing the dust from the work sites to the roads of the county.

Annual costs for dust prevention, construction vehicle washing and construction garbage disposal were RMB 2,000 yuan. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 8,000 yuan.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Baojing County, the construction of flood control works and related facilities will directly affect 5 communities, and the total minority population affected by construction noises and other hazards from these residential committees or villages will hit more than 11057.

The supervisor of this phase was told that most construction of the construction party was carried out in daytime and a little was implemented at night to avoid the rest time and reduce the influence of the noises on the residents near the work sites. Except for rainy days, everyday the construction party arranged watering carts for dust prevention of the construction roads for three or four times to reduce construction damages to the health of the residents nearby and the environmental hygiene of the county. As for those construction vehicles in and out of the county, all were cleaned uniformly so as to prevent bringing the dust from the work sites to the roads of the county.

Annual costs for dust prevention, construction vehicles washing and construction garbage disposal were RMB 1,500 yuan. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 3,000 yuan.

 Mitigation Measures for HIV/AIDS and STIs Publicity and Prevention

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Sangzhi County, although Sangzhi County is not a high risk area for HIV/AIDS, in order to ensure that Sangzhi will continue free of HIV/AIDS, county CDCs (Centre for Disease Control), in accordance with the PRC Law on Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Disease, should take measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs.

During the implementation of this project, the project party propagandized how to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs to the residents in the project areas by taking a series of measures such as putting up posters and publishing blackboard newspaper in coordination with Sangzhi Public Health Bureau and Epidemic Prevention Station. All the workers in the project areas were affiliated to the community medical station for convenient treatment. The project party also invited the staff from the environmental protection bureau to inspect the adverse impact such as dust and the water quality of dyke toes in the project areas, and took certain corrective measures to reduce health damages to the construction workers. No incidence of HIV/AIDS occurred in the project areas during the project implementation.

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Annual costs for publicity, hygienic cleaning, sanitary quarantine, vaccination and mice/mosquitoes/flies control were RMB 500 yuan, RMB 1,000 yuan, RMB 2,000 yuan, RMB 1,500 yuan and RMB 1,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 24,000 yuan.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Baijing County, although Baojing County is not a high risk area for HIV/AIDS, in order to ensure that Baojing will continue free of HIV/AIDS, county CDCs (Centre for Disease Control), in accordance with the PRC Law on Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Disease, should take measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs.

Annual costs for publicity, hygienic cleaning, sanitary quarantine, vaccination and mice/mosquitoes/flies control were RMB 500 yuan, RMB 1,000 yuan, RMB 1,500 yuan, RMB 1,000 yuan and RMB 1,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 10,000 yuan.

 Mitigation Measures for Gender Equality

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Sangzhi County, In order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women, women’s participation in terms of decision making will be secured in accordance with government laws and regulations during the implementation of Ethnic Minority Action Plan.

In the affected areas, women have equal rights and status of men and play important roles in economical development and housework, especially in villages where most women stay at home while most men go to work in cities. Women also play important roles in agriculture production (both cultivation and non-farm work) besides in family responsibilities; therefore, women even paid more interests in this project than men in the influenced areas. They not only actively took part in the work at all periods of resettlement, but also played outstanding roles in many other aspects such as negotiating directions and modes of resettlement.

Since the implementation of this project, the executive agencies of the subproject and the local government laid special stress on women’s roles, caring for them and the requirements of the families which take women as householders and giving them full play to relocation implementation. In various relocation discussion meetings and consultative conferences of the project, about 50% attendants were women, and their suggestions, requirements and problem-reflections on economic rehabilitation, demolition of old houses, moving and building of new houses were fully attended to in order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women.

Besides this, the Women’s Federation of Sangzhi County did the following work to ensure the rights and interests of minority women during this monitoring period:

1. It publicized basic national policies such as gender equality, propagandized outstanding female models and encouraged women to build the spirits of self-esteem, self-confidence, independence and self-reliance.

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2. It held a commendation meeting to praise 20 “Five-virtue” families, 10 outstanding female workers and 10 advanced units of female work.

3. It held “Women's Cup” basketball match to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International Women's Day (March 8). And 13 teams participated in this match that could be also considered as a review of women’s physical fitness and spiritual outlook.

4. It established “March 8” women’s right protection publicity week.

During this monitoring period, the Women’s Federation of Sangzhi County received 120 letters, visitors and calls and dealt with 18 disputes of marriage, property and caring for the elders. Jurors of the Women’s Federation attended a case trial of women’s rights and interests and visited 7 100-year-old elders. The Women’s Federation of Sangzhi County paid high attention to letters of infringement of women’s lawful rights and interests, actively dealt with the cases, strengthened their service awareness by solving problems of affected women and helping them express their complaints of interests in reasonable and legitimate ways, enhanced the communication with public security and judicial departments and efficiently helped women protect their rights. The women’s federation of each town (ship) and the women’s committee of the unit gave play to their roles of “women’s parents”, patiently treated the appeals from women of the towns (ship) and units, listened to them and tried to solve their problems. Moreover, the right protection hotline – 12338 was opened in October this year by the cooperation of the Women’s Federation of Sangzhi County and the telecommunication department. Specialized persons were assigned to take charge of the answering. At present, 5 complaint calls have been answered and analysis data have been reported to the superior department once.

The Women’s Federation of Sangzhi County, the Organization Department of County Party Committee and the Party School of County Party Committe jointly held a five-day training class for female cadres of the whole county in order to improve women’s qualities and enhance the construction of female cadre teams. About 110 chairmen of women’s federation from each town (ship) and directors of women’s committee from units affiliated to county government participated in the training to greatly improve their political and ideological qualities, professional qualities, personal qualities and working abilities.

Costs for the meeting, the “Women’s Cup” basketball match, the “March 8” women’s right protection publicity week and the training of female cadres were RMB 5,000 yuan, RMB 65,000 yuan, RMB 3,000 yuan and RMB 55,000 yuan respectively. The accumulated input was up to RMB 128,000 yuan.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Baojing County, In order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women, women’s participation in terms of decision making will be secured in accordance with government laws and regulations during the implementation of Ethnic Minority Action Plan.

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Since the implementation of this project, the executive agencies of the project and the local government laid special stress on women’s roles, caring for them and the requirements of the families which take women as householders and giving them full play to relocation implementation. In various relocation discussion meetings and consultative conferences of the project, about 50% attendants were women, and their suggestions, requirements and problem-reflections on economic rehabilitation and demolition of old houses, moving and building of new houses were fully attended to in order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women.

Besides this, the Women’s Federation of Baojing County did the following work to ensure the rights and interests of minority women during this monitoring period:

1. It praised the outstanding models, brought the model’s driving role into full play and strengthened the publicity of excellent models such as Tian Rui (an excellent national rural doctor), Yao Jing (a female entrepreneur who establishes Shuntianfu supermarket and provides jobs for female laid-off workers through the business created by herself after job loss) and Liang Xiaomei (a woman who respects parents-in-law and unite neighbours and whose family is awarded as Provincial “Five-virtue Family”) to increase their influences among the masses and promote women’s activeness of participation in economic construction.

2. It held the speech activity with the theme of “Joining Hands for One Hundred Years and Bringing Happiness to Thousands of Households” to celebrate the International Women’s Day (March 8).

3. It carried out propaganda in the street and printed and distributed over 20,000 pieces of leaflet and 5,000 booklets to promote the popularization of “Two-law and Two-planning” in cooperation with the Public Security Department, the Procuratorate, the Court and the Judicial Department. At the same time, it proposed recommendations for the protection of women’s and children’s legitimate rights and interests to relevant departments, encouraged women’s admission into “two committees”, opposed family violence and protect rural women’s land rights and interests. The Chairman of Women’s Federation of Baojing County is on duty on every Thursday to receive letters and visitors and the knotty problems and cases in the letters are analysed and senior lawyers are employed to provide legal aid for poor and affected women. In 2010, over 98 letters and 154 visitors were received by the Women’s Federation of Baojing County and more than 90% cases were tried. The federation tried 12 cases in court and attended 5 trials.

The Women’s Federation of Baojing County has made efforts to improve comprehensive qualities of cadres in women’s federation, promote the cultivation and the selection of female cadres and strengthen theoretical, practical and comprehensive quality education trainings of them. In 2010, more than 50 female cadres were sent to party schools of county-level, prefecture-level and province-level for theoretical training. In March, chairmen of town (ship)-level women’s federation were brought to Hainan to study the experience of industrial development and women’s employment & business start-up. Through study and training, the women’s federation of each level has been innovating their working methods, concepts and thoughts. The driving force of the project and the ability of social coordination have been enhanced obviously.

Costs for the meeting, the training of female cadres and the study in Hainan were RMB 3,000 yuan, RMB 50,000 yuan and RMB 45,000 yuan respectively. The accumulated input was up to RMB 98,000 yuan.

 Mitigation Measures for Implementation of Resettlement

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

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According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Sangzhi County, when establishing the resettlement plan, it should let the relocatees know the rights they have and the schemes they can choose so as to obtain the cooperation, participation and feedback of the residents in resettlement sites and relocatees. When relocatees settle into the resettlement sites, perfect services in education, water supply and medical care should be provided for the two groups (the residents in the resettlement sites and new relocatees) as far as possible, creating better social atmosphere for their fusion.

The Sangzhi County Subproject consulted the relocatees in project areas and resettlement sites and the minority groups affected by the project about their opinions and suggestions on planning and implementation scheme before the relocation removal and resettlement were implemented and adequately considered the requirements of the affected groups; eventually, the new resettlement site was built in Shang Jiaping on Wenming Road and was finished in June of 2008. Four removing households needn’t resettlement in Sangzhi County Subproject, but the relocatees who will remove in future will be uniformly arranged in this resettlement site.

The population of the vulnerable groups listed in the resettlement plan of Sangzhi County Subproject is 9, and the number that has got assistance during the project implementation sums up to 7, all from minorities. These vulnerable groups will be included in urban (rural) residents entitled to basic living allowances besides receiving the allowances and assistance measures in the resettlement plan. At present, the monthly subsidy for these vulnerable groups is RMB 200 yuan per person. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 67,200 yuan.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Baojing County, when establishing the resettlement plan, it should let the relocatees know the rights they have and the schemes they can choose so as to obtain the cooperation, participation and feedback of the residents in the resettlement sites and relocatees. When relocatees settle into the resettlement sites, perfect services in education, water supply and medical care should be provided for the two groups （the residents in resettlement sites and new relocatees)as far as possible, creating better social atmosphere for their fusion.

The Baojing County Subproject consulted the relocatees in project areas and resettlement sites and the minority groups affected by the project about their opinions and suggestions on planning and implementation scheme before the relocation removal and resettlement were implemented and adequately considered the requirements of the affected groups; eventually, the new soy sauce factory resettlement site was built in Chaoyang Community and was finished in June of 2008. 28 relocated households in Baojing County Subproject settled down in this resettlement site, and the relocatees who will remove in future will be uniformly arranged in this resettlement site.

The population of the vulnerable groups listed in the resettlement plan of Baojing County Subproject is 79, and the number that has got assistance during the project implementation sums up to 9. These vulnerable groups will receive certain allowances from the government besides the allowances and assistance measures in the resettlement plan. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 72,480 yuan.

See Table 9.2-1 for the details of assistance for the vulnerable groups.

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Table 9.2-1 Summery Table of Assistance for the Vulnerable Groups

Name of number of Types of vulnerable Assistance willage location householders families groups measures

Da Yuepo Community of RMB 190 Zhang Anna 2 poor household Qianling Town yuan/month

Da Yuepo Community of RMB 400 Wang Benci 4 poor household Qianling Town yuan/month

Da Yuepo Community of RMB 290 Wang Huanfu 4 poor household Qianling Town yuan/month

Da Yuepo Community of RMB 510 Zhang Jiahang 6 poor household Qianling Town yuan/month

Da Yuepo Community of RMB 260 Jia Changzhu 2 poor household Qianling Town yuan/month

Da Yuepo Community of RMB 370 Hu Mianyou 4 poor household Qianling Town yuan/month

Da Yuepo Community of RMB 280 Chen Kefeng 3 poor household Qianling Town yuan/month

Da Yuepo Community of RMB 480 Zhou Xilong 4 poor household Qianling Town yuan/month

Da Yuepo Community of RMB 240 Sun Kexiu 3 poor household Qianling Town yuan/month

3.1.2 Enhancement Measures

 Implementation of Micro-Credit Program

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Sangzhi County subproject and under the coordination of County Poverty Alleviation Office, Sangzhi Women Federation will provide micro-credit service to some 1,520 rural minority women in the 38 townships of Sangzhi County during the project implementation period. Most of them will be minority women. The average size of the loan is RMB 1,000 yuan. The loan would be used for the income generating activities. Repayment period ranges from 0.5 to 4 years with annual interest rate of 5-6%. The Poverty Alleviation Office will cover 50% of the credit’s interest charges.

The Women’s Federation of Sangzhi County, the Personnel Labor and Social Security Bureau of Sangzhi County, the Financial Bureau of Sangzhi County, Sangzhi Rural Credit Cooperatives Union and Sangzhi Branch of Postal Services Bank of China jointly issued Implementation Schemes of Entrepreneurship Training and Petty Discount Entrepreneurship Loan of Sangzhi County in 2010 so as to improve urban and rural labors’ entrepreneurship awareness and abilities to promote employment by entrepreneurship. The training targets are mainly urban and rural labors who have finished middle school or above and have wishes and abilities of entrepreneurship, especially the approved laid-off workers, urban ex-servicemen, collage graduates and farmers who lost land and returned to their villages for entrepreneurship. The support number for entrepreneurship is distributed to each town (ship) and to the Women’s Federation of Sangzhi County and the County Committee. The policy specifies that the

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maximum amount of the loan for the one who meets the requirement is RMB 50,000 yuan with a discount period of 2 years. A free 7-day entrepreneurship training is provided to entrepreneurship personnel who have applied micro-credit so that they can systematically learn and master necessary knowledge for entrepreneurship, improve their activeness and increase the possibility of success. The loan support and the follow-up service are provided after the training. In 2009, 68 personal guaranteed micro-credits amounting to RMB 2.04 million yuan were provided in Sangzhi. In 2010, micro-credits amounting to RMB 19.823 million yuan were provided to 413 persons among whom 122 women got RMB 5.84 million yuan. Over the past two years, the accumulated micro-credits have mounted up to RMB 21.863 million yuan.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Baojing County subproject and under the coordination of county Poverty Alleviation Office, Baojing Women Federation will provide micro-credit service to some 1,800 rural minority women in the 25 townships of Baojing County during the project implementation period. Most of them will be minority women. The average size of the loan is RMB 1,000 yuan. The loan would be used for the income generating activities. Repayment period ranges from 0.5 to 4 years with annual interest rate of 3.42%. The Poverty Alleviation Office will cover 50% of the credit’s interest charges.

The Labor and Social Security Bureau of Baojing County together with the Rural Credit Cooperative of Baojing County provided micro-credit service from October, 2010 and will provide loans from 2011. Relevant statistical data are not available at present, but close attention will be paid in the next phase.

 Tourism Development

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Sangzhi County subproject, County governments and their tourism agencies will take the following promotion actions for tourism development:

A. Exhibition of Tujia, Bai and Miao cultures and establishing tourism infrastructures, including setting up of a minority square near the present playground along the river.

B. Preparation of tourism brochures and posters to distribute and display in the rest and parking areas and service stations of the expressway. They are also to be distributed in various tourism agents in cities.

C. Introduction of the tourism resources with access maps on various websites.

Sangzhi Folk Song Square is one of 17 key projects established in 2008. The purpose is to protect nation-level non-material cultural heritage-Sangzhi folk songs, create a large public place for communication and performance concerned with it, provide comfortable entertainment and fitness sites for urban people and bring about combination of folk songs and leisure. The total area of the project is 31.24 mu, of which the ground track field is 22.96 mu and gym & play ground and green land is 8.28 mu.

The project was started on July 14, 2009 and completed in November. On November 19, 2009, the first Chinese folk song festival was grandly opened at Sangzhi Folk Song Square. Sangzhi was awarded as “Chinese Folk Village”. Sangzhi County also releases CD of Sangzhi folk songs, inherits Sanghzhi folk songs and prints the sentences “the Native Place of Marshal He Long, Chinese Folk Village, National

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Geopark and Ecology Green Sea” on the business cards to preferably develop the national culture and show scenery of Sangzhi County.

The Tourism Bureau of Sangzhi County strived to develop the tourism industry of the whole county greatly in 2010:

1. The general planning of Badagong Mountain ecotourism development was completed and it was listed into the “12th Five Year Plan” for the development of tourism industry in Hunan Province.

2. The construction of infrastructures in Liujiaping, the starting place of the Long March of the second front red army, went well. It was listed into the “12th Five Year Plan” for the development of tourism industry in Hunan Province together with the project of inheritance center of Sangzhi folk songs – the non-material cultural heritage.

3. The preparation for the planning of Jiutiandonng and Chixi River scenic spots was started while that of Kuzhuzhai town was finished. The overall package of the west-line tourism products was improved. In 2010, visitors and tourism incomes in Sangzhi County increased by 20 % respectively. By December 2010, its visitors had reached 1.45 million and the total tourism incomes had amounted to RMB 700 million yuan, both of which achieved double increase. The favorable growth in tourism dramatically improved incomes and living standards of ethnic minorities.

In recent years, the accumulated tourism input in the whole county has mounted up to about RMB 140 million yuan.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Baojing County subproject, County governments and their tourism agencies will take the following promotion actions for tourism development:

A. Exhibition of Tujia and Miao cultures and establishing tourism infrastructures.

C. Introduction of the tourism resources with access maps on various websites.

Baojing has profound historical culture and beautiful natural scenery. Youshui River is the most mysterious and characteristic mother river with broadest prospects for tourism development. The river reach has more than 60 scenic spots only from Qianling to Liye River section, such as Sifangcheng Relics (established in Han Dynasty), Skyscraping Stone carved with “the Heaven Develops the Culture”, Jiangkou Red Stone Forest, Steep Shoal Ethnic Customs, Tourism for Wanmipo Ecology Calm Lake, Eight Tawang Temples in the Top Eight Caves, Weijiazai Western Han Ancient City, Liye Bamboo Slips of Qin. Other scenic spots such as Lvdong Mountain, Small Stronghold Ditch and Miao Side Wall also have different postures and show their own excellences.

The tourist industry of Baojing is at the early stage of its development and has not formed into a large scale.

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The Tourism Bureau of Baojing County has worked out the early-term, middle-term and long-term planning for tourist development. It is planned to build Youshui Tourism Corridor the famous brand in domestic tourism, develop Lvdong Mountain the nation-level scenic spot, the nation-level geopark and national AAAAA-level tourism area and make tourist industry the leading industry of Baojing County national economy. At the same time, it is planned to solve employment problem of 20,000 persons per year, drive people to become rich and construct a harmonious society through the development of tourist industry. It is also planned to enhance people’s knowledge level by tourist knowledge training and education and by communicating with tourists and local residents.

The Tourism Bureau of Baojing County intends to promote the development of Baojing tourism during the “12th Five Year Plan” period with the concept of high starting point and high quality. Since March 2010, the bureau has organized relevant personnel to investigate the tourism resources and transportation networks of the county and to discuss about the development of the national economy, the change of consumption concept, the tourism development trend, the role of Xiangxi tourism in the national tourism, the status of local strategic pillar industry and the role of Baojing tourism in Xiangxi tourism in the future 2 decades.

The Tourism Bureau of Baojing County and the Tourism Bureau of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture wish to do well in the general plan of Lvdong Mountain Tourism Zone under the lead of the County Committee and the County Government. In the middle of June, Hunan Normal University finished the draft and sent it to the Tourism Bureau of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture for first review.

The Tourism Bureau of Baojing County also organized relevant personnel to participate in the folk tourism craft competition held in Changsha in October 2010, which promoted further development of characteristic tourism products and the hunting & the cultivation of masters and successors of folk craft.

In recent years, the accumulated tourism input in the whole county has mounted up to RMB 60 million yuan.

 Technical Advice and Training

(1) Sangzhi County Project

According to the resettlement plan of Sangzhi County subproject, county technical sectors (i.e., Agricultural and Forestry Bureau, Labor and Social Security Bureau) should provide special technical advices and trainings to the project affected farmers (men and women) on grain cropping, livestock management, and non-farm skills, as well as job introduction for migrant labors. Skill training should also be provided to enable minority people take employment opportunities from construction of flood control projects.

Sangzhi Labor and Social Security Bureau encourages the stability of enterprises jobs, sufficiently admits employment, promotes labors self-employment, strengthens the trainings of professional skills and perfects employment aid system for people experiencing employment difficulty to give full play to the employment policy effect. At the same time, Sangzhi Labor and Social Security Bureau guides laid-off workers to change the employment concept, adapt to the employment environments of “government boosts employment, market regulates employment and labors choose jobs” and set up the new view of both undertaking steady jobs and flexible employment being gainful employment. Newly added urban employees in Sangzhi were up to 1,438, including 688 reemployed laid-off workers and 378 reemployed persons experiencing employment difficulty. Newly added rural employees were 11,956. And 8 households (persons) without any employment received assistance for the first time. Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 16 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

In order to respond to the effect brought by the financial crisis and reduce the difficulties encountered by ethnic minorities and other farmer workers influenced by land acquisition and demolition, Sangzhi vigorously carries out entrepreneurship trainings and actively creates a platform for entrepreneurship to encourage labors to set up their own businesses.

The Labor and Social Security Bureau of Sangzhi County set up animal husbandry and plantation training classes with new specific courses near farmers’ homes in Guandiping, Lianghekou, etc after sufficient research and field investigation. To ensure a good effect of the training, the bureau employed professional agricultural experts to instruct farmers with practical technologies of plantation and husbandry in fields. The combination of class teaching, on-the-spot guidance and practice facilitated local farmers and solved the technical problems they encountered in husbandry and plantation, which made a contribution to the construction of new countryside and provided real benefits to farmers. In addition, 5,550 people in the whole county received trainings, including 840 for entrepreneurship awareness training, 300 for entrepreneurship training, 1,175 for rural labor force employment plan training, 1,630 for enterprise staff training and 2,000 for labour reserve system training. The training disciplines covered computer, Chinese pastry processing, electronics, business marketing, fruit product processing, hotel service, tractor driving, cooked-meat products processing, electric welding, electrotechnology, etc.

1,757 qualified laid-off workers, including 754 persons experiencing employment difficulty, got Employment and Unemployment Registration Certificate issued by the Labor and Social Security Bureau of Sangzhi County. 300 people in the county received entrepreneurship training; about 2,156 people enjoyed tax exemption from the industrial and commercial bureau and the tax department through business start-up or job search on their own. The total exempted costs amounted to RMB 0.78 million yuan.

The accumulated training input has mounted up to RMB 2.775 million yuan.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Baojing County subproject, county technical sectors (i.e., Agricultural and Forestry Bureau, and Labor and Social Security Bureau) should provide special technical advices and training to the project affected farmers (men and women) on grain cropping, livestock management, and non-farm skills, as well as job introduction for migrant labors. Skill training should also be provided to enable minority people take employment opportunities from construction of flood control projects.

In order to respond to the effect brought by financial crisis and reduce the difficulties encountered by ethnic minorities and other farmer workers influenced by land acquisition and demolition, Baojing

vigorously carries out entrepreneurship trainings and actively creates a platform for entrepreneurship

to encourage labors to set up their own businesses. (1) Implement the service plan for the transfer employment of urban and rural labour forces. At the beginning of 2010, the labour force interface was successfully established with Beilun District, Nibo, Zhejiang. In the site job fair for labour force interface held in the county on March 7, the employers provided more than 30 work disciplines with over 8,000 jobs, and more than 3,000 farmer workers found jobs. (2) Establish a labour force export base and ensure rapid development of labour force economy. The labour force interface with developed coastal areas was strengthened and 7 labour force export bases were created, including Ningbo Tongqianqiao Food Development Co., Ltd., Ningbo Huafu Textile Plant, Guangdong Galanz Enterprise Group Co. Ltd., Guangzhou Wenchong Shipyard

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Co., Ltd., Ningbo Beilun District, Ningbo Jiangbei District and Zhonglingshan Industrial Park. A coordinated process of following up services of “training, export, employment and right protection” was provided. In 2010, newly added urban employees in Baojing were 2,302, among whom the reemployed laid-off workers were 915 and the reemployed persons experiencing employment difficulty were 333. Newly added rural employees were 5,741. The registered urban unemployment rate was 4.4％ which was controlled within 4.5%.

Based on the principle of “employment promotion by training” and directed by the market demand, the county training centre provided poor rural labour force for their transfer employment with skill trainings, including automobile driving, electromobile driving, electric welding, computer etc;

According to local conditions, skill trainings of agricultural industry focusing on tobacco were launched in towns of Shuiyin, Yangchao, etc and trainings of cage culture and greenhouse vegetable, etc were carried out in Wanmipo town so as to promote employment through industrial development. In addition, give a full play to the positive effect of occupational training subsidy on employment. RMB 0.38 million yuan was provided to 455 people. In 2010, 5,594 people received occupational skill training, including 799 for laid-off worker training, 2,378 for rural labor force transfer employment skill training, 2,017 for enterprise staff training and 400 for labour reserve system training.

The accumulated training input has mounted up to RMB 3.177 million yuan.

 Tax Incentives

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Sangzhi County subproject and in order to encourage local minority people to engage in secondary and tertiary activities, the local government will provide tax incentives and special policies, such as fixed allowances, increasing subsidy, and special assistance, waive agricultural tax, and provide priority for the minority households to get micro credits.

Presently, Sangzhi County has already waived agricultural tax totally. Hunan province has provided priority to and given consideration to transferring payment from the exchequer in these areas. Newly-built enterprises enjoy income tax relief for 3-5 years from the first profit making year to aid their improvements. The finances of all levels have set up enterprise grants and established the finance scales according to the population of local minority and actual requirements for the nation works. In 2010, about 2,156 people in Sangzhi County enjoyed tax exemption from the industrial and commercial bureau and the tax department through business start-up or job search on their own. The total exempted costs amounted to RMB 0.78 million yuan.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Baojing County subproject and in order to encourage local minority people to engage in secondary and tertiary activities, the local government will provide tax incentives and special policies, such as fixed allowances, increasing subsidy, and special assistance, waive agricultural tax, and provide priority for the minority households to get micro credits.

Presently, Baojing County has already waived agricultural tax totally. Hunan province has provided priority to and given consideration to transferring payment from the exchequer in these areas. Newly-built enterprises enjoy income tax relief for 3-5 years from the first profit making year to aid their improvements. The finances of all levels have set up enterprise grants and established the finance scales according to the Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 18 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

population of local minority and actual requirements for the nation works.

3.1.3 Project Benefit Measure

(1) Sangzhi County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Sangzhi County subproject, the local ethnic minority people should have the preference to be employed as civilian worker during the construction of Sangzhi County Subproject. The rate of local worker being employed by contractor should be 75% at least.

Since the implementation of this project, Sangzhi County Subproject construction employment has preferentially employed the local relocatees and ethnic minority groups, to provide employment opportunities to the local residents, so that the project construction was favorable to help develop the living standard of the influenced people and recover their livelihood. This project employed about 600 people; except for some special professional jobs, local residents were employed for 95% of the remaining unskilled jobs such as haulage man, raw material suppliers and laborers. About 90% of the local residents employed were of ethnic minority. Local workers employed for the construction of flood control project were paid in full without any default and underpayment. The accumulated payment for farmer workers has mounted up to RMB 0.355 million yuan.

(2) Baojing County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Baojing County subproject, the local ethnic minority people should have the preference to be employed as civilian worker during the construction of Baojing County Subproject. The rate of local worker being employed by contractor should be 75% at least.

Since the implementation of this project, Baojing County Subproject construction employment has preferentially employed the local relocatees and ethnic minority groups, to provide employment opportunities to the local residents, so that the project construction was favorable to help improve the living standard of the influenced people and recover their livelihood. This project employed about 500 people; except for some special professional jobs, local residents were employed for 95% of the remaining unskilled jobs such as haulage man, raw material suppliers and laborers. About 92% of the local residents employed were of ethnic minority. Local worker employed for the construction of flood control project were paid in full without any default and underpayment. The accumulated payment for farmer workers has mounted up to RMB 0.218 million yuan.

3.2 Fund Availability and Usage Condition

For detailed fund availability and usage condition of each subproject, see Table 3.2-1.

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Table 3.2-1 Breakdown for Fund Availability and Usage Condition

Sangzhi County Baojing County

Measures to be taken Fund source Contributed Contributed Budget(yuan) Budget(yuan) fund fund

Protecting minority communities from the 1,000 1,000 disturbance of construction

Infectious disease control. 1,000 1,000

Mitigation measures Encouraging women to participate in 1,000 1,000 meetings and making policy

Resettlement special support for population 1,000 1,000 influenced

The Women's Petty loan(mainly rural Federation of 400,000 2,040,000 1,800,000 women oriented) the County

Tourism promotion County 4,000,000- 4,000,000- Reinforcement measures Government 5,000,000 5,000,000 measures Providing information and suggestions on County agrotechnique and Government nonagricultural skills

County Tax preference Government

Employing minority population as civilian 1,000 1,000 workers in project concerning flood control Project benefit measures Employing minority labourers for the jobs of 1,000 1,000 maintenance and other jobs concerned

Description: Most contributed fund is the contributed data of the whole county, including that of the project area.

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3.3 Consultation and Appeals

3.3.1 Sangzhi County Subproject

According to the requirements listed in the resettlement plan, from the beginning of the project to the whole process of resettlement implementation, measures like symposium and sample investigation of resettlement will should be taken by the project headquarter and resettlement administration at all levels to ensure the relocatees from influenced areas and the local governments can fully understand the details of resettlement plan and compensation and relocation plan.

For Sangzhi County Subproject, since the launch of the relocation in 2006, high attention has been paid to it by Hunan Province, the City and resettlement organs at all levels. And wide propaganda was given to the subproject by means of local news media including TV, broadcasting and newspapers. Handing out resettlement information manuals to every family is also applied to disseminate relevant laws and regulations about resettlement to relocatees, so as to make them get known of calculation method of physical indices and compensation standard, compensation method, resettlement site and scheme, rights and preferential policies enjoyed by relocatees, etc. Before the end of January, 2007, the headquarters issued the land acquisition bulletins within the project land acquisition area of a red line and organized several mobilization meetings and symposia for negotiation and communication with relocatees, so as to obtain willingness and ideas of relocatees in details and accordingly make land acquisition proceed forward smoothly. Much attention should be paid to the ethnic minority groups, of which the proportion in consultation activities is about 80%.

For Sangzhi County Subproject, no appeal has been received in the current period. Details in each phase are shown in Table 3.3.1-1.

3.3.2 Baojing County Subproject

Before the land occupation and demolition, Baojing County Government, County PMO, Demolition Office, other units and departments and representatives of relocatees have communicated and consulted repeatedly on resettlement policy and standard for compensation. The relevant resettlement information is publicized to the affected area due to this subproject construction for several times in forms of symposiums and bulletins, so as to make relocatees get known of land acquisition status, compensation standard for land acquisition, use of compensation funds as well as information on relocatees in affected areas. Much attention should be paid to the ethnic minority groups, of which the proportion in consultation activities is about 85%.

For the detailed consultation activities, see the Table 3.3.2-1.

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Table 3.3.2-2 Summary of Relocatee Appeal & Complaint Problems and Disposal

Disposal for problems in appeal

Appeal Problems in appeal and Subsequent No. Appellant Final scheme time complaint activity Good Solved Unsolved Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

It is difficult for a new house to get the three certificates, Xiong 1 Phase 1 including land certificate, house Solved Chaodong √ √ ownership certificate and house building certificate.

The minimum monthly living The minimum monthly living allowance is 2 Xiang Chucai Phase 1 allowance is RMB 50 yuan per √ √ increased to RMB person. It is too little. 100 yuan per person.

The compensation standard is No demolition any 3 Gu Guilian Phase 1 low. √ more

Early relocation is required Other protective because the house is usually measures will be 4 Liu Wenzhi Phase 2 inundated during the flood √ taken instead of season. demolition.

Yuan The compensation standard is No demolition any 5 Phase 2 Zhengzhu low. √ more

The compensation standard is No demolition any 6 Wang Weibi Phase 2 low. √ more

The compensation standard is No demolition any 7 Li Guangyue Phase 3 low. √ more

The compensation standard is low because of increased house Wang No demolition any 8 Phase 3 building cost caused by fast Songhou √ more price increase of building materials.

It is hoped that the resettlement The Li residence can be built as quickly resettlement 9 Phase 3 Guangsheng as possible to ensure early √ residence has relocation. been built.

There is no appeal from 10 Phase 4 relocatees.

There is no appeal from 11 Phase 5 relocatees.

There is no appeal from 12 Phase 6 relocatees.

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Table 3.3.2-1 Summary of Consultation Activities

No. of Time Place Participant Content participant

Cadres of resettlement town and Subproject briefing, and Conference room of village, Design Organization, discussion on the impact scope 2006.5 Qianling Town relocatee representatives, and 54 and preliminary resettlement Government Baojing City Investment and scheme Development Co., Ltd.

Town Government, County Subproject briefing, and Conference room of Planning Commission,Planning discussion on the impact scope 2006.5 Qianling Town Bureau, Land and Resources 32 and preliminary resettlement Government Bureau and relocatee scheme representatives

County Government, Design Soliciting opinions on Conference room of Organization, Planning Bureau, compensation standards, 2006.6 Qianling Town 34 Land and Resources Bureau and resettlement schemes and land Government relocatee representatives acquisition

1. Solicting the suggestions and opinions on subproject schemes, houses demolition Within subproject County Government, County PMO and resettlement by relevant 2006.7 27 scope and Affected Persons parties; 2. The relocatee representatives participate in implementation of houses demolition and relocation

1.Convene a consultation meeting to concentrate on introduction and continue to solicit suggestions and County PMO, Demolition opinions; 2. Hold a resettlement 2006.8 Demolished field Management Office and 44 mobilization to disseminate relocatees resettlement schemes, compensation standards and answer inquiries by affected persons

In this period the relevant monitoring personnel carried out a comprehensive investigation in the resettlement area, enquire relocatees and affected minority groups about their production and living conditions, and reflect some existing problems and difficulties at present. For details, see Table 3.3.2-2.

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Table 3.3.2-2 Summary of Relocatee Appeal & Complaint Problems and Disposal

Disposal for problems in appeal

Appeal Problems in appeal and No. Appellant Suggestion time complaint Good Solved Unsolved Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

Temporary electricity Liang 1 Phase 5 facilities;sewers are narrow and Infrastructure improved Chengfang √ √ shallow.

Muddy roads; sewers are 2 Peng Tugong Phase 5 narrow and shallow; tap water is √ √ Infrastructure improved too small.

Road surface needs to be 3 Li Wen Phase 5 hardened;sewers need to be √ √ Infrastructure improved repaired.

Roads need to be hardened;sewers need to be 4 Wang Benci Phase 5 repaired; tap water is too small √ √ Infrastructure improved to supply for many households; quay is still not repaired.

5 Li Bing Phase 5 Sewers are too narrow . √ √ Infrastructure improved

Teachers of The re-constructed Baojing dormitory has been Resettlement should be done 6 Middle School Phase 6 accepted. Resettlement before relocation. √ for should be done before Nationalities relocation.

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations

4.1 Sangzhi County Subproject

Main reasons for sluggish of relocation and resettlement are as follows:

① Funding gap is large. The source of investment in this subproject is not the loan from ADB, but funds raised by corresponding employer units. And the volume for resettlement investment is large while time for raising funds remains relatively short, thus there are difficulties in raising funds in time.

② The relocatees have excessively high expectation. Some relocatees raised more requirements than that stipulated in the resettlement policies such as put forward much higher compensation standard than that listed in the implementation standard of the County and the City, thus big gap exists between them and accordingly resulting in difficult negotiation. Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 24 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

After comprehensive consideration, the subproject owner decides to modify the project design plan, in which measures including the change of embankment direction and the construction of retaining wall will be taken to avoid the planned sections with much demolition and resettlement.

Therefore, it is recommended that the subproject owner should determine the modification plan as soon as possible and report it to relevant department for approval.

4.2 Baojing County Subproject

For Baojing County Subproject, its main existing problems at present are as follows:

① The construction progress is laggard. Baojing County is located in the area of Fengtan Reservoir. Therefore, Baojing subproject is not only influenced by the flood during the flood season, but also by water storage of Fengtan Reservoir. The construction of embankment foundation can’t be carried out during most of the time, except for a short period of 2～3 months, which leads to a slow construction progress.

② The land acquisition and resettlement progress is laggard. There’s much delay in the preliminary work for re-constructing the faculty dormitory building of Baojing Middle School for Nationalities, the public tendering and bidding were completed at the end of 2009, but the re-construction was not completed until December 2010, resulting in the lagging progress of relocation for some relocatees.

③ The fund raising progress is laggard. The source of investment in this subproject is not the loan from ADB, but loans from other banks and funds raised by corresponding employer units. And the volume for resettlement investment is large while time for raising funds remains relatively short, thus there are difficulties in raising funds in time.

④ The implementation progress of petty loan plan is laggard.

To the main existing problems for Baojing County Subproject, we propose the following corresponding recommendations:

① The owner and the construction party should make preparation in advance, strengthen the construction and improve the construction efficiency during the construction period to reduce the influence of a shortened working period.

② Re-construction of faculty dormitory building of Baojing Middle School for Nationalities has been basically completed. The rebuilt dormitory has been accepted and integrated relocation and resettlement will begin in June. It is recommended that all relocatees should be settled properly and resettlement quality should be guaranteed during relocation and resettlement.

③ Fund raising should be increased and enough resettlement fund should be guaranteed to ensure successful resettlement.

④ Popularize the service for petty loan, assist the affected minority women to set up their own business and recover and improve their living standards.

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Loan No.: 2244—PRC

Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

External Monitoring and Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement (No. 4) Cili County Subproject

Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co. Ltd. April 2011

Verified by : Qin Lin

Reviewed by: Xia Jihong

Checked by: Ren Yu

Compiled by: Qin Si

Main Working Staff: Qin Si Li Lin

Qin Lin Xia Jihong

Ren Yu Chen Zizhou

Huang Qingyun Zeng Di

Min Tian Mo Jie

External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

Contents

Foreword ...... 1

1. Background ...... 1

1.1 Project Description ...... 1

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas ...... 2

2. Project Implementation Progress ...... 4

2.1 Civil Works Progress ...... 4

2.2 Implementation Progress of Resettlement Project ...... 5

3. Implementation of Action Plan ...... 8

3.1 Specific Measures ...... 8

3.2 Fund Availability and Usage Condition...... 12

3.3 Consultation and Appeals ...... 13

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations ...... 15

4.1 Existing problems ...... 15

4.2 Suggestions ...... 15

Foreword

The Hunan Flood Management Sector Project Utilizing ADB Loans i.e. the Hunan Urban Flood Control Project for Hilly Area was formally commenced in January of 2007. The external monitoring and evaluation of ethnic minority resettlement for nine subprojects (Sangzhi, Cili, Shimen, Jishou, Fenghuang, Baojing, Jianghua, Jiangyong and Luxi) of the project are undertaken by our Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd., which is finally determined by ADB and Hunan PPMO through their consultation.

Ethnic minority external monitoring and evaluation of Cili subproject was formally commenced at the beginning of 2009. Our corporation submitted minority monitoring and evaluation reports of phase 2 and phase 3 to ADB, the PPMO and subproject employer.

This report mainly covers minority monitoring and evaluation of Cili County Subproject for the fourth time. Time period of the report for this phase: Jan. 1, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2010.

1. Background

1.1 Project Description

1.1.1 Engineering Description

The main purposes of Cili County Subproject

A. Protect Cili County from flood threat;

B. Strengthen the management of Lishui River drainage basin, which is a component of Hunan Flood Management Project.

The subproject includes the following parts:

Newly built dikes of 17.319 km in three protection zones in Cili along Lishui, Loushui and Lingxi rivers

Five sluice gates and one pump station will be built in Cili County.

With all these completion, the protection area will reach 7.22 km2. The flood control standard is promoted to 1 in 20-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-year recurrence, and water logging control standard is improved to 1 in 10-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-to-5-year recurrence.

1.1.2 Resettlement Description

Land acquisition, house demolition and population resettlement are all considered to be the main negative effects.

Six villages in Lingyang Town will be affected by land acquisition. The permanent land acquisition is planned to be 149.36 mu. Among them, about 33% is farmland and the remaining are river bed, urban house site and unused land. The temporarily occupied land is 283.13 mu, among which 32% is farmland. It is planned to relocate 40 households and 135 persons, with acreage of the house demolition of 8623.16 square meters in total, of which 135 relocatees in 40 households settled down by building houses themselves, while 28 relocatees in 7 households purchased theirs houses through currency compensation after this settlement. Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 1 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

Land acquisition of this subproject doesn’t have significant influence. On the one hand, only 0.01 mu of farmland will be reduced for each affected villager, accounting for 2% of farmland they have owned; on the other hand, for majority of the affected villagers, their source of income doesn’t mainly rely on agriculture and only 26% of their income is from crop and plant cultivation. From this, land acquisition doesn’t have significant influence on their income. Their source of income mainly relies on the secondary industry and tertiary industry. Therefore, it is planned that income of all the affected families can be recovered to a level as that before relocation through farmland adjustment, animal husbandry and greenhouse vegetable investment and other activities creating income.

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas

1.2.1 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Protected Areas (PPA)

Lingyang Town in which PPA is located is situated in Cili County town. It is the political, economic, financial and cultural center of Cili County with convenient communication. It includes 12 administrative villages and 10 urban residential communities, representing both rural and urban part of the town.

The PPA includes 12 communities with 23,839 households and 63,747 persons, which accounts for 75% of the total population of the county town. Among them, 50% are ethnic minorities with 56% as Tujia nationalities, 27% as Bai nationalities and 7% as Miao nationalities. Ethnic minorities get well along with the Han nationality for a long time, representing harmonious national relationship. Going into business and going out for work are the main parts in the household production structure of ethnic minorities. The major source of income of agricultural people is not the land and is diversified. Ethnic minorities enjoy the same rights as the Han nationality in political treatment and land allocation, etc. However, they also enjoy some preferential policies the Han nationality can not enjoy such as in aspects of children entering school and revenue.

Most of habits and customs of ethnic minorities in the PPA have been changed to be similar with those of Han nationality and only Tujia, Miao and Bai nationalities still keep some special customs.

1.2.2 Customs of Ethnic Minorities in the PPA

The project carried out in ethnic minority area must respect and protect the ethnic minorities’ religious faith freedom and respect their customs in costume, dietary, residence, marriage, funeral, etc., especially in language, production method, religious faith, residence habit, house demolition and building custom and life taboo of ethnic minority closely related to land acquisition and relocation work. It shall be observed that whether preferential policy enjoyed by relocatee changes before and after relocation and whether their lawful rights and interests are affected.

Cili County is located in the northwest of Hunan and the mainstream population is ethnic minorities. Tujia, Bai and Miao nationalities account the biggest part of them, whose customs are basically the same.

For the detailed customs of chief ethnic minorities in Cili County, see the Table 1.2.2-1 and Table1.2.2-2

Table 1.2.2-1 Summary for Customs and Habits of Main Ethnic Minorities (1)

National Chief Cultural Specific Religious Ethnic Language Character Costume Dietary HabitS Custom Activities (folk Festival Faith Minority song, music and dance)

"Gannian There are unique customs in the the staple food was dry festival before manner of welcoming guest and crop such as sweet spring getting along with people, marriage, Always wear Tujia potato and corn in the festival", Wrap tattoing cyan bearing and bringing up children as splendid attire language of past , but is rice "Sheba Commonly handkerchief in well as funeral. For example, man on festivals to Worship Tibeto- now.There is no specific festival" in Tujia -used head, wear front- and woman usually fall in love with gather together ancestor and Burman taboo in dietary. January (lunar nationality Chinese buttoned dress and each other and then get married to sing folk the White branch of Besides, there are some calendar), characters prefer to wear silver through singing in antiphonal style; songs and Tiger. Tibetan kinds of specific national festivals on ornament. besides, there is a kind of custom dance waving family dishes such as April 8th, June called crying for marriage and thus dance. Duohefan, bacon and 6th and July the virtue of woman is based on Hezha,etc.. 15th (lunar being good at crying for marriage. calendar)

Rice is the main food Benzhu Men wear white or Bao and sweet potato and Festival There are unique customs in the blue hear wrap cloth nationality corn are their meaning manner of welcoming guest and and women wear language of Commonly complementary food. But ancestor getting along with people, marriage, The most embroidered,printed Bai Tibeto- -used there are some kinds of worship on bearing and bringing up children as common dance Believe in or colorful head nationality Burman Chinese particular dishes: cedrela midwinter and well as funeral.The main custom is is Zhanggu their own god. wrap cloth. They branch of characters sinensis fries egg, boil festival on admiring white color. They prefer dance. generally wear front- Tibetan loach and tofu together July 15th liquor made of corn and receive buttoned jackets family and salty dried bean (lunar guests with three cups of tea. and gawn. curd. calendar).

Miao minorities There are are good at There are unique customs in the several singing and manner of welcoming guest and There no particular habit national dancing, and a Miao getting along with people, marriage, Wear batik fabric and taboo. They prefer festivals, such reed-pipe wind language of bearing and bringing up children as Worship Common clothes and wide sticky rice wine and as festivals on instrument is Miao Miao-Yao well as funeral. For example, nature, totem Chinese waistband; silver always take it as tea. April 8th and their favorite nationality branch of advocate freedom of marriage since and characters ornaments prevail Besides, there are June 6th instrument. The Sino-Tibetan ancient times without regard to cash ancestors. for women. several kinds of specific (lunar most common family gift and family status; entertain dishes. calendar)and dances are guests mainly with wine and with Ganqiu Lusheng dance chilli as auxiliary. Festival. and Houergu dance.

There are unique customs in the manner of welcoming guest and Generall keep Generally wear There no particular habit Ethnic getting along with people, marriage, faith of their mainly Tujia clothes of Han and taboo and there are minorities Commonly bearing and bringing up children as own language nationality,however, several kinds of specific Similar with in -used well as funeral, which are not Same as Han nationality, branch of only a few of the national dishes including Han Lingyang Chinese identical with those of Tujia, Miao nationaltiy but Chinese senior still keep dishes of Tujia , Miao, nationality Town of characters and Han nationalities and seem to meanwhile family some clothes of Bai and Han Cili County be the common custom similar with Buddhism their own nationality. nationalities. Han nationality through combination also prevails. of these nationalites.

Table 1.2.2—2 Summary for Customs and Habits of Main Ethnic Minorities (2)

Main Ethnic Customs and Habits in Dismantling and Production Manners Special Living Habits Preferential Policies Minority Building Houses

It is a taboo to dismantle and build houses in the fifth day of each month; when building houses, it is prohibited to whistle and sleep in the work site; Originally they mainly grew dry rice, but They can enjoy the living house cannot be oriented to right now they changed to grow paddy rice. preferential policies in Mainly pure wooden houses meridian direction; the primary roof beams must Tujia The original production manners such as childbearing, children’s with courtyards and corners. be made of trees with two crotches; the newly- hunting, fishing, digging potherbs have entering schools, cadre built house is prohibited to be repaired in three nearly disappeared now. promotion, etc. years; it is prohibited to make new graves behind the house, plant pear trees in front of the house and camphor trees around the house, etc.

It is necessary to invite geomancers to check the Most houses are flat “ geomancy of the building place and choose a They grow rice in paddy fields which are quadrangle dwellings” made of good day to start construction. The house is made by transforming hills into plains of grey tiles and wood. The gate of prohibited to face due east, due south, due west unequal size and building small dykes the house is like the ancient city and due north and the direction should be slightly They can enjoy used to draw water. The handicraft gate, which is commonly called “ inclined. The primary roof beams should be made preferential policies in industries include making wheat-straw Bai splayed gate”, the foundation of of trees with two crotches and the trees should be childbearing, children’s hats, bamboo weaving, textile printing, the house needs to be situated carried back home immediately once they are cut entering schools, cadre etc. since the ancient time, horse caravan near the mountain and by the down with nobody striding over them. the newly- promotion, etc. had been the prevalent trade mode, which water, and face to the south, built house is prohibited to be repaired in three transported materials with large groups of which means missing the years; it is prohibited to plant pear trees in front of horses and mules but had vanished now. motherland-Yunnan. the house and camphor trees behind the house, etc.

It is necessary to invite geomancers to check the Originally they mainly grew dry rice by geomancy of the building place and choose a bringing mountain slopes under good day to start construction before building the They can enjoy Mainly buildings with the upper cultivation, but now they changed to grow house; the primary roof beams must be made of preferential policies in floor for living and the lower Miao wet rice. The batik technology has been trees with two crotches; when making the primary childbearing, children’s floor for laying up working tools passed down through thousands of years roof beams of trees with two crotches, the maker entering schools, cadre and rearing livestock, etc. and the embroidery of Miao is well-known is required to drink enough wine first to have promotion, etc. throughout the country. energy so as to make the primary roof beams at a stretch without stopping, etc.

They mainly grow rice and vegetables as It is necessary to invite geomancers to check the well as a little dry rice. The commercial geomancy of the building place and choose a They can enjoy Ethnic minoritis crops are fruit trees and are good day to start construction, set off firecrackers preferential policies in in Lingyang comparatively developed. They breed The same with Han. and kill chicken for offer sacrifices to gods or childbearing, children’s Town of Cili pigs generally for their own use but not for ancestors before building the house; it is entering schools, cadre County sale. The secondary and tertiary prohibited to plant pear trees in front of the house promotion, etc. industries are mainly retail business and and camphor trees around the house, etc. migrant working.

2. Project Implementation Progress

2.1 Civil Works Progress

Cili County Subproject includes three bid sections: Chengnan bid section which has commenced on March 14, 2008, with acquisition completed, and demolition still under construction; 60% of the image progress completed. Chengbei bid section, whose bid invitation has not completed yet; Yongan bid section which was commenced on March 14, 2008 with land acquisition and demolition completed, and59% of the image progress completed.

Refer to Table 2.1-1 for details of civil works implementation progress of Cili County Subproject.

Table 2.1-1 Statistics Table for Implementation Progress of Cili County Subproject Civil Works

Image Progress of Civil Works Resettlement Conditions Contract Contracts of Contract Name of Bid Price (RMB Date of Subproject Civil Work Duration Section 10,000 Commence Progress (Signed/Total) (Day) Accumulated Completed Land Yuan) of Current Relocation Progress Investment Acquisition Period

Chengnan Bid Under 2,208.17 2,040 2008.3.14 14% 60% 92% Finished Section implementation

No bidding Chengbei Bid Cili County 2/3 invitation is Not started Not started Section conducted

Yongan Bid Under Under 902.98 2,040 2008.3.14 0% 59% 81% Section implementation implementation

Cili County Subproject includes three bid sections: Chengnan, Chengbei and Yongan bid sections.

1) Chengnan bid section, with the contract price of RMB 22.0817 million yuan, is constructed by Hunan Yueyang Hydro & Power Engineering Co., Ltd. and supervised by Hunan Jianghe Hydro & Power Engineering Construction Supervision Co., Ltd. The project was commenced on Mar. 14, 2008; The investment of RMB 20.14 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 92% of its total investment.

2) No bidding invitation is conducted for Chengbei bid section.

3) Yongan bid section, with the contract price of RMB 9.0298 million yuan, is constructed by Hunan Hydro & Power Corporation and supervised by Hunan Jianghe Hydro & Power Engineering Construction Supervision Co., Ltd. The project was commenced on Mar. 14, 2008; 2,200m of this The investment of RMB 7.33 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 81% of its total investment.

2.2 Implementation Progress of Resettlement Project

2.2.1 Land Acquisition

The planning: the planned permanent land acquisition involves 6 administrative villages (residential committees) of Lingyang Town in Cili County. The affected population due to land acquisition is 135 relocatees in 40 households. The planned land acquisition area of all kinds is 149.36 mu, among which the collectively owned land is 147.64 mu, and the state-owned land is 1.72 mu.

Approval for land acquisition: the approval for land acquisition was completed in 2007, with the approval document No. of CGTZH [2007] No. 32 and ZGTYZ [2007] No. 17.

Accomplishment in the past years: the actual land acquisition has started since 2008. In 2008, 78.732 mu of acquired land has been completed (all collectively owned land), accounting for 53% of the planned land acquisition area.. In 2009, 6.1793 mu of acquired land has been completed (all collectively owned land), accounting for 4% of the planned land acquisition area. In 2010, 5.11mu acquired land has been completed (all state-owned land), accounting for 3% of

the planned acquisition area.

Accumulated accomplishment: The acquired land had reached 90.02 mu, of which, the collectively owned land is 84.91 mu, and state-owned land is 5.11 mu, accounting for 60% of the planned acquisition area. The funds paid for the land came up to RMB 2.433 million yuan.

Evaluation: The corresponding compensation funds for land acquisition have been already appropriated to every village, group and community, who has had village (community or group) discussion meeting for allocation method of compensation funds for land acquisition, and has appropriated the funds to each person.

See Table 2.2.1-1 and 2.2.1-2 for Cili County Subproject land acquisition implementation progress.

