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World Bank: Gansu Revitalization and Innovation Project Environmental Impact Assessment For Component 2: Urban-Rural Regeneration

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Prepared by Lanzhou University Applied Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd.

Public Disclosure Authorized April 2019

Table of Contents

I Overview ...... 1

1.1 Project Background and Introduction ...... 1 1.2 EIA Category, Scope and Indicators ...... 10 1.3 Relevant Laws and Regulations ...... 12 1.4 Relevance to Domestic Plans ...... 15 1.5 Function Zoning ...... 21 1.6 Applicable Standards...... 24 II Project Description ...... 30

2.1 Project Composition and Location ...... 30 2.2 Descriptions of the Subprojects ...... 32 III. Environmental and Social Baseline ...... 42

3.1 General Conditions in Gansu ...... 42 3.2 Physical Settings ...... 44 3.3 Environment Quality Condition ...... 53 3.4 Environmental Sensitive Areas/Receptors ...... 63 3.5 Physical Cultural Resources (PCRs) ...... 66 3.6 Social and Economic Conditions ...... 68 3.7 Project Related Facilities ...... 70 IV. Analysis of Alternatives...... 74

4.1 With and Without the Project ...... 74 4.2 Alternatives of Project Sites ...... 75 4.3 Alternatives of Pollution Control Schemes ...... 78 4.4 Other Alternatives ...... 87 4.5 EIA Recommendations for Project Design Optimization ...... 89 V Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures during Construction ...... 91

5.1 Generic Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures ...... 91 5.2 Specific Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures ...... 96 5.3 Social Impacts and Mitigation Measures ...... 103 VI. Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures during Operation ...... 107

6.1 Environmental and Social Benefits ...... 107 6.2 Generic Impacts and Mitigation Measures ...... 107 6.3 Specific Impacts and Mitigation Measures ...... 113 VII Resettlement & Social Impacts Assessment ...... 121

7.1 Resettlement Impacts Assessment and Mitigation Measures ...... 121 7.2 Social Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures ...... 127 7.3 Social Action Plan ...... 133 VIII Cumulative Impact Assessment ...... 137

8.1 Characteristics of Cumulative Impacts for the Project ...... 137 8.2 CIA Methodology ...... 137 8.3 Subprojects Screening for CIA ...... 138 8.4 CIA for Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject ...... 139 8.5 CIA for Lintao Majiayao Subproject ...... 141

8.6 CIA for Zhangye Subproject ...... 144 8.7 Conclusions of CIA ...... 147 IX Information Disclosure and Public Consultation ...... 149

9.1 Purpose of Public Consultation and Stakeholders Identification ...... 149 9.2 The First Round of Public Consultation ...... 151 9.3 Second-Round Public Consultation ...... 166 X. Environmental & Social Management Plan ...... 179

10.1 Institutional Arrangement and Responsibilities ...... 179 10.2 Environental and Social Impacts and Mitigation Measures ...... 180 10.3 Environmental Monitoring ...... 181 10.4 Training Plan ...... 181 10.5 Supervision and Reporting System ...... 182 10.6 Cost Estimate on Environmental Management ...... 186 XI. Conclusions ...... 188 Figures ...... 189 Tables ...... 201

I Overview

1.1 Project Background and Introduction

Gansu Province exemplifies the challenge of spatial inequality in China. Despite Gansu’s rich natural, cultural, and historical resources, it is China’s poorest province and significantly lags other provinces on most economic and social indicators. Gansu’s per capita income is less than half the national average and a mere 23 percent of that in leading provinces. Measured by per capita disposable income and access to and quality of infrastructure, Gansu also ranks last among all the provinces. About 65 percent of Gansu’s population belongs to the national bottom 40 percent group, compared with only 9.21 percent of Beijing’s population. Agricultural development alone has proved inadequate to lift Gansu’s poor out of poverty. The once-powerful heavy industries are declining. The province is turning to the service sectors to drive its economic growth but so far has had only limited success. Uneven development and significant disparities exist within Gansu Province—there are also striking disparities between rural and urban areas, and a wide gap between the capital city, Lanzhou, and secondary cities and townsMSEs in rural areas across China face a critical challenge in gaining access to credit. According to the 2017 China Financial Inclusion Report and the 2017 Global Findex, about 86 percent of micro-enterprises and 65 percent of small and medium enterprises in China lack unconstrained access to finance, resulting in an MSE financing gap of US$1.9 trillion, equivalent to 17 percent of gross domestic product (GDP).

Access to formal credit in China’s rural areas is only about 19 percent, compared to 44 percent in urban areas. The main barriers to access are the large physical distances to financial service providers, such as banks; limited credit records; lack of assets that can serve as collateral; short maturity of loans (12 months or less); and the informal nature of many MSEs, all of which render these businesses unable to meet banks’ lending requirements. Prospective borrowers in rural areas and small towns also lack basic financial knowledge and business experience. For those eligible to borrow, going through cumbersome procedures and waiting through a lengthy approval period is discouraging. Many MSEs turn to family and friends rather than rely on the formal financial sector. In Gansu Province, these barriers are exacerbated by underdeveloped financial markets and institutions.

Gansu is one of the most underbanked provinces in China. As of 2016, Gansu, with a population of 26 million, had only about 470,000 MSEs. According to a market demand assessment survey of MSEs in the cultural, tourism, and creative industries conducted in the province in 2018 to underpin this project’s design, 80.2 percent indicated immediate or mid-term needs for financing. Only 23.8 percent of them, however, had borrowed from banks, among which less than 7 percent of the borrowers were women, while 49.3 percent had their financing needs satisfied through informal channels, such as loans from relatives or friends. About 54 percent of the MSEs surveyed felt credit constrained. Among the MSEs in debt, about 30 percent revealed that bank loans obtained could not fully meet their financing needs, with an average credit gap of RMB 894,000. Although women-owned or managed MSEs only accounted for about 30 percent of the MSEs that participated in the survey, their immediate financing needs were greater than those of MSEs owned by men.

Financial institutions in Gansu lack the skills, methodologies, and tailored products to serve MSEs well. Operational costs of small and micro-loans are very high, and profitability is low. Internet penetration in rural areas and small towns is far lower than in big cities, which hinders the use of automated credit evaluation and approval based on big data. According to the market demand survey, the demand for credit by MSEs in Gansu concentrates on small but flexible loans, but current micro- and small-credit products are not diverse enough. To deal with MSEs profitably, financial institutions need to build capacity to use new approaches and develop new products.

Tourism is one of the four pillars of Gansu’s poverty alleviation program. Known as the “golden section” of the ancient Silk Road, Gansu is ranked fifth among all provinces in China in terms of the richness and uniqueness of its natural, cultural, and historical resources. Globally, and in Gansu, the creative industries sector is growing, and it contributes increasingly to GDP and job creation, employing more people between the ages of 18 and 29 than any other sector. The creative industries are defined as those which produce and distribute goods, services, or activities with intangible cultural content that conveys ideas, symbols, and ways of life, irrespective of their commercial value. Among Gansu’s prefecture-level cities, too, the more dominant the tourism industry, the smaller the gap in income relative to the national average. As a result of past investments by the government in tangible cultural and natural endowments, the number of tourists visiting Gansu each year increased from 43 million in 2010 to 239 million in 2017. Gansu’s revenues from tourism have also increased but are not yet commensurate with the increase in the number of visitors. Moreover, tourism remains concentrated in the big cities and, hence, does not yet contribute to reducing regional disparities.

Despite the potential of its natural, cultural and historical endowments, Gansu’s institutional capacity for managing and promoting them is poor. Strategies, policies, and mechanisms to guide the development of the service sector, especially the cultural, tourism, and creative industries, are still weak. The provincial government is starting to gain experience in working with the private sector to leverage resources and manage public assets. These pilot experiences are important, as many municipal governments are unable to operate and maintain public facilities and services at many important attraction sites, which are, consequently, deteriorating.

The lack of adequate infrastructure is one constraint holding back the creative industries in Gansu. Most products of the creative industries in Gansu are traditional arts and crafts, such as Chinese calligraphy, ink painting, jade carving, folk performance, and puppet show production and presentation. Knowledge of and skills for generating these creative products are passed on from one generation to another through the teaching and mentoring of apprentices by masters. Many masters and their workshops are located in decaying towns and villages that lack basic infrastructure. The dilapidation of these areas not only makes the younger generation reluctant to live in them and learn the skills, but it also limits their attractiveness to tourists. Many businesses in the creative industries are micro to small in size and often family based. Their business skills are insufficient, and they lack easy access to finance. Finally, lack of physical spaces, such as training facilities, business incubators, production centers, and marketplaces, limits the modernization and scaling up of creative industries.

The proposed project strengthens institutions and private sector development in China’s poorest province. The project will enhance the capacity of selected local commercial banks and newly set-up government financial institutions to better serve MSEs’ growth. It will enhance the capacity of the local governments to provide business-enabling environments and strengthen the capacity of participating MSEs through startup advisory services to ensure business success and sustainability. The project intends to assist the least-developed province of China in mobilizing private sector financing and solutions for growth, easing financial pressure on the local governments, and reserving scarce public finance for vital needs.

The project provides a global model of how small towns along major infrastructure networks can leverage their existing local endowments to benefit from, and contribute to, economic growth. The project will bring in global, national, and local financial resources for the creation of a sustainable credit market to support MSE development in Gansu and to narrowing the gender gap of in access to finance. The project will demonstrate how pockets of poverty can be reduced through vital improvements to local infrastructure, and by enabling MSEs to connect to the growing service economy. Provinces across China with similar challenges, as well as other developing countries, will learn through knowledge transfer on how to address such challenges effectively.

The project contributes to reducing gender gaps. Currently, less than 7 percent of small loans in Gansu are to female entrepreneurs. The project has a minimum target of

10-14 percent of its micro- and small credits going to female borrowers. The project will have a special focus on women for business startup advisory services and workforce development. The project will reach out to prospective women entrepreneurs and provide targeted trainings on such topics as preparing a business plan and understanding the market and the application process to gain access to finance.

The project supports global public goods. Several project activities are designed to reduce risks from extreme weather events, especially flooding. This includes regulating water abstraction, protecting wastewater infrastructure from increased flooding, dredging rivers, and engaging in greening activities. On the mitigation side, project activities aim to reduce emissions by incorporating green design standards into new buildings and infrastructure; supporting non-motorized transportation; reducing heat loss in regenerated buildings; and installing more energy-efficient facilities, equipment, appliances, and street lights. Project investments will result in a significant parentage of climate co-benefits (Annex 2, Table 2.8), subject to verification by the Climate Co-Benefits Assessment Team of the Climate Change Group.

The project supports China’s national policy priorities. It supports the 13th National Five-Year Plan (2016–20), the Development-Oriented Poverty Reduction Program for China’s Rural Areas (2011–20), and the Views on Promoting Rural Poverty Alleviation through Innovative Mechanism. The project is also aligned with the solutions for reducing poverty and stimulating local economy proposed in the Development-Oriented Poverty Reduction Program for China’s Rural Areas (2011–20). These include (a) expansion of the existing system of geographical poverty targeting national/provincial poverty counties and adoption of a broader regional development approach for investments; (b) investment by rural businesses in economic activities of comparative advantage in the poorest areas, conducive to environmental rehabilitation; (c) rural tourism; and (d) the complementary roles of the public and private sectors. This project is also in line with Gansu’s provincial strategies and programs for economic and social development, poverty alleviation, and development and promotion of the service sector including tourism and creative industries.

The project aims to create employment and improve livelihoods for lower-income urban and rural residents in Gansu. It comprises three components: (i) providing increased access to financial services for MSEs in the cultural, tourism, and creative industries; (ii) urban-rural regeneration by targeted interventions in infrastructure and public services and support for the local creative industries; and (iii) institution building and transfer of knowledge globally.

The project will help build institutions and capacity for Gansu’s development. Building on the success of completed and ongoing World Bank-supported projects in the province and on key lessons learned, as well as the Bank’s accumulated knowledge of and expertise in leveraging competitive cities and urban regeneration for economic

growth and job creation, the project will focus on strengthening the capacity of Gansu’s institutions for economic and social development. It will take an integrated approach to creating economic opportunities for the poor and vulnerable through the regeneration of urban and rural settlements, bringing about essential improvements to local infrastructure, enabling MSEs to connect to the growing service economy, leveraging Gansu’s rich cultural and historical assets, and addressing underlying institutional and market weaknesses.

The project focuses explicitly on learning and global knowledge transfer, as well as building replicable development models. The borrower has brought along international partners, such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO), and the China-supported World Tourism Alliance (WTA), to benefit from their experience in capacity building and their well-established global networks. The project will seek to develop models for other countries with similar endowments of creative industries and tourism that face difficulties in translating them into growth opportunities. It will support the establishment of a Gansu cultural and tourism knowledge hub, using existing underutilized facilities in Dunhuang Expo and Lanzhou to help share Gansu’s experience nationally and globally. The project will also co-sponsor, with the provincial government, the well-established Annual Gansu Silk Road (Dunhuang) Expo to bring in and disseminate knowledge.

Project areas have been strategically selected on the basis of poverty levels, bottom 40 percent population, and underutilized endowments. Among all the fourteen prefectures in Gansu, specific counties, districts and towns in four prefectures along the Xi’an-Urumqi east-west corridor (the ancient Silk Road route) have been strategically selected to benefit from the project, based on the results of an economic geography and competitive cities analysis. These prefectures are Tianshui, Dingxi, Zhangye, and Jiuquan. The selection criteria used were (a) poverty level and size of the bottom 40 percent of the population (that is, the portion of the population with per capita disposable income below the national poverty line and the national 40 percentile); (b) transformation from agriculture or manufacturing to a service-based economy; (c) having underutilized endowments with high potential for local economic development; (d) location (that is, located along or connected to Gansu’s main tourism routes); and (e) not having previously received sufficient funds under various government and donor development programs to implement their development plans. Data reveal the extent to which counties, districts and towns of the project’s prefectures lag compared to leading cities in China. Project counties, districts and towns where large investments are made have an average per capita GDP of RMB 21,000 which is significantly below the national average of RMB 59,660, and only a fraction of the per capita GDP in Beijing (RMB 118,198) or Shanghai (RMB 116,562). Similar trends exist for per capita household disposable income. Most project counties have high poverty rates. For example, Tongwei county has a poverty rate as high as 17.61 percent in comparison with the national average of 2.19 percent. Poverty rates in Tianshui and Dingxi prefectures, where most project investments are made, stand at 9.80 percent, and 14.30

respectively.

Project Development Objective

PDO Statement. The project development objectives are to increase income- generating opportunities, improve access to infrastructure and services, and strengthen the institutional capacity of participating entities.

PDO Level Indicators. These indicators include the following:

• Number of new jobs created by project-supported MSEs and new centers and facilities (disaggregated by the national bottom 40 percent and gender) • Amount of co-financing leveraged by the Participating Financial Institutions (PFIs) • Number of people benefiting from urban-rural regeneration, including improved access to infrastructure and services in the project areas (disaggregated by the national bottom 40 percent and gender) • Number of PFIs that have completed and executed their institutional development plans with the project’s support • Number of integrated cultural and tourism strategies adopted and budgeted for in provincial and local plans • Citizen engagement—percentage of beneficiaries satisfied with project results (disaggregated by gender)

Project Components

Component 1: Increased Access to Financial Services for MSEs (total investment: US$150 million; IBRD: US$50 million equivalent; participating financial institutions (PFIs): US$100 million equivalent). This component supports private sector development through the provision of financing for new or existing MSEs engaged in the cultural, tourism, and creative industries. The component also seeks to support the creation of a sustainable credit market for MSEs by demonstrating the financial viability of the cultural, tourism, and creative sectors and by supporting the recently established provincial holding company to serve as a wholesale vehicle for meeting the demands of the underbanked segments in Gansu and for spurring financial innovation.

IBRD financing will be on-lent to the Gansu Finance Holding Group (GFHG). Established in 2016, GFHG is the wholesale financial intermediary and the provincial project management office (PPMO) for this component. Through a subsidiary agreement, GFHG will extend to PFIs a line of credit to co-finance sub-loans to eligible MSEs in the cultural, tourism, or creative industries in Gansu Province. At this time, Bank of Gansu (BoG) has been qualified and selected as the first PFI after meeting compliance indicators with regulatory requirements reflective of capital adequacy and asset quality and following a call for expressions of interest. An allocation of US$25

million is committed to BoG, which leveraged US$50 million from BoG. The remaining IBRD unallocated amount (US$25 million) will be used to partner with additional PFIs through subsequent expressions of interest using transparent selection criteria (Annex 1, Table 1.1). Success with the first PFI in terms of sub-loans co- financing is expected to generate interest among subsequent qualified PFIs, with the expectation that co-financing of MSE sub-loans would reach at a minimum ratio of 1 (IBRD):2 (PFI). GFHG will support interested PFIs through outreach and technical assistance and may contribute its own funds in subsequent rounds of allocations.

To ensure financing along the whole value chain, 40 percent of the financing under this component (that is, US$60 million equivalent) will be targeted toward the micro sector with a single credit limit of US$50,000. The remaining financing under the component will provide credits to small enterprises, with most credits around US$120,000. The component will increase the tenor of the average maturity for the MSE sector from the present one year to two years, corresponding to the need for longer-term financing identified in the market demand survey. A minimum of 40 percent of the component will finance interventions in project areas of Tianshui, Dingxi, Zhangye, and Jiuquan, while the remaining 60 percent may be used to finance enterprises in other prefectures of Gansu. The component is expected to create a minimum of 3,300 permanent jobs (40–50 percent for women) in newly established and growing MSEs. In addition, a minimum of 10 percent of the financing is targeted toward women borrowers. Currently, less than 7 percent of small loans in Gansu are to female entrepreneurs. To ensure sustainability, capacity building for GFHG and selected PFIs, as well as business startup advisory services for MSEs, will be provided under component 3.

In parallel, IFC will provide a senior loan of US$50 million equivalent, with additional syndicated loans, to expand lending by the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation–Microfinance Management Co., Ltd (CFPA MF) to micro and very small enterprises (MVSEs). IFC aims to expand CFPA MF’s lending to women- owned/managed MVSEs in rural area in Gansu, and to support the growth of the tourism and service sector in Gansu. Working with CFPA MF, IFC will be targeting the micro and very small spectrum of the value chain with loan sizes ranging from below US$5,000 for micro-loans and below US$15,000 for very small-loans. Thus, collectively, the World Bank Group will cover the full range of enterprises that have expressed a need for credit.

Also, in parallel, GFHG plans to invest US$50 million as paid-in capital. GFGC will use this investment to back up guarantees to be extended to financial institutions lending to MSEs, against the risk of payment default of such MSEs, up to an estimated amount equivalent to US$200 million. Technical assistance to GFHG under the project will help build its capacity to administer a credit guarantee facility, which may, over time, contribute significantly to improving financial access to MSEs and sustain project impact beyond the closing date.

Component 2: Urban-Rural Regeneration (IBRD: US$114 million equivalent). This component will make critical investments in small- and medium- scale infrastructure in project areas that will improve living conditions for residents and enable the creation of more income-generating opportunities in creative industries. One focus of the component is on the regeneration of urban areas and villages with cultural endowments. Another is to expand the cultural, tourism, and creative industries by constructing exhibition sites, spaces for MSE incubation and training, and creating marketplaces. The two sub-components will benefit local residents and visitors and create income-generating opportunities (Annex 2 provides details about the component).

(a) Regeneration of Historic Towns and Villages. The project will finance physical regeneration, including improved access to infrastructure and services and restoration of old houses and buildings, in four towns and nine villages located in four counties in Gansu. Each town or village is characterized by a distinct cultural or creative industry specialty, such as jade carving, calligraphy and ink painting, colored pottery, lacquerware, sculptures, or folk performance. Physical regeneration, together with the enablement of economic opportunities for MSE development provided under component 1, will stimulate social and economic regeneration of local communities and leverage private investments.

(b) Development of Creative Industries. The project will develop the creative industries in Gansu and provide clustered and conducive spaces for production, research, presentation, sales, and exchange of knowledge and experience. Based on market demand analysis and the comparative advantages of Gansu Province and project counties and towns, this subcomponent will finance the development of eight creative industry centers (including incubators and marketplaces) and three tourism facilities, including tourist information centers; physical and virtual display of the ancient Silk Road history, cultural, and creative industries; display and sales of cultural and creative products; and performance space for shows by local performers, using modern technologies.

Component 2 is expected to create 2,205 permanent jobs (40–50 percent of which will be for women) in newly constructed centers and facilities. All new centers and facilities will be connected to regenerated towns and villages by pedestrian pathways to enable visitors to engage with local cultures and experience the variety of performing arts, handicrafts, cuisines, and interpretations of local traditions. This, in turn, is expected to result in more tourism spending on local communities, as visitors buy handicrafts, dine, or stay overnight in homestays. All centers and facilities will be designed to use energy-efficient equipment and devices to reduce energy consumption and thus reduce operating cost. They will be leased out to professional operators to ensure sustainability of operation and maintenance (O&M) and generation of net revenues to local governments. The 8 subprojects include:

(1) Restoration of Dadiwan Ancient Ruin, Longcheng Ancient Town, and Shangguan Ming-Qing Old Street in Qin’an County (Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject) (2) Construction of Tianshui Carved Wooden Lacquerwares Center in Maiji District (Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject) (3) Rehabilitation of Shandan Town Yuanyang Jade Featured Cultural Town in Wushan County (Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject) (4) Construction of Majiayao Cultural Research Center in Lintao County (Lintao Majiayao Subproject) (5) Construction of Ink Paintings and Calligraphy Cultural Center in Tongwei County (Tongwei Subproject) (6) Rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage Protection Exhibition and Improvement of Wulan Ancient Town Folk Village in Zhangye City (Zhangye Subproject) (7) Construction Silk Road Culture Research Center in Suzhou District (Suzhou Subproject) (8) Protection and Development of Xuanquanzhi Ancient Area in Dunhuang City (Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject)

Component 3: Institutional Strengthening and Global Knowledge Transfer (IBRD: US$16.0 million equivalent). This component aims to strengthen the institutional capacity in Gansu to manage economic and social development, using cultural, tourism, and creative industries as a pillar for inclusive and sustainable economic growth and poverty alleviation. It includes the following activities:

Completion of studies and the development of sustainable site management plans, improved policies and regulations, marketing strategies, and Gansu branding and promotion activities. This will strengthen the capacity of local governments and the recently merged provincial Department of Culture and Tourism for better planning, policies, and regulations.

Provision of technical assistance, trainings, and business advisory services to communities, MSEs, participating financial institutions, and local and provincial officials. This will build the institutional capacity of GFHG and PFIs, support the creation of a sustainable credit market for MSEs, and provide incentive for private sector investments. It will also provide technical assistance (TA) to GFGC on global good practice in executing and managing guarantees (see Annex 2, Box 2.1, on value added of IBRD support to strengthen capacity of GFHG and PFIs). Community outreach and the provision of business startup advisory services to prospective borrowers, especially women, will help them prepare business plans, apply for credits, and support their businesses during the startup phase so they do not fail.

Provision of support for project management and implementation. This will include compliance with environmental, social, and fiduciary obligations, design institutes, project management, construction supervision, and monitoring and evaluation of the project impacts.

dissemination of Gansu culture and tourism knowledge globally. Gansu’s experience in tourism, cultural, and creative industry development, including under this project, will be curated and shared with other countries with similar development challenges. Existing Dunhuang Expo facilities that are currently used once a year will be utilized throughout the year, as they will serve as a knowledge hub under this project. On-the- job training provided by UNWTO is envisaged for the preparation of tourism circuit development and plans, market demand analysis, workforce development, and the branding, marketing, and promotion of Gansu. UNESCO will provide on-the-job training in the preparation of sustainable site management plans and the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage and promotion of creative industry. Both UNWTO and UNESCO will also help disseminate Gansu’s experience globally.

EIA Report: This report focuses on the environmental impacts generated by the activities to be undertaken under Component 2 with effective mitigation measures and management plans proposed and included in the report. Component 1 is excluded in this report, and its environmental and social issues have been described in the Environmental and Social Management Framework (ESMF) because the proposed project activities have not been identified. In line with China’s relevant laws and regulations (such as the Law of Environmental Impact Assessment, the Environmental Protection Management Directories for Construction Projects, and the Notice on Strengthening EIA Management for Construction Projects Funded by Loans from International Financial Institutions etc.) and the World Bank’s safeguard policies, Gansu Provincial Culture Department (GPCD) has contracted Lanzhou University Applied Technology Research Institute Co. Ltd. (the EIA Agency), through open tendering, to undertake the EA work for the Project. The EIA Agency has setup a team, carried out site visits and data collection, and finalized the EIA report. The positive environmental impacts of the Project have been analyzed, and the potential negative environmental impacts anticipated with the Project have been identified, screened and predicted. Proper measures have been prepared to mitigate the inevitable negative environmental impacts and included in the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP). The EIA will support the decision making of both relevant governmental authorities and the World Bank in relation to the Project.

1.2 EIA Category, Scope and Indicators

1. EIA Category Based on project’s nature, scope and characteristics, potential environmental impacts, and environmental functions of project areas, EIA should be categorized in accordance with the Notice on Strengthening EIA Management for Construction Projects Funded by Loans from International Financial Institutions, the Technical Guideline for EIA of Construction Projects, and the World Bank’s OP 4.01. Table 1.2- 1 shows the EIA categorization standards. Table 1.2-1 EIA Categorization for Construction Projects

Category Environment Impacts Requirements on EIA The proposed project is likely to have A significant adverse environmental A full EIA is required. impacts The proposed project is likely to have Generally, it’s not required to conduct limited negative impacts on environment. a full EIA, but partial EIA will be B The impacts should be mitigated by required as needed based on the applying advanced technology and characteristics of the proposed project measures. and the environmental features. No EIA is required, but self- The proposed project is likely to have no registration in the domestic EPB C or minimum environmental impacts. system is required for environment management. This Project proposes to use Gansu endownments, including historical, cultural and tourism resources, and small-scale upgrading infrastructure in the project areas to generate social, economic and environmental benefits. However, some subproject sites involve physical cultural resources (PCRs) and environmental sensitive areas such as drinking water source protection areas etc., therefore the Project has been classified as Category A project based on the World Bank’s OP 4.01.

2. Scope of EIA Table 1.2-2 Scope of EIA Environment EIA indicators Scope of EIA factors For a linear project, the EIA scope is within 200m to the central line. For other construction projects, the scope is within 200m outside the boundary of the project land Soil erosion occupation. For temporary works (e.g. camp, dump site, etc.), the scope is within 200m outside the boundary of Ecological the site. environment For a linear project, the EIA scope is within 200m to the central line. For other construction projects, the scope is within 200m outside the boundary of the project land Vegetation occupation. For temporary works (e.g. camp, dump site, etc.), the scope is within 200m outside the boundary of the site. For a linear project, the EIA scope is within 200m to the central line. For other construction projects, the scope is Noise in within 200m outside the boundary of the project land construction phase occupation. For temporary works (e.g. camp, dump site, Acoustic etc.), the scope is within 200m outside the boundary of environment the site. It covers the centralized residential apartment complex, Noise in operation schools and hospitals within 200m to project construction phase site. For a linear project, the EIA scope is within 200m to the central line. For other construction projects, the scope is Waste gas in within 500m outside the boundary of the project site. construction phase For temporary works (e.g. camp, dump site, etc.), the Ambient air scope is within 200m outside the boundary of the site. For a linear project, the EIA scope is within 200m to the Waste gas in central line. For other construction projects, the scope is operation phase within 500m outside the boundary of the project site. Water Wastewater in It covers the surface water bodies within 1000m to the Environment construction phase project construction area (including temporary works).

Environment EIA indicators Scope of EIA factors Wastewater in operation phase 3. EIA Indicators Considering the potential environmental impacts of the Project and the sensitivity of the environment, following indicators have been considered in the EIA process (Table 1.2-3). Table 1.2-3 EIA Indicators Indicators for Predicted Environment Indicators for Environmental Environmental Quality factors Baseline Construction Operation period Period Acoustic LeqdB(A) LeqdB(A) LeqdB(A) environment pH, DO, CODCr, CODMn, ammonia pH, COD,, ,, ,BOD5 nitrogen, total phosphorus, COD, BOD5, SS ammonia Surface water petroleum, sulfide, total nitrogen, nitrogen, TP fecal coliform SO2, NO2, CO, Air SO2, NO2, CO, TSP, PM10, Pm2.5 TSP, PM10, Pm2.5 TSP, PM10, Pm2.5 Solid \ Earth and stones Sludge, sewage wastes Land acquisition, soil Baseline of vegetation and land Ecology erosion, fauna and / usage flora Social impact Traffic and Physical cultural resources / Assessment resettlement impacts

1.3 Relevant Laws and Regulations

According to the Notice on Strengthening EIA Management for Construction Projects Funded by Loans from International Financial Institutions, this Project should follow China’s laws, regulations and standards on environment protection, and at the same time follow the relevant requirements of the related international financial organizations. 1.3.1 World Bank’s Safeguards Policies and EHS Guidelines 1. World Bank’s Safeguards Policies Based on the safeguards screening, the following World Bank’s safeguards policies are trigged by Component 2: (i) OP/BP 4.01 Environmental Assessment; (ii) OP/BP 4.04 Natural Habitats; (iii) OP/BP 4.11 Physical Cultural Resources; and (iv) OP4.12 Involuntary Resettlement. The compliance with these policies during the preparation of Component 2 is summarized in Table 1.3-1.

Table 1.3-1 Compliance with the World Bank’s Safeguards Policies for Component 2 Applicable Safeguards Project Compliance Policies - Though the anticipated negative environmental and social impacts are mostly Environmental site-specific and temporary during construction, overall the project is

Assessment classified as Category A considering the significance and sensitivity of (OP/BP4.01) cultural relics involved; - Full environmental and social impact assessment has been conducted for the component; - The full EIA and an ESMP has been developed as the environmental safeguards documents with the integration of key findings and recommendations from the SA report, three RAPs and three RDD reports; - Two rounds of public consultation have been conducted with the safeguards documents disclosed locally and at the Bank’s external website. Ecological impacts assessment has been conducted as part of the EIA, concluding that no critical natural habitat will be involved or affected by the Natural Habitats proposed subprojects under Component 2. Adequate measures have been (OP/BP4.04) included in the ESMP to mitigate direct impacts on some non-critical natural habitats (e.g., rivers to be rehabilitated) and indirect impacts on natural habitat nearby (e.g., Fengshan Forest Park in Qin’an County). Physical Heritage Impact Assessment (HIA) has been conducted during the preparation Cultural of the project FSR and EIA. A specific Physical Cultural Resource Management Resources Plan (PCRMP) has been prepared and included in the ESMP. (OP/BP4.11) Involuntary Four RAPs, three RDDs, one SRAP and one RDF have been prepared, which Resettlement identify totally 928 people to be affected by 6 subprojects under Component 2, (OP/BP4.12) and the key findings of these documents have been integrated in the ESMP.

2. Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines In view of the project’s characteristics, the EIA compares the applicable Chinese environmental quality and pollutant discharge standards with the World Bank Group (WBG)’s pollution control standards and requirements in the Environmental, Health, and Safety Guidelines. Based on the comparison results, the more stringent standards are applied to the Project for environmental assessment and monitoring (see Section 1.6.3 for details). The WBG’s EHS guidelines deemed applicable to the Project include:

(1) World Bank Group’s Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines: General (2) World Bank Group’s Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Water and Sanitation (3) World Bank Group’s Environmental, Health and Safety Guidelines for Waste Management

1.3.2 Chinese Laws and Regulations The national laws, policies and regulations applicable to environment management of the Project are listed in Table 1.3.2.

Table1.3-2 Relevant Chinese Laws, Regulations and Policies Environment Protection Law of the People’s Republic of China (June 1st, 2015) The Law is formulated for protecting and improving the environment, preventing Relevant and controlling pollution and other public hazards, safeguarding public health, Laws, promoting ecological civilization, and promoting sustainable economic and social Regulations development and Law of Water Pollution Prevention and Control of the People’s Republic of China Policies (Jan. 2018) Issued by The Law is formulated for environmental protection and improvement, preventing Chinese water pollution, conserving water ecology, securing safe drinking water, government maintaining public health, promoting ecological civilization, and promoting sustainable economic and social development.

Law of Air Pollution Prevention and Control Issued of the People’s Republic of China (Jan. 2016) The Law is formulated for environmental protection and improvement, preventing air pollution, securing public health, promoting ecological civilization, and promoting sustainable economic and social development. Law of Solid Wastes Pollution Prevention and Control of the People’s Republic of China (Modified. 2016). The Law is formulated for preventing solid waste pollution ambient, securing the public health, maintaining ecological safety, and promoting sustainable economic and social development. Law of Noise Prevention and Control of the People’s Republic of China (Oct. 1996). The Law is formulated for preventing acoustic ambient pollution, protecting and improving the living environment, securing public health, promoting sustainable economic and social development. The Law of Cultural Heritage Protection of the People’s Republic of China (Modified in Nov. 2017). The Law is formulated for enhancing the protection of cultural relics, inheriting the splendid historical cultural relics produced by Chinese nation, promoting the scientific research work, and conducting the traditional patriotism and revolution education, and building socialism spiritual and material civilization. Regulations on the Protection of Wild Plants of the People’s Republic of China (Oct. 2017) The regulation is formulated for protecting, developing and rational utilizing wildlife and wild plants resources, protecting the biodiversity and maintaining ecological balance. Water and Soil Conservation Law of the People’s Republic of China (March 2011). The Law is formulated for preventing and managing water and soil erosion, protecting and rationally utilizing water and soil resources, mitigating the hazards of flood, drought, winds and dusts, improving ecological environment, ensuring the sustainable economic and social development. Law of Wildlife Animal Protection of the People’s Republic of China (July. 2016). The Law is formulated for protecting and saving the precious and endangered wildlife, protecting, developing and rational utilizing wildlife resources, maintaining ecological balance. Regulations on the Protection and Management of Water Source Protection Area for Drinking Water (Modified in Oct 2010). The regulation is formulated for the purpose of ensuring the public health and social economic development, which requires the functional protection of drinking water source, based on the Law of Water Prevention and Control. Surface Water Functional Zoning in Gansu from 2012 to 2030 (4# notice issued by Gansu Provincial Government in 2013). The regulation has defined the functions of each rivers in Gansu and specified the required water quality standard of the rivers. Regulations on Implementing the Law of Wildlife Animal Protection Issued by the People’s of Republic of China in Gansu (Modified in Sep. 29th, 2010). The regulation is formulated for the purpose of saving the precious and endangered Relevant wildlife, conserving, developing and rational utilizing the wildlife animal provincial resources, maintain ecological balance, based on the Law of Wildlife Animal policies Protection, concerning the actual situation of Gansu. Regulations on Cultural Heritage Protection in Gansu (Modified in Sep. 29th, 2010). The regulation is formulated for protecting of underground and above-ground cultural relics in Gansu province, ensuring the restoration and conservation of the national Cultural Heritage conservation Units (CHUs), developing the archaeological value, and instructing the National Museums and Cultural Relics Collection Units in the exhibition and collection of cultural relics.

Regulations on the Water and Soil Conservation in Gansu (issued in Oct. 1st, 2012). The regulation is formulated for preventing and treating water and soil erosion, protection and rational utilizing water and soil resources, mitigating the hazards of flood, drought, winds and dusts, improving ecological environment, ensuring the sustainable economic and social development. It is prepared in line with the Water and Soil Conservation Law and other relevant regulations, with concerning of actual status in Gansu. Regulations on Implementing the Water and Soil Conservation Law of the People’s Republic of China in Gansu (June 4th, 2004). The Law is formulated based on the Water and Soil Conservation Law and other relevant regulations, concerning the actual situation of Gansu.

1.4 Relevance to Domestic Plans

This paragraph gives explanations on the relevance of the Project to the domestic plans (See table 1.4-1 for details). In the design period, the EIA Agency has required the project design team to change the project schemes that were inconsistent with relevant national or local plans: (1) The sites of some project facilities were relocated to avoid environmental sensitive areas such as protected areas of cultural heritage protection units and drinking water source protection areas etc.; (2) The wastewater treatment schemes were revised to ensure they have no significant impacts on the surface water bodies (that have no capacity to receive pollution loads) or the drinking water sources area; (3) For the ecologically sensitive subprojects such as Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject, the project size and the tourists influx have been redesigned based on the plans to protect the ecological environment from being destroyed. Under the collaboration of the EIA Agency and the design team, the design schemes have been optimized to basically match the relevant planning requirements. However, some plans were prepared much early and failed to reflect the actual situation of the project areas, so it’s not right to fit the related design schemes to the plans. These cases include: (1) Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject: As described in the Dadiwan Relics Park Plan, the Wuying information center was planned to be located to the north of Shaodian village and the west of Yanjiagou village. However, this Plan has not been implemented since it was prepared in 2012, and the original proposed construction site has been used as the Primary School in Wuying Township. Thus, the proposed information center must be relocated to the southeast of Shaodong village and on the south bank of the Qinshui River. The site will neither involve arable land, nor occupy the protected area of Dadiwan Relics. In addition, it is 200m away from the nearest residential area of Shaodong village, which has avoided the possible environment impact on the residents in construction and operational periods. It’s therefore concluded that the siting of the information center is basically rational. (2) The domestic plans have requirements on projects to implement measures to protect environment (e.g. domestic wastewater management etc.). These requirements have been taken into account in the ESMP and prioritized as the compulsory measures to be undertaken in construction and operation periods to ensure the environment protection work could be strictly carried out in line with the requirements of the plans.

Table 1.4-1 Project’s Relevance to Relevant Domestic Plans Relevant Subproject Plan’s relevance to the subproject Project Design plan 1. It has required as follows based on the paragraph of (7) in the 15th article of the Planning: As the discovery site of Dadiwan Ancient Relics, in Shaodian village of Wuying Township, it should strictly protect the body of Dadiwan Relics, to inherit and display Dadiwan Culture in Tianshui. At the same time, the relics of ancient battlefields relics of the Three 1. The proposed project aims to protect the culture Tianshui Countries, such as the ancient battlefields of Jieting, should be protected dynamically in the process of reasonable relics such as Dadiwan, Jieting ancient battlefield etc, Historical utilization of the culture of the three countries. The historical characteristics of the famous historical and cultural villages while it will inherit and display its unique culture. Culture can be reflected through the inheritance and display of regional characteristic culture. 2. The proposed project will reconstruct the ancient Famous City 2. It has required as follows based on the paragraph of (9) in the 15th article of the Planning: Wahuang village in Longcheng streets and historical buildings in Longcheng and Protection township is the center of the national class historical culture and famous township. The planning mainly aims to protect construct the tourism service facilities related with Plan (2017) the layout of ancient Lueyang Town which enjoys the characteristic of “Bagua” - Symmetry of Yin and Yang and protect the inheritance of Nvwa culture. its structure of commercial streets and architectures with the style of Ming and Qin Dynasty, to protect some historical culture relics such as Nvwa Temple etc. to sustain the humanistic atmosphere of Nvwa Sacrifice, so as to inherit the culture of Nvwa. The site is served as a cultural place for the Chinese nation to find its ancestors. 1. Inside the project protection area, this project only involves drainage pipe engineering in the main street of the east of Yanjiagou at 120m away. The PMO The proposed project activities in this project has involved in the protection area and building restriction belt of Dadiwan plans to submit the implementation designing plan to relics specified in the Planning for the Protecting of Dadiwan Relics. Thus, it is necessary to explain the integration and Gansu Provincial Government for approval before harmony between the proposed project activities and the requirements specified in the Planning. starting the implementation of project. 1. The requirements for the management of protection area： 2. (1) the project located in Dadiwan construction Qin’an control zone is mainly for the construction of sewage Dadiwan Fundamentally, it is not allowed to construction the project inside the protection area. Under the exceptional circumstance, collection pipe network, sewage treatment facilities Subproject Dadiwan if the construction or exploration, drilling, excavation is inevitable, it has been approved by Gansu Provincial Government. and other infrastructure. At present, this sub-project Relic The approval should be agreed in advance by National Culture Relics Protection and Management Bureau. 2. Requirements for the construction restriction zone: has prepared and completed the cultural relic impact Protection (1) Within the construction restriction zone, any works and facility that might pollute the environment and relics is not assessment report. According to the conclusion of the Plan allowed, and the water pollution, noise and other hazardous emission should be well controlled. It is not allowed to cultural relic impact assessment, the construction of undertake any activity with potential impacts on the protection of relics and environment. the project will not affect the site of Dadiwan relics. (2) During carrying out any construction activities inside the restriction belt, it does not allow to destroy the historical (2) the design unit shall strictly carry out the project style of the relics. The requirements on the size, color and height for the constructed buildings must be consistent with the design in accordance with the requirements of this requirement for dwelling house. Its engineering designing plan should be approved in advance by National Culture Relics planning. The engineering design plan is to solicit the Protection and Management Bureau and submit to Gansu provincial construction administrative department for approval. opinions of the national culture relic’s protection and management bureau, before submitting it to the construction department of Gansu provincial for approval. The proposed project activities have concluded in the scope of the Planning for the Protection of Dadiwan Relics Park 1. The selected scope and priorities for this proposed (2012), it is necessary to explain the coordination between the proposed project activities and the requirements of the project is different from that for the planned relic park. Planning. The relic park covers the overall protection area of Dadiwan 1. Overall layout Dadiwan and focuses on the displaying of the relics Relics Park According the Planning of Dadiwan Relics Park, it has planned the construction of Entry Zone, Historical Environment body of Dadiwan. Regarding this proposed project Plan (2012) Restoration Zone, Museum Zone, Relics Display Zone, Ecological Experience Zone, Landscape Transforming Forest scope, it mainly involves in the construction activities Zone, Ecological Grassland in the park and surrounding area. Regarding the Entry Zone, it mainly consists of parking lot, in the restriction belt, which is the promotion of tourist service center, electro mobile pickup and so on, which are similar to the activities proposed under this project, i.e., environment and service facilities surrounding

Relevant Subproject Plan’s relevance to the subproject Project Design plan the construction of tourist service center, ancient dwelling house experience zone and parking lot in the Dadiwan Culture Dadiwan. Exhibition and Experience Zone. 1. The Planning has clearly defined the protection area of Longcheng Ancient Town, which has been divided as the core protected area and construction restriction belt. (1)The requirement for the protection of core area： A. It is to protect and enhance the overall style of ancient wall relics focusing the upper and lower streets, to protection 1. (1)A. This proposed project aims to reconstruct, and rebuild the traditional architecture to the traditional shops, temple and dwelling houses, and protect the environmental protect the dwelling houses located at the ancient factors of ancient famous trees, ancient wells and gates etc. alleys in Longcheng town, while upgrading the B. It conducts classified protection measures to the buildings and architectures inside the protection area, including infrastructure facilities near surrounding area... reconstruction, improvement, conservation, rectification and replacement etc. All protection and replacement B. It mainly plans to reconstruct, accomplish the measurements must be implemented gradually, to prevent large-scale construction and demolition, and strictly restrict the ancient dwelling houses by classification, without the construction of modern style buildings to conserve the historical style of the architectures. construction and demolishment in a big way. C. It mainly focuses on the reconstruction of culture relics architecture and historical buildings and the archiving for all C. Regarding the plan of repairing ancient dwelling Qin’an the protected buildings. It aims at the overall improvements of traditional architectures and the conservation and restoration houses during project implementation, it will follow County of their original height, size and appearance with historical style. Recently, it plans to focus on the rectification to some the plan prepared according the Planning. D. The Historical general buildings along the street which have been disharmony with the ancient style of town, to be replaced or rectified implementation of the project will improve the Culture and as traditional style. infrastructure of tourism in Longcheng Town, and Famous D. It plans to adjust land use pattern in the ancient town, to meet the demand of improving living environment and tourism accomplish the facilities of sanitation, drainage system Ancient Town development in the town., And actively improve the construction of civil engineering infrastructure to install the sewage etc, and install the pipelines underground. Protection pipelines underground. A. This proposed project has considered the demand Plan (2) The requirements for the construction in the construction restricted belt. for the protection and development of tourism A. It has taken the protection and development of the ancient town as priority in the layout of land usage, transportation, industry in Longcheng Town and accomplished the function of civil engineering facilities and infrastructure construction; facilities of infrastructure. B. Regarding the existing buildings inside the protection area, it mainly plans to restrict the style of architectures and B. The plan for the repairmen of existing buildings, it improve the environment of residential area. The roofs of building should be double slopes, the color of tiles on the roof should follow the requirements of the Planning. should be cold gray system, and the residential buildings controlled fewer than 2 floors high, the eaves of the building 2. Relevant measures for the protection of ancient should be controlled below 6m. The height of the public building should be controlled under 3 stories, and the eaves of trees are proposed in the ESMP, which follow the the building should be controlled below 9m requirements specified in the protection plan. 2. The protection of famous ancient trees： It plans to strictly protect the 13 ancient pagoda trees planned for protection, which will be forbidden to be cut, and to actively construct the fences protecting trees and tend the trees, and to further accomplish the rooms under trees so as to maintain the harmonious relationship for the protection of ancient famous trees and their historical surrounding environment. The project proposed the construction of Tourist Service Center in Majiayao and the Ecological Experience Zone in 1. In the class I of construction restricted area for Bamayu Valley, which is in the Class I construction-controlled zone specified in the Planning for the Protection of Majiayao relics project, only the construction of Majiayao Culture Relics. It is necessary to explain the coordination between the proposed project activities and the sewage and drainage pipes network along the main Majiayao requirements for the protection of the Class II construction restricted zone of the Planning required in the Planning for the road of scenic spots and the reconstruction of Lintao Relics Protection of Majiayao Culture Relics. Majiayao village and Qijiatan village involve in the I Majiayao Protection 1. The requirement for the protection of Majiayao in the Planning for the Protection of Majiayao Relics: class construction restricted area. The restoration of Subproject Plan (Nov. It has respectively set the protection area and construction restriction belt for the relics of Majiayao and the surrounding the ecological environment in Bamayu Valley will not 2017) area in the Planning for the Protection of Majiayao Relics. The implementation of the project will not occupy the protection lead to any pollution of the relics and its environment area of Majiayao relics, and only the construction of sewage and drainage pipes network along the main road of scenic and will not affect the security of the relics. spots and the reconstruction of Majiayao village and Qijiatan village involve in the Class I construction restricted area 2. The improvement of tourism service facilities (Tourist Service Center, Ecological Experience Zone in Bamayu Valley). The requirements for the protection of the Class through the Project will upgrade the infrastructure

Relevant Subproject Plan’s relevance to the subproject Project Design plan II construction restricted zone specified in the Planning are as follows: conditions; accomplish the appearance of the ancient （1）It is not allowed to construct any pollution facilities to the body of relics and the environment, and not allowed to culture relics and surrounding environment, the carry out activities which might impact the security of relics. condition of sanitation, to maximize the social and （2）It will rectify or demolish the pollution infrastructure and illegally constructed houses in a limited period, and try to cultural benefits of the Majiayao culture relics. optimize the buildings, protect environment and to be safety for the relics. （3）It is to accomplish the appearance of landscape along the two sides of Bamayu Valley and optimize the environment of the relics located. 1、The objectives of the exhibition and development of Majiayao specified in the Planning for the Protection of Majiayao Culture Relics are as follows: (1) According the requirements to the State Key Culture Relics Protection Unit, it will accomplish the infrastructure condition for the protection of Majiayao Culture Relics. (2) From the view of improving the environment condition for local residents, it will review the relationship between the condition of existing relics and living environment, to accomplish the construction of ancient relics and the style of surrounding environment, and the improvement of sanitation condition. (3) By the construction of tourist service center and relics landscape exhibition, it plans to maximize the social culture efforts of Majiayao Culture Relics. 1、Article 16th: Regarding the protection of culture relics, it should follow the principle of Focusing on the Protection, 1. The project plans to use 2 of the existing buildings Giving Priority on the Conservation of Relics, Reasonably Developing the Usage of Relics, and Strengthening the known as the culture relics of the Barn and the Management of Relics. In the processing of reconstruction of relics, it should maximize the function of relic’s protection, Mansion of General in Ming Dynasty in Ganzhou careful repair and cautious reconstruction. The protection and planning for the culture relic’s protection units at all level District. Inside the protection area, the project only and their surrounding environment should follow the requirement of The Law of Culture Relics Protection Issued by the involves in the exhibition of culture and the display of People’s Republic of China. relevant equipment. It could maximize the utilization 2、Article 17#: The regulations on the measurements for the utilization and protection of the culture relics units are as of culture relics resource beside the achievement of Zhangye follows: culture relics protection. Municipality Zhangye (1) Inside the core protection area, the construction activities and other operations such as exploration, drilling and 2. (1) The reconstruction of 2 culture relics of the Historical Subproject excavation etc are not allowed. The construction of facilities and project activity implementation which might pollute the Barn and the Mansion of General in Ming Dynasty is Culture and culture relics protects units and the environment is also forbidden inside the core protection area. to make use of the existing architectures. Inside the Famous Town (2) During carry out project construction at the construction restricted belt, it is not allowed to destroy the historical style protection area, it doesn’t involve the activity of civil Protection of the protected units, with strictly restriction on the height of buildings. The construction of facilities which might be works and excavation etc. Plan harmful for the protection of architectures and environment is also not allowed. (2) It doesn’t involve the construction activities which 3、Article 84#: The utilization and planning for the exhibition of culture relics protection units might destroy the protected buildings and the Regarding the planning of tourism development, it should actively create conditions for the development of culture tourism environment. products, based on the unique culture and natural landscape in the ancient town in Zhangye and Qilian Mountain Nature 3&4：This proposed project plans to integrate the Reserve etc, to further develop the local traditional opera, traditional arts, traditional industry and folk custom relics etc. exhibition of culture relics protection unit and culture 4. Article 74#: It encourage to rationally display and utilize the intangible culture relics by carrying out arts design, relics, which will be good for the conservation and products development and tourism activities etc. development of traditional culture relics. The 13th Five- 1. This proposed project has been screened into the projects pool specialized in the theme of Silk Road Civilization Year Plan of Planning. This proposed project is to display the intangible Tourism 2. It has clearly described in the point 3, paragraph 1, section 3 of chapter 4, as “in line with the unique intangible culture culture relics, which has been screened into the Industry relics resources, to construct the exhibition groups of custom museums. Based on the objective of inheritance, protection, projects pool with the theme of Silk Road Civilization Development innovation and development intangible culture relics, it plans to promote the construction of higher standard Planning. in Zhangye comprehensive museum, and gradually complete the construction of inheriting and learning place for over 14 state-level, Municipality provincial level recognized key protection projects, such as Baoguan of Hexi and the Popular Tune of Ganzhou, and to

Relevant Subproject Plan’s relevance to the subproject Project Design plan actively protect and develop the burn painting, leather caver, straw painting etc local intangible culture in Zhangye.

1. It is a project related with the theme of postal station culture for inheritance. The article 17# in the Planning for the Protection of Historical Culture and Famous City in Dunhuang Municipality has 2. It is relevant with the mentioned 2 planning (see proposed the following requirements for the protection and inheritance of Xuanquanzhi Relics: details later on) 1. To protect and inherit the thematic post station culture in Han and Tang Dynasty. It plans to protect the overall sands- 3. This project only involves the display of the related Dunhuang water-courier station co-existing culture landscape integrating the courier station, spring water, Gobi and mountain etc. auxiliary road construction in the scope of protection. Municipality 2. To strictly follow the requirements specified in the Planning and Management for the Xuanquanzhi Relics (2012- The volume is small, and the color and style are in Historical 2018), the Planning for the Protection of Xuanquanzhi Relics (submission draft), it plans to protect the Xuanquanzhi harmony with the overall environment of the site Culture and Relics – the World Class Culture Heritage along the Silk Road. 4. This project does not involve any activities in the Ancient 3. Regulations on the management of protection scope: it should keep harmony for the overall environmental buffer zone, such as quarrying, large-scale mining and Famous City atmosphere of the relics with the protection and displaying of the relics and the location, scale, quantity, color and form tree cutting, which may affect the historical Protection of the auxiliary facilities. environment of Xuanquanzhi Relics site area, but only Plan 4. The regulations for the buffering area: Inside the buffering area, it has forbidden the activities which might impact the the construction of exhibition facilities and auxiliary historical environmental appearance of Xuanquanzhi relic’s area, such as mining, excavation or trees cutting in a big facilities. A domestic environmental impact way. It has to carry out EIA in advance for the construction of project: For the newly constructed infrastructure, tourism assessment document is under preparation for this service facilities etc should not impact the historical environment appearance of Xuanquanzhi relic’s area. project, which is scheduled to be approved in October 2018. 1. Article 26#: The regulations on the management of protection area 1. (1)The scope of protection only involves the road (1)The protection area is forbidden to carry out project construction. It is not allowed to implement any construction construction related with the exhibition. Dunhuang project which is not related with the protection and exhibition of relics, or the operations such as exploration, drilling (2) The protection area is involved in road Xuanquanzhi and excavation etc. construction and other exhibition facilities projects. Subproject (2) Regarding the projects related with the protection and exhibition of Xuanquanzhi relics inside the protected area, it Currently, the assessment report of culture relics is

must be submitted to Gansu Provincial Government for approval after approved by National Culture Relics Protection under preparation. The draft of the report has and Management Bureau, under the premise of fully ensuring the safety of the site. completed, which will be submitted to National (3) Protection measures within the protected zone must comply with the principle of not changing the original nature of Culture Relics Protection and Management Bureau for cultural relics and minimizing interference. It is not allowed to carry out reconstruction at the original place of relics. reviewing and submitted to Gansu Provincial The preservation of project image should accord with the heritage value connotation and the historical environment Government for approval. It plans to complete the Xuanquanzhi characteristic. submission and approval until Dec. 2018. Relics 2．The key protected areas shall adopt closed management measures and shall not build any new structures (structures) (3) It does not involve the reconstruction at the Protection that will affect the appearance of the site areas except for the protection project of the site itself and the necessary original site Plan display service facilities. 2. The key protection area will not involve the 3. Article 33#: Requirements for the management of construction-controlled zone construction activities. (1) The construction control zone is a restricted construction zone. If the project construction, blasting, drilling, 3. (1) The construction control belt only involves the excavation and other operations are required due to unusual circumstances, it must be approved by the National Culture construction of the roads, beacons, suspension springs Relics Bureau and the People's Government of Gansu Province. The building height of the display service facilities etc related with the exhibition and other exhibition should not exceed 4 meters, and the architectural form and style should reflect the local regional architectural facilities. It will go through the required approval characteristics. procedures. (2) No large-scale construction of tourism and entertainment facilities shall be constructed within the construction (2) The construction control zone does not involve the control zone. Any building or structure that may have an impact on the landscape environment of the heritage shall, construction of large-scale tourism and entertainment before construction, prepare an environmental impact assessment report in accordance with the requirements of the facilities Environmental Impact Assessment Law of the People's Republic of China, and make an assessment on the impact of the 4. (1) No pollution projects are involved in the scope

Relevant Subproject Plan’s relevance to the subproject Project Design plan project on the environment of the heritage. It should be reviewed and appraised by the panelists organized by the of protection and the construction control zone. National Culture Relics Bureau and go through the approval processes. Environmental protection toilets will be installed, and 4. Article 33#: The requirements for the protection of environment excrement should be cleaned regularly. Household No polluting projects shall be built within the scope of protection and within the construction control zone, no free Waste should be collected and transported in a discharge of domestic sewage shall be allowed, no refuse storage sites and landfill sites shall be set up, and solid waste centralized way shall be disposed of by means of fixed-point collection and centralized transportation. 5. Production and construction activities that may 5. Article 33#: The requirements for the ecological protection affect the safety of undersurface water sources in To ensure the safety of the water source and surrounding natural ecological environment of Xuanquan, it is forbidden to Xuanquanzhi, such as drilling wells or building dams, drill wells or build dams within the scope of its water source, which may affect the safety of the undersurface water are not allowed and involved, and the number of source of Xuanquanzhi and restrict the access of tourists to the water source and the surrounding areas of natural tourists is strictly restricted. ecology. 6. No construction of artificial environment except the 6. Article 33#: The requirements for the protection of landscape relevant facilities related with the exhibition. To maintain the natural features of the shallow-mountain Gobi in the relic area, the construction of exhibition service 7. This project is the counterpart construction project facilities should avoid the humanization of the surrounding environment of the relics. of Xuanquanzhi Relics exhibition, which is in line 7. Article 38#: The objective of exhibition and utilization with the objectives of exhibition and utilization (1) The display of the body, environment and relevant cultural relics of Xuanquanzhi should be appropriately culture relics specified in the protection planning. strengthened to further display its cultural connotation, historical and scientific value and play the function of education 8. In the environmental management plan, measures of cultural heritage； have been put forward to protect the water source in (2) It will rationally and properly develop the tourism in Xuanquanzhi relics, to further improve the fame of Xuanquanzhi in accordance with the requirements of Xuanquanzhi relics both at home and abroad and enable the relic of Xuanquanzhi to be one of main tourism destinations the protection planning. and key name card for its unique culture in Dunhuang municipality, so as to promote the sustainable social and economic development. 8. Article 50#: Measurements on the protection and management of tourism All vehicles visited are forbidden to enter the exhibition area of Xuanquanzhi Relics. Picnics, BBQ and Outing activities are forbidden near Xuanquanzhi, so as to protect the water source and natural ecological environment. The basic requirements are as same as that addressed in the Planning for the Protection of Xuanquanzhi Relics. However, the following supplements are made: 1、The proposed project does not involve the Xuanquanzhi 1. To carry out management and control to the project activities which might impact water source, water body and water activities of digging wells. It plans to fetch water by Relics quality in Xuanquanzhi. The activities such as construction, digging wells etc which might impact the level of the tank car from Dunhuang Municipality. Management undersurface water are forbidden, so as to keep smooth of water source access. 2、It has proposed relevant measurements for the Plan (2012- 2. To control the behavior of fetching water and using water for the visitors surrounding Xuanquanzhi. The behavior of protection of water source in Xuanquanzhi and 2018) polluting water is forbidden. To restrict tourists, visit the area, where the water body of Xuanquanzhi might be impacted. prepared the plan of monitoring water sources which It plans to periodically fetch water sample from the spring for carrying out chemical analysis and conduct water quality have been addressed in the Planning. monitoring in a sustainable approach.

