Social Monitoring Report
Project Number: 49029-002 July 2020
PRC: Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project
Prepared by Xinjiang Linshuishe Engineering Technical Consulting Company
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Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural
Infrastructure Demonstration Project
Fukang City Subproject Resettlement
External Monitoring Report
Baseline Report
Xinjiang Linshuishe Engineering Technical Consulting Company
April 2019 Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project
Monitor Institution: Xinjiang Linshuishe Engineering Technical Consulting Company
Director: Jiangaguli
Evaluator: Jiangaguli Wang Liuqing Zhao Songsong
Report Writing Staff: Jiangaguli Wang Liuqing Zhao Songsong Yang Shuying
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Table of Contents
1. Overview ...... 3 1.1. Introduction ...... 3 1.2. Involuntary Resettlement External Monitoring ...... 9 2. Project Progress ...... 15 2.1. Project Progress ...... 15 3. Project Resettlement Progress ...... 19 3.1. Resettlement impact ...... 19 3.2. Land Acquisition...... 24 3.3. Impact of House Demolition...... 26 4. Socioeconomic Profile of Affected Area...... 28 4.1. Socioeconomic Status ...... 28 4.2. Socioeconomic Profile of Affected People ...... 28 4.3. Interview Survey ...... 35 5. Public Participation, Information Disclosure and Grievance Redress ...... 40 5.1. Public Participation ...... 40 5.2. Appeal Procedure ...... 44 5.3. Appeal Contact Information ...... 46 6. Organizational Structure and Responsibilities...... 48 6.1. Resettlement Action Agencies ...... 48 6.2. Organizational Chart ...... 48 6.3. Fukang City ADB Loaned Project Management Leading Group ...... 49 6.4. Division of Responsibilities among Agencies ...... 51 6.5. Measures to Strengthen Institutional Capacity ...... 54 6.6. Evaluation of Organizational Ability ...... 54 7. Conclusion and Recommendation ...... 56 7.1. Conclusion ...... 56 7.2. Recommendation ...... 56 Appendix 1: Site Photos ...... 58 Appendix 2: Social Investigation of External Monitoring ...... 60
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List of Tables
Table 1-1: Project Compensation ...... 5 Table 1-2: Project Scales ...... 6 Table 1-3: External Monitoring Task Arrangement ...... 13 Table 2-1: Summary of Project Land Acquisition and Resettlement Impacts ...... 15 Table 3-1 Affect Recognition Table ...... 21 Table 3-2 Statistical Table of Collective Land Acquisition ...... 24 Table 3-3 Statistical Table of State-owned Land ...... 25 Table 3-4 Affected House Demolition ...... 26 Table 4-1 Demographic Profile of Surveyed Households ...... 29 Table 4-2 Occupation Distribution of Affected People ...... 32 Table 4-3: Average Household Income Sources of Affected Households ...... 33 Table 4-4 Average Household Expenditure Pattern of Affected Households ...... 34 Table 5-1: General Situation of Public Participation ...... 41 Table 5-2 Overview of Public Participation Activities Organized by the Project Unit ...... 43
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List of Figures
Figure 4-1: Marital Status ...... 30 Figure 4-2: Age distribution of Affected People ...... 31 Figure 4-3: Education Lever Distribution of Affected People ...... 32 Figure 4-4: Occupation Distribution of Affected People ...... 33 Figure 4-5: Source of Income ...... 34 Figure 4-6: Expenditure Structure ...... 35
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1. Overview
1.1. Introduction
1 The Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project is designed to improve living conditions in both urban and rural areas in Changji. The intended subproject outcome is increased urban and rural residents' accessibility to quality urban infrastructure services in Fukang.
The subproject will help accomplish this by (i) improving urban services infrastructure; (ii) constructing or rehabilitating urban-rural road infrastructure; (iii) capacity building: (a) installing technical and vocational skills training facilities; and (b) developing project management capacity of government agencies and community groups.
2 Fukang Urban-rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project is one of the subprojects of Xinjiang
Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project (referred to subproject as follow).
3 Fukang city has been included in ADB loan for 15 construction project packages (2 cargo procurement and 13 construction projects) with a total investment of CNY 749.823 million. Of which: we applied for a loan of USD 75 million from ADB (exchange rate: 1:6.9, equivalent to CNY 517.5 million), with a local counterpart funds of CNY 232.323 million. According to the division of responsibilities among the members of the leading group office of the ADB loan project in Fukang city, the project implementation unit shall be set up in accordance with the standard procedures of the county and municipal institutions of the ADB loan project and the agreement of the ADB loan memorandum of understanding (MoU). Fukang ADB loan project implementing agencies for Fukang
ADB loan project leading group office (the office is located in Fukang Housing and Urban-rural
Construction Bureau), Fukang city urban road construction, construction of windbreak, technician college infrastructure construction and Ganhezi town infrastructure construction involved in ADB loan project separately implemented by the Housing and Urban-rural Construction Bureau, Bureau of
Natural Resources, Technician Institute and Ganhezi township governments.
4 Outputs of Fukang subproject:
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5 (1) road construction: newly built and upgrading of 14 roads with length of 16.67km, among which, newly built and renovation of 9 roads, including 5 newly build roads of 7.19km and 4 upgrading roads of 6.12km, with a total length of 13.31km in Fukang City; 5 renovation roads, 3 newly built road of 2075.05m and 2 upgrading roads of 1279.70m, with a total length of 3.35km, in Ganhezi Town.
6 (2) urban public pipe network: (a) water supply: the total installation of 19170m, PE pipe shall be used for pipelines with the diameter less than DN300 and the nodular cast iron pipe shall be used for pipelines with the diameter more than DN300, including 15110m of pipeline in Fukang City and
4060m in Ganhezi Town; (b) water drainage: installation of 18600m drainage pipeline, the diameter is
DN300-500, the material is HDPE, and 522 of drainage inspection well, including 14690m pipeline and
4060m pipeline in Ganhezi Town; (c) district heating: installation of 6185m×2 hot water pipeline, the diameter is DN250-500, the high temperature hot water pipes are made of high frequency spiral welded steel pipes; the design pressure is 1.6 Mpa. The insulation material of the pipe is polyurethane rigid foam and the outer protective shell is high-density polyethylene sleeve protective shell. Fukang city planned lay the heating network in Boya road, Ankang road, Bofeng road, Taishan street and Tianchi street, the heating area cover an area of 1.348 million square meter of Xinyun road, Yingbin road,
Ankang road, Tianchi street, Minzhu south road and Dongye road. Changqing road and Honglingjin road of Ganhezi township will be equipped with first-degree heating network.
7 (3) ecological restoration project: (a) greening efficient water-saving projects of S303 road; (b) ecological shelter forest project in south mountain area; (c) shelter forest project of Beihuan road.
8 (4) vocational education project: build an employment training and human resources management centers within Fukang City Senior Secondary Technical School, including a 5055m2 training center, a 3161m2 canteen and a 1268m2 auto workshop, with a total building area of 9484m2
9 (5) procurement of equipment: (a) purchase 37 vehicles of various maintenance equipment; and (b) purchase the training equipment for automobile spraying and maintenance.
10 (6) capacity building: (a) strengthen technical and vocational education and training at Fukang
City Senior Secondary Technical School; (b) subproject management of implementing agency and subproject implementation units.
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11 The project composition is presented in Table 1-1.
Table 1-1: Project Compensation
NO. Subproject Contents and Scale newly built and upgrading of 14 roads with 16.67km lengths, among which, newly built and renovation of 9 roads, inluding 5 newly build roads of 7.19km and 4 upgrading roads of 6.12km, 1 Road construction with a total length of 13.31km in Fukang City; 5 renovation roads, 3 newly built road of 2075.05m and 2 upgrading roads of 1279.70m, with a total length of 3.35km, in Ganhezi Town. Water Supply: the total installation of 19170m, PE pipe shall be used for pipelines with the diameter less than DN300 and the Water Supply nodular cast iron pipe shall be used for pipelines with the diameter
more than DN300, including 15110m of pipeline in Fukang City and 4060m in Ganhezi Town Water Drainage: installation of 18600m drainage pipeline, the diameter is DN300-500, the material is HDPE, and 522 of drainage Water Drainage inspection well, including 14690m pipeline and 4060m pipeline in Ganhezi Town 2 Urban public District Heating: installation of 5152m×2 hot water pipeline, the pipe network diameter is DN250-500, the high temperature hot water pipes are project made of high frequency spiral welded steel pipes; the design pressure is 1.6Mpa. The insulation material of the pipe is polyurethane rigid foam and the outer protective shell is high- density polyethylene sleeve protective shell. Fukang city planned District Heating lay the heating network in Boya road, Ankang road, Bofeng road, Taishan street and Tianchi street, the heating area cover an area of 1.348 million square meter of Xinyun road, Yingbin road, Ankang road, Tianchi street, Minzhu south road and Dongye road. Changqing road and Honglingjin road of Ganhezi township will be equipped with first-degree heating network. (a) greening efficient water-saving projects of S303 road; (b) 3 Ecological restoration project ecological shelter forest project in south mountain area; (c) shelter forest project of Beihuan road. Building an employment training and human resources management centers within Fukang City Senior Secondary 4 Vocational Education Technical School, including a 5055m2 training center, a 3161m2 canteen and a 1268m2 auto workshop, with a total building area of 9484m2. (a) purchase 37 vehicles of various maintenance equipment; 5 Purchasing of equipment (b) purchase the training equipment for automobile spraying and maintenance. (a) strengthen technical and vocational education and training at Fukang City Senior Secondary Technical School; (b) subproject 6 Capacity building management of implementing agency and subproject implementation units. Data Source: Fukang PMO (April 2020)
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Table 1-2: Project Scales
Moto r Non Lengt vehic motor Sidew Green Proje Road Red line h le vehicle alk belt Remar ct Name properties width（m) （m lane lane width width k area ） width width （m） （m） （m （m） ） Guangyuan 1457. Newly branch road 24 14 0 5 5 road 62 built Huiyuan 1069. Newly branch road 24 14 0 5 5 road 15 built 1535. Newly Ruiying road branch road 24 14 0 5 5 22 built 2098. Newly Ankang road branch road 24 14 0 5 5 34 built Fukan 1027. Newly Boya road branch road 24 14 0 5 5 g City 94 built Tianshan Secondary 1240. Upgradi 31/33 15 0/9 9/0/11 9/17 street road 44 ng road Tianchi Secondary 1316. Upgradi 34/35/36 17/18 0/9 0/11 7 street road 46 ng road 31.5/44.5/3 1464. 8.5/9.5/4. 5/9/4.5 Upgradi Yingbin road Main road 18/24 0/3 3/40 06 5/8 /8 ng road 2103. Upgradi Bofeng road Mains road 39 16 9 6 8 04 ng road Changing Mains road 727.0 Upgradi 24 10 0 4 10 road 3 ng road Mains road 952.3 New Zhenxi road 22 12 0 4 6 6 road Ganh Guangming Mains road New ezi 24 480 15 0 9 0 road road Town branch road 642.6 New Weiqi road 16 7 0 3 6 9 road Honglingjin branch road 552.6 Upgradi 20 10 0 4 6 road 7 ng road Source: From FSR and the Approved Preliminary Design of the project (April 2020).
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Figure 1-1: Road Network of Fukang City (proposed road indicated by red line)
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Figure 1-2: Road Network of Ganhezi Town (proposed road indicated by red line)
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Figure 1-3: Proposed Roads and Affected Communities/villages in Fukang City
Figure 1-4: Proposed Roads and Affected Communities/villages in Ganhezi Town
1.2. Involuntary Resettlement External Monitoring
12 According to ADB’s policies, Fukang PMO will hire qualified and independent agency experienced in ADB-financed projects as the external M&E agency.
13 The external M&E agency will conduct follow-up M&E of resettlement activities periodically, monitor resettlement progress, quality and funding, and give advice. It shall also conduct follow-up monitoring of the APs’ production level and living standard and submit M&E reports to Fukang PMO and ADB.
14 The involuntary resettlement of external independent monitoring and evaluation of the project did the public bidding work on April 19, 2019, finally confirmed that Xinjiang Linshuishe Engineering
Technical Consulting Company undertakes the Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure
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Demonstration Project - Fukang subprojects resettlement external monitoring consulting service work.
1.2.1. The Work Steps of Monitoring and Evaluation
15 The survey of the monitoring, aimed at collecting project content, project impact, resettlement implementation agency, internal monitoring mechanism, social and economic characteristics of the affected residents and other materials and data to provide a basis for comparison of post-monitoring and evaluation
Preparation of resettlement monitoring and evaluation framework
The design of the sampling plan
Baseline survey
Establishment of monitoring and evaluation information system
Understand the schedule of land acquisition, the demolition and resettlement.
Grasp the land acquisition, demolition and resettlement of converting and variation, ♦
Compensation standard and compensation funds allocated and changes the situation
Site surveys, interviews
Collating information and establishing a Database
Comparative analysis and assessment
The preparation of monitoring and evaluation reports
1.2.2. The Contents of Monitoring Evaluation
16 According to the specific implementation schedule of the project, the External independent monitoring and evaluation mechanism has monitored the resettlement activity. Monitoring and evaluation institutions will conduct a post-assessment when the entire project ended to track the land acquisition and resettlement, incomes and recovery of the affected people.
17 The baseline report will monitor the progress of project implementation and resettlement during the period from July 1, 2019 to December 31, 2019.
18 According to the resettlement plan, this project mainly affects residents for land expropriation, housing demolition and the parts of the ground appendages of compensation. Therefore, the project
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The schedule of the project
Land of progress, quantity, compensation standards, the use of funds allocated and compensation
funds
Housing demolition quantity, compensation standards, the use of funds allocated and
compensation funds
The recovery of vulnerable groups
Resettles revenue expenditure sampling analysis
Resettlement on land requisition compensation and resettlement opinions and Suggestions
The organization and its capacity building
Internal supervision of immigration
Public participation methods and effect
Appeal and complaints
1.2.3. The Method of Monitoring and Evaluation
19 From April 13 to 17, 2020, with assistant of Fukang Housing and Urban-rural Construction
Bureau, project-related units and village committee, an external monitoring team from Xinjiang
Linshuishe engineering technical consulting company, conducted field investigation for monitoring and evaluation on LA and HD and meanwhile interviewed the relevant departments, to understand the progress of the project implementation, land acquisition and resettlement and the actual change and so on. According to the arrangements for monitoring task, the following methods were applied in monitoring and evaluation：
20 Agency interview: interview immigration implementing agencies at all levels of project owner and, through the field visit resettlement departments at different levels, understand the comprehensive information on the implementation of resettlement, grasp the main migration activities during the reporting period and its progress, the main problems of implementation and its processing and immigration agency.
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Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project concentrated community, held the immigration representative to attend the symposium, collect the following information: the compensation funds allocated and use, production and employment of settlement status of the affected population, community, the change of the production and living environment, information disclosure, public participation and consultation, complaints complaint and its solution, the affected population of resettlement work of opinions and Suggestions, etc.
22 Household interview: external monitoring and evaluation personnel go deep into the affected in immigrant families, face-to-face interview with them, understand the situation of the implementation of the immigrants. In-home interviews mainly to understand the affected social and economic condition with a population of individuals, families, immigration policy implementation, all kinds of loss compensation standard and the cash situation and situation of production and living place, information release and transfer, public participation, vulnerable groups protection measures, complaints and complaints and its condition.
23 Literature research: on resettlement activities related to land expropriation of demolition and resettlement file, protocols, statistical reports, such as special investigation information system and targeted collection, and verify.
24 Typical case study: in view of the problems need to study, through in-depth has a typical representative of the affected areas, the typical affected objects (such as, immigration, women, head of the household, director of the office for a typical minority and disadvantaged groups, etc.) to investigate interview seized first-hand information, analysis and study, puts forward the ways to solve the problem.
25 Field observation: through the different levels of immigration way learn resettlement measures such as the introduction of implementing agencies, progress and effect, and found that the implementation of existing or potential problems.
26 Monitoring survey: in order to follow the affected households in the project before and after the change of production and living level, the external monitoring team for the monitoring of the affected households survey.
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27 The external monitoring of the main tasks and schedule as detailed in table 1-3.
Table 1-3: External Monitoring Task Arrangement
Time Schedule Contents
In-depth understanding and collection of project overview, preliminary design report, project feasibility study report, the actual Communicate with the Fukang city implementation of the project Housing and Urban-rural progress, compared with the April 13, 2020 Construction Bureau and the person feasibility study, Project adjustment
in charge of the project. programs and the approvals of each line construction land and general situation of PMO and so on; current progress of the project, the situation of newly added project.
To the HDO, the PMO, Bureau of Understanding of the compensation Natural Resources, Bureau of standards of housing demolition, the Statistics, Labor Security Bureau, April 14, 2020 compensation payment procedures, Community and other relevant units, the amount of time, and the to collect relevant materials, to learn resettlement of residents and so on. about the specific situation.
To know about the complaint situation. The current production and living conditions of the people affected by the land acquisition, as To people affected by the project, well as the demolition subsidy April 15-16, 2020 conducting a survey of into the payment situation. Make the basal home, and carrying out a discussion. investigation for affected residents; to collect the first hand of the basis data, in order to facilitate the late monitoring data for comparative analysis.
Complete the materials, visit the To verify relevant compensation and April 17, 2020 HDO, the PMO, Bureau of Natural resettlement funds and schemes.
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Resources, village On-site investigation to understand committee/community. the current construction progress and status quo of each sub-project. Discuss and summarize monitoring findings and recommendations with the PMO.
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2. Project Progress
2.1. Project Progress
28 Fukang Urban-rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project is one of the subprojects of Xinjiang
Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project. The main construction contents include: (1) road construction: newly built and upgrading of 14 roads with length of 16.67km. (2) urban public pipe network: water supply, water drainage and district heating. (3) ecological restoration project: greening efficient water-saving projects of S303 road, ecological shelter forest project in south mountain area and shelter forest project of Beihuan road. (4) vocational education project: build an employment training and human resources management centers within Fukang City Senior Secondary
Technical School, with a total building area of 9484m2. (5) procurement of equipment: purchase 37 vehicles of various maintenance equipment and the training equipment for automobile spraying and maintenance. (6) capacity building: strengthen technical and vocational education and training at
Fukang City Senior Secondary Technical School; subproject management of implementing agency and subproject implementation units.
29 As of the base monitoring, all the ADB-loaned sub-projects in Fukang city are going through relevant procedures in the early stage. The implementation progress of each sub-project is shown in table 2-1.
Table 2-1: Summary of Project Land Acquisition and Resettlement Impacts
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Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project Preliminary procedure Planned start/finish time The project progress in NO. Subproject Contents and Scale progress this period newly built and upgrading of 14 roads with 16.67km lengths, among which, newly built and renovation of 9 roads, inluding 5 newly build roads of 7.19km and 4 Construction is scheduled to upgrading roads of 6.12km, The preliminary formalities start in April 2020 and be 1 Road construction Has not started with a total length of 13.31km are being gone through completed by the end of July in Fukang City; 5 renovation 2020 roads, 3 newly built road of 2075.05m and 2 upgrading roads of 1279.70m, with a total length of 3.35km, in Ganhezi Town. Water Supply: the total installation of 19170m, PE pipe shall be used for pipelines with the diameter Construction is scheduled to Water less than DN300 and the The preliminary formalities start in April 2020 and be Supply nodular cast iron pipe shall be are being gone through completed by the end of July Has not started used for pipelines with the 2020 diameter more than DN300, including 15110m of pipeline in Fukang City and 4060m in Ganhezi Town Urban Water Drainage: installation 2 public of 18600m drainage pipeline, pipe the diameter is DN300-500, Construction is scheduled to network Water the material is HDPE, and 522 The preliminary formalities start in April 2020 and be project Drainage of drainage inspection well, are being gone through completed by the end of July Has not started including 14690m pipeline 2020 and 4060m pipeline in Ganhezi Town District Heating: installation of 5152m×2 hot water pipeline, Construction is scheduled to the diameter is DN250-500, District The preliminary formalities start in April 2020 and be the high temperature hot Heating are being gone through completed by the end of July Has not started water pipes are made of high 2020 frequency spiral welded steel pipes; the design pressure is
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Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project 1.6Mpa. The insulation material of the pipe is polyurethane rigid foam and the outer protective shell is high-density polyethylene sleeve protective shell. Fukang city planned lay the heating network in Boya road, Ankang road, Bofeng road, Taishan street and Tianchi street, the heating area cover an area of 1.348 million square meter of Xinyun road, Yingbin road, Ankang road, Tianchi street, Minzhu south road and Dongye road. Changqing road and Honglingjin road of Ganhezi township will be equipped with first-degree heating network. Construction is scheduled to Has not started (a) greening efficient water- The preliminary formalities start in April 2020 and be saving projects of S303 road; are being gone through completed by the end of November 2020 Construction is scheduled to (b) ecological shelter forest Has not started Ecological The preliminary formalities start in April 2020 and be 3 project in south mountain restoration project completed by the end of area; are being gone through November 2020 Construction is scheduled to (c) shelter forest project of The preliminary formalities start in April 2020 and be Beihuan road. completed by the end of Has not started are being gone through November 2020 Building an employment training and human resources management centers within Fukang City Senior Vocational Secondary Technical School, The preliminary formalities 4 Time to be determined Education including a 5055m2 training are being gone through Has not started center, a 3161m2 canteen and a 1268m2 auto workshop, with a total building area of 9484m2.
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Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project (a) purchase 37 vehicles of various maintenance Purchasing of equipment; 5 ______equipment (b) purchase the training equipment for automobile spraying and maintenance. (a) strengthen technical and vocational education and training at Fukang City Senior Secondary Technical School; 6 Capacity building ______(b) subproject management of implementing agency and subproject implementation units. Source: Fukang PMO (April 2020)
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3. Project Resettlement Progress
3.1. Resettlement impact
30 In August 2016, Fukang municipal people’s government approved the resettlement plan and budget, and in January 2017, ADB approved the resettlement plan, the website is: https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/linked-documents/49029-002-rpab-01.pdf.
31 in December 2017, Fukang PMO has completed the resettlement update work of ecological restoration subproject and approved by ADB. The approved and updated resettlement report is available on the ADB website, the website is ： https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/project-documents/49029/49029-002-rp-en_0.pdf.