Table 2.2.1-1 Summary Table for Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Accomplished Land Acquisition Area Planned Land Acquisition Area (mu) Accomplishment percentage (mu) Date Collectively State-owned Collectively State-owned Collectively State-owned Subtotal Subtotal Subtotal owned land land owned land land owned land land

2008 78.732 78.732 0 53% 53% 0%

2009 6.1793 6.1793 0 4% 4% 0%

2010 5.11 0 5.11 3% 0% 3%

Total 149.36 147.64 1.72 90.0213 84.9113 5.11 60% 57% 3%

Table 2.2.1-2 Breakdown for Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Name of Land Payable fund Paid-up fund (RMB Implementati Date Relocated Acquisition Land nature (RMB 10,000 10,000 yuan) on Progress Enterprise Area (mu) yuan)

2008 Yong'an Village 78.73 Collectively-owned 184.9 184.9 100%

Baiyun Residential 2009 6.18 Collectively-owned 18.3 18.3 100% Committee

Pitch Station 1.56 state-owned 8.8 8.8 100%

Frorestry Bureau and Industry and 2.81 state-owned 25.3 25.3 100% 2010 Commercial Bureau

High Way Bureau 0.74 state-owned 6 6 100%

Total 90.02 0.0 243.0 243.3 100%

2.2.2 Housing County Demolition

The planning: houses with the area of 8,623.16 m2 are planned to be demolished, and 135 relocatees in 40 households will be resettled in line with the planning.

Project implementation for this period: no relocation has been carried out.

Accumulated accomplishment of this project: houses with the area of 967.15 m2 have been demolished and 25 relocatees in 7 households have been resettled.

See the Table 2.2.2-1 and Table 2.2.2-2 for the relocation progress of Cili County Subproject and relocatees national composition.

Table 2.2.2-1 Statistical Table of Relocation Progress

Project Unit Qty. Remarks

Demolished houses m2 8623.16

Planned Relocation Number of relocatee households Household 40

Number of relocatees Person 135

Demolished houses m2 967.15

Accomplished in 2008 Number of relocatee households Household 7

Number of relocatees Person 25

Demolished houses m2 0

Accomplished in 2009--2010 Number of relocatee households Household 0

Number of relocatees Person 0

Demolished houses m2 967.15 Accumulated Accomplishment Number of relocatee households Household 7

Number of relocatees Person 25

Demolished houses 11% Accumulated Accomplishment Number of relocatee households 18% Percentage Number of relocatees 18%

Table 2.2.2-2 National Composition of Rolacatees Involved in Cili County Subproject

Items Han Tujia Miao Bai Total Household 17 23 0 0 40 Planned Relocation and Resettlement Population 57 78 0 0 135

Household 2 5 7 Actual Relocation and Resettlement Population 9 16 25

2.2.3 Resettlement Investment

The planned total investment for the Cili subproject resettlement is RMB 9.7676 million yuan. The resettlement fund invested for this phase is RMB 2.45 million yuan, and the accumulative investment funds amounted to RMB 2.8926 million yuan, accounting for 30% of the total investment. The costs on completed land acquisition and resettlement have been paid in full, without arrears and underpayment situation.

Refer to Table 2.2.3-1 for details of Cili subproject resettlement investment plan and the actual investment situation.

Table 2.2.3-1 Statistics Table for Planned Resettlement Fund and Accomplishment of Resettlement Investment

Items Cili Updated planned total investment (RMB 10,000 yuan) 976.96

Available resettlement fund (RMB 10,000 yuan) 297.07

Percentage of available resettlement fund in the planned 30% total investment

Accomplished investment in 2008 (RMB 10,000 yuan) 44.26

Accomplished investment in 2009 (RMB 10,000 yuan) 0

Accomplished investment in 2010 (RMB10,000yuan) 245

Accumulative accomplished investment 289.26

Percentage of accumulative accomplished investment 30%

3. Implementation of Action Plan

3.1 Specific Measures

3.1.1 Mitigation Measures

 Mitigation Measures for Construction-related Disturbances

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Cili County, the construction of flood control works and related facilities will directly affect 12 minority villages of Liyuan Town, and the total minority population affected by construction noises and other hazards from these residential committees or villages will be about 31,874

The monitoring personnel of this phrase learned that the construction time of the project often in the daytime, with less night construction to avoid the rest time of the residents as possible, and meanwhile through rational allocation, high noisy equipment is avoided to work to reduce the noise impact to the residents nearby. In particular, during the college entrance examination in June, stop the construction for two weeks in case of disturbing the students nearby who are preparing this exam. Except for rainy days, everyday the construction party arranged watering carts for watering dust prevention of the construction road for three or four times to reduce construction damages to the health of the residents nearby and the environmental hygiene of the county. As for those construction vehicles in and out of the county, all were cleaned uniformly so as to prevent bringing the dust from the work sites to the roads of the county.

Annual costs for dust prevention, construction vehicles washing and construction garbage disposal are RMB 2,000 yuan. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 6,000 yuan.

 Mitigation Measures for HIV/AIDS and STIs Publicity and Prevention

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Cili County, although Cili County is not a high risk area for HIV/AIDS, in order to ensure that Cili will continue free of HIV/AIDS, county CDCs (Centre for Disease Control), in accordance with the PRC Law on Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Disease, should take measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs.

During the project implementation, the project party propagandized how to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs to the residents in the project areas by taking a series of measures such as putting up posters and publishing blackboard newspaper. All the workers in the project areas were affiliated to the local Country People’s Hospital for convenient treatment. No incidence of HIV/AIDS occurred in the project area during the project implementation.

Annual costs for publicity, hygienic cleaning, sanitary quarantine, vaccination and mice / mosquitoes / flies control are RMB 500 yuan, RMB 1,000 yuan, RMB 2,000 yuan, RMB 1,500 yuan and RMB 1,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB18,000 yuan.

 Mitigation Measures for Gender Equality

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Cili County, In order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women, women’s participation in terms of decision making will be secured in accordance with government laws and regulations during the implementation of Ethnic Minority Action Plan.

In the affected areas, women have equal rights and status of men and play important roles in economical development and housework, especially in villages where most women stay at home while most men go to work in cities. Women also play important roles in agriculture production (both cultivation and non-farm work) besides in family responsibilities; therefore, women even paid more interests in this subproject than men in the influenced areas. They not only actively took part in the work at all periods of resettlement, but also played outstanding roles in many other aspects such as negotiating directions and modes of resettlement.

Since the implementation of this subproject, the executive agencies of the subproject and the local government laid special stress on women’s roles, caring for them and the requirements of the families which take women as householders and giving them full play to relocation implementation. In various relocation discussion meetings and consultative conferences of the subproject, about50% attendants were women, and their suggestions, requirements and problem-reflections on economic rehabilitation and demolition of old houses, moving and building of new houses were fully attended to in order to ensure the fair distribution of the subproject benefits to the women. In the PMO, women were also arranged to be engaged in proper work, such as internal or office work, propaganda work, measure and archives administration. The male/female ratio of the staff in the PMO is 8:2

Besides, in order to enhance the quality of the majority of women and strengthen the development of the women cadres, a training course for Women’s Federation cadres at all levels was held in Cili County Party Committee Party School in April 2010, with the trainees reaching 120. In addition, female villaged branch secretaries, village directors, women directors and representatives in the affected villages from 31 counties and towns, 120 people in total, accepted the legal knowledge trainings on land conservation, land transfer, land rights and interests of women’ access to land in the Cili County Jianxin Hotel, so as to improve their abilities and levels of legitimate rights on the protection to married women, divorced women, rural un-married women, service energetically for our country’ key construction projects, and take the initiative to focus on coordination works in key construction projects and land acquisition.

Investment of funds in conferences was RMB 10,000 yuan, and for women carders and women representatives trainings was RMB 0.12 million yuan. So far, the accumulated input has amounted to RMB 0.13 million yuan.

 Mitigation Measures for Implementation of Resettlement

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Cili County, when establishing the resettlement plan, it should let the relocatees know the rights they have and the schemes they can choose so as to obtain the cooperation, participation and feedback of the residents in resettlement sites and relocatees. When relocatees settle into resettlement sites, perfect services in education, water supply and medical care should be provided for the two groups (the residents in resettlement sites and new relocatees) as far as possible, creating better social atmosphere for their fusion.

The Cili County Subproject consulted the relocatees in project areas and resettlement sites and the minority groups affected by the subproject about their opinions and suggestions on planning and implementation scheme and adequately considered the affected groups’ wishes requirements before the relocation removal and resettlement were implemented; eventually, it was specified to locate the resettlement sites nearby.

The population of the vulnerable groups listed in the resettlement plan of Cili subproject is 14, and the number that has got assistance during the project implementation is 1 people, Dai Wencai, who was also enlisted into the urban/rural minimum living standard security system, viz. RMB 7,200 yuan, in addition to enjoying the subsidies and support measures in the resettlement plan.

Table 3.1.1-1 Summery for Assistance Conditions for the Vulnerable Groups

name of Types of vulnerable Assistance number of families village location householderes groups measures

households enjoying the RMB 200 Dai Wencai 1 Group 5 of Yongan Village five guarantees yuan/month

3.1.2 Enhancement Measures

 Implementation of Micro-Credit Program

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Cili County, the Cili Women's Federation will provide Micro-Credit Program service to 2,800 rural ethnic minority women in 16 counties and towns. The majority of them will be minority women, with average loan amount of RMB 1,000 yuan. These loans will be used to develop income-increasing projects. The repayment period is 0.5~4 years, with annual interest rate of 5~6%.The Poverty Alleviation Office will assume 50% of the interest rate.

The Cili Micro-Credit Program started in 2004. The whole county vigorously supported business-building, coordinated repeatedly with the fiscal and financial departments as well as other departments. The “Cili County Interim Micro-Credit and interest subsidies measures to promote employment”, published jointly by Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Finance and the People’s Bank, regulated the procedures and simplified work processes so as to ensure all the qualified staff to enjoy the support of the government in the shortest time to promote entrepreneurs’ success in business. Shang Huaiqiu, a migrant worker who came back to home from Shuangxin Village of Gaofeng township, intended to contract barren hills, created comprehensive species, ran a farm to start his business, but he suffers from shortage of funds. After his situation is learned, he was appropriated by RMB 50,000 yuan micro- credit, which makes him succeed in business. In 2010, the cumulative micro-credit funds appropriated reached RMB 20.9115 million yuan for 442 households in

Cili.

 Tourism Development

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Cili County, County governments and their tourism agencies should take the following promotion actions for tourism development:

A. Exhibition of Tujia, Bai and Miao cultures and establishing tourism infrastructures.

C. Introduction of the tourism resources with access maps on various websites.

There has developed a large resort which famous both at home and abroad for the natural open-air hot spring-Wanfu Hot Spring in Lingyang Town of Cili County. Wanfu Hot Spring has been authorized as the national AAAA-level tourist resort, covering an area of over 300 mu, it has become the perfect scenic spot for tourism and attracting tourists. The Cili County will continue concentrating on the development strategy of “promoting the strong industrial county by tourism” and the objective of “the National Spa Town”, strive to develop the local tourism, and promote the secondary and tertiary industries.

In 2010, the county welcomed 1.612 million tourists, with tourism incomes reaching RMB 0.81 billion yuan, and key project investment completing RMB 0.304 billion yuan. The carrying capacity of tourism market was enhanced obviously, tourist reception ability and level were improved obviously, the tourists' satisfaction was high, and accordingly achieving the objective of zero complaint about the tourism consumption.

In recent years, the contributed investment funds has mounted up to RMB 0.304 billion yuan in total.

 Technical Advice and Training

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Cili County, county technical sectors (i.e., agricultural and forestry bureaus, labor and social security bureau) will provide special technical advices and training to the project affected farmers (men and women) on cash cropping, livestock management, and non-farm skills, as well as job introduction for migrant labors. Skill training will also be provided to enable minority people take employment opportunities from construction of flood control projects.

The Cili County Labor and Social Security Bureau widely develops entrepreneurship training. In 2010, the cumulative vocational trainings involved 5,794 persons, in the re-employment training 264 persons, the enterprise employee training 280 persons, the business-building training 2,250 persons, and the rural labor force training 3000 persons. In addition, according to the reality that on-site job fairs are very popular for a large number of job seekers and employers, the government gathered many manpower and material resources to settle the periodical job fair on 18th day of each month, increased enterprise ties and further expanded the coverage of recruitment, meanwhile, held countryside job fairs in the countries and towns where the population is relatively concentrated, providing jobs to the doors of the rural labor force. In 2011, 15 various job fairs were held, providing 51,000 job opportunities, and making 1938 people get theirs jobs.

The training fee amounted to RMB 5.794 million yuan in total.

 Tax Incentives

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Cili County, the local government will provide tax benefits and special policy.

In order to encourage the local minority people in Lingyang Town to engage in secondary and tertiary activities, the Cili government increased the taxable threshold of business taxes and value-added taxes for the laid-off workers engaged in personal operation; increasing the taxable threshold of business taxes for migrant workers back, reducing or remitting business income taxes for their enterprises opened up, remitting personal income taxes, levying half house taxes for the immigrant workers who come back to open up enterprises and cannot pay house taxes specified; for the laid-off workers who come back to open up enterprises, remitting their house taxes and land use taxes in the first two years, providing fixed allowances, increasing subsidies, providing special assistance, waiving agricultural tax, etc. The financial departments at all levels should provide allowances for ethnic affair management and the fund scale is specified in accordance with the population of the local minorities and the actual requirements of the ethnic work.

3.1.3 Project Benefit Measures

The benefit measures taken by Cili Subproject during construction are as follows:

1. Employment measure: renting local houses for office, dormitory, canteen and warehouse, etc., so as to reduce the construction of temporary buildings and give the owners of the houses benefits.

2. Active employment of skilled worker and rural laborers for dyke construction.

3. Active employment of local vehicles for the engineering transportation.

4. Active acquisition of local-produced cements, steel bars, block stones, gravels and rock ballast in conformance with the quality requirements of the project so as to stimulate economic growth.

Since the implementation of this subproject, t construction employment has preferentially employed the local relocates and ethnic minority groups, to provide employment opportunities for the local residents, so that the project construction is favorable to help improve the living standard of the affected people and recover their livelihood. This subproject will employ about 400 people; except for some special professional jobs, local residents shall be employed for 95% of the remaining unskilled jobs such as haulage man, raw material suppliers and unskilled labourer. About 96% of the local residents employed are of ethnic minorities. The local workers employed of this project all been paid fully, there is no delay situation. The accumulated wage been paid reached to RMB 0.28 million in total.

3.2 Fund Availability and Usage Condition.

For the details of Cili program funds availability and usage condition, please see Table 3.2-1

Table 3.2-1 Details of Cili Program Funds Availability and Usage Condition

Cili County

Measures to be taken Fund source Budget(yuan) Contributed fund

Protecting minority communities from the disturbance of 1,000 6,000 construction

Infectious disease control. 1,000 18,000 Mitigation measures Encouraging women to participate in 1,000 130,000 meetings and making policy

Resettlement special support 1,000 7,200 for population influenced

The Women's Petty loan(mainly rural women Federation of the 280,000 20,911,500 oriented) County

County Tourism promotion measures 5,000,000-6,000,000 304,000,000 Government Reinforcement measures Providing information and County suggestions on agrotechnique 5,794,000 Government and nonagricultural skills

County Tax preference Government

Employing minority population as civilian workers in project 1,000 280,000 concerning flood control Project benefit measures Employing minority labourers for the jobs of maintenance and 1,000 other jobs concerned

Note: the contributed funds are almost this county’ total investment, including the investment on the project area.

3.3 Consultation and Appeals

For Cili County Subproject, since the launch of the relocation in 2008, high attention has been paid to it by Hunan Province, Zhangjiajie City and resettlement organs at all levels. And wide propaganda was given to the subproject by means of local news media including TV, broadcasting and newspapers. Handing out resettlement information manuals to every family is also applied to disseminate relevant laws and regulations about resettlement to relocatees, so as to make them get known of calculation method of physical indices and compensation standard, compensation method, resettlement site and scheme, rights and preferential policies enjoyed by relocatees, etc. Before the end of January, 2007, the headquarters issued the land acquisition bulletins within the red line scope for project land acquisition and organized several

mobilization meetings and symposia for negotiation and communication with relocatees, so as to obtain willingness and ideas of relocatees in details and accordingly make land acquisition proceed forward smoothly. Much attention should be paid to the ethnic minority groups, of which the proportion in consultation activities is about 95%.

For Cili Subproject, no appeal has been received in the current period. Problems in appeal and complaints from relocatees in previous periods have been disposed of on the whole, and the relocatees are satisfied with the results. For details, see Table 3.3.3-1

Table 3.3.3-1 Summary Table of Relocatees Appeal & Complaint Problems and Disposal

Disposal for Problems in Appeal

Appeal Problems in Appeal and Subsequent No. Appellant Final Solution Time Complaints Activity Good Solved Unsolved Satisfactory Unsatisfactory

The resettlement house Village Committee is a little far away from has provided house the residential area of Dai for him in Yong'an 1 Period 1 his relatives; claim to Wencai √ √ Primary School close resettle close to his to the residential area relatives within their own of his relatives village groups

The executed price is Wang House compensation 2 Period 1 greatly higher than Mingxia standard is a little low √ √ the planned standard

Arrange to Qian Hope to relocate as 3 Period 1 relocate in the Shengmin soon as possible √ next stage

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations

4.1 Existing problems

1. The fund-raising progress is laggard. The source of investment in this subproject is not the loan from ADB, but loans from other banks and funds raised by the corresponding Employers. And the volume for resettlement investment is large while time for raising funds remains relatively short, thus there are difficulties in raising funds in time.

2. The demolition process is laggard.

4.2 Suggestions

1. It’s recommended to strengthen the efforts on financing, and ensure the timely settlement funds distribution, so as to make the resettlement work proceed smoothly.

2. It’s recommended that the relevant departments strengthen the cooperation, speed up the land acquisition and resettlement system, complete the resettlement work as soon as possible, and accordingly ensure the smooth implementation of the project.

Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 15

Loan No.: 2244 - PRC

Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

Monitoring and Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement (No. 4) Fenghuang and Shimen County Subprojects

Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. March 2011

Verified by: Qin Lin

Reviewed by: Xia Jihong

Checked by: Ren Yu

Compliled by: Huang Qingyun

Main Working Staff: Huang Qingyun Qin Lin

Qin Si Li Lin

Chen Zizhou Ren Yu

Min Tian Xia Jihong

Zeng Di Mo Jie

External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

Contents

Foreword ...... 1

1. Background ...... 1

1.1 Project Description ...... 1

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas ...... 3

2. Project Implementation Progress ...... 8

2.1 Civil Works Progress ...... 8

2.2 Resettlement Progress ...... 9

3. Implementation of Action Plan ...... 13

3.1 Specific Measures ...... 13

3.2 Fund Availability and usage condition ...... 22

3.3 Consultation and Appeals ...... 22

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations ...... 24

Foreword

The first external monitoring report for the external monitoring and evaluation of ethnic minority resettlement for Shimen and Fenghuang County Subprojects was submitted to the subproject office on June 2010. This report mainly covers external monitoring and evaluation of Shimen and Fenghuang County Subprojects for the second time.

The period for this report is from Jan. 1st, 2010 to Dec. 31st, 2010.

1. Background

1.1 Project Description

1.1.1 Engineering Description

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

The main purposes of Fenghuang County Subproject：

A. to protect Fenghuang County from flood threat;

B. to strengthen management of Yuanjiang River basin which is an important part of the complete flood control management system in Hunan Province.

The subproject includes the following parts:

To newly build 6 flood control dykes with a total length of 5.458 km;

To rehabilitate partial Tuqiao stream waterway of 5.30 km and partial Xiaoxikeng River waterway of 1.30 km;

To newly build Shawan flood diversion canal of 0.95 km and Mianzhai flood diversion canal of 1.30 km;

To reconstruct 26 bridges over Tuqiao Stream with a total length of 0.13 km;

To construct 25 self-draining gates on the body of the flood control dike;

To construct flood control & command system and establish necessary management measures.

The area protected by the subproject is up to 2.45 km2. The flood control standard is promoted to 1 in 20-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-year recurrence, and the water logging control standard is increased to 1 in 10-year recurrence from current 1 in

2-to-5-year recurrence.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

The main purposes of Shimen County Subproject：

A. to protect Shimen County from flood;

B. to strengthen management of Lijiang River basin which is an important part of the complete flood control management system in Hunan Province.

The subproject includes the following parts:

To newly build 7.63 km earth dyke, with 1.90 km protection circle in Dongcheng district and 5.73 km protection circle in Baofeng district;

To heighten and widen 9.41 km dykes with 7.8 km earth dyke and 1.61 km flood control wall;

The dyke bank prevention and protection of 14.8 km, and riprap protection of banket 0.4 km;

To newly build 9 culvert gates;

To newly build1 pump station with 3 sets of 555 kw;

To newly build 1 flood diversion canal of 3.97 km;

To rehabilitate 2 drainage canals with a total length of 3.77 km;

To construct flood control and command system and establish necessary management measures.

The area protected by the subproject is up to 28.5 km2. The flood control standard is promoted to 1 in 20-year recurrence from current 1 in 5-10-year recurrence, and the water logging control standard is increased to 1 in 10-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-to-5-year recurrence.

1.1.2 Resettlement Description

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

Land acquisition, house demolition and population resettlement are all considered to be the main negative effects.

Nine villages in Tuojiang Town will be affected by land acquisition. Permanent land acquisition is planned to be 13 mu, in which about 65% is farmland and the remaining is housing plot. Besides, temporary land occupation is 47.5 mu, in which 2% is farmland and the remaining is forest land and wasted land. It is planned to relocate 294 persons of 53 households.

0.075 mu farmland will be reduced for each of the affected villagers due to land acquisition of this subproject. However, currently, for majority of the affected villagers their source of income doesn’t mainly rely on agriculture, but with only 6% of income from crop and plant cultivation. Therefore, it is planned that income of all the affected families can recover to a level as that before relocation through farmland adjustment, animal husbandry and greenhouse vegetable investment and other activities creating income.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

Land acquisition, house demolition and population resettlement are all considered to be the main negative effects.

45 villager groups from 12 villages of 4 villages and towns will be affected by land acquisition. The permanent land acquisition is planned to be 279.13 mu, in which about 62% is farmland including paddy field, dry land and commercial vegetable land and the remaining are garden plot, pond, housing plot, wasted land and state-owned land. Besides, the temporary land occupation is 444.3 mu, in which 41% is farmland. It is planned to relocate 464 persons of 148 households.

Land acquisition of this subproject has significant influence. For the affected villages and communities, on the one hand, demolition and relocation involve with 12924 persons of current agricultural population and 8928 mu farmland and thus per capita farmland is 0.69 mu. 171.8 mu farmland is occupied by the subproject, so per capita farmland is 0.68 mu after land occupation, with per capita farmland reduced by 0.01 mu; on the other hand, for majority of the affected villagers, their source of income doesn’t mainly rely on agriculture any more. Based on investigation of selected families, only 18% of the income is from crop and plant cultivation. Therefore, through compensation investment and farmland adjustment, it can be realized to improve soil fertility, adjust cultivation system, build hydraulic facilities in farmland and promote output and output value of remaining farmland; meanwhile, it is planned that income of all the affected families can recover to a level as that before relocation through animal husbandry and greenhouse vegetable investment and other activities creating income.

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas

1.2.1 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Protected Areas (PPA)

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

Tuojiang Town in which PPA is located is situated in Fenghuang County town. It is the political, economic, financial and cultural center with convenient communication. Tuojiang Town is one of 31 township units in Fenghuang County. It includes 5 residential committees and 13 village committees, representing both rural and urban part of the town. In 2007, there were 14,913 households and 44,738 persons in Tuojiang Town. Among them, 56.6% are ethnic minorities with 60.0% as Miao nationalities, 37.0% as Tujia nationalities, 2.2% as Hui nationalities, 0.7% as Dong nationalities, 0.06% as Yao nationalities and 0.04% as other nationalities.

The basic economic condition is quite small between the rural part of and the urban part of Tuojiang Town. In rural part of the town, there are 13 villages with 12,035 rural persons. The per capita farmland is 0.73mu. In urban part of the town, there are 5 residential committees with 32,703 residents. All of them are urban population. The PPA will cover part of the existing urban area of Tuojiang Town, including the population of 5 communities and 7 villages. There are 36,437 persons in PPA, accounting 81.5% of the total population in Tuojiang Town. Of the total population, 82.9% are from 5 communities, which include 30,201 urban residents. Of total population, there were 19,050 persons of ethnic minorities, accounting for 52.3%. For the remaining 17.1% of rural population, the average farmland is only 0.57 mu. Most of them are used to grow vegetables. The continuous urban expansion and farmland acquisition around the county town is the main cause for such change.

As the county town of Fenghuang County, Tuojiang Town has relatively developed secondary and tertiary activities. There are 803 various sizes of enterprises in Tuojiang Town, including 12 township enterprises, 106 village enterprises and 273 privately owned Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 3 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

enterprises, and 412 individual small businesses. The total gross output value was RMB 459 million yuan. The gross output for agricultural sector was RMB 20 million yuan, with per capita income for rural population being RMB 3,800 yuan. The total grain production was 2,294 ton and 206 kg. The total vegetable production was 4,450 ton or 400 kg per person. In 2007, GDP in the town was RMB 173 million yuan, averaging RMB 4,185 yuan per person, which is 37% higher than the county average.

In the project protected area, among total beneficiaries, 19,050 persons are ethnic minorities, accounting for 52.3%. The dominant minority groups are Tujia and Miao, which make up 96.8% of the total minority populations in the PPA. These minority persons are entitled with the same rights to education and employment as Han people and have not obvious difference in their economic conditions and income levels.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

Chujiang Town in which PPA is located is situated in Shimen County town. It is the political, economic, financial and cultural center with convenient communication. The protected area involves 15 (villages) residential committees of Chujiang Town, which occupies 34.8％ of total amounts of (village) residential committees over the total area.

Chujiang Town is one of 25 towns in Shimen County. Chujiang Town includes 26 (village) residential Committees and it is the town which takes the city as dominant factor and also has the features of village. In 2007, altogether, there are 34,786 households and 84,802 people, which are respectively taking up 15% and 12.3% of Shimen County. Among them, 33.3% is ethnic minority and Tujia is occupying 99.4%. The difference of basic economic condition between the rural region and urban region in Chujiang Town is very large. In the rural region of Chujiang Town, altogether, there are 9,158 households and 24,899 persons. And, the village inhabitants’ population is approximately occupying 29.4%, and per capita farmland is 0.61 mu. In the urban region, altogether, there are 25,628 households and 59,903 persons. And, the city inhabitants’ population is approximately occupying 70.6%. This project protection area will cover the most city district of Chujiang Town and there are 15 (villages) Residential Committees to be included. In PPA, altogether, there are 5,924 households and 18,788 people, which occupies 22.2% of total Chujiang Town population (to see table 3-4). Because most city population are living in the Old City Area and the Old City Area has not been listed into this project owing to its city flood control circle being built, the city total population of this project only occupies 12.6% of total town.