1.5 Function Zoning

The function zoning is an important base to determine environmental quality standards, pollutant discharge standards and pollution control measurements.

1.5.1 Environmental Function Zoning and Requirements

The project area of influence covers a wider scope than the construction sites. According to the Standard of Ambient air quality (GB3095-2012), the Standard for Surface Water Functional Division in Gansu (2012-2030), the Technical Specifications for Acoustic Environment Functional Division (GB/T15190-2014), and other relevant documents issued by local governments, the function zoning of each environmental factors has been identified for each subproject as shown in Table 1.5.1. Accordingly, specific requirements have been figured out for each subproject that different functional zones have different environmental quality targets (as shown in Section 1.6.1). The function zoning didn’t work out any requirements on pollutant discharge standards, however, relevant laws and standards can be applicable to control pollution loads. For this project, the related regulations can be summarized as: According to the Integrated Standard of Wastewater Discharge (GB8978-1996), within the protection areas of Class I, II and III water zones, it’s forbidden to set any drainage outlets. This regulation has become the mandatory provision in China to restrict setting new drainage outlets. Accordingly: (1) For the Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject, the section of Yingchuan River where the subproject is located belongs to Class II water zone, so it is not allowed to set up any drainage outlet. However, there is no sewage network in the vicinity of the subproject, it’s therefore required that the wastewater generated by the subproject has to be reused after proper treatment. (2) For Lintao Majiayao Subproject, the section of Tao River (from Yangjiazhuang village to Wangjiazui village) where the subproject is located belongs to Class II water zone, and there is a drinking water source downstream the subproject. Therefore, it’s not allowed to set up any drainage outlet in the subproject area along the Tao River. The detailed wastewater treatment arrangements for the two subprojects are given in the following chapters.

1.5.2 Ecological Function Zoning and Relevant Requirements

1. National ecological function zoning According to the National Ecological Functional Zoning (amended in 2015), the requirements on ecological functional zones involved in each subproject are summarized in Table 1.5.2.

Table 1.5-2 Ecological Function Zoning and Ecological Protection Requirements Subprojects Ecological Ecological protection requirements function zoning Tianshui The key areas for To control population growth, change the pattern of extensive Lacquerwares the protection of production and operation, and develop eco-tourism and special Subproject, Qin'an biodiversity and industries. To implement ecological restoration and rehabilitation, Dadiwan Subproject water source and to strengthen water source conservation and soil conservation conservation in in the ecosystem;

Subprojects Ecological Ecological protection requirements function zoning Qinling- Dabashan Mountain Tognwei Subproject, The functional area To strictly protect basic farmland and cultivate soil fertility. To Lintao Majiayao for the production strengthen agricultural infrastructure and enhance capacity to Subproject of agro-products withstand natural disasters. To strengthen water conservancy and vigorously develop water-saving agriculture. Combination of planting and tending, scientific fertilization. Zhangye Subproject, Safeguarding ecological water use; To protect the existing forests Suzhou Subproject, The key area for the of natural poplars, tamarix and meadow vegetation; Strictly Dunhuang fixation of sands control oasis scale and protect oasis - desert transition zone. To Xuanquanzhi and wind break adjust the industrial structure, prohibit the expansion of arable Subproject along the middle land, and strictly restrict the planting of high-water consuming and lower reaches agricultural products. To fully develop the potentiality of solar of Heihe River energy resources and solve the problems of energy and fertilizer while developing the rural economy.

1.5.3 Soil Erosion Zoning and Relevant Requirements To strengthen soil erosion prevention and control, Gansu Provincial Government issued the Notice of Classifying Key Prevention Zones and Key Control Zones of Soil Erosion (No. 59 [2016]). Accordingly, key prevention zones and key control zones of soil erosion have been classified at township level. Under the Project, two townships are recognized as the key control zones of soil erosion: Maiji Township where the Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject is located; and Mogao Township where the Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject is located. In the EIA process, specific water and soil conservation measures and monitoring plans have been prepared and included in the ESMP.

Table 1.5-1 Environmental Function Zoning for Each Subproject

Acoustic Ambient air functional environment Subprojects Surface water functional zones zones functional zones Restoration of Dadiwan Ancient Ruin, Longcheng Ancient The brunch of Helu River – Qinshui River, 1 Town, and Shangguan Ming-Qing Old Street in Qin’an County Class II Class II Class III (hereinafter named as Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject) Taohe River, from Majiayao to Yangjiazhuang, Construction of Majiayao Cultural Research Center in Lintao 2 Class II Class III; Tao River, from Yangjiazhuan village Class II County (hereinafter named Lintao Majiayao Subproject) to Wangjiazui, Class II. Grain Warehouse and General’s Mansion Complex in Zhangye Shandan River (the section from Jiantan to Class II Class II Subproject Shandan bridge), Class IV. 3 Shandan River (the section of Weiqi, Jiantan at Wulan Ancient Town in Zhangye Subproject Class II Class II the reaches of Heihe River), Class III Protection and Development of Xuanquanzhi Ancient Area in Without surface water in the scope of 20km 4 Dunhuang City (hereinafter named Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Class I (the depth of underground water is under Class I Subproject) 100m) Construction Silk Road Culture Research Center in Suzhou 5 Class II Taolai River, Class III. Class II District (hereinafter named Suzhou Subproject) Construction of Tianshui Carved Wooden Lacquerwares 6 Center in Maiji District (hereinafter named Tianshui Class II Yingyongchuan River, Class II. Class II Lacquerwares Subproject) Construction of Ink Paintings and Calligraphy Cultural Center 7 Class II Niugu River, Class III Class II in Tongwei County (hereinafter named Tongwei Subproject) Rehabilitation of Shandan Town Yuanyang Jade Featured Shandan River (the section of Shandan 8 Cultural Town in Wushan County (hereinafter named Wushan Class II township at the reaches of Weihe River, Class Class II Yuanyang Jade Subproject) III

1.6 Applicable Standards 1.6.1 Environmental Quality Standards

1. Ambient Air Based on the ambient air function zoning specified in section 1.5, Class I standard of the Ambient Air Quality Standard (GB3095-2012) is applied to the Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject, and Class II standard is applied to other subprojects. Table 1.6-1 Ambient Air Quality Standard Limits for Class I Limits for Class II Items Hourly Hourly Daily average Daily average average average 3 SO2(mg/m ) 0.150 0.050 0.500 0.150 3 NO2(mg/m ) 0.200 0.080 0.200 0.080 TSP(mg/m3) - 0.120 - 0.300

3 PM10(mg/m ) - 0.050 - 0.150

2 3 Pm .5(mg/m ) - 0.035 - 0.075

2. Water Environment Table 1.6.2 shows surface water quality standards applied by all subprojects.

Table 1.6-2 Standard of Surface Water Quality (mg/L, except pH) Class II of the Class III of the Class IV of the Surface Water Surface Water Surface Water Applied standard Environment Environment Environment Standard (GB3838- Standard (GB3838- Standard (GB3838- 2002) 2002) 2002) Threshold of Threshold of Threshold of Indicators concentration(mg/L concentration(mg/L) concentration(mg/L) ) pH 6-9 6-9 6-9 Dissolved oxygen (DO) ≥6 ≥5 ≥3 Permanganate index ≤4 ≤6 ≤10 COD ≤15 ≤20 ≤30 TN ≤0.5 ≤1.0 ≤1.0 NH3-N ≤0.5 ≤1.0 ≤1.5 TP ≤0.1 ≤0.2 ≤0.3 Oil ≤0.05 ≤0.05 ≤0.5 Sulfide ≤0.1 ≤0.2 ≤0.5 Fecal coliform ≤2000 ≤10000 ≤20000

3． Acoustic Environment

Table 1.6-3 shows the acoustic environment standard applied to all subprojects.

Table1.6-3 Acoustic environment quality standard(dB(A))

Type Class I Class II Class 4a Day 55 60 70 Night 45 50 55 Applied Acoustic Environment Quality Standard(GB3096-2008) Standard

Note: Class I standard is applied to a quiet area that is used for residence, medical and health care, culture and sports, scientific research, design, and administrative office. Class II areas refer to the areas that are used for commercial finance and market trade, or the areas that need quiet environment for residential, commercial and industrial uses. Class 4a areas refer to the areas within 40m to both sides of expressway, first-class highway, second-class highway, urban expressway, urban trunk road and urban sub-trunk road. 1.6.2 Pollutant Discharge Standards 1. Standard of air pollution emission (1) Standard of air pollution emission in construction phase During project construction, air pollution will mainly come from the disperse dust emission in construction sites. The Integrated Emission Standards for Air Pollutants (GB16297-1996) is applied with the concentration limits for unorganized emissions shown in Table 1.6-4.

Table 1.6-4 Integrated Standards for Emission of Air Pollutants (excerpt)

Pollutant The Threshold of Monitoring Concentration for Unorganized Emission Concentration Monitoring and Limits Point (mg/m3) Particulate matter (PM) The highest concentration outside the 1.0 perimeter Applicable subproject All subprojects

(2) Standard of air pollution emission in operation phase There are no air pollution sources such as coal burning and gas boilers involved in the Project. The main air pollution may come from the cooking fume produced by some subprojects, or from dust-containing waste gas generated in Lacquerwares and jade processing under the Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject and the Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject. The emission of cooking fume exhaust is subject to the Emission Standards of Cooking Fume (Temporary) (GB18483-2001), with details shown in Table 1.6-6(1). The dust-containing waste gas emission should follow the Class II standard of the Integrated Standard of Air Pollutant Emission (GB16297), with details shown in Table 1.6-6 (2). Table 1.6-5(1) Emission Standard of Cooking Fume (Temporary) (GB18483-2001)

Highest acceptable concentration of The lowest removal rate of cooking Scale pollutant emission(mg/m³) fume by purification equipment (%) Middle-sized 2.0 75

Table 1.6-5(2)Class II of the Integrated Standard of Air Pollution Emission (GB16297) The highest acceptable Height of Exhaust Pollutant concentration of pollutant Speed of emission (kg/h) Funnel (m) emission (mg/m³) Dust 15 120 3.5 1. Standard of Water Contaminant Discharge There are proper wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) available to receive and treat the wastewater generated by the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject (Shangguan Ming- Qing Old Street subarea), and the Tongwei, Lintao Majiayao, Zhangye, and Suzhou subprojects. The wastewater discharge should meet the requirements of the Standard of Water Quality for Drainage Discharged in Towns (GB/T31962-2015).

Under the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject (Wuying and Longcheng subareas), Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject, and Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject, specific small WWTPs will be built because there is no sewage networks or wastewater treatment facilities available in the vicinities of the subprojects. The treated effluent should meet Class A standard of the WWTPs Contaminants Discharge Standard (GB18918-2002), and then could be used for greening or farmland irrigation. The detailed applied standards are given in Table 1.6-7. Table 1.6-6 Applicable Standard for Wastewater Discharge (Unit：mg/L) WWPTs Contaminants Discharge Standard of Wastewater Discharge into Standard Standard (GB18918-2002) Sewage Networks (GB/T31962-2015) Class A Pollution The threshold of concentration(mg/L) The threshold of concentration(mg/L) factors pH* 6.5-9.5 6-9 SS 400 10 BOD5 350 10 COD 500 50 Ammonia 45 5(8) nitrogen Sulfide 1.0 1.0 Petroleum 15 1.0 Animal and 100 1.0 plant oil

3. Noise Emission Standard The Noise Emission Standard for the Boundary of Construction Sites (GB12523- 2011) is applied to all subprojects. Class I standard of the Social Life Noise Emission Standard (GB22337-2008) is applied to Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject; while Class II standard of GB22337-2008 is applied to the rest subprojects. The details are shown in Table 1.6-8. The noise emission standard applicable to workers during project construction adopts the World Bank’s Environmental, Health, and Safety General Guidelines (See Table 1.6-9 for details).

Table 1.6-7 Noise Emission Standards

Noise from Noise from Applicable Items social life, social life, Noise from Construction Site subprojects Class I Class II Day, dB 55 60 70 Night, dB 45 50 55 All Noise Emission Standard for the subprojects Applicable Social Life Noise Emission the Boundary of Construction Standard Standard(GB22337-2008) Sites(GB12523-2011)

Table 1.6-8 Limits of for Workers Exposure to Noise Unit: dB(A) Site / working Limits (LeqA, 8h) Maximum (LeqAmax, fast) Heavy industry 85 110

4. Solid waste For Zhangye Subproject, the domestic solid waste (DSW) will be transported to Zhangye Waste Incineration Power Plant for treatment, and other solid waste will be disposed according to the Pollution Control Standard for Burning Domestic Solid Waste (GB18485-2001). For the remaining subprojects, the DSW would be transported to local DSW landfill sites for disposal, by meeting the Pollution Control Standard of DSW Landfill Sites (GB16889-2008).

1.6.3 Comparison between Domestic Standards and World Bank’s

EHS Guidelines

The project needs to comply with both national and international standards. Since the project involves the improvements of environmental services related to wastewater treatment and municipal solid waste collection, three World Bank Group (WBG)’s Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) guidelines are deemed applicable, namely, the General Guidelines for Environment, Health and Safety (hereinafter referred to as “General EHS Guidelines”), the EHS Guidelines on Water and Sanitation and the EHS Guidelines for Waste Management Facilities. In the EHS guidelines for waste management facilities, the environmental requirements for waste collection and transport are general principles without specific indicator limits and have been integrated in the proposed mitigation measures; while the other two applicable EHS guidelines are compared with equivalent national standards, as shown below.

Table 1.6-9 Comparison of Applicable Chinese Standards and EHS Guidelines More EHS Stringent Environmental Guidelines on Domestic General EHS Guidelines Standard Note Element Water and Standards applied to the Sanitation Project To implement the standard prescribed by national legislation, where there is no standard prescribed by Ambient Air national legislation, the latest Ambient Air Ambient air Quality N/A World Health Organization Quality Standard / quality Standard Air Quality Guidelines or (GB3095-2012) (GB3095-2012) other internationally recognized reference standards shall be implemented. Comprehensive Comprehensive Emission Emission Standard of Air Standard of Air No threshold for Pollutants Without threshold of emission Pollutants Air pollution fugitive (GB16297- and restricted standard for (GB16297-1996) / emission emission and 1996) odor emission Emission odor. Emission Standard for Standard for Odor Pollutants Odor Pollutants (GB14554-93) (GB14554-93) The domestic standard has set Where there is different water no national quality standards standard, Where there is no national Standard of Standard of for water bodies Guidelines for Water standard, Guidelines for Surface water Surface water with different Drinking Water environment Drinking Water Quality of Environment Environment functions, and has Quality of quality Health Organizations in Quality Quality quantified various Health current version shall be met. (GB3838-2002) (GB3838-2002) indicators of water Organizations in quality, which is current version convenient for shall be met. monitoring and assessment. The wastewater discharge shall meet relevant national requirements or internationally Pollutant accepted Discharge standards, and To comply with national or Standard for achieve relevant local standards for domestic Pollutant Urban wastewater wastewater discharge; where Discharge Wastewater discharge there are no such standards, Standard for Treatment Plant Wastewater quality targets the applicable reference Urban (GB18918- / discharge on the basis of guidance value for domestic Wastewater 2002). The assimilation wastewater discharge in Table Treatment Plant specific capacity and the 1.3.1 shall be met; the specific (GB18918- indicators are: most sensitive indicators are: pH 6~9；COD 2002) pH 6~9, COD receiving water. 125, BOD5 30, TP 2 60, BOD5 20, Refer to the TP1 section of "Surface Water Discharge" in the General EHS Guidelines.

More EHS Stringent Environmental Guidelines on Domestic General EHS Guidelines Standard Note Element Water and Standards applied to the Sanitation Project Acoustic Environment Environment quality standard: Quality Standard Residential, institutional (GB3096-2008): Acoustic Domestic standard Referring to the educational receptors: Acoustic Class I: Daytime Environment is equivalent General EHS Daytime 55 dB(A), Night environment 55dB(A), Night Quality to/more stringent Guidelines. 45dB(A)； quality 45dB(A)； Standard than EHS Industrial and commercial Class II: (GB3096-2008) guidelines. receptors: daytime 70dB(A), Daytime Night 70dB(A) 60dB(A), Night 50dB(A) Environmental Environmental Noise Standard Referring to the Noise Standard for the No noise limit for the General EHS for the Boundary Boundary of Noise boundary of construction sites Guidelines of Construction Construction available. Sites Sites (GB12523-2011) (GB12523- 2011) Workplace noise limit (LAeq,8h) in Code for design of noise Noise limits for specific control of working environment: industrial In relation to civil Noise of Code for design Heavy industry (no need for enterprises works working of noise control Referring to the oral communication) limits, (GBT50087- construction, environment for of industrial General EHS LAeq,8h - 85dB(A), Max. 2013): the noise limits the workers enterprises Guidelines LAmax, fast - 110 dB (A); Production applied are for during (GBT50087- Note: the noise limit is 8h workshop - heavy industry in construction 2013) equivalent acoustic level 85dB(A); EHS guidelines. Offices, labs, duty offices inside the workshop - 70dB (A)

Therefore, the more stringent domestic standards are applied to the environmental assessment of the Project.

II Project Description

2.1 Project Composition and Location

The component consists of 8 sub-projects located in Tianshui, Dingxi, Zhangye and Jiuquan. Table 2.1-1 shows the basic information for all subprojects. The project activities include: construction of 86,000 m2 of cultural exhibition centers, tourist service centers, parking lots and other service facilities; renovation of 276,000m2 of traditional residential houses, courtyards and street facades; 40,000 m2 of a green area; 26 km of roadway pavement; construction and reconstruction of 51km of roads; construction of 92.5km of sewage pipelines, 23.5km of water supply pipelines, 2.5km of heating supply pipelines, 2km of gas pipelines and 39km of drainage pipelines, 7 small WWTPs with a total capacity of 3,950 m3/d, 32 public toilets, 3 DSW transfer stations (300m2) and 10 DSW collection stations.

Figure 2.1-1 Map of Subproject Locations

Table 2.1-1 Descriptions of the Subprojects Project Cost (US$ Components & Subprojects Description of Activities Location Million) Restoration of 36,000 m2 old houses, 2,600 m2 court Restoration of Dadiwan Ancient yards, and 10,600 m2 public squares; construction of Ruin, Longcheng Ancient Town, and 9,250 m2 information/exhibition centers; 28,650 m2 Shangguan Ming-Qing Old Street in road paving; 36,000 m2 façade lifting; 15,000 m2 29.35 Qin’an County (Qin’an Dadiwan landscaping; 38 km roads and pipelines; four small Subproject) WWTPs with total capacity of 3,650 m3/day; 2.40 km river rehabilitation, and solid waste equipment etc. Tianshui Construction of Tianshui Carved Construction of 7,355 m2 Lacquerwares Training Wooden Lacquerwares Center in Center, one 50 m3/d small WWTP, and supply of 6.0 Maiji District (Tianshui equipment Lacquerwares Subproject) Rehabilitation of Shandan Town Construction of 3,822 m2 of exhibition center, 8.8 km Yuanyang Jade Featured Cultural of roads, one bridge, 23,000 m2 façade lifting, 25 km 9.2 Town in Wushan County (Wushan storm drainage, 17.5 km sewers, 19 km power supply Yuanyang Jade Subproject) cable, 5 public toilets, etc. Construction of 8000 m2 exhibition/research centers, Construction of Majiayao Cultural 25.4 km roads, 40,000 m2 façade lifting, 5,808 m2 Research Center in Lintao County intangible cultural heritage shops, 18,690 m2 public 18.4 (Lintao Majiayao Subproject) squares, 12,000 m2 landscaping, 25 km sewers, 8 Dingxi public toilets, 1200 m2 car parks, etc. Construction of Ink Paintings and Calligraphy Cultural Center in Construction of 9,200 m2 Cultural Arts Center, 2.5 km 13.2 Tongwei County (Tongwei walking street, and 30,948 m2 public place, etc. Subproject) Conversion of 10,830 m2 old buildings to become Rehabilitation of Cultural Heritage research and culture centers, halls, experience and Protection Exhibition and Restoration market areas; Renovation of 200 houses of 103,692 Zhangye and improvement of Wulan Ancient 11.93 m2, 13,523 m2 landscaping, 7.36 km village roads, Town Folk Village in Zhangye City 1,329 m2 street lights, 408 fire Distinguishers, 1.55 (Zhangye Subproject) km sewer, 90 garbage bins etc. Construction Silk Road Culture Construction of 12,000 m2 of 3-storey research center, Research Center in Suzhou District 10.7 and supply of exhibition equipment (Suzhou Subproject) Jiuquan Protection and Development of Construction of 7,400 m2 exhibition & information Xuanquanzhi Ancient Area in centers, 8 km roads, 123,500 m2 outdoor exhibition 15.2 Dunhuang City (Dunhuang zones, 160 m2 viewing platform and 10,000 m2 Xuanquanzhi Subproject) camping site, and one 50 m3/d small WWTP TOTAL 114

2.2 Descriptions of the Subprojects

2.2.1 Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject The subproject activities will be conducted in three subareas, namely Dadiwan Ancient Ruin, Longcheng Ancient Town, and Shangguan Ming-Qing Old Street in Qin’an County. 1. Dadiwan Ancient Ruin

The Dadiwan Major Relic Site, located in Shaodian Village of Qin’an County, Tianshui Municipal, is a national-level cultural relics protection unit. Its vicinity suffers from the following problems: (1) there is no proper sewage network and wastewater treatment facilities, so the municipal sewage produced by local residents and tourists have to be discharged into the Qingshui River without treatment, which caused the river water quality to exceed the applicable standard; (2) There is no enough sanitation facilities, so the DSW produced by local residents and tourists have to be dumped in the Hujiagou Stream; (3) the facade style along the street is messy, and the roads have been badly damaged; and (4) There are no proper tourist information centers. Through renovating the infrastructure in the adjacent villages around Dadiwan Relic, roads, water supply and drainage systems, and sanitation and fire control facilities etc. will get improved, and the Project will improve the living standards of local residents and help visitors obtain better tourism experience. The renovation of street facades of the adjacent villages, and the rehabilitation of the theater and square of Shaodian village will upgrade the cultural and entertainment conditions for local residents. Meanwhile, the exhibition platform of the intangible cultural heritage (such as Qinan Ditty) will be provided to local tourists.

Table 2.2-1(1) Construction Activities under the Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject (Dadiwan subarea) Category Works Construction activities Note Construction area of 7500 ㎡, including digital exhibition hall, Newly built academic research and exchange training center, interactive Dadiwan cultural exhibition and experience hall, exhibition hall of intangible New experience zone in cultural heritage of the folklore, tourists service center (including build Qin’an County accommodation and catering) and water supply, drainage and Main part of other infrastructure facilities. project Renovation and protection of To conduct archaize painting of the street facade in Shaodian traditional dwelling rebuild village, covers an area of 32500 ㎡ house in Shaodian village Renovation of stage Renovation of stage 350 ㎡, stage square concreted ground and rebuild and square greening area of 800 ㎡. Bricks paved alley in Shaodian village, with the area of 28650 Road construction ㎡; road paved at the extension section of Tian-Ping Highway, New engineering starting from the exit of Dadiwan to the county roadway of 462#, build in the length of 600m(concreted surface of road) Water supply New Water supply pipes, in the length of 100m; Utility engineering build Sewage pipes network at the alley of Shaodian village, in New Sewage engineering the length of 6800m; sewage pipes at the main street, in build the length of 1000m. Drainage Drainage pipes network at the alley of Shaodian village, in the New engineering length of 6800m; drainage pipes at the main street, in the length build

Category Works Construction activities Note of 1000m. New Public toilets 2 public flush toilets Ancillary build works New Others Street light 372 sets, firefighting apparatus etc. build Greening the alleys in Shaodian village and two sides along the New Environmen Greening county road of 462#, with the area of 3900 ㎡. build tal River course upgrading Slope treatment at Yangjiagou valley, with the length of 600m New treatment in engineering and the slope area of 6000 ㎡ build Yanjiagou valley Environmen Sanitation Garbage transferring station, 1 set, with the area of 100 100 ㎡； New tal engineering dustbins. build protection Integrated sewage treatment facility, 2 set, with capacity of New engineering Sewage engineering 1200m3/d and 50m3/d. build

Figure 1-1 shows the General Layout of Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject(Dadiwan Area) 2. Longcheng Old Town

Longcheng Old Town is a famous historical and cultural town in China. At present, there are some problems with the town as follows: (1) there is no sufficient sewage network and wastewater treatment facilities, therefore the wastewater generated by local residents and tourists have been discharged without treatment; (2) there is no proper sanitation facilities, so DSW produced by local residents and tourists have been dumped everywhere; (3) the roads have been lack of hardening and maintenance of, and seriously damaged. (4) Town is decorated with different facades style along the street, without appreciation. By upgrading the public infrastructure of the adjacent villages around Longcheng Town, including roads, water supply and drainage, greening, sanitation and fire control, the Project will improve the living standards of local residents and help visitors gain better tourism experience. The street facades of Longcheng Town will be upgraded and the square of Nvwa Temple will be renovated, which will improve the cultural and entertainment places for local residents. Meanwhile, the exhibition platform of the intangible cultural heritage (such as Qin’an Ditty) will be provided to local tourists. Table 2.2-1(2) Construction Activities for Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject (Longcheng Township subarea) Category Sub project Construction activities Note Protection and renovation of historical Archaize painting facade of old town in Longcheng, with the architectures along two rebuild area of 36000 m2. sides of the street in old town of Longcheng Protection and Renovation to the historical courtyard in the old town of upgrading of historical rebuild Longcheng, with the area of 2600 ㎡. Main part of courtyard project With the area of 300m2, which is mainly used for exhibition of Nvwa Cultural New intangible culture, exclude the cost of catering and Exhibition hall rebuild accommodation) Brick hardening ground in the Square of Guandi Temple, with Renovation of square the area of 1800 ㎡; brick hardening ground in the Square of rebuild Nvwa Temple, with the area of 3000 ㎡. Protection of ancient The walls of Old Town were enforced by the plaster with straw, rebuild wall with the area of 1000m2 and length of 500m.

Category Sub project Construction activities Note To reconstruction the destroyed concreted road for the streets in Longcheng Old Town, with a total length of 19km and total Road construction area of 108300m2；to decorate the alleys for the streets in rebuild engineering Longcheng Old Town; newly construction road in Jieting Scenic Spot, with the length of 70m. Utility Reconstruction the buried cables underground, in the length of Electric engineering rebuild 1200m. Install sewage pipes network in Longcheng township, in the New Sewage engineering length of 7.9km. rebuild Install drainage pipes network in Longcheng township, in the New Drainage engineering length of 19km. rebuild Construct the parking lot for tourists in Longcheng town, in the New Parking plot area of 3000m2, which will be paved by the permeable bricks. rebuild Construct fences for the protection of ancient walls in New Fence Longheng, in the length of 500m. rebuild Ancillary Jieting Scenic Spots adds the exhibition of camp for the works New Tourism service facility supreme commander, barracks, martial arts field, grain rebuild warehouse, armory etc. New Other There are 24 road signage, 2 gates and 19 fire hydrants. rebuild Greening at the two sides of streets in Longcheng township, New Environmental Greening with the area of 700 ㎡. rebuild upgrading engineering Ditch and valley Concreted bottom and sides of valley and ditch, in the length of New renovation 250m. rebuild Environmental Garbage transferring station, 1 set, with the area of 100 ㎡；, 5 New Sanitation engineering protection sets of flush toilets; dustbins. rebuild engineering Integrated sewage treatment facility, 2 sets, with capacity of New Sewage treatment 50t/h. rebuild Figure 1-2 shows the General Layout of Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject (Longcheng Township Area) 3. Shangguan Ming-Qing Old Streets 2.2-1(3) Construction Activities for Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject (Shangguan Ming-Qing Old Streets subarea)

Category Activities Description Note

Cultural center Reconstruct the existing cultural center in Qin’an County to be the in Qin’an platform for the exhibition and show of specialized culture in Qin’an, rebuild ReconstructionCounty Reconstruct the existingwith the buildings, total area which of 1200m are to2 reconstruct the old of Tourist building as the Tourist Service Center, with the construction area of rebuild Main part of Service Center 350m2. project Renovation of Renovation of the facade to the old building at two sides of rebuild old building Confucian Temple, with the area of 3500m2. Fengshan Newly build Fengshan Tourist Service Center, with the area of New Tourist Service 200m2, including consultation, shops and toilets. rebuild Center Heating supply Heating pipe network along the old street in Shangguan, with the New engineering length of 500m rebuild

Electric New Cabling along the old street in Shangguan, with the length of 500m. engineering rebuild Utility Sewage Sewage pipe network outside the streets of Confucian Temple, in the New engineering length of 200m, DN300 rebuild

Drainage Drainage pipe network outside the streets of Confucian Temple, in New engineering the length of 200m, DN300. rebuild Firefighting apparatus, archaize archway building construction, New Ancillary works monitoring and control system, Intelligent scenic spot management rebuild system etc.

Category Activities Description Note

Environmen New tal Greening Park and greening engineering, 200m2 upgrading rebuild engineering Environmen tal Sanitation New Flush toilets, 2 set; dustbins etc. protection engineering rebuild engineering Figure 1-3 shows the General Layout of Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject (Shangguan Ming- Qing Dynasty Old Street) 2.2.2 Lintao Majiayao Subproject To develop Majiayao culture, this subproject is to build a Majiayao Culture Exhibition Center in a proposed Ink Stone Town. It will provide a place to experience, research and exchange knowledge about Majiayao Culture to protect, study and display the collected and sorted cultural relics and intangible culture heritage. At the same time, the traditional buildings in the eight villages near the Majiayao relic site, will be repaired and rehabilitated, and the associated tourism infrastructure will be upgraded as well. Table 2.2-2 Construction Activities of Lintao Majiayao Subproject

Category Sub project Construction activities Note With total area of 78.9 mu, building area of 8000 ㎡, including culture Majiayao Cultural exhibition center, cultural experience center, culture research and New exchange center, cultural industry center and parking pot (2000 m2), Exhibition Center rebuild cultural square (5000 m2), 3 water channel traffic bridges and the water supply and drainage and other supporting service facilities; Repair and upgrade the The external walls of residential buildings on both sides of the main external walls of Main part of roadways of 8 villages from Majiayao village to Wangjiazui village in rebuild residential houses project the north end are renovated with a total area of 40000 m2. on both sides of

the main roadway Reconstruct shops To renovate 29 storefront shops in the 8 villages, with the area of rebuild and houses 5808m2 To construct tourism and culture square in each village at the unused grain sunning ground according to the status of main roads along the Cultural Square villages. The concreted square covers an area of 18,690m2. In the rebuild cultural square, 8 tourist reception service stations are built according to the existing houses of the village committee. Pave the roads in The existing dirt roads of the main lanes in 8 villages were paved with New alleys asphalt concrete, 4m wide and 25.4km long. rebuild To install comprehensive drainage pipeline network in the 8 villages Sewage New Utility with the length of 25km, DN400；install the trunk drainage pipelines engineering rebuild along the main road in scenic area with the length of 12km, DN1000. Drainage install the trunk drainage pipelines along the main road in scenic area New engineering with the length of 12km, DN1000. rebuild 1 headquarter station of battery cars with an area of 1200 m2; 11 battery New Battery car station car stations in villages along the route (occupying the land of cultural Ancillary rebuild square). works New Others Road signage, fitness equipment, solar street lights, etc. rebuild Landscape greening in 8 villages 6000 m2; greening of culture square New Environmental Greening in 8 villages 3000 m2; Landscape greening in Majiayao cultural rebuild protection exhibition center 3000 m2. engineering Sanitation To set 8 flush toilets for tourists; to set 8 garbage collection stations New engineering and 200 dustbins along the route of the villages. rebuild

Figure 2 shows the general layout of Lintao Majiayao Subproject. 2.2.3 Zhangye Subproject Zhangye Subproject covers 3 subareas, namely Grain Warehouse, General’s Mansion Complex and Wulan Ancient Town. 1. Ming-Dynasty Grain Warehouse It plans to renovate the architectures in the protected area of the East Grain (a provincial-level cultural relic protection unit), to make them to be used as Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center, Intangible Heritage Protection Spatial Tunnel, Digital Display and Experience Zone, and supporting facilities etc. The squares will be paved with concrete for the use of performing classical programs and displaying intangible cultural products. At the same time, a new Information Center, water supply pipelines, and drainage pipelines will be constructed outside the protected area of the Warehouse. There will be no civil work to be done to the Warehouse site itself or in its protection area, and there will be only some cultural facilities to be set up inside the relic site. Table 2.2-3(1) Construction Activities in the Area of Ming-Dynasty Grain Warehouse Engineering Renovation 3078m2 of architectures located at the north and west of Ming-Dynasty Grain Warehouse Main part of project Tourist Service Center (New building, including toilet)150m2 Square paving and sketch21600m2

Road reconstruction400m；Water supply pipe 120m, sewage pipe 120m, Ancillary works rainwater pipe 120m, cable 120m, gas pipe 120m, heating pipe 120m

Figure 3-1 shows the general layout of Zhangye Subproject (Ming-Dynasty Grain Warehouse Area). 2. General’s Mansion Complex The General’s Mansion Complex is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit, and no construction activity will be done to it. Under the subproject, it’s just to use the existing buildings to be Zhangye Frontier Culture Exhibition Hall. In addition, the old Ganzhou District Library to the north of the General’s Mansion Complex will be internally decorated and then work as Zhangye Frontier Culture Research Center. At the same time, the associated drainage facilities will be improved. Table 2.2-3(2)Construction Activities in the Area of the General’s Mansion Complex Engineering activities Main part of project Renovation of the old library in Ganzhou district 2500m2 Water supply pipe 20m, sewage pipe 20m, rainwater pipe 20m, cable 20m, gas pipe Ancillary works 120m, heating pipe 20m

Figure 3-2 shows the general layout of Zhangye Subproject (General’s Mansion Complex Area). 3. Wulan Ancient Town In the subarea of Wulan Ancient Town, based on the well-known intangible

cultural heritages and the profound historical and cultural background, it’s to develop folk cultural tourism industry, improve local residents’ living conditions, renovate traditional residential buildings, upgrade public environment and infrastructure conditions, to attract more tourists to visit and consume in the subproject area. Following construction activities will be carried out:

Table 2.2-8 Summary of Project Activities

No Construction activities Project construction scope and quantity Reconstruction and The reconstruction area is 103692 m2, including the renovation of decoration for 200 1 walls, doors and windows, renovation of cornice and tile surface, and residential dwelling hardening of the ground in the courtyard. houses 2 Sewage works Sewage pipe network, 3768meter, with pipe diameter of 400mm

3 Drainage works Drainage ditch, 2218 meters

4 Power works Power lines, 2218 meters Total renovation area: 7360 ㎡, of which the roadway for vehicles Renovation of roads 6288 ㎡, with an average width of 6 meters, length of 1048 meters; 5 inside of the village The pedestrian road is 1072 ㎡, with an average width of 4 meters, length of 268 meters. 6 Greening works 13523m2

7 Ancillary works 23 set of fire hydrant, 120 sites of street lights

8 Sanitation works Dustbins, 90 sets Figure 3-3 shows the general layout of Zhangye Subproject (Wulan Ancient Town Area). 2.2.4 Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject An Exhibition Center and an Information Center will be constructed under the subproject. They are located outside the buffer area of Xuanquanzhi Posthouse. In addition, some associated facilities such as walkways and viewing platform will be built to support the Xuanquanzhi relics. The detailed activities are given below: Table 2.2-4 Construction Activities of the Subproject Category Activities Construction Activities The ground floor is the Tourist Service Center, with a floor area of 3,400 Exhibition Center m2, while the underground floor is the Exhibition Center, with a floor area and Tourist of 4,000 m2. The Tourist Service Center includes catering area, Service Center commercial area, office area and logistics area etc. Self-Driving With an area of 10,000 m2, it provides visitors with a comprehensive Main part of camping or hiking experience of camping and self-driving camping, and the ground will be project for camping concreted. Beacons Exhibition Area of the Sweet Well is 500 m2 (protection fence, reconstruction of scene model and placards); Exhibition area for the Posthouse Relics site is 2500 m2 (adjust the existing plank road, add Exhibition zone fences, placards and commentary); Gobi landform exhibit area (hiking trails and two viewing platforms); Xuanquan water and the surrounding environment exhibition area (placards). It is 6m wide and 4,500m long. It is mainly used for battery cars and Class I road carriages to drive on roads with double lanes. The road surface is made of hard gravel road, based on the existing sands paved road. Road It is 1.5m wide and 1,000m long. It is mainly used for tourists to visit the construction beacon towers exhibition area of the Sweet Well and the wooden trestle Class II road works road in the protected area of Xuanquanzhi Posthouse and its associated landscape relics. It is 1.2m in width and 2500m in length, mainly for tourists' hiking trails Class III road and the hiking roads into the valley, and visitors' hiking experience in the

Category Activities Construction Activities Flaming Mountain or Xuanquan valley, with only slight leveling or slope style steps on the ground. The municipal water storage tank + water supply equipment shall be set up, and the water Water supply storage tank shall be supplied with water by the water carrier, and the capacity of water storage works tank shall be 50t. Ancillary Landscape viewing platform, 160 m2 works Environmenta Sanitation works Dustbins, garbage collection and transportation sites l protection One septic tank and one buried integrated sewage treatment facility. The works Sewage treatment treated sewage is used for road spraying and greening water. Figure 4 shows the general layout of Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject. 2.2.5 Suzhou Subproject This subproject is a new investment with a total cost of RMB 98.7158 million. The area of the land use is 10 mu and the floor area is 12000 ㎡. The structure is composed of one underground floor and two aboveground floors. It includes the Reception and Information Center, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Exhibition Center, the Historical Documents and Ancient Books Research and Exhibition Center, the Digital Displaying Center for the Oversea Scattered Relics of Dunhuang, the Library and Reading Center, outdoor facilities and associated equipment etc. Table 2.2-5 Summary of Project Activities Indicators for Suzhou Subproject Specifications Unit Amount Total land occupation area ㎡ 6670 Total floor area ㎡ 12000 Area of foundation ㎡ 5000 Greening area ㎡ 1670 Green land ratio % 25 Construction density % 74.9 Floor area ratio 1.79 Parking lots for mobile vehicles number 77

Figure 5 shows the general layout of Suzhou Subproject. 2.2.6 Tongwei Subproject Tongwei has a long history and profound cultural heritages. However, the existing cultural facilities are outdated and too old to meet public needs, so new facilities are highly demanded. With this subproject, RMB 279.49 million will be invested to construct a new Art, Exhibition and Research Center, to conserve, display and study local cultural heritage, and to attract the masters, inheritors and micro enterprises to join the development of the intangible cultural heritages. The total land acquisition is 102,708 m2 (equivalent to 154 mu) and the floor area is 34,029.42 m2. The components include the Calligraphy Cultural and Artistic Center, the Calligraphy Culture Market Street, the Calligraphy Square, and the associated facilities such as water supply pipelines, power supply pipelines, gas pipelines, septic tanks, greening and landscaping etc. Table 2.2-6 Subproject Activities

Category Component Construction activities

Calligraphy Cultural Construction area of 9200m2, with occupied land area of 24289 m2, Arts Center about 36mu, which mainly is for the exhibition of all types of intangible cultural heritages. Main part of Calligraphy Cultural Construction area of 24829.42m2, with occupied land area of 5980m2, project Market Pedestrian about 9mu, which mainly is for the micro enterprise shops, catering Street service with calligraphic characteristics. Land occupation area of 72439m2, about 109mu, which is mainly for Calligraphy Cultural land greening, entertainment shows and performance, landscape water Square ponds etc. Water supply pipes network in the length of 200m, road construction of 200m and drainage Utility pipes network 200m, heating supplying pipes network 200m. Environmental Greening area of 30947.8 ㎡, one septic tank, dustbins, etc. protection works Figure 6 shows the general layout of Tongwei Subproject. 2.2.7 Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject Under this subproject, a new Yellow River Lacquerware Intangible Heritage Center will be built to integrate four lacquerware programs in terms of training, research and development, community-based services, and online sales. Table 2.2-7 Construction Activities for the Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject

Category Activities Description Yellow River It plans to construct Yellow River Lacquerware Intangible Cultural Main part of Lacquerware Heritage Center, with land occupation area of 17040 ㎡ , and total project Intangible Cultural 2 construction area of 7890.1m , including accommodation zone and Heritage Center catering zone. Waster used in the project construction and operation is supplied by Tianshui Municipal Water Supply Company. Water in factory area is Water supply unified and supplied based on production process, living and firefighting etc. Municipal sewage after treated by the buried integrated sewage treatment Utility Drainage facilities would be reused for greening and irrigation of farmland. Power used in the project construction and operation is supplied by Power supply Tianshui Municipal Power Supply Company. There is already one power line with 10 KV has been connected to the industry area. Heating supply Electricity Greening Greening area of 500m2 engineering Municipal sewage after treated by the buried integrated sewage treatment Sewage treatment Environmenta facilities would be reused for greening and irrigation of farmland l protection works Solid waste disposal Municipal garbage sorted dustbins, 15 sets The waste gas emission containing dust in the carved lacquer production Waste gas treatment room is discharged through the exhaust port, which is higher than 15m from the ground after being treated by the bag dust collector. Figure 7 shows the general layout of Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject. 2.2.8 Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject This subproject, with a total investment of RMB 192.59 million, is located at Shandan Old Town, covering the villages of Shandan and Hedian. The subproject components include Yuanyang Jade Cultural Complex, Old Street Renovation, and other infrastructure facilities and tourism service facilities etc. Most part of Shandan Town is located within the protection area of the groundwater source that provides drinking water to Wushan County. Due to the lack of drainage network, the municipal wastewater has been directly discharged into streams

and rivers without treatment, which is causing potential pollution to the drinking water source. With this subproject, the water and wastewater infrastructure of Shandan Town will be upgraded, local residents’ living conditions will be improved, and the pollution to the drinking water source will be reduced. On the other hand, the influence and attraction of Yuanyang Jade traditional handicraft will be enlarged, which will greatly push local economic development. Table 2.2-8 Subproject Construction Activities

Type Name Quantity Unit Note In Shandan village, with the length of 1500m and the Renovation of facade 9500 m2 width of 5m; In Hedian village, with the length of 500m along the street and the width of 4m. In Shandan village, with the length of 6500m and the Renovation of facade 25000 m2 width of 2m; In Hedian village, with the length of 6000m along the alleys and the width of 2m. In Shandan village, with the length of 800m and the Roads along the river 4800 m2 width of 3m; In Hedian village, with the length of 800m and the width of 3m. 2 sites, respectively located at the east of Hedian village Parking pot 5000 m2 and the west of Shandan village. In Shandan village, with the length of 10000m and the Ground channel 11800 m width of 0.5m for the ditches at two sides of road; In Hedian village, with the length of 1800m. In Shandan village, with the length of 1500m and in Main water supply pipes 3500 m Hedian village, with the length of 200m, 600mm of pipe network Renovation diameter. of old streets In Shandan village, with the length of 7000m and in Secondary water supply 14000 m Hedian village, with the length of 7000m, 300mm of pipes network pipe diameter. In Shandan village, with the length of 1500m and in Main drainage pipes 3800 m Hedian village, with the length of 2300m, 600mm of network pipe diameter. In Shandan village, with the length of 8000m and in Secondary drainage 15000 m Hedian village, with the length of 7000m, 300mm of pipes network pipe diameter. In Shandan village, with the length of 10000m and in Reconstruction of power 19000 m Hedian village, with the length of 9000m, which are all lines buried ground. In Shandan village, with the length of 10000m and Communication lines 10000 m Hedian village, with the length of 9000m. Renovation of facade In Shandan village, 12000m2 ； In Hedian village, 23000 m2 along the street 11000m2 Cultural Yuanyuan Jade Culture 2000 m2 Construction area, fourth floor architecture. exhibition Complex and Cultural Square 1778.28 m2 experience 2 complex Stage 144 m It is laid along national highway 316#, starting from the east of Hedian village, and connected to the municipal pipe network from Sinopec Gas Station on the west of Wushan county. The pipe diameter is 600mm. The Infrared discharge pipes 6000 m sewage generated in Shandan Town is connected to the municipal pipe network of Wushan County through Utility 6000m drainage pipeline, and finally treated by the Municipal Sewage Treatment Plant of Wushan County. Upgrading of landscape along two sides of the Planting landscape plants, the large area of peach and 5000 m road from downtown to apricot trees etc will be planted along the roads. Shandan Town Reconstructi Fencing along the River 800 m From the Shandan town railway bridge to the railway

Type Name Quantity Unit Note on of river bridge course Reconstruct the existing concreted surface to be the stone Embankment 4800 m2 lined surface Across Shandan River, newly built, accessible for Bridge 300 m2 vehicle, passages, in the length of 60m and width of 9m. Ancillary Landscape lights, dustbins, ecological-friendly toilets etc. works Figure 8 shows the general layout of Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject.

III. Environmental and Social Baseline

3.1 General Conditions in Gansu

Gansu is located in northwestern China, at the intersection of the eastern monsoon region, the northwestern arid region and the Qinghai-Tibet plateau area. It has a long and narrow terrain, lying between 92 ° 13 ' and 108 ° 46' east longitude, and between 32 ° 11 ' and 42 ° 57' north latitude. Gansu is adjacent to Shaanxi Province in the east, Sichuan province and Qinghai province in the south, Qinjiang in the west, Ningxia and Inner Mongolia autonomous region in the north, and is also bordering Mongolia. It is located at the joint place linking 4 ethnic minority areas involving the groups of Mongolia, Uygur, Tibetan and Hui. Therefore, it’s enjoying a crucially strategic location in China. At present, the province has 12 municipalities, 2 autonomous prefectures, and 86 cities/counties/districts, with a total land area of 42.58 million square kilometers.

1. Physical environment

Gansu is located in the transition zone of many geotectonic units. The main geotectonic units include Beishan folding belt, Alashan Tailong, Qilian mountain folding belt, Ordos platform, Qinling folding belt and Buer Khan Buda folding belt etc. The average elevation is rather high, and the topography of most areas generally tilts to the north. The average elevation in Gansu is 1000-3000 meters. The province can be roughly divided into 6 topographic regions, including Longnan Mountain in the south, the Loess Plateau of Longzhong and Longdong in the east and middle of the province, Gannan Plateau, Hexi Corridor, Qilian Mountain and Beishan Mountain. It’s dominated by temperate continental climate with large temperature difference and short frost-free period. Throughout the province, the average annual temperature is 7.8oC, and the annual average temperature for each area in the province is around 0- 14.8oC, the annual range of temperature is 20 to 34oC, and the diurnal temperature range is 8-16oC. The climate in Gansu is generally dry, and the annual precipitation of all parts in the province is 42-757 mm, which gradually decreases from southeast to northwest, of which is only 157.9 mm in the west and 481.9 mm in the east of the province. There are many gales in some areas of the province. The average annual wind speed in Hexi corridor is 2.1-4.5 m/s, and the gale days in some areas of the province could reach 30-70 days. It has diversified combination of surface water, light and heat, and appears a significant regional feature in different parts of Gansu. The total quantity of water resources is 28.94 billion cubic meters every year in Gansu, of which 28.21 billion cubic meters (97.4%) are from surface water, and the remaining 730 million cubic meters (2.6%) from groundwater. The water resources in Gansu are mainly distributed in 9 river systems under 3 basins namely the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, and inland rivers. There are 5 river systems in the Yellow River basin, including the Tao River, Huangshui River, the Yellow River main streams (including the Daxia River, Zhuanglang River, Zhuli River and other small tributaries directly flowing into the main streams of the Yellow River), the Wei River and Jing River. There is Jialing river system in the Yangtze River basin. The inland river basin has 3 water systems: Shying River, Heike River and Shula River (including Sagan Lake system).

There are 15 river systems for the three river basins. The annual total surface runoff in Gansu is 17.45 billion cubic meters and the catchment area is 270,000 square kilometers.

2. Ecological environment

The province’s ecological system is divided into four vegetation sub-regions, namely, China - Japan forest plant sub-region, China - Himalayan forest plant sub- region, Qinghai-Tibet plateau plant sub-region and Asian desert plant sub-region. Affected by natural factors such as latitude, climate and geomorphology, the vegetation is distributed along latitudes from the south to the north. The forest vegetation area is small, which is mainly distributed in the specific elevation zone of the mountains at the edge of Qilian Mountain, Longnan Mountain and Gannan plateau. Under the forest belt, the types of vegetation cover grassland or desert steppe. Upper the forest belt, the vegetations cover alpine meadow, sub-snow sparse vegetation and alpine Snow Belt. Desert vegetation is widely distributed in Gansu, which mainly is distributed in Hexi region, the north of Longzhong in Gansu and the basin of Sugan Lake at the north of Qaidam Basin There are more than 650 species of wild animals in Gansu, including 24 species of amphibians, 57 species of reptiles, 441 species of birds, 137 species of mammals. These wild animals are mainly distributed in Wenxian County, Wudu district, Kangxian County, Chengxian County, Liangdang County and other places in Longnan Municipality. The region of Qianshui River and Danbao in Wenxian County has been listed as the 13rd National Nature Reserve, where inhabits the world-class rare animal species such as Giant pandas, Golden monkeys, Musk deer, Lynx, etc. Artificially raised wildlife species such as Sika deer, Red deer and Musk deer etc are also found in this area. Among the wildlife animals, there are more than 90 rare and precious animal species under protection, including 24 species under class I protection, 24 species under class II protection and 4011 species under class III protection.

3. Social and economic context

In 2016, the permanent population in Gansu was 26.0995 million. In which, 11.6639 million of people was living in urban areas, with an urbanization rate of 44.69 percent, ranking 29th in China. In 2017, the gross domestic product (GDP) of Gansu province was RMB 767.7 billion. The average GDP per capita in Gansu was RMB 29,326 ($4,629) in 2017, less than half of the national level which was RMB 59,660 ($9,417).

4. Environmental quality

In 2017, 68 sections were set up for monitoring surface water quality throughout the province, and 66 sections met the water quality targets. Among them, 51 sections enjoyed a good water quality, 13 had fine water quality, 3 were mildly polluted, and one was moderately polluted. In 2017, 14 prefecture-level cities carried out automatic monitoring of ambient air quality in terms of 6 pollutants (particulate matter, fine particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone). The average air quality index was 4.7 for Gansu, which was reduced by 3.3% than that in 2016, and the air quality has been generally improved throughout the province. 85.4 percent of the days had good weather, which has increased by 0.7 percent than that in 2016. Dust weather only occurred 39 times during the year in the province.

