Social Evaluation Report for Harbin-Jiamusi Railway Passenger Dedicated Line
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E2646 Public Disclosure Authorized V5 Social Evaluation Report for Harbin-Jiamusi Railway Passenger Dedicated Line Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized The Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation Public Disclosure Authorized Tianjin September 2010 Contents Contents LIST OF TABLES··················································································································································· III 1. BRIEF INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND ··························································································· 1 2. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN HEILONGJIANG PROVINCE ········································ 1 2.1 SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF CITIES AND COUNTIES ALONG THE LINE ·····································3 2.2 SOCIAL INVESTIGATION ALONG THE LINE ···································································································7 2.3 SOCIAL BENEFIT AND IMPACT ANALYSIS ····································································································12 3 ADAPTABILITY ANALYSIS··························································································································30 3.1 ATTITUDES OF DIFFERENT STAKEHOLDERS······························································································30 3.2 ATTITUDES OF LOCAL SOCIAL COMMUNITIES····························································································32 3.3 TRAFFIC DEMAND OF LOCAL SOCIAL COMMUNITIES AND RESIDENTS·······················································33 3.4 LOCAL SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATIONS ····················································································33 3.5 SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSES ·······················································································································35 3.6 RISK ANALYSES·········································································································································36 4. CONCLUSIONS··················································································································································37 ANNEX·······································································································································································38 ATTACHED FIGURE: MAP OF MINORITY TOWNSHIPS AFFECTED BY THE LINE ·························86 List of Tables List of Tables Table 2-1 Basic Situation of Affected Zones by Harbin-Jiamusi Passenger Railway Dedicated Line.................................................................................................. 6 Table 2-2 House structure ............................................................................................... 10 Table 2-3 Households with water supply........................................................................ 10 Table 2-4 Appliance Ownership..................................................................................... 10 Table 2-5 Ownership of Household Appliances ............................................................ 10 Table 2-6 Income sources of affected households .......................................................... 11 Table 2-7 Attitidue towards the Harbin-Jiamusi Railway Passenger Dedicated Line ...... 7 Table 2-8The turnover volume of major stations Unit: 10000 passengers .................... 14 Table 2-9 poor families in part of villages and towms along the line............................. 18 Table 2-10 Ethnic Minority Towns along the line .......................................................... 21 Table 2-11 Minorities in affected regions along the line ................................................ 22 Table 2-12 Villages and towns along the line ................................................................. 23 Table 2-13 Distribution of historical relics along the line .............................................. 26 Table 2-14 Hazard emissions of four transport means.................................................... 29 Table 4-1 Social Risks Analyses ..................................................................................... 36 List of Figures List of Figures Figure 2-1 Route Sketch of Harbin-Jiamusi Railway Passenger Dedicated Line ....................1 Figure 2-2The turnover volume of major stations..................................................................14 Figure 2-3 Percentage of Affected People along the line .......................................................24 Social Evaluation Report 1. Brief Introduction and Background The Harbin-Jiamusi railway passenger dedicated line is a project jointly invested by the Chinese Ministry of Railways and the Provincial Department of Harbin. The project is located in the middle-east of Heilongjiang Province, starting from Harbin Railway Station, going through Bin County, Fangzheng County and Yilan County, and finally getting to Jiamusi Railway Station. A total length of the project is 342.057 km. The Harbin-Jiamusi railway passenger dedicated line is also used as inter-city railroads. It is an important component of the North-east express railway dedicated passenger network, a fastest and most convenient passenger transport corridor from Northeast Heilongjiang to Harbin and the south of the Great Wall, and also a trunk line of inter-province passenger transport of Heilongjiang Province. Static Investment for the project is 32.4925356 billion Yuan, part of which comes from the World Bank loan. In accordance with relevant regulations of the World Bank, a social evaluation shall be conducted as a large amount of land requisition and resettlement is to be conducted in the project. Purpose of the social evaluation is to identify the affected patterns, extent and scope of residents along the line, especially disadvantage groups and minorities, so as to propose specific measures on how to prevent the above mentioned groups from being affected and to ensure the implementation of these measures. Therefore, the Third Railway Survey and Design Institute Group Corporation is commissioned by the Foreign Capital & Technical Import Center, Ministry of Railways to conduct the study on social evaluation. 2. Social and Economic Conditions in Heilongjiang Province The project is located in Heilongjiang Province, extending as far as Harbin in the west and Jiamusi in the east, and going by way of Daowai District, Acheng District, Bin County, Fangzheng County and Yilan County of Harbin City in the middle as well as the suburb of Jiamusi City. It is an important component of Heilongjiang express railway network (Figure 2-1). According to the Statistics Yearbook of Heilongjiang Province (2009) formulated by Heilongjiang Statistics Bureau and Survey Office of the National Bureau of Statistics in Heiloangjiang Province, the permanent population of Heilongjiang Province was World-Bank Loan Project 1 Social Evaluation Report 38. 25 million by the end of 2008, with a rate of natural population increase of 2.23%. GDP in 2008 was CNY 8.21 billion Yuan, 17.6% increased compared with that in 2007, and the average GDP per capita was CNY 21727 Yuan. The structure rate of primary, secondary and tertiary industry was 13.152.534.4. The total social investment in fixed assets in 2008 came to CNY 365.6 billion Yuan, increasing by 27.6% over the year of 2007. The fiscal revenue in 2008 was CNY 129.54 billion Yuan, up 28.3% on the previous year. The number of urban registered unemployed people was 0.32 million in the whole province by late 2008, with the registered unemployment rate increasing by 3.6 percent over the previous year. The average annual salary of an urban employee was CNY 23046 Yuan, increasing by 18.9% over the year of 2007. The per-capita disposable income of urban residents was 11581 Yuan and the per-capita net income of rural people was 4856 billion Yuan, increasing by 13 percent and 17.5% over the previous year in real terms. World-Bank Loan Project 2 Social Evaluation Report 2.1 Social and economic conditions of cities and counties along the line Harbin: Harbin is the capital city of Heilongjiang Province, a modern central city of economy, politics, trade, science & technology, culture and tourism in the Northeast of China. The area within the administrative area of Harbin is 5.3×104km2. The total population was 9.9 milion by the end of 2008, with Han constituting over a major percentage and consisting of other minorities including Manchu, Hui, Mongolia and Korean. In 2008, the local GDP was 286.82 billion Yuan, increasing by 17.7% over the previous year. Of this, the added value of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries reached 39.02 billion Yuan, 107.76 billion Yuan and 140.04 billion Yuan respectively, representing increases of 12.2%, 19.4% and 18%. The structure rate of primary, secondary and tertiary industries is 13.637.648.8. GDP per capita was 29012 Yuan. The general budgetary revenue of local governments in 2008 was 16.4 billion Yuan, increasing by 24.2% over the previous year; the aggregate output value of industrial enterprises was 244.1 billion Yuan, increasing by 13.6% over the previous year; the total social investment in fixed assets was 134.13 billion Yuan, increasing by 30.1%; the total volume of retail sales of social consumables was 126.4 billion Yuan, increasing by 22%; and the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 14589 Yuan, increasing by 14.2%. Jiamusi: Jiamusi is located in the confluence