Of the total population, 22.2% are from 15 residential committees. The male and female ratio is 48: 52. 7,530 persons or 40% are urban residents. Of total population, there were 6,247 persons of ethnic minorities, accounting for 33.2%. Table 3-7 provides detailed information among 11 residential committees within PPA. For the remaining 60% of rural population, the average farmland is only 0.75 mu. Most of them are used to grow vegetables and other cash crops. The continuous urban expansion and farmland acquisition around the county town is the main cause for such change.

The gross domestic production value was RMB 1,125 million yuan in 2007, and the per capita is RMB 34,267 yuan, which is a little bit higher than the total province average of RMB 5,612 yuan and one time than the county average. The per capita net income in the rural area in Chujiang Town was RMB 2,819 yuan, which is 35.6% lower than the total province average. The per capita income of the urban residents was RMB 9,455.32 yuan and the city employee in urban population is RMB 16,072 yuan, which is 37％ higher than the total province average level.

As the county seat town of Shimen County, the relevant second and third industry have been developed in Chujiang Town. In Chujiang Town, there are 6,052 enterprises in different scale, including 1 enterprise which is directly managed by central government, 2 enterprises which are managed by provincial government, 2 enterprises which is managed Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 4 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

by Changde City, 2,540 village and township enterprises, 153 private running enterprises and 3,354 individual industry and commercial personnel. The industry enterprises in Chujiang Town involve power, chemical industry, mechanical and building materials, the clothing industry and food industry, etc., of which, there are 36 industry enterprises whose yearly production value is more than RMB 5 million yuan. The total industry production value of Chujiang Town in 2007 is RMB 0.334 billion yuan, among which, the state owned and collective owned enterprises occupies 90%.

Although it belongs to the towns of Shimen County city district, its farming production still plays the very important roles. The total cultivated land in Chujiang Town is 15,102 mu, of which, 40.8% is paddy field. Calculating it by agricultural population of 24,899 people, the per capita cultivated land is 0.61 mu (which is only 46% of the total province average level). The agricultural production value of Chujiang Town in 2004 is 0.109 billion RMB yuan. Its main agricultural products include grains, rapeseeds, flue-cured tobacco and oranges etc. Its main livestock products are cattle, pig, sheep, chicken, etc.

In the project protected area, among total beneficiaries, 6,247 persons are ethnic minorities, accounting for 33.2%. Minority people of Baota residential committee exceed 50%. The dominant minority groups are Tujia, which makes up 99.4% of the total minority populations in the PPA. These minority persons are entitled with the same rights to education and employment as Han people and have not obvious difference in their economic conditions and income levels.

1.2.2 Custom of Ethnic Minorities in PPA

The project carried out in ethnic minority area must respect and protect the ethnic minorities’ religious faith freedom and respect their customs in costume, dietary, residence, marriage, funeral, etc., especially in language, production method, religious faith, residence habit, house demolition and building custom and life taboo of ethnic minority closely related to land acquisition and relocation work. It shall be observed that whether preferential policy enjoyed by relocatee changes before and after relocation and whether their lawful rights and interests are affected.

Fenghuang and Shimen are both located in the northwest of Hunan and the mainstream population is ethnic minorities. Tujia nationalities and Miao nationalities account the biggest part of them, whose customs are basically the same.

For the detailed customs of chief ethnic minorities in Fenghuang and Shimen, see the Table 1.2.2-1 and 1.2.2-2.

Table 1.2.2-1 Summary of Customs of Chief Ethnic Minorities (1)

National Cultural Chief Ethnic Language Character Costume Dietary HabitS Specific Festival Custom Activities (folk song, Religious Faith Minority music and dance)

There are unique customs in the manner of receiveing Their staple food was dry guests and getting along with "Gannian festival crop such as sweet potato people, marriage, bearing and Wrap tattoing before spring and corn in the past, but it is bringing up children as well as cyan festival", "Sheba rice now.There is no funeral. For example, man Always wear splendid Tujia language of handkerchief in festival" in Commonly- specific taboo in dietary. and woman usually fall in love attire on festivals to Worship Tibeto-Burman head, wear January (lunar Tujia nationality used Chinese Besides, there are some with each other through gather together to sing ancestors and branch of Tibetan front-buttoned calendar),, characters kinds of specific national singing in antiphonal style and folk songs and dance the White Tiger. family dress and prefer festivals on April dishes such as mixed rice, then get married; besides, "waving dance". to wear silver 8th, June 6th and bacon and "Hezha" there is a kind of custom ornament. July 15th (lunar (vegetable mixed beam called crying for marriage and calendar) drags), etc. thus the virtue of woman is based on being good at crying for marriage.

There are unique customs in the manner of receiving There are several guests and getting along with Miao minority is good at Wear batik There is no particular habit national festivals, people, marriage, bearing and singing and dancing, fabric clothes and taboo. They prefer such as festivals bringing up children as well as and a reed-pipe wind Miao language of Commonly- and wide Worship nature, sticky rice wine and always on April 8th and funeral. For example, instrument is their Miao nationality Miao-Yao branch of used Chinese waistband; totem and take it as tea. Besides, June 6th (lunar advocate freedom of marriage favorite instrument. The Sino-Tibetan family characters silver ornaments ancestors. there are several kinds of calendar)and since ancient times without most common dances prevail for specific national dishes. Ganqiu Festival in regard to cash gift and family are Lusheng dance and women. autumn. status; entertain guests Houergu dance. mainly with wine and with chilli as auxiliary.

There are unique customs in the manner of receiving Generally wear guests and getting along with clothes of Han There is no particular habit Generally keep Mainly Tujia people, marriage, bearing and Ethnic minority in nationality,howe and taboo as well as faith of their language, Commonly- bringing up children as well as Tuojiang Town of ver, only a few several kinds of specific Similar with Han Same as Han own nationality, combining various used Chinese funeral, which are not identical Fenghuang of the senior still national dishes, including nationality nationaltiy but meanwhile nationalities characters with those of Tujia, Miao and County keep some dishes of Tujia , Miao and Buddhism also speech sounds Han nationalities and seem to clothes of their Han nationalities. prevails. be the common custom with own nationality. combination of these nationalites.

There are unique customs in the manner of receiving Generally wear guests and getting along with clothes of Han There is no particular habit people, marriage, bearing and Generall keep Mainly Tujia Ethnic minority in nationality,howe and taboo as well as bringing up children as well as faith of their language, Commonly- Chumen Towm ver, only a few several kinds of specific Similar with Han funeral, which are not identical Same as Han own nationality, combining various used Chinese of Shimen of the senior still national dishes, including nationality with those of Tujia, Miao and nationaltiy but meanwhile nationalities characters County keep some dishes of Tujia, Miao and Han nationalities and seem to Buddhism also speech sounds clothes of their Han nationalities. be the common custom prevails. own nationality. similar with Han nationality through combination of these nationalites.

Table 1.2.2-2 Summary for Customs and Habits of Main Ethnic Minorities (2)

Main Customs and Habits in Preferential Ethnic Production Manners Special Living Habits Dismantling and Building Houses Policies Minority

It is a taboo to dismantle and build houses in the fifth day of each month; when building houses, it is prohibited to whistle and sleep in the They can enjoy Originally they mainly grew dry work site; the living house cannot be preferential rice, but now they have oriented to right meridian direction; policies in changed to grow paddy rice. Mainly pure wooden the primary roof beams must be childbearing, Tujia The original production houses with courtyards made of trees with two crotches; the children's manners such as hunting, and corners. newly-built house is prohibited to be entering schools, fishing and digging potherbs repaired in three years; it is cadre promotion, have nearly disappeared now. prohibited to make new graves etc. behind the house, plant pear trees in front of the house, camphor trees around the house, etc.

It is necessary to invite geomancers to check the geomancy of the Originally they mainly grew dry building place and choose a good rice by bringing mountain They can enjoy day to start construction before slopes under cultivation, but preferential Mainly buildings with building the house; the primary roof now they have changed to policies in the upper floor for living beams must be made of trees with grow paddy rice. The batik childbearing, Miao and the lower floor for two crotches; when making the technology has been passed children’s laying up working tools, primary roof beams of trees with two down through thousands of entering schools, rearing livestock, etc. crotches, the maker is required to years and the embroidery of cadre promotion, drink enough wine first to have Miao is well-known throughout etc. energy so as to make the primary the country. roof beams at a stretch without stopping, etc.

They mainly grow rice and It is necessary to invite geomancers vegetables as well as a little to check the geomancy of the They can enjoy dry rice. The commercial crops Ethnic building place and choose a good preferential are fruit trees. They breed pigs minorities day to start construction, set off policies in generally for their own use but in Tuojiang firecrackers and kill chicken for offer childbearing, not for sale. The secondary The same with Han. Town of sacrifices to gods or ancestors children’s and tertiary industries are more Fenghuang before building the house; it is entering schools, developed than those of other County prohibited to plant pear trees in front cadre promotion, villages and towns and the of the house and camphor trees etc. tourism is especially around the house, etc. developed.

They mainly grow rice and It is necessary to invite geomancers vegetables as well as a little to check the geomancy of the They can enjoy Ethnic dry rice. The commercial crops building place and choose a good preferential minorities are fruit trees and are day to start construction, set off policies in in Chujiang comparatively developed. They firecrackers and kill chicken for offer childbearing, The same with Han. Town of breed pigs generally for their sacrifices to gods or ancestors children’s Shimen own use but not for sale. The before building the house; it is entering schools, County secondary and tertiary prohibited to plant pear trees in front cadre promotion, industries are mainly retail of the house and camphor trees etc. business and migrant working. around the house, etc.

2. Project Implementation Progress

2.1 Civil Works Progress

The civil works of Fenghuang County Subproject includes one bid. The commencement date is July 18, 2008. It has an investment of RMB 27.6261 million yuan, of which 79% in this bid section contract has been accomplished.

Shimen County Subproject consists of two bid sections: Shizinao North Shore to Shenjiaxi Stream and Lihui Bridge South Shore to Moon Stream. The contract price is RMB 4.40 million yuan. The construction was commenced on September 14, 2008, and 93% of accumulative progress implementation has been completed. Investment of RMB 4.0902 million yuan has been inputted, which is 93% of the total investment in this bid section.

(The implementation progress of civil works are indicated in details in Tale 2.1-1)

Table2.1-1 Statistics Table for Civil Works Implementation Progress

Image Progress of Civil Works Launch Situation of Resettlement Contract of Civil Contract Contract Name of Bid Commencement Subproject Works price (RMB Duration Section Date (Signed/Total) 10,000 yuan) (Day) Current Accumulative Completed Land Demolition Progress Progress Investment Acquisition

No more Fenghuang One Bid No January 1 3489.00 913 2008.7.18 28% 73% 73% implementatio County Section implementation n

Shizinao to Under Shenjiaxi implementatio Not started along north n bank Shimen February 2 440 1033 2008.9.14 0% 93% 93% County Lishui Bridge to Under Yueliangxi implementatio Not started along south n bank

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

Fenghuang County Subproject includes only one bid section. The contract price of this bid section is RMB 34.8916 million yuan. It is constructed by Hunan Pincheng Construction Group Co., Ltd. and supervised by Hunan Jianghe Hydro & Power Engineering Construction Supervision Co., Ltd. The project was commenced on Jul. 18, 2008; currently, the project has been completed with 0.2080 million m³ of earthwork, 0.279 million m³ of stonework, 56,500 m³ of transported gravel, 14,600 m³ of foundation floor concrete and 880 m³ of reinforced concrete having been constructed; further, the investment of RMB 27.6261 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 79% of its total investment.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

Shimen County Subproject includes two bid sections:

They are bid section from Shizinao to Shenjiaxi along north bank and bid section from Lishui Bridge to Yueliangxi along south bank. These two bid sections, with the contract

price of RMB 4.40 million yuan, are constructed by Hunan Huawei Hydropower Engineering Corporation and supervised by Hunan Dejiang Supervision Corporation. The project was commenced on Sept. 14, 2008; currently, the image progress has been completed 93%. The investment of RMB 4.09 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 93% of its total investment.

2.2 Resettlement Progress

2.2.1 Land Acquisition

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

The planning: the originally planned permanent land acquisition involves 8 administrative villages (residential committees) of Tuojiang Town in Fenghuang. The affected population due to land acquisition is 338 relocatees in 64 households. The planned land acquisition area of all kinds of land is 13 mu, among which the collectively owned land is 10.8 mu, and the state-owned land is 2.2 mu.

The acquired land area upon the planning and adjustment is only 0.338 mu.

Approval for land acquisition: the prequalification of the approval for land acquisition was completed and the No. of Prequalification Report for Construction Land is: GTZYZ [2005] No.03.

Accomplishment in the past years: the actual land acquisition started in the second half year of 2008, with a completed land acquisition area of 0.338 mu in 2008 and no land acquisition was carried out in 2009.

Accomplishment within this monitoring period: no land acquisition has been carried out.

Accumulated accomplishment: 0.338 mu of acquired land has been completed (all collectively owned land), accounting for 3% of the originally planned area and 100% of area upon the planning and adjustment. The funds paid for the land came to RMB 13,540 yuan.

Evaluation: no land acquisition and resettlement will be carried out due to the changes of scheme. The corresponding costs for the acquired land have been allocated to villages, groups and communities and the allocation methods for land acquisition costs have been discussed at the village (group, community) meetings whereby the costs have been distributed to individuals.

See Table 2.2.1-1 and 2.2.1-2 for summary table for Fenghuang County Subproject land acquisition implementation progress.

Table 2.2.1-1 Summary Table for Fenghuang County Subproject Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Accomplished Land Acquisition Area Planned Land Acquisition Area (mu) Accomplishment Percentage (mu) Date Collectively State-owned Collectively State-owned Collectively State-owned Subtotal Subtotal Subtotal owned land land owned land land owned land land

2008 0.338 0.338 0 3% 3% 0%

2009 0 0 0 0% 0% 0%

Total 10.7 8.5 2.2 0.338 0.338 0 3% 3% 0%

Table 2.2.1-2 Breakdown for Fenghuang County Subproject Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Nature of land Name of Area of Area of Payable Paid Fund Serial Completed Date Stake No. Demolished Land Demolished Fund (RMB (RMB 10,000 Number 2 Investment Organization Acquisition Collective-owned Land Housing (m ) 10,000 yuan) yuan)

0+379-0+759、 Jinhong 1+526-2+096 Village of 2008 1 、 0.338 0.338 0 1.354 1.354 100% 2+096-2+818、 Tuojiang 5+301-5+580 County

2009 1 0 0 0 0 0 0%

Total 0.338 0.338 0 1.354 1.354 100%

(2) Shimen County Subproject

The planning: the planned permanent land acquisition involves 16 administrative villages (residential committees) of Chujiang Town in Shimen County. The affected population due to land acquisition is 464 relocatees in 148 households. The planned land acquisition area of all kinds is 279.13 mu, among which the collectively owned land is 261.77 mu, and the state-owned land is 17.36 mu.

Approval for land acquisition: the approval for land acquisition is still in hand, no final approval has been received from the Land Department yet.

Accomplishment in the past years: the actual land acquisition has been from 2007 to Dec., 2009 and has counted up to 179.13 mu, among which the collectively owned land was 164.76 mu and the state-owned land was 14.37 mu, accounting for 64% of the planned area. The funds paid for the land mounted up to RMB 4.40 million yuan.

Accomplishment in 2010: no new land acquisition has been carried out.

The land acquisition in 2009 has counted up to 10.79 mu, among which the collectively owned land was 7.7 mu and the state-owned land was 3.09 mu, accounting for 4% of the planned area. The funds paid for the land mounted up to RMB 0.31 million yuan.

Accumulated accomplishment: the acquired land had mounted up to 179.13 mu, among which the collectively owned land was 164.76 mu and the state-owned land was 14.37 mu, accounting for 64% of the planned area. The funds paid for the land come to RMB 4.40 Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 10 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

million yuan.

See Table 2.2.1-3 and 2.2.1-4 for Shimen County Subproject land acquisition implementation progress.

Table 2.2.1-3 Summary Table for Shimen County Subproject Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Accomplished Land Acquisition Area Planned Land Acquisition Area (mu) Accomplishment Percentage (mu)

Date Collectively State-owned Collectively State-owned Collectively State- Subtotal Subtotal Subtotal owned land land owned land land owned land owned land

2008 168.34 157.06 11.28 60% 60% 65%

2009 10.79 7.7 3.09 4% 3% 18%

Total 279.13 261.77 17.36 179.13 164.76 14.37 64% 63% 83%

Table 2.2.1-4 Breakdown for Shimen County Subproject Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Nature of Land Name of Area of Land Area of Payable Fund Paid Fund Serial Surbodianate Completed Date Demolished Acquisition Demolished (RMB 10,000 (RMB 10,000 Number Pile No. Investment Housing (mu) Stated-owned Collective- Housing (mu) yuan) yuan) Land owned Land

Shizinao to D0+000- 1 Shenjiaxi along 102.36 0 102.36 0 249.91 232.3 93% D4+505 north bank

2008

Lishui Bridge to B2+190- 2 Yueliangxi along 65.98 11.28 54.7 0 190.09 176.7 93% B5+040 south bank

Shizinao to D0+000- 1 Shenjiaxi along 0 0 0 0 0 0 0% D4+505 north bank

2009

Lishui Bridge to B2+190- 2 Yueliangxi along 10.79 3.09 7.7 0 31 31 0% B5+040 south bank

Total 179.13 14.37 164.76 0 471 440 93%

2.2.2 Housing Demolition

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

The planning: houses with the areas of 8,055 m2 are planned to be demolished, with 294 relocatees in 53 households. 294 affected relocatees in 53 households are planned to be resettled by means of scattered backward resettlement, cash compensation resettlement and concentrated resettlement through property rights exchange, among which 80 relocatees in 12 households choose the cash compensation, 81 relocatees in 17 households choose scattered backward resettlement and 133 relocatees in 24 households

choose concentrated resettlement through property rights exchange.

Implementation progress: no relocation will be carried out because of the adjustment of this subproject.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

The planning: houses with the area of 22,635 m2 are planned to be demolished, and 464 relocatees in 148 households will be resettled in line with the planning. According to the plan, cash compensation will be chosen for the resettlement of the affected 464 relocatees in 148 households in Chujiang Town, Baofeng Development Zone and Yijiadu.

Project implementation: due to the need of this project, an adjustment will be made to the scheme. The adjusted scheme has been reported to the HNPPMO and other relevant design departments. And there will be no demolition and resettlement in the adjusted scheme.

2.2.3 Invetsment for Resettlement

Planned investment for resettlement and accomplishment of resettlement investment for Fenghuang and Shimen County Subproject are indicated in details in Table 2.2.3-1

Table 2.3.3-1 Statistics Table of Planed Resettlement Fund and Accomplishment of Resettlement Investment

Project Fenghuang County Shimen County

Newly planed total investment 771.8 2214.05

Available resettlement fund 1.354 440 Percentage of available resettlement fund in the planned 0% 20% total investment Accomplishment investment in 2008 1.354 409

Accomplishment investment in 2009 0 31

Accomplishment investment in 2010 0 0

Accumulative accomplished investment 1.354 440

Percentage of accumulative accomplished investment 0.18% 20%

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

The planned total investment for resettlement is RMB 7.718 million yuan. No resettlement investment in this period. So far, the accumulated resettlement investment has come to RMB 13,540 yuan, accounting for 0.18% of the total investment. The fees for the accomplished land acquisition have already been paid in lump sum, without default or underpayment.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

The planned total investment for resettlement is RMB 22.1405 million yuan. In the end of 2010, the accumulated resettlement investment has mounted up to RMB 4.4 million yuan, accounting for 20% of the total investment and there is no investment for resettlement within this period. The fees for the accomplished land acquisition have already been paid in lump sum, without default or underpayment.

3. Implementation of Action Plan

3.1 Specific Measures

3.1.1 Mitigation Measures

 Mitigation Measures for Construction-related Disturbances

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Fenghuang County, the construction of flood control works and related facilities will directly affect 5 residential committees and 13 minority villages of Tuojiang Town, and the total minority population affected by construction noises and other hazards from these residential committees or villages will hit 44738.

This subproject was started in July of 2008. During the project implementation, the construction party restricted the construction time from 8 AM to 10 PM (prolonged to 12 PM in summer) to avoid the rest time and reduce the influence of the noises on the residents near the work sites. During the college entrance examination, the construction was even stopped for two weeks to avoid interfering with studies and preparation for the examination of the students nearby. Except for rainy days, everyday the construction party arranged watering carts for watering dust prevention of the construction road for three or four times to reduce construction damages to the health of the residents nearby and the environmental hygiene of the county. As for those construction vehicles in and out of the county, all were cleaned uniformly so as to prevent bringing the dust from the work sites to the roads of the county.

The annual costs for watering dust prevention, construction vehicles watering and construction garbage disposal were RMB 2,000 yuan. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 6,000 yuan.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Shimen County, the construction of flood control works and related facilities will directly affect 15 villages (residential committees) of Shimen County Town, and the total minority population affected by construction noises and other hazards from these residential committees or villages will hit more than 18788.

This subproject was started in July of 2008. During the project implementation, the construction party prohibitd construction of the works near the residential areas after 12PM to avoid the rest time and reduce the influence of the noises on the residents near the work sites. Except for rainy days, everyday the construction party arranged watering carts for watering dust prevention of the construction road for three or four times to reduce construction damages to the health of the residents nearby and the environmental hygiene of the county. As for those construction vehicles in and out of the county, all were cleaned uniformly so as to prevent bringing the dust from the work sites to the roads of the county.

The annual costs for watering dust prevention, construction vehicles watering and construction garbage disposal were RMB 3,000 yuan. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 9,000 yuan.

3.1.1.2 Mitigation Measures for HIV/AIDS and STIs Publicity and Prevention

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Fenghuang County, although Fenghuang County is not a high risk area for HIV/AIDS, in order to ensure that Fenghuang will continue free of HIV/AIDS, county CDCs (Centre for Disease Control), in accordance with the PRC Law on Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Disease, should take measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs.

During the project implementation, the project party propagandized how to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs to the residents in the project areas by taking a series of measures such as putting up posters and publishing blackboard newspaper in coordination with Fenghuang Public Health Bureau and Epidemic Prevention Station. All the workers in the project areas were affiliated to the community medical station for convenient treatment. The project party also invited the staff from the environmental protection bureau to inspect the adverse impact such as dust and the water quality of dyke toes in the project areas, and took certain corrective measures to reduce health damages to the construction workers. No incidence of HIV/AIDS occurred in the project area during the project implementation.

The annual costs for publicity, hygienic cleaning, sanitary quarantine, vaccination and mice/mosquitoes/flies control were RMB 500 yuan, RMB 1,000 yuan, RMB 2,000 yuan, RMB 1,500 yuan and RMB 1,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 18,000 yuan.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Shimen County, although Shimen County is not a high risk area for HIV/AIDS, in order to ensure that Shimen will continue free of HIV/AIDS, county CDCs (Centre for Disease Control), in accordance with the PRC Law on Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Disease, should take measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs.

The annual costs for publicity, hygienic cleaning, sanitary quarantine, vaccination and mice/mosquitoes/flies control were RMB 500 yuan, RMB 1,500 yuan, RMB 2,000 yuan, RMB 2,000 yuan and RMB 1,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 21,000 yuan.

3.1.1.3 Mitigation Measures for Gender Equality

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Fenghuang County, In order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women, women’s participation in terms of decision making will be secured in accordance with government laws and regulations during the implementation of Ethnic Minority Action Plan.

In the affected areas, women have equal rights and status of men and play important roles

in economical development and housework, especially in villages where most women stay at home while most men go to work in cities. Women also play important roles in agriculture production (both cultivation and non-farm work) besides in family responsibilities; therefore, women even paid more interests in this subproject than men in the influenced areas. They not only actively took part in the work at all periods of resettlement, but also played outstanding roles in many other aspects such as negotiating directions and modes of resettlement.

Since the implementation of this subproject, the executive agencies of the subproject and the local government laid special stress on women’s roles, caring for them and the requirements of the families which take women as householders and giving them full play to relocation implementation. In various relocation discussion meetings and consultative conferences of the subproject, about 55% attendants were women, and their suggestions, requirements and problem-reflections on economic rehabilitation and demolition of old houses, moving and building of new houses were fully attended to in order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women.

Besides this, the Women’s Federation of Fenghuang County worked around the County Party Committee and the County Government, combined its own functions to play the role of tie, bridge and backbone, organized women of the whole county to actively launch activities, and released various information on livelihood, training and social activities. The Women’s Federation also coordinated with the Organization Department of the County Party Committee to select section-level cadres. It involved in the whole process (including registration for examination, written examination, interview and investigation) and finally a number of young and excellent women cadres were selected, helping women widely participate in the administration of national and social affairs.

The costs for conference, women cadres training and go-out study were RMB 5,000 yuan, RMB 50,000 yuan and RMB 45,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 100,000 yuan.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Shimen County, In order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women, women’s participation in terms of decision making will be secured in accordance with government laws and regulations during the implementation of Ethnic Minority Action Plan.

In the influenced areas, women have equal rights and status of men and play important roles in economical development and housework, especially in villages where most women stay at home while most men go to work in cities. Women also play important roles in agriculture production (whether cultivation or non-farm work) besides in family responsibilities; therefore, women even paid more interests in this subproject than men in the influenced areas. They not only actively took part in the work at all periods of resettlement, but also played outstanding roles in many other aspects such as negotiating directions and modes of resettlement.

Since the implementation of this subproject, the executive agencies of the subproject and the local government laid special stress on women’s roles, caring for them and the requirements of the families which take women as householders and giving them full play to relocation implementation. In various relocation discussion meetings and consultative conferences of the subproject, about 50% attendants were women, and their suggestions, requirements and problem-reflections on economic rehabilitation and demolition of old houses, moving and building of new houses were fully attended to in order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women.

Besides this, the Women’s Federation of Shimen County worked around the County Party Committee and the County Government, combined its own functions to play the role of tie,

bridge and backbone, organized women of the whole county to actively launch activities, and released various information on livelihood, training and social activities.

The costs for conference, women cadres training and go-out study were RMB 5,000 yuan, RMB 50,000 yuan and RMB 55,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 110,000 yuan.