32 In August 2019, Fukang PMO has completed the update of resettlement plan of the road engineering, the urban public pipe network and the vocational education project and the RP has been approved by ADB. The approved and updated RP is available on the ADB website, the website is: https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/project- documents/49029/49029-002-rp-en_2.pdf.
33 A working group on resettlement was formed by Fukang Housing and Urban-rural
Construction Bureau, NRB, HDO and relevant personnel from the affected subdistricts/towns.
34 Because the construction of the project involves land acquisition (LA) and house demolition (HD), it will affect the residents. Land acquisition (LA) and house demolition (HD) of the project will affect 3 towns (Chengguan town, Shanghugou village, Sangong village),
6 villages (Yuergou, Huangyakeng, Tougong, Banganliang, Baiyanghe, Sigong), and 1424 people from 263 households will be affected, in which 1254 persons from 224 households are ethnic minorities, accounting for 88% of the total affected persons (APs). 33 households with 141 members are affected by HD only (including ethnic minorities for 8
HHs with 40 persons). 230 HHs with 1283 persons are affected by LA only (28 HHs with
145 persons affected by cultivated land acquisition, including ethnic minorities for 14 HHs with 76 persons). Ecological restoration project will affect in total of 28 grazing groups with
1138 people from 202 households (all these people are Kazak).
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Xinjiang Changji Integrated Urban-Rural Infrastructure Demonstration Project 35 A total land of 9200.43 mu will be acquired permanently, and it will affect 1383 people from 230 households (216 ethnic households with 1214 persons). Including (i) 25.21 mu of rural collective cultivated land (nursery land), 28 households 145 people were affected, including 14 ethnic households 76 people; (ii) 49.50 mu of collective homestead land, affected populations are included in the population to be demolished without further calculation. (iii) The ecological restoration project will acquire 9058 mu Class 2 Grade 2 grassland and affect 28 grazing groups with 1138 people from 202 households; including
S303 shelter forest project affecting 3311 mu Class 2 Grade 2 spring grassland in
Baiyanghe village, affected 19 grazing groups with 842 people from 144 households, all of whom are Kazak; south mountain area shelter forest affecting 5747 mu Class 2 Grade 2 autumn grassland in Sigong village, affected 9 grazing groups with 296 people from 58 households and all these people are Kazak. (iv) 38.29 mu of state-owned construction land, without affected people. (v) 29.43 mu of state-owned unused land, without affected people.
36 House with an area of 16066.78 m2 will be demolished, affecting in total of 33 households with 141 people (8 ethnic households with 40 people); including house demolition with an area of 16028.15 m2, affecting 33 households with 141 people (8 ethnic households with 40 people). The project will demolish 1 family-commercial shop with an area of 38.63 m2, the affected people has included in the population to be demolished without further calculation.
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Table 3-1: Affect Recognition Table State-owned land HD impact（including family- Impact of collective land acquisition permanently （mu） commercial shop）
People information of Information of affected LA（mu） affected land acquisition people only Re
Cons Demoli Pop m Involved project Unus Popu tructi Subt tion HH ulati ar HH ed lation on otal area Pop （m on k Cultiva Homes Grass Subtot Popu （mi land HH （mi land （m2） HH ulat inor （m te land tead land al lation noriti noriti ion itie inor es） es） s） ities ）
Guan
gyua 5366.2
Road 19.61 19.61 10 44 2 9 Fuka n 5 engin ng road eerin city Ruiyi g ng 12.66 12.66 2622.1 12 45 1 1 road
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Anka 8078.4 ng 17.23 17.23 11 52 5 30 3 road
Boya 25.21 25.21 28 145 14 76 road
Bofen g 3.12 3.12 road
Subto 16066. 25.21 49.5 74.71 28 145 14 76 0 3.12 3.12 33 141 8 40 tal 78
Zhen xi 12.32 18.63 30.95 road
Guan
Ganh gmin 17.09 0.48 17.57 ezi g town road
Weiqi 8.88 7.2 16.08 road
Subto 38.29 26.31 64.6 tal
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Ecolo S303 shelter 3311 3311 144 842 144 842 gical forest restor South ation mountain area 5747 5747 58 296 58 296 proje shelter forest
ct Subtotal 9058 9058 202 1138 202 1138
9132.7 16066. Total 25.21 49.5 9058 230 1283 216 1214 38.29 29.43 67.72 33 141 8 40 1 78
Source: approved resettlement plan
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37 A total land of 9200.43 mu will be acquired permanently, and it will affect 1383 people from 230 households (216 ethnic households with 1214 members). Including (i) 25.21 mu of rural collective cultivated land (nursery land), affect 28 households 145 people, including 14 ethnic households 76 people; (ii) 49.50 mu collective homestead land, affected populations are included in the population to be demolished without further calculation. (iii) The collective grassland will acquire 9058 mu and affect
1138 people from 202 households (all of whom are ethnic minorities). (iv) 38.29 mu of state-owned construction land, without affected people. (v) 29.43 mu of state-owned unused land, without affected people.
3.2.1. Collective Land
38 A total land of 9132.71 mu will be acquired permanently, and it will affect 1383 people from 230 households (216 ethnic households with 1214 people). Including (i) 25.21 mu of collective cultivated land (nursery land), affect 28 households with 145 people, including 14 ethnic households with 76 people; (ii) 49.50 mu collective homestead land, affected populations are included in the population to be demolished without further calculation. (iii) The collective grassland will acquire 9058 mu and affect
1138 people from 202 households (all of whom are ethnic minorities). See table 3-2.
