Social Monitoring Report Project Number: 43032-013 April 2020 – April 2021 April 2021 People’s Republic of China: Xi’an Urban Road Network Improvement Project Prepared by Xi’an Municipal Government 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. Xi’an Urban Road Network Improvement Project External Monitoring and Evaluation Report for RP Implementation （Phase XI）` Shaanxi River Engineering Technology Research Center Apr 2021 Contents I. Overall progress .................................................................................................................................. 4 II. Impact of Land Acquisition and Demolition ................................................................................... 9 1. Affected districts.......................................................................................................................... 10 2.Type and Category of the Impact .............................................................................................. 13 III. Monitoring of Land Acquisition and Demolition ........................................................................ 22 1. Monitoring scope ........................................................................................................................ 22 2. Monitoring method ...................................................................................................................... 23 3. Monitoring process ........................................................................................................................ 24 4. Monitoring information and data analysis ..................................................................................... 24 IV. Land Acquisition, Demolition and Resettlement .......................................................................... 29 1. Progress of land acquisition ........................................................................................................... 30 2. Progress of house demolition ......................................................................................................... 34 V. Execution of Resettlement Policy .................................................................................................... 43 1. Land acquisition............................................................................................................................. 43 2. Housing acquisition ....................................................................................................................... 48 3. Economy recovery ......................................................................................................................... 58 4. Other facilities ............................................................................................................................... 74 5. The resettlement information of affected households .................................................................... 75 6. Payment of compensation fee ........................................................................................................ 76 VI. Public Participation ....................................................................................................................... 82 VII. Conclusions and Suggestions ....................................................................................................... 94 1. Conclusion ..................................................................................................................................... 94 2. Suggestions .................................................................................................................................... 96 Contents of Tables Table 1 Distribution of the Affected Area ....................................................................................... 10 Table 2 Summarization of Update Data and Planning Data of Land Acquisition and Demolition Impact ........................................................................................................................................... 14 Table 3 Statistics of affected attachments and infrastructures of each subproject ......................... 19 Table 4 Questionnaire on basic information of 950 affected sampling households ........................ 29 Table 5 Implementation schedule for land acquisition (By the end of Apr 2021) .................. 31 Table 6 Implementation progress of residential housing acquisition (up to the end of Apr 2021) ...... 36 Table 7 Implementation progress of housing acquisition of enterprise and public institution (up to the end of Apr 2021) ....................................................................................................... 39 Table 8 Actual implementation standard for land acquisition ................................................. 44 Table 9 Actual executive standards of housing acquisition ...................................................... 48 Table 10 Statistics about the Residential and Income Status of Affected ............................ 60 Table 11 Statistics about the Residential and Income Status of Affected ............................ 72 Table 12 Compensation standard table for auxiliary facilities .................................................. 75 Table 13 . Housing Resettlement Information of Affected Households (by Apr 2021) .............. 75 Table 14 Compensation expense payment situation for land acquisition and house demolition .................................................................................................................................... 79 Table 15 Information disclosure .................................................................................................... 82 Table 16 Public participation of relocation and resettlement .................................................... 85 Contents of Figures Figure 1 Location plan for the subprojects .................................................................................... 2 Figure 2 The plant sites of Shaanxi Sirui Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. located at the No.12, Zhangba 7th Road, Xi’an Hi-tech Industries Development Zone ................................................................ 65 Figure 3 Jingye Apartment in Xi’an Hi-tech Industries Development Zone ........................... 66 Figure 4 The plant sites of Shaanxi Sirui Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. located at the No.60, Weiyi Road, Xi’an Hi-tech Industries Development Zone ...................................................................... 66 Figure 5 Staff’s dormitory in plant site of Shaanxi Sirui Advanced Materials Co., Ltd. located at the Yuhua Industry Park ..................................................................................................................... 67 Figure 6 The picture of the new plant area of Xi’an Nylon Product Factory ...................................... 68 Figure 7 The picture of farm produce markets in Xixinzhang Village ................................................ 69 Figure 8 The picture of western district of Longyunrenhe Community .............................................. 70 Figure 9 The picture of Longcheng· Dinagjiaqiao Community .......................................................... 71 Figure 10 Fund flow diagram ........................................................................................................... 79 Xi’an Urban Road Network Improvement Project Funded by the ADB Loan External Monitoring Report for RP Implementation Xi’an serves as the capital as well as the political, economic and cultural center of Shaanxi Province. As one of the most important growth poles in the western region of the people's Republic of China An urban road network as the foundation of a city’s development is a powerful guarantee for the normal operation of various basic functions of a city and the development of social economy. In recent years, the construction level, service level and operation efficiency of urban traffic infrastructure in Xi’an have been improved greatly, but there are still some problems. For example, the road network is incomplete, the links among different roads are limited, and some roads have too much traffic; urban entrance and exit have traffic jams, and it is difficult to connect with the suburban expressways; east-west and south-north arterial roads in old urban area are faced with big pressures; there are less pedestrian crossing facilities, and pedestrians, vehicles and non-motor vehicles intermingle in a manner that impacts all three adversely; the lack of parking facilities forces vehicles to park on the roadside, exacerbating traffic congestion. To build an efficient, convenient, and environmentally advantageous modern traffic system, perfect urban infrastructure system, and comprehensively improve urban service functions, Xi’an plans to make use of an ADB loan for the improvement of Xi’an Urban Road Network, and attempts to promote the construction and systematic management of urban integrated transportation system by an all-round