3.1.1.4 Mitigation Measures for Implementation of Resettlement

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Fenghuang County, when establishing the resettlement plan, it should let the relocatees know the rights they have and the schemes they can choose so as to obtain the cooperation, participation and feedback of the residents in resettlement sites and relocatees. When relocatees settle into resettlement sites, perfect services in education, water supply and medical care should be provided for the two groups (the residents in resettlement sites and new relocatees) as far as possible, creating better social atmosphere for their fusion.

The subproject of Fenghuang County consulted the relocatees in project areas and resettlement sites and the minority groups affected by the subproject about their opinions and suggestions on planning and implementation scheme before the relocation removal and resettlement were implemented; meanwhile, since the land acquisition scheme for resettlement in the planning construction scheme of Fenghuang County Subproject conflicts with the newly-released Fenghuang Conservation Regulation of Xiangxi Prefecture，Fenghuang County Subproject PMD will combine the subproject requirements to adjust the subproject scheme according to Fenghuang Conservation Regulation and the adjusted subproject scheme won’t involve land acquisition and removal.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Shimen County, when establishing the resettlement plan, it should let the relocatees know the rights they have and the schemes they can choose so as to obtain the cooperation, participation and feedback of the residents in resettlement sites and relocatees. When relocatees settle into resettlement sites, perfect services in education, water supply and medical care should be provided for the two groups (the residents in resettlement sites and new relocatees) as far as possible, creating better social atmosphere for their fusion.

The subproject of Shimen County consulted the relocatees in project areas and resettlement sites and the minority groups affected by the subproject about their opinions and suggestions on planning and implementation scheme before the relocation removal and resettlement were implemented and adequately considered the requirements of the affected groups; meanwhile, the Employer will adjust the project scheme in order to reduce the tasks of relocation removal and resettlement as well as resettlement fund. The adjusted project scheme will only include land acquisition but exclude removal. The changed design scheme has been submitted to Hunan Provincial Key PPMO and related departments, and the reply has not been received yet.

The population of the vulnerable groups listed in the resettlement plan of Shimen County Subproject is 23, and the number that has got assistance during the project implementation sums up to 13. These vulnerable groups will receive certain allowances from the government besides the allowances and assistance measures included in the resettlement plan. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 19,320 yuan. See Table9.2-1 for details.

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Table 9.2-1 Summery Table of Assistance Conditions for the Vulnerable Groups

Name of Types of No. Assistance measures householders vulnerable groups

RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance; RMB 160 yuan for basic 1 Ma Jiaquan Poor household living allowance each month.

RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance; RMB 160 yuan for basic 2 Li Yugui Poor household living allowance each month.

3 Li Yulan Poor household RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance.

4 Li Yuxi Poor household RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance.

RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance; RMB 160 yuan for basic 5 Hu Lianzhen Poor household living allowance each month.

RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance; RMB 160 yuan for basic 6 Li Yichun Poor household living allowance each month.

7 Wang Wenfeng Poor household RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance.

RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance; RMB 160 yuan for basic 8 Li Yidan Poor household living allowance each month.

9 Li Yumao Poor household RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance.

10 Xiong Jingba Poor household RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance.

RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance; RMB 160 yuan for basic 11 Yang Guizhen Poor household living allowance each month.

12 Zhang Ming Poor household RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance.

13 Zhang Changhua Poor household RMB 600 yuan for lump-sum living allowance.

3.1.2 Enhancement Measures

 Implementation of Micro-Credit Program

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Fenghuang County Subproject and under the coordination of the Poverty Alleviation Office of Fenghuang County, Fenghuang Women Federation will provide micro-credit service to some 2,100 rural minority women in the 31 townships of Fenghuang County during the project implementation period. Most of them will be minority women. The average size of the loan is RMB 1,000 yuan. The loan would be used for the income generating activities. Repayment period ranges from 0.5 to 4 years with annual interest rate of 3.42%. The Poverty Alleviation Office will cover 50% of the credit’s interest charges. There were 47 women provided with the micro-credits of RMB 47,000 yuan totally in 2009 and 226 women with the micro-credits of RMB 0.226 million yuan totally in 2010. The accumulated micro-credits granted have mounted up to RMB 0.273 million yuan over the past two years.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

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provide micro-credit service to some 1,520 rural minority women in the 38 townships of Shimen County during the project implementation period. Most of them will be minority women. The average size of the loan is RMB 1,000 yuan. The loan would be used for the income generating activities. Repayment period ranges from 0.5 to 4 years with annual interest rate of 5-6%. The Poverty Alleviation Office will cover 50% of the credit’s interest charges. There were 215 women provided with the micro-credits of RMB 0.215 million yuan totally in 2009 and 369 women with the micro-credits of RMB 0.369 million yuan totally in 2010. The accumulated micro-credits granted have mounted up to RMB 0.584 million yuan over the past two years.

 Tourism Development

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Fenghuang County Subproject, County governments and their tourism agencies will take the following promotion actions for tourism development:

A. Exhibition of Tujia and Miao cultures and establishing tourism infrastructures; preparation of tourism brochures and posters to distribute and display in the rest and parking areas and service stations of the expressway. They are also to be distributed in various tourism agents in cities.

B. Introduction of the tourism resources with access maps on various websites.

The ancient city of Fenghuang is located in the southwest of Hunan Province. It is in the Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture and adjacent to Guizhou Province. The climate here is warm. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, rich in light and has four distinct seasons, thus the ancient city of Fenghuang is the most enjoyable place for tourism.

The ancient city of Fenghuang was the inhabited area of Miao and Tujia from ancient times to the present. As it is remote, various historic buildings to date were saved relatively complete. Furthermore, it has rich tourism resources in the county, such as Qiliangdong, which enjoys the fame throughout the world; South China Great Wall, which stuns the world; Academy of Classical Learning of Santan, Tianxingshan Ancient Battlefields, Miao Villages with rich ethnic customs and the World First Great Stone Bridge of Wuchao Rive, all of which are ideal tourism places. Miaojiang Great Wall discovered in Fenghuang and rarely recorded in history books was built during Wanli years of Ming dynasty, with a total length of 190 km. It stretches from Xiangxi Guzhang County Magpie Camp in the north to the Territory of Tongren in Guizhou Huang Camp in the south, most parts of which pass through Fenghuang County. It is a world-wide rare scenic spot.

The accumulated investment in the tourism of Fenghuang County has mounted up to RMB 0.65 billion yuan in recent years.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Shimen County Subproject, County governments and their tourism agencies will take the following promotion actions for tourism development:

A. Development and promotion of traditional tourism projects, such as Hupin Mountain and Folder Temple. Exhibition of Tujia and Miao cultures and establishing tourism infrastructures.

B. Preparation of tourism brochures and posters to distribute and display in the rest

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and parking areas and service stations of the expressway. They are also to be distributed in various tourism agents in cities.

C. Introduction of the tourism resources with access maps on various websites.

D. Hold Shimen Orange Festival in October every year. It has already the 7th orange festival to this year.

Shimen County is a place with beautiful scenery and numerous historical and scenic sites within Changde Prefecture. There are Yaner Cave hominid sites, Xianyang ruins sites of ancient city in Spring and Autumn Period, Erdu pagoda ruins sites of Shang dynasty, etc. All indicate that Shimen has a long civilization history. Folder Temple, which is 13 km away from the urban areas of Shimen County , is the Buddhist Cultural Center of Lishui valley and the cultural origins of tea ceremony. Traditionally, it’s said that Li Zicheng lived in seclusion in the Folder Temple after the failed uprising. It unearthed many pieces of cultural relics in “Feng Tianyu Monk Tomb” beside the temple, and the tomb was proved as Li Zicheng’s tomb. Hupin Mountain, which was renowned as “the ridge of Hunan”, also is located in Shimen County with an altitude of 2,098 m. There are more than 40 thousand mu original secondary forests on the picturesque mountain. It’s well-known that a famous poet in Tang Dynasty, Mr. Li Bai ever wrote famous lines “waterfalls cascading down Huping Mountain, and peach blossoms falling at the entrance” through ages when he passed through Hupin Mountain during the path of exile. “The Dragon King Pool Cave” is not far from the urban areas of Shimen County. In the cave, it is wide as a nave and its longitudinal direction stretches for miles. When canoeing into the cave, you will feel like in the Dragon King's palace. Besides, Reshui Stream hotspring of Shimen is a convalescent resort. A lot of wild wintersweet grows along more than ten li of River valley. When wintersweet blossoms in the chilly winter, the fragrance spreads the valley and the scenery is pleasing. Qiandao Lake of Mengquan has charming landscape of lakes and mountains. In a word, the landscape of Shimen is beautiful as a picture. When coming to Changde, you must come to Shimen.

The accumulated investment in the tourism of Shimen County has mounted up to RMB 0.18 billion yuan in recent years.

 Technical Advice and Training

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Fenghuang County Subproject, county technical sectors (i.e., Agricultural and Forestry Bureau, and Labor and Social Security Bureau) will provide special technical advices and training to the project affected farmers (men and women) on grain cropping, livestock management, and non-farm skills, as well as job introduction for migrant labors. Skill training will also be provided to enable minority people take employment opportunities from construction of flood control projects.

As for Fenghuang County Subproject, the resettlement plan of land acquisition which is included in the planning construction scheme contradicts the new Fenghuang Conservation Regulation by Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. According to Fenghuang Conservation Regulation and the requirements of engineering implementation, the PMO of Fenghuang County Subproject proposes to adjust the engineering scheme. The adjusted scheme no longer concerns land acquisition and demolition. The subproject construction has no effects on local farmers' grain cropping, livestock management, and non-farm skills, as well as jobs for migrant labors. But Labor and Social Security Bureau of Fenghuang encourages the stability of enterprises jobs, sufficiently admits employment, promotes labors self-employment, strengthens the training of professional skills and perfects employment aid system for people experiencing employment difficulty to give full play to the employment policy effect.

The accumulated investment in training has mounted up to RMB 0.254 million yuan.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Shimen County Subproject, county technical sectors (i.e., Agricultural and Forestry Bureau, Labor and Social Security Bureau) will provide special technical advices and trainings to the project affected farmers (men and women) on grain cropping, livestock management, and non-farm skills, as well as job introduction for migrant labors. Skill trainings will also be provided to enable minority people take employment opportunities from construction of flood control projects.

In order to reduce the task of resettlement and the input of relocatees funds, and thus to release the stress of fund raising, it’s proposed to adjust the engineering scheme. The adjusted scheme no longer concerns land acquisition and demolition, which has already been submitted to Hunan Provincial PMO of Urban Flood Control Project in Hilly Region Utilizing ADB Loans（HNPPMO）and relevant departments for approval, but no official and written reply has been received yet. The Labor and Social Security Bureau of Shimen County encourages the stability of enterprises jobs, sufficiently admits employment, promotes labors self-employment, strengthens the training of professional skills and perfects employment aid system for people experiencing employment difficulty to give full play to the employment policy effect. The affected area is located in the urban areas of Shimen County with good infrastructure conditions, where the local farmers led by the government have a lot of opportunities in non-farm employment, such as daily labor and small business. Most surplus labor forces have transferred to the second and tertiary industries, gradually moving out of reliance on the land.

The accumulated investment in training has mounted up to RMB 1.869 million yuan.

 Tax Incentives

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Fenghuang County Subproject and in order to encourage local minority people to engage in secondary and tertiary activities, the local government will provide tax incentives and special policies, such as fixed allowances, increasing subsidy, and special assistance, waive agricultural tax, and provide priority for the minority households to get micro credits.

Presently, Fenghuang County has already waived agricultural tax totally and provided tax incentives policies for new businessmen. The province will provide priority to and give consideration to transferring payment from the exchequer in these areas. The finances of all levels set up enterprise grants and establish the finance scales according to the population of local minority and actual requirements for the nation works. There were 1,215 persons benefitted from the tax relief policy carried out by industrial and commercial department and taxation department through entrepreneurship or self-employment with a total reduced fees of RMB 0.49 million yuan in 2010 in Fenghuang County.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Shimen County Subproject and in order to encourage local minority people to engage in secondary and tertiary activities, the local government will provide tax incentives and special policies, such as fixed allowances, increasing subsidy, and special assistance, waive agricultural tax, and provide priority for the minority households to get micro credits.

Presently, Shimen County has already waived agricultural tax totally. The province will provide priority to and give consideration to transferring payment from the exchequer in these areas. Newly-built enterprises enjoy income tax relief 3-5 years from the first profit making year to aid their improvements. The finances of all levels set up enterprise grants and establish the finance scales according to the population of local minority and actual requirements for the nation works. There were 648 persons benefitted from the tax relief policy carried out by industrial and commercial department and taxation department through entrepreneurship or self-employment with a total reduced fees of RMB 0.28 million yuan in 2010 in Shimen County.

3.1.3 Project Benefit Measure

(1) Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Fenghuang County Subproject, the local ethnic minority people should have the preference to be employed as civilian worker during the construction of Fenghuang County Subproject. The rate of local worker being employed by contractor should be 75% at least.

Since the implementation of this project, Fenghuang County Subproject construction employment has preferentially employed the local relocatees and ethnic minority groups, to provide employment opportunities to the local residents, so that the project construction was favorable to help develop the living standard of the influenced people and recover their livelihood. This project employed about 300 to 500 people; except for some special professional jobs, local residents were employed for 95% of the remaining unskilled jobs such as haulage man, raw material suppliers and unskilled labourer. About 88% of the local residents employed wre of ethnic minority. Local workers employed for the construction of flood control project were paid in full without any default and underpayment. The accumulated payment for workers has mounted up to RMB 0.1525 million yuan.

(2) Shimen County Subproject

According to the resettlement plan of Shimen County Subproject, the local ethnic minority people should have the preference to be employed as civilian worker during the construction of Shimen County Subproject. the rate of local worker being employed by contractor should be 75% at least.

Since the implementation of this project, Shimen County Subproject construction employment has preferentially employed the local relocatees and ethnic minority groups. The project construction provided employment opportunities to the local residents, and was favorable to help develop the living standard of the influenced people and recover their livelihood. This project has employed about 700 people; except for some special professional jobs, local residents were employed for 95% of the remaining unskilled jobs such as haulage man, raw material suppliers and unskilled labourer. About 88% of the local residents employed were of ethnic minority. Local workers employed in the Flood Control Project construction were paid in full without any default and underpayment. The accumulated payment for workers has mounted up to RMB 0.2438 million yuan.

3.2 Fund Availability and usage condition

Table 3.2-1 Summary Table for Resettlement Fund Availability and Usage Condition

Fenghuang County Shimen County Measures to be taken Funds resource Invested Budget (Yuan) Invested funds Budget (Yuan) funds

To prevent ethnic minority communities 1000 6000 1000 9000 from construction disturbance

To conduct communicable disease 1000 18000 1000 21000 control Mitigation measures To encourage women to participate in 1000 100000 1000 110000 meetings and decision-making

To provide specialty support for the 1000 0 1000 19320 resettlement of the affected people

To offer micro-credit loan ( rural women- County Women's 400000 273000 1800000 584000 oriented mostly) Federation

To provide measures for tourisom County 4000000- 4000000- 650000000 180000000 promotion government 5000000 5000000 Enchancement measures To provide information and advice on County agricultural technology and non- 254000 1869000 government agricultural skills

County To facilitate tax preference 490000 280000 government

To employ ethnic minority people as workers for construction of projects 1000 152500 1000 243800 related to the flood control Project-benefitted measures

To employ ethnic minority labors as workers for maintenance and other 1000 1000 relevant works

Note: the invested funds mostly are data for the whole county including the investment for project areas.

3.3 Consultation and Appeals

3.3.1 Fenghuang County Subproject

According to the requirements listed in the resettlement plan, from the beginning of the project

to the whole process of resettlement implementation, measures like symposium and sample investigation of resettlement will should be taken by the project headquarter and resettlement administration at all levels to ensure the relocatee from influenced areas and the local governments can fully understand the details of resettlement plan and compensation and relocation plan.

For Fenghuang County Subproject, since the launch of the relocation in 2008, high attention has been paid to it by Hunan Province, Jishou City and resettlement organs at all levels. And wide propaganda was given to the subproject by means of local news media including TV, broadcasting and newspapers. Because the resettlement plan of land acquisition included in the planning construction scheme contradicts the new Fenghuang Conservation Regulation by Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. According to Fenghuang Conservation Regulation and the requirements of engineering implementation, the PMO of Fenghuang County Subproject proposes to adjust the engineering scheme. The adjusted scheme no longer concerns land acquisition and demolition, thus for Fenghuang County Subproject, no appeal exists.

3.3.2 Shimen County Subproject

Before the land acquisition and demolition, Shimen County Government, County PMO, Demolition Office and other units and departments have communicated and consulted repeatedly on resettlement policy and standard for compensation. Symposia, posting notice are used to make public the concerning resettlement information to residents from areas influenced by the project, and information manuals are handed out to relocatees so that they can know the conditions of land acquisition, standard for land compensation and fund usage, and information of demolition and relocatees in resettlement areas. Much attention should be paid to the ethnic minority groups, of which the proportion in consultation activities is about 85%.

For the detailed consultation activities, see the Table 3.3.2-1

Table 3.3.2-1 Summary Table for Consultation Activities

No. of Time Site Participant Content Participants

Cadres of resettlement town and Conference room of Subproject briefing, and discussion village, Design Organization, resettler , 2008.4 Chujiang Town PMO 65 on the impact scope and preliminary Huawei Water and Electricity for ADB Loans resettlement scheme Engineering Company, County PMO

Cadres of resettlement town and Conference room of village, Design Organization, resettler Subproject briefing, and discussion 2008.4 Chujiang Town PMO representatives, Huawei Water and 48 on the impact scope and preliminary for ADB Loans Electricity Engineering Company, resettlement scheme County PMO

County Government, Design Conference room of Soliciting opinions on compensation Organization, planning administration 2008.5 Chujiang Town PMO ， 39 standards, resettlement schemes land administration, resettler for ADB Loans and land acquisition representatives

1. Solicting the suggestions and opinions on subproject schemes, houses demolition and resettlement County Government, County PMO and 2008.5 Demolished field 105 by relevant parties; 2. The resettlers Affected Persons representatives participate in implementation of houses demolition and relocation

1.Convene a consultation meeting to concentrate on introduction and continue to solicit suggestions and County PMO, Demolition Management opinions; 2. Hold a resettlement 2008.6 Demolished field 108 Office and resettlers mobilization to disseminate resettlement schemes, compensation standards and answer inquiries by affected persons

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations

4.1 Fenghuang County Subproject

For Fenghuang County Subproject, the main existing problems at present are as follows:

1) For Fenghuang County Subproject, the adjustment of construction scheme has not been finally approved by relevant department.

Recommendations for the main existing problem of Fenghuang County Subproject are as follows:

1) It’s suggested that relevant formalities should be fulfilled to obtain the final approval from ADB as soon as possible.

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4.2 Shimen County Subproject

For Shimen County Subproject, the main existing problems at present are as follows:

1) For Shimen County Subproject, the adjustment of construction scheme has not been approved by relevant department.

2) The land acquisition of Shimen County Subproject has been accomplished with the submission for final approval not been replied yet.

Recommendations for the main existing problems of Shimen County Subproject are as follows:

1) It’s suggested that relevant formalities should be fulfilled to obtain the final approval from ADB as soon as possible.

2) It’s suggested to speed up the work of submission and get the approval documents as soon as possible.

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Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

External Monitoring and Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement (No. 4) Jishou and Luxi Subprojects

Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co. Ltd. May 2011

Verified by: Qin Lin

Reviewed by: Xia Jihong

Checked by: Ren Yu

Compiled by: Li Lin Qin Si

Main Working Staff: Li Lin Qin Si

Qin Lin Xia Jihong

Ren Yu Chen Zizhou

Huang Qingyun Zeng Di

Min Tian Mo Jie

External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

Contents

Foreword ...... 1

1. Background ...... 1

1.1 Project Description ...... 1

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas ...... 3

2. Project Implementation Progress ...... 6

2.1 Civil Works Progress ...... 6

2.2 Implementation Progress of Resettlement ...... 7

3. Implementation of Action Plan ...... 9

3.1 Specific Measures ...... 10

3.2 Fund Availability and Usage Condition ...... 20

3.3 Consultation and Appeals ...... 20

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations ...... 22

Foreword

The Hunan Flood Management Sector Project Utilizing ADB Loans i.e. the Hunan Urban Flood Control Project for Hilly Area was formally commenced in January of 2007. The external monitoring and evaluation of ethnic minority resettlement for nine subprojects (Sangzhi, Cili, Shimen, Baojing Fenghuang, Jishou, Jianghua, Jiangyong and Luxi) of the project are undertaken by our Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd., which is finally determined by ADB and Hunan PPMO through their consultation.

Ethnic minority external monitoring and evaluation of Jishou and Luxi subprojects were formally commenced at this phase.

This report mainly covers minority monitoring and evaluation of Jishou and Luxi Subprojects for the fourth time.

Time period of the report for this phase: Jan. 1, 2010 to Dec. 31, 2010.

1. Background

1.1 Project Description

1.1.1 Engineering Description

(1) Jishou Subproject

The main purposes of Jishou Subproject:

A. Protect Jishou City from flood threat;

B. Strengthen the management of Yuanjiang River drainage basin, which is a component of Hunan Flood Management Project.

The subproject includes the following parts:

Newly built flood control dam of 22.618 km in five protection zones;

Transformation of 3 masonry dams into rubber dams;

River protection bank of 16.148 km;

Riverway desilting of 12.13 km;

One newly built flood diversion canal of 2.25 km;

8 sluice drainage projects;

The flood control standard is promoted to 1 in 50-year recurrence from current 1 in 10-year recurrence, and water logging control standard is improved to 1 in 10-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-to-5-year recurrence.

(2) Luxi Subproject

The main purposes of Luxi Subproject:

A. Protect Luxi County from flood threat;

B. Strengthen the management of Yuanjiang River drainage basin, which is a component of Hunan Flood Management Project.

The subproject includes the following parts:

One newly built dike of 2.715 km;

One newly built flood prevention road on dam top of 2.582 km;

Newly built 4 culverts;

Construction of flood control system and configuration management facilities required.

The protection area will reach to 2.0 km2. The flood control standard is promoted to 1 in 20-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-year recurrence, and water logging control standard is improved to 1 in 10-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-to-5-year recurrence.

1.1.2 Resettlement Description

(1) Jishou Subproject

Land acquisition, houses demolition and population resettlement are all considered to be the main negative impacts to this project.

The project's permanent acquisition land only involves 15 villages (residential committees) of 2 offices in Donghe, Qiangan City, the project permanent land covers 119.41 mu, in which 30.03 mu cultivated land, 3 mu ponds, 6.76 mu rural residential land, 7 mu economic forests, 1.2 mu timber forests, and urban construction land of 71.47 mu (including 15 mu industrial and commercial land, 29.44 mu residential land and 26.98 mu other land). The project temporary construction land covers 104.95 mu, including 6.26 mu paddy fields, 8.14 mu dry land, 13.22 mu bushes and 77.33 mu wild grassland.

The project land acquisition actually has impact on 1,040 people of 287 households, in which 205 persons of 56 households who only involve in acquisition but not in demolition (including temporary land use impact on 57 persons of 13 households), 785 persons of 217 households who only involve in houses demolition but not in land acquisition, 50 persons of 14 households involve in both, requiring houses demolition of 23,695m2 houses. Among those people, the agricultural population of 108 need economic rehabilitation, and 835 persons of 231 households need newly relocation by building houses.

(2) Luxi Subproject

Land acquisition, house demolition and population resettlement are all considered to be the main negative impacts to this project.

The project's permanent demolition land involves one town, one village, two villagers’ groups, all kinds of acquisitioned land of 290.45 mu, all belonging to collective-owned land, including paddy land of 45.58 mu, dry land of 4.7 mu, vegetables field of 27.42 mu, garden field of 46.05 mu, ponds of 1.8 mu, residential land of 3.3 mu, and unused land of 161.6 mu. The temporary land acquisition of all kinds covers 18 mu, including dry land of 2 mu, and wild land of 16 mu. The average time period of the borrowed land is 2 years.

The project land acquisition actually has impact on 427 persons in 102 households, in which 272 persons in 71 households who only involve in land acquisition but not in houses demolition (including temporary land use impact on 9 persons of 2 households), 155 persons of 31 households who only involve in houses demolition but not in land acquisition,

50 persons of 14 households involve in both, requiring demolition of 2345.78m2 houses.

Among those people, 155 persons of 31households need building new houses, the agriculture population of 237 persons need economic rehabilitation.

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas

1.2.1 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Protected Areas (PPA)

(1) Jishou Subproject

Jishou City is the state capital of Xiangxi autonomous prefecture, and the proposed flood protection project will directly protect the city, which is the political, economic, financial and cultural centers of Jishou city with convenient communication.

The project area involves 4 sub-districts, 21 residential committees, 3 townships and 25 villages. In 2007, there were 46,529 families, with a total population of 154,000, of which 69.6% are ethnic minorities, including 56.2% for Tujia nationality, 42.9% for Miao nationality, and 0.90% for others. The difference of economic conditions between rural and urban area was not great in Jishou City. In the protection area, 26,814 persons (accounting for 92%) were urban residents. In the general population, 20,212 were ethnic minorities, accounting for 69.4%, of which, 8.0% of the general population was rural population, with only 0.71 mu land area per capita. Most land was used to grow vegetables and other cereals. The continued urban expansion and land acquisition around the city was the main reason for this phenomenon.

In the benefited groups of the project, 20,212 persons are ethnic minorities, accounting for 69.4%. 70%-80% of the community’s population are minorities, mainly Tujia and Miao nationalities, accounting for 68.7% of the ethnic minorities. These people have the same rights as the Han population to receive education and employment, and there is no significant differences in the economy condition and income levels.

(2) Luxi Subproject

The protection area of the project in Baisha Town located in Luxi County, and Baisha Town is the political, economic, financial and cultural centers of Luxi County with convenient transportation. The town consisting of five communities and three village committees, is a town with characteristics of both rural and urban areas. In 2007, there were 10,619 families, with a total population of 29,911, of which, 65.6% were ethnic minorities, including 61.6% for Miao nationality, 37.7% for Tujia nationality, and 0.7% for other ethnic minorities.

The difference of economic conditions between rural and urban area was not great. In the general population, 15,896 were ethnic minorities, accounting for 72.9%. 1.25% of the general population was rural population, with only 0.24 mu land area per capita. Most land was used to grow vegetables. The continued urban expansion and land acquisition around the city was the main reason for this phenomenon.

In the benefited groups of the project, 15,896 persons were ethnic minorities, accounting for 73.0%, mainly Tujia and Miao nationalities, which accounted for 99.9% of the ethnic minorities. These people have the same rights as the Han population to receive education and employment, and there is no significant differences in the economy condition and income levels.

