Resettlement Due Diligence Report People's Republic of China: Hubei
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Resettlement Due Diligence Report July 2020 People’s Republic of China: Hubei Xiangyang Elderly Care Service Development Project Resettlement Due Diligence Report for: (i) Zhumeng Hengzhuang EC and HC (EC1 and HC1) (ii) South Jianshe Road EC Facility (EC 8) 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 $1.00 = CNY7.0710 ABBREVIATIONS AAOV – average annual output value ADB – Asian Development Bank AH – affected household AP – affected person DDR – due diligence report DH – displaced household DMS – detailed measurement survey DP – displaced person FGD – focus group discussion LA – land acquisition LAR – land acquisition and resettlement LEF – land expropriated farmers PRC – People's Republic of China XMG – Xiangyang Municipal Government XPMO – Xiangyang project management office ha – hectare (1 ha = 15 mu) mu – Chinese unit of measurement (1 mu = 666.667 square meters) NOTE In this report, "$" refers to United States dollars. This resettlement due diligence 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. 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. TABLE OF CONTENTS Endorsement Letter .................................................................................................................... ii 1. BACKGROUND ..................................................................................................................... 1 2 LAR DUE DILIGENCE ON THE ZHUMENG HENGZHUANG EC AND HC ............................. 5 A. Basic information of the facilities .............................................................................. 5 B. Current status of project site ..................................................................................... 6 C. Land acquisition review ............................................................................................ 7 D. Conclusion ..............................................................................................................13 3 RESETTLEMENT DUE DILIGENCE REPORT ON THE SOUTH JIANSHE ROAD EC FACILITY .................................................................................................................................................17 A. Basic information of the Facility ...............................................................................17 B. Current status of project site ....................................................................................17 C. Implementation Agencies ........................................................................................18 D. Resettlement policies and compensation rate .........................................................20 E. House Demolition Impact Analysis and Implementation ...........................................22 F. Public Participation and Grievance Redress ...........................................................25 G. Conclusion ..............................................................................................................26 ANNEX 1 PHOTOS OF PROJECT FACILITIES AND RELATED DOCUMENTS OF LAND USE APPROVALS ............................................................................................................................28 ANNEX 2 EXPLANATION AND CONFIRMATION LETTER ......................................................37 1. BACKGROUND 1. The Project consists of 5 outputs: (i) Output 1: Institutional scheme and capacity in the provision of integrated elderly care services strengthened; (ii) Output 2: Public–private partnership subproject for elderly care service provision developed; (iii) Output 3: Capacity in the provision of geriatric acute care and rehabilitation strengthened; (iv) Output 4: Support service and capacity for elderly care services strengthened; and (v) Output 5: Policy and Management capacity in elderly care system strengthened. 2. Project outputs will require civil works (hard components) except for output 5. There are 11 facilities included in the Project which will be built at 8 project sites include six elderly care facilities in output 1, two elderly care facilities under a PPP modality in output 2, two G2 hospitals with geriatric acute care and rehabilitation in output 3, and one training facility at the Hubei University of Arts and Science in Xiangyang Municipality under output 4. The 11 facilities are located in 4 districts of Xiangyang City -- Xiangcheng District, Fancheng District, Dongjin New District, and High-tech development zone. 3. Among them, three facilities (EC3, EC4 and EC5) in two project sites will be conducted through retrofitting existed buildings without land occupation, the other eight facilities will be newly built in six project sites which totally acquires 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 newly 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 acquired by the local government in 2013 for another project, and not in anticipation of this ADB project3. As of the project resettlement impact survey by the end of 2019, there are six residential houses with total house area of 2,170m2 in the project site and will be demolished by the Project, which will affect six households with 49 persons in Hengzhuang Community. Two project sites (EC8 and HUAS Training Base) will be located in state-owned land. A resettlement due diligence report on land acquisition and resettlement was carried out to confirm that there are no previous or present concerns related to land acquisition, compensation, and relocation. The XMG is responsible for paying compensation and assisting the project-affected persons before the land acquisition and relocation activities start. 4. Land for Zhumeng Hengzhuang EC1 and HC1 has been acquired by local government for Hengzhuang Public Security Housing/Affordable Housing project (the “HPSH project”) of Xiangyang City in 2013, and house demolition for South Jianshe Road EC 8 (PPP) was completed by the local government for Old City/Shantytown Renovation Project in Caiyue Area (the “OCR project”) in 2016. Land acquisition and house demolition were not done in anticipation of this 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 site of EC1 and HC1 facilities in Hengzhuang community located in plot F of the Hengzhuang Public Security Housing project (the “HPSH project”) of Xiangyang City with total land area of 38.6 mu. There are totally 9 plots in the HPSH project with total land area of 610 mu (40.61 ha). Originally, there were six houses and farmland/construction land in the project site (plot F). In 2012, the local government started the land acquisition of 610 mu of land and ground attachment and completed the compensation in 2013. In 2015, the local government started house demolition in phases according to the subproject construction schedule in the area. As of the resettlement survey which was conducted by the end of 2019, the six house demolition of plot F has not started yet as the plot F was just agreed to be used for the ADB project for the construction of Zhumeng Hengzhuang HC and EC in Nov 2019 by Natural Resource and Planning Bureau of Xiangyang City. 2 project. This Resettlement Due Diligence Report (DDR) on HPSH Project and OCR project confirms that there are neither outstanding involuntary resettlement impacts nor impacts on any specific ethnic minority communities that could trigger ADB’s Social Safeguard Policy requirements. 5. Please find the land acquisition and resettlement (LAR) screen table below and the location map of project sites in figure 1-1. Table 1-1 Project LAR Impact Screen Table Name of the facilities and Type of Footprint HD LA Remarks belonged construction area (mu) district Output 1 Local government has acquired the land in 2013 and no additional land acquisition is required. The due diligence of the land EC1 (Fancheng: New acquisition carried out for this Zhumeng 38.60 Yes No construction subproject is in Chapter 2 of this Hengzhuang) DDR. For the 6 residential houses, which will be demolished by this project, please find details in the project’s RP. EC2 (Xiangcheng: New 25.18 No Yes Please find details in the RP. No.4 middle construction school) The building originally belonged to Food Administration Bureau and abandoned after relocating to new Retrofit of a building, and was transferred to EC3 (Food government- the IA by the government. Please Administration owned office N/A N/A N/A find the copy of meeting minutes Bureau of building into an in Annex 1. No additional land Xiangyang city) elderly care acquisition or house demolition center. will be required for the