3.2 Physical Settings 1. Geological Location for Each Subproject Figure 3.2-1 Geological Location of Three Subprojects in Tianshui; Figure 3.2-2 Geological Location of Two Subprojects in Dingxi; Figure 3.2-3 Geological Location of Zhangye Subproject Figure 3.2-4 Geological Location of Two Subprojects in Jiuquan; 2. Physical Environment Characteristics Table 3.2-1 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Qin’an County; Table 3.2-2 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Maiji District; Table 3.2-3 of Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Wushan County; Table 3.2-4 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Tongwei County; Table 3.2-5 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Lintao County; Table 3.2-6 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Ganzhou District; Table 3.2-7 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Suzhou District; Table 3.2-8 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Dunhuang;

Figure 3.2-1 Geological Location of Three Subprojects in Tianshui

Figure 3.2-2 Geological Location of Two Subprojects in Dingxi

Figure 3.2-3 Geological Location of Zhangye Subproject

Figure 3.2-4 Geological Location of Two Subprojects in Jiuquan

Table 3.2-1 Physical Environment Characteristics in the subproject Area of Qin’an County Qin’an county lies in the southeast of Gansu province, the north of Tianshui city, downstream of the Hulu river, a tributary of Weihe river. In Qin’an County, the longitude is 105 ° 69 ', and latitude is 34 ° 89 '. The county is about 65 kilometers long from east to west, and 50 kilometers wide from north to south. The project construction mainly involves three areas: Wuying township, Longcheng township and Shangguan village. Wuying township is located in the northeast of Qin’an County, 45 kilometers away from downtown of the county, with an average elevation of 1662 meters, average annual rainfall of 710 mm, annual average temperature of 7.5 ℃, annual frost-free period of 165 days. At the end of the year, the commonly cultivated land area was 41 million Geological mu, and the administrative area of township was 9,033 square kilometers. Longcheng town is located in the eastern part of Qin’an county, Gansu province, the middle reaches of Qingshui river 1 environment and the west side of Dalong mountain, 45 kilometers away from downtown of the county, connecting with Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous county in the east and Qingshui county in the south. It is located in the junction zone of Zhangjiachuan, Qingshui and Qin’an counties, covering an area of 78.94 square kilometers. Shangguan Ming-and Qing Dynasty Old Street Area is located at downtown of Qin’an County. The reconstruction of infrastructure in the 3 areas of Wuying Township, Longcheng Township and Shangguan Ming-and Qing Dynasty Old Street Area are all located in the construction completed area. The Dadiwan Cultural Exhibition and Experience Zone involving civil works is situated to the north the Dadiwan museum, east of Shaodong Village and south of Qingshui River, with the land use about 25 mu. Qin’an county is located in the western part of the Loess Plateau in the middle of Gansu. It is one of the 18 arid counties in Gansu province. Located in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau, Qin’an county features typical loess beam, gully and valley topography, interspersed with each other. Wangpu beam, middle mountain beam, Qianhu ridge, Yunshan and other large mountains, Characteristic are covered by thick loess. The topography is undulating, mostly tending to the Xingguo basin where the county seat is located. The elevation level in the County ranges from 120m to 2020m, of the terrain, with 900 meters height difference. The landform of Qin’an county is characterized by extensive distribution of loess, with many mountains and rivers but few rivers and ravines. The valley 2 landscape and mostly appears like gourd, with much frequent mud flood and landslide. The original geomorphology of the Dadiwan area is low mountain and hilly, and there is no side slope near the field geological edge, and no adverse geological effects such as landslide and debris flow exist. In general, the condition of project construction site is applicable to smoothly implementation the project activities. features The construction sites of Longcheng town and Shangguan ancient streets with Ming and Qing Dynasty style are the interior of the town, with proper geological condition, and no adverse efforts for the project construction. The rivers and gullies in Qin’an county are evenly distributed, with an average depth of annual runoff 52 mm. The annual distribution of runoff from April to June accounts for 17% of the year, 55% from July to September, and only 28% for the remaining six months. The Qingshui river basin has the highest runoff depth of 76 mm, with an average annual runoff volume of 76 thousand cubic meters per square kilometer, the South Xiaohe river basin has a runoff depth of 55 mm, the Xianqing river basin 49 mm, the Gourd river basin 46.9 mm, and the Xixiao river basin has a 3 Hydrology lowest runoff depth of 43.3 mm, with only 4.3 cubic meters per square kilometer. The western and eastern sides of the Hulu river are gradually getting higher. The four tributaries gather into the Hulu river from the two sides. The east side is the Qingshui river and the Nanxiao river, and the west side is the Xianqin river and the Xixiao river, which are arranged in a network of branches. The chemical composition of water is carbonate, with less than 300 milligrams of the total content of ions, belong to soft water. About 70% of the county's total runoff is supplied by precipitation. The project is located in Qingshuihe river basin, with a length of 81.5 kilometers and a catchment area of 881.6 square kilometers. Qin’an county belongs to the moderate semi-humid monsoon climate zone in the middle south of the province. The climate is relatively mild, which is neither hot in summer, nor cold in winter, and humid in summer, drought in winter, with less precipitation. The county's average sunshine hours are 2208.1 hours, with an annual sunshine duration rate of 50 percent. The average annual Climate and temperature of the county is 10.40 C, with the average temperature of 22.7 ℃ in the hottest month (July), and the average temperature of -3.4 0 C in the coldest month (January). The average. 4 meteorology Frost - free period is 178 days per year, and the maximum depth of frozen soil reached 51cm, and the average frozen period was 43 days. The prevailing wind direction throughout the year is south wind and southeast wind, with a frequency of 7%. It was followed by north wind and southeast wind with a frequency of 5%, with annual average wind speed of 1.3m/s and annual maximum wind speed of 16m/s. The annual average precipitation in the county is about 507.3 mm, and the annual average evaporation is 1448.8 mm. In Qin’an county, the climate is drought, and the plant species are mainly the cold-resistance and drought-tolerant chenopodiaceae, compositae, monksholiaceae and gramineae. Vegetation Animal and distribution is different due to different topography and landform. The hilly area below 1600m is covered by desert steppe, with high coverage. The shade slope of the soil and rock mountain plants over 1600m altitude is a kind of grassland vegetation, dominated by the specie of Stipa capillata Linn. There are wild birds in 7 categories, 14 families and 30 species in the county, including 5 resources 22 species of resident birds, 7 species of summer migratory birds and 1 species of winter migratory birds. There are state protected animals in Class III, such as goshawk, kite, sparrow hawk, (ecological pheasant, etc. There are species such as golden chicken, the Class II state protected animal. With the frequent disturbance of human activities in the project areas, no wild animals were found, environment) and the vegetation was mainly local crops.

Table 3.2-2 Physical Environment Characteristics in the subproject Area of Maiji District 1 Geological Maiji district is located in the southeast of Gansu province and Tianshui city, connecting Baoji city, Shaanxi province in the east, being adjacent of Qincheng district, Liangdang county, Hui

environment county in the south, bordering Gangu county in the west, linking Qingshui county, Qin’an county in the north. Maiji district is located in east longitude 105 ° 25 '~ 106 ° 43', latitude 34 ° 06 '~ 34 ° 48', with the length of 123 km from east to west. From the south to the north, the widest distance is 50 km, and narrowest distance is less than 5km, with the total area of 3452 km2. The project is located in Xizhi village, Ganquan town, Maiji district. Maiji district is located in the Loess Plateau of Longxi, adjacent to the west Qinling mountains in the south, belonging to Weihe river basin. The topography of the whole is high in the west and low in the east. The highest point in the District is located in the area near the southwest of Jimulenkan, with the elevation of 1923m; The lowest point is located in the eastern edge of Weihe river in the region, with altitude of 1061m and relative height difference of 862m. The area could be divided into loess area and bedrock area according to the characteristics of rock Terrain, 2 and soil. Larger changes of slope exist in loess area, with relative height difference of 100 ~ 400 m from the top of slope to the foot of slope; the slopes at rock area are mostly over 30 °, with landscape relative elevation difference of 200-500 m. The mountain range in the area is mainly north west to west, north east to south and north, which is the watershed of Weihe river and its tributaries. There is loess tableland, beam, loess hills and gully in the geomorphology. The project is located at the flat area of the valley of the south bank of Yingchuan River. There is not any adverse factor near the project site, such as the slope, land slide or debris flow etc. Generally, the construction site selected is good for the smoothly implementation of the project. The main rivers in Maiji district are Wei river and its tributaries including Niutou river, Hulu river, and Dongke river and so on. The project is located in the Weihe river basin, where the Weihe river flows into the area from the west to the southeast from the north to the southeast, and flows out of the investigation area from Beidao, Wuzhai to Dongcha. The runoff length in the area is about 150km, the average annual runoff is 12.7x108m3, the maximum is 30.34x108m3, and the Mingimum is 3.97x108m3. The flow rate changes obviously with seasonal variation, 3 Hydrology and the flow rate increases sharply in the wet season, with the maximum flow rate of 4920m3/s, and the flow rate decreases sharply in the dry season, with the Mingimum flow rate of 0.34m3/s. Weihe river has a large sand content, with an average annual sand content of 72kg/m3 and a maximum of 1000kg/m3, and an average perennial erosion modulus is 5347m3/a•km2. The project is located on the 180m away from southwest side of Yingchuan river, which is the first Class of tributary of the Weihe river. The project will not fetch water from the Yingchuan River, and the municipal sewage produced by the project implementation will be collected and treated for reuse, without discharging into the Yingchuan River. Maiji district belongs to the continental semi humid monsoon climate, without cold winter and hot summer, enjoying mild climate and four seasons clear, sufficient sunshine, moderate Climate and precipitation, with the annual average precipitation of 600 mm decreasing from south to north in turn. The average annual sunshine time is 2090 hours, with an average of 5.7 hours per day, 4 meteorology and the sunshine percentage is 47%. The difference between sunshine regions is large, with more mountains in the north and less forests in the southeast. The total solar radiation amount is 2395~2703MJ/m2, and the annual frost-free period is over 170 days. Metasequoia is under state protection; The second level of protected species includes: ciliary tree, star leaf grass, eucommia, ginkgo, great white redwood, large fruit picea, golden pine, small Animal and white tree, and water green tree. The third level of protected species are Qinling fir, Miaotai maple, Amentotaxus argotaenia (Hance) Pilge, Chinese hazel, Toon, Juglans, Zhangzi pine, green plants sanders and so on. 5 resources There are more than 30 kinds of wildlife animals, including the first Class of national protected species of Takins, Sika deer, Golden cats and Clouded leopards. The second Class of national (ecological protected species include the Antelope musk, Equine, White buttock deer, Impala, Stone Mingk, Otter, Lynx, Macaque, Red horned pheasant, Blue chicken, Red brocade chicken, Giant environment) salamander, Light belly snow chicken, Spoon bird, Blood pheasant, Black bear, Qinling red scallion and so on. There are no rare or endangered animals or plants near the project area.

Table 3.2-3 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Wushan County Wushan County is located in the southeast of Gansu province, the upper reaches of the Weihe river, and the west of Tianshui. It geographically coordinates between the east 104 ° 34 '~ 105 ° 8', north latitude 30 ° 25 '~ 34 ° 57 '. The county is 51.5 km wide from east to west and 59.5 km long from north to south, with a total area of 2011 km2. Among of them, 1700.9 km2 in Geological 1 mountainous area accounts for 84.6% of the total area of the county and 310 km2 in flat area accounts for 15.4% of the total area of the county. The county borders Zhangxian county attached environment Dingxi Municipality in the west, connects Longxi county in the north, adjacent Mingxian county in the south, and links Tongwei county in the northeast, and borders Gangu county and Li county in the east. The project is located in Shandan Township, Wushan County, with the direct distance of 5km to downtown of Wushan County. Wushan county is located in the transition zone between the west Qinling mountains and the loess plateau in the middle of Gansu. Due to the influence of complex geological structure, the complex topography of the whole county is formed. The county could be divided into three basic geomorphic units. The northern part of the county is Longzhong tectonic basin, with the landform of loess erosion accumulation, and the central part belongs the graben valley of the Weihe river. This project belongs to the graben valley topography of the Weihe river, which is Terrain, mainly distributed in the valley of Weihe river and the lower reaches of Bangsha river, Zhanghe river, Shantan river and Danan river, with a total area of 300km2, accounting for 15% of the 2 landscape whole county area. Elevation ranges from 1365m to 1600m, with a 5.6% drop in vertical ratio. The county area could be divided into two parts: lower terrace valley basin and upper terrace loess slope. The project area locates at the junction terrace integrating Shanda river and Weihe river. Shandan Township of the project area is located at the north of Guangwu Mountain, the west of Laojun Mountain, the slope of south of Panlong Mountain and the flat valley area of Weihe River, enjoying the topography of lower in the east and higher in the west, lower in the north and higher in the south, which all leans to the flat area of the east valley area. It is the typical loess hilly and valley terraces landscape. The river in the county is one of the main tributaries of the Yellow River, belongs Wei river water system. The Weihe river originates from the Niaoshu (bird and rat) mountain in Weiyuan 3 Hydrology county and enters the county at Mahuang beach in the Yaer gorge. It flows through 5 townships including Hualin township, Yuanyang township, Shandan township, Chengguan township and

Luomen township, and finally flows into Gangu county through Hanping village of Luomen township. The length of the county is 48km; the catchment area is 2011km2, with the multi-year average flow of 6.9m3/s, and the average runoff of 217.6 million m3. The upstream trunk stream is 337.8km, with the catchment area of 7258km2, the multi-year average flow of 22.5 m3/s, and the runoff of 720 million m3. The project area is located at the intersection of Weihe River and its first tributary of Shandan River, and the drinking water is taken from the underground water. Currently, the municipal sewage has been discharged into the Shandan River. After the construction of the project, the municipal sewage produced will be transferred to Wushan County Sewage Treatment Station for treatment. Located in the middle latitudinal belt, it belongs to the temperate continental sub-humid monsoon climate zone. It is cold in winter but not freezing in winter, hot in summer but not extreme hot in summer. Winter is long but short in summer; spring and autumn are comparable same long period, with clear differences of four seasons. Annual average temperature is 9.6 ℃, the Climate and 4 average temperature in the hottest month of year (July) is 21.4 ℃, which extreme maximum temperature of 35.6 ℃; The average temperature in the coldest month of year (Feb.) is -3.4 ℃, meteorology with extreme Minimum temperature of -17.5 ℃. Dominant wind direction: ESE; Average wind speed: 3.1m /s; Average annual rainfall: 478.9mm; Annual average evaporation: 1343.7mm; Maximum depth of frozen soil: 59cm.

Table 3.2-4 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Tongwei County Tongwei county is located in the central part of Gansu province, which belongs to Dingxi Municipality, Gansu province, the east part of Dingxi city. It locates between the east longitude 104 ° 57 '~ 105 ° 38', latitude 34 ° 55 '~ 35 ° 29'. It is adjacent to Qin’an county and Gangu county in Tianshui city in the southeast and south, Wushan county in Tianshui and Longxi county Geological 1 in Dingxi municipality in the southwest and west, and to the northwest is Andin district in Dingxi municipality, the north is Huining county in Baiyin municipality and Jingning county in environment Pingliang municipality in the northeast. The county is 78km long from east to west and 64km wide from north to south, with a total area of 2908.5km2. This project is located in Songbu village, Pingxiang Township, Tongwei County of Dingxi Municipality, in Gansu Province, the west side of Yuexin Hotel of Dingxi, the south of Wenquan Road. Tongwei county is located in hilly and gully area of Loess Plateau, with more Loess beams, raised hills and valley terraces. Located at the north margin of the Qinling mountain tectonic belt, Terrain, 2 the right neighbor of the north of the Qilian mountain tectonic belt and the Liupanshan tectonic belt, it belongs to the hilly and gully region of the Loess Plateau in Longxi. It is mostly landscape composed of loess beam and river valley terraces. Topography of the County trends to be high in the northwest high, and low in the southeast, with elevation of 1410~2521m. Niugu river is the main surface water body of Tongwei county, with a catchment area of 9.5km2, a main channel length of 3.0km, an average gradian of 3.1‰, a multi-year average flood 3 Hydrology peak flow of 21.8m3/s, and an average erosion modulus of 3500t/km2. It has typical valley features in Tongwei county. It also is lack of groundwater resources, with poor water quality and a salinity of up to 2.7g/L, belonging to sulfate, sodium and magnesium type of water with a bitter and salty taste. Tongwei county is a transitional climate from semi-humid to semi-arid in the middle temperate zone. The precipitation is low and concentrated, and the annual and annual variation rate is Climate and 4 high. Annual precipitation: 432mm; Annual evaporation: 1200mm; Annual average temperature: 7.7 ℃; Maximum wind speed: 16m/s; Average wind speed: 1.9m/s annual dominant wind meteorology direction: southeast to east. Animal and Tongwei county has low annual vegetation coverage, suitable for potato, corn, flax, wheat, valley, mi, buckwheat, peas, lentils and so on. The main vegetation in the county is arbor, shrubs, 5 plants and the plants with large area are caragana. The wild animals in Tongwei county are stone Mingk, magpie, tree sparrow, crow, hare, rat and so on. resources

Table 3.2-5 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Lintao County Lintao county is under the jurisdiction of Dingxi municipality, located in the west of Dingxi municipality in Gansu province. It borders Lanzhou city in the west, and is adjacent of Kangle Geological county, Guanghe county and Dongxiang county attached to Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, and connects Weiyuan county, Dingxi municipality, borders Dingxi county, Yuzhong county 1 environment and Lanzhou city in the east. Its geologically locates between latitude 35 ° 03 '40' - 35 ° 56 '37 "and longitude 103 ° 27' 09 '- 104 ° 19' 30 ", with the length of 123 kilometers from the north to the south, and width of 47 kilometers from the east to the west, and a total area of 2851 km2. Lintao county belongs to the Longzhong loess hilly and gully region of Longxi Loess Plateau, surrounded by mountains on all sides. Loess is widely distributed in the middle of the undulating loess hilly, forming a long and narrow basin landscape. The northeast part of Lintao county is Maxian mountain at the eastern end of Qilian mountains, the mountain is gentle, and the Terrain, elevation of main peak is 3,670 meters. The south of the county is the Wushu mountain (Lugu mountain) at the western end of the Qinling mountain, 3941 meters above sea level. The 2 landscape elevation of Taibai mountain (Hekou mountain) is 3495 meters above sea level, and for Nanping mountain is 3126 meters above sea level, with high, straight and steep mountain. In the middle part of the county, there are vast hilly loess with tertiary as the base, with ravines and gullies in both directions. Extensive loose soil, poor impulse resistance, serious soil erosion. The project is located in the valley of Taohe river, flat and broad, with an elevation of less than 2,000 meters and no adverse geological hazards. Taohe river is an important surface water resource in Lintao county, belonging to the Yellow River system. Taohe river originated in the southwest of Luqu county, flowing east to Mingxian 3 Hydrology county and meandering to the north, via Weiyuan county (Huichuan), the flat area of Lintao county, and flowing into the Yellow River in Loujiaxia gorge of Yongjing county, with the total

length of 673km. The Taohe river flows into Lintao county at the Haidiao gorge of Goujiatan township, Lintao county, flowing through 12 townships and stretching across the whole county in a length of 115km, with a basin area of 2657.66km2. According to the data observe multi-years at Lijiacun Hydrology Station, the annual average flow of Taohe river is 88.22m3/s, the maximum flood peak flow is 2410m3/s, the Mingimum flow is 12.1m3/s, and the average sediment content is 1.17~5.37kg/m3. The main road proposed construction under this project is located at the north side of Taohe river, with a distance of 20-500 meters from Taohe river. Along the downtown of the county, it has rich groundwater, which is the shallow groundwater for the valley of the river. The main source of the water is supplied by the underground seepage collected from the atmospheric precipitation on both sides of the valley and the seepage collected from the cannels passing through the eastern of mountain and downtown. Generally, the underground water table for Grade I terrace is 0.5 ~ 0.7 m; the underground water table for Grade Ⅱ terrace is 2.0 ~ 2.5 m; the underground water table for Grade Ⅲ terrace is in commonly 5.5 m above, the underground water level near the front of Yuelushan mountain is as deep as more than 10m, supplying a drinkable water with good quality. The climate in Lintao county belongs to temperate continental climate, with annual average temperature 7 ℃, the highest temperature of 34.6 ℃, the lowest temperature of -29.5 ℃), frost- free period 80-19 days, the average annual rainfall between 317-760mm, evaporation over 1400mm, more than 70% of rainfall concentrated in July, August and September. Its climate is Climate and characterized by long winter without summer, spring and autumn are linked together, with large temperature difference, and spring temperature is higher than autumn temperature, abundant 4 meteorology sunshine and large evaporation. According to the historical observation data collected in the County Meteorological Station, the mean value of main meteorological elements are as follows: the annual average temperature 7.0 ℃; Annual dominant wind direction E (9% frequency); Annual average wind speed: 1.3m/s; Annual average precipitation 565.2mm; Average annual evaporation of 1500.4mm; Annual average sunshine hours 2437.5h. The vegetation in Lintao county is mainly herbaceous, with less forests and an average coverage rate of 30~40%. The main plants are broad leaf moss, thin leaf moss, purple flower needle grass, tangsong grass, Ben's feather grass, tarragon, and so on. There are tree species including Chinese pines, Chinese pines, Chinese poplar, Chinese poplar, Small leaf poplar, Lombardy Ecological poplar, White birch, Red birch, Lateral cypress, Arboretum cypress, Chinese toona sinensis, Chinese toona sinensis, Dry willow, Tahe willow, etc. The land occupied for the construction of 5 environment Majiayao Cultural Exhibition Center is the urban construction land. The main vegetation species in the present situation are common local vegetation such as broadleaf moss, slender leaf moss, auricularia auricula, and tangsongcao etc. The vegetation coverage rate is about 23%, and no wildlife activities have been found. The land used for the reconstruction of 8 villages is all constructed land in villages and towns, without wildlife.

Table 3.2-6 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Ganzhou District Ganzhou district in Zhangye municipality is located in the fertile central of Hexi corridor in Gansu province, and is the national famous historical and cultural city in China, the key town located at the ancient silk road, in the geographical position in east longitude 100 °16 '~ 100 ° 52', and latitude 38 ° 39 '~ 39 ° 24'. This district is adjacent to Shandan county and Mingle county Geological 1 in the east, Linze county in the west, borders Sunan Yugu autonomous county in the south, and Alxa right banner of Inner Mongolia autonomous region in the north. It is 65km long from east environment to west, 98km wide from north to south, with a total land area of 4240km2. The railway of Lanzhou – Xinjiang and the highway of Gansu – Xinjiang pass through the north side of the city. Ganzhou district is the political, economic and cultural center of Ahangye municipality. Project area is located at the completed downtown of Ganzhou District. The terrain of Ganzhou district is inclined from southwest to northeast, surrounded by the mountains from the south to the north, and the Heihe river runs through the whole territory, which has formed the basin of Zhangye in the shape of Alluvial fan. The district faces the Pingdingshan of Qilian mountain in the southwest, and the Dongdashan of Longshou mountain in the Terrain, northeast, as well as the ladder-shaped plateau of Pingshanhe right in the north, with the elevation between 1410 and 3633m. Geomorphology of the Ganzhou district is composed of mountain, 2 landscape flat area and desert areas, of which 14.4% are mountainous areas, 51.1% are flat areas and 34.5% are desert areas, which basically belongs to the desert natural landscape belt. The geomorphology of project construction site in Ganzhou district belongs to the Class I alluvial terraces of Heihe river at the middle and front area of diluvia fan before the Qilian mountain, with flat terrain, and without adverse geological impact. Within the territory of Ganzhou district, there are 4 major rivers including the Heihe river, Suyoukou river, Dayekou river and Shandan river and 26 seasonal rivers, with an annual runoff of 2.4x109 and a catchment area of 3760km2. The surface runoff of the Heihe river system (including the Shandan river) mainly comes from the snow melt water of the Qilian mountain in the south, which is a mixture of precipitation, groundwater and glacial melt water. In addition to normal runoff in mountainous areas, the bedrock fissure water and the pore water of intermountain 3 Hydrology basin usually are discharged into the river channel in the form of spring before coming out of mountain, and then enter the surface runoff. The surface runoff from the mountain pass is regulated by the reservoir or directly introduced into the channel for irrigation. Along the river bed and channel flow, some proportion of water is seeped under the ground and changes into groundwater, and the downstream reaches of the river are exposed and discharged into the river, forming the recycling conversion form of surface water - groundwater - surface water. Ganzhou area: the annual average temperature 7.1℃; Extreme maximum temperature 38.6 ℃ (1971.8.9); The extreme Minimum temperature of -25.3 ℃ (1958.1.14); Humidity: average Climate and 4 annual absolute humidity 6.2hpa. Annual average wind speed 2.1m/s; Prevailing wind direction: NW; Average annual precipitation 129.8mm; The maximum daily precipitation is 46.7mm. meteorology Annual evaporation is 1966.8mm; The average rain days over the years are 61days. ecological The plant coverage in the project area is high and the community is relatively monotonous. The vegetation is mainly based cultivation, such as various types of crops, artificial forests, windbreak 5 environment and fixed forests, economic forests. Due to the depth of underground water, salt meadows and swamp meadows were formed, and small rushes, ice grass and artificially planted poplar trees,

sand jujube trees and other trees were grown in the low-lying areas and along the ditch. There are no endangered plants or animals in the project area.

Table 3.2-7 Physical Environment Characteristics in the Project Area of Suzhou District Suzhou district of Jiuquan municipality is located in northwestern of Gansu province, the east of Jiuquan city, the north of Qilian mountain, the middle and western of Hexi corridor. Its Geological geological location is longitude 98 ° 20 '18' ~ 99 °and latitude 39 ° 39 ° 10 ~ 59 ', which borders Gaotai county and Sunan county in the east, adjacent Qilian mountain and Sunan county in the 1 environme south, connects Jiayuguan municipality in the west, and links Jiashan mountain and Jinta county in the north. It is 104km long from east to west and 84km wide from north to south, with a total nt area of 3,353.74km2. Project area is located at the construction completed area of downtown in Suzhou District. The west and north of the project area are all the trunk road of the city, but the east and south side of the project site are all empty land. Suzhou district is located in the east of Juquan basin, which is bounded by Jiayuguan fault in the west, Gaotai county in the east, Qilian mountain in the south, and Jiashanzi of Jinta county in the north, which has formed a closed basin which is higher around but lower in bottom. The general trend of topography in the basin is inclined from southwest to northeast. From the new town Terrain, 2 ~ the south of Jiuquan city ~ Shangba (upper dam) ~ the south of (Xiahe) lower river to Qilian mountain front is diluvia fan, which is called the mountain front Gobi belt. The slope falls 5‰ ~ landscape 12‰ and changes greatly, with the elevation of l500m ~ 2200m. From the north to the edge of the north mountain are alluvial and diluvia fine soil plain, with gentle and open topography, scattered distribution of gully and valley depressions, and slope drop of 10‰ ~ 1.5‰. The main surface water in Suzhou district is Taolai river, which is located in the middle of Hexi corridor; the section is also called the Beida river flows through Suzhou district. It is originated in the Qilian mountains, and the site of water source is at an altitude of 4160 m. The river runs from the southeast to the northwest and flows through the east basin of Jiuquan after flowing out the mountain, and finally disappears in the Gobi, sinking into the Heihe river, with a total length of 370 km and the controlled basin area of 6883 km2. The average flow rate for years is 20.2 3 Hydrology m3 / s, and the average runoff for years is 637 million m3. The underground inland in the region is the pore water from the loose rock of the quaternary system, and the aquifer is a single gravel stratum with loose structure and porosity of 25% to 30%. The thickness is greater than 100m. The water inflow per well is 3000m3/d, which is buried under the depth ground of over than 20m. Suzhou district is located between 1300m and 2000m above sea level. It is a temperate arid climate with less dry rain and intense evaporation. The average annual precipitation is 83.3mm, the maximum annual precipitation is 165.7mm, the minimum annual precipitation is 36mm; The annual evaporation is 2148.8mm, the maximum evaporation is 316.7mm in May, and the minimum Climate evaporation is 34.3mm in January. The sunshine is long and the annual average is 3056.4 hours. Within the territory, the annual average temperature is 7.3 ℃, with the highest temperature of and 4 38.4 ℃, and the minimum temperature of -31.6 ℃, day and night temperature difference is big. The average non-frost period is 130 days, with the longest of 151days and the shortest of 105 meteorolo days in the whole year. In late November, it enters the stable freezing period. The average frozen soil depth is 108cm, ranging from the maximum frozen soil depth of 132cm to the minimum gy depth of 86cm. The prevailing wind direction is southwest with an average wind of Grade 2~6 and the strongest wind is of Grade 10, with an average wind speed of 2.4m/s and a maximum wind speed of 25.7m/s. The weather is drought with little precipitation in Suzhou district. Its natural vegetation is scattered distributed, belonging to the typical steppe, with rather simple composition of species, and Ecological most of them are Xerophytic vegetation, which is patchy or patchy in distribution. There are about 15 families of more than 100 species of forest vegetation in the district, more than 50 species 5 environme of sand vegetation, and more than 150 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine. Due to the influence of precipitation and geographical factors, the distribution of natural vegetation is of vertical nt zoning. From the elevation of high to low, it has formed the diversified types of vegetation including the mountain desert vegetation belt, plain desert grassland belt, plain meadow grassland vegetation belt and oasis grassland vegetation etc. The project area occupies the city construction land, which has been leveled, without the distribution of wildlife animals and plants.

Table 3.2-8 Physical Environment Characteristics for Subproject Area of Dunhuang Municipality Dunhuang municipality is located at the most western end of the Hexi corridor in Gansu province, the junction of three provinces (area) including Gansu, Qinghai and Xinjiang, in the location of latitude 39 ° 53 '~ 41 ° 35' and longitude 92 ° 13 '~ 95 ° 30', with the length of 60 ~ 240 km from the east to the west and the width of 90 ~ 230 km from the north to the south. It is adjacent to Guazhou county in the east and Hami city in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west and north and connects to the Qilian mountain in the south linking with Subei Mongolian Geological 1 Autonomous County and the Aksai Kazak Autonomous County, with a total area of 312,000km2, of which the oasis area is 1400km2. Xuanquanzhi relics is located at the intersection of environment Dunhuang city and Guazhou county of Gansu, with 56km of distance to Anxi County in the east, and 64km to Dunhuang city in the west, the elevation is 1700m, served as the east gate of Dunhuang city. Currently, there is the Liuyuan –Dunhuang - Gulmo highway is located at 1.5km of the north of the Relics, and the Lanzhou-Dunhuang railway passing through from the east to the west at 2km away. 2 Terrain, Dunhuang city is in the Class II sag belt in front of Qilian mountain, belong to the west of An(Anxi)- Dun (Dunhuang) basin, which is a part of the Shule river trough. The basement structure

landscape of the basin is complex, and the quaternary accumulation is relatively developed and widely distributed, with a thickness of 350m - 400m. The north of Qili township is the sedimentary center, and the stratigraphic lithology is gradually thinning from west to east and from south to north. The front of Xuanquanzhi Post House Relics and its associated landscape is the vast diluvial plain strenching from the south to the north, and partially is waving to the north. The Danghe river is the only river in Dunhuang municipality, belonging to the Shule river system, which is a mixed inland river. The main runoff originates from Qilian mountain region in the north of Qinghai province. Water resources are mainly supplied by melting glaciers, snow mountains and precipitation, with a catchment area of 16800km2. Annual runoff was 99,023,000 m3 3 Hydrology (of which 13.29 million m3 was reused). The annual average amount of groundwater recharge is 199 million m3, and the annual output is 204 million m3. The annual output is slightly larger than the annual supply, indicating that the underground water source is poor. Dunhuang is a warm zone with dry climate, chilly winter, windy spring, with hot summer and large temperature difference between day and night. According to the meteorological data collected Climate and by the meteorological department for many years, it shows that the annual average temperature is 9.2 ° C; Average annual rainfall is 44.5 mm; Maximum annual rainfall is 205 mm; Annual 4 meteorology average relative humidity is 41%; Annual average evaporation is 2444 mm; Maximum frozen soil depth is 129cm; The prevailing wind direction is northwest wind, and the maximum number of days (28 days) for the northwest wind is 28 days or more. Maximum wind speed: 24m /s; The average wind speed: 2.1m /s. The vegetation in the area is sparse and the coverage rate is less than 10%. The vegetation mainly includes camel grass and forage grass. Due to the complex geographical environment of the Ecological site, the vegetation types are monotonous, sparse and low. At the south of the relic’s site, Huoyan Mountain is barren. In the gravel-sand desert of the north of the site, plant communities with 5 environment salt tolerance and drought tolerance were mostly distributed, such as limulus, artemisia, yellow flowers, achnatherum, sedge, ammosaur, ephedra, and compositae. In the vast salinized soil of the Shule river plain, the north of the site, there were shrubs and reeds such as white spines, red willows, salt ear trees, camel spines, Chinese wolfberry.

3.3 Environment Quality Condition

3.3.1 Ambient Air Quality

1. The source and effectiveness of ambient air monitoring data Table 3.3-1 Source and Effectiveness of Ambient Air Monitoring Data

Monitoring Subproject Source of data Monitoring unit Monitoring sites Effectiveness of Data time The environment monitoring work has been contracted Because it is lack of existing data on ambient air quality in to Gansu Yiyuan Environment Monitoring G1: village, Wuying Gansu Yiyuan Dadiwan and Longcheng township which involves in the Technological and Science Ltd. Co to carry out township of Qin’an Qin'an Environment From April 29 Subproject of Qin’an county, Gans Yiyuan Environment environment quality status monitoring to the Project of county; Dadiwan Monitoring to May 5, Monitoring Technological and Science Co. Ltd. has been Qin’an Count Dadiwan Relics – Reconstruction and G2: Wahuang village, Subproject Technological 2018 contracted to carry out relevant monitoring starting from Promotion to Longcheng Historical Culture Famous Longcheng township of and Science Ltd April 29 to May 5, 2018, to ensure the effectiveness of data Town – Shangguan Streets Construction with the Style Qin’an county collected. of Ming and Qing Dynasty. The environment monitoring data applied in this project China Railway is based on the monitoring data on Ganguan township The monitoring site is set at 2.7km away from the project Tianshui Northwest specified in the Environment Impact Assessment Report construction site in Ganquan township, near the project site. Lacquerwares Institute of April, 2017 Ganquan township for the Construction of S218 Tourism Road Linking The monitoring period starts at April 2017. The data is Subproject Science & Ganquan (Gaozhuang) to the Scenic Area of Maiji applicable for reference. Research District. The environment monitoring data under the project Tianshui The monitoring site is set in Songjiabozi village, near the refers the Environment Impact Monitoring Report on Tianyuan Tongwei Nov. 11 – 17, project site in the distance of 200m. The monitoring period Tongwei County Songbo Reservoir Construction Project Environment Songjiabozi village Subproject 2015 starts at Nov.11-17, 2015. The data is applicable for Environment Quality Status Monitoring, prepared by Monitoring Ltd. reference. Tianshui Tianyuan Environment Monitoring Ltd. Co. Co. The monitoring site is set in Beiguan village and Liujiawan The environment monitoring data under the project Lintao village, within the distance of 2km away from the project refers the Environment Impact Monitoring Report on May 9 -15, Beiguan village and Majiayao constructed Majiayao Culture Exhibition Center. The Majiayao Painted Pottery Culture Town the Second 2017 Liujiawan village Subproject monitoring period starts at May 9 to 15, 2017. The data is Phase Project on Tibetan Hospital Project. applicable for reference. Grain Ganzhou Zhangye Municipality The Subproject of Ganzhou district is located inside of the Warehouse The environment monitoring data under the project District Environment downtown. The selected monitoring site in the downtown is and General’s refers the online collected data by 7 consecutive days Environment From Dec. 13 Monitoring Station and at the distance of 2km to the project construction site. The Mansion from Dec. 13 to 19, 2017 in Ganzhou district, Zhangye Protection to 19, 2017 Zhangye Municipality monitoring time starts from Dec 13 to 19, 2017. The Complex in municipality. Bureau, Science and Technology monitoring data is applicable. Zhangye Environment Committee

Subproject Monitoring Station The environment monitoring data under the project Ganzhou refers the baseline monitoring data to Hongyouwang District The selected monitoring site of Hongyouwang Food Ltd. Wulan Hongyouwang Food Food Ltd. Co in Ganzhou District of Zhangye Environment Co in Ganzhou District of Zhangye Municipality is located Ancient Town From July 9 to Ltd. Co in Ganzhou Municipality collected by Ganzhou District Protect Bureau, at the north of the project site as near as 200m. The in Zhangye 15, 2017 District of Zhangye Environment Monitoring Station of Ganzhou Environment monitoring time starts from July 9 to 15, 2017.The Subproject Municipality Environment Protection Bureau conducted from July 9 Monitoring monitoring data is applicable. to 15, 2017. Station Jiuquan The Subproject of Jiuquan is in the downtown. The selected The environment monitoring data under the project Municipality The monitoring site is Suzhou monitoring sites are 2km away to the project construction refers to the Bulletin of Environment Quality in Jiuquan Environment In 2017 set 2km away of the east Subproject sites. The monitoring time starts in 2017. The monitoring Municipality (2017) Monitoring side of the project site data is applicable. Station

Dunhuang Jiuquan Xuanquanzhi The environment monitoring data under the project Municipality The site of constructed project is located at the city of Subproject refers to the data on the baseline of ambient air quality Environment From July to Dunhuang, which belongs to the nearest monitoring site to Dunhuang municipality for Dunhuang municipality specified in the Bulletin of Monitoring Dec., 2017 the project area. The monitoring time starts from July to Environment Quality in Jiuquan Municipality (2017). Station Dec. 2017.

Wushan The environment monitoring data under the project Lanzhou Yitong Nursing Home of Elders Yuanyang refers to the data on the existing monitored ambient air Environment Sep. 5-11, in Wushan County, Flea The closest distance between the two monitoring sites is Jade quality based on the Existing Monitoring of Ambient Monitoring Ltd. 2017 Market in Wushan 1km and 4km, which is valid in 3 years for the monitoring. Subproject Qualityin the Region of Wushan County (2017,005#). Co County 2. Ambient air quality evaluation The attachment 1 shows the detailed monitoring data and the evaluation process on the ambient air quality for each subproject. Table 3.3-2 shows the evaluation results. Table 3.3-2 Ambient air quality Monitoring and Evaluation Results

Subprojects Evaluation Results

Qin'an Dadiwan The mean values of the hourly and daily SO2 and NO2 concentrations reached the Class II of ambient air quality Standard, and the daily mean values of PM10, Pm2.5 and TSP Subproject were exceeded, mainly because the project is in the northwest region, where the climate is dry, windy and sandy. The monitoring results showed that the average hourly and daily concentration of SO2, NO2, CO and average daily concentration of TSP, PM10 and Pm2.5 in Ganquan town all Tianshui Lacquerwares met the Class II of the ambient air quality standard specified in the Standard of Ambient air quality (GB3095-2012), indicating that the air quality was good along the project Subproject area.

The monitoring results showed that the average daily and hourly concentration of SO2, NO2, CO and average daily concentration of TSP, PM10 and Pm2.5 in Songjiabaozi village Tongwei Subproject all met the Class II of ambient air quality standard specified in the Standard of Ambient air quality (GB3095-2012), indicating that the air quality along the project area was good.

The monitoring results showed that the average daily and hourly concentration of SO2, NO2, CO and average daily concentration of TSP, PM10 and Pm2.5 in the monitoring sites Lintao Majiayao of No. 1 Liujiawan village and No. 2 Beiguan village all met the Class II of the ambient air quality standard specified in the Standard of Ambient air quality (GB3095-2012), Subproject indicating that the ambient air quality was good along the project area.

Grain Warehouse and 2 The monitoring results showed that the average daily concentration of TSP, PM10 and Pm .5, the daily and hourly concentration of SO2, NO2 and CO in monitoring sites of No. General’s Mansion 1 set by Zhangye Municipality Monitoring Station and No. 2 set by Zhangye Municipality Science and Technology Committee all met the Class II of the ambient air quality Complex in Zhangye standard specified in the Standard of Ambient air quality (GB3095-2012), indicating that the ambient air quality was good along the project area. Subproject Monitoring results show that the average daily concentration of TSP, PM10 and Pm2.5, the daily and hourly concentration of SO2, NO2 and CO in monitoring sites of the project Wulan Ancient Town in in Jiantan township, Zhangye municipality all met the Class II of the ambient air quality standard specified in the Standard of Ambient air quality (GB3095-2012). But the average Zhangye Subproject daily concentration of PM10 exceeded the standard, which is mainly because of its location in the northwest of China where the weather is mostly drought, windy, with more sands. The monitoring results showed that the average annual concentrations of SO2 and NO2 in the urban area of Jiuquan sub-project all met the Class II of the ambient air quality Suzhou Subproject standard specified in the Standard of Ambient air quality (GB3095-2012). But the average annual concentrations of PM10 and Pm2.5 were above the standard, which is mainly because of its location in the northwest of China where the weather is mostly drought, windy, with more sands. Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject Monitoring results show that the average daily concentration of Pm2.5. SO2. NO2 in monitoring sites of the downtown for the Suzhou Subproject all met the Class II of the ambient air quality standard specified in the Standard of Ambient air quality (GB3095-2012). But the average annual concentration of PM10 exceeded the standard, which is mainly because of its location in the northwest of China where the weather is mostly drought, windy, with more sands.

Based on the monitoring result, the annual average concentration of Pm2.5. SO2. NO2 in the monitoring sites of the downtown for the Suzhou Subproject all met the Class II of Wushan Yuanyang Jade the ambient air quality standard specified in the Standard of Ambient air quality (GB3095-2012). But the average daily concentration of PM slightly exceeded the standard, Subproject 10 which is mainly because of its location in the northwest of China where the weather is mostly drought, windy, with more sands.

3.3.2 Surface Water Quality

The monitoring data from the past 3 years were collected to reflect the water quality at the sections within 10km upstream and downstream the river near each subproject area. Specific monitoring exercises were conducted to the rivers where there was no historical data available.

1. The source and effectiveness of surface water monitoring data

Table 3.3-3 Source and Effectiveness of Surface Water Monitoring Data Monitoring Subproject Source of data Monitored by Monitoring site or position Effectiveness of data time The environment monitoring work has been contracted Gansu Yiyuan NO.1: the water section of Because it is lack of existing data on the Qin'an From April to Gansu Yiyuan Environment Monitoring Environment Qingshui river bordering the west monitoring of surface water quality, to identify Dadiwan 29 to May Technological and Science Ltd. Co to carry out Monitoring of Zhaosong village, Wuying the status of water quality for the main rivers in Subproject 5, 2018 environment quality status monitoring to the Project of Technological township of Qin’an county; the project area, Gans Yiyuan Environment

Monitoring Subproject Source of data Monitored by Monitoring site or position Effectiveness of data time Qin’an Count Dadiwan Relics – Reconstruction and and Science Ltd NO.2: the water section of Monitoring Technological and Science Co. Ltd. Promotion to Longcheng Historical Culture Famous Qingshui river of 1km away from has been contracted to carry out relevant Town – Shangguan Streets Construction with the Style the lower reaches in Longcheng monitoring starting from April 29 to May 5, of Ming and Qing Dynasty, starting from April 29 to township. 2018, so as to ensure the effectiveness of data May 5, 2018. No.3: the water section of collected. Qinshui river of 500m away from the upper reaches in Longcheng township. The environment monitoring data for the surface water applied in this project is based on the monitoring data The monitoring water section is individually set on Ganguan township (3km away from the upper China Railway The water sections of Yinchuan at 3km away from the upper reaches of the Tianshui reaches of the project location) and Tianhe bridge (7km Northwest river 1# in Ganquan township; project location and Yinchuan river of 7km away Lacquerware away from the lower reaches of the project location) Institute of April, 2017 from its lower reaches. The monitoring period s Subproject specified in the Environment Impact Evaluation Report Science & The water section of Yinchuan starts at April 2017. The data is applicable for for the Construction of S218 Tourism Road Linking Research river 2# in Tianhe bridge. reference. Ganquan (Gaozhuang) to the Scenic Area of Maiji District. The monitoring data of surface water environment in The river of the proposed project location is 1#: the water section at Jingping this project refers to the monitoring data of two Gansu Njiugu river, and the selected 2 monitoring water bridge of Njiugu river; Tongwei monitoring sections at Jingping bridge of Njiugu river, Zhongjian Dec. 6, section is individually located at the downstream 2#: the water section in Subproject Liangchuan village of Xiangnan township specified in Monitoring Ltd 2017 and the upstream of the river. The monitoring Lianchuan village of Xiangnan the Tongwei County Ecological Environment Quality Co. period starts at Dec.6, 2016. The data is township Monitoring (December). applicable for reference. 1#: 500m upstream of the site of Gansu Huading The three water sections monitored were 200m, Pedestrian Cable-stayed Bridge; The monitoring data of surface water environment in Environment 1,200m and 3000m downstream of the Taohe Lintao 2#: 1000m downstream of the site this project is based on the Monitoring Report of Protection Dec. 26-28, river projection section where the Majiayao Majiayao of Pedestrian Cable-stayed Environmental Quality Status of the Pedestrian Cable- Science & 2016 Culture Exhibition Center is located. The Subproject bridge; stayed Bridge Project at Taohe river in Lintao County Technology monitoring time was from December 26 to 28, 3#: 1000m downstream of the site Ltd. Co. 2016, which can be quoted. of suspension bridge. Grain The monitoring data of the surface water environment Warehouse Zhangye 1#: Monitoring section of the in this project refers the data collected by the ordinary The closest monitoring section is located at the and General’s Municipality South Lake in Binghe New monitoring of two surface water monitoring sections at downstream of 4km from the project location. Mansion Environment Jan. 2017 District; the entrance of Heihe river wetland (South lake in The monitoring time is Jan. 2017. The Complex in Monitoring 2#: Monitoring section of Shandan Binhe New District) and Shandan river and Shandan monitoring data is applicable. Zhangye Station river and Shandan bridge. bridge in Zhangye municipality at Jan. 2017. Subproject Wulan The environment monitoring data on surface water Ganzhou The monitoring section is 3km away from the The section of Shandan bridge – Ancient under the project refers the ordinary monitoring District Dec.2017 project location. The monitoring time is Dec. Jiantan Town in collected data at the section of Shandan river (Shandan Environment 2017. The monitoring data is applicable.

Monitoring Subproject Source of data Monitored by Monitoring site or position Effectiveness of data time Zhangye bridge – Jiantan township) in Dec. 2017 by Ganzhou Protection Subproject District Environment Protection Bureau, Zhangye Bureau, Municipality. monitoring station The environment monitoring data refers to the monitoring data collected in the sections of Beida river Jiuquan The main river near the project location is the 1#: The monitoring section of (Beida bridge) and Beida (Urban Farmland) specified Municipality Beida river, located within 5km to the project Suzhou Beida bridge; in the Report of the Ordinary Monitoring to the Environment Nov 2017 area from the downstream to upstream. The Subproject 2#: The monitoring section of the Surface Water Quality in Jiuquan Municipality at Nov. Monitoring monitoring time is Nov. 2017. The monitoring Urban Farmland. 2017 Issued by Jiuquan Municipality Environment Station data is applicable. Monitoring Station. Wushan The data of the upstream section of 4.5km Weihe birch Tianshui Monitoring The upstream section of 4.5km The distance between the project site and the Yuanyang forest of the upstream of the project is quoted from the Municipal at Weihe Weihe birch forest; The monitoring section is less than 5km, and Jade Environmental Quality Monitoring Bulletin (quarterly Environmental birch forest downstreatm of 3km Weihe monitoring data is valid in 3 years. The data is Subproject report) of Wushan County in 2018; The section data of Monitoring section was bridge in Wushan, Wushan acceptable. the 3km Weihe bridge in Wushan, Wushan county, the Bureau, carried out county. downstream of the project is quoted as Ambient Quality Lanzhou Yitong in April Status Monitoring in Wushan County" (yitong Environmental 2018, the monitoring [2017] no. 005) Monitoring Co. section of Ltd. weihe bridge was carried out in Sep 2017. 3. Surface water quality evaluation results The attachment 2 shows the monitoring data and the evaluation process on the ambient air quality for each subproject. Table 3.3-4 shows the evaluation results.

Table 3.3-4 Surface Water Quality Evaluation Results

Name of Applicable Standard Subproject surface Evaluation Results GB3838-2002 water 1#: The monitoring results showed that the concentration of COD, permanganate index, total phosphorus, petroleum, total nitrogen and fecal Escherichia coli. were all incompliant with the standard requirements for the water section of Qingshui river at the west Class III border of Zhaosong village in Wuying township. Based on the field survey, it found that the excessive concentration of contaminants in the water is because of the lack of sewage collection and treatment facilities, and nearly all the domestic sewage produced by local Qingshui residents was directedly discharged into the surface water body. 2#: The concentration of COD, total phosphorus, total nitrogen and fecal Escherichia coli for the water section of 1km away from the Qin'an Dadiwan River downstream of Longcheng township exceeded the standard requirements; Subproject Class II 3#: The concentration of COD, permanganate index, total phosphorus, total nitrogen and fecal Escherichia coli for the water section of 500m away from the upstream of Longcheng township exceeded the standard requirements.

Class III Based on the investigation and analysis, the reasons for noncompliance include the abasence of wastewater collection and treatment facitlies in the project area, which results in the direct discharge of domestic wastewater into surface water body by local residents. It indicates the poor quality of surface water in the project area due to the pollution of sewage. Monitoring results show that the concentrations of COD, ammonia nitrogen, total phosphorus, total nitrogen, fecal coliform in the Class III surface water section collected at 1 # monitoring point of Yinchuan river are all not compliant with the standard requirements. Yingchuan Tianshui Based on the investigation and analysis, the reasons of contaminations exceeding the Standard include the lower level of domestic Lacquerwares River sewage treatment discharged by local residents at upstream has been directly discharged into surface water bodies, causing the water Subproject quality could not meet the standard, and the rest of monitoring indicators for testing water quality all meet the standard specified in Class III the Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). It indicates that the surface water quality in the project area is generally, which has been polluted by domestic sewage. Monitoring results show that the concentration of total nitrogen, total phosphorus and ammonia nitrogen are overweight at the monitoring section of 2# Lianchuan village, Xiangnan township, which might be caused by the untreated domestic sewage discharged Niugu Class III Tongwei Subproject by local villagers, the rest of monitoring indicators for testing water quality all meet the standard specified in the Surface Water

River Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). It indicates that the surface water quality in the project area has been polluted by domestic sewage.

The Monitoring results showed that the surface water quality factors of the three monitoring points all met the corresponding Lintao Majiayao Class III standards specified in the Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). It indicates that the surface water quality in Subproject Tao River the project area is fine.

Name of Applicable Standard Subproject surface Evaluation Results GB3838-2002 water

Grain Warehouse and General’s The Monitoring results showed that the surface water quality factors of the two monitoring points all met the corresponding standards Heihe Class III Mansion Complex specified in the Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). It indicates that the surface water quality in the project

in Zhangye River area is fine. Subproject

Wulan Ancient Shandan The Monitoring results showed that the surface water quality factors of the monitoring points all met the corresponding standards Town in Zhangye Class III specified in the Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). It indicates that the surface water quality in the project Subproject river area is fine.

The Monitoring results showed that the surface water quality factors of the two monitoring points all met the corresponding standards Beida Class III Suzhou Subproject specified in the Surface Water Environment Quality Standard (GB3838-2002). It indicates that the surface water quality in the project

River area is fine.

3.3.3 Acoustic Environment Quality Status For the subprojects that are located in urban areas, the regular environmental monitoring reports from the government authorities were used to reflect the acoustic environment quality. For the subprojects that are outside urban areas, the data of noise level monitored within 300m of the subproject areas were adopted for analysis. For the subprojects that there was no any existing available, the acoustic environment quality was assessed by investigating local noise sources, acoustic environmental conditions and hearing tests. 1. Source and effectiveness of noise monitoring data Table 3.3-5 the Source and Effectiveness of Environment Noise Monitoring Data Monitoring Subprojects Source of data Monitored by Monitoring site Effectiveness of data time The environment monitoring work has been 1#: Shaodi village, Wuying Because it is lack of historical data on environment contracted to Gansu Yiyuan Environment Gansu Yiyuan township of Qin’an county; noise monitoring in Dadiwan and Longcheng Monitoring Technological and Science Ltd. Co from Environment 2#: the section of Shaodian township which involves in the Subproject of Qin'an April 29 to May 5, 2018 to carry out environment Monitoring April 29 to village at 462 county road; Qin’an county, Gans Yiyuan Environment Dadiwan quality status monitoring to the Project of Qin’an Technological May 5, 2018 3#: Wahuang village of Monitoring Technological and Science Co. Ltd. has Subproject Count Dadiwan Relics – Reconstruction and and Science Longcheng township in been contracted to carry out relevant monitoring at Promotion to Longcheng Historical Culture Famous Ltd Qin’an county; the 4 selected monitoring sites starting from April Town – Shangguan Streets Construction with the 4#: the section of Wahuang 29 to May 5, 2018, so as to ensure the effectiveness

Monitoring Subprojects Source of data Monitored by Monitoring site Effectiveness of data time Style of Ming and Qing Dynasty. village at 462 county road of data collected. The environment noise monitoring data applied in China Railway this project is based on the monitoring data on The monitoring site of Yuandian is set at 200m Tianshui Northwest Ganguan township specified in the Environment away from the project construction site, near the Lacquerware Institute of April, 2017 Yuandian Impact Evaluation Report for the Construction of project site. The monitoring period started in April Subproject Science & S218 Tourism Road Linking Ganquan (Gaozhuang) 2017. The data is applicable for reference. Research to the Scenic Area of Maiji District. 1#: 230m away from the south of Majiayao Exhibition Center; 2#: Due to the close distance between the above 220m away from the south monitoring sites and the Majiayao Cultural Display Gansu Huading of Majiayao Exhibition Center, and both located between the Taohe river The environment monitoring data under the project Environment Center; 3#: 330m away Lintao and the pumping canal, similar to the location of the refers the Environment Impact Monitoring Report on Protection May 12 to from the south of Majiayao Majiayao S311 highway, there is no other noise source. The Majiayao Painted Pottery Culture Town the Second Science & 13, 2017 Exhibition Center; Subproject monitoring time is from May 12 to 13, 2017. Phase Project on Tibetan Hospital Project Technology 4#: 250m away from the Therefore, the noise situation of the surrounding Ltd. Co. south of Majiayao environment can be explained by using the Exhibition Center; 5#: monitored noise collected at the 5 points Yaotou village (460m away from the north of Majiayao Exhibition Center; Grain Warehouse Zhangye The Subproject is located at downtown of Ganzhou and The environment monitoring data under the project Municipality Environment noise in district, within the monitoring scope of the selected General’s refers to the Bulletin of Traffic Noise Environment Environment Sep. 2017 downtown; Traffic noise; noise monitoring in downtown. The monitoring Mansion Quality in Downtown of Zhangye Municipality Monitoring time starts at Sep. 2017. The data is applicable for Complex in (2017) Station reference. Zhangye Subproject The project site is located at 300m away from the The environmental monitoring data of the project Monitoring 1#: the east of the project site south of the Xiaokang Town in the Gucheng Wulan refers to the monitoring data around the site in the Station of boundary; 2#: the south of village, without noise source surroundings. The Ancient Environmental Status Monitoring Report of the Ganzhou the project site boundary; monitoring time starts at July 2016. Thus, the noise Town in Dehydrated Vegetable Project in the Capacity of District July 2016 3#: the west of the project situation surrounding Wulan Ancient Town can be Zhangye 1000Tons in Produced by Zhangye Municipality Environment site boundary; 4#: the north explained by using the monitored noise Subproject Precious Species of Vegetables Production Ltd. Co. Protection of the project site boundary. environment quality collected from the selected 4 of published in July 2016. Bureau monitoring sites.

Monitoring Subprojects Source of data Monitored by Monitoring site Effectiveness of data time The Subproject is located at downtown of Jiuquan, The monitoring data came from the Report on Jiuquan within the monitoring scope of the selected noise Suzhou Regional Environmental Noise Monitoring in Urban Environment Sep 12 to Monitoring sites in monitoring in downtown. The monitoring time Subproject Areas of Jiuquan Municipality in 2017 (by Jiuquan Monitoring 22, 2017 downtown starts at Sep. 12 to 22, 2017. The data is applicable Environmental Monitoring Station [2017] no. 66) Station for reference. Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi There is no industrial noise source in the project area, inaccessible, with better acoustic environment quality. Subproject 2. Acoustic environment quality evaluation The attachment 3 shows the data and evaluation on the acoustic environment for each subproject. Table 3.3-6 shows the result of evaluation. Table 3.3-6 Acoustic Environment Quality Monitoring and Evaluation Result

Subprojects Evaluation result

Qin'an Dadiwan It can be seen from the Monitoring results that the noise of the day and night monitoring points can meet the requirements of the day and night standards for Subproject the Class I area and 4a area specified in The Acoustic Environment Quality Standard (GB3096-2008). The acoustic environment of the project area is good. Tianshui Lacquerwares It can be seen from the Monitoring results that the noise of the day and night monitoring points can meet the requirements of the day and night standards for Subproject the 4a area specified in The Acoustic Environment Quality Standard (GB3096-2008). The acoustic environment of the project area is good. Lintao Majiayao It can be seen from the Monitoring results that the noise of the day and night monitoring points can meet the requirements of the day and night standards for Subproject the Class II area specified in The Acoustic Environment Quality Standard (GB3096-2008). The acoustic environment of the project area is good. Grain Warehouse and Based on the Bulletin of City Road Traffic Noise Monitoring for Zhangye Municipality in 2017, it shows that the annual urban regional environmental noise General’s Mansion level between day and night in 2017 is better, which is basically as same as that of last year. Averagely, it does not exceed national standard (GB3096-2008) Complex in Zhangye specified for the Class I of 55 dB standard values. Subproject It can be seen from the Monitoring results that the inter-day noise value of each monitoring point around the project factory boundary is between 40.1~ Wulan Ancient Town in 48.9db (A) and 32.5~ 36.4db (A) at night, which does not exceed the requirements of the day-night standard for the Class II of areas specified in The Zhangye Subproject Acoustic Environment Quality Standard (GB3096-2008). The acoustic environment of the project area is good. According to the report of Jiuquan Municipality Environmental Monitoring Station on Regional Environmental Noise Monitoring of Jiuquan Municipality Suzhou Subproject in 2017, the regional noise compliance rate for the city is 93.4%. The average equivalent acoustic level is 53.6 decibels. Compared with that at the same period of last year, the average equivalent acoustic level decreased by 1.2 decibels. Comprehensively, the regional acoustic environmental quality is good. Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi There is no industrial noise source in the project area, inaccessible, with better acoustic environment quality. Subproject

3.3.4 Environmental Quality Baseline

The EIA pays more attentions to the situations when the environmental quality exceeded applicable standards, so as to provide bases for project design and mitigation measures preparation. 1. Ambient air quality

The level of particulate matters (PM10, PM2.5, TSP) exceeded the standard in the areas of Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject, Zhangye Subproject (Wulan Two Subarea), and Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject. It was mainly because of dry climate and large wind and sand in these regions. In order to prevent further air environmental deterioration in the areas, it requires that the special attention should be paid to dust control during the construction and operation periods of the subprojects. More stringent requirements on the mitigation measures have been proposed to these three subprojects as described in the Chapter of the Environmental Management Plan. 2. Surface water quality

The surface water bodies involved in 3 subprojects (Qin’an Dadiwan, Maiji, and Tongwei) were suffering from water pollution at different levels: (1) The river section of the Qingshui River near Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject was excessively contaminated. The concentration of COD, permanganate index, total phosphorus, petroleum, total nitrogen and fecal coliform exceeded the standard value for the river sections near Wuying and Longcheng townships. The concentration of COD exceeded the standard by 13 times, and that for total nitrogen and fecal coliform exceeded the standard by 8 times and 7 times respectively. It was mainly because there are no proper wastewater treatment facilities in Wuying and Longcheng townships. It’s therefore concluded that: A. With this subproject, the domestic wastewater generated by Longcheng and Wuying townships will be properly collected, treated and reused, which would relieve the pollution pressure on the Qingshui River to some extent. For this purpose, there is an urgent need to implement the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject. B. As the Qingshui river has no environmental capacity to receive pollutants, it is required that the domestic wastewater generated by Wuying and Longcheng townships must be collected, treated and reused without discharge into the Qingshui river. Accordingly, integrated wastewater treatment facilities have been supposed in the EIA process to treat the wastewater for reuse in irrigation. (2) The concentration of some water quality parameters of the water bodies involved in the Tianshui Maiji and Tongwei subprojects exceeded the standards. For the above three subprojects, certain pollution occurred to the related water bodies, and the reasons are all related to the wastewater discharge from the upstream residents in the subproject areas. In order to prevent further deterioration in water quality, it’s required that the domestic wastewater generated by these subprojects be collected and treated by proper wastewater treatment facilities. 3. Acoustic environment quality

The acoustic environmental quality in all subproject areas have met applicable standard. 3.4 Environmental Sensitive Areas/Receptors

3.4.1 Sensitive Areas/Receptors to Ambient Air and Noise

Table 3.4-1Summary of Sensitive Areas/Receptors to Ambient Air and Noise Sensitive Areas/Receptors Number Sub of Relationship with the subproject project No Name affected persons Shaodian village (two sides 10m to the two sides of the infrastructure 60 of the main street) promotion area Shaodian village (two sides The first row of residential building of 15m along 120 of Yangjiagou) the two sides of the infrastructure promotion area Dadiwan Zhaosong village 14 10m to the infrastructure reconstructed area relics 40m to the south of infrastructure improved area Wuying Township Primary 60 in the main streets, the first row of teaching School building Wuying Township 30m to the south of infrastructure improved area 40 beds Hospital in the main streets, and 30m to the north of that The first row of teaching building, 40m of the Changying Primary School 30 south end of the drainage pipeline The first row of classroom, 25m of the north of Xiguan Primary School 38 the road and drainage pipeline. Longcheng Secondary The first row of teaching building, 15m of the Qin'an 120 School north of the road and drainage pipeline. Dadiwan Subproject Longcheng Center Primary 63 The first row of classroom, 20m of the north of Longcheng School the road and drainage pipeline. historical The first row of residential building, at the two Wahuan Village 62 ancient sides of the road and drainage pipeline. famous The first row of residential building, at the two town Longquan Village 44 sides of the road and drainage pipeline. protection The first row of residential building, at the two project Fengwei Village 54 sides of the road and drainage pipeline. The first row of residential building, at the two Liyuan Village 34 sides of drainage pipeline. The first row of residential building, at the north Xiguan Village 35 side of the road and drainage pipeline. The first row of residential building, at the south Lueyang Village 28 side of the road and drainage pipeline.

5m west of the trunk sewage pipelines, 5m of two 1 Majiayao village 84 sides of alleys reconstructed (first building of the residential area) 5m west of the trunk sewage pipelines, 5m of two 2 Qijiatan village 76 sides of alleys reconstructed (first building of the Lintao residential area) Majiayao 5m of two sides of alleys reconstructed(first 3 Yangjiadian village 64 Subproject building of the residential area) 4 Cheliujia village 80 5m to the two sides of the reconstructed alleys 5 Lifanjia village 45 5m to the two sides of the reconstructed alleys 6 Yanwujia village 60 5m to the two sides of the reconstructed alleys 7 Hekou village 54 5m to the two sides of the reconstructed alleys 8 Wangjiazui village 80 5m to the two sides of the reconstructed alleys

Sensitive Areas/Receptors Number Sub of Relationship with the subproject project No Name affected persons 40m to the east of the trunk drainage pipeline, 9 Xiping Secondary School 54 sideway West lake residential area 80 5m east of Project Area(first building, side) Barn in Wanjiajiayuan residential Ming 60 5m west of Project Area(first building, side) area dynasty Residential area in Yijia style area 40 5m east of Project Area(first building, back side) Company 10m east of Mansion of General Area(first Xilaisi community 40 building, back side) Zhangye Residential buildings of 10m east of Mansion of General Area(first Mansion of 28 Subproject SMC building, side) General t 3# building of Zengfuyuan 10m north of library in Ganzhou district (the first Area 35 residential area building with the location of east to west) Residential building of the 10m northwest of library (the first building with 38 library in Ganzhou district the location of east to west) Jiantan township primary 60m of sewage pipelines (the first teaching 60 Wulan school building) Ancient 10m two sides of sewage pipelines (the first Xiaokang Tower 106 Town Area building of residential area) Suzhou Residential area of 60m north of the project area 1 80 Subproject Shengzhou (the first building, side) Taiping primary school in 70m southwest of the project to the first teaching 1 50 Pingrang township building (side) 80m west of the project to the residential area of 2 Songbo village 12 Tongwei the first building Subproject 3 Baijiabozi village 18 20m southeast of project site Songbo new village 4 34 130m north of project site

The first row of teaching building (backside), at 1 Shandan Junior School 130 10m south of the main streets restored in Shandan township Wushan The first row of teaching building (sideway), Yuanyang Shandan Township Center 2 52 at 35m north of the main streets restored in Jade Primary School Shandan township Subproject The first row of teaching building Shandan Township 3 60 beds (backside), at 5m north of the main streets Hospital restored in Shandan township

3.4.2 Sensitive Water Areas

1. Water Environment The surface water bodies within 1 km to the construction sites for each subproject has been identified as shown in the following table: Table 3.4-2 Sensitive Water Bodies Sensitive Relationship with the subproject River Subproject Functional zone River location width 300m north of the construction site in 90m Class III Qin'an Dadiwan Shaodian village；600m north of the Qinshui river Subproject project construction site in Longcheng town 30m Class III Tongwei Subproject Niugu river 60m south of the subproject site Tianshui 43m Class II Yinchuan Lacquerwares 180m northeast of the subproject site river Subproject Zhangye Subproject Shandan river 300m northeast of the subproject site 35m Class III Lintao Majiayao Class III water Taohe river 50m east of Majiayao Culture Subproject quality from

Sensitive Relationship with the subproject River Subproject Functional zone River location width Exhibition Center；100-1000m from 200m Majiayao to Hekou to the east side of Majiayao Yangjiazhuang, scenic spots Class II water quality from Yangjiazhuang to Wangjiazui

Shandan 50m Class III Wushan Yuanyang The objects of river embankment, River (Weihe Jade Subproject bridge crossing the rivers. River Basin) 2. Protection Areas of Drinking Water Sources

Specific investigation was conducted on drinking water sources within 3km to the construction sites of each subproject. It was found that the following two subprojects involve this issue. The details are given in Table 3.4-3.

Table 3.4-3 Summary of the Sensitive Drinking Water Source s Beneficiary Type of Water supply Scope of Relationship with the Subproject of water water source capacity protection area subproject supply

10m distance from the Lintao Downtown Class II protection area Underground Majiayao 6000m3/d of Lintao See figure 2 in Liujiawan to the water Subproject county main roads of the scenic spots

Infrastructure facilities, such as Wushan drainage pipeline, Downtown Yuanyang Underground alley renovation, rive 6000m3/d of Wushan See figure 8 Jade water embankment etc, are County Subproject all located in the Class I water source protection area.

3.4.3 Ecologically Sensitive Areas

By investigating the ecologically sensitive areas within 200m of each subproject area, such as nature reserves, forest parks and geological parks, Fengshan Forest Park in Qin’an County was identified as the ecologically sensitive area. Fengshan Forest Park is located 20m north of the Information Center to be built under the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject (Shangguan Ancient town subarea). The Information Center covers an area of 200m, with a small construction volume and does not occupy the forest park reserve. As the forest park is an existing scenic spot, the construction of the tourist service center will attract more visitors. Therefore, the project construction has little impact on the Fengshan Forest Park in Qin’an County.

Table 3.4-3 Basic Condition of Fengshan Forest Park in Qin’an County Scope of Relationship with the location Name Subjection Area Level protection area of project area 20m north of the project Qin’an County See figure County 16km2 Provincial construction site for Fengshan Fengshan Forest Park 2.2-2(3) Tourist Service Center Fengshan Forest Park is a provincial-level forest park located in Qin’an County, Tianshui Prefecture. The total land area is 16 km2, and the vegetation is dominated by artificial forest, including 20 species of arbors, 15 species of shrubs, 2 species of vines, and 5 species of ground-cover plants. There is no rare or endangered wild plant in the park. 30 species of birds have been found, 5 of them such as glede and pheasant are national third-class protected birds.

3.4.4 Related Infrastructure Facilities

Investigation was conducted on the main infrastructure facilities including railways, highways, water supply pipelines, and gas pipelines near the 8 subprojects’ construction areas. It was found that except that Longhai railway and G316 highways (shown in Table 3.4-4 and Table 3.4-5) are related to Wushan Yuanyang Jade Sub- project, the rest subprojects don’t involve key infrastructure facilities. Table3.4-4 Basic Condition of Longhai Railway Relation with the location of sub Name Passenger Flow Type Basic condition projects There is one site of 6km sewage Longhai pipeline for Wushan Yuanyang Jade Railway, Passenger Height: 2.5m, 3000 person/d Project needs to go through the Wushan railway Width: 5m existing railway sub grade in the form County Section of culvert Table 3.4-5 Basic Condition of G316 Highway Road surface Relation with the location of sub Name Vehicle flow Type condition projects Installation of 6km sewage pipelines G316 Wushan National Asphalt road, 720 vehicle/h along the road for Wushan Yuanyang County Section road Width: 12m Jade Project

3.5 Physical Cultural Resources (PCRs)

1. The status of cultural heritage protection units Specific investigation was conducted on the culture heritage protection units within 200m to each subproject. The details are shown in Table 3.5-1. 2. The protection of ancient well The implementation of Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject in Longcheng Ancient Town will affect the Longquan Well. 3.5-2 Information of the Ancient Well Construction Protection Relationship with Name Type Requirements of protection time scope the project location According to the protection plan of Long Longcheng Historic and Cultural Town, its Project area for the Ancient quan Qin Dynasty unclassified historical remains and surrounding promotion of architecture well environment should be strictly protected, Longquan well and the water quality should be kept clear.

Table 3.5-1 Descriptions of the Culture Heritage Protection Units Identified in the Subproject Areas (Within 200m) Protected area and Related Name of the Level of Relationship with the construction restricted Descriptions Authority Subproject PCR Protection subproject area Project sites located in National Key Dadiwan Ancient relic about 4,800-60,000 Wuying township area all Culture Relics See figure 1-1 Tianshui Municipal Government Culture Relics years old belong to the construction Qin’an Protection Unit restricted belt. Dadiwan Shangguan Sewage and drainage Subproject Streets with Ancient houses and streets of Qin’an County Culture Relics Protection pipelines are to be Provincial See figure 1-3 Ming and Qin Ming-Qing dynasties Bureau constructed in the protection Dynasty Style area Majiayao Giant Relics Lintao Tourist Service Cent is Majiayao Ancient relic of the Neolithic Age Lintao County Culture and Broadcasting Majiayao National See figure 2 located in the Class II Culture Relics about 3300 years od Administration Bureau Subproject contraction restricted area of Majiayao relics. As museum of intangible Dongcang of Ancient buildings of Ming-Qing Zhangye Municipal Culture and Provincial See figure 3-1 culture heritage under the Zhangye dynasties Broadcasting Administration Bureau project for exhibition As museum of intangible Mansion of Ancient buildings of Qing Zhangye Municipal Culture and Provincial See figure 3-2 culture heritage under the General Dynasty Broadcasting Administration Bureau Zhangye project for exhibition Subproject

Water supply and sewage Ancient building of Han East Ancient pipelines are to be Provincial See figure 3-3 Jiantan Township Government Tower Dynasty constructed in the protection area

National Xuanquanzhi 50m away from the east of Dunhuang World class See figure 4 Ancient relics of Han Dynasty Dunhuang Municipality Government Culture Relics the project site Xuanquan culture relics zhi Ruin of Beacon Registered Fences and signs set outside Subproject Tower in Sweet Not divided yet Post office ruin in Han dynasty Dunhuang city government cultural relics of the protected ruin Well

3.6 Social and Economic Conditions

In 2017, 58 centralized counties and 17 decentralized counties were officially designated poor in Gansu, involving 6,220 villages, 1 million households and 4.17 million people. Under the Project, Qin’an, Tongwei, Lintao, and Maiji were designated as centralized poor counties/ districts. The poor people in Gansu province have following characteristics: (i) There is a large poor population with a high proportion of low-income households. (ii) There are various reasons causing poverty such as diseases and disability. (iii) The poor people are widely distributed throughout the province and are living relatively concentrated. (iv) The economic baseline of these counties is very weak, and the infrastructure is poor. The economic and social context of each subproject is shown in Table 3.6-1. It can be seen from Table 3.6-1: The density of population ranges from 6 persons/km2 to 369 persons/km2 in the subproject counties/districts. Except for Zhangye and Dunhuang, the population density in other subproject counties/districts is higher than the provincial average level of 57 persons/km2. GDP per capita ranges from RMB 9,517 to RMB 73,987 in the Project area, which is lower than the average level of RMB 26,427 in Gansu, implying that the project area is relatively poor in Gansu. The fiscal revenue ranges from RMB 3.25 billion to RMB 4.026 billion. In terms of GDP distribution in the three industries, 2.2% to 29% of GDP is contributed by the primary industry in the subproject counties/districts. Besides the small proportion of the primary industry in GDP in Maiji district, the proportion of the primary industry in GDP in other subproject areas /counties is higher than the average lever of 13.2% in Gansu province. It shows that the distribution of the primary industry in GDP in Gansu is still rather higher, indicating Gansu still has a traditional economic structure. The secondary industry distribution is 13.2~51.8% in all project counties. Except which is respectively higher in Maiji district than the average level of its distribution in Gansu, for the rest of project areas (counties), that is individually lower than the level of 42.8% in the Gansu province. The distribution of tertiary industry in project counties ranges from 49% to 62.4%, and the proportion of tertiary industry in all project areas (counties) is higher than that of 44.0% in Gansu province. As for the proportion of tourism in GDP, the proportion of tourism in the project areas (counties) is 7.04~73.6%, while the average level of Gansu province is about 11.42%. Tourism contributes the highest proportion in GDP in Dunhuang. Per capita income in urban area ranges from RMB 16600 to RMB 36491 in the subproject counties/districts. It is lower than the provincial level of RMB 20804 in Tongwei and Lintao counties, while higher than the provincial level in other subproject counties/districts. Per capita income in rural area ranges from RMB 4,600 to RMB 22,067 in the subproject counties/districts. It’s lower than the provincial average level of RMB 5736 in Tongwei and Lintao counties, and higher than the provincial level in other subproject counties/districts. The ethnic minority people count for 1.04% - 2.07% in all subproject counties/districts, which is lower than the provincial level of 8.69%.

Table 3.6-1 Social and Economic Conditions in the Subproject Areas Ratio of Income per Population GDP per Fiscal revenue Ratio of GDP Income per income from GDP(100mill Population capita in Name Area(km2) density(person／ capita(Yua (100million among the three capita in tourism ion Yuan) (0000’) urban(Yuan km2) n) Yuan) industries rural(Yuan) industry in ) GDP(%) 1.Tianshui 14325 590.51 332.30 232 17770 135.7 17：32.2：50.8 20009 6006 NA 1)Qin’an county 1604.07 54.77 59.12 369 21387 4.9288 29：22：49 22334 6584 NA 2)Maiji district 3484 163.7 62 178 26403 5 8.1：42.9：49 23006 6504 NA 3)Wushan county 2011 58.14 44.11 219.3 13217 5.18 NA - 23153.8 7320 NA 2.Dingxi 20330 331.08 278.98 137 11868 47.24 23.8：22.8：53.4 20815 6289 7.04 municipality 1)Tongwei county 2908.5 38.47 40.51 139 9517 3.25 24.4：13.2：62.4 19691 5696 NA 2)Lintao county 2851 50.7 54.54 191 9296 7.43 15.9：32.8：51.3 16600 4600 NA 3.Zhangye 38592 404.14 122.93 32 32944 59.10 25.6：27.5：46.9 23309 12612 38.92 municipality 1)Ganzhou district 3661 168.77 51.46 142 32796 27.89 22.2：23.1：54.7 23945 22067 18.4 4.Jiuquan 168100 577.9 111.94 7 51626 102.5 15.1：35.1：49.8 30072 14596 33 municipality 1)Suzhou district 3353.74 168.71 40.64 121 41513 17.33 16.5：24.4：59.1 31742 14226 NA 2)Dunhuang 31200 106.40 18.94 6 73987 14.01 13.7：25.4：60.9 29467 15311 73.6 municipality Note：the data source is based on the bulletin of the national economic and social development for each project county (district) in 2016.

3.7 Project Related Facilities

Some facilities such as WWTPs and DWS facilities are related with and supporting the subprojects.

3.7.1 Related WWTPs

Table 3.7-1 WWTPs Related with Each Subproject Subproject Name of the related WWTPs Relationship with the involved subproject To treat the domestic sewage produced by the Subproject at Shangguan Ancient Street Area Qin’an Dadiwan Qin’an County Urban Sewage with the Style of Ming and Qin Dynasty Subproject Treatment Plant (Sewage Treatment Facilities will be individually installed in the area of Wuying township and Longcheng township.) Lintao Majiayao Lintao County Urban Wastewater To processing the domestic sewage produced Subproject, Treatment Plant by the sub project Tongwei County Urban Wastewater To processing the domestic sewage produced Tongwei Subproject Treatment Plant by the sub project Zhangye Municipality Wastewater To processing the domestic sewage produced Zhangye Subproject Treatment Plant by the sub project Gucheng Village Wastewater To processing the domestic sewage produced Treatment Station by the sub project Second Wastewater Treatment Plan in To processing the domestic sewage produced Suzhou Subproject Suzhou District of Jiuquan by the sub project Municipality Wushan Yuanyang Jade Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP) To treat wastewater produced during the Subproject in Wushan County subproject operation

It can be seen from Table 3.7-2 that the wastewater generated by the Qin’an Dadiwan (Shangguan subarea), Tongwei, Zhangye, and Jiuquan subprojects can be collected by local sewerage pipelines and delivered to the existing WWTPs for proper treatment. Currently, the available WWTPs for these subprojects are all normally operated, and they have enough capacity to receive and treat the additional wastewater from these subprojects. Under Lintao and Wushan subprojects, new sewage pipelines will be built to transmit the domestic sewage to the WWTPs in Lintao County and Wushan County. The capacity of the Lintao WWTP is 4,500 m3/d, which is enough to accept the domestic wastewater from the Lintao Majiayao Subproject. The Wushan WWTP is under relocation and renovation that will be completed and put into operation by the end of 2018. The near-future capacity to achieve by 2019 or 2020 is 15,000 m3/d, and additional 6,000 m3/d will be completed in long term. Its capacity will reach 30,000 m3/d by 2021, which can meet the wastewater treatment needs of Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject. Table 3.7-2 shows the concrete situation of waste water treatment related with each proposed subproject. There is no sewage network or WWTP available in the vicinities of the remaining subprojects, therefore small WWTPs have to be built to treat the wastewater and the effluent will be used for greening, irrigation or other miscellaneous uses.

Table 3.7-2 Basic Status of Sewage Treatment Facilities Related to Each Subproject Capacity Date of Wastewater Capacity Where the treated effluent Operational Subproject Related WWTP (10,000 formal treatment (10,000 Remarks goes status tons/day) operation technique tons/day) Qin’an Dadiwan Sewage treatment plant in To be discharged into Hulu CASS 1 Subproject downtown of Qin’an 2 2006 1.6 tons/day river after treated by the WWTP Normal procedures (Shangguan subarea) county to meet the Standard of Class A. Part of the treated effluent is for Sewage treatment plant in water reuse after meeting the Normal CASS 2 Tongwei Subproject downtown of Tongwei 2.5 2005 2 tons/day Class A standard, and the procedures county residuum is to be discharged into Niugu river. Lintao Majiayao Sewage treatment plant in To be discharged into Niugu Subproject (Majiayao Oxidation Normal 3 downtown of Lintao 1.75 2004 0.8 tons/day river after treated by the WWTP Cultural Research ditch county to meet the Standard of Class A Center) Part of the treated effluent is Grain Warehouse and reused by power plant after Normal General’s Mansion Sewage treatment plant in Oxidation 4 12 8.5 meeting Class B standard, and Complex in Zhangye Zhangye municipality ditch the residuum is to be discharged Subproject into Shandan river. Wulan Ancient Town To be discharged into Shandan Sewage treatment station 5 in Zhangye 30t/d 2014 A/O 15t/d river after treated by the WWTP Normal in Gucheng village Subproject to meet the Standard of Class B. The second sewage To be discharged into Taolai CASS 6 Suzhou Subproject treatment plant in Suzhou 1.8 2017 1.5 river after treated by the WWTP Normal procedures district to meet the Standard of Class B. Dunhuang To be discharged after treated Sewage treatment plant Normal 7 Xuanquanzhi 3 2008 CASS 1.1 by the WWTP to meet the Dunhuang municipality Subproject Standard of Class B. The capacity of Wushan County WWTP is 9,000 m3/d, and is now in full operation. Thus, currently Wushan County is implementing the The WWTP relocation project of sewage treatment plant. After reconstruction of the Sewage Treatment Plant by adopting A2 / O process, the effluent could can be reach the level of A standard specified in the Contaminant Discharged Standard for Urban Sewage Treatment Plant (GB18918-2002), then to be operational Wushan Yuanyang discharged into the Weihe River. After the reconstruction of the Plant, the recently upgraded sewage treatment plant (2017-2020) has a daily before the 8 Jade Subproject treatment capacity of 15,000 m3/d, and in the future (2021-2030) has a daily treatment capacity of 30,000 m3/d. The relocation and renovation project is project of Wushan Sewage Treatment Plant obtained the approval of environmental impact assessment in November 2017, and construction completed. began in August 2014. It is expected to be completed and put into operation by the end of 2018. Feasible

3.7.2 Related DSW treatment facilities

Table 3.7-3 DSW Treatment Facilities Related to the Subprojects Name of the related DSW treatment Relationship with the Subproject facilities subproject To processing the domestic Waste produced by the Qin’an County Lianhua Township Domestic Subproject in Wuying Solid Waste Landfill township and Longcheng Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject township. To processing the domestic Waste produced by the Qin’an County Urban Domestic Solid Waste Subproject in Shangguan Landfill Ancient Street with Ming and Qin Dynasty To processing the domestic Maiji District East Townships in Xiping Lintao Majiayao Subproject, Waste produced by the sub Village Domestic Solid Waste Landfill project To processing the domestic Tongwei Subproject Lintao County Domestic Solid Waste Landfill Waste produced by the sub project To processing the domestic Tongwei County Domestic Solid Waste Qinzhou Fuxi Subproject Waste produced by the sub Landfill project To processing the domestic Zhangye Municipality Waste Incineration Zhangye Subproject Waste produced by the sub Power Plant project To processing the domestic Suzhou District Second Domestic Solid Waste Suzhou Subproject Waste produced by the sub Landfill project To processing the domestic Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Dunhuang Municipality Second Domestic Waste produced by the sub Subproject Solid Waste Landfill project To dispose the domestic solid Wushan Yuanyang Jade Landfills of Domestic Solid Waste in Wushan waste produced in the sub Subproject County project It can be seen from Table 3.7-4 that there are reliable DSW facilities available for all subprojects to proper manage DSW to meet the demand of waste disposal and treatment.

Table 3.7-4 DSW Treatment Facilities Related to the Subprojects Daily Designed processing capacity/remain leachate Name of Refuse Landfills capacity/existin Date of transportation Subproject ed treatment Operational condition Involved g daily operation distance(km) capacity(0000’ method processing m3) capacity(t/d) Domestic Refuse Landfill in re-spraying Normal Tianshui Lacquerwares 1 Xiping, the East Townships of 143/120 65/54 2015 12 Subproject Maiji District. Under construction, which plans Qin'an Dadiwan Domestic Refuse Landfill in to be completed at the end of Subproject(Wuying Lianhua Township, Qin’an 32 33 2019 re-spraying 2018, and put into operation after 11 township and Longcheng County completing the environmental township) 2 acceptance at January of 2019. Qin'an Dadiwan re-spraying Normal 3 Subproject(Shangguan Qin’an County Urban 145/125 117/80 2012 streets with Ming and Domestic Refuse Landfill Qin Dynasty style) Tongwei County Domestic re-spraying Normal 4 3 Tongwei Subproject 146 72 2018 Refuse Landfill Lintao Majiayao two-stage Normal 10 Subproject (Majiayao Lintao County Domestic DTRO 4 140/120 72/30 2012 Relics Exhibition Center Refuse Landfill Area) Zhangye Municipal Waste Normal 14 5 Zhangye Subproject 600/400 2018 Incineration Power Plant Suzhou District Second MBR Normal 17 6 Suzhou Subproject 400/300 172/170 2017 Domestic Refuse Landfill re-spraying Normal Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Dunhuang Municipal Second 7 230/193 97/86 2017 55 Subproject Domestic Refuse Landfill Landfill of Domestic Solid Wushan Yuanyang Jade Waste in Zhenzuigou of 8 87/55 40/20 2010 re-spraying Normal 10 Subproject Chengguan District, Wushan County

IV. Analysis of Alternatives

The analysis of alternatives was assessing the environmental impacts induced by different design alternatives in terms of site selection, design schemes, and environmental protection measures, so that the possible negative impacts could be avoided at the beginning of project preparation. The Analysis of Alternatives, together with the Environmental Impacts in Construction Phase (Chapter 5) and the Environmental Impacts in Operation Phase (Chapter 6), constitute the overall Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) throughout the project cycle covering design, construction and operation.

4.1 With and Without the Project

Two scenarios, with and without the Project have been analyzed in terms of social and environmental impacts. The considerations of positive and negative environmental and social impacts generated by the project would provide a scientific and reliable basis for decision-making to support the implementation of the project. Table 4.1-1 With and Without the Project Item Implementation of Proposed Project Without project (Zero plan) (1) By the construction of infrastructure facilities such as drainage pipeline network, sewage treatment equipment etc respectively in the project areas of Qin’an County, Lintao County and Wushan County, it expects to achieve the objective of reducing domestic sewage volume discharged 1.0423 million t/a, and contaminants discharged COD416.9t/a. BOD260.6t/a. NH3-N 41.7t/a, which has (1) It will maintain the existing solved the problem of surface water polluted by domestic condition of project site, such sewage of local residents. Thus, it also solves the problems as the vegetation will not be of the potential pollution of water sources protection areas destroyed etc； in Lintao County, Wushan County caused by the (2) It will not change the value implementation of the Subprojects respectively in Lintao of land usage (without land County and Wushan County. acquisition etc) in the project (2) Through the construction of solid waste collection and area； transit facilities in the sub-projects of Qin’an County, Lintao (3) Without the issue of County and Wushan County, it is estimated that 13,500 t/a Environmental Impact, such of domestic solid waste in the sub-project area will be as noise, waste gas, waste collected and treated, and the pollution to the environment water and solid waste etc Main advantages caused by the random dumping of domestic solid waste will which would be produced be solved. during infrastructure (3) A total of 23.5km of water supply pipe network construction； construction, 2.5km of newly-built heating pipe network, 2km of newly-built gas pipe network, 39km of newly-built (4) Without the emission of storm drainage pipe network, 51km of newly-built and waste gas, wastewater, noise renovated roads, 276,000 m2 of renovation for the traditional and disposal of solid wastes residential houses, courtyards and street facades, and 26km during the project operation of roadway paved, which have improved the living period； conditions of local residents. (5) Without the increment of (4) Local residents could increase average annual income tourists’ activities, which per capita to 7948yuan/a, by involving relevant tourism might increase the pressure of service industry etc. environmental capacity. (5)Through the construction of the research center of physical cultural heritage, folklore culture exhibition hall and cultural exhibition center, the intangible cultural heritage is not only inherited and promoted, but also greatly enriches people's spiritual life and improves residents' quality.

Item Implementation of Proposed Project Without project (Zero plan) (6) the project involved environmental treatment of the gully is 4,800m2; The green area is 40,000m2, which beautifies the environment of the project area, and the environmental benefit can be achieved by reducing carbon dioxide. (1)Local residents could not be benefited from the increased income by the participation of tourism industry, which would be not good for maintaining social stability and supporting local residents to get rid of poverty. (1) After implementation of the project, it will occupy a (2)The infrastructure condition certain size of land for the construction of infrastructures surrounding the key cultural for Tourists Service Center, Culture Exhibition Museum, relics protection units such as Parking Lot etc..(2)Construction activities will destroy the Fuxi Temple, Dadiwan Main vegetation and cause soil erosion, dusts, noise, waste Cultural relics etc is poor, with disadvantages water, waste gas and solid waste, which will impact the less tourists, which would not environment.(3)During operation period, noise, waste be good for the promotion of water, waste gas and solid wastes will be generated, and the cultural relics value. impact the surrounding environment. (3)It is lack of sewage treatment and sanitation facilities in some project area, which would bring a certain of pollution to the surrounding environment.(4)The intangible cultural relics would not be further promoted for inheritance and development. From the perspective of society and environment, this project has great social benefits. It has both positive and negative effects on the environment. However, the negative effects Conclusion on the environment can be mitigated by certain protective measures, and the impact on the environment is not obvious. Therefore, the implementation of this project is very necessary。

4.2 Alternatives of Project Sites

During design process, the project management offices (PMOs), the FSR institute, and the EIA agency have carried out full communication and discussion on the subprojects siting schemes. Various siting options have been compared and analyzed for the two subprojects in Dunhuang municipality and Wushan County. Alternatives of siting for other subprojects have significant deficiencies, so they have been ignored in the EIA. 1. Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject The FSR provides two siting options for the Tourist Service and Exhibition Center to be constructed under Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject. Option A: the plot of Tourist Service Center is located in the northwestern side of the Sweet-well parking area on the north side of GuaDun highway, and the plot of Recovery and Display Center of the Post Station is located in the southwest side of the Sweet- well Service Area on the south side of GuaDun highway. Option B: integrate the Tourist Service Center and the Rehabilitation and Exhibition Center of the Post Station into one, involving only one land area, namely the layout of the south side of the parking area adjacent to the Sweet-well Area, and sharing the Sweet-well Parking Plot with the Guadun road.

Figure 4.2-1(1) Option A

Figure 4.2-1(1) Option B Table 4.2-1 Siting Alternatives for Tourist Service and Exhibition Center under Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject Relevant Advantage and Item Option A Option B factors Disadvantages Two construction buildings Only one construction Construction involved, with total building involved, with Plan B with Work quantity area construction area of total construction area of advantage 13200m2 7400m2 The construction of road Only one of civil work linking the highway of Construction involved, with rather less Plan B with Technology GuaDun involved, with difficulties difficulty in project advantage much difficulties in project construction. construction. Environmenta Large area of land With less area of land l Impact occupation, and vegetation occupation and less area Plan B with during destroyed in a large area, of vegetation destroyed, advantage construction with serious impact to the which brings less impact period environment. to the environment. Environmental It needs to maintain the life With less management Impact Environmenta for more management staff, staff, and less domestic l Impact which would bring more sewage and waste, which Plan B with during domestic sewage and waste, would generate less advantage operation and generate negative negative Environmental period Environmental Impact. Impact.

Relevant Advantage and Item Option A Option B factors Disadvantages Resettlement Without resettlement activity Without resettlement / population involved activity involved Social impact Land Land occupation of Plan B with Land occupation of 7200m2 occupation 4000m2 advantage Project Plan B with Cost 183 million Yuan 104.92 million Yuan investment advantage The tourists have to go Convenience The tourists only need to through the two sites by Miscellaneous and visit one spot, which is Plan B with underground tunnel, which items accessibility much convenient for the advantage is not much convenient for to tourists visitors. the tourists. Conclusion It is not recommended It is recommended Based on the comprehensive analysis and comparison of advantage and disadvantage of the two plans, the Plan B has been recommended in this report. 2. Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject The Yuanyang Jade Cultural Complex and Cultural Square is the main structure to be constructed under the Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject. In addition, this subproject also includes construction of water supply pipelines and drainage networks, roadways renovation, riverbank improvement, bridge construction etc. Since most of civil works will be done in the protection area of the water source that supplies drinking water for Wushan county (including Shandan village and Hedian village), the Subproject has to reduce its impacts on the drinking water source protection area. PMOs, EIA agency, FSR institute jointly conduct an alternative analysis on the selection of project sites for the Complex of Yuanyang Jade Culture and Culture Square. The main proposed alternative plans are as follows: Plan A: project sites located at the north of Shandan Village, within the scope of Class II water source protection area of downtown in Wushan County, see figure4.2-2(1) in details; Plan B: project sites located at the east of Hedian Village, outside of the scope of water source protection area of downtown in Wushan County, see figure4.2-2(2)in details; the concrete comparison and analysis of the two schemes is shown in table 4.2-2.

Figure 4.2-2(1) Scheme A for the Site of Complex and Cultural Square

Figure 4.2-2(2) Scheme B for the Site of Complex and Cultural Square

Table 4.2-2 Alternatives of Sites of Yuanyang Jade Cultural Complex and Cultural Square Relevant Category Plan A Plan B Comparison factors Newly built area 3302m2, Work Construction reconstruction of existing residential Plan B is Newly built 4000m2 quantity area area 620m2, with total construction better area of 3922m2 Flat terrain, without Technolo Construction involvement of large Flat terrain, without much large / gy difficulty scaled excavation, and scaled excavation, and landfills landfills Located inside of the Class II water source Located outside of the water source protection area in protection area in downtown of Environm Impact to the downtown, Wushan Wushan County. It will have little Plan B is ental protection of county, it will have some impact to water sources protection better Impact water sources impact on the water area during project construction and source protection during operation of the project. project construction and operation period. Resettlement Without resettlement Without resettlement activity / population activity involved involved Social Land Plan B is impact Land acquisition 3600m2 With occupied land 3554m2 occupation better Plan B is Cost Costs 12.1 million 12 million better Conclusion It is not recommended It is recommended Based on the alternative analysis, plan B is recommended because it has little influence on the drinking water source protection area in Wushan County.

4.3 Alternatives of Pollution Control Schemes

5 subprojects (Tongwei, Zhangye, Suzhou, Tianshui Lacquerwares and Lintao Majiayao) and Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject (Shangguan subarea) have existing reliable sewage pipelines and WWTPs to collect and treat the domestic wastewater from these subprojects. They are deemed as the good arrangements so there is no need to concern other alternatives. For the Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject, to prevent the subproject

from influencing the water source protection area in Wushan County, no other alternatives could be concerned, and the only solution is to deliver the wastewater produced by the subproject to the WWTP in Wushan County for treatment.

Therefore, alternative analysis has only been carried out to the subprojects that there are no existing WWTPs available, including Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject (Wuying and Longcheng subareas), Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject, Lintao Majiayao Subproject, and Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject. The alternatives about treatment process, treatment degree, and effluent discharge way have been analyzed.

4.3.1 Alternatives of Wastewater Management

Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject is near the Yingchuan River of which the water quality is targeted to achieve Class II standard and it is not allowed to set up any drainage outlet for discharging wastewater/effluent into the river. For Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject, the related Qingshui River has no capacity to receive pollution load, therefore drainage outlet is not allowed to set up for wastewater/effluent discharge. The only option is to treat the wastewater and then reuse the treated effluent for watering and irrigation. Thus, the analysis of alternatives on treatment degree and discharge way has been conducted only to the following remaining 3 subprojects. 1. Lintao Majiayao Subproject

In the subproject are, there is a 10km main trunk road in the scenic area. The 8 traditional villages involved in the project are evenly distributed along two side of the main trunk road in the scenic area. The main road in scenic area and the sides of villages are basically located along the west bank of the Taohe River. The quality of water meets the Standard of the class II for the river section starting from Yangjiazhuang village to Hekou village, and the east bank of the downstream of Taohe river in Yangjiazhuang village is the water source protected area of the underground drinking water supplied to downtown of Lintao County. There are three schemes for the depth and discharging place of the sewage treatment in the traditional village area for the Subproject of Lintao County. The comparative analysis shows in table 4.3-1. After comparing various schemes, the final choice is Plan B which had little influence on water sources of the Taohe river and the lower reaches. Therefore, environmental impact assessment suggested that 10m length of main road in the scenic area from Majiayao to Hekou village should be paved with the trunk pipelines in the major scenic area. Sewage discharged from the whole scenic area and the service industries should be collected and transported to the sewage treatment plant of Lintao County through the sewage pipe network, so as to thoroughly solve the impact to water source to Taohe River and its downstream by the development of service industry in scenic area.

Table 4.3-1 Alternatives of Wastewater Management under Lintao Majiayao Subproject Advantage and Type Relevant factors Plan A Plan B Plan C disadvantage No plan, that is, no centralized About 10km of sewage collection pipe network sewage treatment facility, was built along the main pipeline of the scenic A tertiary class of sewage treatment facility will be wastewater would be treated by spot, and the sewage discharged from the 8 set up in each of the eight villages. The treated Content of the Plans the village restaurants, hotels, traditional villages and other service enterprises sewage could be discharged for greening guesthouses and other tourism on the main trunk of the scenic spot were environment and watering farmland. services facilities in a scattered collected to Lintao County Sewage Treatment way. Plant for treatment. Only 10km of sewage trunk pipelines, DN 800 Quantity of It involves 8 small sewage treatment stations and Plan A has more No involved and sewage collection pipelines in each area Construction work sewage collection pipes in each area. advantages involved. scale It involves the permanent land occupation of Plan A has more Land occupied No involved No permanent land occupation 2000m2 advantages The sewage pipelines would be paved Construction It is generally difficult to construct 8 sets of the Plan A has more No involved underground along the trunk road of the scenic difficulty buried sewage treatment facilities advantages spots, with a general difficulty in implementation. Technology Due to the large number of sewage treatment Difficulties to To be carried to Lintao County Sewage Treatment facilities and requirement for high depth of buried Plan A has more meet the No involved Plan for treatment, which could meet the Standard facilities, is difficult to ensure that all sewage advantages Standard after treated. treatment facilities are up to standard. With the development of the (1) Due to the large number of sewage treatment scenic area, there will be more facilities, it is hard to ensure that each of the sewage service industry along the main treatment facilities are stable discharging standard, After treatment by the Sewage Treatment Plant of roads of the 8 villages and the and reasonable use of water. There are certain risks Lintao County, sewage collected from 8 villages Environmental scenic area, which would of contamination to the water source of Taohe river and service industries along the main road of the Environment Impact to the produce a large amount of and its downstream. (2) The problem of water Plan B has more scenic area was discharged into the Tao river from al Impact water source of sewage. The sewage has pollution caused by service industry sewage cannot advantages the downstream of Lintao county, which had little Taohe river nowhere to go and might be be solved for the 8 villages where is far from the impact on the Tao river and would not affect water discharged into Taohe river main road of the scenic spots, which might also sources. directly polluting Taohe river cause certain impacts on Taohe river and the and the drinking water source drinking water source of the downstream urban of the downstream urban areas. areas. Maintenance Operation and Does not need Basically, do not need operational maintenance. There are many sewage treatment facilities Plan A and Plan

and maintenance involved, and it has great uncertainties for the B have more management likely development of the small and micro advantages businesses in the future of the villages. The sewage quality is complex, with hardship for the operation and maintenance. Under this scheme, the villages and the service industry along the route need to absorb the It is required that the pre-treatment of septic tanks sewage by themselves after with small self-built costs of enterprises in villages Difficulty in supporting the sewage It involves more facilities for sewage treatment, Plan A and B and along the routes, which can be connected to environment treatment facilities, which is which is hard to carry out monitoring and have more the 10km municipal pipe network built. The cost is management difficult to supervise due to the administration. advantages rather small for the enterprises, and to be high investment and operation convenient for the monitoring and administration. and maintenance costs of the enterprises. The plan is almost infeasible. Plan A and Plan Land acquisition No No It involves 2000m2 land acquisition B have more Social impact advantages Resettlement No No No Construction The construction of 10km sewage pipeline costs 8 buried integrated sewage treatment facilities with Plan A has more No cost about 12million Yuan. the capacity of 4 million advantages Due to the high south and low north of the main road with moderate slope, the sewage produced in The cost of operation and Costs 8 villages along the scenic spot will flow to the Maintenance maintenance was transferred to The electricity charge is 200,000Yuan/a；the repair Plan B has more water treatment station of Lintao county by cost the villages and restaurants, advantages gravity after being collected by the sewage trunk. cost is about 100,000Yuan/a hotels, and other enterprises. No pump station involved, simple operation and maintenance, basically no maintenance costs. Comprehensive It is not recommended It is recommended It is not recommended conclusion

2. Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject

There are two wastewater treatment alternatives for Dunhuang Xuanguanzhi Subproject, as shown in table 4.3-2. Finally, Plan B was chosen because of the low maintenance cost, water reuse, and low transportation cost of fresh water. Table 4.3-2 Wastewater Treatment Alternatives for Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject Relevant Advantage and Item Plan A Plan B factors Disadvantages Sewage treated by the self- After the pretreatment of built sewage treatment septic tank, the sewage facilities and meets the will be regularly send by a standard of recycled middle Content of plan sewage truck to the / water, will be used for Sewage Treatment Plant greening, flushing and other of Dunhuang Municipality miscellaneous water in the for treatment project area One set of a buried integrated Construction A septic tank, a sewage sewage treatment facility with / work truck Construction the capacity of 40t/d scale Septic tank pretreatment The sewage treatment facility Land requires only about 20m2 needs to increase of 100m2 Plan B is better occupation of land. land. Impact on No impact on surrounding No impact on surrounding water / environment environment Environmental environment Impact Impacts on No impact on Xuanquanzhi No impact on Xuanquanzhi / Xuanquanzhi relics Social impact LAR No No / The cost of building a septic tank is 100,000 The cost of the integrated Construction yuan, and the sewage truck sewage treatment facility with Plan A is better cost will cost 250,000 yuan, capacity of 40t/d is 600,000 which makes 350,000 Yuan yuan in total. (1) Transportation cost of sewage tank truck: 200,000 yuan /a (one Costs 20m3 tank truck is Electric charge: 12,000 transported twice a day, yuan/a; breakdown repair: Maintenance with a single transport 20,000 yuan /a; sludge Plan B is better cost distance of 65km) clearance: 20,000 yuan /a, (2) regular septic tank with a total cost of 52,000 clearance cost: 10,000 yuan /a yuan /a. Total maintenance cost: RMB 210,000 /a The reuse after sewage treatment can reduce the consumption of fresh water Miscellaneous Positive effort No by 20t/d and reduce the Plan B is better items transportation cost of fresh water and water cost by 80,000 yuan annually. Conclusion It is not recommended It is recommended

4.3.2 Alternatives of Wastewater Treatment Process

According the alternative analysis in section 4.3.1, it’s known that the treated effluent should meet the standard for water reuse in greening and irrigation for Qin’an

Dadiwan (Wuying and Longcheng subareas) Subproject, Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject and Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject. Currently, the main processes for treating small-scale domestic sewage to reach the standard of greening and irrigation are: underground integration AO process, underground integration MBR process and artificial wetland treatment process. The EIA agency has conducted field investigation and consulted with local environmental protection bureaus, environmental experts, and experienced environmental design institutions on how these three processes work in the northwest of China. The main results of the consultation and investigation are as follows： 1. Integrated AO buried sewage treatment facilities: It has most widely applied in Gansu province, especially are widely used in rural areas, scenic areas, small hospitals, mainly for the treatment of domestic sewage, and the units producing the wastewater quantity with the capacity of 500 m3 /d. It enjoys the advantages of functionally running, simple and convenient maintenance with good impact resistance. However, if the treated sewage needs to meet the standard for recycling use, it has to add the processes of sand filtration and disinfection. Moreover, the sludge quantity is bigger also. The representative projects include Zhangye Danxia Landform Scenic Spot, Jiayuguan New Town Great Wall village Rural Sewage Treatment in Changcheng Village of Xincheng Township, Jiayuguan Municipality, which the treated sewage could be reused for greening and irrigation, with low fault rate. 2. Buried membrane bioreactor (MBR): this buried treatment facility is widely used in rural areas, scenic spots, small hospitals, hotels and other small-scale domestic sewage treatment, which is only less used than the A/O process, enjoying very good water effluent effect. Its secondary treatment, generally, could reach the standard of the recycling use of water. It occupies small land area, with less sludge quantity. However, due to it has high fault rate, film blockage is easy to occur, with much difficulties in the operation and maintenance. It needs periodically replace the film, with general ability of loads-resistance. The representative projects include the Sewage Treatment Project of Maijishan Scenic Spot. During the site inspection, the buried integrated sewage treatment facility applied in Maiji scenic spot had caused the membrane blockage due to the large quantity of sewage treatment in the scenic spot, which was in the suspension of operation. Due to the complicated maintenance, the scenic spot manager needed to contact the professional staff from the manufacturer for repair the facilities. 3. Artificial wetland treatment: due to the sparse vegetation and low winter temperature in the northwest of China, and the temperature in winter cannot maintain the vegetation growth and microbial growth, its efficiency of sewage treatment has been largely reduced with the degradation of temperature. Thus, it has been rarely used in Gansu. After consultation, it is said that the Environmental Protection Bureau in Ganzhou District of Zhangye Municipality has required this process to be used for sewage treatment in some rural area. The environmental assessment unit visited Gucheng village of Ganzhou district, Zhangye municipality. There is a wetland treatment system covering about 100m2 in the village. It found that the vegetation of the wetland treatment system could not survive in the lower temperature season, and the system had been disused. Therefore, the village has to newly add a set of underground AO sewage treatment facility for the treatment of sewage in the village. In the end, it was decided that the wastewater treatment process should satisfy the effluent reuse requirement for the 3 subprojects:

These 3 subprojects, namely Qin’an Dadiwan (Wuying and Longcheng subareas), Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject and Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject will adopt the buried integrated AO sewage treatment facilities with added sand filter. The reasons are as follows: (1) these projects mostly take priority on the tourism projects based on the development and utilization of cultural resources. Visitors don’t obviously be distributed by seasons, and there will be still some visitors in winter. Thus, the wetland process system shall not be applied, especially at the same time it needs to undertake the sewage treatment for the permanent residents at the surrounding villages for the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject; (2) the sewage quantity produced by the tourism projects varies in a day. Because of the poor resistance to sewage load, the MBR process always suffers from the high failure rate, and the operation maintenance is difficult; (3) AO process system enjoys a good sewage load resistance. Concerning the aspect of operation maintenance, although there is large amount of sludge, the sludge could be treated as farmland fertilization, without apparent constraint.

Table 4.3-3 Alternatives of Wastewater Treatment Processes Type Buried AO sewage treatment facilities Buried membrane bioreactor (MBR) Artificial wetland treatment system MBR buried sewage treatment equipment is a new process combining activated sludge biological treatment technology Constructed wetland treatment system is an ecosystem A/O process, anaerobic and aerobic activated sludge and membrane separation technology. The hollow fiber composed of soil -- microorganism -- plants to carry out process, is A biological treatment process. A (Anaerobic) is membrane is used to replace the sedimentation tank. physical, chemical and biochemical purification process Anaerobic period for denitrification and phosphorus Briefs of processes Meanwhile, the characteristics of the membrane are utilized so of pollutants in waste water, and the water quality of removal; O(Oxidation) is the aerobic segment used to that the activated sludge will not be lost along with the effluent. waste water is purified and improved: and through the remove organic matter from water. Sand filter sections must The ultra-high concentration of activated sludge is formed in use of nutrients and water in the system, enabling green be added to achieve reuse Standard A/O. the biochemical tank, so that the pollutant is decomposed plants growth and reproduction. thoroughly. A small amount of organic wastewater with low pollutant A small amount of organic wastewater with low pollutant A small or medium amount of organic wastewater with Application scope concentrations concentrations low pollutant concentrations 1. The effluent water quality is good through membrane 1. Strong adaptability to inlet water quality, good impact 1. Good adaptability to inlet water quality, good impact filtration; resistance and stable effluent water quality; resistance, stable effluent water quality and good effluent 2. Small land occupation, no secondary sinks required, 2. The process is simple and mature with low fault rate; effect Advantages covering an area of about 0.6 times of that for the A/O process; 3. The buried setting is less affected by external 2. Compared with AO and MBR processes, the operation 3. Small amount of sludge; temperature, which is suitable for the northern winter area and maintenance of this system is simple, with almost no 4. Buried setting, which is less affected by external with low temperature; failure. temperature, is suitable for cold areas in the north; 1. The sludge yield is large, 1kg sludge for each ton of sewage treatment, which is about twice of sludge 1. Large land occupation, 6m2 of land is needed for production from MBR process; 1. The MBR membrane should be replaced regularly, with high daily treatment of 1t sewage; 2. The water quality of effluent from secondary treatment investment and operation costs, easy to be blocked, high failure Disadvantages 2. The treatment effect is poor when the temperature cannot reach the reuse standard of water, and the sand filter rate and difficult operation and maintenance is low due to large external temperature interference, and should be added to ensure the standard of reuse water 2. Poor impact resistance; it is not suitable for cold regions in the north. quality;

Qin’an Dadiwan It is recommended. It is not recommended. It is not recommended. Subproject Tianshui Lacquerwares It is recommended. It is not recommended. It is not recommended. Subproject Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi It is recommended. It is not recommended. It is not recommended. Subproject

4.3.3 Alternatives of Wastewater Treatment Layout

A centralized wastewater treatment layout is applied to the subprojects that there is no sewage network and the wastewater is generated in a dispersed way. Whether the wastewater is delivered to an existing WWTP for centralized treatment through new networks or is collected by new sewerage collection network and treated by new WWTPs. Among the sub-projects of this project, only the Wuying town area of the sub- project of Qin'an county and the sub-project of Lintao county were the ones that lacked the sewage pipe network and the sewage producing points were relatively dispersed. Among them, the concentrated treatment degree of sewage in Lintao county project has been reflected in section 4.4.1. This section only carries on the analysis on the degree of sewage centralized treatment in Qin’an county sub-project. Under the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject, the wastewater generated in Wuying town will mainly come from local residents of Shaodian village and the tourists who will visit the proposed Dadiwan culture exhibition and experience area. At present, there are two centralized treatment schemes for sewage in the two blocks. Table 4.3-4 shows the detailed content and comparative analysis. Finally, the Plan B, with lower cost and less impact on the environment is selected. Table 4.3-4 Alternatives of Wastewater Treatment Layout for Qin’an Subproject

Relevant Advantage and Item Plan A Plan B factors Disadvantages The domestic sewage of the Plan B with residents in the Shaodian more village and tourists in the advantages The integrated sewage treatment Dadiwan culture exhibition station will be built in each of the and experience area is Shaodian village and the Dadiwan collected centrally through Content of plan culture exhibition and experience the sewage pipe network and area, and the treated sewage sent to the integrated sewage meeting the standard will be treatment station on the north discharged and reused nearby. side of Shaodian village for treatment, and to be reused for watering and irrigation. A set of buried sewage treatment / A buried sewage treatment facilities in the capacity of 250t/d, Construction facility in the capacity of and a set of buried sewage scale 300t/d and a sewage pipe treatment facilities in the capacity network of 7.8km DN600 of 50t/d, and a sewage pipe network of 6.8km, DN600 The sewage treatment facility in the Plan B with Scale The sewage treatment capacity of 250t/d covers an area of more facilities will cover an 350m2; the buried sewage treatment advantages additional 400m2, and the facilities with capacity of 50t/d Land pipe network will be laid occupies the green land of the occupation along the road. The pipe Dadiwan Research Center without network will not involve any new occupation. The pipe permanent land occupation. network does not involve permanent occupation Impact to Sewage collected after / Sewage collected after treated, water treated, which will have no Enviro which will have no impact to the Environment impact to the surface water nmenta surface water body. al Impact body. l Impact to the It is necessary to lay the It only needs to lay the sewage pipe Plan B with Impact protection of drainage pipe network linking network at the west reserve area of more Dadiwan the integrated sewage Shaodian village. After constructing advantages

Cultural treatment station in Shaodian the integrated sewage treatment relics Unit village to Dadiwan culture facilities of the project on the north exhibition and experience side of Dadiwan culture exhibition area. The drainage pipe and experience area, the middle network inevitably will pass water from the treated sewage will through part of the protection be reused for irrigating the green area of Dadiwan, which has a belt at the south of the Qingshui certain impact on the river, without need to go through conservation units of the protected are of Dadiwan Dadiwan. Cultural relics. Plan B with Land Newly increasing land Newly increasing land acquisition more Social acquisition acquisition of 400m2 of 350m2 impact advantages Resettlement Without involved resettlement Without involved resettlement The cost of sewage treatment The cost of sewage treatment Plan B with facilities with capacity of facilities with capacity of 250t/d is more Construction 300t/d is 3 million; 7.8km 2.7 million, 6.8km pipe network is advantages cost pipe network is 10.2 million, 8.9 million, with a total of 11.6 Costs with a total of 13.2 million million Yuan; Yuan; Plan A with Maintenance Maintenance cost 100,000 Maintenance cost 110,000/a more cost Yuan/a advantages Conclusion It is not recommended It is recommended

4.4 Other Alternatives

1. Alternatives of water supply

There are two kinds of water supply schemes for the Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject. The alternative analysis is shown in table 4.4-1. Finally, the Plan B was selected because it has little impacts on the environment.

Table 4.4-1 Alternatives of Water Supply for Dunhuang Subproject

Relevant Advantage and Item Plan A Plan B factors Disadvantages Constru Water supply access is by the To carry water from ction utilization of the sweet wells Dunhuang by water tank content nearby. trucks. Construction One pumping house, 2km One water tanker and one

quantity pipelines water cellar Scale Plan B has Land The permanent land occupation of No land occupation more acquisition 10m2 for pumping house. advantages Impact on Plan B has underground Water intake will result in a drop No impact on the more water in regional groundwater level underground water level advantages environment Water intake reduces the underground water level, which would affect the growth of Environ Impact on vegetation, and make the Plan B has mental No impact on ecological ecological surrounding ecological more Impact environment environment environment worse. The advantages construction of pump station and water pipe network would cause damage to vegetation. Impact on Plan B has To indirectly impact Xuanquanzhi Xuanquanzhi No impact on Xuanquanzhi more by its ecological environment relics advantages

Social LAR No No impact The cost of pump house The cost of water cellar Plan B has Construction construction and water pipeline construction and more investment network construction is 2.1 transportation tank car advantages million Yuan. purchase is 500,000 Yuan. Transportation cost: the total water consumption is about 60t/d, and only one 30m3 Cost tanker can be transported twice a day (the transport Plan A has Operation Water pump charge is 30,000 distance is 60km). If it is more costs yuan /a entrusted to relevant units, advantages 800 yuan per day, plus the water charge, the annual operation cost is about 250,000Yuan Conclusion It is not recommended It is recommended

2. Alternatives of public toilets

To reduce domestic wastewater production, minimize the scale of sewage network, and meet the aesthetic requirements, it is necessary to analyze the alternatives of public toilets for each sub-project. Water consumption, wastewater production, aesthetic demand, and sewage network scale etc. were considered in the analysis. Three types of toilets namely water flush toilet, dry toilet and green toilet (foam toilet) have been compared as follows. Table 4.4-2 Alternatives of Public Toilets Option Water flush toilet Dry toilet Green toilet (foam toilets) 1. The environmental protection toilet 1. Good sanitary 1. Low construction cost of does not need pipes up and down for conditions, which is toilets. support, which reduces the construction not easy to breed 2. The toilet is simple in of pipeline network; mosquito flies and structure and quick in 2. The foam in the environmental maggots. construction. protection toilet can prevent the odor 2. No visual Advantages 3. The toilet does not from spreading to the air in the toilet; pollution, and consume water resources 3. Strong mobility, which can be adjusted effectively inhibit when put it in use. and relocated according to the number of odor leakage and 4. There is no need to build tourists. ensure the freshness corresponding sewage pipe 4. Small land occupation, which would of indoor air. network. greatly save the land area comparing with

that for the tradition toilets. 1. Relatively more 1. Poor sanitation water consumption; conditions, which is easy to 2. Large amount of 1. There are operating costs to be breed mosquito flies and sewage is dedicated to the regular removal of solid maggots. Disadvantages discharged during waste. 2. Has potential risks of operation. 2. High investment cost. groundwater pollution. 3. Sewage pipe 3. It is not beautiful and network needs to be produces a lot of bad smell. built. It is not Conclusion It is not recommended. It is recommended. recommended. Regarding the above options, the environment-friendly toilets do not generate wastewater and do not need the sewage network, so this type of toilets were chosen to be outdoor public toilets used in each subproject to reduce the generation of domestic wastewater. Water flush toilets were not recommended.

4.5 EIA Recommendations for Project Design Optimization During the feasibility study stage, the EIA agency, FSR team, social assessment team and relevant PMOs have conducted site visits, and also had discussions on project design. The EIA agency proposed suggestions to optimize the construction content for each sub-project from the perspective of environmental protection. The main contents of optimization are as follows: 1. Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject： Under Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject, construction of a small WWTP was proposed to treat the domestic wastewater generated in Wuying town and Longcheng town. In our opinion, the distance between Wuying town and Longcheng town is as long as 6km. It is necessary to set up a sewage station pipe to build a long-distance sewage pipe network. However, it needs occupy a large land area and has to go through the protection are of Dadiwan relics and its construction restriction belt. Thus, it has proposed to separately set up the sewage treatment stations in the area of Wuying Township and Longcheng Township. The proposal has been adopted. 2. Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject During the FSR stage of this subproject, it was proposed to discharge the domestic wastewater from the Carved Lacquer Industrial Park into Hujiagou valley after treatment by the proposed small WWTP. The survey found that the sewage discharged to Hujiagou will finally flow into Yingchuan River, about 50m south of the project, and the functional division of surface water body for Yingchuan River has been classified as class II, and sewage outlet was forbidden. Therefore, the EIA proposed to use integrated sewage treatment facilities in the sub-project of Maiji district to achieve the class The treated effluent could be reused for green land and irrigation. The proposal has been adopted. 3. Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject

(1)Adjustment of Sanitation Facilities In the early stage of feasibility study, there was a waste transfer station to be built in the old street of Shandan town. Because all Shandan Township is located in the Grade II drinking water source protection area, concerning the waste transfer station would impact water source protection area, the EIA team put forward the suggestions to cancel the proposed construction of waste transfer station project but further optimize the proposal. It was suggested to use special garbage trucks to collect the DSW from each DSW site, and then transport them to Wushan County Landfill for disposal. This suggestion has been accepted by the FSR team. (2)Adjustment of Drainage Facilities In the initial stage of the feasibility study of Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject, a small WWTP of 700t/d was proposed to build to treat the domestic wastewater generated by Shandan Town and the treated effluent would be discharged to the Weihe River after treatment. As from Shandan town to the Wei river downstream, within 5km, all covered by water source protection area for downtown of Wushan County, where is not allowed to set drain outlets. Since the drain outlets should set beyond 5km of downstream, but it is only 1 km away from municipal pipe network for downtown of Wushan County. Thus, the EIA agency suggested remove the

small WWTP (700 t/d) from the design scheme, and instead, to construct 6km of sewage pipelines to transmit the domestic wastewater produced in Shandan Township to in the existing Wushan County WWTP for treatment. This suggestion has been accepted by the FSR institute.

V Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures during Construction The impacts of construction activities on water environment, acoustic environment, ambient air, ecological environment, social environment, and cultural relics have been assessed in this chapter, to provide reliable basis for preparing mitigation measures and include them in the Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP). In view of similar features of proposed subprojects, generic environmental impacts are expected during subproject construction. However, for sensitive receptors identified for different subprojects, the project implementation is also anticipated with specific impacts. Thus, the EIA report has listed the common issues and integrated these common measures into the ECOP as the appendix of the ESMP. At the same time, based on the characteristic for each subproject, especially targeting the relevant environmentally and socially sensitive receptors, specific mitigation measures have been proposed to address the specific environmental impacts. In addition, social assessment in order to explain the impact to the community, travel and public infrastructure brought by the implementation of the project, the specific section on social impact analysis during the implementation of the project has been set up. 5.1 Generic Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures

5.1.1 Impacts of Wastewater

During construction, the impact on surface water mainly came from the domestic wastewater produced by the workers and the wastewater produced by construction activities. 1. Construction wastewater The wastewater produced during construction works includes a small amount of wastewater from concrete construction work, flushing wastewater from construction machinery and pressure test wastewater. The major pollutants include COD, BOD5, SS, oil and so on. It is required to set up a pit in the construction sites to settle the wastewater and reuse the supernatant for spraying to reduce dust. At the same time, the management of construction machinery should strengthen. The wastewater containing oil treated by the establishment of the simple sedimentation tank and oil separation tank will spray on ground for dust suppression. During the construction period, it shall carry out regular monitoring on the discharged of wastewater from construction. See ECOP for detailed mitigation measures. 2. Domestic wastewater from workers Among the 8 sub-projects, only Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject will establish a camp and there will be a certain amount of domestic wastewater to be generated by the workers. Since the construction sites are far from the urban areas, there is a need to set up specific catering and accommodation facilities including mobile toilets. All the catering and washing wastewater produced by workers at the construction sites will be poured into the mobile toilets, which would be regularly removed by the fecal suction truck to the tube inspection wells administrated by the municipality or district where the Subproject located. Eventually, the wastewater will be discharged into the corresponding urban WWTPs for treatment, which would not impact the water bodies

in the adjacent areas. The influence areas of other subprojects are all located in urban areas, towns or villages, and the provision of accommodation and catering could rely on the facilities in nearby cities and towns, so there will be no sewage produced. For Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject, it expects the construction period will be 18 months. According to similar projects, the final estimate is based on the criteria of 80L per person per day, the displacement is calculated based on 80% of water consumption, and the domestic sewage output is 64 L/person per day. According to the survey by analogy, the sewage water quality is COD 300mg/L, BOD5 180mg/L, SS 220mg/L and NH3-N 35mg/L. The total amount of pollutants generated during construction is shown in table 5.1-1.

Table 5.1-1 Wastewater Generated in Each Subproject (m3/d) Total Number Quantity Construction quantity in No. Subproject of discharge Ways of disposal days construction workers (t/d) (t) An environment-friendly mobile toilet is provided at the construction area. The domestic sewage and wastewater collected in the Dunhuang mobile toilet will be regularly 1 Xuanquanzhi 120 800 7.68 6144 transferred by the fecal suction Subproject truck to the urban management inspection wells where the project area is located, and finally discharge into the corresponding urban sewage treatment plants The project areas are all located in urban areas, towns or villages, and the provision of Other sub 2 accommodation and catering could rely on the facilities in nearby cities and towns, so there projects will be no sewage produced.

5.1.2 Impacts on Ambient Air

The main pollution factors in the construction stage of this project are construction dust, fuel waste gas and organic waste gas. 1. Dusts In the construction phase, dust pollution mainly comes from the following sources: dust generated during earthwork excavation, piling, cleaning and transportation, backfilling of earthwork and site leveling. Dusts pollution caused by wind action for construction materials such as cement and sand, etc. in the process of loading, unloading, transportation and piling, etc. Dusts brought by the vehicles in transportation; and dust generated by the piling and transportation of the construction waste. It is required that following dust control measures be taken during construction: (1) The powdery materials should be covered at storage yards and/or to transportation facilities; (2) Spray water to control dust; and (3) Avoid construction activity in windy weather. In addition, in the construction period close to the environment sensitive point, a certain height of enclosure should be set around the construction site, which shows in section 5.2.4.

The influence of construction dust generally ranges within 100m. With the above measures, the construction dust could be controlled within the construction areas. 2. Fuel waste gas Waste gases will be emitted from construction machinery and equipment such as bulldozers and transport vehicles. The main pollutants include SO2, NO2, and non- methane total hydrocarbon etc. The pollution source is disorganized emission, and the dispersed point sources, of which the mobility of pollution for transport vehicles is relatively high, the characteristic of exhaust emission is similar with that for the point source pollution, but the total emissions are not large. The data obtained from similar projects show that SO2, NO2 and non-methane total hydrocarbon usually have lower concentration than the allowable emission limits, so they should have little impacts on the ambient air. 3. Emission of waste gas in decoration Before the project is completed and put into operation, it needs to go through a short period of centralized and simple-scaled decoration and a relatively long period of decentralized decoration. It would produce emission of painting, which will be discharged disorganized manner, with small exhaust emission and short period, without much impact to the ambient air.

5.1.3 Impacts on Acoustic Environment

Noise pollution in the construction process mainly comes from all kinds of machinery and equipment at construction site, and the noise level is ranging between 75dB and 115dB. Although the construction noise is temporary, but the long construction period of the project is long, and the noise generated by construction machinery is generally high and irregularly, etc., if not controlled, it will often cause large noise pollution to the sensitive points such as nearby residential areas. According to the Standard of Environmental Noise Emission at the Boundary of Construction Site (GB12523-2011), the noise limit for the boundary of construction site is 70dB (A) at day and 55dB (A) at night. The noise limit standard for the sensitive points such as the residential areas will refer the Class I specified in the Standard of Sound Quality (GB3096-2008), which is 5 dB (A) at day and 45dB (A) at night. Table 5.1-2 shows the prediction results of construction noise in different construction stages. Table 5.1-2 Construction machinery noise at different distances dB(A) Standard for Standard for Distance to the boundary of construction site(m) construction site noise sensitive Construction boundary point period 30 50 80 100 150 200 250 300 Day Night Day Night

Earthworks 90.7 86.2 82.2 80.2 76.7 74.2 72.3 70.7

Foundation 97.0 92.5 88.5 86.5 83.0 80.5 78.6 77.0 works 70 55 55 45 Structure 83.5 79.0 75.0 73.0 69.5 67.0 65.1 63.5 works Decoration 93.5 89.0 85.0 83.0 79.5 77.0 75.1 73.5 works

The predicted results in table 5.1-2 show that, if no noise control measures are

taken at different construction stages, the noise level at the boundary of construction site could not meet the Environmental Noise Emission Standard for the Boundary of Construction Site (GB12523-2011). Within 200m of the surrounding area, construction noise at all construction stages, especially at night, cannot reach the standard limit of category I in "the Standard of Acoustic Environment Quality (GB3096-2008). It shows that in the absence of prevention and control measures, noise at each stage of construction period has a greater impact on the sensitive points within 200m, especially at the first row of sensitive points close to the construction area, which is below the standard of category I and the necessary protection measures should be taken. See section 5.2.4 for specific measures. It includes :(1) set certain enclosure; (2) reasonable selection of implementation time period; The construction at night and during lunch time near sensitive areas such as residential areas, schools and hospitals is forbidden; At the construction area close to school, it should carry out project construction activities in the two-days of weekend or holidays as far as possible. Project construction is temporary. Once the construction activities have finished, the impact of construction noise will also end. Generally, the environmental impact of construction noise is acceptable when necessary noise protection facilities are adopted and no construction to be carried out during the night and lunch break.

5.1.4 Impacts on Ecological Environment

In the influence areas of the 8 subprojects, most of plants and animals are common and local species, and there are no endangered or rare animals and plants. The influence of construction activities on the animals and plants is common, as analyzed in this section. 5.1.4.1 Impacts on Terrestrial Ecological Environment 1. Impacts on the vegetation The construction activities resulting in vegetation damage include foundation excavation, road sub-grade excavation, excavation of pipeline works, occupation of transportation road and human activities, etc. Various activities might damage surface overburden and affected the normal growth of vegetation in the project area. Due to the low coverage of surrounding vegetation and rare species within the construction area, and the lack of distribution of national key protected plant resources in the project area, the main environmental impact of the project after vegetation destruction is sand crust destruction, bare surface and increased dust. As plant species affected by the project are widely distributed in the project areas which are all common species, the project implementation will only reduce the number of plants in the project area, but not the species of plants. It even will not cause isolation of species reproduction and the fragmentation of species habitats, and will not affect the natural connection and transmission of species. After the completion of project construction, it should repair and restore the disturbed land to ensure the vegetation gradually recovered into its natural state, and the ecological environment of the area gradually restored and improved. 3. Impacts on wild animals Road pavement and construction, pipeline laying, and landscaping will damage the original natural environment to some extent, which will also damage the habitat of

wildlife somehow. Human activities, such as civil works, machine operation and vehicles movement during construction will also affect the activities of wild animals and their habitat environment. Most of the 8 subprojects are located in human inhabited and developed areas for a long term, where there are few wild animals and no national-level protected wild animals. Thus, the impacts on wildlife by the project activities are limited. In addition, the subprojects will only affect some of their movement spaces, but there will no significant impacts on the species and population of wild animals, and no impact on their composition and structure. 5.1.4.2 Impacts on Aquatic Ecological Environment Among the 8 subprojects, only the Shandan River improvement component under Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subprojects is likely to have impacts on the aquatic environment. It is to improve the slopes along the Shandan River, and will not involve river dredging or other activities in the water such as soil excavation and piling etc. Therefore, the construction would not affect the water quality, the water quantity or the hydrological conditions of the Shandan River. Furthermore, there are few fish species in the Shandan River, so the slope improvement activities along the Shandan River would not affect the aquatic ecosystem of the Shandan River.

5.1.5 Impacts of Solid Waste

1. Disposed solid waste The solid waste generated in construction comprises waste earth and stone, construction waste and DSW produced by workers. The waste residue of this project will be prior used for site and road leveling. The solid waste residues will be transported to adjacent DSW landfills for disposal. So no disposal sites are to be set up specifically for the Project. 2. Construction waste Construction waste mainly consists of stones, concrete blocks, brick tiles, sands, lime and cement blocks etc., which belong to general solid waste. Construction waste should be timely transported to the landfills designed by municipal and county for disposal. 3. DSW Among the 8 subprojects, only Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject will set up construction camps, and there will a certain amount of domestic waste generated by the workers. Special waste collection boxes will be set up in the construction camps and regularly collected and transported to the disposal sites of districts and counties to reduce their impact on the environment. For the remaining 7 sub-projects, the project areas are all located in urban areas, towns or villages, without construction of camps. After the domestic waste collected through dustbins, the sanitation personnel will be responsible for the washing and cleaning. 4. Solid waste collected in channels

For the Yanjiagou stream improvement component under Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject, it has found in the site visit that there was about 500t of domestic waste dumped in the stream. They will be collected and sent to the landfill in Lianhuagou for disposal. 5.2 Specific Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures

5.2.1 Impacts on Physical Cultural Resources (PCRs)

The impacts on PCRs caused by construction activities mainly come from 3 ways: Firstly, the dust, domestic waste, domestic sewage, construction waste produced by the construction of project activities would generate indirect impact to the physical culture and relics resources through the contaminated environment where the physical Cultural resources located. Thus, the EIA and mitigation measure in this section is as same as that in section 5.1, which is needless for repetition. Second, construction personnel damage the physical cultural resources artificially, and the mitigation measures has specified in the section of physical cultural resources management plan. Thirdly, the physical impact on the physical Cultural resources is caused by the construction activity itself, such as the vibration caused by excavation and construction. This section focuses on the third aspect, namely the physical impacts on the PCRs caused by the construction activities. 5.2.1.1 Impacts on Cultural Heritage Conservation Units (HCUs) 1. Impacts on Dadiwan Relics under Qin’an Dadiwan subproject. In Wuying Township, sewage network will be constructed to support Dadiwan Culture Exhibition Area to be built under this subproject. It is located 1km away from the protected area of Dadiwan Cultural relics. In order to reduce the impacts of sewage network construction on Dadiwan Cultural relics, it has proposed in EIA to separately construct the sewage treatment facilities for Dadiwan Culture Exhibition Area and cancel the designed scheme of installing sewage pipeline within 1km distance to the protected area of Dadiwan Cultural relics. The project design institute has accepted the proposal. After optimizing the design scheme, in Wuying Township under Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject, the intensive underground cultural relics around Dadiwan Cultural relics have been avoided The main protection objects are the buried cultural relics of the Dadiwan Cultural relics. Specific mitigation measures to protect unknown underground cultural relics from being disturbed by construction activities have been produced and included in the PCRMP. 2. Impacts on Majiayao Cultural Relics under Lintao Majiayao Subproject This Subproject only involves the construction of trunk sewage pipeline network in the scenic area and two traditional village reconstruction activities in Majiayao village and Qijiatan village, which are located in the first-class construction restricted area of Majiayao, mainly including roadway water supply and drainage facilities laying and landscape greening. The main objects of protection for Majiayao Cultural relics are cultural relics buried underground. The construction areas of the project are all located in the established areas of Majiayao village and Qijiatan village, so there is less possibility of underground cultural relics. In order to prevent the destruction of underground cultural relics in the construction activities, the EIA has put forward specific mitigation measures in the physical cultural resources management plan.

3.Impacts on the cultural relics protection of Warehouse of Grain, the General’s Mansion Complex and the east ancient tower in Zhangye The subproject in Zhangye Municipal is designed to utilize existing architectures of the two provincial-level heritage conservation units for the protection of Grain Warehouse and the General’s Mansion Complex in Ming-dynasty. The project does not involve any construction activities in the protected area of the Grain Warehouse in Ming Dynasty, and only one tourist service center in the size of 150m2 is built at the south of the protection area. As it is a single-floor building and located on the original hardened flat foundation of the Grain Warehouse in Ming Dynasty, it does not involve the foundation compaction and foundation excavation activities. In addition, the construction activities will use manual tools such as spade and tile, and they will not produce obvious vibration so have little impacts on the Grain Warehouse of Ming Dynasty. This subproject does not involve any construction activities in the protected area General’s Mansion Complex, so it will have little impacts on it. Laying drainage and sewage pipelines and cables for Wulan Ancient Town Area in Zhangye Subproject will go through construction control area of the east ancient tower, which is the key Cultural relics protection unit. Along the protected area of the east ancient tower, it has 20m from the external of the protected area of the east ancient tower to the main body of the tower. All installation activities of drainage, sewage and cable facilities will be manually excavated, without utilization of large-scaled equipment, such as excavators, bulldozers etc., which will not bring the vibration effects on the east ancient tower body. 4.Impacts on Xuanquanzhi Relics under Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject The main facilities to be built under the Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject are the Xuanquanzhi Exhibition Center and the Tourist Service Center, which are located at the construction restricted belt of the Xuanquanzhi Relic, and would not impact the Xuanquanzhi relics. Under this proposed project, the lane of battery train and the lane of carriage are basically laid inside the construction control area of Xuanquanzhi relics. However, the existing earth lanes for battery train and carriage have been compacted, which could be directly paved by impermeable concrete. It does not involve the excavation behavior, so it will not affect the Xuanquanzhi relics. The wooden trestle of this project is located at the protection area of Xuanquanzhi relics. As the wooden trestle is installed and constructed by the finished product pieces purchased, the supporting structure of overhanging trestles is not buried in the soil. Therefore, installation and construction of wooden trestle will not have impacts on the protection area of Xuanquanzhi relics. In addition to the Xuanquanzhi relics, there is a set of beacon tower near the Sweet Wells within the construction control zones of Xuanquanzhi relics, which could not be registered as the protected Cultural relics. Under this subproject, wooden fences will be set up outside of the Beacon Tower for the purpose of protection. The wooden fences will be built up with made-up parts and there will be no earth excavation. Thus, it would not affect the beacon tower at the sweet wells. The mitigation measures for protecting these cultural heritage protection units in construction period have been developed and included in the PCRMP.

5.2.1.2 Impacts on Ancient Well in Longcheng Township The construction activities in Longcheng township under the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject include: (1) construction of ancient well fences and propaganda signs, with the distance of 2m from the construction site to the main body of the protected well; (2) reconstruction of ancient street in Longcheng township including road hardening, drainage pipe network installation, with the distance of 4m from the construction route to the ancient well. The construction of the ancient well fence, propaganda signs and the laying of drainage pipe network of Longcheng ancient streets mainly used artificial spade, without the utilization of large-scaled, vibration produced facilities, such as excavator, tamping machine etc. The road hardening of ancient streets in Longcheng township are mainly to level the road and lay a layer of green bricks manually, which would not involve the utilization of large-scaled and vibration-produced equipment and facilities, such as excavators and rammers. Therefore, the construction activities have little impacts on the ancient well.

5.2.2 Impacts on Drinking Water Source and Mitigation Measures

Only the Lintao Majiayao Subproject involves water source protection area. Under this subproject, the main road of Majiayao Cultural relics Scenic Area, Liujiawan section, is 10 meters away from the Class II protection area of water source area, which would not occupy the water source protection area. The construction activities of this project in the vicinity of the water source protection area are limited to the lighting works including signs setting, greening etc. along the main roads of the scenic area. Due to the small amount of construction, the stay time in the vicinity of the water source protection area is short. No excavation will be done during the construction process, and no construction waste will be generated,. The domestic waste will be collected using trash bins equipped for construction vehicles. In addition, additional measures will be applied such as vegetation restoration in the vegetation destruction area, and specific measures will be adopted to protect the drinking water resource. These measures are included in the ESMP. The impacts on the drinking water resource under the Lintao Majiayao Subproject could be controlled. The main component to be constructed under Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject is Yuanyang Jade Cultural Complex and Cultural Square. It is located outside of the drinking water source protection zone in the urban area of Wushan County. Only the infrastructure construction sites including drainage pipeline, alley restoration, river embankment, road construction along the river and bridges are located within the scope of Class II drinking water source protection area in Wushan County. Based on the existing local facilities, no construction camp will be set up, and no sewage and waste will be generated. The construction wastewater will be reused after sedimentation. In the construction phase, there will be no waste soil produced after earth backfilling. Generally, the construction period is short, the pollution generated during construction can be controlled, and the impacts on the drinking water source are limited. Specific mitigation measures for protecting drinking water source have been prepared and included in the ESMP.

5.2.3 Impacts on the Forest Park and Mitigation Measures

Under the Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject, a Tourist Service Center will be built in the Shangguan subarea, and Fengshan Forest Park is 20m to the north of the construction

site. However, the construction will not occupy any land from the Forest Park. The construction site is flat, and the size of architectures of Fengshan Tourist Service Center is small, no waste is generated. A small amount of construction waste will be sent to the designated place for piling in Qin’an County during the construction process. Therefore, the impacts of the construction activities on Fengshan Forest Park can be controlled by strengthening management. Specific measures for protecting Fengshan Forest Park has been produced and included in the ESMP.

5.2.4 Impacts on Environmentally Sensitive Receptors and Mitigation Measures

Some sensitive areas such as schools and hospitals are more sensitive to air pollution and noise caused by the construction activities. Besides some general mitigation measures to be taken, some supplemental measures are also necessary to mitigate the impacts to an acceptable level. Table 5.2-1 shows the details. Table 5.2-1 Noise and Air Pollution Sensitive Receptors Sensitive Sub Affected Relationship with the Project Mitigation Measures project Receptors persons Junior and The first row of teaching building, 50m of the Primary Schools 60 south side of the mains street area for in Wuying infrastructure. Township Wuying 30m to the south of infrastructure improved area Township 40 beds in the main streets, and 30m to the north of that Hospital (1)A enclosure of not Qin'an Changying The first row of teaching building, 40m of the less than 2m shall be 30 Dadiwan Primary School south end of the drainage pipeline set on the periphery of Xiguan Primary The first row of classroom, 25m of the north of the construction area; 38 Subproject School the road and drainage pipeline. (2)Reasonable selection of operation time, night Longcheng The first row of teaching building, 15m of the 120 construction and lunch Junior School north of the road and drainage pipeline. break construction are Longcheng prohibited near Center Primary 63 The first row of classroom, 20m of the north of the road and drainage pipeline. sensitive areas such as School schools and hospitals; Lintao Xiping Junior 40m of the east of the trunk drainage pipes, (3) For the Majiayao 54 School sideway construction area close Subproject to the school, Jiantan Township The first row of teaching building, 60m of the 60 construction should be Zhangye Primary School water supply pipeline network carried out on Subproject Xiaokang 10m of the two side of water supply pipeline 106 weekends or holidays Building network (the first row of residential building) instead of classes and Taiping Primary Tongwei 70m of the southwest of the project, the first exams. School, Pingrang 50 Subproject row of teaching building (sideway) (4) Necessary water Township sprinkling, and dust Shandan The first row of teaching building (backside), at control measures Township Junior 130 10m south of the main streets restored in Shandan should be implemented School township Wushan in windy weather. Shandan The first row of teaching building (sideway), Yuanyang Township Center 52 at 35m north of the main streets restored in Jade Primary School Shandan township Subproject Shandan The first row of teaching building Township 60 beds (backside), at 20m north of the main streets Hospital restored in Shandan township (sideway)

5.2.5 Impacts of Soil Erosion and Mitigation Measures

5.2.5.1 Status of Regional Soil Erosion According to the Gansu Soil and Water Conservation Plan (2016-2030), the soil and water loss area in Gansu province was 281,300 square kilometers in 2016. The main erosion types include hydraulic erosion, wind erosion, gravity erosion (landslide collapse), debris flow erosion and thawing and freezing erosion. At present, only 71,800 square kilometers of the eroded earth have been preliminarily treated, and 75%, nearly 209,500 square kilometers of remained soil erosion area need to be treated. The status of soil erosion in the five prefecture-level cities involved in the project is as follows: 1. Tianshui

Based on the Soil and Water Conservation Zoning in Gansu, Tianshui belongs to small zone of loess hills and gully in Longzhong loess hilly sub-zone of the Yellow River Basin erosion-controlled zone. According to the monitoring results in the Soil and Water Conservation Monitoring Bulletin of Gansu Province (2016), the total soil erosion area of Tianshui where the project is located is 10758.24km2, of which 16.55% is light eroded, 44.85% is moderate eroded, 38.30% is strong eroded and 0.30% is extremely strong eroded. The soil erosion intensity of Tianshui is moderate, and the background value of soil erosion modulus is 2351t/km2•a. 2. Dingxi

The total water and soil erosion in Dingxi Municipality covers an area of 16726.6 square kilometers. Water erosion is the main type of soil erosion. Soil erosion intensity was moderate, and the background value of average erosion modulus was 3800t/km2.a. 3. Zhangye

According to the Zoning of Water and Soil Conservation in Gansu Province, Zhangye Municipality belongs to the "Sanbei" Gobi Desert and sand land wind-sand area in the wind-erosion type area and is a desert intense wind erosion area in the basin of Inner Mongolia – Xinjiang-Qinghai plateau. The soil and water loss area of Zhangye Municipality is 18682.62km2, of which 9767.46km2 is slightly or higher than that, accounting for 52.28% of the eroded area. It shows that water and soil loss in Zhangye Municipality is mainly caused by micro degree and mild wind erosion, and the background value of soil erosion modulus is 1800t/km2/a. 4 Jiuquan

In the Zoning of Soil and Water Conservation in Gansu Province, Jiuquan Municipality belongs to the corridor stone Gobi community of Hexi corridor plain, and soil erosion is mainly caused by wind erosion. According to the Monitoring Results in the Monitoring Bulletin of Soil and Water Conservation in Gansu Province, the total area of soil erosion in Jiuquan Municipality is 114,600 km2, among which, mild erosion is 6.86%, moderate erosion is 18.97%, strong erosion is 23.56%, extremely strong erosion is 15.66% and violent erosion is 34.95%. The direct cause of soil erosion in Jiuquan Municipality is the high wind speed and high number of windy days. Sparse vegetation, bare soil and loose texture are the main factors that aggravate soil erosion. The soil erosion intensity of Jiuquan municipality is moderate, and the background

value of the average soil erosion modulus is 3200t/km2•a. 5.2.5.2 Soil Erosion Prediction and Mitigation Measures

Soil and water loss in this project mainly occurs in the construction of roads and infrastructure, and the degree of soil and water loss is related to construction duration, exposed area of surface excavation and wind speed. The impacts of soil erosion mainly exists in the construction period, construction works, road engineering (including fire control access, walking trails, etc.), pipeline engineering and ancillary engineering, construction (structural) earthwork and earthwork, as well as the gathering stage of roadbed filling field。 It is predicted that the construction disturbance area of this project is 99.2ha, resulting in additional 6774.6t of soil and water loss . The total excavation volume is 353,000 m3, the total filling volume is 349,400 m3, with 0.36 million m3 of surplus excavated soil. According to the characterized water and soil erosion in each erosion- controlled zone, by following the principles of integrated measures, it aims to carry out the overall layout of the prevention and control of regional soil and water conservation measures. These measures include the integration of responsibility and goal, the integration of the management and protection, the combination of plant measures and engineering measures, the integration of the recovery of eroded soil to reconstruct the productivity of soil, and the greening and beautifying the environment. It finally will form a complete system of prevention and control of soil and water loss. Specific soil erosion, excavation and water and soil conservation measures for each subproject are as follows: 1. Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject (1)Water and Soil Erosion and Excavation Status The Subproject implementation would disturb 41.07ha of soil, which might result in additional 2793t of soil losses. The total earth excavation is 93942 m3, and total earth backfilling is 92129 m3, so 1813 m3 of excavated soil will be transported to Lianhua Township DSW Landfill to be topsoil. The net volume of earthwork will be in balance 2) Mitigation measures Engineering measures：Site leveling is 7.2ha, topsoil excavation is 18542m3, topsoil backfilling is 18542m, slope protection 0.6ha； Plantation measures：Greening belt 1.87ha, sowing grass seeds 5.6ha； Temporary Measures：Temporary drainage ditch 120m; Temporary protection nets covers the area of 1.95ha. 2. Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject (1) Water and Soil Erosion and Excavation Status The implementation of the Subproject would disturb 1.7ha of soil, which might result in additional 116t of soil losses. The total excavation of earth is 8800m3, and total backfilling is 8800m3, so the net volume of earthwork is in balance. (2) Mitigation Measures Engineering measures：Site leveling is 7.2ha, topsoil excavation is 18542m3, topsoil backfilling is 18542m, slope protection 0.6ha； Plantation measures：Greening belt 0.34ha； Temporary Measures：Temporary drainage ditch 50m; Temporary protection nets covers the area of 0.52ha.

3. Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject (1) Water and Soil Erosion and Excavation Status The implementation of the Subproject would disturb 19.5ha of soil, which might result of the additional loss of water and soil as much as 1909t. The total excavation of earth is 46320m3, and total landfill is 46320m3, which is balanced in earth excavation. (2) Mitigation Measures Engineering measures：Site leveling is 4.3ha, topsoil excavation is 18542m3, topsoil backfilling is 18542m, slope protection 0.48ha； Plantation measures：Greening belt 1 ha, sowing grass seeds 5.2ha； Temporary Measures： Temporary protection nets covers the area of0.85ha.

4. Lintao Majiayao Subproject (1) Water and Soil Erosion and Excavation Status The implementation of the Subproject would disturb 28.07ha of soil, which might result in additional 1909t of soil losses. The total excavation of earth is 49700m3, and total backfilling is 49700m3, so the earthwork is balanced. (2) Mitigation Measures Engineering measures：Site leveling is 7.2ha, topsoil excavation is 18542m3, topsoil backfilling is 18542m, slope protection 0.6ha； Plantation measures：Greening belt 1.2ha, sowing grass seeds 4.26ha； Temporary Measures：Temporary drainage ditch 220m; Temporary protection nets covers the area of 0.83ha.

5. Tongwei Subproject (1) Water and Soil Erosion and Excavation Status The implementation of the Subproject would disturb 1.28ha of soil, which might result in additional 87t of soil losses. The total excavation of earth is 47330m3, and total backfilling is 47330m3, so the earthwork is balanced. (2) Mitigation Measures Engineering measures：Site leveling is 1.03ha, topsoil excavation is 6350m3, topsoil backfilling is 6350m； Plantation measures：Greening belt 1.2ha, sowing grass seeds 4.26ha； Temporary Measures：Temporary drainage ditch 320m; Temporary protection nets covers the area of 0.83ha.

6. Zhangye Subproject (1) Water and Soil Erosion and Excavation Status The implementation of the Subproject would disturb 5.7ha of soil, which might result in additional 382.2t of soil losses. The total earth excavation is 740m3, and total earth backfilling is 740m3, so the net amount of earthwork is kept in balance. (2) Mitigation Measures Engineering measures：Site leveling is 0.12ha, topsoil excavation is 376.8m3, topsoil backfilling is376.8m； Plantation measures：Greening belt 1.35ha, sowing grass seeds 0.68ha； Temporary Measures： Temporary protection nets covers the area of 0.25ha.

7. Suzhou Subproject (1) Water and Soil Erosion and Excavation Status The implementation of the Subproject would disturb 0.67ha of soil, which might result in additional 44.7t of soil losses. The total excavation of earth is 11000m3, and total backfilling is 9200m3, and the remained 1800 m3 would be used for land leveling at the east and south yard of the project area. It makes the earth work keep in balance. (2) Mitigation Measures Engineering measures：Site leveling is 0.67ha, topsoil excavation is 667m3, topsoil backfilling is 667m； Plantation measures：Greening belt 0.13ha, sowing grass seeds 0.76ha； Temporary Measures： Temporary protection nets covers the area of 0.78ha.

8. Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject City (1) Water and Soil Erosion and Excavation Status The implementation of the Subproject would disturb 1.75ha of soil, which might result in additional 117t of soil losses. The total excavation of earth is 24000 m3, and total backfilling is 24000 m3, sot the earthwork is balanced. (2) Mitigation Measures Engineering measures：Site leveling is 1.5ha, topsoil excavation is 3200m3, topsoil backfilling is 3200m； Plantation measures：Greening belt 0.3ha, sowing grass seeds 0.2ha； Temporary Measures：Temporary protection nets covers the area of 0.51ha, slope protection 0.294ha. 5.3 Social Impacts and Mitigation Measures

5.3.1 Land Acquisition and Resettlement and Mitigation Measures

Land acquisition and demolition will inevitably have certain impacts on residents’ daily life in the project area within a certain period. The construction unit will make resettlement by monetary compensation and work with the local government to properly solve the living problems of affected residents after the demolition, to avoid social problems caused by improper resettlement. Detailed information about the social impacts of land acquisition and resettlement and the mitigation measures are given in chapter 8 of the EIA report and the resettlement action plan produced for this project.

5.3.2 Impacts on Traffic and Mitigation Measures

During the construction period, piling and transportation of earth, raw materials (sand, cement, etc.) and abandoned soil will lead to the increasing number of transportation vehicles, which will highly occupy existing roads, increase local traffic flow, and easily cause traffic congestion, and affect traffic trips. The construction of pipeline network has a significant impact on road traffic. In the process of engineering construction, earthwork needs to be temporarily piled up, which has an impact on road traffic along the construction routine. When the sewage pipeline crosses the road, it will easily obstruct the vehicles on the road if it adopts the grooving method, which has a stronger impact on the traffic condition. The effects on the residents are mainly reflected in the construction for foundation excavation, laying pipe trench excavation, the landfill

operation and the obstruction and occupation of road. It will lead to pavement narrowed and traffic capacity reduced for urban road and cause the urban traffic problems such as poor road congestion, traffic, which would generate a certain of impact to the social and economic development, travel of people in cities. In particular, the construction activities are carried out near the primary and secondary schools in the project influence area. They include the primary and secondary schools in Wuying Township under Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject, Pingrang Town primary school (Tongwei Subproject), Jiantan Township primary school (Zhangye Subproject), Shandan Township central primary school (Wushan County subproject), Shandan town Junior High School (Wushan County subproject). During project construction, it would occupy the channels for students going through, and lead to serious difficulties on travels for students, faculties and parents, which may affect student's travel safety and teaching order. Therefore, the following measures should be taken to minimize and mitigate the project impacts on public transportation: 1. Before the construction operation that has an impact on public transportation, the prepared construction plan should be submitted to the traffic administrative department for making the alternative traffic routine plan. After the permission obtained, the construction of project activities could be started. 2. Before construction, a notice board shall be placed on the construction site to explain the project content and construction time. Please kindly remind the public for the understanding of inconvenience caused by construction and inform the contact person and the hotline. If possible, use the news media, Microblog, WeChat to inform the public in advance. 3. Construction shall be done by section and section, and excavation and backfilling shall be completed as soon as possible. 4. In the construction of public facilities near the stations, special attention should be paid to the establishment of temporary access roads. Material transportation should avoid the rush hour to reduce the traffic pressure in the city. When the construction is carried out close to rural area, it should set up special construction access road as far as possible, to reduce the use of rural roads and avoid the damage of road by the large equipment and vehicles driving on road. 5. Pipeline construction should avoid the traffic peak or be conducted with assistance of traffic policemen to facilitate and dispatch traffic at the peak hours, to ensure unimpeded access for pedestrians and vehicles, to reduce traffic congestion and the impacts on residents' travel. 6. Strengthen construction management and training of construction personnel in environmental protection. Traffic policemen should supervise and dispatch the traffics near schools during the peak hours, and temporary traffic lights and other signs should be set up.

5.3.3 Impacts on Workers and Mitigation Measures

1. Impacts on communities caused

The construction workers are mainly local residents, and there will be very limited migrant workers. So, there will be no rapid population growth and pressure on community services. China has comprehensive and strict legal legislations on labor criminal behaviors (such as sexual assault). The project-related counties/districts have a very good security environment and harmonious community. In sum, the construction workers may have little negative impacts on local communities. In order to protect the health and safety of local communities from being affected by construction workers, the following measures should be taken: (1) Carry out education on laws, code of conduct and traffic safety to the workers to improve their safety awareness. (2) Carry out healthy education to workers to enhance their knowledge of HIV and other diseases. Individuals are encouraged to use condoms to prevent transmission of the disease to others. (3) Carry out environmental education among the workers to ensure appropriate disposal of wastewater and solid waste produced in the construction sites following the ESMP requirements. 2. Impacts of communities on construction workers

Local residents will also have impacts on the construction workers in terms of beating, decoy and verbal injury etc. In general, as long as the external construction workers abide by local codes of behavior and do not harm local custom, local residents and construction workers will not have disputes or fights. To prevent and protect the health of construction workers, the following measures should be taken: (1) Provide education to the workers on codes of conduct, folk customs and taboos etc. (2) When construction workers enter the site, local officials shall inform the residents in advance and inform them that the workers are building for the community and should be patient to them.

5.3.4 Impacts on Infrastructure and Mitigation Measures

Laying 6km of sewage pipelines under Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject is likely to have impacts on G316 highway and Longhai Railway. The remaining 7 subprojects will not have any impact on infrastructure. 1.Impacts on G316 highway caused by laying sewage pipelines and mitigation measures Trunk sewers will be installed in the open field along the road shoulder of G316 facilities, which will not involve the crossing the highway, nor destroy the road shoulder, water supply and drainage facilities. The sewer installation will occupy land temporarily. During the installation, the excavated topsoil would be temporary piling, which will be timely filled back after the completion of sewer installation, in addition to carry out vegetation restoration by planting local plants. Generally, sewage pipe network laying activity is not smaller influence on highway facilities. In order to ensure

the installation of pipe network will not cause damage to highway facilities, according to the opinion investigation of the highway management department, during the project preparation, the design unit should put forward the construction plan, which should be informed in advance before construction. Construction should not start until obtaining the permission of the highway department. The construction activities should follow the requirements of highway departments to ensure that highway facilities are not damaged and highway land is not occupied. Strictly control the operating band width and comply with the related national operating regulations; Restore the affected area in time after the construction. 2. Impacts on Longhai Railway caused by laying sewage pipelines and mitigation measures When laying the 6km of sewage pipelines along G316 highway, the route has to pass Longhai railway joint with G316 through an existing culvert about 4km away from Shandan town. The sewage network will be laid in the culvert along the open space between the Longhai railway subgrade and G316, about 2.5m away from the Longhai railway subgrade. Small-scale manual excavation of the pipeline trench will not cause damage to the Longhai railway subgrade. However, the construction unit still needs to submit the design scheme and construction schedule to the railway department, and construction should not start until obtaining approval from the railway department.

VI. Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures during Operation

After the project is completed, culture heritage in the project area will be protected and developed, at the same time the condition of infrastructure will get improved. However, with the increasing number of visitors, it would bring impacts on the ecological environment, acoustic environment, water environment and ambient air by the wastewater, solid waste and noise produced by the visitors. 6.1 Environmental and Social Benefits The Project is expected to produce significant environmental and social benefits. (1) By the construction of infrastructure facilities such as drainage pipeline network, sewage treatment equipment etc. respectively in the project areas of Qin’an County, Lintao County and Wushan County, it is expected to reduce domestic sewage discharge by 1.0423 million m3/a and the pollutant discharge (COD: 416.9t/a. BOD5: 260.6t/a, and NH3-N: 41.7t/a), which would reduce the pollution of surface water caused by domestic sewage from local residents. Thus, it would also support the protection of drinking water sources protection zones in Lintao County and Wushan County. (2) Through the construction of solid waste collection and transit facilities in the sub-projects of Qin’an County, Lintao County and Wushan County, it is estimated that 13,500 t/a of domestic solid waste in the sub-project area will be collected and treated, and the pollution to the environment caused by the random dumping of domestic solid waste will be solved. (3)A total of 23.5km of water supply pipe network construction, 2.5km of newly- built heating pipe network, 2km of newly-built gas pipe network, 39km of newly-built storm drainage pipe network, 51km of newly-built and renovated roads, 276,000 m2 of renovation for the traditional residential houses, courtyards and street facades, and 26km of roadway paved, which have improved the living conditions of local residents. (4) Local residents could increase average annual income per capita to 7948yuan/a, by involving relevant tourism service industry etc. (5) Through the construction of the research center of physical cultural heritage, folklore culture exhibition hall and cultural exhibition center, the intangible cultural heritage is not only inherited and promoted, but also greatly enriches people's spiritual life and improves residents' quality. (6) The project involved environmental treatment of the gully is 4,800m2. The green area is 40,000m2, which beautifies the environment of the project area, and the environmental benefit can be achieved by reducing carbon dioxide. 6.2 Generic Impacts and Mitigation Measures

6.2.1 Impacts of Wastewater and Mitigation Measures

1. Domestic wastewater During project operation, all of the 8 Subprojects would generate a certain amount of domestic sewage.

The sewage produced from the operation of Qin’an subproject (Shangguan Ancient Street with the style of Ming and Qing Dynasty), Tongwei subproject would be collected by sewage pipelines and finally sent to the municipal sewage treatment plant for treatment to meet the criteria of wastewater discharge or reuse. By laying 10km of trunk sewer under the Lintao subproject, the sewage along the pipelines will be collected and sent to Lintao County Sewage Treatment Plant. The domestic sewage produced by the above-mentioned eight subprojects is anticipated with insignificant impacts on the surface water quality. The sewage collection and treatment facilities are currently unavailable in the project areas of Qin’an county Subproject (including the area of Wuying Township and Longcheng township) and Maiji district Subproject. After the sewage treated by the self-built integrated sewage treatment facilities for each project county (district) has met the criteria of Class A specified in the Standard of Pollutant Discharged After Treated by Urban Sewage Treatment Plant (GB18918-2002), it will be reused for greening and irrigation. After being treated by the buried combined sewage treatment facility, the sewage of the Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject City will reuse for greening plants and flushing toilets. The sewage produced by the above projects will not be discharged, and would not affect the surface water. It is expected with minor impacts on local surface water. Table 6.2-1 has shown the quantity of sewage produced and disposal approach by each sub project. 2. Leachate at DSW transfer station DSW transfer stations will be built in Wuying and Longcheng subareas under the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject, and the Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject . During the operation period, the DSW mainly consists of beverage bottles and plastic packaging bags, mixed with a small amount of fruit and food residues, etc. During the process of domestic compression and transportation, a small amount of waste leachate will produce. The DSW transfer station shall carry out basic anti-seepage treatment and build a leachate collection tank, and the leachate collected will send to the buried integrated DSW treatment facility for unified treatment. Leachate does not enter surface water or groundwater.

Table 6.2-1 DSW Produced by Each Subproject (t/d) Quantity Name of sub project Scope of sewage collected Where the sewage disposed produced Treated after by the newly built sewage treatment plan to be reused for greening and Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject Domestic sewage collected from the sub project 44 irrigation.

Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject Domestic sewage collected from the tourist service Treated after by the newly built sewage treatment plan to be reused for greening and 255 (Wuying township) center and Shaodian village in the project area irrigation.

Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject Treated after by the newly built sewage treatment plan to be reused for greening and Domestic sewage collected in Longcheng township 1275 (Longcheng township) irrigation. Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject Domestic sewage collected from the streets of (Shangguan ancient street with the style Shangguan with the style of Min and Qin Dynasty, and 150 Qin’an County Sewage Treatment Plant of Min and Qin Dynasty) the Fengshan Tourist Service Center Tongwei Subproject Hangmo culture arts in Tongwei 82.6 Tongwei County Sewage Treatment Plant Lintao Majiayao Subproject, Majiayao Domestic sewage 260 Lintao County Sewage Treatment Plant Exhibition Center Area Grain Warehouse and General’s Domestic sewage collected in the headquarter of Mansion Complex in Zhangye 67.5 Zhangye Municipality Sewage Treatment Plant soldiers’ mansion, Barn are of Min Dynasty Subproject Wulan Ancient Town in Zhangye Domestic sewage collected at the west of Xiaokang 15 Jiantan Township Gucheng Village Sewage Treatment Plant Subproject building in Gucheng village Domestic sewage collected in the research center and Suzhou Subproject 94 Suzhou District the Second Sewage Treatment Plant library building The domestic sewage produced by the Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject after Domestic sewage collected in the exhibition center and Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject 40 treated by the buried integrated sewage treatment facilities, will be recycled for the tourists service center greening and washing toilets in the project area. Domestic sewage collected in the culture exhibition and Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject experiences zone of Shandan Township and the ancient 32 Wushan County Sewage Treatment Plant street zone of Shandan township

6.2.2 Impacts on Ambient Air and Mitigation Measures

1. The odor emission from domestic waste： (i) Odor generated in DSW transportation: In the process of transforming waste, part of the organic waste is perishable with odors due to its decomposition, and the impact on the environment is mainly manifested as malodor. Malodor pollutant, according to the national standards, mainly refers to all the gas substances that stimulate the olfactory and cause people's unhappiness and damage to the living environment. The environmental impact assessment requires waste transportation routes to avoid crowd concentration areas as much as possible, and the transportation vehicles are required to use sealed hopper boxes, which will not cause obvious impact on the surrounding environment (ii) Odor generated in DSW transfer station: The Wuying town and Longcheng Ancient Town under the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject are far away from DWS management systems in urban areas, and Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject all has this problem. Therefore they need to set up new DSW transfer stations. The DSW transfer station adopts airtight structures and sets a certain protective distance to the residential area and is built within the protective distance. 2. Vehicle exhaust and road dust In order to reduce the impact of automobile exhaust in the project area, it suggests each project counties/districts take measures such as setting up bus special line, providing battery car and bicycle rental. Road dust could be alleviated by sprinkling water and regular cleaning road. See environmental management plan for specific measures. 3. Catering waste gas emissions Catering areas will be set up under the Qin'an Dadiwan, Tongwei, Lintao Majiayao, Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi, and Wushan Yuanyang Jade subprojects. Catering oil smoke will be generated in these areas. All catering areas are equipped with facilities for the purification of oil smoke. The oil smoke after being treated to meet the criteria specified in the Standard of Soot Waste Gas Emission in Catering Industry (Trial) (GB18483- 2001) will be discharged to the height above the roof from the public flue in the building. Clean energy, such as electricity, natural gas and liquefied gas, will be used in the catering area. The use of coal as catering energy is prohibited in order to greatly reduce the output of oil waste gas. Due to the low production of soot, the environmental impact produced is small.

4. Oder emission from WWTPs

Some subprojects such as Qin'an Dadiwan needs to build small-sized WWTPs. During the operation period, the WWTPs will produce a certain amount of odorous gas containing NH3 and H2S. These subprojects adopt buried integrated WWTPs, and the main facilities will be constructed and buried underground. Sealing measures are adopted in the operation process, and the external discharge of odorous gas is less. The greening belt should be set around the buried sewage treatment facilities and keep the facilities a certain distance from the residential area.

6.2.3 Impacts on Acoustic Environment and Mitigation Measures

During the operation period, the main sources of noises are the transportation noise, equipment noise and social life noise.

1. Transportation noise After the project facilities are completed and become operational, along with the increased flow of tourist vehicles, the sensitive receptors such as residential areas and schools along the project road may be affected to some extent. EIA team has carried out the field investigation to the completed scenic spots, including the Scenic Spot of Maijishan Mountain, the Scenic Spot of Xinglongshan Mountain, the Wetland Park of Zhangye Municipality etc. The survey results show that there are more traffics in road on both sides of the first-row houses which is prime for the development of tourism industry and basically all of them have been used for restaurant, hotel and other travel services. But the residential areas such as environmental sensitive targets are generally located in the second row with far or longer distance to the road. The traffic noise will be reduced and blocked by the front row buildings of catering service facilities. Other sensitive receptors such as the residential areas are unlikely to be affected. It suggests that the project area should adopt relevant management measures such as limitation of driving speed and prohibiting horn, to mitigate the impacts of traffic noise on the sensitive receptors. 2. Equipment noise After the completion of the project, the noise of equipment is mainly coming from the fan, pump, backup diesel generator and equipment of the transformer room installed and operated in the Exhibition Center and Tourist Service Center. The noise source intensity is between 65 ~ 100dB (A). Generally, the above equipment is located in the basement or sealed room, which has no influence on the surrounding environment after the mitigation measures taken by the sound insulation of the building, vibration reduction and sound elimination. Basically, there is no much impact of noise to the surrounding environment. 3. Noise from the operation of tourism facilties The operation of shops, entertainment places and exhibition centers will generate certain noise in the project areas, normally at the level of 60~70dB (A). In the process of public participation during field survey, the EIA team has interviewed local residents to be potentially affected during project operation, such as the residents living at two sides of the location of Zhangye Cultural relics Protection Project. The requirements from the interviewed publics are as follows: (1) The performance time of Folk Ditty should not at night (10:00 p.m. at 6:00 am) and lunch break at noon (1:00-2:00); (2) It should strengthen the management to the commercial and entertainment venues, and the loudspeakers should not be allowed at night and lunch break period. Detailed noise mitigation measures have been prepared and included in the ESMP. 4. Parking plot noise In the off-season of tourism, there are very few vehicles entering and leaving parking lot, and traffic jam can be avoided. The roadside traffic noise value in and out

of the parking lot is basically below 60 dB(A), and vehicle noise has negligible impact on the surrounding environment. During the tourism season, traffic flow in and out of the parking lot will significantly increase, which will cause congestion at some section of the road when the vehicles continue to idle, accelerate and slow down. The roadside traffic noise value in and out of the parking lot sometimes reaches between 65~75dB(A), making the local Acoustic Environment quality worse. Each sub-project can improve management regulations, to reasonably plan the direction of traffic flow, and strengthen operation management to keep traffic flow unobstructed. Vehicles are forbidden to honk in the parking lots to minimize the impacts of noise on the surrounding environment.

6.2.4 Impacts of Solid Waste and Mitigation Measures

Solid waste generated in operation phase includes DSW, catering waste, and WWTP sludge etc. 1. DSW The domestic waste produced at each project site will be centralized collected and sent to the nearby landfills of domestic waste for disposal. Set the table of 6.5-1 on the quantity and disposal of domestic waste produced at each project site. 6.2-3 DSW Produced by Each Subproject(t/a) Quantity of No Subproject Where the solid waste disposed solid waste Tianshui Municipal Urban Domestic Solid 1 Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject 10.8 Waste Disposal Plant

Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject 512 (Wuying township) Qin’an County Lianhua Township Domestic Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject Solid Waste Landfill 2430 2 (Longcheng township) Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject Qin’an County Downtown Domestic Solid (Shangguan ancient street with the style 430 Waste Landfill of Min and Qin Dynasty) Tongwei County Domestic Solid Waste 3 Tongwei Subproject 188 Landfill Lintao Majiayao Subproject, Majiayao Lintao County Domestic Solid Waste 4 200 Exhibition Center Area Landfill Zhangye Municipal Waste Incineration 5 Zhangye Subproject 456 Power Plant 6 21.2 Suzhou District Second Domestic Solid Suzhou Subproject Waste Landfill 7 110 Dunhuang City Second Domestic Solid Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject Waste Landfill 8 42 Wushan County Domestic Solid Waste Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject Landfill 2. Catering waste The catering waste in the catering area of each sub-project shall be collected by the special catering trash bins, which shall be properly disposed by the entrusted local catering waste treatment unit with qualification.

3.Sludge

Septic tanks will be regularly cleared by sanitation workers, and the sludge will be sent to farming lands as manure. After the WWTP sludge is treated by mechanical

concentration and dehydration using high-pressure plate and frame filter press, the mud cakes and residual waste will be sent to the local sanitary landfill for disposal. All kinds of solid waste produced by the project activities would be rationally disposed, and would not be discarded or piled up randomly, with less impact to the surrounding environment. 6.3 Specific Impacts and Mitigation Measures

6.3.1 Impacts of Special Process and Mitigation Measures

Except for general pollutants such as DSW, wastewater, vehicle exhaust and catering waste gas emission, the manufacturing processes involved in Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject and Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject will generate special environmental impacts caused by the special process of production. 6.3.1.1 Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures of Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject This project aims the inheritance and training of the carved lacquer skills, which does not involve the large-scale production line of carved lacquer products. In the processes of carved lacquer craft teaching by the masters, carve lacquer practice by students, carve lacquer material preparation and so on, it will involve specific carve lacquer, which would produce specific pollution at the special working procedures. 1. Lacquerwares Producing Processes The main processes include: woodworking (choose different timber, handicrafts production), lacquering (using natural raw lacquer, paint the made-up objects manually, in the process contains different techniques), stone carving (carving patterns), painting(the last process of painting color, with mineral raw materials, commonly used is cinnabar, carbon white). The detailed processes are given below:

Lacquerwares Producing Processes 2. Pollution sources and relevant impact 1. Waste gas (1)Airborne dust

The processes of woodworking material (shavings and cutting of wood materials), the lacquer putty spraying (putty spraying machine), the emery sandblasting, polishing and the stone carving etc. will all produce a certain of dusts. The dust composition is mainly the wooden material particles. The above processes are completed by tools arranged in the carved lacquer production room. In order to mitigate the impact of dusts on the environment, dust exhaust collector is set at each dust producing point to collect the dust exhaust gas at negative pressure. The collected waste gas is discharged through the exhaust port 15m above the ground after being treated by the bag-typed dust collector in the production room. The exhaust gas concentration is about 1000mg/m3, and the total exhaust volume is 5000m3/h. The waste gas collection is intermittent operated, and efficiency of bag-typed dust collector is 99%, and the exhaust emission concentration is 10mg/m3. 6.3-1 Airborne Dust for Carved Lacquer Production Exhibition Parameters of emission Quantity Conc Mitigati source of waste Name of entrat concentration on Interna Source of pollution gas contami ion of (mg/m3) measure Height l Temper emission nants emiss s (m) Diamet ature ℃ m3/h ion er (m) Dusty emission Bag from the workshop 3000 dust 1000 20 15 0.2 20 filter of lacquer carving As recommended by the Environmental Impact Assessment Technical Guidelines - Atmospheric Environment (HJ2.2-2008), SCREEN3 model was adopted to calculate the maximum impact degree of each pollutant The SCREEN3 model can calculate the maximum ground concentration of pollutant respectively from point source, surface source and body source. A variety of preset meteorological combination conditions are embedded in the model, including some of the most adverse weather conditions. The ground concentration results predicted by this model are conservative. According to SCREEN3 model, under the most unfavorable weather conditions, the concentration of dusty emission from the carved lacquer making room as the maximum contribution to ambient particulate matters is only 0.52%, which has little impact on ambient air. (2)Volatile organic emissions The lacquer used in the process of this project is produced by lacquer trees growing in Xiaolongshan Mountain, Maiji district of Tianshui, which is known as the natural lacquer, without involved any toluene or xylene solvent. Thus, it will not produce volatile organic waste gas. The drawing process mainly consists of mineral materials and water-made colloids, which does not involve volatile solvents. 1. Solid waste, The solid waste generated in the process of carved lacquer production in this project is mainly wood chips and sawdust. After collection, it is sent to the nearby granule board factory for recycling. According to the field investigation, there is no waste acid and alkali etc. hazardous waste produced during the production of carved lacquer. Regarding the relevant processes, there will be no hazardous waste (e.g. waste acid and alkali) to be

produced neither. 2. Wastewater No wastewater will be produced in the process of carving lacquer making. 6.3.1.2 Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures of Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject An exhibition workshop to show how raw materials will be used to produce Yuanyang Jade. The process will produce processing wastewater, waste gas and solid waste etc. The specific process flow and production process are as follows: 1. Procedures of Yuanyang Jade processing

At last, the jade will be cut to a certain size, and then will be carved through the jade carving machine. A small proportion of the products needs to be hand-carved, and then polished to make the products shiny. After polishing, some products need to made holes, and finally the finalized products to be tested. 2. Pollution sources and impacts 1. Waste gas Airborne dust will be produced in the carving process. So, a dust collecting water sprinkler dedusting device is equipped to treat this kind of dust. This part of dust is inhaled by the induced draught fan in the dust collection room for multiple water spraying and removing dust. Finally, it will be discharged into the sedimentation tank. The dust removal rate of the facility is generally 90 per cent. The treated waste gas is discharged through a 15m long exhaust pipe. Cutting, polishing and drilling are all carried out in water without dust.

6.3-2 The Emission Parameters of Dust for Yuanyang Jade Processing

Quantity concentratio Mitigat Conce Parameters of emission Source of pollution of waste n(mg/m3) ion ntratio source

gas measur n of Interna Name of emission es emissi Height l Temper contamin m3/h on (m) Diamet ature ℃ ants er (m) Waste gas containing dusts in Water the processing and 2000 Dust 800 sprinkl 80 15 0.2 20 exhibition of ing Yuanyang Jade According to the prediction results of SCREEN3 model, under the unfavorable weather conditions, the dust concentration will only contribute in the waste gas by 1.12%, which shows that it will have little impact on ambient air. 2. Wastewater In the process of Yuanyang Jade, cutting, polishing and drilling will be conducted in the water, which will produce wastewater containing particulate matter. In addition, during process of purification for the waste gas produced in jade carving, it will also produce wastewater containing particulate matter. These two strands of waste water will be unified and treated by a multi-stage tank (sediment + regulation + sediment), and recycling used in the processes of cutting, drilling and sculpturing etc. Wastewater produced in the subproject will be recycled, without external discharged, and will not negatively impact the surrounding environment. 3. Solid waste Sludge will be generated in the sedimentation tanks of the WWTPs. It will construct a sediment-sludge drying pond and a pit-typed storage pool equipped with rainproof facilities. The filtered water produced in the sediment-sludge drying pond will be recycling used after entering the regulating pond. The dry sludge will be temporarily stored in the storage tank to be periodically unified and transferred outside, to avoid pollution caused by the sediment piling everywhere. The dried sludge will be regularly transferred to Wushan County DSW Landfill for disposal. 6.3.1.3 Occupational Health and Safety in Special Processes The dust and noise generated in the process of carving lacquer and Yuanyang Jade processing will threaten the health and safety to the operators. In order to protect the personal health and safety of operators, the EIA report has proposed the process of occupational health, safety and environmental protection. See environmental management plan for details.

6.3.2 Impacts on Physical Culture Resource and Mitigation Measures

The impacts on the PRCs in operation period come from two ways. First, the DSW and wastewater would indirectly affect the physical cultural resources through the environment polluted where the material and cultural resources are located during project operation period. The analysis and mitigation measures conducted in this section are basically as same as that in the section 6.2. Thus, no more detailed description will make in this section. Secondly, tourists will cause damage to the PCRs. Mitigation measures have been produced and included in the PCRMP.

6.3.3 Impacts on Acoustic Environment

6.3.3.1 Noise impacts on acoustic environment sensitive areas Except some common mitigation measures to acoustic environment impact mentioned in section 6.2.3, it will take the following specific measures.(1)Concerning the residents in Grain Warehouse Area of Zhangye Subproject, who are highly affected by the noise of opera performance, it needs to install double glazing sound isolation glass in the windows;(2)In Shandan Township of Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject, Shandan Township Hospital located at the main streets of townships has been highly affected by the noise of streets, it needs to install double glazing sound isolation glass in the first row of building near the main street. Table 6.3-3 shows the details of concrete specific mitigation measures taken：

Table 6.3-3 Specific Mitigation Measures Taken in Acoustic Environmental Sensitive Areas in Operation Period Name of Scale(perso Name Links with the Project Mitigation Measures Subproject ns) East Lake 5m east of project area Residential 80 (first row, side facing) Concerning the impact to residents Area affected by the noise of opera Wanjia Zhangye performance, it is to install double Residential 60 5m west of project area Sub project glazing sound isolation glass in the Area (first row, side facing) windows of first row building near Yijia Company Grain Warehouse; Dormitory 40 5m north of project area Building (first row, back facing) To install double glazing sound Wushan Township isolation glass in the windows of first Yuanyang Hospital in 5m north of rehabilitated main 60 beds row building near the main street, Jade Shandan street in Shandan Township concerning the impact of social life Subproject Township (first row clinic, side facing) noise to the hospital.

6.3.3.2 Impacts on acoustic environmental sensitive structures Among the 8 sub-projects of this project, the Silk Road Research Center and Library built by the sub-project of Jiuquan municipal is a noise sensitive building with reading as the main function and need to keep quiet. Its north side and west side are close to Yumen West Road and Zhengda Road of the urban traffic artery of Jiuquan municipal respectively. In order to reduce the impact of noise to Silk Road Research Center and Library in Jiuquan municipal caused by the traffic noise from Yumen west road and Zhengda road, a set of suggestions have put forward by the EIA team. It includes the follows: (1) to set sound insulation grass for the Silk Road Research Center and Library; (2) to respectively plant the green belts with a certain width at two sides of the Silk Road Research Center and Library near the Yumen west road and Zhengda road; (3) to set warning signs such as No Honking etc are set up on Yumen west road and Zhengda road. See environmental management plan for specific mitigation measures.

6.3.4 Ecological Impacts and Mitigation Measures

The impact on the ecological environment caused by the project operation is mainly reflected in two aspects. One is the pollution of the ecological environment by domestic sewage and household DSW, the other is the trampling of vegetation and the disturbance of animals by tourists who reach a certain scale in the project area. For the first aspect, the pollution of domestic sewage and waste could be mitigated by the installation of the sewage treatment facilities and the equipment used for waste collection and delivery. However, for the second aspect, besides tourist management strengthened, it is more important to rationally control the number of tourists, which means the scale of visitors should be controlled within the threshold of not large areas of vegetation trampled and not animal severely disrupted. Therefore, this section demonstrates whether the tourist scale that can be determined have exceeded the carrying capacity of the ecological sensitive area by a set of methods, including the investigation of similar scenic spots, expert consultation and literature reviewing. Ecological environment assessment was only conducted for Xuanquanzhi Relics Protection Subproject in Dunhuang City considering the vulnerable ecological environment where it is sited. The other subprojects are cultural tourism development projects located in the built-up areas with low ecological sensitivity, which are anticipated with little impact on local ecosystem and don’t need to analyze their ecological carrying capacity. Based on the field investigation, the vegetation around the project area of Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject is rare, and there were no wild animals or plants found in the area. Concerning its vulnerability of ecological environment, it would be very difficult to restore once it may be destroyed. Thus, it shall strictly control the tourist activities within the scope of (a total of about 57500 m2) focusing tourism infrastructure, such as the exhibition center, permeable concrete road, wooden plank roads. Visitors are strictly prohibited to exceed the tour routes that might increase the destroyed vegetation area. Based on the calculation criteria of 5m2 occupied area per capita, and two visits per day, the daily number of tourists could reach as much as 33000 persons*times (57500÷5*2 = 33000). But by consulting cultural heritage specialists, according to this kind of method to calculate tourist capacity is problematic. However, during the actual visits, because of tourists might be more interested in the relics and possibly to be concentrated around the relic exhibition zone. Concerning the experts’ opinion, after communication with the design unit, we suggest to the research unit that the capacity of tourists should be calculated based on the most unfavorable distribution of tourists, that is, the situation that all tourists are concentrated in the site exhibition area. Therefore, the design unit finally calculated the total tourist capacity according to the tourist capacity of 750m2 wooden walkway in the exhibition area of the site as the bayonet capacity. The calculation method and results are as follows: Because this method does not consider the distribution of visitors and the issue of relics protection, it only considers that tourists mainly are concentrated in the relics environment. In order to protect the relics, by the communication with the FSR preparation unit, it determines the sub-project of tourist capacity should strictly follow the standard of tourists in total of 750m2 wooden footway 750 m2 as a bayonet capacity calculation of the total tourist capacity. The calculation method and results are as

follows: Wooden plank road in the Relics Exhibition Zone: 500 (length) x 1.5(width) = 750 m2; The reasonable road area per capita is 5 m2calculation, instantaneous reasonable capacity of: Instantaneous reasonable capacity = 750 m2 present 5 m2/person = 150 persons Based on the average stay time of 0.5 hours per person and the opening time of 8 hours per day, the reasonable tourist capacity of the day is determined as follows: Daily reasonable tourist capacity =150 x (8/0.5) = 2,400 people Calculated using this method, the carrying capacity of tourists is 2400 persons, which is far less than the result calculated by the first kind of method of 33000 people. Namely, it would not only ensure the visitors won't rush out of the wooden footway to destroy the relics’ environment, but also ensure the tourism facilities in scenic area could meet the demand of tourists, so as to avoid the newly increased vegetation destruction area caused by space problem of visitors who have to move to the none tourism route. It’s concluded that to protect the vulnerable ecological environment surrounding the Xuanquanzhi Relics, the daily tourists influx should be restricted within 2400 person/day.

6.3.5 Induced Impacts and Mitigation Measures

As the implementation of the project will improve attractiveness of scenic spots in subproject areas, the number of tourists in the project areas will significantly increase, therefore more hotels, catering and other service industries will be attracted to enter the project areas. At the same time, it will also lead to the increase of air pollution, sewage, garbage, noise and traffic congestion. (1)Impacts induced to air ambient and mitigation measures Air pollution will be induced by the waste gas produced by tertiary industry of catering and hotels, and it could be mitigated by enhancing management to tertiary industry. Firstly, it should enhance the fuel management to the tertiary industry, by trying to clean energy, such as natural gas, electricity etc. Secondly, it should enhance the management to the application of smoke purification facilities in catering industry, by installing such facilities in all restaurants. All above mentioned mitigation measures have been integrated into the ESMP of the project. (2)Induced impacts on water environment and mitigation measures Water ambient impact is induced by the wastewater produced by tertiary industry of catering and hotels. In the project areas surrounded by drain pipeline system, the wastewater produced in catering industry could be sent to local municipal WWTP for treatment. However, in the project area where is in short of drain pipeline facilities, all wastewater has to be treated and reused according to domestic environmental protection policies. Thus, it requires enhancing the management of tertiary industry, to ensure the mitigation of water ambient impact brought.

(3) Induced impacts on acoustic environment and mitigation measures The acoustic environment impact brought by the project includes social life noise and traffic noise. It should enhance the management of commercial business and entertainment venues in the project area and forbidden the use of loudspeakers in night and noon. Traffic noise could be mitigated by rationally controlling driving speed and no honking allowed in acoustic environment sensitive area. All above mentioned mitigation measures have been integrated into the ESMP of the project. (4)Induced impacts of solid waste and mitigation measures The solid waste mainly includes garbage produced in tertiary industry, which should be collected by local EPBs, and sent to Solid Waste Treatment Plants for treatment in all project areas. (5) Traffic congestion Each project operation department should take the following measures to mitigate the impact of traffic congestion. Firstly, by rationally limiting the number of tickets printed and sold, it could significantly control the number of visitors; Secondary, it should set additional traffic facilitators in the main crosses during traffic peak hours.

VII Resettlement & Social Impacts Assessment

7.1 Resettlement Impacts Assessment and Mitigation Measures 7.1.1 Resettlement Impacts

4 subprojects (Tongwei, Zhangye and Qin’an Dadiwan) will involve land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) issues. In addition, some LAR activities have been started for Lintao Majiayao, Tongwei, and Tianshui Lacquerware subprojects. The remaining two subprojects (Suzhou and Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi) will not involve LAR issues. According to the World Bank Safeguard Polices on Involuntary Resettlement (OP4.12) and Procedures (BP4.12), the individual Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for the 4 subprojects which involve LAR activities have been separately prepared, as well as the relevant 3 Due Diligence Reports have (DDR) have been prepared as annexes. Table 7-1 shows the details on the status of project-affected persons and resettlement documents preparation for each subproject. Table 7-1 Status of Project Beneficiary Affected and Preparation of Resettlement Document for Each Subproject Preparation of Name of No. Basic Information on Project-affected Persons Resettlement Subproject Documents Resettlement Action 1. 11.1mu of collective-owned land involved in land acquisition Plan (RAP) of the in Majiayao village, Taoyang township of Lintao county, with 14 Lintao involved project has households and 56 people affected; Majiayao started 1 2. 6 households involved in house demolish, with construction Subproject, implementation. See area of 1712 ㎡, 6 households and 24 people affected; Dingxi Due Diligence 3. 3 of steel factory and animal raising farm etc involved in Report (DDR) in demolish, with 12 people affected. details. 1. The Shantytown Reconstruction Project in Songbao Village has completed the land expropriation within the scope of overlap Resettlement Action with this project, and the arable land expropriation has been Plan (RAP) of the 220.8 (of which 210 mu is the project involved land), affecting involved project has Tongwei 107 households and 430 people; started 2 Subproject, 2. The demolish of rural residential houses completed has implementation. See Dingxi affected 6 households, 24 people, with total area of demolished Due Diligence houses 2963.58 ㎡, of which 417.75 ㎡ in civil structure, 552.88 Report (DDR) in ㎡ in brick-wood structure, 1668.93 ㎡ in brick-concrete details. structure and 137.29 ㎡ as light steel structured house. Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) of the Tianshui involved project has Permanent land acquisition of collective-owned land 50.949mu Lacquerwares started 3 in Xizhi village, Ganquan township of Maiji district, with 22 Subproject, implementation. See households and 82 people affected. Tianshui Due Diligence Report (DDR) in details.

1. Without land acquisition； 2. Near the General’s Mansion Complex, there is one building needs to be demolished, with 6 shops, 1 public house and 10 The RAP for the Zhangye 4 people affected; Subproject has been Subprojects 3. In Wulan township, demolish of residential houses in Gucheng compiled. village will involve 6 households, with 12 households and 24 people affected. 1. Construction needs the permanent land acquired 64.1mu, with 34 households and 168 people affected, of which 62.1mu is Qin’an The RAP for the collective-owned land including 19.1mu arable land and 2mu 5 Dadiwan Subproject has been permanent land acquired of state-owned land; Subproject compiled. 2. Construction needs temporary acquire 11mu of collective- owned land, with 14 household and 42 people affected.

See Table 7-2 for the details of main resettlement impacts for each subproject.

Table 7-2: Summary of Land Acquisition and Resettlement Impacts for Each Subproject

Land Use (Mu) Permanently Affected Persons Area of non- Involved in Temporarily Affected Total Number of Area of With houses With non- residentia both land Persons Affected Persons Name of Permanent land Temporary land residenti With land to be residential No. l houses acquisition Total Subproject acquisition use al house acquisition demolish house to be to be and (㎡) (rural) demolished demolish demolition State- Collect ed (㎡) Hou Hou Hou State- Collectivel Hous Pers Pers Pers Hous owne ively Person seh seho seho Person Household Person Household Person owned y owned ehold on on on ehold d owned old ld ld Tongwei county, 1 Dingxi / / / / 2630 / 0 0 6 24 0 0 0 0 6 24 0 0 113 454 Municipalit y Qin’an 2 County, 2 62.1 / 11 / / 34 168 0 0 0 0 0 0 34 168 14 42 48 210 Tianshui Total 2 62.1 0 11 2630 / 34 168 6 24 0 0 6 10 40 192 14 42 161 664 Source of data: Data collected during field survey with the assistance of each PMOs

7.1.2 Resettlement Compensation Policies and Livelihood Restoration

(1)Resettlement Compensation Policies

Compensation Standard for the Collective-Owned Farm Land Based on the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Land Management, the Instructive Opinion on the Accomplishment of Land Acquisition and Resettlement Compensation Policies, the relevant policies and regulation implemented in Gansu on the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Land Management, the Announcement on the Comprehensive Land Prices for the Land Acquisition and the Unified Annual Production Value for the Acquired Land in Gansu issued by Gansu Provincial People’s Government(〔2017〕17#). After consultation with the affected people conducted, concerning the actual situation of the project affected area, this project has proposed the following land acquisition compensation standard and adopted the unified annual production compensation standard for the land acquisition in Gansu. The concrete standard of land acquisition compensation for this project is showed in the table 7-3. Table 7- 3 Compensation Standard for Acquisition of Collective-Owned Land Land Acquisition Sub Project Note Compensation(Yuan/Mu) This price is for the Class II area of Qin’an Qin’an County, 37439 County, covering Wuying township, Tianshui Municipal Longcheng township. Data source: Collected in the field survey with the assistance of PMOs.

Compensation Standard for Temporary Land Acquisition

The temporary occupation of land in this project is mostly due to the construction of the entry road of the project, during the period, temporary excavation and earth piles is needed, which will lead to the occupation of certain land during the construction. The compensation standard for the temporary land occupation of this project is based on the Announcement on the Compensation Standard Temporary of Land Acquisition for the Construction of Baoji-Lanzhou Passenger Railway Line (2013,10#) issued by Qin’an County National Land Resource Administration Bureau. The temporarily occupied land for the Proejct is collectively owned, which will be returned to the owners after the expriation of use period, and the construction units should restore it to the original status and pay the green-crop compensation fee. The standard of green- crop compensation is 65% of the unified yearly output value for land acquisition. Table 7-4 shows the details. Table 7-4: Compensation Standard for Temporary Occupation of Collective-owned Land in Construction

Compensation fee for the Temporary Land Sub Project Notes Occupation(Yuan/Mu)

Qin’an County, Tianshui 839 2 years in total

Wushan County, Tianshui 1733 2 years in total

Tongwei County, Dingxi 1043 2 years in total

Ganzhou District, Zhangye 1638 2 years in total

Data source：Data is collected from the local national land resources management units.

Compensation Standard for House Demolishing

Two subprojects (Tongwei and Zhangye) involve the issues of house demolish. The affected residential houses are all the residential houses constructed on the collective-owned land. The total area of residential houses which needs to be demolished is 4070 ㎡, with 12 households and 48 people affected. In according to Law of People’s Republic of China on Land Management, and Regulations on the Implementation of Law of Land Management, as well as other relevant policies and regulations issued by Gansu Provincial Government and local governments of subproject areas, this project takes the principle of whole overlapped prices. The compensation standard for the house demolishing in rural area for each Subproject is proposed, based on the actual status in each project county (district). Table 7-5 shows the details.

Table 7- 5: Compensation Standard for House Demolition in Rural Area (Yuan/Unit) Brick- Post and Civil Relocation Temporary Subprojec Simple Relocation concrete Panel engineering transition relocation t location structure reward structured structured structured zone subsidy cost Tongwei 2800/㎡ 2680/㎡ 1500/㎡ 500/㎡ 3000/H 20000/H 30000/H County Ganzhou 1400/㎡ 1300/㎡ 1000/㎡ 300/㎡ 3000/H / / District

Data source：Data is collected from local house demolishing administrative bureaus.

Compensation Standard for the Demolition of Non-Residential Houses

Currently, the compensation standard for the demolishing of Non-residential Houses under this project is as follows: Of which the compensation standard for the public house demolishing will float over 30% of the compensation standard for the demolishing of residential house. The compensation standard for the demolition of commercial shops is shown in Table 7-6.

Table 7-6: Compensation Standard for the Demolition of State-owned Non-residential Houses (Yuan/㎡) Brick- Brick- Simple concrete Wood Notes structure structure structure The project affected shops are all with commercial 1200 1000 800 business license. The ratio of compensation standard includes the loss of business suspension of the shops. Data source：Data is collected from local house demolishing administrative bureaus.

(2)Resettlement Livelihood Restoration

Income restoration for occupation of collective-owned land In order to reduce the adverse impact to rural residents by land acquisition, to timely restore their production and living standards, Gansu PPMO and the owner unit of each Subproject has proposed a diversified land acquisition and resettlement compensation scheme, according to the relevant policies and procedures required by the related laws and regulations of China and the World Bank’s involuntary resettlement policy, with fully consultation with the village committee and the affected households. 1) Compensation in cash

For Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject, it is planned to adopt the following methods in the distribution of land acquisition compensation in cash to the affected villages. The methods include that all compensation in cash should be directly paid to the affected households covering resettlement subsidy, land compensation and compensation for green crops. The village committee would not retain, and the land will not be reallocated. The compensation standard for the land acquisition of collective-owned land in the Subproject of Qin'an County is 37439 Yuan/Mu. The compensation standard for the land acquisition of the collective-owned construction land for construction should be 50% of that for the arable land. It means that the compensation standard for the collective-owned construction land is 18720 Yuan/mu. Based on the primary survey, all the affected 64 persons will be compensated wholly by currency. 2) Resettlement by land reallocation The affected households will not involve any land 3) Resettlement by social security: To assure the basic living standard for the land- deprived farmers, protect their legitimate rights and interests and eradicate their concerns, for the affected families with a certain amount of land loss, the people affected could join the relevant pension insurance system. In the project area of Qin’an County, the pension insurance for land-deprived farmers affected by the Project will implement relevant regulations specified in the Announcement on the Implementation Plan of Pension Insurance for the Farmers Affected by the Land Acquisition in Qin’an County Issued by Qin’an County People’s Government (2016) 90#. 4) Restoration Measures for the Temporary Land Acquisition

The implementation of this proposed project involves 11mu of land acquisition, with the requirement of 9200 Yuan of compensation for the temporary land acquisition, which would be directly paid to the owner affected by temporary land occupation during project construction. During the implementation on the temporary occupation land, it should strictly take measures protecting the surface soil and avoid the irreversible damage of vegetation occurred. During excavation, it should separately pile the surface soil (the suggested thickness ranges 30～50cm) and carry out water and soil erosion protection measures. After completion of the project construction, it should firstly backfill the underground soil, then cover the surface evenly and level the site to reduce the impact on the quality of the arable land. In order to reduce the impact of youth crops by land acquisition, the project generally starts after the harvest or before the sowing of crops, and the affected households would be notified in advance to reduce the losses of the affected households. 5)Resettlement of Demolished Residential Houses

The project involved rural residential houses are the demolishing of residential houses, which are caused by the construction of the calligraphy culture center in Tongwei county, Dingxi municipal and the construction of folklore village in Wulan Old Town of Ganzhou District, Zhangye Municipal. The total demolished rural residential houses amount to 4070 ㎡, with 12 households and 48 people affected. According to the field investigation and the consultation with the affected families, it is found that a considerable of the houses needed to be demolished in this project have been constructed longer, with simple structure and low anti-seismic level, suffering rough living conditions. Most of the affected families are willing to demolish their original houses. By the implementation of the reasonable compensation standards and feasible resettlement scheme prepared in this project, it would effectively improve the living conditions and environment of affected families. For the six rural residents affected by the Tongwei project, the government did not provide housing resettlement for these households. It does not need to take property right replacement in the project, because of their compensation resettlement was conducted in currency. Among the 6 rural residents affected by the Zhangye project, since the 6 rural residents have bought their houses in the residential community of the village, so the affected 6 rural residents do not need to be resettled by property rights, but by currency. 6)Resettlement of Demolished Non-Residential Buildings

There are 1 public unit and 6 commercial shops involving in the demolishing of non-residential building during the construction of the project, which are all caused by the implementation of Zhangye Subproject. The land acquisition is involved in the demolishing of non-residential buildings on the state-owned land. The standard of compensation for the demolishing in this project is to float 30% on the standard of compensation for the demolishing of residential houses. The compensation standard for the demolishing of 6 commercial shops is individually 12000Yuan/㎡ for the brick-concrete structured building, 10000yuan/㎡ for the post and panel structure, and 8000yuan/㎡ for the simple-structured building. 7.2 Social Impact Assessment and Mitigation Measures 7.2.1 Positive Impacts

Generally, based on the field survey and the statistics from 401 questionnaires survey, the residents in the project areas of the 11 Subprojects response that the implementation of the project would have 8 aspects of positive impact as follows: (1) 17.7% of interviewed residents believes that the implementation of the project would increase job opportunity in the project area; (2) 16.6% of interviewees believes that the implementation of the project would promote the development of tourism in local economy; (3) 16.45% of interviewees thinks that the project construction would be good of the local economic development; (4) 13.6% of interviewees believes that the project implementation would be helpful of the inheritance and protection of local cultural heritages; (5) 13.4% of the interviewees thinks that project implementation would be good of the income generation for local poor population; (6) 8.7% of interviewed residents believes that the project implementation would improve residential environment for local residents; (7) 8.2% of population thinks that the project implementation would significantly improve infrastructure facilities in the project area.

(1) Promote the regional economic development and increase job opportunities Base on the field survey, it notices that local residents are optimistic to the impact brought by the project implementation in mobilizing local economy growth. The construction of project would greatly improve the social environmental condition in the project area, which would attract more enterprises with advantages and characteristic to stay in the scenic area, to promote the regional development and poverty eradication and support low-income groups to increase income in the project area. More importantly, the construction of project would mobilize the folk craftsmen to be rich. The completion of Tianshui Carved Lacquerware Park would attract a great number of skillful craftsmen, who could conduct the technical work related with the lacquerware carving skills, such as the process of paining lacquer etc. The responsible chief of the Park said that it would give priority in attracting local craftsmen and mobilize these craftsmen to be rich by their skills. By conducting training to the villagers on lacquer carving skills provided by these craftsmen, it would not only provide job opportunities to them, but also could help the villagers to obtain the livelihood skills, and even more importance is to inherit the unique traditional skills. In addition, during project construction and operation period, it would create some non-technical job vacancies that should preferentially provide to the surplus labor forces in the project area or surrounding the project areas. Special priority should be given to the physically capable labor forces among the vulnerable groups, such as women, elders or the poor, to help these vulnerable groups get rid of poverty as sooner as possible. (2) Improve infrastructure and increase local residents’ living standard The infrastructure in most project areas, such as water, electricity, roads and heating, is not functional or completed. Public service is in short supply and the living environment urgently needs to be improved. The construction of this project will greatly improve the infrastructure conditions in residential areas, provide more and better public service for local residents, partially solve the inconvenience in residents' life, improve the residents' quality of life and improve the happiness of residents, and also leave a good impression on tourists in the surrounding scenic spots of the project area. (3) Develop cultural tourism resources and reduce poverty in the project area Most of the project areas where there is a need of cultural tourism development and poverty alleviation are located in contiguous mountainous areas, and have very high quality cultural resources, tourism resources and natural ecological environment. The resource endowment of the project area determines that poverty alleviation by cultural tourism industry is an effective way to promote the poor groups to get rid of poverty and become rich. The project construction would further promote the integration of cultural resources and tourism industry, based on the existing integrated culture-tourism strategic measures. It aims further explore cultural resources in the project areas, to optimize the environment of reducing poverty by the development of cultural resource, and to upgrade the tourism service quality and highlight the characteristics of local culture tourism resources, and enrich cultural tourism products, so as to widen the channel of eradicating poverty by developing cultural tourism. In accordance with the strategic development direction of "diversified promotion, industrialized development, characteristic construction, and standardized management" of the cultural tourism industry to enrich the people, it has promoted the new achievement by the implementation of the poverty alleviation strategy of developing

tourism industry in the project area. It plans to mobilize farmers to increase income and become rich and accelerate the poor people in the project area to get rid of poverty and become well off. (4)Increase the residents’ awareness on protecting cultural heritages There are abundant of cultural resources, including Majiayao relics in Lintao County, Dadiwan relics in Qin’an County, Ming-and Qing Grain Warehouse and the General’s Mansion Complex in Zhangye Municipal, as well as Xuanquanzhi Posthouse and its associated relics landscape in Dunhuang etc. These cultural relics have historically demonstrated the civilization processes of Chinese nation and inherit the cultures of excellent traditional cultivation and Utensil-making culture and provide the witness of the harmonious integration spirit of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Regrettably, however, there is only a little of local people knew about it. Some local residents even do not know that there is such a valuable physical cultural heritage nearby. To some extent, such ignorance may lead to the unintentional destruction of the heritage by residents, which will cause irreparable losses. In the aspect of intangible cultural heritage protection, in some project areas, such as the lacquerware carving technique in Maiji District, Ditty in Zhangye Municipal and Calligraphy in Tongwei County, have not yet reached the requirements of intangible cultural heritage protection and utilization. In addition, some of the ancient traditional courtyards in the project area enjoy a history of hundreds of years and are in disrepair due to years of exposure to the sun. The illegal buildings constructed by local residents in the courtyards, has caused certain damage to the ancient courtyards. The construction of the project will enable these hidden and unknown heritages to be discovered, whose cultural heritage and historical values should be fully developed. Furthermore, during the operation of the project, it will enable local residents to further understand the historical values of these heritages, to improve the awareness of heritage protection for local residents. (5)Promote women’s participation in the project, and upgrade the status of women in the family In project area, the ordinary works for women is to do housework at home, take care elders family members, farming etc. Only a few of women involve in the tertiary industry, such as working in restaurants, hotels etc. In generally, the participation of women in social activities is quite lower. However, most of male family members go to city as immigrant workers for earning money, who are the main labor force in the families. In the project area, the traditional family division of labor mode is the male still plays the dominated role in earning money out of the family, and female plays the key role in taking care of family member. Some women in the project area express that they also wish to earn money of working out, but there are very limited vacancies for female. In the family, female plays more roles, such as take care of elders, children etc, which is impossible for them to get away of seeking job opportunities. As a result, women have no choice but to stay at home as housewife, with a lower reputation in the family. Men seldom help them to do housework and so on. The construction of project could not only give priority to local employment and help women find employment nearby, but also could alleviate the conflict between work and family, improve women's social labor participation rate, increase family income and promote the improvement of women's family status in the project area. (6) Change farmer’s ideology and promote of rural and urban integration At present, rural tourism industry is booming in each project area, which has

strongly encouraged villagers to establish farmer’s restaurant, home stay and catering, etc. Through initiating the characterized rural tourism, it aims to develop the tertiary industry and motive farmers out of poverty and enriched. Currently, some residents in the project areas of Qin’an County, Lintao County, Maiji District, Tongwei County etc have initiated the industry of the Home Stay, Farmer’s Restaurant etc. However, these rural industries are mostly managed by villagers independently, with small quantity and scale and relatively scattered, and their social and economic benefits are limited. With the construction and operation of the project, the residents of the project area will get the support of microcredit to develop small and micro businesses such as Farmer’s Restaurant, Home Stay and Catering. Associated with the implementation of the project, such as the dispersible Farmer’s Restaurants operated in Hekou Village of Lintao County, can also be motivated to the development path of fast growing, branding development. The rural characterized tourism development in the project area will get stronger, which would attract a great number of tourists to visit the project areas. It will be greatly beneficial to form the benign interaction between the urban and rural, mutually promote interaction, the good situation of harmonious development, to realize the urban and rural integration, promote the development of urbanization. (7) Promote cultural inheritance and innovation, and increase the confidence of Chinese Culture The construction of this project takes cultural inheritance and innovation as the theme. It invests the special funds to build special research and training institutions, and conducts academic exchanges based on cultural studies. Microcredit is used to support intangible cultural heritage inheritors, especially the low-income inheritors to impart skills; Support folk artistes who are highly skilled but not well known to develop small and micro businesses. For example, in Tongwei County, as a famous "painting and calligraphy city" in China, most local residents can draw by themselves. Ranging from the elders of 80 years old to the children younger than 6 years old, no matter literate or illiterate, each of them could draw a beautiful paining. There i even more such kind of artists in the civil society. In addition to Tongwei County, in the project areas, there are plenty of artists (craftsman), including the carved lacquer artists in Maiji District, Tianshui Municipal, the paper-cutting artists in Zhangye Municipal and night pearl artists in Jiuquan Municipal. These intangible cultural heritage inheritors have inherited the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, which is priceless treasure left by our ancestors to the descendants and enable the generations of the Chinese nation to be confident with the culture. The construction of the project will enlarge the impact and power of these excellent traditional cultures, based on the originals. By supporting these old artists with unique traditional skills, it would train the inheritors of next generations, to inherit skills and protect the excellent traditional cultures of Chinese Nations, so as to expand the cultural transmission of national and international influence power and support the construction of Gansu province with great advantages in cultural resources, and to strengthen the cultural confidence. 7.2.2 Negative Impacts

(1) The possible impacts caused by LAR in project construction Land Acquisition Impacts：The construction of project includes the construction of Folklore Arts Center in Tongwei County, Majiayao Culture Research Center, Dadiwan Relics Exhibition Center, some parking plots, tourist visiting and viewing center etc, which needs to acquire collective-owned land and occupy the state-owned land. Based

on the statistics, there are totally 119 households and 414 people affected by the permanent land acquisition in project construction. It needs to acquire the collective- owned land 542.52mu, reallocate state-owned land 12419.8mu, temporary land acquisition of 44mu, with 53 households and 167 people affected. The land acquisition will force them to face the problem of their decreasing reliance of land resources for livelihood. The sustainable income from harvest of land is reducing or hardly continuing, which have seriously threatened their capital of livelihoods. It requires that the early identification should be conducted on the households and quantity affected by the permanent land acquisition and should inform the villagers on the possible impact by the project construction in advance. The affected persons shall be fully compensated according to the existing policies, and their opinions and suggestions shall be solicited in a timely manner, to establish an appropriate response mechanism for possible and unexpected problems. Impact of houses demolishing：except the land acquisition, the project construction still involves in houses demolishing, of which the demolishing of rural residential houses 27 households and 116 people affected, the demolishing of enterprise and individual households 9 households and 22 people affected, without involvement of demolishing urban residential houses. (2) The potential traffic safety risks for the construction or broadening of roads passing the village Project construction activities involve the construction of landscape avenue, the expansion of the road through the village, either, or along several villages. As the project construction and operation, the opening of scenic spots and the accomplishment of facilities, the visitors flow rate and traffic volume will increase greatly. The huge traffic volume will pose a potential threat to the safety of the surrounding villagers, especially the elderly, children and women. However, the awareness of traffic safety for the villagers still remains in the status of the country road with less vehicles but safety, and short in safety knowledge and risks prevention awareness. Due to lack of safety knowledge and precaution consciousness, villagers with less traffic safety awareness will increase the traffic risks during construction. The local traffic accident rate is likely to increase due to the construction activities. (3) Microcredit in the project may increase the psychological pressure and capacity of the borrower The supporting policies of this project include micro credit, which is used to help the residents in the project area to carry out household scaled breeding, planting, repairing houses or developing small and micro businesses with low interest. But even if the interest rate on such loans is far lower than that of commercial Banks, it is still a new liability for residents. Whether it is household-based farming or planting, or the operation of small and micro businesses, there are great uncertainties, market changes and profit space analysis, which are unfamiliar to the residents of the project area. For example, the villagers in Hekou village, Majiayao village, Lintao County, and Shaodian village in Qin'an County are trapped in the mountain village all the year round. They are mostly engaged in the work of manual labor, and their cultural level is not very high. Their ability to run a small and micro business independently is limited, which makes local villagers worry that if the project is not profitable and they do not know when they will be able to repay the loan, microcredit will become a growing debt burden. Thus, for the residents of the project area, if they do not have a 100 percent chance

of making a profit, microfinance will not lift them out of poverty, but will put them under pressure to borrow. And with this debt still coming from the World Bank, the psychological pressure is even greater. (4) The potential impact of the inflow of foreign labor in the construction process During the project construction, the 10 of Subprojects cover wide areas, with detailed project activities and large quantity of civil work, etc, which needs to organize professional construction team to carry out construction. However, once the professional construction team could not meet the requirement of the qualification and construction in project areas, it will need input a certain amount of labors outside of the project area (province, city and county). It expects to input about 680 labors outside of the project area and about 916 labors recruited locally. The considerable number of migrant construction workers will be resident in the project area, and the intensity of communication and interaction with local residents increases, which will cause certain social and health risks. For example, in terms of health and hygiene of population, some epidemic diseases, some infectious diseases (including AIDS, influenza, etc.) have conditions for transmission and spread. At the same time, the lack of knowledge about the local social culture and traditional customs of the project area may cause unintentional violation of local social and cultural customs (including religious belief, sacred mountain, sacred water, sacred tree, wedding and funeral festival customs, etc.), which will lead to potential crisis and disturbance. (5) The possible impact on natural and social environment during project construction, implementation and operation The residents in the project areas believes that the construction of the project might cause the following negative impacts: 22.4% of interviewees thinks that the construction of project would generate noise impact during project construction; 21.4% of local residents thinks that the construction of project would bring dusts pollution; 14.2% of interviewees beliefs that the project construction will generate construction waste and the municipal waste disposed by construction personnel's; 9.7% of residents believe that the construction of the project will have an impact on the utilities (water, electricity and road) around the project site；8.8% of interviewed residents thinks that the construction of project would affect the cultural relics and historical buildings; 7.6% of interviewees thinks that the project will affect business along the route. In addition, the residents of the project area also think that it might cause the possible impacts after project implementation. Of which the project impacts include vehicle exhaust emissions along the road, accounting for 17.9%; 17.4% of residents believe that the municipal waste will be disposed in the scenic spot; 12% of the residents will lose part of the land, and 10.7% of the residents are worried that the construction of the project will increase their family expenditure. Due to the employment opportunities provided by the project, migrant population will flow into the local work place and the large influx of tourists, 8.9% of residents in the project area are worried that the project may cause the communication conflict between migrant population and local residents after the project is completed. In addition, due to the nature of this project is not universal, but only demonstration, so not all regions can enjoy the benefits brought by the project. Therefore, it is inevitable to cause comparison and conflict between villages and increase conflicts among villagers. The survey results show that 5% of respondents have such concerns.

7.3 Social Action Plan Regarding the potential negative impact of the project on social and women, based on the fully public consultation conducted among PMOs, owner of project, implementation unit and relevant department, as well as local residents, it has prepared a pragmatic Social Action Plan and Social Gender Action Plan. See table 7-7 for details.

Table 7-7 Social Action Plan and Social Gender Action Plan Source of Project Risks Concrete Measures and Actions Implementer Schedule Monitoring indicator fund A. Prepare detailed resettlement action plan (RAP) B. Special attentions should be paid on the vulnerable groups including Project 1. Risks which female head of household, households enjoying the minimum living PMOs, owner of preparation might occur guarantee, households enjoying the five guarantees on how to use the project, unit of period, during house resettlement compensation to restore their livelihood, during the preparing RAP, Project fund a. Resettlement Action Plan (RAP); project demolish and implementation of RAP; external construction land acquisition C. It should provide temporary residential place to the affected residents monitoring unit. period during the restoration of houses or reduce relevant cost and the possible re-rental. PMOs, designing A. Speed bumps are set at important road sections. Project A The distribution and layout of road units, traffic Project 2. Risks which B. Installation of traffic lights and monitoring equipment; preparation safety auxiliary facilities; police department, fund; might occur C. Set up warning signs and road signage in prominent places on the road; period, B. Places of setting warning signs and road construction unit, department traffic D. Popularize the traffic safety knowledge, carry out lecture on the traffic project signage; traffic financial transportation safety knowledge, and improve the safety awareness of the residents in construction C. The schedule, places and times on the transportation budget the project area. period publicity of traffic safety knowledge. bureau A. Formulate preferential policies for interest-free or extended repayment PMOs, Financial A. Number of people enjoying preferential 3. Risks from the cycle of micro loans to the poor groups such as households enjoying the Bureau, Poverty Project policies and amount of reduction or repayment of minimum living guarantee; Reduction Office, Project fund; exemption; micro loan for B. Set up file CARDS for micro-credit customers to accurately track the Civil Affair operation department B. Data and use of the archived customers the poor flow of loans; Bureau, and period financial of the micro loans; households, and C. Extend the repayment cycle; Financial Control budget C. Time, place and number of participants their endurance. D. A hearing should be held on the microcredit procedures, interest and Group of the hearing. repayment cycle for public comments. A. In the recruitment of project personnel at all levels, priority should be PMOs, Contracted A. Proportion of the women and poor given to recruiting certain female members to facilitate the development 4. Employment unit, Labor groups engaged in non-technical jobs in the of women-related work; opportunities Administrative Budget of construction process of the project; B. In the small and micro businesses built by the project, a certain number Project provided to the Bureau, the B. Number of women and poor groups of female staff should be recruited, such as waiters, cleaners, chefs, etc.; construction vulnerable Community/ contracted employed in public welfare jobs provided C. It should provide training opportunities for the recruitment and period groups, such as village committee, unit during the operation of the project; employment of women; women, poor etc women in project C. Place, content and schedule of training D. Ensure that non-technical employment opportunities are given priority area for female employees or other employees. to vulnerable groups, including women, on the basis of full respect for

Source of Project Risks Concrete Measures and Actions Implementer Schedule Monitoring indicator fund women's wishes during project construction; E. According to the actual situation of work, it should provide labor remuneration not lower than the local minimum wage, equal pay for equal work, and give certain subsidies for environmental supervision. A. The number of public consultation and the number of women attending in the early A. In public participation activities in the pre-project preparation stage, it stage of the project, and the meeting should ensure that the participation rate of women is not less than 50%; Designing minutes; B. The distribution of land compensation shall be signed by both the institute, B. It should ensure the number, proportion, husband and wife of the land expropriated family, and then the allocation construction unit, feedback and suggestions of female shall be made to the household to ensure the women's right to know and project owner, members in the community participation share; PMOs, House and maintenance team at the construction C. At the operation and maintenance stage of the project, it should ensure Construction 5. Promotion of stage; that at least one female is required in the project organization and Bureau, Civil women’s Constructio Project C. The signature of the female in family implementation organization (project office, construction unit, etc.) at all Affair Bureau, participation in n Period ； budget, should be ensured when signing the land levels; Transportation project during government compensation payment procedures; D. In carrying out project information publicity, it should take fully Bureau, Women’s Operation all stage of the budget; D. In the operation and maintenance stage, concern of the demand of women and their characteristics of labor force, Federation, period. project. it should ensure female members and their in preparing the schedule, place and forms of the publicity activities, and Community number in the implementation agencies of be carried out in their free time; /township/village all levels of project organizations; F. Disseminate information in a manner that is easily accepted by women committee, E. Carry out project information publicity in the light of their educational level, cognitive ability, etc.; women and and training in the schedule, place and G. Training of women on small and micro-enterprise operational vulnerable groups manner which should be acceptable to management techniques, as well as the inheritance of intangible culture in the project area. women; heritage. F. Number of women participating in skills training. A. Efforts should be made to strengthen education and publicity on health Costs of A. Terms of the construction contract and and HIV prevention, including the prevention of AIDS and other Contractor, county project its implementation. infectious diseases, which should be included in the contract documents. health bureau, construction B. Public safety and AIDS prevention B. Public Health and AIDS prevention education should be incorporated project owner, contract; 6. Measures of During training courses and number of into the engineering contract, and education promotion of employees in enterprise, budget of mitigating the project participants. the industrial park should be effectively implemented; women’s county construction C. number of health clinics. potential social C. Physical examination for project construction workers should be federation, Health period D. The number of brochures, posters and crisis conducted (e.g., setting up temporary medical room, making full use of relevant Bureau, and photo albums on the knowledge of local local medical resources, etc.); townships, village County social and cultural custom in the D. Carry out a variety of publicity activities on AIDS prevention, such as etc. Culture construction phase. the preparation and delivery of brochures, posters, photo albums, etc.; Bureau

Source of Project Risks Concrete Measures and Actions Implementer Schedule Monitoring indicator fund E. Invite respected elders or knowledgeable community cadres in the project area to carry out publicity activities on local social and cultural customs, by production of brochures, posters, photo albums, etc. A. When the transport vehicle passes by or passes through the village, it should be slowed down and set a warning signage at the roadside; A. Avoid the impact on surrounding crops and villagers' personal safety B. Daily passenger flow during by the vehicles transporting construction materials during construction. construction; C. The number of complaints about B. Minimize the impact on normal visitors surrounding scenic spots by environmental pollution (including dust the construction of project; 7. Risks during Preparation and noise) during construction and the C. Take measures to reduce noise pollution and control noise produced Cost for the project PMOs, Project period; resolution of such complaints; from construction sites and traffic roads; ESMP of construction Construction Unit Constructio D. The safety management during D. Regularly spray water on the access roads and construction footpaths the project period. n period construction will be integrated into the to prevent dust pollution; contract management; Publicity and E. Set up the traffic signage of STOP in the populated area passing by education of safety awareness to vehicles, and avoid night working as far as possible.； construction personnel must be carried

out; E. number of notices and warning signs installed during construction and number of damaged public facilities repaired in a timely manner.

VIII Cumulative Impact Assessment

8.1 Characteristics of Cumulative Impacts for the Project 1. The project covers 8 subprojects that are scattered in Gansu, so there is no cumulative impact generated between the subprojects. These subprojects cover 7 counties/districts, traversing the whole province along the Silk Road, and involving various basins, ecosystems, and resource endowment. However, each subproject’s environmental impacts will be within a limited scope. For example, a subproject’s impacts on water environment can only be accumulated in the same river basin, and it is impossible to accumulate the impacts across river basins. The impacts on the ecosystem are also limited to a certain scope within the construction area and its vicinity. The impact on the important objects, transportation facilities, infrastructure and social environment is only limited to the area around the project area. As the distance between the sub-projects of this project is more than a few hundred kilometers, and the shortest distance between two sub-projects is more than 20 kilometers, and they are divided into different river basins, the mutual effect among the sub-projects will not be cumulative. Based on the above analysis, the cumulative impact assessment (CIA) of this project is aiming to each subproject, focusing on the obvious cumulative impacts produced during the subprojects’ implementation. It is to screen the Subprojects which might have significant cumulative impact to the surrounding to carry out relative cumulative impact assessment. In addition, for an individual subproject, its construction activities may involve various areas, therefore in this chapter CIA will also cover the subprojects which has cumulative impacts in different areas. 2. Cumulative impact is difficult to be quantified Comparing with the measurable environmental impact assessment to the infrastructure construction projects, such as flood control, and environment pollution treatment projects etc., it is difficult to measure or quantify the environmental impact caused by the culture related project construction. Because the culture related project would not only bring the environmental impact by the construction of its own activities, but also bring more impacts on environmental quality, society, economy, natural resources and infrastructure by attracting visitors or infecting tertiary industry. However, most of the impacts are not measurable, such as social and economic impacts, and the impacts on ambient air etc. Therefore, semi-quantitative assessment method is used to carry out CIA in this report by applying the VEC identified by relevant experts, government representatives and other public. 8.2 CIA Methodology In view of the above characteristics of cumulative impact of this project, this chapter conducts cumulative impact assessment by building an Environmental Carrying Capacity Assessment Index System. A set of environmental carrying capacity Assessment system will be constituted by the VEC to those elements which are highly affected by the project construction activities and related planning, and regional development restriction. Relevant experts, government representatives and other public will assign corresponding credits to each VEC in the way of scoring. The sum of credits of each VEC represents the size of the environmental carrying capacity of the

assessment area. The following information can be obtained from the scoring results: 1. The level of existing environmental carrying capacity and restrictive factors in the assessment area; 2. The level of environmental carrying capacity level and restrictive factors in the assessment area; 3. Based on the disparity of environmental carrying capacity level in the planning year and existing year, it can explain the degree of cumulative environmental impact brought by the relevant planning or the project activities under construction. 4. Based on the credits of each VEC, environmental carrying capacity level and cumulative impact degree in the planning year, it could identify the main restrictive factors in the assessment areas and propose the targeted mitigation measures. 8.3 Subprojects Screening for CIA This project consists of 8 subprojects. CIA will be done to each subproject that may have a cumulative impact on peripheral related activities and involve multiple sub- projects that may have a cumulative impact area. The details are shown in table 8.3-1.