1.2.2 Customs of Ethnic Minorities in the PPA

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minorities’ religious faith freedom and respect their customs in costume, dietary, residence, marriage, funeral, etc., especially in language, production method, religious faith, residence habit, houses demolition and building custom and life taboo of ethnic minority closely related to land acquisition and relocation. It shall be observed that whether preferential policy enjoyed by relocatee changes before and after relocation and whether their lawful rights and interests are affected.

Jishou City is the state capital of Xiangxi autonomous prefecture, and Luxi located in northwestern area of Hunan Province, where the main people are ethnic minorities, mainly Miao and Tujia people, with basically same customs.

For the detailed customs of main ethnic minorities in Jishou City and Luxi County, see the Table 1.2.2-1 and Table1.2.2-2.

Table 1.2.2-1 Summary for Customs and Habits of Main Ethnic Minorities (1)

National Cultural Chief Specific Activities (folk Religious Ethnic Language Character Costume Dietary HabitS Custom Festival song, music and Faith Minority dance)

There are unique customs in the manner "Gannian The staple food was dry of welcoming guest and getting along festival before Tujia crop such as sweet potato with people, marriage, bearing and Always wear spring festival", language of Wrap tattoing cyan and corn in the past , but is bringing up children as well as funeral. splendid attire on Commonly- "Sheba festival" Tibeto- handkerchief in head, rice now.There is no For example, man and woman usually festivals to gather Worship Tujia used in January Burman wear front-buttoned specific taboo in dietary. fall in love with each other and then get together to sing ancestor and nationality Chinese (lunar calendar), branch of dress and prefer to Besides, there are some married through singing in antiphonal folk songs and the White Tiger. characters festivals on Tibetan wear silver ornament. kinds of specific national style; besides, there is a kind of custom dance waving April 8, June 6th family dishes such as Duohefan, called crying for marriage and thus the dance. and July 15 bacon and Hezha,etc.. virtue of woman is based on being good (lunar calendar) at crying for marriage.

Miao minorities are There are unique customs in the manner good at singing There are of welcoming guest and getting along and dancing, and a Miao There are no particular habit several national with people, marriage, bearing and reed-pipe wind language of Wear batik fabric and taboo. They prefer festivals, such Common bringing up children as well as funeral. instrument is their Worship nature, Miao Miao-Yao clothes and wide sticky rice wine and always as festivals on Chinese For example, advocate freedom of favorite instrument. totem and nationality branch of waistband, and silver take it as tea. Besides, April 8 and June character marriage since ancient times without The most common ancestors. Sino-Tibetan ornaments by women. there are several kinds of 6 (lunar regard to cash gift and family status; dances are family specific dishes. calendar)and entertain guests mainly with wine and Lusheng dance Ganqiu Festival. with chilli as auxiliary. and Houergu dance.

There are unique customs in the manner of welcoming guest and getting along There are no particular habit Generall keep mainly Tujia Generally wear clothes with people, marriage, bearing and Jishou Commonly- and taboo and there are faith of their language of Han nationality, but bringing up children as well as funeral, City used several kinds of specific Similar with Han Same as Han own nationality, branch of only a few of the senior which are not identical with those of ethnic Chinese national dishes including nationality. nationaltiy but meanwhile Chinese still keep some clothes Tujia, Miao and Han nationalities and minorities characters dishes of Tujia , Miao, Bai Buddhism also family of their own nationality. seem to be the common custom similar and Han nationalities. prevails. with Han nationality through combination of these nationalites.

There are unique customs in the manner of welcoming guest and getting Generally wear clothes Ethnic There are no particular along with people, marriage, bearing Generall keep mainly Tujia of Han minorities Commonly- habit and taboo and there and bringing up children as well as faith of their language nationality,however, in Baisha used are several kinds of specific Similar with funeral, which are not identical with Same as Han own nationality, branch of only a few of the Town of Chinese national dishes including Han nationality those of Tujia, Miao and Han nationaltiy but meanwhile Chinese senior still keep some Luxi characters dishes of Tujia , Miao, Bai nationalities and seem to be the Buddhism also family clothes of their own County and Han nationalities. common custom similar with Han prevails. nationality. nationality through combination of these nationalites.

Table 1.2.2—2 Summary for Customs and Habits of Main Ethnic Minorities (2)

Main Customs and Habits in Preferential Ethnic Production Manners Special Living Habits Dismantling and Building Houses Policies Minority

It is a taboo to dismantle and build houses in the fifth day of each month; when building houses, it is prohibited to whistle and sleep in the Originally they mainly grew dry They can enjoy work site; the living house cannot be rice, but now they changed to preferential oriented to right meridian direction; grow paddy rice. The original Mainly pure wooden policies in the primary roof beams must be Tujia production manners such as houses with courtyards childbearing, made of trees with two crotches; the hunting, fishing, digging and corners. children’s entering newly-built house is prohibited to be potherbs have nearly schools, cadre repaired in three years; it is disappeared now. promotion, etc. prohibited to make new graves behind the house, plant pear trees in front of the house and camphor trees around the house, etc.

It is necessary to invite geomancers to check the geomancy of the Originally they mainly grew dry building place and choose a good rice by bringing mountain day to start construction before They can enjoy Mainly buildings with slopes under cultivation, but building the house; the primary roof preferential the upper floor for living now they changed to grow wet beams must be made of trees with policies in and the lower floor for Miao rice. The batik technology has two crotches; when making the childbearing, laying up working tools been passed down through primary roof beams of trees with two children’s entering and rearing livestock, thousands of years and the crotches, the maker is required to schools, cadre etc. embroidery of Miao is well- drink enough wine first to have promotion, etc known throughout the country. energy so as to make the primary roof beams at a stretch without stopping, etc.

It is necessary to invite geomancers They mainly grow rice and to check the geomancy of the They can enjoy vegetables as well as a little building place and choose a good preferential dry rice. The commercial crops day to start construction, set off policies in Jishou City are fruit trees and are Same as Han firecrackers and kill chicken for offer childbearing, ethnic comparatively developed. They nationality sacrifices to gods or ancestors children’s entering minorities breed pigs generally for their before building the house; it is schools, medical own use but not for sale. The prohibited to plant pear trees in front treatment, cadre secondary and tertiary of the house and camphor trees promotion, etc. industries are developed. around the house, etc.

They mainly grow rice and It is necessary to invite geomancers vegetables as well as a little to check the geomancy of the They can enjoy dry rice. The commercial crops building place and choose a good Ethnic preferential are fruit trees and are day to start construction, set off minorities policies in comparatively developed. They Same as Han firecrackers and kill chicken for offer in Baisha childbearing, breed pigs generally for their nationality sacrifices to gods or ancestors Town of children’s entering own use but not for sale. The before building the house; it is Luxi County schools, cadre secondary and tertiary prohibited to plant pear trees in front promotion, etc. industries are mainly retail of the house and camphor trees business and migrant working. around the house, etc.

2. Project Implementation Progress

2.1 Civil Works Progress

Civil works of Jishou City Subproject includes three bid sections: Bid Section B1-Left Bank Embankment of the Donghe River; Bid Section B2- Right Bank Embankment of the Donghe River; Bid Section B3- Embankment of Minkangchong Stream.

Luxi County Subproject only includes one bid section. Civil works of the lower reaches section was commenced in Nov. 2008 and completed at the end of 2009, for this section involves no land acquisition and relocation. However, since the upper reaches section involves the relocation of villagers from Quwang Village, civil works, land acquisition and relocation of this section are not commenced owing to the shortage of funds.

Refer to Table 2.1-1 for details of civil works implementation progress.

Table 2.1-1 Statistical Table for Implementation Progress

Image progress of civil works Resettlement conditions

Contracts of Contract price Name of bid Contract Date of Subproject civil works (RMB 10000 section duration (Day) commencement (signed/ total) Yuan) Progress of Accumulated Completed Land Relocation current period progress investment acquisition

Left Bank Embankment of 5306.53 1095 Jun. 2010 40% 40% 40% In Operation Not Started the Donghe River

Right Bank Embankment of 1883.21 730 Jun. 2010 40% 40% 40% In Operation Not Started Jishou 3/3 the Donghe River

Embankment of Not Minkangchong 2893.30 730 Mar. 2010 34% 34% 34% Completed Implemented Stream

Right Bank Luxi 1/1 3209.45 1460 Nov. 2008 50% 50% 72% Not Started Not Started Protective Circle

(1) Jishou Subproject

Jishou City Subproject includes three bid sections: Bid Section B1-Left Bank Embankment of the Donghe River; Bid Section B2- Right Bank Embankment of the Donghe River; Bid Section B3- Embankment of Minkangchong Stream.

1) Bid Section B1- Left Bank Embankment of the Donghe River, with the contract price of RMB 53.065335 million yuan, is constructed by Hunan Xingyu Hydro & Power Construction Corporation and supervised by HPCC (Hunan Hydro & Power Construction Supervision Consulting Corporation); the project was commenced in Jun. 2010. Currently, the land

acquisition is under implementation, and the investment of RMB 21.234413 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 40% of its total investment.

2) Bid Section B2-Right Bank Embankment of the Donghe River, with the contract price of RMB 18.832128 million yuan, is constructed by Hunan Hydro & Power Mechanical Engineering Company and supervised by Hydro & Power Engineering Supervision Co., Ltd. of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture; the project was commenced in Jun. 2010. Currently, the land acquisition and relocation are under implementation, and the investment of RMB 7.471914 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 39.7% of its total investment.

3) Bid Section B3-Embankment of Minkangchong Stream, with the contract price of RMB 28.932996 million yuan, is constructed by Hunan Xingyu Hydro & Power Construction Corporation and supervised by Hunan Yuhui Hydro & Power Construction Supervision Consultant Co., Ltd; the project was commenced in Mar. 2010. Currently, the land acquisition has been completed, and the investment of RMB 9.856946 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 34.1% of its total investment.

(2) Luxi Subproject

Luxi County Subproject only includes one bid section. Urban Flood Control Project Utilizing ADB Loan of Luxi County, with the contract price of RMB 32.0954 million yuan, is constructed by Changsha Xianghua Construction & Engineering Co., Ltd and supervised by Hunan Hydro &Power Project Supervision Contract Corporation. The project was commenced in Nov. 2008. Currently, the investment of RMB 23.00 million yuan has been inputted, accounting for 72% of its total investment.

2.2 Implementation Progress of Resettlement

2.2.1 Land Acquisition

(1) Jishou Subproject

The planning: the planned permanent land acquisition involves 15 administrative villages (residential committees) of 2 sub-district offices - Donghe and Qianzhou in the urban area. The population affected by land acquisition is 255 relocatees from 70 households. The planned land acquisition area of all kinds of land is 119.41 mu, among which the collective-owned land is 47.99 mu, and the state-owned land is 71.42 mu.

Approval for land acquisition: in Oct. 2005, the preliminary review of land acquisition was passed by Land and Resources Bureau of Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture. In Nov. of the same year, the land acquisition formalities were carried out and at the same time the approval for land acquisition was obtained.

Accumulated accomplishment: by the end of 2010, the acquired land had mounted up to 35 mu (collective-owned land), accounting for 29% of the planned area. The funds paid for the land are RMB 0.85 million yuan in total.

Refer to the table below for Jishou Subproject land acquisition implementation progress.

Table 6.3-2 Breakdown of Land Acquisition Implementation Progress

Paid-up fund Name of relocated Land requisition Payable fund (ten Accomplishment Time Land nature (ten thousand unit area (mu) thousand yuan) percentage yuan) Qianzhou Sub-district Collective- By the end of 2010 35.00 85 85 100% Office owned Total 35.00 85 85

(2) Luxi Subproject

The planning: the planned permanent land acquisition involves 2 villager groups from 1 village in 1 town. The total area of the land acquired is 290.45mu, all of which are collective-owned land.

Civil works of the lower reaches section was commenced in Nov. 2008 and completed at the end of 2009, for this section involves no land acquisition and relocation. However, since the upper reaches section involves the relocation of villagers from Quwang Village, civil works, land acquisition and relocation of this section are not commenced yet owing to the shortage of funds.

2.2.2 Housing Demolition

(1) Jishou Subproject

The planning: houses with the area of 23,695 m2 are planned to be demolished, and 835 relocatees in 231 households needed to be resettled.

Accumulated accomplishment: no relocation or resettlement has been carried out by the end of 2010.

Refer to the Table 2.2.2-1 for the relocation progress of Jishou City Subproject.

Table 2.2.2-1 Statistical Table of Relocation Progress

Item Unit Quantity Remarks

Demolished houses m2 23695 Planned relocation No. of relocated households Household 231 No. of relocatees Person 835

Demolished houses m2 0 Accomplished by the end No. of relocated households Household 0 of 2010 No. of relocatees Person 0 Demolished houses 2 0% Accumulated m accomplishment No. of relocated households Household 0% percentage No. of relocatees Person 0%

(2) Luxi subproject

The planning: houses with the area of 2,345.78 m2 are planned to be demolished, and 155 relocatees in 31 households will be resettled.

Civil works of the lower reaches section was commenced in Nov. 2008 and completed at the end of 2009, due to this section involves no land acquisition and relocation. However, Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 8 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

for the upper reaches section involves the relocation of villagers from Quwang Village, civil works, land acquisition and relocation of this section are not commenced yet owing to the shortage of funds.

Refer to the Table 2.2.2-2 for the relocation progress of Luxi County Subproject.

Table 2.2.2-2 Statistical Table of Relocation Progress

Item Unit Quantity Remarks

Demolished houses m2 2345.78 Planned relocation No. of relocated households Household 31 No. of relocatees Person 155

Demolished houses m2 0 Accomplished in 2010 No. of relocated households Household 0 No. of relocatees Person 0 Demolished houses 0% Accumulated accomplishment No. of relocated households 0% percentage No. of relocatees 0%

2.2.3 Resettlement Investment.

Refer to Table 2.2.3.1 for the planned investment and the actual investment for resettlement of Jishou and Luxi Subprojects.

(1) Jishou Subproject

The planned investment for resettlement is RMB 24.7378 million yuan. By the end of 2010, the resettlement funds of RMB 0.85 million yuan in total has been inputted, accounting for 3% of the total planed investment. All the funds have paid in full without default and underpayment.

(2) Luxi Subproject

The planned investment for resettlement is RMB 8.2828 million yuan. As present, no fund has been inputted, and the funds for land acquisition and relocation are unavailable.

Table 2.2.3-1 Statistical Table of the Fund Plan and the Completed Investment for Resettlement Item Jishou Luxi Updated planned total investment (RMB 10000 yuan) 2473.78 828.28 Available resettlement fund (RMB 10000 yuan) 85 0

Percentage of available resettlement fund in the planned total investment 3% 0%

Accumulated accomplished investment (RMB 10000 yuan) 85 0 Percentage of accumulated accomplished investment 3% 0%

3. Implementation of Action Plan

According to the requirements of Ethnic Minority Development Plan, for each subproject, certain measures should be taken to avoid or reduce the impact of the projects on the minorities and Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 9 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

provide assistance and support for those affected minorities during the implementation of the subprojects.

3.1 Specific Measures

3.1.1 Mitigation Measures

 Mitigation Measures for Construction-related Disturbances

(1) Jishou Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Jishou City, 21 communities in Jishou City will be directly affected by the construction of flood control works and the related facilities, and the total minority population from the residential committees or villages affected by construction noises and other hazards is about 20,212.

Monitors of this period have found that during the implementation of this project which was commenced in Mar. 2010, the construction was basically arranged in the daytime rather than at night, which avoided the construction in the rest time of residents as far as possible. In addition, through the rational allocation, high noise equipment working at the same time was avoided to reduce the noise impact on the living of the residents nearby. During the College Entrance Examination, the construction was stopped for two weeks to avoid disturbing the students nearby who were preparing for the examination. Watering carts were arranged for dust prevention in road sections under construction for three or four times everyday except for rainy days, to reduce the impacts of construction on the health of the residents nearby and the environmental hygiene of the county town. The construction vehicles in and out of the urban area were uniformly cleaned so as to prevent the dust being brought from the construction sites to the roads in the urban area.

Annual costs for dust prevention, construction vehicles washing and construction garbage disposal is about RMB 2,000 yuan. So far, RMB 2,000 yuan in total has been inputted.

(2) Luxi Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Luxi County, 4 communities in the county town will be directly affected by the construction of flood control works and the related facilities, and the total minority population from the residential committees or villages affected by construction noises and other hazards is about 15896.

Monitors of this period have found that during the implementation of this project which was commenced in Nov. 2008, the construction was basically arranged in the daytime rather than at night, which avoided the construction in the rest time of residents as far as possible. In addition, through the rational allocation, high noise equipment working at the same time was avoided to reduce the noise impact on the living of the residents nearby. Watering carts were arranged for dust prevention in road sections under construction for three or four times everyday except for rainy days, to reduce the impacts of construction on the health of the residents nearby and the environmental hygiene of the county town. The construction vehicles in and out of the county town were uniformly cleaned so as to prevent the dust being brought from the construction sites to the roads in the county town.

Annual costs for dust prevention, construction vehicles washing and construction garbage disposal is about RMB 1500 yuan. So far, RMB 1500 yuan in total has been inputted. Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 10 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

 HIV/AIDS and STI Awareness and Prevention

(1) Jishou Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Jishou City, although Jishou City is not a high risk area for HIV/AIDS, in order to ensure that Jishou will be free of HIV/AIDS, Jishou City CDC (Centre for Disease Control) shall take measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs in accordance with the Law of the PRC on Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Disease.

During the project implementation, the project party, combining Jishou Municipal Public Health Bureau and Epidemic Prevention Station, propagandized how to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs to the residents in the project areas through posting up picture posters and publishing blackboard newspaper. Workers in the project area were affiliated to the community health stations for the convenience of seeing doctor in time. Staffs of the Environmental Protection Bureau were invited to detect the dust, water quality in the embankment toe and other adverse impact, and certain improvement measures were taken to reduce the impacts on health of the construction workers. The incidence of HIV/AIDS in the project area was zero during the project implementation.

Annual costs for publicity, hygienic cleaning, sanitary quarantine, vaccination and mice / mosquitoes / flies control were RMB 500 yuan, RMB 1,000 yuan, RMB 2,000 yuan, RMB 1,500 yuan and RMB 1,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 6,000 yuan.

(2) Luxi Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Luxi County, although Luxi County is not a high risk area for HIV/AIDS, in order to ensure that Jishou will be free of HIV/AIDS, Luxi County CDC (Centre for Disease Control) shall take measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs in accordance with the Law of the PRC on Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Disease.

During the project implementation, the project party propagandized how to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs to the residents in the project areas through posting up picture posters and publishing blackboard newspaper. The incidence of HIV/AIDS in the project area was zero during the project implementation.

Annual costs for publicity, hygienic cleaning, sanitary quarantine, vaccination and mice / mosquitoes / flies control were RMB 500 yuan, RMB 1,000 yuan, RMB 1,500 yuan, RMB 1,000 yuan and RMB 1,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 5,000 yuan.

 Measures for Gender Equality

(1) Jishou Subproject

In order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women, women’s participation in terms of decision making will be secured in accordance with relevant state laws and regulations during the implementation of Ethnic Minority Action Plan. The Women’s Federation, which is an organization to advocate and protect the rights of women and children, will release the information on livelihoods through newsletter and regular group meeting which will extend their activities in the project affected area as a part of their regular activities.

In the affected areas, women have equal rights and status with men on education and medical care, and no ethnic boundary exists in marriage issue. Women have the same

rights and positions with men and they play important roles in economic development and housework, especially in rural areas where women mostly stay at home while men go to work in cities. Besides the family responsibilities women also play important roles in agriculture production (either in cultivation or in non-farm work). Local women passionately participate in public affairs, and ones who have time to involve in the voting of the general election of the village committee. The women directors of all village and village party secretaries or village directors of some villages are undertaken by women. Therefore, women had more interests in and paid more attention to this subproject in the influenced areas, and they also proposed some good advices. They not only actively took part in all periods of the resettlement, but also played outstanding roles in aspects such as negotiating the directions and modes of resettlement.

Since the implementation of this subproject, the executive agencies of the subproject and the local government have laid special stress on women’s roles, caring for the requirements of women and the families in which women are householders, and giving full play to their roles in the resettlement. In various discussion meetings and consultative conferences on resettlement, women attendants accounted for about 50%, and their suggestions, requirements and the existing problems on economic rehabilitation and houses demolition were fully heard in order to ensure women could equally benefit from the project.

Additionally, centering on the central task of the County Party Committee and the County Government, and combining with it's own function, the Women’s Federation of Jishou City plays the role of bond, bridge, pillar in organizing and leading all women in the county to actively launch activities. In the morning of Mar. 5, 2010, the Municipal Women’s Federation ceremoniously held a commendation congress to celebrate the 100th "International Women's Day”. In the morning of April 13, 2010, the women cadres training classes started, and 45 women from all walks in Jishou participated in this 20-day training in the Party School. In the morning of Oct. 22, the Municipal Women’s Federation held the activity of "Charming Jishou, Heroine Action” on the square of the Pedestrian Street. Every year, the Municipal Women's Federation also cooperates with the Organization Department of County Party Committee in the pubic selection of cadres at section-level, participates in the whole process of the application, paper test, interview and survey, and finally singles out a group of outstanding young female cadres to make women widely participate in the national and social affairs.

Costs for conferences, women carders training, the "Charming Jishou, Heroine Action” Activity were RMB 2,000 yuan, RMB 60,000 yuan and RMB 5,000 yuan, respectively. So far, the accumulated input has amounted to RMB 67,000 yuan.

(2) Luxi Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Luxi County, in order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women, women’s participation in terms of decision making will be secured in accordance with relevant state laws and regulations during the implementation of Ethnic Minority Action Plan.

In the affected areas, women have the same rights and positions with men and they play important roles in economic development and housework, especially in rural areas where women mostly stay at home while men go to work in cities. Besides the family responsibilities women also play important roles in agriculture production (either in cultivation or in non-farm work). Therefore, women had more interests in and paid more attention to this subproject in the influenced areas. They not only actively took part in all periods of the resettlement, but also played outstanding roles in aspects such as negotiating the directions and modes of resettlement.

Since the implementation of this subproject, the executive agencies of the subproject and the local government have laid special stress on women’s roles, caring for the

requirements of women and the families in which women are householders, and giving full play to their roles in the resettlement. In various discussion meetings and consultative conferences on resettlement, women attendants accounted for about 50%, and their suggestions, requirements and the existing problems on economic rehabilitation and houses demolition were fully heard in order to ensure women could be equally benefit from the project.

Additionally, centering on the central task of the County Party Committee and the County Government, and combining with it's own function, the Women’s Federation of Luxi County plays the role of bond, bridge, pillar in organizing and leading all women in the county to actively launch activities of the “International Women's Day” and the “International Children's Day”, creating an atmosphere in which the whole society concerns on women and children. The Women’s Federation deepened the activity of “The Three Mains”, including deepening the activity of “Study mutually, Compete mutually” in rural areas, deepening the activity of “Heroine Accomplishment” in offices, deepening the activity of “Five-Virtue & Civilized Family” in communities, to unite and lead women to participate in economic construction. The Women’s Federation also released the information on livelihoods, training and social activities through newsletter and regular group meeting. The Women’s Federation of Luxi County actively organizes training for women cadres every year, cultivating a group of outstanding female cadres.

Costs for conferences, “The Three Mains” Activity and the training of women cadres were RMB 1,500 yuan, RMB 5,000 yuan and RMB 30,000 yuan, respectively. So far, the accumulated investment has amounted to RMB 36,500 yuan.

 Implementation of Resettlement Measures

(1) Jishou Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Jishou City, when establishing the resettlement plan, the PMO should introduce the rights and the programs to the relocates, and obtain the cooperation, participation and feedback of the residents in resettlement sites and relocatees. After the relocatees move into the resettlement area, perfect service such as education, water supply and medical care should be provided for the two groups (the residents in resettlement sites and new relocatees) as far as possible, so as to create a better social atmosphere for them.

Before implementation of relocation and resettlement, the PMO of Jishou Subproject consulted the relocatees in project areas and resettlement area and the minority groups affected by the subproject for their opinions and suggestions on planning and implementation scheme, and fully considered the requirements of the affected groups. The PMO specify Qianzhou New Area as the new resettlement area for the relocatees whose property rights have transferred to other places. The resettlement area is located on the bank of the Wanrong River in the southwest of the urban area which is a newly developed area of Jishou City, where transportation is convenient, and with good conditions in geology, topography, power supply and water resources. So far, construction of resettlement areas has not started. and 35 mu collectively owned land has been expropriated. All the relocatees whose lands have been expropriated have been resettled properly by currency compensation, and there is no relocation for these relocatees.

There are 78 vulnerable groups included in the Resettlement Plan of Jishou Subproject. In addition to subsidies and supporting measures specified in the Resettlement Plan, these vulnerable groups also can get certain subsidies from the local government. These have not been implemented in this period, and further attention will be paid in the next period.

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Before implementation of relocation and resettlement, the PMO of Jishou Subproject consulted the relocatees in the affected project areas and resettlement area and the minority groups affected by the subproject for their opinions and suggestions on planning and implementation scheme, and fully considered the requirements of the affected groups. There are two resettlement modes for these relocatees, viz. allocating homesteads and transfering the property rights of their houses. There are 31 relocatees households with 155 people, and all of them are urban residents. According to the actual situation of the affected area and the willingness of the relocatees, the PMO specified transfer of property rights and collective resettlement as the resettlement modes for these relocatees. This not only saves land, but also meets the requirements of development planning of the city.

There are 12 vulnerable groups included in the Resettlement Plan of Jishou Subproject. In addition to subsidies and supporting measures specified in the Resettlement Plan, these vulnerable groups also can get certain subsidies from the local government. These have not been implemented in this period, and further attention will be paid in the next period.

3.1.2 Enhancement Measures

 Implementation of Micro-Credit Program

(1) Jishou Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Jishou City, cooperating with the City Poverty Relief Office of Jishou City, the Women's Federation of Jishou City will provide Micro-Credit loans to 1,100 ethnic minority women in rural areas of 12 towns. Most of them are minority women, and the average loan amount is RMB 1,000 yuan. These loans will be used for developing income-increasing projects. The loan period is from 0.5 to 4 years, and the annual interest rate is 3.42%. 50% of the interest rate will be borne by the Poverty Relief Office.

In 2010, cooperating with the Rural Credit Cooperative, the Women’s Federation of Jishou City has offered guaranteed micro-credit loans to 43 women, which are finance discount loans with interests free for the first two years. The first batch of these loans have been issued in May, and the the second have been issued in October. Accumulatively RMB 2.15 million yuan of micro-credit loans has been issued.

