Public Disclosure Authorized World Bank Loan
Hohhot-Zhangjiakou Rapid Railway
Public Disclosure Authorized Resettlement Policy Framework
Public Disclosure Authorized
The Foreign Capital & Technical Import Center, Ministry of Railways December, 2011 Public Disclosure Authorized
Contents
A PROJECT INTRODUCTION...... 1
B OBJECTIVE, PRINCIPLE AND TERMS OF THE POLICY FRAMEWORK...... 1
C PREPARATION AND APPROVAL OF RAP ...... 4
D INSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL FRAMEWORK ...... 6
E IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS...... 10
F FUND ARRANGEMENT...... 15
G PUBLIC PARTICIPATION AND INFORMATION TRANSPARENCY...... 15
H APPEALING PROCEDURE...... 16
I MONITORING AND EVALUATION ...... 16
ANNEX 1 COMPENSATION STANDARDS IN PROJECT IMPACTED AREAS...... 18
1 Land Acquisition Compensation Standard...... 18 2 Compensation Standards for Housing Demolition and Accessory Objects on Ground...... 23 3 Compensation Standards for Infrastructure and Special Establishment ...... 32
ANNEX 2 EXAMPLE TABLE-- ENTITLEMENT MATRIX ...... 33
A Project introduction
1. The Hohhot-Zhangjiakou Rapid Railway passes through Zhangjiakou City in Hebei Province, and Wulanchabu and Hohhot City in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The line, from east to west, goes through four categories five kinds of landforms, including Yanghe river valley, low-and-middle hills, basin area of Huangqihai Lakes, low-and-middle mountains in Zhuozi, inclined plaints in front of Daqingshan Mountain.
2. The total length of the trunk line is 287.087 km. There are 137.673 km bridges, including 118 beam bridges of 137.673 km, 114 frame bridges of 18810 top square meters, accounting 47.9% of the total length of the line. There are 27 tunnels, with a total length of 45.609 km, 15.9% of the total length of the line. The length of bridges and tunnels accounts 63.8% of the line’s total length. The length of subgrade is 103.805 km, 36.2% of the line’s length. There are also 171 culverts, 4189 linear meters.
3. There are 4 stations (not including Zhangjiakou South Station) installed along the line, including Huai’an, Wulanchabu, Zhuozi East and Hohhot East Station among which Huai’an and Wulanchabu stations are newly built ones while the rest are rebuilt. Hohhot East Station is for passenger transport and the rest are intermediate stations. The reconstruction of Hohhot Station shall be considered as part of the project. The maximum station distance is 77.844km (from Zhuozi East to Hohhot East) and the minimum is 47.878km (from Wulancahbu to Zhuozi East), 57.553km on average. A new MU train workshop and coach kerbing station shall be built in Hohhot East Station. Comprehensive repair workshops shall be built in Wulanchabu, Zhuozi East and Hohhot East Station. A Maintence site shall be installed in Huai’an station. The project duration is 4 year, completed for one time.
4. The total budget of investment for the project is 32187.1886 million Yuan, 112.1165 million Yuan per km of the trunk line, including 29141.72 million Yuan on static investment, 101.5083 million Yuan per km of the trunk line.
5. The railway alignment and station locations may be further improved and adjusted in the latter design stages and during implementation. In addition, access roads and borrow pits which are determined during implementation may result in land requisition. Therefore, the borrower, in accordance with the World
Word Bank Loan Project 1 Hohhot-Zhangjiakou Rapid Railway Bank OP4.12, Involuntary Resettlement, has formulated a Resettlement Policy Framework. If a significant resettlement impact is expected, a RP is to be prepared in accordance with the RPF.
B Objective, principle and terms of the Policy Framework
6. The Resettlement Policy Framework is formulated based on the World Bank OP4.12, namely the Involuntary Resettlement. The overall objective is to ensure the unforeseen/undefined resettlement work compliant with the following: