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Social Monitoring Report Semi-Annual Report August 2019 PRC: Shaanxi Mountain Road Safety Demonstration Project Prepared by Shaanxi Kexin Consultant Company for the People’s Republic of China and the Asian Development Bank. This social monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. Shaanxi Mountain Road Safety Demonstration Project (Loan No. 3924-PRC) External Monitoring Report for Resettlement (Xunyang County) Report No.5 (September 2018 ~February 2019) Prepared for: Foreign Capital Utilization Center of SPTD By: Shaanxi Kexin Consultant Company August 2019 Executive Summary In February 2019, External Monitoring Unit of Xunyang County Subproject of Shaanxi Mountainous Road Safety Demonstration Project (the Monitor) carried out external monitoring of Phase V in project affected area. The reporting period was September 2018 to February 2019. This external monitoring scope involved 6 towns and 36 administrative villages/communities that were affected by the subprojects. Shuxiao Road(X304) is still under preparation and has not been implemented yet. The affected monitoring survey was conducted with the well-developed global participatory monitoring method in recent years, namely, establishing the project monitoring and consulting group, and in combination with the conventional monitoring methods, including field exploration, in-home survey and dictation record, arrangement of villagers discussion, visit of related authorities, consultation of statistical materials, local chronicles, statutes documents, etc. Xunyang County Highway Road Subproject (the Subproject) includes: 1) S102, 2) Shuxiao Highway), and 3) 3 village roads. In addition, XCPMO is also responsible for implementation of land acquisition and resettlement of G316 Xunyang Section. Xunyang County Subproject is located in an area with frequent occurrence of geological disasters such as landslide, mountain collapse etc. Because of the disaster, the newly increased land acquisition, repeated land acquisition, and house demolition occurred. As of February 28,2019,it was predicted the newly increased land acquisition shall be 286.15mu and house demolition 2,790m2 due to disasters. Xunyang County Project Management Office (XCPMO) has signed the agreement on land acquisition of 265.08mu with 239 affected houses. The LA compensation for 203 affected households has been redeemed. XCPMO has reached the oral agreement on predicted house demolition of affected households and they all chose settlement with monetary compensation. But the final quantities of house demolition shall be determined by a professional institute with the safety assessment results upon full completion of all protective engineering which is to be conducted in November 2019. So there has not been a written agreement with households of house demolition. By February 28,2019, the subprojects under construction in Xunyang are Project G316 (Xunyang Section), S102 and X304. The acquisition and demolition work of village road has not started. Up to February 28,2019, S102 has accomplished the collective land acquisition of 1067.86mu accumulatively. The house demolition has accomplished 31966.58m2 accumulatively. S102 has accomplished the state-owned land acquisition of 4.33 mu. Compensation funds had been paid to the households in cash fully. G316 (Xunyang Section) has accomplished the collective land acquisition of 409.28 mu and house demolition 9339.32 m2 accumulatively. Compensation funds have been paid to households in cash. It was found in the previous monitoring that, due to the financial problem of X304, the house demolition fund was not paid. According to the investigation and verification of the this monitoring, these compensation funds had been paid to the households from December of 2018 to January of 2019. X304 has reached house demolition agreement of 3610.21m2 accumulatively, the compensation funds of which have all been paid to the households. The collectively-owned land for which have reached an agreement or oral agreement for the land acquisition of X304 project is totally 340.64 mu, because there are some problems with the supporting funds, part of compensation for the land acquisition has been paid and it is planned to complete all the payment of the compensation in June 2019. Up to February 28, 2019, totally 1860 households have concluded the agreement, including 238 households affected by both land acquisition and house demolition. Among 238 households affected by house demolition, 28 AHs choose centralized settlement ,175 AHs choose local settlement, and 35 AHs choose cash settlement. Actual compensation standard was formulated based on the principles in updated RP and shall not be less than that in updated RP. The subproject removes the non-residential building of 3871.5 m2 of two enterprises accumulatively. After signing the compensation agreement and receiving the compensation, the enterprises have moved out. Temporary land occupation of the subproject was 67.139 mu, and the compensation fund have been paid. As of February 28,2019,the total compensation incurred in the project was about CNY 88,401,481, among which, CNY 35,839,271 was paid for land acquisition, CNY 41,485,116 was compensation for house demolition, and about CNY 11,077,094 was compensation for ground attachments. The monitoring in next period will continue the tracking survey on acquisition and demolition progress, compensation payment and settlement issues of the project. Contents 1 PROJECT INTRODUCTION AND IMPLEMENTATION PROGRESS ........................................................................... 1 1.1 PROJECT OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1.1 Xunyang County Highway Subproject and external monitoring scope of LA&R ......................................... 2 1.1.2 Project investment and implementation process ........................................................................................ 8 1.1.3 Executing and implementing agencies........................................................................................................ 8 1.2 AFFECTED AREA ....................................................................................................................................................... 11 2 MONITORING ON PROJECT LA AND HD ............................................................................................................13 2.1 MONITORING PROCEDURE......................................................................................................................................... 13 2.2 INVESTIGATION METHODS ......................................................................................................................................... 13 2.3 FOLLOW-UP SURVEY ON GEOLOGICAL HAZARDS ............................................................................................................. 13 2.4 LA AND HD STATUS ................................................................................................................................................. 20 2.4.1 Land Acquisition ........................................................................................................................................ 20 2.4.2 House Demolition ...................................................................................................................................... 21 2.4.3 LAR Impact status ..................................................................................................................................... 22 2.4.4 Compensation standard of LA & HD ......................................................................................................... 24 2.5 TEMPORARY LAND OCCUPATION ................................................................................................................................. 30 2.6 GROUND ATTACHMENTS ........................................................................................................................................... 31 2.7 AFFECTED VULNERABLE GROUPS ................................................................................................................................. 31 2.8 SURVEY OF SOCIOECONOMIC SITUATION OF THE PROJECT AFFECTED AREA ........................................................................... 31 3 LAND ACQUISITION, HOUSE DEMOLITION AND RESETTLEMENT .......................................................................35 3.1 IMPACTS AND COST OF LA & HD ................................................................................................................................ 35 3.2 RESETTLEMENT PLAN AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY MEASURE .............................................................................................. 37 3.3 RECOVERY PLAN OF SPECIAL FACILITIES ........................................................................................................................ 43 3.4 STATUS OF CENTRALIZED RESETTLEMENT SITE ............................................................................................................