Resettlement Plan People's Republic of China: Hubei Xiangyang Elderly
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Resettlement Plan July 2020 People’s Republic of China: Hubei Xiangyang Elderly Care Service Development Project Prepared by Xiangyang Municipal Government for the Asian Development Bank. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 22 June 2020) Currency unit – yuan (CNY) CNY1.00 = $0.1414 $1.00 = CNY7.0710 ABBREVIATIONS AAOV – average annual output value ADB – Asian Development Bank AH – affected househol AP – affected person DH – displaced household DMS – detailed measurement survey DP – displaced person FGD – focus group discussion LA – land acquisition LAR – land acquisition and resettlement LEF – land expropriated farmers PRC – People's Republic of China XMG – Xiangyang Municipal Government XPMO – Xiangyang project management office ha – hectare (1 ha = 15 mu) mu – Chinese unit of measurement (1 mu = 666.667 square meters) NOTE In this report, "$" refers to United States dollars. This resettlement plan is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. Your attention is directed to the “terms of use” section of this website. 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. Executive Summary (1) Project Overview The project includes five components, i.e. community-based elderly care service centers, elderly care demonstration areas where integrated medical and elderly care services are delivered, information-based elderly care service platform, human resource development for elderly care services, and institutional capacity building for providing elderly care services. (2) Land acquisition and House demolition There are 11 facilities in the Project, (and they will be built in 8 project sites). Three facilities (EC3, EC4 and EC5) at two project sites will be reconstructed without land occupation and other eight facilities will be newly built at six project sites after acquiring 140.63 mu of land, of which 88.35 mu (62.82%) are rural collective land, and 52.28mu (37.18%) 1 are state-owned land. 2 The acquisition of rural collective land for EC2, EC6, EC7 and HC2 facilities will affect 65 households with 307 persons in 3 village communities in Xiangcheng District and Dongjin New District. The construction of EC1 and HC1 facilities in Hengzhuang community in Fancheng District will use 38.6 mu of state-owned land that was acquired by the local government in 2013 for another project3. As the project resettlement impact survey indicated there are six residential houses with total housing area of 2,170m2 in the EC1 and HC1 sites (on the lands that have been already acquired) and they will be demolished affecting six households with 49 persons in Hengzhuang Community. The project will totally affect 71 households with 356 persons in four villages in Xiangcheng District, Fancheng District and Dongjin New District, of which 6 households with 49 persons in Hengzhuang community will be significantly impacted because of house demolition. The income losses of the affected households have been assessed to be insignificant - less than 1% of household incomes. The resettlement plan will address land acquisition, compensation, and resettlement issues of the Project. The XMG is responsible for paying compensation and assisting the project-affected persons before land acquisition and relocation activities start. One training facility will be built at vacant land owned by HUAS. The Zhumeng Hengzhuang EC1 and HC1 will be built on the land that was acquire in 2013 for Hengzhuang Public Security Housing/Affordable Housing project (the “HPSH project”) in Xiangyang City. As the Old City/Shantytown Renovation Project in Caiyue Area (the “OCR project”) in 2016 demolished houses at the location that has become the project site of the South Jianshe Road EC 8 (PPP), further demolishing of houses is not required. The land acquisition and house demolition were not done in anticipation of this ADB project. This separated Resettlement Due Diligence Report (DDR) confirms that there are no outstanding involuntary resettlement impacts or impacts on any specific ethnic minority communities that could trigger ADB’s Social Safeguard Policy requirements for indigenous peoples. 1 A mu is a Chinese unit of land area measurement (1 mu = 666.667 square meters). 2 The state-owned land has been already acquired, and the rural collective land will be newly acquired by the Project. 3 The Project sites of EC1 and HC1 facilities in Hengzhuang community are in plot F of the Hengzhuang Public Security Housing project (the “HPSH project”) of Xiangyang City. There are 9 plots in the HPSH project with total land area of 610mu (40.61 ha). EC1 and HC1 will take 38.6mu of land. In 2012, the local government started the land acquisition of 610 mu of land and ground attachments and completed the compensation payments in 2013. In 2015, the local government started house demolition in phases according to the subproject construction schedules in the area. When the resettlement survey was conducted at the end of 2019, the demolition of six houses in plot F was not yet started. (3) Policy framework and the right to compensation The RP is prepared based on the Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China (2019), the Decision of the State Council on Intensifying the Reform and Tightening of Land Management (G.F. [2004] No. 28), and Guiding Opinions on Improving Compensation and Resettlement System for Land Acquisition (G.T.Z.F.[2004] No. 238), Several Opinions of the State Council on Expediting the Development of the Elderly Service Industry (G.F. [2019] No. 5), and Guidance of the Ministry of Natural Resources on Strengthening Planning and Land Security to Support the Development of Elderly Care Services(Dec 2019) as well as relevant policies of Hubei Province and Xiangyang City. According to the RP, all affected people have the right to be compensated and receive resettlement assistance. They are entitled to receive announcements thereof in a timely manner. Through full consultation with the XPMO, local government, project implementing agency, and affected families, based on the realities of different places, the resettlement principle or entitlement matrix has been established. (4) Compensation standard and resettlement plan Compensation for acquired land. Compensation standards for land acquisition include land compensation and a resettlement subsidy. In accordance with the Circular of Hubei Provincial People's Government on Publishing Standards of Comprehensive Land Prices for Land Acquisition in Hubei Province (E.Z.F.[2019]No.22) and the Letter of Hubei Provincial Department of Land and Resources on Publishing the Multiples and Correction Factors of Compensation for Land Acquisition and Resettlement and the Compensation Standard for Young crops (E.T.Z.H[2014]No.242), land compensation standards range from CNY 19,280/mu to CNY46,200/mu, and the compensation standard for resettlement subsidy range from CNY 28,920/mu to CNY 69,300/mu in Xiangyang Municipality. Compensation standards for young crops range from CNY1,470/mu to CNY2,700/mu in Xiangyang Municipality. The annual average output value (AAOV), socioeconomic situation of residents, and the location of land are taken into account in the formulation of the comprehensive land price and will be adjusted every three to five years by the Department of Land Resource of Hubei Province (the new name is Department of Natural Resource of Hubei Province). For example, the compensation standards for land acquisition in Hubei Province has been adjusted in 2019 and increased from 36.2% to 92.5% in the project districts compared with the standards in 2014. As there is no market price for rural collective land in PRC, the comprehensive land price could be treated as the replacement cost of rural collective land. Compensation standard for land acquisition, which is based on the comprehensive land price, complies with ADB’s involuntary resettlement safeguard policy requirements. According to the Circular of Xiangyang Municipal People's Government Office on Issuing Guidance Standards for Compensation for the Expropriation of Attachments on Collectively Owned Land in Xiangyang City(X.Z.B.F.[2018] No. 41), the standard of compensation for the motor-pumped wells is 4000 yuan per well; the standard of compensation for trees (diameters at breast height of these trees are 6 cm to 10cm) in Sunjiaxiang Village and Hengzhuang Community in the project affected area is 30 yuan/plant. The main measures for income rehabilitation include: (i) compensation for land losses at their replacement cost enabling them to invest cash compensation in new enterprises; (ii) employment opportunities during the project construction phase and also during the project operation phase; and (iii) provision of ECS skill training, and employment information free of charge to the affected persons, and (iv) engagement of affected persons with a per capita cultivated land area of less than 0.3 mu after land acquisition. Compensation for demolished residential houses. The affected residential houses are brick- concrete structures. Compensation standard for a brick-concrete housing is CNY 791/m2 which is based on the replacement cost of an affected house structure. Meanwhile, the qualified appraisal agency will be