Table 8.3-1 Subprojects Screening for CIA Sub projects If CIA is needed Explanations Dadiwan Major Relic Site, The subproject contains the area of Dadiwan and the area of the Confucius Temple and Wuying town, with the distance of 5km between them, which Shangguan Ming- and Yes are connected by the same river and the same traffic trunk. It Qing-Dynasty Old Street will have a certain cumulative impact between the two areas. in Qin’an Tianshui Yellow River Without involvement of other planning and project under Lacquerware Intangible No construction. Heritage Center The planned area of The Planning for the Construction of Majiayao Color Pottery Majiayao Ink Stone Town with Special Characteristic(2016- Culture Center and Major Yes 2030)is adjacent to the project areas, whose planning and Relic Site in Lintao project under construction might produce cumulative impact of the project. It belongs to the cultural arts center project, basically without Tongwei Calligraphy and environmental impact, and not involved in the key Painting Center and Street No environmental sensitive area, and without any implemented in Dingxi project which might have significant environmental impact of surroundings. Near the project area(Wulan Old Town), it involves the Project Zhangye Subproject Yes of Jiuqu Yellow River Light Array in Wulan Old Town, which may have a certain cumulative environmental impact. This project is a new research center and library project, which Jiuquan Silk Road has no impact on the environment and no obvious impact on the Cultural Research and No surrounding environment. There is no relevant planning or Library project under construction surrounding project area. Xuanquanzhi Posthouse and its associated cultural There is no relevant planning or project under construction landscape (UNESCO No surrounding project area. World Heritage Property) in Dunhuang Shandan Jade Cultural There is no relevant planning or project under construction No Towns in Tianshui surrounding project area. Based on table 8.3-1, among 8 Subprojects of this project, only Majiayao Cultural Research Center and Majiayao Ruin in Lintao, Zhangye Subproject might have cumulative environmental impact caused by the surrounding relevant planning or

project under construction; Dadiwan Ancient Ruin, Longcheng Ancient Town and Shangguan Ming- and Qing-Dynasty Old Street in Qin’an County involves 2 project areas, which might produce cumulative environmental impact. Thus, it would only carry out the cumulative environmental impact assessment to the above mentioned 3 Subprojects in this chapter. 8.4 CIA for Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject

8.4.1 Key VECs and Assessment Indicators

1. The identification of Key VEC In the views of environmental elements (water environment, air ambient, acoustic environment, ecological environment), key environmental sensitive receptors (cultural relics protection unit, water sources protection areas etc.), infrastructure carrying capacity(traffic facilities, solid garbage disposal facilities, drainage facilities), and social elements etc., it has taken the 4 aspects to identify the key VECs. From the views of environmental factors, concerning the project area mainly is located in the build-up area, without rare endangered plants and animals surrounding the project area, in addition to its less impact on air ambient, acoustic environment, the pollution situation of the Qingshui River was chosen as the Key VEC. In the view of key sensitive receptors, the national-level Cultural Relics Protection Unit – Dadiwan Relics was selected as the key VEC. From the views of infrastructure carrying capacity, since the county roadway of 462# has been shared both for the two project areas of the Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject, it takes the degree of congestion for the county roadway 462# as the key VEC. Because there is no facility for solid waste disposal around the project area, which only have to rely on Municipal Garbage Landfill in Lianhua Township under construction with small capacity for the disposal. It takes the carrying capacity of solid garbage disposal facilities as the key VEC for assessment. The carrying capacity of drainage facility has been reflected by the situation of pollution for Qingshui River, which is not taken as the key VEC for assessment. Regarding social environment, the satisfaction of local residents was chosen as the key VEC. 2. Assessment Indicators According to the identified key VEC, the table of 8.4-1 shows the indicator system of environmental carrying capacity assessment for the Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject. Table 8.4-1 Scoring Criteria for Environmental Carrying Capacity Assessment for Qin’an Subproject Credit of VEC 1 2 3 4 5 Situation of Seriously exceed A certain degree The degree of Slightly Hardly pollution for the standard, of excessing impact is impacted impacted Qingshui River which needs to be standard acceptable treated Situation of Cultural relics A certain degree The impact is Slightly Hardly Dadiwan Relics destroyed of cultural relics acceptable, impacted impacted impacted seriously, which destroyed, which needs to needs to be which needs to enhance restored control the management. number of

visitors Carrying No waste Waste facilities The remaining There is a Sufficient capacity for the treatment are nearly storage capacity certain storage remaining solid garbage facilities, waste saturated and of waste capacity, which processing disposal randomly stacked need to be treatment can meet the capacity to facilities expanded facilities only demand of 5 meet 10 years meets the needs years of demand of 3-5 years. Degree of traffic Traffic Traffic Traffic Slightly Un-obstructed jam congestion is congestion is congestion is impacted for severe and often serious and acceptable driving jammed needs to be conducted Satisfaction of Very unsatisfied Not satisfied General Satisfied Very satisfied local residents Environmental With the Credit above 20, which means the environmental carrying capacity is very good； Carrying credit ranges between 15-20, which means the environmental carrying capacity is general; Capacity credit ranges between 10-15, which means the environmental carrying capacity is fragile; and (total Score of credit less than 10, which means the environmental carrying capacity is very fragile. VEC) Degree of The score of environmental carrying capacity (VEC) in 2025 minutes the score of VEC cumulative currently： “+” represents the positive impact; “-” represents the negative impact. impact

8.4.2 Scoping of CIA

1. Spatial Scope of CIA The cumulative impacts generated in operation period in Longcheng and Wuying subareas are the focus of the CIA for Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject. Thus, the spatial scope of assessment is identified in the valley of Qingshui River within the scope of 10km in length and 1.2km in width starting from the west side of Wuying Township to the east side of Longcheng Township, and the construction restricted area of overall Dadiwan Relics. Table 8.4-1 shows the details. The baseline year for the cumulative impact assessment is 2017, with the time span of assessment of cumulative impact ranges from 2018 to 2025. The reason is that this proposed project only could be completed the construction and put into operation starting from 2025, therefore cumulative impact is necessary.

Figure 8.4-1The Scope of CIA for the Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject 2. Relevant activities The relevant activities are mainly the proposed project activities which would be implemented in the area of Longcheng Township and area of Dadiwan (Wuying Township) of the Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject. It has been clearly described in the

section of 2.2.2 of Chapter II.

8.4.3 Results of CIA and Mitigation Measures

1. Results of CIA Table 8.4-2 shows the result of CIA for the 2 subareas of the Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject. The VEC baseline was scored based on the baseline survey and local public consultation conducted by EIA team. The VEC for 2025 was scored by the stakeholders including local residents, relevant experts and representatives of government departments. Table 8.4-2 Results of Environmental Carrying Capacity Assessment Score of Score of Cumulative Impact Degree(Score of VEC in Credit of VEC VEC VEC in 2025 minutes Score of VEC currently2025) baseline 2025 Situation of pollution for Qingshui 2 4 +2 River Dadiwan relics impacted 4 3 -1 Carrying capacity for the disposal of 1 2 1 solid waste Degree of traffic jam 5 3 -2 Satisfaction of local residents 2 4 +2 Environmental Carrying Capacity 14 16 +2 (total Score of VEC) Based on table 8.4-2, the baseline status of environmental carrying capacity for the Longcheng subarea is very poor. The main reasons include: (1) due to the lack of drainage facilities, the discharged sewage has seriously polluted Qingshui River; (2) Within the scope of assessment, there are no garbage disposal facilities. At present, garbage is randomly dumped, resulting in certain level of pollution。 The environmental carrying capacity for 2025 is fair. The main restricting factors include that the linked Lianhua Township Landfill will have no capacity by 2025, and the capacity of solid waste disposal facilities is insufficient. Overall, there will be positive cumulative impacts generated in the two subareas of the Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject. Despite that the construction in the two subareas would increase traffic congestion for county roadway of X462#, and cause slight impacts on the relics of Dadiwan, but the drainage network and WWTPs built in the two subareas would enable sewage produced by residents in Wuying Township and Longcheng Township to be timely collected and treated, to some extent, which would greatly improve the water environmental quality on the Qingshui River. Therefore, generally, the environmental carrying capacity in the assessment scope is improving. 2. Safeguard measures Since Lianhua Township Landfill will not have enough capacity by in 2025, it suggests that the relevant departments in Qin’an County should plan and construct a set of landfills near the subproject area before 2025. 8.5 CIA for Lintao Majiayao Subproject

8.5.1 Key VECs and Assessment Indicators

1. Identification of key VEC

From the view of environmental element, it only takes the situation of pollution for Taohe River as the key VEC. As sensitive areas, the national-level Cultural Relics Protection Units – Majiayao Relics, and the drinking water source protection area for Lintao County were chosen as the key VECs. Considering the infrastructure carrying capacity and the development plan of the Majiayao Ink Stone Town near the subproject area, the traffic congestion in X103 highway was chosen as the key VEC because the subproject is close to this highway. From the view of social environment, it takes the satisfaction of local residents as the key VEC. 2. Environmental Carrying Capacity Assessment Indicators According to the identified key VECs, the table of 8.5-1 shows the environmental carrying capacity assessment indicators. Table 8.5-1 Environmental Carrying Capacity Assessment Indicators Credit of VEC 1 2 3 4 5 Situation of Seriously exceed A certain degree of The degree of Slightly Hardly pollution for the the standard, excessing standard impact is impacted impacted Taohe River which needs to be acceptable treated Impact to Majiayao Cultural relics A certain degree of The impact is Slightly Hardly Cultural relics destroyed cultural relics acceptable, impacted impacted seriously, which destroyed, which which needs to needs to be needs to control the enhance restored number of visitors management. Situation of Water source With a Hardly with pollution for the protection area With significant The potential few of a few of water source has been potential pollution risks of potential potential protection area of significantly risks pollution are risks of risks of downtown in polluted acceptable pollution pollution Lintao County Traffic congestion Traffic congestion Traffic congestion is Traffic Slightly Un- is severe and serious and needs to congestion is impacted obstructed often jammed be conducted acceptable for driving Satisfaction of local Satisfied Very residents Very unsatisfied Not satisfied General satisfied Environmental With the Credit above 20, which means the environmental carrying capacity is very good； Carrying Capacity credit ranges between 15-20, which means the environmental carrying capacity is general; (total Score of credit ranges between 10-15, which means the environmental carrying capacity is fragile; VEC) and credit less than 10, which means the environmental carrying capacity is very fragile. Degree of The score of environmental carrying capacity (VEC) in 2025 minutes the score of VEC cumulative impact currently： “+” represents the positive impact; “-” represents the negative impact.

8.5.2 Spatial Scope and Relevant Activities

1. Spatial Scope of CIA The possible cumulative impacts caused by the Lintao Majiayao Subproject and the planning activities in the Majiayao Ink Stone Town Construction Plan (see figure 8.5-1 for the planning area) have been assessed. Thus, it selects the spatial scope for assessment at the involved area of the Lintao Majiayao Subproject and the related activities in the Planning of Majiayao Ink Stone Town Construction. The assessment scope ranges from Majiayao Relics in the south to Hejiazui Village in the north, and the Taohe River in the east to the West Mountain in the west. Table 8.5-1 shows the concrete

assessment scope on cumulative impact. The baseline year for the cumulative impact assessment is 2017. The time span of cumulative impact assessment ranges from 2018 to 2030, in order to keep consistence with the planning period of the Planning of Majiayao Ink Stone Town Construction (2016-2030).

Figure 8.5-1: Scope of Cumulative Impact Assessment for Lintao Majiayao Subproject 2. Relevant projects under construction and planning The table of 8.4-2 shows the planning activities in the Majiayao Ink Stone Town Construction Plan (2016-2030). Table 8.5-2 Planning Activities in the Majiayao Ink Stone Town Construction Plan (2016-2030) No Name of project Area planned Function Progress 1 Majiayao cultural industry park 14.36ha Commercial and pottery Completed projects center 2 Majiayao Pottery Town Live Out 101ha Live Out Old Age Under construction Old Age Leisurely Leisurely Industry, Commercial Industry 3 National Sub-Plateau Sports 66ha Physical Training Base Completed Training Base 4 Tangyuan Fragrance Spring 23.7ha Residential House, Under construction Commercial Street 5 Wolong Bay Town 25.5ha Live Out Old Age Under construction Leisurely, Tourism Holiday, Entertainment 6 Huiyi Home Farm 50ha Countryside Complex for Planning the Plantation of Vegetable and Peony etc 7 Gansu Agriculture University 26.7ha Plantation Practical Farm Planning practical base

8.5.3 Results of CIA and Mitigation Measures

1. Results of CIA Table 8.5-2 shows the result of CIA for the Lintao Majiayao Subproject and the Majiayao Ink Stone Town Plan. The score of VEC baseline is the comprehensive result based on the baseline survey and local public consultation conducted by EIA team. The impact degree of VEC in 2030 is the average score made by the publics (including local residents, relevant experts and representatives of government department).

Table 8.5-2 Results of Environmental Carrying Capacity Assessment for the Lintao Majiayao Subproject Score of VEC Score of VEC Cumulative Impact Degree(Score of VEC Credit of VEC Currently in 2030 in 2030 minutes Score of VEC currently) Situation of pollution in 3 5 +2 Taohe River Situation of Majiayao 4 3 -1 relics impacted Water source protection area for downtown in 2 4 +2 Lintao County affected Degree of traffic jam 5 2 -3 Satisfaction of local 3 4 +1 residents Environmental Carrying Capacity 17 18 +1 (total Score of VEC) Based on table 8.5-2, it shows that the environmental carrying capacity in the cumulative impact assessment area for the Lintao Majiayao Subproject is very poor. The main restricting factors include the discharged sewage due to the lack of drainage facilities has caused a certain extent of pollution to Tao River and the drinking water source protection area for downtown residents in Lintao County. It also shows that the environmental carrying capacity in the cumulative influence area of the Lintao Majiayao Subproject in 2030 is fair. The main restricting factor is the traffic congestion in the trunk road of scenic area. Overall, the cumulative impact is not significant in the assessment area of the Lintao Majiayao Subproject and the Majiayao Ink Stone Town Construction Plan in 2030. The main reason is that although the construction of the Lintao Majiayao Subproject and planned activities for Majiayao Ink Stone Town Project will increase the traffic congestion to the county roadway of X103#, which would bring slightly impact to Majiayao Ruin Site. However, it also will accomplish and upgrade the drainage pipe networks in the assessment area, which would resolve the problem of water pollution to the Tao River and water source protection area caused by existing residents and visitors. 2. Safeguard Measures and Suggestions (1)Considering the congestion problem of the main county roadway of X103# in scenic area, it suggests that the local government should set up public special lane of tour bus along the main road of the scenic spot; (2) During project operation period, it should make functional tour routes, and properly manage tourists, to avoid the damage to Majiayao relics site caused by tourism activities. 8.6 CIA for Zhangye Subproject

8.6.1 Key VECs and Assessment Indicators

1. Identification of Key VECs In the view of environmental elements, it only takes the water environment quality of Shandan River as the key VEC.

In the view of important sensitive receptors, it selects the status of cultural relics protection units – Old Tower affected and protected as the key VEC. In the view of infrastructure carrying capacity, it takes the road linking downtown of Zhangye Municipal and Wulan Old Town as the key VEC. In the view of social environment, it takes the satisfaction of local residents as the key VEC. 2. Assessment Indicators According to the identified key VEC, the table of 8.6-1 shows the environmental carrying capacity assessment indicators. Table 8.6-1 Environmental Carrying Capacity Assessment Indicators for Zhangye Subproject (Wulan Old Town Area) Credit of VEC 1 2 3 4 5 Status of Serious A certain degree of The Minor Little pollution for noncompliance, noncompliance significance impacts. impacts. Shandan River pollution control of impacts is measures are needed. acceptable. Impact on Old Cultural relics A certain degree of The impact is Slightly Hardly Tower destroyed seriously, cultural relics acceptable, impacted impacted which needs to be destroyed, which needs which needs restored to control the number of to enhance visitors management. Degree of Traffic congestion is Traffic congestion is Traffic Slightly Un- traffic jam severe and often serious and needs to be congestion is impacted obstructed jammed conducted acceptable for driving Satisfaction of Satisfied Very local residents Very unsatisfied Not satisfied General satisfied Environmental With the Credit above 16, which means the environmental carrying capacity is very good； Carrying credit ranges between 12-16, which means the environmental carrying capacity is general; Capacity credit ranges between 8-12, which means the environmental carrying capacity is fragile; and (total Score of credit less than 8, which means the environmental carrying capacity is very fragile. VEC) Degree of The score of environmental carrying capacity (VEC) in 2025 minutes the score of VEC cumulative currently： “+” represents the positive impact; “-” represents the negative impact. impact

8.6.2 Spatial Scope of CIA and Relevant Activities

1. Spatial Scope of CIA

This project is mainly to assess the cumulative impact during project operation period for the Subproject of Wulan Old Town in Zhangye Municipal and the Jiuqu Yellow River Lamp Allay Scenic Spot Project in Wulan Old Town. Thus, the spatial scope of assessment is the old village scope where the two projects located in. Table 8.6-1 shows the details. The baseline year of the CIA is 2017, and the time range of cumulative impact assessment is 2018-2025. The reason is that this project and the Jiuqu Yellow River lamp array project under construction will be completed and put into operation in 2025, and its cumulative impact can be seen.

Figure 8.6-1: Scope of cumulative Impact Assessment for Zhangye Subproject (Wulan Old Town Area) 2. Relevant Activities

The Jiuqu Yellow River Lamp Array Project, located east of Gucheng Village, is relevant to Zhangye Subproject. It is 240m away from the subproject area, and it’s built to exhibit a large scale of lamp arrays. Generally, the tourist peak period is around the Lantern Festival every year. Currently, this project is under construction, and it’s expected to be completed and operated in 2020.

8.6.3 Results of CIA and Mitigation Measures

1. Results of CIA

Table 8.6-2 shows the result of CIA for the Zhangye Subproject and the Jiuqu Yellow River Lamp Array Project under construction. The score of VEC baseline is the comprehensive result based on the baseline survey and local public consultation conducted by EIA team. The impact degree of VEC in 2025 is the average score made by the publics (including local residents, relevant experts and representatives of government department) based on the baseline and the project activities for this Subproject and Jiuqu Yellow River Lamp Array Project. Table 8.6-2 Results of Environmental Carrying Capacity Assessment for Zhangye Subproject (Wulan Old Town Area) Cumulative Impact Degree(Score of Score of VEC Score of VEC Credit of VEC VEC in 2025 minutes Score of VEC Currently in 2025 currently2025) Situation of pollution for Shandan 3 2 -1 River Impact to the Old Tower 4 3 -1 Degree of traffic jam 4 2 -2 Satisfaction of local residents 1 4 +3 Environmental Carrying Capacity 12 11 -1 (total Score of VEC) It can be seen from table 8.6-2 that the environmental carrying capacity is slightly

decreasing in the assessment area by 2025. It shows that this subproject and Jiuqu Yellow River Lamp Array Project have a slight cumulative negative impact. The main reasons include: (1) in 2025, as the completion and operation of the Yellow River Lamp Array Project in Wulan Old Town, the tourists peak period is mainly concentrated in a few days before and after the Lantern Festival every year, which may result of congestion caused by the traffic jams in peak hours daily at or surrounding project area. Currently, there is only a buried integrated WWTP with a capacity of 32 m3/d available in Wulan Old Town. In 2025, it would not meet the requirements of daily capacity for sewage treatment produced by tourists in peak hours, which might result of surface water polluted by the sewage directly discharged into Shandan River. (2) There is a certain traffic jam in the tourist peak period due to the over-concentration of tourist visiting time. 2. Safeguard measures

(1) It is suggested that the government should set up the urban and rural bus starting from the downtown in Zhangye Municipal to Wulan Old Town in the peak tourist season before and after the Lantern Festival. (2) It is suggested that the Jiantan Town Government should provide the counterpart funds to upgrade the sewage treatment facilities or build the sewage temporary storage pool. 8.7 Conclusions of CIA Due to the specific 8 sub-projects involved in this project, these Subprojects have a large spatial span, and each sub-project only has a certain scope of impact range, and there is no cumulative environmental impact among the 8 sub-projects. Therefore, the cumulative impact assessment of this project is based on the specific sub-project for the cumulative impact assessment. Based on the identification to the relevant plans and project under construction surrounding this project area, it has noticed that, among the 11 sub-projects of this project, only 2 of the sub-project of Lintao county, the sub-project of Wulan Old Town in Zhangye Municipal might produce CIA caused by the related planning and the activities under construction. The Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject may have a cumulative impact because of its two project areas in short distance possibly causing cumulative environmental impact. Other subprojects will have no cumulative impact on peripheral planning and ongoing activities. This chapter adopts the method of environmental carrying capacity Assessment to assess the cumulative environmental impact of the sub-project in Lintao County, Zhangye subproject, the sub-project in Qin 'an County, which should be caused by the relevant planning and project under construction surrounding the project areas. The conclusions are as follows: 1. There is certain of positive cumulative environmental impact between the two sections of the sub-project in Qin’an County. The main reason is that the construction of the drainage pipe network and sewage treatment facilities in the two sections has collected and treated the municipal sewage of residents in Wuying Town and Longcheng Town and improved the environmental quality of clean water and river. Considering that the landfill of Lianhua Town relying on this project will be nearly saturated in 2025, the relevant departments in Qin’an County should plan and build a

waste disposal site around the project area by 2025. 2. The cumulative influence for the sub-project of Lintao County and the planned activities in Majiayao Ink Stone Town with characteristics is not obvious. The main reason is that the sub-project of Lintao County and the planned activities in Majiayao Ink Stone Town with characteristics have respectively set up a completed drainage pipe network, to some extent, which has reduced the pollutant of the Tao River and water source discharged by the existing residents and tourists. The mitigation and safeguard measure are as follows: (1) considering the congestion problem of the main road X103, the local government should set up the bus tour special line along the main road of the scenic spot; (2) During project operation period, it should functionally make tourist management, plan tourism routes reasonably, and avoid damage to Majiayao relics site caused by tourism activities. 3. It has a slightly negative cumulative environmental impact for Zhangye subproject and the Jiuqu Yellow River Lamp Array Project. The main reason is that: (1) At present, there is only one set of buried sewage treatment facility, with the capacity of 32 tons/day, which has been unable to meet the demand of daily sewage treatment in tourist peak days; (2) Transportation infrastructure is poor, which will produce a certain traffic jams during the peak tourist hours. The mitigation and safeguard measures are as follows: (1) it suggests that the government should set up the urban and rural bus starting from the downtown in Zhangye Municipal to Wulan Old Town in the peak tourist season before and after the Lantern Festival. (2) it is suggested that the Jiantan Town Government should provide the counterpart funds to upgrade the sewage treatment facilities or build the sewage temporary storage pool.

IX Information Disclosure and Public Consultation

9.1 Purpose of Public Consultation and Stakeholders Identification

9.1.1Purpose of Public Consultation

The public consultation conducted in EIA is to improve the quality of EIA by receiving more information and suggestions from public, and make the EIA to be open to public. It aims to ensure the publics to be directly or indirectly involved in the process of EIA, to ensure transparency and credibility of evaluation decision. And put forward its own opinions and views from the public to make EIA more perfect and fair purpose. Public consultation is a critical component of the EIA work, which is also an effective approach to accomplish the scientific decision-making. The public participation in the process of project construction is an important measure to increase the mutual communication and exchanges among project designing unit, EIA team and the publics. By the widely consulting the public who have been directly or indirectly affected by the project construction, it would help them to fully understand the possible impacts on the environment, mitigation measures adopted and the economic and social benefits brought by the project construction. Meanwhile, all kinds of opinions and suggestions have been feedback through the public participation, it would be very helpful of the supporting of project construction to jointly find out the solutions of the problems, to minimize the impact to the environment brought by the project construction, and avoid the dispute of pollution during the project construction and operation, and ultimately coordinate the balance between the development and environment conservation. The main objectives of public participation include the follows: (1)To comprehensively analyze the public opinions, which would be implemented by taking environmental protection measures. In the coming process of project construction, the public opinions would also be followed as the guidelines. (2) The mutual communication between publics and the PMOs would be detailed explained to the publics regarding the project briefs, pollution condition, treatment measures and the expected results of EIA etc. Meanwhile, the opinions and suggestions of the publics also would be feedback to the project construct unit and rectified. It would play a role like bridge linking the publics and project construction unit for better understanding. (3)By carrying out public participation, it would obtain various views and opinions of the project from the publics, which would provide reliable basis to protect the public profits. The feasible suggestions would be fully acceptable during the process of EIA, so as to reduce the worries brought by the disconnection of the publics and project construction unit, to mitigate the negative impact to the publics’ profits as much as possible and compensated necessary. (4)After EIA has been conducted, it would mainly rely on the publics for monitoring. The active participation of the public is a vital component of the environment management mechanism, which is good of the ecological environment protection, and could significantly improve the environment and economic efforts of the project, to enhance environment quality and ensure the implementation of the

sustainable development strategy.

9.1.2 Stakeholders Identification

This Project plans to apply for World Bank loan, to promote the integration of culture and tourism, improve the economic level of the project site and the living conditions of residents through the restoration and renovation of historic and cultural blocks, infrastructure improvement of scenic spots, and ecological environment restoration. The implementation of this project will improve the surrounding environment of the sub-project, attract a large number of visitors to travel and visit the scenic site, and improve the living standard of local residents, is conducive to maintaining social stability. At the same time, through the construction of sewage treatment facilities, sanitation facilities and other infrastructure construction, it would significantly reduce the domestic sewage and rubbish pollution to the environment of the project site and improve the living environment surrounding the project area. However, during the construction and operation period of the project, it will have some negative impacts to the environmental of surrounding areas, affecting the immediate interests of local residents around the project area, including the residents and groups within the red line scope and the project affected area. In the project affected area, all the individuals and organizations that directly or indirectly benefited or damaged are the stakeholders of the project. At the same time, the involved relevant government departments and experts are also stakeholders. Identify the stakeholders of the project will be followed in the table 9.1.1, according the specific conditions of different Subprojects of the feasibility study report.

Table 9.1-1 Stakeholders Identified in the Project Name of sub Stakeholders No project Affected people Involved departments and experts The 7 village committees, including Guanghuan village, Longquan village, Fenghuang village, Residents in Wuying township, Lueyang village, Xiguan village, Zhanggou village Qin’an Dadiwan villagers in Shaodian village, and Shaodian village； 1 Subproject residents in Longcheng Longcheng township, Wuying township township government, Cultural relics Protection Bureau, Tourism Administrative Bureau, Environmental Protection Bureau. Villages of Majiayao, Qijiatan, The involved 8 village committees, water plant in Lintao Majiayao Yangjiadian, Cheliujia, Lintao county, water management bureau, 2 Subproject Lifangjia, Yanwujia, Hekou and environment protection bureau, culture and Wangjiazui. broadcasting administrative bureau. Residents in the residential area of Donghu, Wangjiajiayuan, Fudujiayuan, Yiyuan etc Zhangye municipal hospital, Zhangye municipal Xilaisi community, dormitory Junior School, the project involved community building of the Cooperative of committees, culture and broadcasting administrative Supplying and Marketing, 3# bureau, tourism bureau, environment protection Zhangye 3 building of Zengfuyuan, bureau, and planning bureau etc. Subproject dormitory building of the district library. Ancient town village committee, Gucheng Primary Residents in Wulan Ancient School, Culture and Broadcasting Administrative Town village Bureau, Water Resource Management Bureau, Tourism Bureau. Dunhuang Residents and tourists of Cultural heritage administrative bureau, tourism 4 Xuanquanzhi Dunhuang, residents of Mogao bureau and transportation bureau Subproject township. Subproject in Project-involved residents committees, culture and Residents of Shengzhou 5 Jiuquan broadcasting administrative bureau, tourism bureau, Mingzhu residential area municipal construction bureau, planning bureau, Village committees in Xizhi village, Gaozhuang Tianshui village, Ganquan township government, Xizhi Villages of Xizhi, Gaozhuang 6 Lacquerwares village primary school, Gaozhuang village primary and Ganquan township Subproject school, Ganquan Water Division Safety Project Management Station Village committees in Songbo village, Baijiabo village, Lijiagou village; culture and broadcasting Tongwei Villages in Songbo, Baijiabao, administrative bureau, tourism bureau, construction 7 Subproject Lijiagou. bureau, planning bureau, environment protection bureau, Tongwei County Calligraphy and Painting Association Wushan County Construction Bureau, Tourism Bureau, Culture and Broadcasting Administrative Wushan Bureau, Shandan Township Government, Wushan Residents in Yuanyang 8 Yuanyang Jade county, Chechuang village committee, Environment township, Chechuang village Subproject Protection Burau, Shandan Junior School, Shandan Township Center Primary School, Shandan Township Hospital 9.2 The First Round of Public Consultation

9.2.1 Information Disclosure

1. Work done during the first round of information disclosure (1)Information disclosure through Websites The first round of information disclosure under the project was carried out for 10 subprojects through the official website of Gansu Provincial Department of Culture and

the websites of the county/district governments. The websites with project information were published in local newspapers, which led the readers interested to look up Tianshui Daily, Dingxi Daily, Zhangye Daily, Jiuquan Daily, etc. The content of the website is the overview of the project, the content of soliciting opinions, the contact information and the full text of the outline of Environmental Impact Assessment. The table 9.2.1 shows the summary of the first information disclosure by websites.

Table 9.2-1 The Summary of the First Information Disclosure by the Websites Name of the project Publicity period Publicity websites Tianshui 10 working days starting News Website of Maiji District, Tianshui Lacquerwares from Jan.17, 2018 http://www.mjxww.com.cn/html/news/mjxw/201801/33770.html Subproject Subproject in 10 working days starting Website of Qin’an County Government Qin’an County from Jan.17, 2018 http://www.qinan.gov.cn/html/2018/zfgg_0117/24474.html 10 working days starting Website of Tongwei County Government Tongwei Subproject from Jan.17, 2018 http://www.tongwei.gov.cn/mgsgg-38-1.html Lintao Majiayao 10 working days starting Website of the Party and Government in Lintao County Subproject from Jan.17, 2018 http://www.lintao.gov.cn/Government/PublicInfoShow.aspx?ID=3160 10 working days starting Website of Zhangye Municipal Government Zhangye Subproject from Jan.17, 2018 http://www.tswhly.gov.cn/gove/view?news_id=5957 10 working days starting Website of Jiuquan Municipality Government Suzhou Subproject from Jan.17, 2018 http://www.jiuquan.gov.cn/xinxigongkai/ Dunhuang Website of Dunhuang Municipality Government 10 working days starting Xuanquanzhi http://www.dunhuang.gov.cn/tongzhigonggao/20180118/1155545524c from Jan.17, 2018 Subproject 1a8.htm Gansu Provincial Culture Bureau 10 working days starting All sub projects http://www.gswh.gov.cn/wht/ggtz/201801/83b09400acb14ec8b65353a from Jan.17, 2018 391b74d99.shtml

Figure 9.2-1 The Screenshot of the First Websites Publicity

(Only taking the Subproject of Tongwei County as example)

(2) Information Disclosure by Newspaper During the first public participation period of the project, public information was disclosed in the four mainstream newspapers in the project involved municipals and counties/district. The published project information has guided the publics to find more information on the project through the public websites or field visits. The summary of first newspaper publicity is shown in table 8.2-2, and the photos of first newspaper publicity are shown in figure 8.2-2.

Table 9.2-2 The First Round of Newspaper Information Disclosure Municipality Name of project Publicity period Newspapers Editions (prefecture) Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject Tianshui Tianshui Feb.5, 2018 Edition 2 Subproject in Qin’an County Evening Paper Tongwei Subproject Dingxi Feb. 6, 2018 Dingxi Daily Edition 3 Lintao Majiayao Subproject Zhangye Two Subprojects in Ganzhou District, Feb. 6, 2018 Zhangye Daily Edition 2 municipality Zhangye Municipality Jiuquan Suzhou Subproject Feb. 5, 2018 Jiuquan Daily Edition 4 municipality Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject

Figure 9.2-2 Screenshot of the First Information Disclosure via Newspaper

(3) Posters in the Public Places During the first public participation, the EIA team put up the first public notice in public places near each project area. The photos of the announcement are shown in figure 8.2-3. The content of the announcement includes the description of the general situation of the project, the content of soliciting opinions, the contact information, and the way to obtain the outline of environmental impact assessment or other relevant information.

Figure 9.2-3 Photos on the Posts During the First-round Information Disclosure (Taking the Qin’an Dadiwan Subproject as an Example) 2．Conclusions of the first round of information disclosure Through the first-round information disclosure, it has enabled most of the public in and around the project areas learned the basic information of the project, which laid a good foundation for the first public survey. No public opposition was received during the first public announcement.

9.2.2 Schedule, Objects, Methods and Contents

With the assistance of the local project management offices, the EIA unit conducted the first round of public participation by questionnaire survey for each sub- project starting from February 6, 2018 to February 14, 2018. A total of 876 copies of questionnaires for individual interviewees were issued and 876 were recovered, with a recovery rate of 100%. 70 copies of questionnaires for the project involved units were issued, and 70 were recovered, with a recovery rate of 100%. The content of the questionnaire is shown in table 8.2-3. Individual respondents were residents of sensitive spots, teachers and students of schools, shop owners, etc., and the composition of respondents was shown in table 8.2-4. The units survey objects are village committees, schools and enterprises along the project site. In addition, as well as questionnaires, conferences and site visits were also carried out to some subprojects such as Qin’an Dadiwan and Lintao Majiayao subprojects.

Figure 9.2-4 Pictures Taken during the First-Round Consultation Meeting and Interviews Table 9.2-3 Questionnaires for the Involved Public on EIA

Basic information(please truthfully fill in, we will keep your personal information confidential, thank you for your cooperation)

Name Gender Age Occupation Education

Contact Unit or address: number In order to further implement the Plan of Vision (One Belt and One Road) initiated by the state and the strategic layout of the construction of Huaxia Civilization Heritage and Innovation Zone in Gansu Province, approved by the National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Finance, the World Bank Loaned the Silk Road Economy Belt in Gansu on Cultural Inheritance and Innovation Development Project is using a $180 million loan from the World Bank, to implement 8 Subprojects along the silk road in the 5 project prefectures of Tianshui, Dingxi, Zhangye and Jiuquan： 1. Dadiwan Relics in Qin’an County, Tianshui – Historical Famous Ancient Town in Gansu – Ming and Qing Dynasty Styled Streets Construction Project( including the construction of Dadiwan Culture Exhibition Experience Zone, infrastructure improvement at Shaodian village and Wuying township where the Dadiwan Relics Located, 5km length of scenic road construction starting from the wetland park and Dadiwan relics to Longcheng town, dwelling house for local resident in Qin’an county, Nvwa Culture Exhibition Zone, infrastructure improvement in Ancient Street of Longcheng township, infrastructure accomplishment in Jieting Relics, construction of tourist service center in Fengshan scenic area etc.)；2. Majiayao Culture Exhibition Center and the Giant Relics Scene Construction Project in Lintao County, Dingxi Municipality(including Majiayao Culture Exhibition Center, Majiayao Relics Tourist Service Center, reconstruction of 8 folk custom villages starting from Wangjiazui village to Majiayao relics)；3. Culture Heritage Protection Inheritance and Development Project in Zhangye Municipality(which is to use the relics of Barn, Mansion of Soldiers with the style of Ming Dynasty, and library in Ganzhou district for the exhibition and research of intangible culture)； 4. Exhibition and Utilization of the World Class Intangible Culture Heritage - Xuanquanzhi Relics Protection and Exhibition Construction Project(which is to construct a functional and integrated exhibition center near Xuanquanzhi relics for the exhibition, tourist service etc)；5. Silk Road Culture Research Center in Jiuquan Municipality and Library Construction Project in Jiuquan Municipality；6. Carved Lacquer Skills Inheritance and Development Project in Tianshui municipal；7. Hanmo Culture Arts Center Project in Tongwei County, Dingxi Municipality; 8. Rehabilitation of Shandan Town Yuanyang Jade Featured Cultural Town in Wushan County. If you want to know more about the construction project, especially the sub-project, please: 1. Network query: enter "the first publicity of environmental impact assessment for the World Bank Loan Gansu Silk Road Economic Belt Cultural Inheritance and Innovation Development Project " in the search engine. Click on the website of Gansu Provincial Department of Culture and the location of each sub-project to download the EIA outline and check chapter 2. 2. Contact the construction unit and the EIA unit, and we will guide you to look up the paper version of relevant information from the local project offices. The selection of(1. 3. 4. 5Questions, you can √ at the blanks of what you think it is proper)

1. What do you think the main environment issues Water pollution () noise pollution () Air pollution () ecological destruction () solid are？ pollution ()

2. What are your complaints about the current local culture, sports and tourism? Problems in culture, sports and tourism? Your suggestion? 3. For subprojects in your location, do you think Necessary ( ) Not necessary ( ) Not clear( ) it is necessary to build them？ 4. For the layout and construction content of Rational( ) Irrational( ) Not clear( ) subprojects, do you think it is reasonable？ If you think it is irrational, what is your suggestion? 5. What do you think the main impact of the Waste gas ( ) Waste water( ) Noise( ) Ecology( ) Solid waste( ) Other( ) project on the environment is？ 6、6. What are your Suggestions and requirements for environmental protection during the construction and operation period of the project? The contact method both for the project construction unit and EIA unit is shown as follows (If there is any problem, you can contact us by the following approach. Thanks for your cooperation)

Name of project construction unit ： Gansu Provincial Culture EIA unit：The Applied Technological Research Institute Ltd Co., Department Lanzhou University Address： 638# culture mansion, Donggang west road, Chengguan Address ： Huyang mansion, 222# Tianshui South Road, district, Lanzhou city Chengguan District, Lanzhou city Contact person：Yang Zhiqiang Contact person：Liu Dong Hui Contact number：15101304436 Contact number：0931-8813468 E-mail：[email protected] E-mail：[email protected]

Table 9.2-4(1) Composition of the Interviewees in the Public Consultation

Subproject Subproject in Qin’an County Subproject of Carved Lacquer Tongwei Subproject Lintao Majiayao Subproject

Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Category interviewee % interviewee % interviewee % interviewee % Male 94 95.92% 85 78.70% 91 92.86% 124 85.52% Gender Female 4 4.08% 23 21.30% 7 7.14% 21 14.48% 25-year-old or below 2 2.04% 8 7.41% 0 0% 4 2.76% 26-35 years old 16 16.33% 12 11.11% 14 14.29% 21 14.48% 36-45 years old 25 25.51% 34 31.48% 27 27.55% 45 31.03% Age 46-55 years old 39 39.80% 39 36.11% 34 34.69% 51 35.17% 56-65 years old 15 15.31% 12 11.11% 19 19.39% 21 14.48% 66 years old or above 1 1.01% 3 2.78% 4 4.08% 3 2.08% Farming 79 80.62% 104 96.29% 96 97.96% 134 92.41% Staff 9 9.18% 0 0% 0 0% 1 0.69% Occupation Cadre 0 0% 2 1.86% 0 0% 0 0% Other 10 10.20% 2 1.85% 2 2.04% 10 6.90% Primary education 6 6.12% 35 32.41% 23 23.47% 35 24.14% Education Middle education 92 93.88% 66 61.11% 73 74.49% 107 73.79% background Higher education 0 0% 7 6.48% 2 2.04% 3 2.07%

Table 9.2-4(2) Composition of the Interviewees in the Public Consultation

Grain Warehouse and General’s Wulan Ancient Town in Zhangye Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Name of Project Mansion Complex in Zhangye Subproject in Jiuquan Subproject Subproject Subproject

Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Category interviewee % interviewee % interviewee % interviewee %

Male 49 47.12% 118 99.16% 33 34.02% 51 44.74% Gender Female 55 52.88% 1 0.84% 64 65.98% 63 55.26% 25-year-old or below 0 0.00% 1 0.84% 26 26.80% 29 25.44% 26-35 years old 7 6.73% 5 4.20% 19 19.59% 45 39.47% 36-45 years old 28 26.92% 22 18.49% 22 22.68% 13 11.40% Age 46-55 years old 64 61.54% 67 56.30% 25 25.77% 10 8.77% 56-65 years old 5 4.81% 22 18.49% 2 2.06% 4 3.51% 66 years old or above 0 0.00% 1 0.84% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% Farming 59 56.73% 116 97.48% 33 34.02% 0 0.00% Staff 3 2.89% 1 0.84% 7 7.22% 43 37.72% Occupation Cadre 1 0.96% 0 0.00% 21 21.65% 15 13.16% Other 41 39.42% 2 1.68% 36 37.11% 56 49.12% Primary education 10 9.62% 34 28.57% 3 3.09% 12 10.53% Education Middle education 91 87.50% 71 59.66% 40 41.24% 12 10.53% background Higher education 3 2.88% 4 3.36% 54 55.67% 90 78.94%

9.2.3 Results of the First Round of Public Consultation

The first round of public consultation was conducted using questionnaire survey including 6 questions, of which 4 choice questions, 2 essay questions. The table 8.2-4 shows the results of choice questions. Table 8.2-5 shows the summary of questionnaire responses for essay questions and conference consultation conducted in the first-round public participation. Table 9.2-4(1) Results of the First Round of Public Consultation

Subproject of Carved Name of Project Subproject in Qin’an County Subproject in Fuxi Temple Tongwei Subproject Lintao Majiayao Subproject Lacquer Number Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Content of Questionnaire Survey interviewee % interviewee % interviewee % interview % interviewee % ee Water pollution 64 65.31% 105 100% 57 52.78% 57 58.16% 33 22.75% Noise pollution 2 2.04% 0 0% 34 31.48% 6 6.12% 4 2.75% In your opinion, what are Air pollution 1 1.02% 0 0% 17 15.74% 33 33.67% 26 17.93% the main environmental Ecological problems in this region？ 19 19.39% 0 0% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 24 16.55% destruction Solid waste pollution 12 12.24% 0 0% 0 0.00% 2 2.04% 85 58.62% Do you think it is Necessary 98 100.00% 105 100% 105 97.22% 95 96.94% 139 95.86% necessary to construct Without necessary 0 0.00% 0 0% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% this sub-project in your Not clear 0 0.00% 0 0% 3 2.78% 3 3.06% 6 4.14% location? Do you think the layout Rational 97 98.98% 105 100% 106 98.15% 96 97.96% 133 91.72% and construction content Irrational 0 0.00% 0 0% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% of the subproject is Not clear 1 1.02% 0 0% 2 1.85% 2 2.04% 12 8.28% reasonable? Waste gas 0 0.00% 105 100% 88 40.37% 20 19.23% 5 3.27% What do you think is the main impact of the Waste water 15 15.31% 0 0% 67 30.73% 2 1.92% 4 2.61% project on the Noise 0 0.00% 0 0% 22 10.09% 9 8.65% 4 2.61% environment? Ecology 1 1.02% 0 0% 0 0.00% 1 0.95% 11 7.19% Solid Waste 77 78.57% 0 0% 36 16.51% 0 0.00% 58 37.91% Other 5 5.10% 0 0% 5 2.30% 74 71.15% 71 46.41%

Table 9.2-4(2) Results of the First Round of Public Consultation

Grain Warehouse and Wulan Ancient Town in Subproject in Jiuquan Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject General’s Mansion Complex in Zhangye Subproject Municipal Subproject Municipal Zhangye Subproject Number Number Number of Ratio in total of Ratio in total of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Content of Questionnaire Survey interviewee % interview % interview % interviewee % ee ee Water pollution 65 50.39% 0 0.00% 2 1.99% 16 10.96% Noise pollution 35 27.13% 0 0.00% 73 72.27% 23 15.75% In your opinion, what are Air pollution 17 13.19% 1 0.85% 11 10.89% 24 16.44% the main environmental Ecological problems in this region？ 7 5.43% 2 0.17% 1 0.99% 62 42.47% destruction Solid waste pollution 5 3.86% 116 97.48% 14 13.86% 21 14.38% Do you think it is Necessary 82 79% 119 100.00% 97 100.00% 107 93.86% necessary to construct Without necessary 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% this sub-project in your Not clear 22 21% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 7 6.14% location? Do you think the layout Rational 69 66.35% 119 100.00% 97 100.00% 100 87.72% and construction content Irrational 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% of the subproject is Not clear 35 33.65% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 14 12.28% reasonable? Waste gas 61 46.56% 0 0.00% 3 2.83% 12 8.05% What do you think is the main impact of the Waste water 25 19.08% 0 0.00% 2 1.89% 15 10.07% project on the Noise 26 19.85% 1 0.84% 24 22.64% 22 14.77% environment? Ecology 10 7.64% 1 0.84% 4 3.77% 54 36.24% Solid Waste 1 0.76% 1 0.84% 56 52.83% 26 17.45% Other 8 6.11% 116 97.48% 17 16.04% 20 13.42%

Table 9.2-5 Questionnaire Responses for Essay Questions and Conference Consultation Conducted in the First Round Public Participation What Suggestions and requirements What are your complaints about the current local culture, do you have for environmental sports and tourism? What are the problems in culture, sports Opinion processing Scheme Method protection during the construction Sub project Objects and tourism? What is your suggestion? prepared adopted and operation of this project? Current existed problems Main suggestions Main suggestions and Requirements The Suggestions have been collected Residents in the 1. Rubbish piled up in 1. Building sewage treatment and fed back to the construction unit, residential areas of river courses, which had a 1. Strengthen the cleaning of facilities to improve the and the construction of sewage Zhaoyuan alley, the serious impact on the city. road surface; environment; Qin’an Questionnaire treatment facilities, garbage Big alley, the Small 2. Waste treatment is not 2. Strengthening infrastructure; 2. Mitigate the impact on cultural county, survey, on-site collection and other facilities, and alley, Jingxinyuyuan; timely; Incomplete 3. Increase the removing of relics; Tianshui 2018.2.6 visit, the cleaning of Yanjiagou valley residents and cultural and sports illegal buildings along the 3. Try to avoid the impact on the municipal conference have been included in the project representatives in facilities; highway; surrounding environment and consultation activities design scope. Carved Lacquer 3. Inadequate 4. Reconstruction the ancient ecology; Environmental protection proposals Factory Family infrastructure construction street of Longcheng; 4. Clearing rubbish along rural have been fully incorporated into Dormitory Building. and few tourism projects. road; environmental management plans. 1. Developing culture and 1. Nobody involved in sports and tourism; organizing sports events; 2. Develop various industries 1. Reduce waste pollution during Residents in Xizhi Questionnaire 2. Cultural and sports for the benefit of the masses; construction period and clean up in The opinions have been sorted out Maiji village, Gaozhuang survey, on-site programs develop slowly; 3. Increase investment in time; and fed back to the construction unit; district, village, Ganquan 2018.2.7 visit, 3. Lack of cultural tourism projects and engage in 2. Sewage treatment and garbage Recommendations on environmental Tianshui township, and conference tourism features, industrial tourism; collection should be handled during protection are incorporated into municipal representatives from consultation insufficient cultural 4. It is suggested to set up operation; environmental management plans. relevant units. publicity and insufficient sports equipment, to organize funds. and carry out collective sports activities. 1. Preventing environmental pollution; Increase the painting and calligraphy education, to 1. Management of vehicles to avoid carry out painting and noise pollution during construction calligraphy exchanges and period; 1. Simple public facilities; Villagers in Songbao learning; 2. Ensure operational planning and 2. No relevant tourism The opinions have been sorted out Tongwei village, Baijiabo 2. Increase investment in sports avoid economic losses; Questionnaire system; and fed back to the construction unit; county, village, Lijiaogou education; 3. Increase environmental 2018.2.8 survey, on-site 3. There are too few Recommendations on environmental Dingxi village and 3. It is suggested to build the protection during the construction visit. tourists for the single protection are incorporated into municipal representatives from painting and calligraphy period; development of painting environmental management plans. relevant units industry and tourism featured 4. To conduct main sewage and calligraphy. facilities; treatment and garbage collection 4. The folk culture such as during operation. Shehuo, and ornamental lantern on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month have been inherited

the of several generations and could be carried forward； 1. Reduce the damage to ecology 1. To vigorously develop and other aspects as far as possible, tourism industry, and strengthen and achieve zero discharge of waste The opinions have been sorted out guidance and management, and water, noise and solid waste; and fed back to the construction unit Villagers in Majiayao 1. Too few cultural and motivate the increment of 2. Develop featured tourism and to add some sports facilities at the village, Qijiatan sports facilities; income for local villagers by the drive the cultural tourism industry; village squares along the tourism village, Yangjiadian 2. The tourism industry development of tourism; Timely removal of garbage; line; Recommendations on Questionnaire village, Cheliujia does not have much 2. Hope to strengthen 3. Make good health protection and environmental protection are Lintao survey, on-site village, Lifanjia development, and it has investment in culture and sports cleaning during the construction incorporated into environmental Majiayao 2018.2.9 visit, village, Yanwujia not formed a large scale. facilities; period; management plans. Special concerns Subproject conference village, Hekou village It is hoped that investment 3. Cultural square should be 4. Good environmental on the pollution to the Taohe river consultation and Wangjiazui should be addressed to built, and cultural facilities management is required during and water source caused by the village, as well as support the development should be set up; construction and operation period, development of tourism. It has representatives from of cultural and sports 4. In terms of sanitation in rural and protect the existing ecological proposed to add the installation of the relevant units. tourism; area, it is suggested that more environment without affecting the drainage pipelines of trunk in the transporters should be provided lives of villagers; scenic area. for the garbage cleaning on 5. Improve the sewage treatment in time; the scenic area and avoid pollution to the Taohe river and water source. Residents in the residential areas of 1. Reasonable management of The opinions have been sorted out Donghu, construction time, without affecting and fed back to the construction unit; Wangjiayuan, 1. Low publicity of tourist Grain the life of surrounding residents; In order to reduce the noise impact, Fudoujiayuan, attractions; 1. Free admission to local Warehouse 2. It is suggested that vehicles it has accepted the suggestions of buildings for the 2. Weak awareness of attractions; and should not enter the eastern banning vehicles driving along the Questionnaire Cooperatives of cultural heritage 2. Strengthen the publicity of General’s 2018.2.1 roadway of the General’s Mansion east road of the headquarter of survey, on-site Supplying and protection and insufficient cultural tourism; Mansion 0 Complex; soldiers mansion and no operation visit Marketing, 3# publicity; 3. Integrate tourism resources Complex in 3. Control the operation period, and after 10pm; Recommendations on Zengfuyuan, 3. Many but messy and connect tourism sites to be Zhangye suggest stopping business after 10 environmental protection of banning Dormitory building tourism attractions; more attractive for visitors; Subproject PM; night construction are incorporated for the district 4. No high-pitched horn shall be into environmental management Library, as well as used during operation; plans. representatives of relevant units. 1. During the construction period, 1. The tourism The opinions have been sorted out frequent sprinkling can prevent infrastructure is poor, 1. Strong support from the and fed back to the construction unit; dust; Wulan Questionnaire with few visitors; government and active The reconstruction of buildings, Villagers from Wulan 2. Managed commercial horn and Ancient survey, on-site 2. Lack of service operation are required; tourism service facilities, greening 2018.2.1 Ancient Village and vehicle horn during operation Town in visit, industries such as hotels; 2. Increase publicity project have been integrated into the 1 representatives from period; Zhangye conference 3. Old houses located on 3. Make reconstruction of the project designing activities; relevant units. 3. Responsible for garbage Subproject consultation both sides of the main old houses Recommendations on environmental collection during operation, block affect the landscape protection are incorporated into especially catering waste; of scenic views. environmental management plans. 4. Greening;

1. Strengthen the construction 1.Scientific construction and of public facilities and organize operation, to reduce environmental The opinions have been sorted out related cultural and sports pollution as far as possible; 1. Less public cultural and fed back to the construction unit; Residents in activities; 2. Reduce noise and ensure timely facilities and uneven the function of reading has been Subproject t Questionnaire Shengzhou 2. It is better to have a library cleaning of surrounding waste; 2018.2.1 regional distribution; concerned into the designing project in Jiuquan survey, on-site Residential Area and for people to read and improve 3. Due to the strong wind in this 2 2. Insufficient cultural activities; Recommendations on municipal visit representatives from the life and entertainment of the area, measures should be taken to publicity; environmental protection are relevant units. retired people. prevent sand, soil and dust, as well 3. Lack of a library. incorporated into environmental 3. It is suggested to implement as other measures to prevent noise management plans. the library project as soon as and reasonably arrange the possible. construction time; 1. Strictly follow relevant 1. It lacks the depth and 1. To reasonable develop local procedures; width for the development tourism resources without 2. The primary task is of local cultural tourism; damaging the ecological environmental protection, and Residents or visitors 2. Insufficient environment; environmental problems cannot be Dunhuang in Dunhuang The opinions have been sorted out combination of the 2. Strengthen the cultivation of ignored due to operational profits; Xuanquanz municipal, the and fed back to the construction unit; 2018.2.1 Questionnaire featured culture and sports tourism talents; Actively 3. Strengthen the control of hi residents in Mogao Recommendations on environmental 4 survey tourism, without good promote the development of garbage, waste water and waste gas Subproject township and protection are incorporated into tourism experience in community tourism and sports; during the construction period, to municipal representatives from environmental management plans. some scenic spots; 3. Hope to develop reasonably, be reasonable disposed; relevant units. 3. Insufficient supporting control passenger flow and take 4. Strengthen water management facilities for tourism resource tolerance into during operation period; to development; consideration. strengthen management of solid waste during the operating period;

9.2.4 Summary of the First Round of Public Consultation

1. The project information was disclosed to public through the website of each subproject, newspaper company and posts in project area, etc., so as to enable the publics in each Subproject area to be informed of the project to a certain extent, and no public opposition has been received during the publicity period. 2. The following conclusions can be drawn through 876 individual questionnaires, 70 questionnaires for institutions/companies, on-site interviews and consultation meetings: 1) The publics support each sub projects. The ratio of publics who support the construction of each sub project takes account of over 90% of the total, without any opposite opinion. (2) Through the questionnaire survey, the public demand was understood, and the construction of each subproject was basically coordinated with the public demand. (3) Public put forward good suggestions on the project construction plan, such as adding the bus special line to Lintao sub-project and integrating tourism resources to Zhangye subproject, etc., which have been feedback to the design unit for consideration. (4) According to local conditions, the public has proposed some good suggestions to environmental protection work for each subproject good, such as the reasonable controlling of construction time, attention paid on dust controlling during construction in the high windy weather, properly disposal of sewage and garbage etc. In addition, the suggestions proposed by public include the attentions should be paid on the project impact to the Taohe River and the drinking water sources, and the rational controlling of visitors for the Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject etc. The EIA report has fully accepted these suggestions, which has been integrated into the project ESMP. 3. The lessons and shortage have been identified in the first round of public participation During the implementation of first round of public participation, the following lessons and shortage have been recognized: (1)the questionnaire content of all subprojects is basically the same, lacking pertinence, especially the basic information summary of the project. The information about local subprojects obtained by the public from the questionnaire is too limited. Therefore, in the second questionnaire design, the EIA team designed a specific questionnaire for each sub-project according to the characteristics of each sub-project. (2)Among the interviewees for the Subproject of Tongwei County, the Subproject of Lintao County, the Subproject of Carved Lacquer in Maiji District of Tianshui, it has noticed that the proportion of farmers in the interviewees is too large. Therefore, in the second questionnaire survey, the EIA team has adjusted and reduced the ratio of farmers among the respondents of the above sub-items. (3) During the first round of public participation, local residents and villagers learn about the project information through posters. And most of the related units obtaining the project information are through the website, only a few of the public obtaining the project information is through the newspaper. Therefore, in the process of the second

information publicity, the EIA team has increased the number of announcements posted in each sub-project area and expanded the coverage of announcements while maintaining the information publicity on the government website of each sub-project. 9.3 Second-Round Public Consultation

9.3.1 Second-Round Information Disclosure

1. Second Round of information disclosure

(1) Information Disclosure via Websites During the second publicity of the project, it has publicized the project information by websites of each local government where the Subproject located, including the official website of Gansu Provincial Culture Department, and the websites for the 8 subprojects areas. The content of the project information disclosure includes the description of the general situation of the project, Environmental Impact and mitigation measures, the key conclusions of the EIA to the project, EIA report reviewing and ways for suggestions, contact information, as well as the way to obtain the text of the completed EIA report. The table 9.3.1 shows the summary of the second information disclosure by websites.

Table 9.3-1 The Second Round of Information Disclosure by Website Subproject Time of Disclosure Websites Tianshui Website of Tianshui Maiji District Government Lacquerwares July 16, 2018 http://www.maiji.gov.cn/html/news/gsgg/2018-07/2308.html Subproject Website of Tianshui Qin’an County Government Qin’an Dadiwan July 16, 2018 http://zwfw.qinan.gov.cn/qinanzwgk/zwgk/zwgk.do?method=info&id Subproject =297e9ffd646d8e9a0164b03460c60021 Tongwei Website of Dingxi Tognwei County Government July 16, 2018 Subproject http://www.tongwei.gov.cn/zwgkshow-38-18621-1.html Lintao Majiayao Website of Dingxi Lintao County Government July 16, 2018 Subproject http://www.lintao.gov.cn/Item/32267.aspx Zhangye Website of Zhangye Government July 16, 2018 Subproject http://www.tswhly.gov.cn/gove/view?news Website of Jiuquan Government Suzhou Subproject July 16, 2018 http://www.jiuquan.gov.cn/zhengwudongtai/zhengfugonggao/gongshig onggao/20180713/1518048680111e.htm Dunhuang Website of Dunhuang Government Xuanquanzhi July 16, 2018 http://www.dunhuang.gov.cn/zhuanti/huanjingbaohu/20180717/17373 Subproject 93748476.htm Website of Tianshui Municipality Wushan County Government Wushan Yuanyang July 16, 2018 http://www.wushan.gov.cn/portal/zwgk/xzfxxgkml/jsshjddxx/zfgg/we Jade Subproject binfo/2018/07/1531212316145785.htm Website of Gansu Provincial Culture All sub projects July 16, 2018 Departmenthttp://www.gswh.gov.cn/wht/ggtz/201807/fc4e4abbb4e449 38b4b92a289a49c37a.shtml

Figure 9.3-1 Screenshot of the second Websites Information Disclosure (Only taking the website of Provincial Culture Department as an example.)