(2) Luxi Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Jishou City, cooperating with the City Poverty Relief Office of Jishou City, the Women's Federation of Jishou City will provide Micro-Credit loans to 1,500 ethnic minority women in rural areas of 15 towns. Most of them are minority women, and the average loan amount is RMB 1,000 yuan. These loans will be used for developing income-increasing projects. The loan period is from 0.5 to 4 years, and the annual interest rate is 3.42%. 50% of the interest rate will be borne by the Poverty Relief Office.

In 2010, the Women’s Federation of Luxi County had raised RMB 3.5 million yuan of interest discount loans to female intensive enterprises with the help of Micro-Credit

discount loan policies of All-China Women's Federation. In order to help the labor starting their own businesses and to help enterprises come out from the dilemma resulted from lack of funds, the Bureau of Labor and Social Security of Luxi county had issued RMB 32 million yuan of micro-credit loans to 16 labor-intensive enterprises throughout the year. Accumulatively RMB 35.5 million yuan of micro-credit had been issued.

 Tourism Development

(1) Jishou Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Jishou City, the City government of Jishou and tourism administrative should take the following measures to promote the development of tourist industry:

A. To exhibit ethnic cultures of Tujia and Miao nationalities, and establishing infrastructures for tourism.

B. To compile tourist brochures and posters, and to distribute and display them in the resting places, parking lots and bus stations. They also can be distributed in travel agencies in cities.

C. To introduce the tourist attractions on tourist maps on various websites.

In 2010, Tourism Bureau of Jishou City received 1.163 million of foreign and domestic tourists, and achieved RMB 0.156 billion yuan of direct tourism income, increasing by 5% and 6% year on year. 2010 is the first year of the implementation of “high-quality tourism” strategy of Jishou City. Jishou City is striving to build two high-quality scenic areas, namely Qianzhou ancient city and Dehang. With the view of expanding and improving Dehang scenic spot, Jishou City has created new highlights for tourism by making use of the Jishou-Chadong Expressway, Aizhai large suspension bridge and the wonder of Hunan-Sichuan highway, and fostered world-class tourist brand “the first Suspension Bridge in Asia". These scenic spots attract the tourists all over the world. Currently, the highway administration has made a plan to invest RMB 0.12 billion yuan to build tourism area around the suspension bridge. Moreover, in this year, on the basis of the fact that Dehang has successfully declared as a national key scenic spot, more than RMB 1.2 million yuan will be invested to establish and maintain roads, parking lots, battery cars and the scenic spots, so as to speed up the establishment of 4A scenic spot of Dehang. In order to make the Qianzhou Ancient City into high-quality tourist product of Jishou City, RMB 91 million yuan has been invested. This fund was invested firstly to improve the main scenic spots, such as “openness of three gates” of Qianzhou Ancient City, gate of north city, Hujiatang, Luo Rongguang’s Former Residence, Wenmiao Temple and Yang Yuebin’s Former Residence. After that, it was invested to rebuild and maintain the houses, streets, sewers, dams and other facilities in the Ancient City, and to build high-quality product exhibition hall Bai Gong Fang, suspension bridge, scenic teahouse and other 10 items.

It is expected that the Tourism Bureau of Jishou City will make use of the Donghe River Wetland Park and the 800 miles of Forestation Project to build a scenic belt along the Donghe River; develop scenic spots in urban and suburb areas, strive to build mountain pass, streams and other pastorals, and encourage individual owners to invest and develop rural tourism; strive to complete the three-star rural scenic spots such as Eight Moon Lake, and Sun Island; make use of the existing tourism resources and integrate the Dehang scenic spots, the Qianzhou Ancient City, the Jiugui Industrial tourism Example Site, the Museum of the autonomous prefecture, the Laodie Industrial tourism Example Site, the Huang Yongyu Museum and other tourism attractions and develop “one-day recreation trip for residents of the city”. Promotion and propaganda has been made to the tourism resources by means of posters and websites, so as to

promote the popularity of the city.

Currently, accumulatively RMB 0.23 billion yuan has been invested throughout the city.

(2) Luxi Subproject

A. To exhibit ethnic cultures of Tujia and Miao nationalities, and establishing infrastructures for tourism.

B. To compile tourist brochures and posters, and to distribute and display them in the resting places, parking lots and bus stations. They also can be distributed in travel agencies in cities.

C. To introduce the tourist attractions on tourist maps on various websites.

Luxi is a town with a long culture history, beautiful scenery , honest people and plenty of scenic plots. It is a good place for trip, leisure and living. Luxi-Yuanjiang River Scenic Belt was judged as the provincial scenic resort and historic site by People's Government of Hunan Province in June, 2006. In the scenic belt, there are Tianqiao Mountain surrounded by clouds, Quwang Village where the patriotic poet Qu Yuan had stopped when he went upwards along the Yuanshui River, Xiangzi Rock where the literary master Shen Congwen has visited twice, Xinnu Cliff standing by the Yuanjiang River, Xinnu Miao Temple, Panhu Cave, cliff coffin, etc.. These attractions make up the Panhu cultural area in which Baisha town is the center.. There are old historic and cultural old town Pushi which has once been called “little Nanking”; key cultural relics under provincial protection, such as the suspension bridge, Jiangdong Temple and the Wanshou palace built in the Ming Dynasty, and the Guanyin Pavilion; intangible cultural heritages under state protection, such as Chenhe Gaoqiang (folksong) which is called "living fossil of oriental theatre art", and scissor-cut art on wooden plates and dippers at Tahu.

In recent years, Tourism Bureau of Luxi County has made comprehensive preliminary, mid-term and long-term plans for the development of tourism of the county. Relying on the brand of mysterious Xiangxi and Panhu culture, the scenic spots in Baisha, Pushi and Wuxi and scenic belt of Yuanjiang River, and making use of the cultural, ecological and industrial investment, Luxi County is intended to turn the county into a famous eco-tourism resort example site and first recreation and healthy town in Hunan Province which contains eco-tourism, recreation, cultural industry and tourism investment, through the establishment of natural landscapes and leisure attractions and the innovative development of engine projects. Make effort in operation of the cruiser “Princess Xinnu” and create another brand of water amusement for the county, “Yuanjiang River landscape Water Cruises”. Actively carry out the project approval and the preparation work of steel wire bridge over the Yuanjiang River, and endeavor to start the project in 2011. Complete the creative and planning work for Panhu Cultural & Ecological Garden, so as to lay solid foundation for the comprehensive construction of the garden. Complete the planning and design of the one-hundred-mile Ponkan (a kind of orange) Recreation Corridor in Wuxi, and make effort to make it into a provincial industrial & tourism example site. Build scenic belt along Yuanjiang River, and Pushi Ancient Town (which is a 2A national scenic spot). Launch the protection project for the 15 villages with special characteristics in the county. Complete the repair and maintenance project for ancient residences from Taiping Street to Litouzui in Pushi Ancient Town. Make an effort in the construction of a scenic belt along Yuanjiang River. The development of tourism industry in Luxi County has driven the people to achieve wealth and has promoted the development of social economy.

Currently, accumulatively RMB 30 million has been invested in tourism industry of the county.

 Technical Advice and Training

(1) Jishou City Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Jishou City, county technical sectors (i.e., Agricultural and Forestry Bureau, and Labor and Social Security Bureau) will provide special technical advices and training to the project affected farmers (men and women) on grain cropping, livestock management, and non-farm skills, as well as job introduction for migrant labors. Skill training will also be provided to enable minority people take employment opportunities from construction of flood control projects.

Jishou City Labor and Social Security Bureau encourages the stability of enterprises jobs, sufficiently admits employment, promotes labors self-employment, strengthens the trainings of professional skills and perfects employment aid system for people experiencing employment difficulty to give full play to the employment policy effect. At the same time, Jishou City Labor and Social Security Bureau guides laid-off workers change the employment concept, adapts to the employment environments of “government boosts employment, market regulates employment and labors choose jobs” and sets up the new view of both undertaking steady jobs and flexible employment being gainful employment. All year around 2010, the new job offers in Jishou City were over 500 with 230 in rural areas and over 270 in urban areas for “4050” laid-off workers and “zero employment” families. Re-employment offers for ten categories of people (college graduates, migrant workers, veterans, etc.) were 5000. In October 2010, 15,800 persons in total were insured in new rural endowment insurance with 3,100 newly-insured persons and involving 12,000 farmers.

To carry out employment service activities and recommend employment, in 2010 Jishou Labor and Social Security Bureau organized 2 special recruitment conferences, one of which was "Spring Action" held during the town fair on the third day of Spring Festival. Over 2,900 companies participated in the online recruitment released on the Internet with more than 90,000 hits. In order to respond to the difficulties of college graduates, migrant farmer workers, veterans encountered in the process of employment and entrepreneurship, Jishou city vigorously carries out entrepreneurship training and actively creates a platform for entrepreneurship to encourage labors to set up their own businesses. To increase entrepreneurs’ enterprising confidence, improve entrepreneurial abilities and reduce venture capital, Jishou City had self-employment projects cover: college students pioneer park section (factory industrial area, software development, web site operation, network marketing), national business section (bamboo weaving in the ancient city of Qianzhou solved the employment problems of 20 disabled people), production & processing area with gloves and the like produced and sold abroad, planting & breeding area (including medicinal herbs, artificial breeding of giant salamanders).

To vigorously develop vocational skills trainings and stable employment, the Labor and Social Security Bureau also rented Jishou Agricultural Radio School as the base of training center. Among the trainees, 1,200 came from urban areas and 1,800 came from rural areas, with training funds more than RMB 20 million yuan. The trained specialties are as follows: cooker, driver, computer, pastries processing in Chinese style, electronic and electric products, business marketing, fruit products processing, animation production, Chinese massage, electric welder, electrician, etc. The training to rural population adopted on-site training method, mainly on crop cultivation, breeding industry (pigs breeding, rabbits breeding, artificial breeding of giant salamanders etc.) and agricultural machinery maintenance.

The accumulated training investment has amounted up to RMB 23.5 million yuan.

(2) Luxi County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Luxi County subproject, county technical sectors (i.e., Agricultural and Forestry Bureau, Labor and Social Security Bureau) will provide special technical advices and trainings to the project affected farmers (men and women) on grain cropping, livestock management, and non-farm skills, as well as job introduction for migrant labors. Skill training will also be provided to enable minority people take employment opportunities from construction of flood control projects.

Luxi County Labor and Social Security Bureau encourages the stability of enterprises jobs, sufficiently admits employment, promotes labors self-employment, strengthens the trainings of professional skills and perfects employment aid system for people experiencing employment difficulty to give full play to the employment policy effect. In accordance with the requirements of the "six possessions", the Labor and Social Security Bureau constructed 15 labor security stations, and built Wuxi industry pioneer park and the pioneer street on the riverside avenue, which provided job opportunities for 500 people, and supported laid-off workers, migrant farmer workers, college graduates, veterans to start their own businesses. New employment in the county and town was 2,465 people, including 1,143 laid-off workers and 458 re-employment people experiencing employment difficulty, which completed 100.6 % of the annual task of 2,450 people. Newly transferred employment was carried out by 6,058 rural workers, completing 101 % of the annual task of 6,000 people. Dynamic aids to zero-employment households reached 100%, and the urban registered unemployment rate was within 4.5%.

The county organized 4,710 people in vocational skills trainings, completing 112% of the annual task of 4,200 people, including 1,665 people of transferred rural workers having accepted skills trainings, with completion at 138.8% of the annual task of 1,200 people. Self-employment trainings was conducted to 157 people, completing 104.7% of the annual task of 150 people last year. Taking every possible measure to expand urban and rural employment, the government invested RMB 1.35 million yuan subsidies to 1,580 rural workers on employment transfer trainings, RMB 0.86 million yuan subsidies to 410 people experiencing employment difficulty, and RMB 0.63 million yuan subsidies to 126 college students for internship. The trained specialties are as follows: computer, pastries processing in Chinese style, electronic and electric products, business marketing, fruit products processing, hotel service, tractor driver, cooked-meat products processing, electric welder, electrician, sewing, cooking, etc.

The accumulated training investment has amounted up to RMB 2.675 million yuan.

 Tax Incentives

Jishou City Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Jishou City subproject and in order to encourage local minority people to engage in secondary and tertiary activities, the local government will provide tax incentives and special policies, such as fixed allowances, increasing subsidy, and special assistance, waive agricultural tax, and provide priority for the minority households to get micro credits.

Presently, Jishou City has already waived agricultural tax totally. The province will provide priority to and give consideration to transferring payment from the exchequer in these areas. Newly-built enterprises enjoy income tax relief 3-5 years from the first profit making year to aid their improvements. The finances of all levels set up enterprise grants and establish the finance scales according to the population of local minority and actual requirements for the nation works.

(2) Luxi County Subproject

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Luxi County subproject and in order to encourage local minority people to engage in secondary and tertiary activities, the local government will provide tax incentives and special policies, such as fixed allowances, increasing subsidy, and special assistance, waive agricultural tax, and provide priority for the minority households to get micro credits.

Luxi County offers tax preference policy to new businesses and presently has already waived agricultural tax totally. The province will provide priority to and give consideration to transferring payment from the exchequer in these areas. Newly-built enterprises enjoy income tax relief 3-5 years from the first profit making year to aid their improvements. The finances of all levels set up enterprise grants and establish the finance scales according to the population of local minority and actual requirements for the nation works.

3.1.3 Project Benefit Measure

(1) Jishou City Subproject

According to the requirements of Ethnic Minority Development Plan in Jishou City, the local ethnic minority people should have the preference to be employed as civilian worker during the construction of Jishou City Subproject. The rate of local worker being employed by contractor should be 75% at least.

Since the implementation of this project, Jishou City Subproject construction employment has preferentially employed the local relocatees and ethnic minority groups, to provide employment opportunities to the local residents, so that the project construction was favorable to help develop the living standard of the influenced people and recover their livelihood. This project employed about 400 to 500 persons; except for some special professional jobs, local residents were employed for 95% of the remaining unskilled jobs such as haulage man, raw material suppliers and laborers. About 92% of the local residents employed were of ethnic minority. Local workers employed for the construction of flood control project were paid in full without any default and underpayment. The paid salary to civilian workers has totally amounted to RMB 275,000.

(2) Luxi County Subproject

According to the requirements of Ethnic Minority Development Plan in Luxi County, the local ethnic minority people should have the preference to be employed as civilian worker during the construction of Luxi County Subproject. The rate of local worker being employed by contractor should be 75% at least.

Since the implementation of this project, Luxi County Subproject construction employment has preferentially employed the local relocatees and ethnic minority groups, to provide employment opportunities to the local residents, so that the project construction was favorable to help improve the living standard of the influenced people and recover their livelihood. This project employed about 200 people; except for some special professional jobs, local residents were employed for 95% of the remaining unskilled jobs such as haulage man, raw material suppliers and laborers. About 92% of the local residents employed were of ethnic minority. Local worker employed for the construction of flood control project were paid in full without any default and underpayment. The paid salary to civilian workers has totally amounted to RMB 112,000.

3.2 Fund Availability and Usage Condition

For detailed fund availability and usage condition of Jishou City and Luxi County subprojects, see Table 3.2-1.

Table 3.2-1 Breakdown for Fund Availability and Usage Condition

Jishou City Luxi County

Measures to be taken Fund source Contributed Contributed Budget(yuan) Budget(yuan) fund fund

Protecting minority communities from the disturbance of 1,000 2,000 1,000 1,500 construction

Infectious disease control. 1,000 6,000 1,000 5,000 Mitigation measures Encouraging women to participate in 1,000 67,000 1,000 36,500 meetings and make policy

Resettlement special support for 1,000 1,000 population influenced

The Women's Petty loan(mainly rural women Federation of 1,100,000 2,150,000 1,500,000 35,500,000 oriented) the County

County 5,000,000- Tourism promotion measures 223,000,000 5,000,000-6,000,000 30,000,000 Reinforcement Government 6,000,000 measures

Providing information and County suggestions on agrotechnique 23,500,000 2,675,000 Government and nonagricultural skills

County Tax preference Government

Employing minority population as civilian workers in project 1,000 275,000 1,000 112,000 concerning flood control Project benefit measures Employing minority labourers for the jobs of maintenance and 1,000 1,000 other jobs concerned

Note: Most contributed fund data are for the contribution to the whole city (county), which includes the subproject areas.

3.3 Consultation and Appeals

3.3.1 Jishou City Subproject

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investigation of resettlement will should be taken by the project headquarter and resettlement administration at all levels to ensure the relocatees from influenced areas and the local governments can fully understand the details of resettlement plan and compensation and relocation plan.

For Jishou City Subproject, since the launch of the relocation in 2007, high attention has been paid to it by Hunan Province, the City and resettlement organs at all levels. And wide propaganda was given to the subproject by means of local news media including TV, broadcasting and newspapers. Handing out resettlement information manuals to every family is also applied to disseminate relevant laws and regulations about resettlement to relocatees, so as to make them get known of calculation method of physical indices and compensation standard, compensation method, resettlement site and scheme, rights and preferential policies enjoyed by relocatees, etc. In September 2009, the headquarters issued the land acquisition & houses demolition bulletins within the project land acquisition area of a red line and organized three mobilization meetings and symposia for negotiation and communication with relocates. One meeting was held by three cadres from the communities in September 2009, and another two, villagers representative conference of the communities and mass rally on dike damage, were held in February 2010, so as to obtain willingness and ideas of relocatees in details and accordingly make land acquisition proceed forward smoothly. Much attention should be paid to the ethnic minority groups, of which the proportion in consultation activities is about 85%.

For Jishou City Subproject, no appeal has been received in the current period.

3.3.2 Luxi County Subproject

Before the land occupation and demolition, Luxi County Government, County PMO, Demolition Office, other units and departments and representatives of relocatees have communicated and consulted repeatedly on resettlement policy and standard for compensation. The relevant resettlement information is publicized to the affected area due to this subproject construction for several times in forms of symposiums and bulletins, so as to make relocatees get known of land acquisition status, compensation standard for land acquisition, use of compensation funds as well as information on relocatees in affected areas. Much attention should be paid to the ethnic minority groups, of which the proportion in consultation activities is about 85%.

For the detailed consultation activities, see the Table 3.3-1.

Table 3.3-1 Summary of Consultation Activities

No. of Time Place Participant Content participants

Conference room on Leaders from the headquarters and Conferences about flood control 2009,7 the 3rd floor of Quwang 15 staff of the communities dikes and house demolition Community

Conference room on Relevant opinions on flood control Leaders from the headquarters and 2009,7 the 3rd floor of Quwang 32 dikes, house demolition and staff of the communities Community resettlement

Conference room on Village party branch and two Jobs on flood control dikes, house 2009,8 the 2nd floor of committees(the village committees 6 demolition and resettlement Quwang Community and residential committees)

the suggestions and opinions on Conference room on Leaders from the headquarters and subproject schemes, house 2009,8 the 2nd floor of 6 staff of the communities demolition and resettlement by Quwang Community relevant parties

In this period, house demolition and resettlement are still not implemented, so no appeal has been received.

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations

4.1 Jishou City Subproject

For Jishou City Subproject, the main existing problems at present are as follows:

1) Funding gap is large. The source of investment in this subproject is not the loan from ADB, but loans from other banks, funds raised by corresponding Employer and security fund of flood control. Thus, fund raising progress is a little laggard.

2) The demolition and resettlement progress is laggard. The main reason lies in the difficulty in raising funds for employers. The source of investment in this subproject is not the loan from ADB, but funds raised by corresponding employer units. And the volume for resettlement investment is large while time for raising funds remains relatively short, thus there are difficulties in raising funds in time.

To the main existing problems for Jishou City Subproject, we propose the following corresponding recommendations:

1) In order to guarantee enough resettlement funds and avoid the phenomenon that the unavailability of fund affects the resettlement implementation progress, it is necessary to highlight fund raising.

2) All the relevant units should take practical applying measures, accelerate the progress of relocation, especially raise funds in many ways; increase the working strength of all the relevant units and departments; publicize the policies and compensation standards of resettlement and guarantee the progress of relocation & demolition meeting the progress of project construction.

4.2 Luxi County Subproject

For Luxi County Subproject, its main existing problems at present are as follows:

1) The land acquisition and resettlement progress is laggard. As the downstream section of flood control project in Luxi County is not involved in land acquisition, house demolition or civil works, its construction started in November 2008 and finished at the end of 2009. However, the upstream section involves land acquisition and resettlement in Quwang village, with lacking in funds, civil works, land acquisition and resettlement at this section are still waiting to start at present, resulting in the lagging progress of relocation.

2) The fund raising progress is laggard. The source of investment in this subproject is loans from other banks, funds raised by corresponding employer units and through attracting investments. And the volume for resettlement investment is large while time for raising funds remains relatively short, thus there are difficulties in raising funds in time.

To the main existing problems for Luxi County Subproject, we propose the following corresponding recommendations:

1) Accelerate the construction progress of resettlement area to ensure relocatees are

resettled properly. The progress of demolition can be accelerated only when we accelerate the construction progress of resettlement area, resolve relocatees’ worries behind and make them remove and settle down. Thus, employers of subproject shall reinforce coordination mechanism between government departments, and increase the input to the construction of resettlement area.

2) Highlight fund raising. The Employer of subproject should highlight fund raising to guarantee enough resettlement funds and improve the current situation that the unavailability of fund affects the resettlement implementation progress.

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Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

Monitoring and Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement (No. 4) Jiang Yong County Subproject

Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. April 2011

Verified by: Qin Lin

Reviewed by: Xia Jihong

Checked by: Ren Yu

Compliled by: Zeng Di

Main Working Staff: Zeng Di Qin Si

Mo Jie Qin Lin

Xia Jihong Huang Qingyun

Ren Yu Chen Zizhou

Li Lin Min Tian

External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

Contents

Foreword ...... 1

1. Background ...... 1

1.1 Project Description ...... 1

1.1.1 Engineering Description ...... 1

1.1.2 Resettlement Description...... 1

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas ...... 2

1.2.1 Description of Ethnic Minority Groups in Project Protected Areas (PPA) 2

1.2.2 Custom of Ethnic Minorities in PPA ...... 3

2. Project Implementation Progress ...... 5

2.1 Civil Works Progress ...... 5

2.2 Resettlement Progress ...... 5

2.2.1 Land Acquisition ...... 5

2.2.2 Housing Demolition ...... 6

2.2.3 Invetsment for Resettlement ...... 7

3. Implementation of Action Plan ...... 7

3.1 Specific Measures ...... 7

3.1.1 Mitigation Measures ...... 7

3.1.2 Enhancement Measures ...... 10

3.1.3 Project Benefit Measure ...... 12

3.2 Fund Availability and Usage Condition ...... 13

3.3 Consultation and Appeals ...... 13

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations ...... 14

5. Annexes ...... 15

Foreword

The Hunan Flood Management Sector Project Utilizing ADB Loans i.e. the Hunan Urban Flood Control Project for Hilly Area was formally commenced in January of 2007. The external monitoring and evaluation of ethnic minority resettlement for nine subprojects (Sangzhi, Cili, Baojing, Fenghuang, Shimen, Jishou, Jianghua, Jiangyong and Luxi) of the project are undertaken by Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd., which is finally determined by ADB and Hunan PMO through their consultation.

The external monitoring and evaluation for ethnic minority for Jiang Yong County Subproject formally commenced at the end of 2010.

This report mainly covers external monitoring and evaluation of Jiang Yong County Subproject for the first time.

1. Background

1.1 Project Description

1.1.1 Engineering Description

(1) Jiang Yong County Subproject

The main purposes of Jiang Yong County Subproject：

1) to protect Jiang Yong County from flood threat;

2) to strengthen management of Yongming River basin which is an important part of the complete flood control management system in Hunan Province.

The subproject includes the following parts:

1) To build dike with a length of 6.67km in the 2 protection areas of Jiangyong County along the both banks of Yongming River;

2) To build 4 culvert gates in Jiangyong County town;

The area protected by the subproject is up to 8.0 km2. The flood control standard is promoted to 1 in 20-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-year recurrence, and the water logging control standard is increased to 1 in 10-year recurrence from current 1 in 2-to-5-year recurrence.

1.1.2 Resettlement Description

(1) Jiang Yong County Subproject

Land acquisition, house demolition and population resettlement are all considered to be the main negative effects.

According to the resettlement planning report, the permanent land acquisition is planned to be 52.5 mu, in which about 19.425 mu are cultivated land, 33.075 mu are pond, residence land and state-owned land. During the construction period, temporarily occupied lands will

be 442.85 mu. According to the per capita cultivated land in the village affected, the permanent land acquisition will directly affect 39 households of 132 persons. In PPA, 32 persons need to be resettled. In average, each affected person would lose about 0.21 mu farmland, namely 1.68% of their existing cultivated land.

In addition to the land acquisition, the houses with an area of 7,278m2 will be destroyed. Among which, 93.8% of houses are brick and concrete structures or brick and timber structures.

According to the investigation, the project permanent land acquisition will affect 86 ethnic minority people, accounting for 65% of the total affected population (132 persons) by the project. And all of them are Yao people. Based on the household conditions, the proportion ethnic minority people take up is large. Most of them have lived here for generations and some of them migrate here by means of marriage. Ethnic people have been living harmoniously with Han people for so long a time and their relation is good. As regard to the production structure of the ethnic families, they mainly do business and work outside. And major income of the agricultural population also does not depend on the land, but representing a multi-directional structure. All ethnic minorities enjoy equal rights with Han nationality in many aspects such as land distribution, children’s learning and politics. In addition, in some other aspects (taxation, higher education and etc.), the ethnic minority people also enjoy preferential policies, which the Han people can not. Therefore, it is planned that income of all the affected families can recover to a level as that before relocation through land adjustment and other income-creating activities.

1.2 Description of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas

1.2.1 Description of Ethnic Minority Groups in Project Protected Areas (PPA)

(1) Jiang Yong County Subproject

The ethnic minorities within PPA are guaranteed to share equal rights and interests. As for the PPAs in Jiang Yong County and Xiaopu Town, each township and village is dominated by ethnic minorities in population. However, the social and economic characteristics of such ethnic minorities within communities have been gradually weakened due to inter-marriages and mixed families for many years.

Although Yao and Zhuang old people living in remote villages have their own languages, most of the Yao and Zhuang people use their native languages in families; additionally, they can speak fluent mandarin Chinese except that they can understand their native languages, especially the younger generation and those living in towns.

Among these ethnic minorities, there are wide spread practice of inter-marriages between the ethnic minority (including Yao, Zhuang and other minorities) and Han. For example, among sample households, half of them are mixed families. These ethnic groups have been living in harmony for many years. They share similar believes in various kinds of nature gods. Therefore, the identities of ethnic background are quite weak among them. People could only identify their ethnic background through their surnames instead of distinctive language and living style.