Table 3-2: Statistical Table of Collective Land Acquisition Impact of collective land acquisition permanently
People information of affected land LA（mu） acquisition only Involved project HH Cultivat Home Grass Subt H Popul Population （minoriti ed land stead land otal H ation （minorities） es）
19.6 Guangyuan road 19.61 1
Road 12.6 Ruiying road 12.66 engineering 6
17.2 Ankang road 17.23 3
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25.2 2 Boya road 25.21 245 14 76 1 8
74.7 2 Subtotal 25.21 49.5 0 245 14 76 1 8
1 331 S303 shelter forest 3311 4 842 144 842 1 4 Ecological South mountain 574 5 restoration 5747 296 58 296 area shelter forest 7 8 project 2 905 Subtotal 0 0 9058 0 1138 202 1138 8 2
2 913 Total 25.21 49.5 9058 3 1383 216 1214 2.71 0
Source: resettlement external monitoring in April 2020
39 As of this monitoring, the land acquisition of the project has not been carried out, which will be paid continuous attention to the next external monitoring report.
3.2.2. Reclamation of State-owned Land
40 A total of 67.72 mu state-owned land will be occupied, due to the construction of 3 newly built roads in Ganhezi town (Zhenxi road, Guangming road, Weiqi road) involved the occupation of state- owned land, including 38.29 mu state-owned construction land and 26.31 mu state-owned unused land.
The construction of Fukang Bofeng road reconstruction road involved 3.12 mu of state-owned unused land. Through site survey and confirmed by NRB, all the occupied land belongs to state-owned construction land, no ground attachments or buildings will be involved. Besides, the subproject is a public utility project, no need to compensate to the state-owned land, the relevant land procedures are needed, before the implementation of the subproject.
Table 3-3: Statistical Table of State-owned Land Reclamation of state-owned land Involved project Remark Construction land Unused land Subtotal
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Road Zhenxi road 12.32 18.63 30.95
engineering Guangming road 17.09 0.48 17.57 （Fanhezi Weiqi road 8.88 7.2 16.08 town）
Fukang city Bofeng road 3.12 3.12 Road reconstruction
Total 38.29 29.43 67.72
Source: resettlement external monitoring in April 2020
41 As of this monitoring, the land acquisition of the project has not been carried out, which will be paid continuous attention to the next external monitoring report.
3.3. Impact of House Demolition
42 The project will demolish house with an area of 16066.78 m2, affect 33 households 141 people, including 8 ethnic households 40 people. House demolition with an area of 16028.15 m2 will be involved,
33 households 141 people were affected, including 8 ethnic households with 40 people. The project construction will involve 1 family-commercial shop with an area of 38.63 m2, the affected people has included in the population to be demolished without further calculation.
3.3.1. Scope of House Demolish
43 33 households with 141 people (including 8 ethnic households with 40 people) are affected by the subproject in Fukang City; The demolished house are mainly the bungalow in the village, the structures are mainly brick-concrete, frame structure, brick-wood, earth-wood, brick-earth timber, brick- steel and son on. The total house demolition area is 16066.78 m2, including 10578.43 m2 of brick- concrete, 160 m2 of frame structure, 2829.46 m2 of brick-wood, 1062.37 m2 of earth-wood, and 1424.89 m2 of brick-earth timber.
Table 3-4: Affected House Demolition Housing demolition area（m2） Subtot Project brick- frame brick- earth- brick-earth brick- al concrete structure wood wood timber steel
8078.4 Ankang road 5963.70 160.00 1158.14 146.17 638.79 11.63 3
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5366.2 Gaungyuan road 3343.64 0.00 929.00 489.15 604.46 0.00 5
2622.1 Ruiying road 1271.09 0.00 742.32 427.05 181.64 0.00 0
16066. Total 10578.43 160.00 2829.46 1062.37 1424.89 11.63 78
Type HH AP
Affected people 33 141 by HD
Ethnic minorities 8 40
Source: resettlement external monitoring in April 2020
44 As of this monitoring, the land acquisition of the project has not been carried out, which will be paid continuous attention to the next external monitoring report.
3.3.2. Impacts of Small Shops
45 The construction of Ruiying road will affect 1 family-commercial shop with an area of 38.63 m2.
Due to the residential house is used as a family-commercial shop and affected people is already included in the population to be demolished without further calculation.
46 As of this monitoring, the land acquisition of the project has not been carried out, which will be paid continuous attention to the next external monitoring report.
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4.1. Socioeconomic Status
47 Fukang City：Fukang is in Xinjiang Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture; it is in the east of
Tianshan Mountain, the southern margin of Junggar Basin. The width from west to east is about 76 km and the length from south to north 198 km, the total administrative area is 117261 km2 and there is an
Zhundong gas exploration base, with an area of 6.5 km2.
48 The total GDP in 2018 achieved 16.88 billion yuan, increased 8.2%, in which the first industry increased 2.76 billion yuan, the percentage increased 4.7%; the second industry increased 9.83 billion yuan, the percentage increased 8.8%; the third industry increased 4.30 billion yuan, the percentage increased 9.4%;The proportion of the 3 industries is 16.3:58.2:25.5. The total population of the city was
166,400 people at the end of the year, down 0.39%. There were 83,900 male and 82,500 females.
Among the total population, there are 85,500 urban residents and 80,900 rural residents. The population of Han nationality was 115,300, and that of ethnic minorities is 51,100, Among them, there are 22,100 Hui, 15,500 Kazak, 10,900 Uygur and 26,600 other ethnic groups. The city registered 1922 newborn population, the birth rate was 11.53‰, the registered dead population was 1611, The death rate was 9.66‰, the natural population growth rate is 1.87‰. Living standards of urban and rural residents have improved markedly. We did everything possible to increase incomes, the per capita disposable income of urban residents was 31,735 yuan, up 7.85%; The per capita disposable income of rural residents was 17,732 yuan, up 4.94%.