(3)Posters in the Public Places During the second public participation, the EIA team put up the public notice in public places near each project area. The photos of the announcement are shown in figure 9.3-2. The content of the announcement includes the description of the general situation of the project, Environmental Impact and mitigation measures, the key conclusions of the EIA to the project, EIA report reviewing and ways for suggestions, contact information, as well as the way to obtaining the text of the completed EIA report.

9.3-2 Pictures Taken in the Second Round Publicity and Posting Announcement 2. Conclusion of the second round of publicity

Through the second public announcement, most of the public in and around the project area learned about the basic information of the project, laying a good foundation for the second public survey. The second public notice period did not receive any public opposition.

9.3.2 Schedule, Objects, Methods and Contents

From July 28, 2018 to August 2, 2018, with the assistance of the local project management offices, the EIA unit conducted a second round of questionnaire survey by the public participation approach for each sub-project. A total of 675 questionnaires for individual interviewee survey were issued, 675 were recovered and the recycling rate was 100%. A total of 54 copies were issued to relevant units, and 54 copies were recovered, with a recovery rate of 100%. Individual survey objects are residents who may be affected by the project during the construction and operation of the project. The unit survey object is the village committee, school and relevant government departments that may be affected by the project. The composition of the survey object is shown in table 8.3-2. In addition, during delivery questionnaires to interviewees, the conference consultations and on-site visits also have carried out to some Subprojects which are closely involved and related to the publics, such as the Subproject in Qin’an County, the Lintao Majiayao Subproject, the Project of Wulan Ancient Town in Zhangye Municipality.

9.3-3 Pictures Taken in the Second Round Questionnaire Survey and Conference Consultation by Public Participation Approach

Table 9.3-2(1) Composition of the Interviewees in the Public Consultation

Subproject Subproject in Qin’an County Subproject of Carved Lacquer Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject Tongwei Subproject

Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total Category interviewee % interviewee % interviewee % interviewee %

Male 52 55.9% 38 61% 68 73.91% 24 48.00% Gender Female 41 54.1% 24 39% 24 26.09% 26 52.00% 6.45% 0.00% 25-year-old or 6 2 3.23% 0 10 20.00% below

26-35 years old 30 32.26% 12 19.35% 6 6.52% 12 24.00% 36-45 years old 18 19.35% 22 35.48% 35 38.04% 12 24.00% Age 46-55 years old 23 24.73% 12 19.35% 45 48.91% 14 28.00% 11.83% 6.52% 56-65 years old 11 12 19.35% 6 10 20.00%

66 years old or 5.38% 0.00% 5 2 3.23% 0 2 4.00% above Farming 62 66.67% 44 71.00% 80 86.96% 32 64.00% Staff 2 2.15% 4 6.5% 0 0.00% 10 20.00% Occupation Cadre 19 20.43% 6 9.6% 0 0.00% 4 8.00% Other 10 10.75% 8 12.9% 12 13.04% 6 12.00% 62.37% 84.78% Primary education 58 56 90.32% 78 18 36.00%

Education 15.05% 11.96% background Middle education 14 4 6.45% 11 30 60.00%

Higher education 21 22.58% 2 3.23% 3 3.26% 2 4.00%

Table 9.3-2(2)Composition of the Interviewees in the Public Consultation Grain Warehouse and Lintao Majiayao General’s Mansion Wulan Ancient Town in Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject Suzhou Subproject Subproject Complex in Zhangye Zhangye Subproject Subproject Subproject Ratio in Ratio in Ratio in Ratio in Number of Ratio in Number of Number of Number of Number of Category total total total total interviewee interviewee interviewee interviewee interviewee total % % % % %

Male 60 52% 27 50.00% 42 43.30% 27 45.00% 26 52.00% Gender Female 55 48% 27 50.00% 57 58.76% 33 55.00% 24 48.00% 18 25-year-old or below 4 0.00% 3 5.56% 1 1.03% 18 30.00% 36.00%

14 26-35 years old 7 3.48% 3 5.56% 17 17.53% 24 40.00% 28.00% 12 36-45 years old 25 6.09% 14 25.93% 54 55.67% 9 15.00% 24.00% Age 46-55 years old 43 21.74% 28 51.85% 24 24.74% 5 8.33% 5 10.00% 56-65 years old 33 37.39% 2 3.70% 3 3.09% 4 6.67% 1 2.00% 0 66 years old or above 3 28.70% 4 7.41% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0.00% 2 Farming 106 2.61% 0 0.00% 95 97.94% 0 0.00% 4.00% 36 Staff 2 92.17% 13 24.07% 0 0.00% 34 56.67% 72.00% Occupation Cadre 1 1.74% 5 9.26% 3 3.09% 2 3.33% 2 4.00% 10 Other 6 0.87% 36 66.67% 1 1.03% 24 40.00% 20.00%

10 Education Primary education 73 5.22% 20 37.04% 76 78.35% 8 13.33% 20.00% background Middle education 38 63.48% 25 46.30% 20 20.62% 36 60.00% 36 72.00%

Grain Warehouse and Lintao Majiayao General’s Mansion Wulan Ancient Town in Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject Suzhou Subproject Subproject Complex in Zhangye Zhangye Subproject Subproject Subproject Ratio in Ratio in Ratio in Ratio in Number of Ratio in Number of Number of Number of Number of Category total total total total interviewee interviewee interviewee interviewee interviewee total % % % % %

Higher education 4 33.04% 9 16.67% 3 3.09% 16 26.67% 4 8.00%

9.3.3 The Results of the Second Round of Public Consultation

It has conducted the second-round public survey focusing on 6 questions, of which 5 choice questions, 1 essay questions. The table 9.3-3 shows the results of choice questions. Table 9.3-4 shows the summary of questionnaire responses for essay questions and conference consultation conducted in the first-round public participation. Table 9.3-3(1) Statistic Results of Second-round Public Consultation Wushan Yuanyang Jade Name of Project Subproject in Qin’an County Subproject of Carved Lacquer Tongwei Subproject Subproject Number Number Ratio in Ratio in Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total of of Content of Questionnaire Survey total total interviewee % interviewee % interviewe interviewe % % e e Water pollution 14 15.05% 60 96.77% 27 29.35% 10 20.00% In your opinion, what are the main Noise pollution 63 67.74% 16 25.81% 71 77.17% 25 50.00% environmental problems in this Air pollution 5 5.38% 20 32.26% 1 1.09% 11 22.00% region？ Ecological destruction 5 5.38% 8 12.90% 3 3.26% 2 4.00% Solid waste pollution 51 54.84% 6 9.68% 35 38.04% 2 4.00% Do you think the environmental Rational 93 100.00% 62 100.00% 89 96.74% 50 100.00% measures of the project construction period are reasonable? Irrational 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3 3.26% 0 0.00% Waste gas 13 13.98% 62 100.00% 37 40.22% 18 36.00% Waste water 65 69.89% 6 9.68% 65 70.65% 15 30.00%

Wushan Yuanyang Jade Name of Project Subproject in Qin’an County Subproject of Carved Lacquer Tongwei Subproject Subproject Number Number Ratio in Ratio in Number of Ratio in total Number of Ratio in total of of Content of Questionnaire Survey total total interviewee % interviewee % interviewe interviewe % % e e What do you think is the main Noise 7 7.53% 4 6.45% 4 4.35% 11 22.00% impact of the project on the Ecology 9 9.68% 0 0.00% 1 1.09% 0 0.00% environment? Solid Waste 47 50.54% 28 45.16% 30 32.61% 4 8.00% Do you think the environmental Rational 93 100% 62 100.00% 92 100.00% 50 100.00% measures for project operation period are reasonable? Irrational 0 0% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% Do you agree with the conclusion Agree 93 100.00% 62 100.00% 92 100.00% 50 100.00% of the environmental impact Disagree 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% assessment of the project?

Table 9.3-3(2) Statistic Results of Second-round Public Consultation Grain Warehouse and Lintao Majiayao General’s Mansion Wulan Ancient Town Subproject in Jiuquan Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Name of Project Subproject Complex in Zhangye in Zhangye Subproject Municipal Subproject Municipal Subproject Number Number Numbe Ratio in Numbe Ratio in of Ratio in of Ratio in total r of r of Ratio in total Number of Content of Questionnaire Survey total total interview total % interview % intervi intervie % interviewee ee ee ewee % wee % Water pollution 32 27.83% 14 25.93% 0 0.00% 1 1.67% 4 8.00% In your opinion, what Noise pollution 37 32.17% 40 74.07% 99 100.00% 56 93.33% 4 8.00% are the main Air pollution 25 21.74% 14 25.93% 0 0.00% 1 1.67% 8 16.00% environmental Ecological 24 20.87% 6 11.11% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 28 56.00% problems in this destruction region？ Solid waste 22 19.13% 3 5.56% 5 5.05% 5 8.33% 5 10.00% pollution Do you think the environmental Rational 115 100.00% 54 100.00% 99 100.00% 60 100.00% 50 100.00% measures of the project construction Irrational 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% period are reasonable? Waste gas 43 37.39% 16 29.63% 0 0.00% 3 5.00% 17 34.00%

Grain Warehouse and Lintao Majiayao General’s Mansion Wulan Ancient Town Subproject in Jiuquan Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Name of Project Subproject Complex in Zhangye in Zhangye Subproject Municipal Subproject Municipal Subproject Number Number Numbe Ratio in Numbe Ratio in of Ratio in of Ratio in total r of r of Ratio in total Number of Content of Questionnaire Survey total total interview total % interview % intervi intervie % interviewee ee ee ewee % wee % What do you think is Waste water 20 17.39% 38 70.37% 54 54.55% 3 5.00% 12 24.00% the main impact of the Noise 20 17.39% 20 37.04% 0 0.00% 1 1.67% 9 18.00% project on the Ecology 13 11.30% 5 9.26% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3 6.00% environment? Solid Waste 34 29.57% 4 7.41% 46 46.46% 55 91.67% 9 18.00% Do you think the environmental Rational 115 100.00% 54 100.00% 99 100.00% 60 100.00% 50 100.00% measures for project operation period are Irrational 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% reasonable? Do you agree with the Agree 115 100.00% 54 100.00% 99 100.00% 60 100.00% 50 100.00% conclusion of the environmental impact Disagree 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% assessment of the project?

Table 9.3-4 Questionnaire Survey and Consultation Meeting in the Second-round Public Participation

Subproject Time Method Objects Contents Public Opinions Opinion processing

Residents in the Public 1. The public supports the conclusion of environmental impact Sewage treatment facilities, residential areas of consultation assessment of the project, holding the views that the environmental Qin’an Questionnaire garbage collection and other Zhaoyuan Alley, focusing on impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental protection county, survey, on-site facilities have been included in the Daxiao Alley and the main measures to be taken are recognized; Tianshui 2018.7.28 visit, project investment; In the plan for Jingxinyuyuan; contents, 2. Sewage treatment facilities and sanitation facilities must be built; municipal conference the protection and management of residents and major 3. To well protect the cultural relics and develop the system to be consultation physical cultural resources, representatives in environmenta implemented when suspected cultural relics are found during measures should be taken during Carved Lacquer l impacts and construction.

Factory Family mitigation the construction process when Dormitory Building. measures and suspected cultural relics are found. evaluation 1. The public supports the conclusion of environmental impact conclusions assessment of the project, holding the views that the environmental Residents in Xizhi of the first impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental protection Questionnaire Suggestions on environmental Maiji village, Gaozhuang draft of the measures to be taken are recognized; survey, on-site protection are included in the district, village, Ganquan EIA report, 2. During the construction period, attention should be paid to dust 2018.7.29 visit, environmental management plan Tianshui township, and in order to prevention, noise prevention and construction waste pollution conference during construction and operation municipal representatives from obtain the prevention, and waste timely clearance and transportation; consultation period. relevant units public 3. During the operation period, environmental management understandin measures should be strengthened to discharge waste water up to g and support standard and prevent environmental pollution; for the 1. The public supports the conclusion of environmental impact construction assessment of the project, holding the views that the environmental Villagers in Suggestions of environmental of the project impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental protection Tongwei Songbao village, protection measures such as noise and measures to be taken are recognized; county, Questionnaire Baijiabo village, control, sewage treatment and dust 2018.7.30 mitigation 2. Pay attention to the management of catering waste gas during Dingxi survey Lijiaogou village control have been included in the measures operation period; municipal and representatives environmental management plan taken 3. Manage well to prevent construction noise from disturbing from relevant units during the construction period. residents' rest and construction dust pollution during project construction period. 1. The public supports the conclusion of environmental impact Villagers in assessment of the project, holding the views that the environmental Suggestions on environmental Majiayao village, impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental protection protection during construction and Qijiatan village, measures to be taken are recognized; operation periods were Yangjiadian village, Questionnaire 2. During the construction period, noise and solid waste pollution incorporated into the Cheliujia village, Lintao survey, on-site will be reduced, and the rest time will be forbidden for construction, environmental management plan, Lifanjia village, Majiayao 2018.8.3 visit, and the construction waste water and garbage will be recycled for especially the protection of the Yanwujia village, Subproject conference use; during the construction period, good management is required to Taohe river and its downstream Hekou village and consultation prevent construction waste, sewage to be directly discharged into water source area, and targeted Wangjiazui village, the Taohe river. protection measures were as well as 3. During the operation period, the domestic sewage of tourists formulated, as shown in the representatives from should be collected and treated, rather than directly discharged into environmental management plan. the relevant units. the Taohe river. Residents in the In order to reduce the noise 1. The public supports the conclusion of environmental impact Zhangye Questionnaire residential areas of impact, the management measures assessment of the project, holding the views that the environmental Subproject 2018.7.28 survey, on-site Donghu, that prohibit vehicles from impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental protection visit, Wangjiayuan, entering the road east of the measures to be taken are recognized; Fudoujiayuan, General’s Mansion Complex and

Domitory buildings 2. To reasonable manage the construction time, without impact to No operation after 10 PM have for the Cooperatives the lives of surrounding residents; been included in the of Supplying and 3. It is suggested that vehicles should not enter the eastern roadway environmental management plan. Marketing, 3# of the General’s Mansion Complex The protection of the Barn and the Zengfuyuan, 4. Properly manage the operation period, and stop business after 10 General Barracks in Ming Dormitory building PM; Dynasty has been included in the for the district 5. Pay attention to the protection of cultural relics in the Grain management plan of physical Library, as well as Warehouse and the General ‘s Mansion Complex of the Ming cultural resources. representatives of Dynasty. relevant units. 1. The public supports the conclusion of environmental impact Environmental protection assessment of the project, holding the views that the environmental proposals have been fully Questionnaire Villagers from impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental protection incorporated into environmental survey, on-site Wulan Ancient measures to be taken are recognized; management plans；the 2018.7.28 visit, Village and 2. During the construction period, the site should be hardened, protection of ancient tower conference representatives from containment, sprinkling, dust and other environmental measures; consultation relevant units. 3. Responsible for garbage collection, especially catering waste and building also has been integrated domestic sewage treatment during operation; into the plan for the management of physical cultural resources. 4. Pay attention to the protection of the Ancient Tower Building. The environmental protection 1. The public supports the conclusion of environmental impact suggestions during the assessment of the project, holding the views that the environmental construction period and operation impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental protection period have been fully absorbed measures to be taken are recognized; into the environmental Residents in 2.During the construction period, pollution control measures such as management plan. In order to Subproject Questionnaire Shengzhou noise control and dust control shall be taken. Timely removal of reduce the interference of traffic tin Jiuquan 2018.7.29 survey, on-site Residential Area solid waste. noise to the readers in the library, municipal visit, and representatives 3. During operation, domestic sewage should be connected to urban the EIA team puts forward the from relevant units. sewage treatment facilities, and domestic garbage should be cleaned proposal of adopting double layer regularly to maintain environmental sanitation; glass and setting a certain width 4. It is suggested that some measures should be taken to prevent the green belt on the side of the road, readers in the library from the interference of traffic noise. which has been adopted by the design unit. Residents or visitors Dunhuang 1. The public supports the conclusion of environmental impact Environmental protection in Dunhuang Xuanquanz Questionnaire assessment of the project, holding the views that the environmental proposals have been fully 2018.8.1 municipal, the hi survey impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental protection incorporated into environmental residents in Mogao Subproject measures to be taken are recognized; management plans. township and

representatives from 2. Vegetation restoration should be carried out in the surface relevant units. destruction area during construction period, construction waste collection and construction waste treatment should be done well; 3. During the operation period, the domestic sewage of tourists should be collected and treated, and the domestic garbage should be cleaned and transported in time. 1. The public supports the conclusion of environmental impact assessment of the project, holding the views that the environmental Residents in Questionnaire impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental protection Wushan Shandan township, Environmental protection survey, on-site measures to be taken are recognized; Yuanyang residents in proposals have been fully 2018.8.1 visit, 2. Directly discharging of wastewater during construction period is Jade Chechuang village incorporated into environmental conference prohibited, and construction is prohibited during residents' rest time; Subproject and representatives management plans. consultation Timely removal of solid waste. from relevant units. 3. During operation, domestic sewage must be treated and cannot be directly discharged into the Shandan river.

9.3.4 Summary of Second-round Public Consultation

1. By publicizing using Internet and posters, the public in the subproject areas have gained a certain understanding of the project impacts on the environment and gotten to know the proposed mitigation measures. There was no opposition from public during the public consultation period.

2. The following conclusions can be drawn through the questionnaire survey to 675 individuals and 54 units, the site visits and the conference consultation:

(1) The public in the project area supports the conclusion of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of the project and believes that the environmental impact analysis is comprehensive and the environmental measures to be taken are recognized.

(2) The understanding of the concerns from the public on environmental impacts of each subproject has been obtained, which have instructed the EIA team to further accomplish the mitigation measures of Environmental Impact. For example, the public surrounding the project site of the Subproject of Jiuquan Municipal, has put forward that attentions should be paid on the noise disturbance impact to the project (traffic noise affects readers in the library). The EIA team has proposed the targeted measures to mitigate the noise impact of the project.

(3) The public has put forward instructive suggestions for environmental protection of the sub-projects, such as reasonable control of construction time, attention to dust control in windy weather, and proper sewage and garbage disposal. The EIA report has fully absorbed and incorporated these suggestions into the project ESMP.

X. Environmental & Social Management Plan

This chapter presents a summary of the standalone Environmental and Social Management Plan (ESMP) for Component 2 under the Project, which is developed to avoid, minimize, mitigate and compensate the negative environmental impacts anticipated with the project implementation and at the same time, to enchance the environmental benefits of the project. Throughout the project cycle, the project-resulted negative environmental impacts should be adequately managed by the effective implementation of mitigation measures, environmental monitoring, institutional arrangements and capacity building for environmental management, environmental supervision and reporting, as proposed in the ESMP

In addition, based on the nature of this project, the ESMP has two annexes as described below: 1) Environmental Code of Protection (ECOP) ： Targeting at the generic environmental impacts anticipated during project implementation, it specifies the common mitigation measures for the project construction and operation periods. It has integrated the requirements on Environmental, Social, Health and Safety issues for the project, which will be incorporated into the procurement documents for civil works and relevant civil work contracts, and it will also provide guidance to the operators on ESHS management during future operation. 2) Physical Cultural Resources Management Plan (PCRMP)：In line with the requirements of the World Bank’s Operation Policy (OP4.11) on Physical Cultural Resources (PCR), it has specified the mitigation measures against the anticipated adverse impacts, both direct and indirect, on the identified PCRs in the project-affected areas during construction and operation to ensure the adequate protection of the project-involved PCRs. 10.1 Institutional Arrangement and Responsibilities The PPMO under Gansu Provincial Cultural and Tourism Department and eight PMOs at city/district/county level will take the overall responsibilities for environmental management of Component 2 during both construction and operation. Table 10.1-1 has shown the detailed institutional arrangements and responsibilities on environment management for the Component.

Table 10.1-1 Institutional Arrangements and Responsibilities on Environment Management Project Parties Involved Responsibilities on Environmental Management phases 1．Be responsible for project design and procurement integrating PPMO and environmental management considerations; city/district/county PMOs 2．Submission of FSR and EA documents for review and clearance from relevant authorities. EIA institute should prepare solid EA documents; and the project design unit, Project Project design unit, EIA responsible for project design, should work with the EIA institute to ensure design and institute the integration of environmental management considerations based on the EA preparation documents where appropriate. Provincial Development To check and confirm if the project engineering design is rational, if the and Reform Committee bidding procedures and clearance procedure have been followed, and if the (DRC), Quality Supervision preparation for engineering supervision, quality control and safety Bureau construction have been carried out.

Provincial Construction Department, Provincial To check and confirm if the project engineering design is consistent with the relevant law and legal regulations required for the protection of cultural relics, Culture and Relics and if the approved project contents is feasible. Administrative Bureau Provincial Environment To check and confirm if the relevant pollution control equipment and measures are adequate and well incorportated into the project EA documents Protection Department and project design. Construction Contractors To be responsible for the implementation of mitigation measures during (CCs) project construction period specified in the ESMP. Construction Supervision To fulfill the legal supervision responsibility of safety construction and Companies (CSCs) supervise the implementation of daily routines of ESMP. 1．To supervision the implementation of mitigation measures during project construction specified in ESMP； 2．To carry out training and propaganda on the mitigation measures during PMOs project construction period specified in MEP; Constructio 3. To actively coordinate and maintain the legal rights of villagers, and supervise the implementation of mitigation measures specified in MEP; n period Culture and Relics To instruct, supervise the implementation of the mitigation measures on the protection of cultural relics during project construction period specified in the Administrative Bureau ESMP; Water Resource Bureau, To instruct, supervise the implementation of the mitigation measures on the Environment Protection conservation of water and soil during project construction period specified in Bureau the ESMP; Environment Protection To instruct, supervise the implementation of the mitigation measures on the protection of environment during project construction period specified in the Bureau ESMP; 1. To implement the mitigation measures during operation period specified in ESMP; 2. To ensure the environment protection, and control project implementation Operation Units progress, implementation quality and safety; 3. To be responsible for the relevant environmental monitoring; 4. To be responsible for the periodically reporting the progress of environment management to the upper level of PMO and the WB team. 1. To implement the mitigation measures during operation period specified in ESMP; 2．To conduct project supervision: ensure environment protection and reduction of consumable material; Operation PMOs period 3. To prepare the environment management regulations targeting tourists, including the supervision and punitive regulations on littering, the guidance of classifying garbage collection and supervision and punitive regulations, and the regulations on the penalty to the vegetation trampling etc. Culture and Relics To instruct, supervise the implementation of the mitigation measures on the Administrative Bureau protection of cultural relics specified in the ESMP; To instruct, supervise the implementation of the mitigation measures on the Environment Protection protection of environment during project operation period specified in the ESMP; to periodically check if all environmental facilities are functional Bureau operated, and if the discharged sewage at outlet could meet the required criteria.

10.2 Environental and Social Impacts and Mitigation Measures There are 8 subprojects under Component 2 of this Project, which are anticipated with overall positive impacts on the environment through conservation of cultural relics, rehabilitation of traditional settlements, upgrading and paving of access roads, provision of Water Supply (WS), Domestic Wastewater (DWW) and Domestic Solid Waste (DSW) services and landscaping works. Based on the EA findings, negative environmental impacts expected are mainly site-specific and limited to the construction phase, including risk of damage to cultural heritage sites, soil erosion, dust, noise, wastewater, solid waste, traffic disturbance, etc. For operation phase, the adverse environmental impacts are limited to the generation of noise, odor, effluent and sludge by small-scale WwTPs and DSW transfer stations, the increase of air pollution and noise from increased traffic on new/renovated roads and the environmental and social impacts induced by influx of tourists. Accordingly, mitigation measures have been proportionally designed for each subproject for the design, construction and operation

periods. A standalone ESMP has been developed to integrate all the proposed mitigation measures, targeting at both the generic environemtnal and social impacts and specific environmental or socially sensitive receptors. As for the generic mitigation measures proposed for construction and operation periods, an ECOP has been prepared as Annex 1 of the ESMP; the mitigation measures specific to the identified PCRs have been included in the PCRMP as Annex 2 of the ESMP. 10.3 Environmental Monitoring Environment monitoring will be implemented to fully and timely follow the dynamic changes of the impacts resulting from project implementation. It aims to find out the actual effectiveness of all the mitigation measures taken for the Project, and timely provide feedback to the administrative department for further adjustments of the ESMP for further actions. Ultimately, it would provide scientific basis for the implementation and improvements of environment management for the Project. During project construction and operation, the PMOs in the project city, counties or districts should contract competent and qualified agencies to carry out environment monitoring for the subprojects. The monitoring institutes should be nationally recognized professional agencies good at the monitoring of environmental quality, cultural relics or water and soil erosion. They should be well equipped with professional facilities, technically qualified, and able to undertake the contracted monitoring tasks. Under this project, environmental monitoring will cover both construction and operation periods. The detailed monitoring plan has been dveloped and included in the ESMP. 10.4 Training Plan The purpose of environmental protection training is to carry out knowledge dissemination and skill training on environment management to the project personnel at all levels. It would enable them to fully understand the positive and negative environmental impacts of the project, and the requirements specified in ESMP, to enhance skills and management level of them. The training would ensure the implementation of environmental mitigation measures to minimize the negative environmental impacts of the project. Environmental protection training is divided into three levels according to the training object. The training to management personnel at all levels of the project includes management personnel at provincial, municipal, county and township levels. The training to technical personnel includes the project contractor, construction team, project supervisors, operation personnel, etc. Environmental training will concentrate at the beginning period of the project, integrated with other activities to be implemented, which generally does not conduct separately to ensure that all participants fully understand their responsibilities in implementing environment-related activities and better understand and implement ESMP. The training on the improvement of environmental-friendly awareness should include the community residents and tourists involved in the project, to enable them to better understand the relationship between environmental impacts and their actions. Attentions should be paid on how to mitigate environmental impact during project operation, and how the preparation and implementation of ESMP monitoring could

have positive impacts on their livelihood. The environmental training program is shown in ESMP. 10.5 Supervision and Reporting System

10.5.1 Purpose and Method

Based on the national laws or regulations on the environment management and World Bank’s operation policies, the Borrower (which means the owner of sub project) should be responsible for preparing monitoring and assessment reports on the implementation of ESMP twice a year. The purpose is to ensure all relevant requirements and measures for the approved ESMP truly implemented, to find out problems in a timely manner for further analysis and summary to mitigate the negative environmental impacts in the follow-up work under the project. It’s required that the organizers should share information on environmental management among the PMOs, project owners, contractors, different administrative authorities and vacancies in operation companies, while it should conduct information disclosure to outsiders (including relevant stakeholders and publics). The internal information could be shared in various forms such as meetings, internal briefs etc. However, a formal conference should be organized monthly, and all communication information should be recoded and archived.

10.5.2 Supervision and Reporting Mechanism

PPMO, local PMOs, project owners, constructors, operators, and supervision institutes should be responsible for supervision and reporting during project implementation. The detailed arrangements include: (1) The project supervision engineer shall be responsible for daily supervision of the implementation of environmental protection measures during the construction period. The implementation details should be recorded in the supervision log and monthly report, which should be timely submit to the project owner and the county / (city) PMOs. The implementation of environmental protection measures should respectively integrate into the weekly and monthly reports. (2) PMOs should carry out regular and irregular inspections on the project throughout project construction, to check and supervise the implementation of ESMP. The problems identified and their solutions should be recorded and reflected in the semi-annual report. (3) The external supervision unit will be responsible for the implementation of mitigation measures during construction period and operation period of the project. The external supervision unit will take crucial monitoring to the construction of environment protection engineer and progress, to timely solve the problems identified during environment monitoring. Regarding the technical problems on environment protection, it should coordinate the solution of the problems to ensure the smoothly implementation of all environment protection measures. The external supervision unit also should provide support to PMOs in the report preparation and analysis. (4) After completing the entrusted task of monitoring, the monitoring unit shall

timely submit the monitoring report to the owner, PMOs and the external supervision unit, and clearly give the conclusion whether the compliance is up to standard according to the monitoring data, and briefly analyze the reasons for the non-compliance. (5) Each PMOs shall compile the progress report in time based on the content of (1) ~ (4), which should submit to PPMO, and copy to the municipal environmental protection bureau at the same time. The project progress report prepared by the PMO should include the status and effects of ESMP implementation, especially the environmental monitoring results. (6)The progress of ESMP implementation for the project could be reflected in the semi-annual project progress reports as one chapter, which should be periodically submitted to the World Bank for review. It should contain the following contents: A. Progress of project implementation to briefly describe the main project contents at this stage; B. The implementation of the relevant environmental training plan in the current period, the changes and adjustments of the project, and the handling of the required EIA procedures; C. Implementation of mitigation measures for environmental protection, existing problems and causes, and further corrective measures; D. Environmental monitoring progress and main monitoring results, analysis of monitoring data, interpretation of substandard conditions and proposed rectification recommendations; E. Whether there is a public complaint or not; if there is a complaint, record the main content, solution and public satisfaction of the complaint; F. Overall assessment and conclusions of ESMP implementation, together with the recommendations and plans for the next years’ ESMP implementation. G. The handling of complaints that has not replied in the previous period, the main problems disclosed in the complaints in the current period, the suggested handling methods and rectification measures, etc. These contents may be reflected in separate reports or periodic internal monitoring reports.

10.5.3 Grievance Redress Mechanism (GRM)

1. Grievance mechanism In order to better protect the interests of the project community and residents, the project will establish a convenient, efficient, open and effective grievance mechanism, and the affected person can complain any question in the implementation process at any time. The grievance mechanism is suitable for all beneficiaries in the project area. Please refer to the ethnic minority development plan for the grievance mechanism of ethnic minorities. The principle of complains and grievance mechanism includes the follows： (1) It should ensure that the above beneficiary groups could participate in the project and be consulted and benefit from the project implementation, avoid or mitigate negative impact, and minimize the occurrence of problems or social risks.

(2) It should make full use of the existing complaint reporting system in China and borrow the successful experiences in this aspect both at home and abroad, according to relevant requirements, arrangement requirements of the government complaint reporting system in China. It should establish an accomplished grievance response and processing mechanism for the opinions and demands of the project in PMOs and relevant government departments and operate it. (3) It should raise and improve the understanding on policies and awareness on working method and style for the cadres in village committees and resident community committees to fully accept the opinions of publics. It needs fairly and rationally solve problems, settle contradictions, or report to the higher authorities so as to get timely response. (4) It should establish the special organization based on the community which is composed of local community organization and village committee and takes the responsibility of handling the public opinions and complains. This special organization should fulfil its responsibility with the support of community organization and village committee. Grievance mechanism includes the follows: (I) Grievance processing organization The grassroots grievance processing organizations are mainly the residents committee and village committee, which are responsible for coordinating and settling the problems encountered by local community residents during project implementation. Affairs which cannot be dealt with by the village committee and community organization will be handled by the township government and tourism bureau. Finally, the town government and the tourism bureau will jointly report the problems and submit to the county government to handle the problems encountered by community residents in the process of project implementation. For example, if environmental problems and disputes are caused due to project construction, it could appeal to the county, municipal and provincial environmental protection departments in the meantime. (II) Appeal procedures Stage 1: if the villagers or the project households in the project area have opinions or are dissatisfied with the project, they can submit oral or written appeals to the community organization and the village committee in the meantime; If it is an oral complaint, the panel will handle it and record it in writing. Reasonable requests or suggestions are normally dealt with within 2 weeks after receipt the complaint. Stage 2: if the complainant is still not satisfied with the decision at this level, he/she may appeal to the township government after receiving the decision; The township government should decide within 2 weeks after receiving the complaint. Stage 3: if the complainant is still not satisfied with the handling decision at the corresponding level, he/she can appeal to the county (city) PMO after receiving the decision. If environmental problems and disputes are caused by the project construction, he/she can also appeal to the county (city) environmental protection bureau at the same time. The county (city) PMO and the county (city) environmental protection bureau shall decide within 2 weeks after receiving the complaint. Stage 4: if the complainant is still not satisfied with the decision of the county (city)

PMOs, the complainant could appeal to the PPMO after receiving the feedback. If environmental problems and disputes are caused by the project construction, complains could be made to the Provincial Environmental Protection Department at the same time. Stage 5: if the complainant is still not satisfied with the treatment results of PPMO and Provincial Environmental Protection Department, the complainant may prosecute to the civil court according to the civil procedural act, after receiving the decisions made by PPMO and Provincial Environmental Protection Department Stage 6: Prosecution in civil court. The above-mentioned channels of appeal will inform the villagers in the project area through meetings and other means so that they can fully understand their right to appeal. At the same time, media tools will be used to enhance publicity and reporting, and the opinions and suggestions of various parties to the project will be sorted into information articles, which will be timely studied and dealt with by governments at all levels. The agency handling the appeal shall not charge a fee. (III) Grievance record (1) Standardized records: The standardized records are the basis for information collection, classification and sorting. The main contents of the complaint record sheet include the basic information of the complainant, the basic information of the complaint matters, the basic contents of the reply and the inspection. (2) Tracking: The content of the complaint covers a wide range. It is impossible for PMOs completely solving the problems. The PMOs should entrust Village committee Stage 1: Proposing a grievance or suggestion Township government

Local PMO / lending Stage 2: The accepting agency handles and

gives feedback within 15 days. Provincial PMO / lending

Stage 3: The disposition is registered if accepted, or an appeal is filed with the next higher level. relevant professionals or relevant institutions to reply the complaints received.

Figure 10.5-1 Grievance Appeal Processing Procedures

2. Environmental requirements during project changes The ESMP should be updated according to monitoring results and regulatory inspections by supervision institutes, and proper mitigation measures should be taken to improve the environment management performance.

During project construction period, once the significant deviation on the content of ESMP has been identified by inspection, or the changes of project design and implementation has caused huge negative environmental impacts, or the number of affected persons has increased, PMOs should immediately consult the environmental agencies and the World Bank team to set up a new version of EIA or make supplementary of EIA report. In addition, it needs to carry out information disclosure indeed. The revised EIA report containing the ESMP shall be submitted to the Environment Protection Bureau for approval and, upon approval, to the World Bank for review. The revised ESMP shall also be informed to the implementing agency and contractor to implement the revised content. 10.6 Cost Estimate on Environmental Management The table below summarizes the estimated cost on environmental management for Component 2 under the Project, including RMB 1.04million during project design, RMB 5.52million for construction period and RMB 3.81million per year during project operation.

Table 10.6-1 Costs Estimate on Environmental Management

Category Costs (RMB 10,000) Source of Funding 1. Design period 1.1 Cost on EIA preparation 104 Project preparation cost 2. Construction period 2.1 Environmental 176 EMP cost protection measures 2.2 Water and soil 0 Integrated into the project conservation measures investment 2.3 Environmental 89.6 EMP cost monitoring 2.4 Physical cultural 22 EMP cost resources protection 2.5 Environmental 40 EMP cost supervision 2.6 Environmental 66 EMP cost management training during construction 2.7 Public participation 5 EMP cost 2.8 Contingency fee 50 EMP cost Subtotal 552.6 3 Operation period 3.1Environmental 165 per year Operational cost protection measures during project operation period 3.2 Environmental 50 per year Operational cost protection project acceptance 3.3 Environmental 43.9 per year EMP cost monitoring

3.4 Environmental 60 per year Operational cost management training during operation 3.5 Physical cultural 27 per year Operational cost resources protection 3.6 Public participation 5 per year Operational cost 3.7 Contingency fee 30 per year EMP cost Subtotal 380.9 per year Total 933.5

XI. Conclusions

The Project will generate significant ecological, environmental, social, and economic benefits to the project area. The urban and rural landscape will be upgraded after the regeneration and renovation activities. The enhanced municipal infrastructure will largely contribute to urban and rural environment improvement, pollution control, drinking water source protection, and surface water purification. The cultural and natural heritage resources will produce their real value after the development and maintenance. The urban-rural regeneration and community economic development will improve local residents’ living conditions, create more job opportunities and reduce poverty. The regenerated cultural and tourism facilities will attract quality tourists and investments and can largely promote the tourism industry growth and economic development in such areas. Negative impacts will also be generated during project implementation. In the construction phase, the civil works and transportation will induce dust, noise, wastewater and solid wastes, and cause disturbance to the PCRs. The Project will also lead to land acquisition and resettlement, which will have passive influence on the affected-people’s livelihood. During the operation phase, the tourism facilities will generate domestic wastewater, solid waste and noise, and the small WWTPs and DSW transfer stations will also emit odor and noise. However, these adverse environmental and social impacts can be avoided, minimized, mitigated or otherwise compensated by various measures proposed in the ESMP. In short, the Project will generate significant benefits to the project area along the Silk Road route in Gansu, while the negative impacts can be managed to an acceptable level with effective implementation of the mitigation measures. As a conclusion, the benefits of the Project outweigh the adverse impacts, so the Project is feasible in environmental and social safeguards.

Figures

General Layout of Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject (Dadiwan Area)

Appended Figure 1-2 The General Layout of Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject (Longcheng Township Area)

Appended Figure1-3 General Layout of Qin'an Dadiwan Subproject (Shangguan Ming-and Qing-Dynasty Old Street Area)

Appended Figure 2 General Layout of the Lintao Majiayao Subproject

Appended Figure 3-1 Geological Layout of Grain Warehouse Area in Zhangye Subproject

Appended Figure3-2 Geological Layout of General’s Mansion Complex in Zhangye Subproject

Appended Figure 3-3 Geological Layout of Zhangye City Subproject in Wulan Ancient Town

Appended Figure 4 General Layout of Dunhuang Xuanquanzhi Subproject

Appended Figure 5 General Layout of Suzhou Subproject

Appended Figure 6 General Layout of Tongwei Subproject

Appended Figure 7 General Layout of Tianshui Lacquerwares Subproject

Appended Figure8 General Layout of the Wushan Yuanyang Jade Subproject

Tables

Table 1. Ambient air monitoring data and evaluation form CO SO2 NO2 TSP PM10 Pm2.5 (mg/m3) Subproject Location Item Hourly Daily Hourly Daily Hourly Daily Daily mean Daily mean mean mean mean mean mean mean Survey value 8~16 5~8 16~28 8~17 - 305~355 167~207 122~165 (μg/m3) Assessment standard 500 150 200 80 10 300 150 75 (μg/m3) Maximum noncompliance rate (%) 0 0 0 0 - 0.183 0.38 1.2 G1 Shaodian Secondary 0.016~ 0.02~ 0.08~ 0.1~ 1.017~ 1.113~ Normal index - 1.627~2.2 village standard 0.032 0.06 0.14 0.213 1.183 1.38

Qin Up to Up to Up to Up to Exceed Exceed Exceed Result - ’an Dadiwan standard standard standard standard standard standard standard Sub - project Survey value 10~18 6~8 21~30 10~11 - 307~373 162~195 119~155 (μg/m3) Assessment standard(μg/m3) 500 150 200 80 10 300 150 75 G2 Vohuang Secondary Maximum noncompliance rate (%) - - - - - 0.243 0.30 1.067 village standard 0.02~ 0.04~ 0.105~ 0.125~ 1.023~ 1.08~ 1.587~ Normal index - 0.036 0.053 0.15 0.138 1.243 1.30 2.067 Up to Up to Up to Up to Exceed Exceed Exceed Result - standard standard standard standard standard standard standard Survey value 7~19 10~17 8~29 14~19 0.6L 147~164 85~95 63~71 (μg/m3)

Assessment standard 500 150 200 80 10 300 150 75 (μg/m3) Tianshui lacquerwares Secondary Ganquan town Sub- standard Maximum noncompliance rate (%) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 project 0.014~ 0.067~ 0.040~ 0.175~ 0.49~ 0.567~ 0.840~ Normal index 0.06 0.038 0.113 0.145 0.238 0.547 0.633 0.947 Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result standard standard standard standard standard standard standard standard Tongwei sub- Songjiabaozi Secondary Survey value 5~32 8~14 11~34 12~19 - 150~230 80~130 - project village standard (μg/m3)

Assessment standard 500 150 200 80 10 300 150 75 (μg/m3) Maximum noncompliance rate (%) 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 - 0.010~ 0.053~ 0.055~ 0.150~ 0.500~ 0.533~ Normal index - - 0.064 0.093 0.170 0.238 0.767 0.867 Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result - - standard standard standard standard standard standard Survey value 8~17 11~14 16~30 22~26 - 185~211 83~93 37~42 (μg/m3)

Assessment standard 500 150 200 80 10 300 150 75 (μg/m3)

1# Secondary Maximum noncompliance rate (%) 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 Liujia Wan standard

0.016~ 0.733~ 0.080~ 0.275~ 0.617~ 0.553~ 0.493~ Normal index - Lintao 0.034 0.093 0.150 0.325 0.703 0.620 0.560 Majiayao sub- project Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result - standard standard standard standard standard standard standard Survey value 9~19 13~15 17~30 25~27 - 193~222 86~99 39~40 (μg/m3) Assessment standard 500 150 200 80 10 300 150 75 2# (μg/m3) Secondary Beiguan Maximum noncompliance rate (%) 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 standard village 0.018~0.0 0.087~0.10 0.085~0.15 0.313~0.33 0.573~0.66 0.520~0.53 Normal index - 0.643~0.740 38 0 0 8 0 3 Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result - standard standard standard standard standard standard standard Survey value 0.409~ - 13~24 - 16~29 - 38~92 13~47 (μg/m3) 1.16 Assessment standard 1#The 500 150 200 80 10 300 150 75 (μg/m3) monitoring Secondary Maximum noncompliance rate (%) - 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 Zhangye station of standard 0.087~ 0.200~ 0.041~ 0.253~ 0.173~ sub- Zhangye city Normal index - - - 0.160 0.145 0.116 0.613 0.627 project Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result - - - standard standard standard standard standard 2#The Science Survey value - 11~18 - 13~31 0.215~0.75 - 43~91 31~73 & Technology Secondary (μg/m3) Commission of standard Assessment standard 500 150 200 80 10 300 150 75 Zhangye city (μg/m3)

Maximum noncompliance rate (%) - 0 - 0 0 - 0 0 0.073~0.12 0.163~0.38 0.022~0.07 0.287~0.60 0.413~0.97 Normal index - - - 0 8 5 7 3 Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result - - - standard standard standard standard standard Survey value Not 119.9~201. 13.7~30.9 7~8 10~16 - 159.2~266.6 - (μg/m3) detected 4 Assessment standard 500 150 200 80 10 300 150 75 (μg/m3) Gucheng Secondary Maximum noncompliance rate (%) 0 0 0 0 - 0 0.343 - village standard 0.091~0.20 0.125~0.20 0.797~1.34 Normal index - 0.035~0.04 - 0.531~0.889 - 6 0 3 Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Exceed Result - - standard standard standard standard standard standard Survey value - 14 - 27 - - 128 35 (μg/m3)(annual mean) The monitoring Assessment standard(μg/m3) - 60 - 40 - - 70 35 Suzhou sub- Secondary station of urban Maximum noncompliance rate (%) - 0 - 0 - - 0.829 0 project standard area Normal index - 0.233 - 0..675 - - 1.83 1.00 Up to Up to Exceed Up to Result - - - - standard standard standard standard Survey value - 14 - 22 - - 187 34 (μg/m3)(annual mean) Dunhuang Assessment standard The monitoring - 60 - 40 - - 70 35 Xuanquanzhi Secondary (μg/m3) station of urban sub- standard Maximum noncompliance rate (%) - 0 - 0 - - 1.671 0 area project Normal index - 0.233 - 0.55 - - 2.67 0.97 Up to Up to Exceed Up to Result - - - - standard standard standard standard

Table 2. Monitoring data and evaluation form of surface water environmental quality (mg/L, pH dimensionless) Sub- permanganate total total fecal project Location Project pH DO COD NH_3-N petroleum sulfide index phosphorus nitrogen coliform Name Qin 1# Class Ⅲ Survey value 8.27 8.4 56 8.0 0.038 0.49 0.06 0.087 7.80 23000 ’an Section of standard (μg/m3)

Dadiwan Qingshui r Assessment Sub - iver on standard 6~9 >5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 project the west (μg/m3) boundary of Zhaoso Noncompliance 0 0 100 100 0 100 100 0 100 100 ng Village, rate (%) WuyingT Normal index 0.919 1.68 2.8 1.33 0.038 2.45 1.2 0.435 7.81 2.3 own

Up to Exceed Exceed Up to Exceed Up to Exceed Exceed Up to Exceed Result standar standar standar standard standard standard standard standard standard standard d d d

Survey value 8.26 8.1 441 6.9 0.021 0.70 0.02 0.015 6.98 23000 (μg/m3) 2# Section Assessment of the standard 6~9 >5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 lower (μg/m3) reaches Class Ⅲ which is standard Noncompliance 0 0 100 100 0 100 0 0 100 100 1km apart rate (%) from Longcheng Normal index 0.918 1.62 22.05 1.15 0.021 3.5 0.4 0.075 6.98 2.3 Up to Exceed Exceed town Up to Up to Exceed Up to Up to Exceed Result standar standar Up to standard standar standard standard standard standard standard standard d d d Survey value 3# Section 8.52 8.6 269 6.6 0.035 0.34 0.01 0.190 7.94 70000 of the (μg/m3) Upper Assessment reaches standard 6~9 >5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 Class Ⅲ which is (μg/m3) standard 500m apart from Noncompliance 0 0 100 100 0 100 0 0 100 100 Longcheng rate (%) town Normal index 0.947 1.72 13.45 1.1 0.035 1.7 0.2 0.95 7.94 7

Up to Exceed Exceed Up to Exceed Up to Exceed Up to Up to Exceed Result standar standar standar standard standard standard standard standard standard standard d d d Survey value 7.8~7. 15.6~ 0.578~ 0.011~0.01 3.6~3.6 20000~ 7.96~8.08 2~2.1 0.172~0.191 0.005L (μg/m3) 9 15.8 0.584 3 9 21000 Assessment standard - ≤6 ≤15 ≤4 ≤0.5 ≤0.1 ≤0.05 ≤0.1 ≤0.5 ≤2000 (μg/m3)

1# m Noncompliance onitoring p 0 0 100 0 100 100 0 0 100 100 rate (%) oint, the st andard val Class Ⅱ ue index of standard Ganquan t Maximum own exceeding - - 0.05 0.17 0.91 9.5 multiple Tianshui Lacquer 0.59~ 1.04~ 1.16~1.1 7.20~ Normal index 0.48~0.54 0.50~0.53 1.72~1.91 0.22~0.26 0.05 10~10.5 wares 0.61 1.05 7 7.38 sub- project Up to Exceed Exceed Up to Exceed Exceed Up to Up to Exceed Result standar standar Up to standard standar standard standard standard standard standard standard d d d Survey value 0.67~ 0.352~ 3.6~3.6 160000~ 7.9~7.95 16.7~17 2.5~2.6 0.172~0.191 0.05~0.07 0.005L (μg/m3) 0.74 0.355 9 170000 2# Assessment monitoring standard - ≤6 ≤15 ≤4 ≤0.5 ≤0.1 ≤0.05 ≤0.1 ≤0.5 ≤2000 point, the (μg/m3) standard Class Ⅱ value Noncompliance standard 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 100 100 index of rate (%) Tianhe bridge Maximum exceeding 0.25 0.13 0.4 84 multiple

0.11~ 1.11~ 0.70~0.7 5.66~ 80.00~ Normal index 0.62~0.66 0.63~0.65 0.70~0.93 1~1.4 0.05 0.12 1.13 1 5.84 85.00 Up to Exceed Up to Up to Up to Up to Exceed Up to Up to Result standar standar Up to standard standar standard standard standard standard standard standard d d d Survey value 8.06 9.9 11 4.9 0.474 0.03 0.01L 0.005L 0.95 - (μg/m3) Assessment standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 1#, the (μg/m3) monitoring Noncompliance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - section of rate (%) Jinping Class Ⅲ bridge on standard Maximum the Niugu exceeding mult / / / / / / / / / / river iple

Normal index 0.53 1.98 0.55 0.82 0.47 0.15 0.2 0.025 0.95 - Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result standar standar Up to standard standar - standard standard standard standard standard d d d Tongwei Survey value sub- 8.06 9.9 11 4.9 6.58 0.40 0.01L 0.014L 8.57 project (μg/m3)

Assessment 2#, two standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 monitoring (μg/m3) sections of Xiangnan Class Ⅲ Noncompliance village and standard 0 0 0 0 100 100 0 0 0 - rate (%) Lianxiang village Maximum exceeding / multiple Normal index 0.53 1.98 0.55 0.82 6.58 2 0.2 0.07 8.57 - Up to Up to Up to Exceed Exceed Up to Up to Exceed Result Up to standard - standard standar standar standard standard standard standard standar

d d d Survey value 9.05~9 9.9~11. 0.367~0. Not 1300~17 7.84~7.89 - 0.03~0.04 - - (μg/m3) .48 1 392 detected 00 Assessment standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 1#, (μg/m3) about 500 Noncompliance 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 - - 0 m Upstrea rate (%) Class Ⅲ m of the ca Maximum standard ble- exceeding / / / / / / / / / / stayed brid multiple ge 1.81~ 0.50~ 0.367~ 0.13~0.1 Normal index 0.445 - 0.125~0.2 - - - 1.90 0.56 0.392 7 Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result standar standar - - - standard standard standard standard standard d d Survey value 9.08~ 15.0~ 0.210~ Not 2200~ 7.65~7.68 - 0.04~0.05 - - (μg/m3) 9.79 17.6 0.220 detected 2800 Lintao Assessment Majiayao standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 2#, about sub- (μg/m3) 1000m project Noncompliance downstrea 0 100 0 - 0 0 0 - - 0 rate (%) m of the Class Ⅲ Maximum cable- standard exceeding stayed multiple bridge 1.816~ 0.75~ 0.21~0.2 0.22~0.2 Normal index 0.34 - 0.2~0.25 - - - 1.958 0.88 2 8 Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result standar standar - - - standard standard standard standard standard d d 3#, about Survey value 9.25~ 17.6~ 0.250~ Not 2400~ 7.68~7.69 - 0.02~0.03 - - 1000m (μg/m3) 9.57 18.8 0.254 detected 3500 downstrea Class Ⅲ m of the standard Assessment suspension standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 bridge (μg/m3)

Noncompliance 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 - - 0 rate (%) Maximum exceeding / / / / / / / / / / multiple 1.85~ 0.88~ 0.25~ 0.24~0.3 Normal index 0.345 - 0.1~0.15 - - - 1.914 0.94 0.254 5 Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result standar standar - - - standard standard standard standard standard d d Survey value 8.27 - 5L 2.34 0.177 - - - - 20L (μg/m3) Assessment 1#, the standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 monitoring (μg/m3) section of South lake Noncompliance Class Ⅲ 0 - 0 0 0 - - - - 0 in the rate (%) standard Binhe Maximum New exceeding district multiple Zhangye - Normal index 0.635 - 0.25 0.39 0.177 - - - - 0.002 Subproje Up to Up to Up to Up to ct Result - standar Up to standard - - - - standard standard standard d Survey value 7.92 - 8.90 2.58 3.412 - - - - 9200 2#, the (μg/m3) monitoring Assessment section of standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 Shandan Class Ⅲ (μg/m3) bridge on standard Noncompliance the 0 - 0 0 0 - - - - 0 rate (%) Shandan river Maximum exceeding mult / / / / / / / / / / iple

Normal index 0.46 - 0.445 0.43 3.412 - - - - 0.92 Up to Up to Up to Up to Result - standar Up to standard - - - - standard standard standard d Survey value 7.83 - 17 3.8 3.99 - - - - 790 (μg/m3) the Assessment monitoring standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 section of (μg/m3) Shandan Class Ⅲ bridge - standard Noncompliance 0 - 0 0 0 - - - - 0 alkali rate (%) beach Normal index 0.415 - 0.85 0.63 3.99 - - - - 0.079

Up to Up to Up to Up to Result - standar Up to standard - - - - standard standard standard d Survey value 8.45 8.54 5L 0.7 0.13 0.04 0.01L 0.005L -1 85 (μg/m3) Assessment standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 1#, the (μg/m3) section of Class Ⅲ Beidahe standard Noncompliance 0 - 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 bridge rate (%) Normal index 0.725 1.708 0.025 0.117 0.13 0.2 0.2 0.025 - 0.0085 Suzhou Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to sub - Result - standar Up to standard standar standard standard standard standard standard standard project d d Survey value 8.37 9.05 11.8 1.2 0.08 0.02 0.01 0.005L -1 20L (μg/m3) 2#, the Assessment monitoring standard 6~9 ≥5 ≤20 ≤6 ≤1.0 ≤0.2 ≤0.05 ≤0.2 ≤1.0 ≤10000 section of Class Ⅲ (μg/m3) suburb standard

farm Noncompliance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

rate (%) Normal index 0.628 1.81 0.59 0.2 0.08 0.1 0.2 0.025 - 0.002

Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Up to Result standar standar Up to standard standar standard standard standard standard standard standard d d d

Table 3. Monitoring and Evaluation Table for Acoustic Environmental Quality Status (dB)

Functional Monitoring value Standard value zoning of Sub-project name Monitoring point Monitoring time acoustic environment Day Night Day Night Day Night 1#, Shaodian village, Wuying 2018.05.02-2018.05.03 Class 1 54.2 41.9 51.8 38.7 55 45 town, Qin'an county 2#, on one side of the 462- country road next to Shaodian 2018.05.02-2018.05.03 Class 4a 56.9 42.5 58.7 44.6 70 55 village Qin’an Dadiwan 3#, Wohuang village, sub-project Longcheng town, Qin’an 2018.05.02-2018.05.03 Class 1 55.2 39.8 56.8 37.5 55 45 county 4#, on one side of the 462- country road next to Wohuang 2018.05.02-2018.05.03 Class 4a 58.6 42.6 55.8 43.7 70 55 village Tianshui Lacquerwares sub- Yuandian 2017.04 Class 4a 58.4 49.3 57.6 49 70 55 project 1#(230m apart from the south side of Majiayao exhibition 2017.05.12-2017.05.13 Class 2 51.3 41.6 51.7 42.0 60 50 center ) 2#(220m apart from the south and southwest side of 2017.05.12-2017.05.13 Class 2 57.6 46.7 58.2 46.5 60 50 Lintao Majiayao Majiayao exhibition center) subproject 3#(300m apart from the south side of Majiayao exhibition 2017.05.12-2017.05.13 Class 2 53.5 43.2 52.8 44.1 60 50 center ) 4#(250m apart from the south 2017.05.12-2017.05.13 Class 2 52.8 44.7 51.9 44.3 60 50 and east side of Majiayao

exhibition center )

5#Yaotou village(460m apart from the south and north side 2017.05.12-2017.05.13 Class 2 48.4 49.6 42.0 42.4 60 50 of Majiayao exhibition center) 1#the east place 2016.07.20~2016.07.21 Class 2 40.1 36.2 47.5 36.4 60 50

2#the south place 2016.07.20~2016.07.21 Class 2 42.3 34.3 42.7 32.5 60 50 Zhangye subproject 3#the west place 2016.07.20~2016.07.21 Class 2 44.0 34.9 48.3 34.6 60 50

4#the north place 2016.07.20~2016.07.21 Class 2 43.7 34.0 48.9 35.9 60 50