Within the project affected area, Xiaopu Town is the county town of Jiangyong County, where the infrastructure conditions are good and local farmers have a lot of opportunities in non-farm employment, such as daily labor and small business. Most those surplus labor forces have moved into the second and tertiary industry or individual business, gradually moving out of reliance in the land. According to the investigation, in the project affected area, there were 15565 employed labor forces, including 6917 non-farm population of industry, building construction, traffic, wholesale and retail, accounting for 44.43% of the Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 2 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

rural labor forces. Analysis from the incomes structure, the annual total income per household of the affected households in 2004 was RMB 8,396 yuan, including RMB 3,300 yuan for the agricultural incomes, accounting for 39.3% of the total income. The investigation shows that the land acquisition and loss of land will directly result in decrease in the farmers’ agricultural income. Since the local farmers are heavily dependent on non-farm income including a small proportion of that from plantation, their life and production will be affected by land acquisition to some extent inevitably. But the situation will be improved greatly upon the implementation of land adjustment and improvement for agricultural water conservancy. All ethnic minorities enjoy equal rights with Han nationality in many aspects such as land distribution and politics. In addition, in some other aspects (taxation, higher education and etc.), the ethnic minority people also enjoy more preferential policies than Han people.

The living habits of all ethnic minorities in PPA have been mostly chinesized.

1.2.2 Custom of Ethnic Minorities in PPA

Jiang Yong County is located in the northeast of Yong Zhou City with Yao nationality dominated in population, accounting for 99% in population of the minorities in Jiang Yong County and it is the largest ethnic minority group here. The ethnic minority mostly consists of indigenous inhabitants living here for over 1000 years with basically the same customs. They share equal rights and interests provided by the project whereas the political treatment, tax and children’s learning policies originally enjoyed remain unchanged.

For the detailed customs of chief ethnic minorities in Jiang Yong County, see the Table 1.2.2.

Table 1.2.2 Summary of Customs of Chief Ethnic Minorities

Chief Ethnic Minority Yao nationality Ethnic minority in Xiaopu Town of Jiang Yong County

Language Yao language of Tibeto-Burman branch of Tibetan family Mainly Yao language of Chinese family

Character Commonly-used Chinese characters Commonly-used Chinese characters

Wear royal blue or navy blue sackclothes with buttons down the front and Wear costumes of Han nationality basically and some ethnic custumes Costume ornamants and be dressed in flared trousers are kept in the families of few elderly people

Their staple food was dry crop such as sweet potato and corn in the There is no particular habit and taboo.Besides, there are several kinds past, but it is rice now and the people here don't eat dogs.Besides, Dietary Habits of specific national dishes including those of Yao and Han there are some kinds of specific national dishes such as rice flour nationalites. mixed with bacon.

Specific Festival Dispelling Day, Panwang Festival and Bullfighting Festival Similar to those of Han nationality

There are unique customs in the manner of receiveing guests and There are unique customs in the manner of receiveing guests and getting along with people, marriage, bearing and bringing up children getting along with people, marriage, bearing and bringing up children as well as funeral. For example, the customs for marriage mainly Custom as well as funeral which are not identical with those of Yao and Han include marriage and uxorilocal marriage(the bridegroom becomes nationalities and seem to be the common custom of combination of son after marriage) and wedding lament is also considered to be a Han nationality. custom and criterion for measuring the virtue of women.

National Cultural Activities Always gather together on festivals to sing folk songs such as eulogy Panwang Festival flourishes here and others are basically the same as (folk song, music and to Panwang and songs of Qian Jia dong. those of Han nationality. dance)

The faith of its own nationality is generally kept,but Buddhism prevails Religious Faith Worship the Mountain God, mothers,totem,name their children, Du Jie here as well.

The dry crops were planted in the past but now plantation in paddy The rice,taro,corn and sweet potato are planted while the vegetables fields are generally applied. The originally adopted manners such as Production Manners are generally planted for self-use only(not for sale).The secondary and hunting, fishing and wild vegetables-digging have disappeared tertiary industries maily cover small business and go-out employment. basically.

The Yao people live closely to the mountains in poor living condtions Specific Resident Habits The same as Han nationality and the houses built in Diaojiao Lou-type can also be found here.

Customs and Habits in Yao people are pirticular about locations and directions in building Dismantling and Building new houses whereas the Shan Yao nationality is concerned about Mostly have imerged with Han culture Houses water source and other factors addtionally.

Preference Policy for Ethnic The preference policies for bearing and bringing up children, higher The preference policies for bearing and bringing up children, higher Minorities education and promotion of cadres are provided here. education and promotion of cadres are provided here.

2. Project Implementation Progress

2.1 Civil Works Progress

The Jiang Yong Subproject consists of two bid sections, i.e. Chengbei (Northern Town) Protection Circle, Chengnan & Chengdong Protection Circles. The civil works for the above sections have been completed so far while the bid for road works and landscape works has not started yet.

The implementation progresses of civil works are indicated in details in Tale 2.1-1.

Contract Contract Price(RMB Commencement Completed Civil Resettlement Initiation Name of Bid Section Duration 10,000 Date Works (Day) Land Acquisition Demolition yuan) Northern Town Section 918.93 2007.10 100% Completed Uncompleted

Southern Town Section 938.38 2007.10 100% Completed Uncompleted

The bid opening has not been conducted.

1) The contract price of civil works for Northern Town Bid Section is RMB 9.1893 million yuan. It is constructed by Hunan Kehong Construction and Development Group Co., Ltd. and supervised by Yongzhou Hydro & Power Engineering Construction Supervision Co., Ltd. The project was commenced on Dec, 2007 and the investment of RMB 9.1893 million yuan has been input, accounting for 100% of its total investment.

2) The contract price of civil works for Southern and Eastern Town Bid Section is RMB 9.3838 million yuan. It is constructed by Hunan Kehong Construction and Development Group Co., Ltd and supervised by Yongzhou Hydro & Power Engineering Construction Supervision Co., Ltd. The project was commenced on Dec, 2007 and the investment of RMB 9.3838 million yuan has been input, accounting for 100% of its total investment.

2.2 Resettlement Progress

2.2.1 Land Acquisition

The planning: the planned permanent land acquisition involves 3 administrative villages (residential committees) of Xiaopu Town in Jiangyong County. The affected population due to land acquisition include 132 relocatees in 39 households. The planned land acquisition area of all kinds of land is 45.51 mu, among which the collectively owned land is 15.51 mu, and the state-owned land is 30 mu.

Accomplishment in the past years: the actual land acquisition started in 2005, with a completed land acquisition area of 45.51 mu in 2007, accounting for 100% of planned land acquisition area.

Accumulated accomplishment: 0.338 mu of acquired land has been completed, accounting for 100% of planned area.

Evaluation: the costs for the acquired land have been allocated to villages, groups and

communities and the methods for cost allocation have been discussed at the village (group, community) meeting whereby the costs have been distributed to individuals.

See Table 2.2.1 for Summary Table for Jiangyong County Subproject land acquisition implementation progress.

Table 2.2.1 Summary Table for Jiangyong County Subproject land acquisition implementation progress.

Planned Land Acquisition Area Accomplished Land Acquisition Area Accomplishment Percentage (mu) (mu)

Date State- Collectively Collectively State- Collectively State- Subtotal owned Subtotal Subtotal owned land owned land owned land owned land owned land land

By the end of 2009 45.51 15.51 30 45.51 15.51 30.00 100% 100% 100%

2010 0 0 0 0 0 0 0% 0% 0%

Total 45.51 15.51 30 45.51 15.51 30 100% 100% 100%

The Employer has not provided the complete and detailed statistics for the details of land acquisition input whereas there is no investment input so far, which is worth further concerns in the next period.

2.2.2 Housing Demolition

The planning: houses with the areas of 7278 m2 are planned to be demolished with 132 relocatees.

Local implementation: no relocation has been carried out.

Accumulated accomplishment: as for the civil works, only part of the residents' houses were dismantled since most of relocatees are dissatisfied with the location of resettlement houses and the overall demolition for the hospital hasn’t been initiated so far, thus the unavailability of resettlement houses resulted in backwardness in housing demolition progress.

See Table 2.2.2-1 for statistics table for demolition progress in resettlement.

Table 2.2.2-1 Statistics Table for Demolition Progress in Resettlement of Jiangyong County

Items Unit Quantity Comments Houses for demolition Square meter 7278 Planned demolition Households for demolition Household 39 Population for demolition person 132 Houses for demolition Square meter 0 Accumulated accomplished Households for demolition Household 0 percentage Population for demolition person 0 Houses for demolition 0% Accumulated accomplished Households for demolition 0% percentage Population for demolition 0%

2.2.3 Invetsment for Resettlement

Planned investment for resettlement and accomplishment of resettlement investment for Jiangyong Subproject are indicated in details in Table 2.2.3-1.

Table 2.2.3-1 Statistics Table for Planned Investment for Resettlement and Accomplishment of Resettlement Investment

Items Jiangyong County Newly planned total investment 690.08

Available resettlement fund 589.73 Percentage of available resettlement fund in the planned 85% total investment Accomplished investment in 2010 589.73

Accumulative accomplished investment 589.73

Accumulative accomplished investment 85.46%

The planned total investment for resettlement for Jiangyong Subproject is RMB 6.9008 million yuan. So far, the accumulated resettlement investment has come to RMB 5.8973 million yuan, accounting for 85.46% of the planned investment. The fees for the accomplished land acquisition have already been paid in lump sum, without default or underpayment.

3. Implementation of Action Plan

3.1 Specific Measures

3.1.1 Mitigation Measures

 Mitigation Measures for Construction-related Disturbances

The construction of proposed flood control works and related facilities will directly affect 16 administrative villages and 4 residential communities in urban areas of Xiaopu Town and some disturbances may occur during the implementation of several projects. The total number of residential committees or ethnic minorities in villages affected by the construction noise and other hazards will come to 7,000.

The civil works for the subproject has been completed and the construction party restricted the construction time basically in the daytime and seldom conducted night construction to avoid the rest time and reduce the influence of the noises on the residents near the work sites by means of reasonable arrangement to avoid simultaneous construction of noisy equipment. Except for rainy days, everyday the construction party arranged watering carts for watering dust prevention of the construction road for three or four times to reduce construction damages to the health of the residents nearby and the environmental hygiene of the county. As for those construction vehicles in and out of the county, all were cleaned Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricity Engineering Technology Development Co., Ltd. 7 External Monitoring & Evaluation Report of Ethnic Minority Resettlement on the Hunan Flood Control Project for Hilly Areas Utilizing ADB Loans

uniformly so as to prevent bringing the dust from the work sites to the roads of the county. Additionally, the damaged irrigation and drainage systems were repaired to prevent the water resource utilized by local residents from pollution caused by construction.

The annual costs for watering dust prevention, washing construction vehicles and construction garbage disposal are about RMB 2,000 yuan. So far, the accumulated input has mounted up to RMB 4,000 yuan.

 Mitigation Measures for HIV/AIDS and STIs Publicity and Preventio

Although Jiangyong County is not a high risk area for HIV/AIDS, in order to ensure that Jiangyong will continue free of HIV/AIDS, county CDCs (Centre for Disease Control), in accordance with the PRC Law on Prevention and Treatment of Epidemic Disease, should take measures to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and other STIs. During the project implementation, CDC took preventative measures in workers and local communities as well as for the operators of transportation equipment and truck drivers such as setting up medical clinics, putting up posters for HIV/AIDS prevention, conducting the HIV/AID and STI eduation together with making the international implementation plan for AIDS prevention. The project party also invited the staff from the environmental protection bureau to inspect the adverse impact such as dust and the water quality of dyke toes in the project areas, and took certain corrective measures to reduce health damages to the construction workers. During the period of “December 1 --- AIDS Prevention and Control Day", the County Women’s Federation, in conjunction with the County Health and Welfare Bureau, County Centre for Disease Control, held a publicity campaign with a theme of “Containing AIDS and Fulfilling Our Promises” with focus on the propaganda of “AIDS Prevention and Control Regulations”. Additionally, the posters were also put up at places of entertainment and hotels to allow the masses to realize the danger of AIDS and understand the methods for prevention anytime and anywhere. No incidence of HIV/AIDS occurred in the project area during the project implementation.

The annual costs for publicity, sanitation and hygiene management, health quarantine, vaccination and control of mice, mosquitoes and flies are RMB 1000 yuan, RMB 1,500 yuan, RMB 2,500 yuan, RMB 2,000 yuan and RMB 1,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has come to RMB 8,000 yuan.

 Mitigation Measures for Gender Equality

In order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women, women’s participation in terms of decision making will be secured in accordance with government laws and regulations during the implementation of Ethnic Minority Action Plan. The Women’s Federation is an organization for advocating and protecting the rights and interests of women and children, releasing information on livelihood by means of regular group meetings and newsletter.

In the affected areas, women have equal rights and status of men and play important roles in economical development and housework, especially in villages where most women stay at home while most men go to work in cities. Women also play important roles in agriculture production (both cultivation and non-farm work) besides in family responsibilities; therefore, women even paid more interests in this subproject than men in the influenced areas. They not only actively took part in the work at all periods of resettlement, but also played outstanding roles in many other aspects such as negotiating directions and modes of resettlement.

requirements and problem-reflections on economic rehabilitation and demolition of old houses, moving and building of new houses were fully attended to in order to ensure the fair distribution of the project benefits to the women. In the subproject department, the women are also arranged to take participate in some suitable jobs such as internal or office work, publicity, measuring and file management.

In addition to all of the above, the Women's Federation of Jiangyong County has dealt with the following items for the rights and interests of ethnic minorities women during this monitoring and evaluation period:

1. Implementation of “Sunshine Training Plan” mainly in terms of crop farming and tertiary industry for women and skill training in conjunction with some enterprises such as Guangdong enterprise for obtaining suitable skills for enterprises. A dozen persons were sent to the Yongzhou City to receive the national sunshine training for labor forces last year.

2. Active response to the spirit of Implementation Suggestions on Establishment of Learning Party Organization of Jiangyong County Party Committee of CPC to deepen the creation of learning party organizations and learning families of our county, promote the building of harmonious families, carry out the special thematic activities in a deep-going way and decide to conduct an activity throughout the county for the establishment of “Learning Family” with the theme of “Scholarly Taste Spreading to Thousands of Homes”.

3. Holding of "Square Cultural Activity for Celebrating Women’s Day”.

4. Active response to the call of County Party Committee and County Government on "20,000 Cadres Leave for Basic Units for Problems Solving and Development Promotion”

5. Wide mobilization and participation in various forms of visits and interviews. During Children’s Day, the Working Committee of Women's Federation of Jiangyong County widely mobilized all parties to visit and interview kindergartens, pupils and some poor and dropout children, delivering consolation money of RMB 90,000 yuan and relief materials including milk, school things, tools and clothes equivalent to RMB 30,000 yuan. The Women’s Federation and Birth Control Committee of Jiangyong County jointly carried out the activity of "Caring for Girls”, covering the insurance of RMB 6,300 yuan for 210 rural households with only one child and families with two daughters as well as distributing consolation money of RMB 0.152 million yuan and high-quality rice of 20,000 jin.

6. Enhancement in construction of network for rights safeguarding to earnestly maintain the lawful rights and interests of women and children. It also held the activity of “Rights Safeguarding on March 8” during which the Women's Federation of our county seriously organized the publicity and education on related laws and regulations including Marxist Concept of Women, Basic State Police of Gender Equality, Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of Women, Marriage Law and Law on Maternal and Infant Health Care, printing and distributing publicity materials of 4,000 pieces, 28 banners and 260 slogans.

The costs for meetings, visits and interviews special for women and children, square cultural activity for celebrating Women’s Day, training for women cadres and construction enhancement and publicity for network for rights safeguarding were RMB 5,000 yuan, RMB 0.3 million yuan, RMB 3,000 yuan, RMB 55,000 yuan and RMB 6,000 yuan respectively. So far, the accumulated input has come to RMB 0.369 million yuan.

 Mitigation Measures for Implementation of Resettlement

According to the Ethnic Minority Development Plan of Jiangyong County, the local government shall support the development of social infrastructure and local markets which need to be involved in the local development plan while the factors such as local custom, agricultural demands and long-term development shall be taken into consideration in building new houses. The new houses will be built as hoped by the residential households to maintain the traditional style of houses. Additionally, assistance and help will be provided to the vulnerable groups in need during the project implementation including the old, disabled, families with women as the main members, destitute families and ethnic minority population. As for the persons in loss of lands and severely affected by the project, the agricultural technology and skills trainings for non-farm activities will be provided to them according to respective circumstances in addition to the provision of land compensation and recovery measures. As regard to the affected women, especially the ones from ethnic minorities will be given priority in the abovementioned trainings to improve their skills and get the opportunities to be benefited through participation in non-farm activities. The resettlement organizations at all levels shall be established with a small number of staff of ethnic minorities whereas the ethnic minorities and their representatives will be given the opportunities to participate in resettlement plan, which shall be realized through implementation of the whole process of resettlement.

The relocatees in the project areas and resettlement district together with the affected ethnic minorities have been asked for opinions and suggestions on the planning and implementation scheme before the implementation of demolition and resettlement for Jiangyong County Subproject. The resettlement district is designed to be built near the bank of Xianshui River with a full consideration of needs of the affected groups. So far, the construction of resettlement district and the demolition have not commenced yet and the future relocatees will be uniformly settled in this district.

3.1.2 Enhancement Measures

 Implementation of Micro-Credit Program

The discounted micro-credit service will be provided to rural ethnic minorities of the county under the coordination of the Poverty Alleviation Office of Jiangyong County during the project implementation period. The average volume of loans will be increased from the normal volume of RMB 50,000yuan to RMB 8,000 yuan with a short repayment period of 0.5 to 4 year as recommended by the Women’s Federation which will be utilized for the development of income-generating activities.

All the loan interest rate will be assumed by the Poverty Alleviation Office and the discount loan this year is RMB 0.3 million yuan.

 Tourism Development

According to the resettlement plan of Jiangyong County Subproject, County government and their tourism agencies will take the following promotion actions for tourism development:

(1) Exhibition of Yao Nationality culture and establishing tourism infrastructures including a square for ethnic minorities near Qianjia Dong.

(2) Enhancement of infrastructures establishment and making the county to be one of the 50 most beautiful townships with the highest grades.

(3) Establishment of a water park by means of investment invitation during the 12th Five-Year Plan period.

(4) Great development of rural tourism and establishing the new countryside combined with “Farm Fun” to focus on the development of local tourism and attract overseas visitors gradually.

(5) Inclusion of Jiangyong tourism in Guilin Tourism Circle in terms of the publicity and declaring it to the relevant authority to make the county a great Qianjia Dong Tourism Circle for the birthplace of Yao Nationality.

The Tourism Bureau of Jiangyong County, in conjunction with County Cultural Affairs Bureau, greatly developed the local special tourism culture and held special festival celebrations which are as follows:

1. The alternative holding of the famous Panwang Festival of Yao Nationality jointly with a dozen counties around Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces.

2. The appearance of “Celebrating Xiaonian (January, 23rd based on lunar months) on the program of Special Report for Ethnic Nationalities of CCTV-4.

3. The participation of “Jiangyong Women’s Scripts” in Shanghai World Exposition as the World Intangible Cultural Heritage to be one of the most brilliant part of special culture in Hunan Pavilion.

The accumulated investment in tourism of Jiangyong County has mounted up to RMB 40 million yuan in recent years.

 Technical Advice and Training

The County technical sectors (i.e., Agricultural and Forestry Bureau, and Labor and Social Security Bureau) will provide special technical information and training to the project affected farmers (men and women) on grain cropping, livestock management, and non-farm skills, as well as job introduction for migrant labors.

In addition to all of the above, the Labor Bureau of Jiangyong County has taken the following actions for rights and interests of ethnic minorities during the monitoring and evaluation period:

1. The new quantity of employment came to 3,569 persons and re-employment quantity of unemployed persons came to 1,573 persons, of which the re-employment quantity of persons with employment difficulties came to 354 persons and that of transfer employment of incoming labor forces came to 4,900 persons.

2. Good implementation of investigation together with the assistance and support in employment for the "zero-employment families” with 32 households successfully.

3. Good implementation of the annual inspection of "Re-employment Concession Card” and distribution of “Registration Certificate of Employment and Unemployment”.

4. Promotion of pertinence, practicability and effectiveness of trainings. The County Employment Service Centre shall encourage the young unemployed persons to participate in the primary and secondary professional qualifications trainings and new profession trainings while the old-aged groups with employment difficulties shall be provided with simultaneous assistance and protection in employment and be organized to participate in the trainings for post adaptability.

5. Provision of rural labor forces for free. Given that the part of rural youth in poor families and lack of living skills are willing to go out to work, the County Employment Training Centre shall specially offer some training courses for computer, electric welding workers, cooks, restaurant service and electric sewing.

6. Implementation of order trainings. The Career Centre shall encourage and support the order trainings and strongly implement the system of “Training for Specific Posts Prior to Directional Labor Output”.

7. Distribution of 7,500 indicators special for poor households and annual distribution of subsidies of RMB 400 yuan (per person) to the poor persons who are able to work with the annual income lower than RMB 1,196.

So far, the accumulated total number of trainees has mounted up to 10,550 persons, including 2,320 persons for re-employment trainings, 3,330 persons for corporation trainings, 830 persons for pre-job trainings, 3,610 persons for job trainings for transfer of rural labor force, 460 persons for SYB trainings and 400 persons for occupational skill appraisal and certification.

The investment of RMB 0.6 million yuan was input in trainings and supporting the poor households last year.

 Tax Incentives

According to the Ethnic Minorities Development Plan of Jiangyong County and in order to encourage local minority people to engage in secondary and tertiary activities, the local government shall provide tax incentives and special policies, such as fixed allowances, increasing subsidy, and special assistance, waive agricultural tax, and provide priority for the minority households to get micro credits.

3.1.3 Project Benefit Measure

The following benefit measures have been taken during the implementation of construction of Jiangyong Subproject and the details are indicated in Table 3.1.3.

Table 3.1-3 Table for Benefit Measures Measures to be Receiver/Indicator Beneficiaries Budget Taken To employ a small 40% ethnic minority Ethnic minority labor Included in the civil number of ethnic labor forces of 0.19 forces of 50,000 works contract minority population as million labor-day labor-day workers in construction and 70% of local of works related to labor forces will be flood control projects invoked by the contract To employ the labor 40 posts, of which the 16 ethnic minority Included in the budget forces of ethnic 40% shall be offered to workers of project minorities in ethnic minority labor implementation maintenance and other forces related jobs Since the implementation of this project, Jiangyong County Subproject construction employment has preferentially employed the local relocatees and ethnic minority groups to provide employment opportunities to the local residents, so that the project construction was favorable to help to develop the living standard of the influenced people and recover their livelihood. Except for some special professional jobs, local residents were employed for 95% of the remaining unskilled jobs such as haulage man, raw material suppliers and unskilled laborers. About 96% of the local residents employed were of ethnic minority. The above temporary employees were paid by local customary methods for work quantity.

Local workers employed for the construction of flood control project were paid in full without any default and underpayment. So far, the accumulated payment for workers has mounted up to RMB 0.4 million yuan.

3.2 Fund Availability and Usage Condition

Table 3.2-1 Summary Table for Resettlement Fund Availability and Usage Condition

Jiangyong County Measures to be Taken Funds Source Budget(yuan) Invested Funds

To prevent the ethnic minority communities from the construction- 1,000 4,000 related disturbances

Mitigation To control communicable disease 1,000 8,000 measure County Women and To encourage the women to participate Children Working 120,000 369,000 in meetings and decision making Committee To provide special support for 1,000 75,000 resettlement to the affected population

To offer micro-credit loans (500 ethnic Labor Bureau 300,000 300,000 minorities)

To provide measures for tourism 5 000 000-6 County Government ，，， 40,000,000 Enhancement promotion 000，000 measure To provide skills training and support for Labor Bureau 1,300,000 600,000 poor households

To provide tax preference County Government

To employ the ethnic minorities population as workers in contruction of 300,000 400,000 works related to flood control projects Project benefit measure To employ the ethnic minority labor forces as workers in maintenance and 1,000 related jobs

3.3 Consultation and Appeals

For the resettlement for Jiangyong County Subproject, since the launch of the relocation in 2005, high attention has been paid to it by Hunan Province, Yongzhou City and resettlement organs at all levels. And wide propaganda was given to the subproject by means of local news media including TV, broadcasting and newspapers. Additionally, the materials of relevant laws and regulations on resettlement such as resettlement information manual were distributed to each household to make them exactly understand the quantity of indicators in kind, computational method and compensatory method of compensation standards, resettlement place for relocatees and resettlement scheme as well as the rights and preference policies enjoyed by relocatees. Before the end of January in 2007, the headquarters successively released the land acquisition announcement and housing demolition announcement within the red line of project and organized several mobilization meetings and symposiums to negotiate and communicate with the relocatees as well as listened to in details their intentions and opinions. Much attention shall be paid to the ethnic minority groups, of which the proportion in consultation activities is about 95%.

The staff responsible for the monitoring and evaluation for resettlement went to the resettlement district to conduct investigation and visits, consulting households and affected ethnic minority groups for their current production and living conditions, which reflected some existing problems and difficulties. The details are indicated in Table 3.3.3-1.

Table 3.3.3-1 Summary Table for Problems and Corresponding Solutions

Corresponding Solution

Follow-up Final No. Appealer Time Problems Reletively Handled Unhandled Satisfied Dissatisfied Actions Solution Satisfied

The location The of resettlment headquaters houses is far has decided from the Zhao This to relocate 1 original Shuhui period √ and construct places and the the nearest resettlment settlement is houses required

The Low The exercised compensation demolition This price will be 2 Jiang Lin standard for has not been period √ higher than housing conducted the planned placement yet standard

4. Main Existing Problems and Corresponding Recommendations

The housing demolition has badly lagged behind and backwardness also occurs in the construction progress of resettlement houses. The land acquisition and civil works for the project haven been basically completed while the most of relocatees have signed the housing demolition and resettlement agreements. However, the housing demolition has not been officially started yet since the construction of resettlement houses within the relocation district has not commenced. The flood control dam is regarded as a project of public mind which can solve the flood problems affecting the residents along Xiaoshui River for many years. Additionally, it received the strong public support during the project implementation, which may be due to the solid and positive efforts of headquarters staff. The nearest settlement for the relocation district can solve the problem of relocatees reluctant to move to far places. However, many relocatees began to have doubts about the resettlement and the original enthusiasm of cooperation gradually faded away due to the backwardness in the launch of construction of relocation district. In addition to all of the above, a fairly good statistic data for resettlement funds input has not been provided yet and it is recommended to speed up the construction progress of resettlement houses as well as to complete resettlement as soon as possible. Furthermore, it is necessary to facilitate the collection of resettlement information and timely establish a database for demolition and resettlement.

5. Annexes

Damming Lock at the Downstream

Completed Flood Control Dam

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