4.2. Socioeconomic Profile of Affected People
49 Socio-economic survey was carried out from April 13 to 17, 2020. Related personnel of resettlement external monitoring unit survey group will together with PMO, NRB conducted a detailed survey on the physical indicators of different affected objects such as population, land, and special facilities in Fukang city and Ganhezi town and conducted a socio-economic questionnaire survey on the affected families. The survey was conducted during July 1, 2019 and December 31, 2019, and socio-economic status of the affected people in the project area was analyzed.
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50 The demographic characteristics of the APs: a total of 106 households with 458 people were sampled for external monitoring. Including a sample survey of 34 households with 156 people (10 households with 38 people are Hui) were affected by road engineering in Fukang. A sample survey of
62 households with 302 people (all these people are Kazak) were affected by ecological restoration project.
51 The demographic characteristics of the APs are shown in Table 4-1, including different gender, age, population composition, education, and occupation. Among which, 237 are male, and 221 are female; and 118 are Han, 38 are Hui, 302 are Kazak, in marital status, 124 are unmarried, 326 are married, 5 are widowed, 3 are divorced. Table 4-1: Demographic Profile of Surveyed Households Men Women Total Type Qty. % Qty. % Qty. %
Households 106
Average population 4.3
Age
≤6 7 1.53% 6 1.31% 13 2.84%
7-19 23 5.02% 20 4.37% 43 9.39%
20-35 51 11.14% 46 10.04% 97 21.18%
36-60 120 26.20% 112 24.45% 232 50.66%
≥61 36 7.86% 37 8.08% 73 15.94%
Subtotal 237 51.75% 221 48.25% 458 100.00%
Ethnics
Han 54 11.79% 64 13.97% 118 25.76%
Kazak 163 35.59% 139 30.35% 302 65.94%
Hui 20 4.37% 18 3.93% 38 8.30%
Subtotal 237 51.75% 221 48.25% 458 100.00%
Marital Status
Unmarried 65 14.19% 59 12.88% 124 27.07%
Married 168 36.68% 158 34.50% 326 71.18%
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Divorced 2 0.44% 1 0.22% 3 0.66%
Widowed 2 0.44% 3 0.66% 5 1.09%
Subtotal 237 51.75% 221 48.25% 458 100.00%
Education Level
Preschool 7 1.53% 6 1.31% 13 2.84%
Illiterate or semiliterate 3 0.66% 4 0.87% 7 1.53%
Primary school 45 9.83% 48 10.48% 93 20.31%
Junior high school 102 22.27% 97 21.18% 199 43.45%
Senior high school or technical 59 12.88% 53 11.57% 112 24.45%
secondary school
Junior college or above 21 4.59% 13 2.84% 34 7.42%
Subtotal 237 51.75% 221 48.25% 458 100.00%
Source: Socio-economic survey April 2020, Household sample: N=106 HHs, Population sample: N=458
40% Male 35% Famale 30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0% Unmarried Married Divorced Widowed Figure 4-1: Marital Status 4.2.2. Age
52 The age distribution reveals that 36-50 age groups for both men and women accounts most for
50.66% of the total population; male for 26.20% and female for 24.45%; in addition, 20-35 age groups also accounts for a high proportion about 21.18%, male for 11.14% and female for 10.04%, this age group is also part of the labor force, In addition, above 60 age groups accounts for 15.94% of the total
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60% Male 50% Famale
40% Total
30%
20%
10%
0% ≤6 7-19 20-35 36-60 ≥61
Figure 4-2: Age distribution of Affected People 53 Based on the survey, many male family members over 60 and female over 55 are still engaged in social work. However, the definition of actual labor force should be defined in the section of 16 to 65 years old male and 16 to 60 years old female, who have stopped school education. According to this, the total number of labor force accounts for more than 80% of people surveyed.
4.2.3. Education
54 Among the APs, junior high school degree accounts for 43.45%; high school / technical secondary school degree for 24.45%, elementary school degree for 20.31%, and senior high school or even more higher education degree for 31.88%. From the figure we found that, the lower education degree (primary school) and the high education degree (junior college) people accounted a little proportion; In the total proportion of 15.94% of the elderly, Illiteracy is only 1.53%, and the junior high school people accounted for the most; at the same time, for APs with degree of secondary and higher education, the proportion of female slightly higher than that of male about 1.09%, while for junior college degree and above, male’s is higher 1.75% than female’s. These statistics show that female’s education degree improved in the affected area, and it needs to be kept paying more attention to female's rights in implementation of the project, as well as to employment skills training for female.
(figure 4-3).
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40% Famale
35% Total 30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0% Preschool Illiterate or Primary school Junior high school Senior high Junior college or semiliterate school or above technical secondary school Figure 4-3: Education Lever Distribution of Affected People
4.2.4. Occupation
55 Among the survived labor force, there 29.91% of them are breeding, only 9.39% of them are planting, and 17.03% of them are outside workers; this caused by the integration of urban and rural, the farmers are not confined to the agricultural work, they also play multiple roles such as work labor, business and others. 9.17% are doing business, such as small restaurants, shops and so on; 7.64% working in service industry. See table4-2 and figure 4-3:
Table 4-2: Occupation Distribution of Affected People
Occupation/Source of Income Male Female Total proportion
Planting 22 21 43 9.39%
Breeding 73 64 137 29.91%
Business 23 19 42 9.17%
Service 15 20 35 7.64%
Outside workers 41 37 78 17.03%
Enterprises and Institutions 15 17 32 6.99%
Total 189 178 367 80.13% Note: only the labor force population is counted in this table, excluding students and non-labor force population. (April 2020)
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Planting
6.99% 9.39% Breeding 17.03%
Business 29.91% 7.64% Service 9.17%
Outside workers
Enterprises and Institutions
Figure 4-4: Occupation Distribution of Affected People
4.2.5. Income and Expenditure
56 Because of the influence of the integration of urban and rural, the APs’ income is not only confined to farming or agricultural production; a large number of framers choose other occupations such as working as labor, business or open a restaurant. The main income of villagers who affected by the road construction is from working as labor (28.84%) and business (18.25%), the main income of affected households who affected by ecological restoration project are from breeding (25.07%). In addition, income from wage accounting for 7.41%, other income accounting for 6.75%, Rental house or shop income accounting for 3.37%. See table 4-3 and figure 4-5.
