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Resettlement Planning Report of Henan Towns Water (Supply and Draiage) Project Resettlement Planning Report of Henan Towns Water (Supply and Draiage) Project * Project by the Loan of the World Bank RP386 VOL. 1 Public Disclosure Authorized Resettlement Planning Report Public Disclosure Authorized of Henan Towns Water (Supply and Drainage) Project the Peoples'Republic of China Public Disclosure Authorized The Foreign-loan Project Management Office of Henan Public Disclosure Authorized Zhengzhou Oct. 2005 *~~~~~ I Resettlement Planning Report of Henan Towns Water (Supply and Draiage) Project Contents Preface ....................................................... 1 Definition of Special Terms ....................................................... 3 1. Brief introduction on Henan Towns Water (Supply and Drainage) Project ........................ 5 1.1 General state of the Project ....................................................... 5 1.1.1 Background ....................................................... 5 1.1.2 The guiding ideology ....................................................... 6 1.1.3 The overall objective ................... : .6 1.1.4 The basis of the Project .................... 6 2. General social and economic condition of affected areas .......................................... 21 2 E 1 Natural, climate and water resource conditions .......................................... 21 _ 2.1.1 Climate ........ 21 2.1.2 water resources & water system ............................................... 21 2.2. Social and economic situation of project areas .................................... 22 2.2.1. General economic situation of Henan province ............................................... 22 2.2.1.1. Social economy ...................... 23 2.2.1.2 Educational situation ..................... 23 2.2.1.3 Sanitary course ...................... 23 2.2.1.4 Population ...................... 24 2.2.1.5 Expenditure of residents ..................... 24 2.2.1.6 Endowment insurance and social security .. ................... 24 2.2.2. The social and economic situation of project areas ..................... 25 2.3. Investigation on social economy of resettlement communities . .................... 25 2.3.1. Contents of investigation ..................... 26 2.3.2. The main economic indexes ..................... 26 2.3.3. Methods of investigation ..................... 27 2.3.4. Result of investigation ................... : ................... 29:.29 2.3.4. 1. Population .................................................................................... 29 2 Resettlement Planning Report of Henan Towns Water (Supply and Draiage) Project 2.3.4.2. Situation of receiving education ................................................................. 29 2.3.4.3. Yearly per capita net income of sample families ................................................ 30 2.3.4.4 The minority families & the weak groups ........................................................... 31 2.3.4.5 The choosing of taking compensation ................................................................. 31 2.3.4.6 Attitude of migrants to water supply & sewage treatment project construction .... 31 3. The influence of Henan Towns Water (Supply and Drainage) Project and its indexes of the material objects ................................................................. 33 3.1 The impact of land taken for Henan Towns Water (Supply and Drainage) Project ..... 33 3.1.1. The land taken for the water supply project and the sewage treatment project .... 33 3.1.2 The impact of the land taken for the water supply project ...................................... 35 3.1.3 The impact of the land taken for the water-heads ................................................... 36 3.1.4. Impacts of land taken for the sewage treatment project ...................................... 38 3.1.5 The building and article on the land taken for Henan Towns Water (Supply and Drainage) Project ................................................................. 38 3.1.6 The pulling down and resettling of the displaced people' houses ........................... 40 3.2 The impacts of the land occupied temporarily for the construction of Henan Towns Water (Supply and Drainage) Project ....................................... 41 3.2.1 Area of the temporary cultivated farmland taking and the demolished &.repaired road during laying of water supplying pipelines ..................................... 41. 3.2.2 The area of the temporary occupied farmland for laying the sewage pipelines and of the repaired roads during laying the sewage pipelines ....................................... 43 3.3 Cultural relics, minorities and weak groups ....................................... 44 3.4 The hot issues displaced people concern ........................................ : 44 3.5 The analysis of the Project impacts ....................................... 44 4. The relevant laws and the resettling policies ....................................... 48 4.1 The relevant laws, regulations and policies concerning the resettlement arrangement of projects in China ................................ 48 4.1.1 The regulations of The Law of Land Management of the People's Republic of China, (August, 2004) prescribes: ................................ 48 4.1.2. The Implementing Regulations of The Law of Land Management of the People's Republic of China (No.256 Decree of the State Council, 1999) prescribes: .................... 51 3 Resettlement Planning Report of Henan Towns Water (Supply and Draiage) Project 4.1.3. Methods of implementing The Law of Land Management by Henan Province 51 prescribe: ............................................................... 4.1.4. Decisions on Further Reform and Strict Land Management by the State. Council (No.28, 2004): ............................................................... 53 for use 4.1.5 Guidance Proposals on Perfecting the Compensation System of taking land 54 and Resettling by the Ministry of State Land Resources (Nov.3, 2004) ........................... 57 4. 1.6. Forest law of the People's Republic of China ....................................................... 58 4.2 The Operational Policies of the Involuntary Settlement by the World Bank .............. ...... 58 4.2.1 The Goal of the Policies on the Resettlement Arrangement by the World Bank 58 4.2.2 The Measures of the Resettlement Arrangement by the World Bank ...................... 58 4.3. The Goal and Principles of the Resettlement Arrangement ...................................... 4.3.1 The Goal of the Resettlement Arrangement .58 4.4 Compensating Standards .60 4.4.1 Compensating qualifications and rights .60 4.4.2 Compensating Principles .60 4.4.3 The Compensating Standards of the Resettlement Arrangement .61 4.4.3.1 The Standards of Compensating for the Land Taken Permanently and 62 Resettlement of the Water Supply Project ................................................................. 4.4.3.2. The standards of compensating for the young plants and crops growing on the 62 fields taken permanently and occupied temporarily for the Water Supply Project ........... 4.4.3.3. The standards of compensating for buildings and articles affixed to the land taken 62 for the the Water Supply Project ................................................................. for 4.4.3.4 The Standards of Compensating for the Houses Pulled down on the Land 68 Henan Towns Water (Supply and Drainage) Project ....................................................... 4.4.3.5 The Standards of Compensating for the Land Taken for the Sewage Treatment 68 Project and the Resettlement Arrangement ................................................................. 4.4.3.6 The Standards of Compensating for the Young Plants and Crops on the Fields 69 Taken Permanent and Occupied Temporarily for the Sewage Treatment Project ............ Land 4.4.3.7 The Standards of Compensating for the buildings and Articles affixed to the 69 Taken for the Sewage Treatment Project ................................................................. 70 .4.4.3.8. The standards of taxes imposed on the land taken for the Project ...................... 5W The budget for resettlement arranging in the Project of Water Supply & Sewage 71 Treatment in Towns of Henan Province ................................................................. 4 Resettlement Planning Report of Henan Towns Water (Supply and Draiage) Project 5.1 The compensation for the land taken for the Project of Water Supply & Sewage Treatment ......................................................... 71 5.1. I The compensation for the land taken, resettlement arranging and the young plants and crops because of the construction of the Water Supply Project ................................. 71 5.1.2. The compensation for the buildings and articles affixed to the land taken ............. 71 5.1.3. The compensation for the land taken, resettlement arranging and the young plants and crops because of the construction of the Sewage Treatment Project ......................... 75 5.1.4. Compensation for the Articles and Plants affixed to the land taken for the Sewage Treatment Project .................... 76 5.2. Compensation for the Land Occupied Temporarily and the Houses Pulled down on the Land for the Water Supply .................................... 77 5.2.1. Compensation for young plants and crops on the land occupied temporarily by the Water Supply project and for land re-using .................................... 77 5.2.3. Compensation for houses pulled down and resettling because of land taken for
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