Table 4-3: Average Household Income Sources of Affected Households Unit：Yuan/year/HH
Rental Work Items Farming Breeding Business house or Wage Other Total Labor shop
APs 7800 18950 21800 13800 2550 5600 5100 75600
Proportion 10.32% 25.07% 28.84% 18.25% 3.37% 7.41% 6.75% 100.00%
Source: Socio-economic survey, April 2020, Household sample: N=106 HHs，Population sample: N=458
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35%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0% Farming Breeding Work Labor BusinessRental house or shop Wage Other
Figure 4-5: Source of Income 57 According to the survey, most of the rural resident in project area are engaged in other industries such as farming, outside work, private business and so on. Table 4-5 showed the composition of average household expenses of the AHs. The survey shows that the expenses on living account for
27.35%, agricultural, breeding expenses and business expenses account for 16.83% and 13.29% of the total expenditure respectively, as shown in table 4-4 and figure 4-6.
Table 4-4: Average Household Expenditure Pattern of Affected Households
APs Item Average household (Yuan) Proportion
Water expenses 160 0.31%
Electricity expenses 850 1.64%
living expenses 14200 27.35%
Heating expenses 2150 4.14%
Clothing expenses 5150 9.92%
Investment in agriculture and breeding 8750 16.85%
Business expenses 6900 13.29%
Rent expenses 750 1.44%
Educational expenses 3780 7.28%
Medical expenses 2700 5.20%
Social activity expenses 4770 9.19%
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Other 1760 3.39% Total 51920 100.00% Source: Socio-economic survey, April 2020, Household sample: N=106 HHs，Population sample: N=458
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
0%
Figure 4-6: Expenditure Structure 4.3. Interview Survey
58 In this external monitoring of resettlement, the affected households were interviewed to know their understanding of project and their attitude towards the project construction as well as the current living conditions.
4.3.1. Interview Contents
1. Interview Record of Household Affected by House Demolition
Time: April 14, 2020 AM Location: Tougong Village of Chengguan Town in Fukang
Participant: village cadres of Tougong Village of Chengguan town, staff of RP preparation team
Interviewee: Geng Huancheng (villager from Tougong Village of Chengguan town in Fukang city, affected by house demolition)
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The main situation:
1. Interviewee: Geng Huancheng, male, 64 years old, Han nationality, a villager of Tougong village, Chengguan town. There are 5 persons in his family, his wife is 63 years old, his son is 36 years old, his daughter-in-law is 35 years old, and his grandson is 7 years old. The family income source mainly is from the salary that the son and daughter-in-law go out to work, and he still work in the village, the economic condition is good, with annual income of 130,000 yuan, in addition, his wife has pension and gets more than 200 yuan of pension every month from government; Due to the overall planning and development of Fukang city, most of the farmland in Tougong village has been expropriated in 2012. At present, his land under cultivation is very little. Most of the land is transferred or rented to local enterprises and large farmers for cultivation. His son and daughter-in-law work outside on weekdays and come back home on weekends. He works near the village and go back home every afternoon. His wife does cook and takes care of the grandchildren at home every day. The cost is about 15,000 yuan every year, mainly including water charge, electric charge and living expenses. What this project demolish is an old house. He hopes to choose monetary compensation after the demolition of the house. He will move to the newly built house in the village in 2012. After he get the compensation, he can take part of the compensation to decorate the new house, and the rest of the compensation can be used to select a better kindergarten for his grandson who is ready to go to school.
As long as the compensation can be timely and reasonable payment.
2. Now the living standard is better, most of the villagers have cars, the roads have been repaired, and it is convenient for the villagers to travel, so we support the road construction very much. As long as our rights and interests can be effectively protected in accordance with national policies and make reasonable compensation and resettlement, we are willing to participate in the project construction.
Attitude towards the project:
1. The road upgrading has facilitated our travel.
2. The dust will be much less after the road was constructed, which is beneficial to the health of the villagers.
3. Road construction is a good thing for the people, and we support it. However, the compensation for house
demolition should be reasonable, and the government should fully consider the interests of the people and
formulate a reasonable compensation scheme.
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1. Interview Record of Household Affected by LA
Time: April 14, 2020 PM Location: Yuergou village in Fukang
Participant: Person in charge of Yuergou village, staff of RP preparation team
Interviewee: Yang Jinxing (villager from Yuergou village, household affected by land acquisition)
The main issues and contents:
1. Interviewee: Yang jinxing, male, 52 years old, Han nationality, his wife is 51 years old, villagers from Yuergou
village, there are 3 people in the family, his son is 25 years old, his daughter is married. His family has a total of
10 mu of farmland, 10 mu of land have been contracted out, with rent of 600 yuan/mu, annual rent of about 6000
yuan. Yang Jinxing is a migrant worker in Fukang city. His wife works in the village and his son works in a mobile
company, with annual income of about 120000 yuan. In this project, a total of 3 mu land is acquired. He mainly
planted calabash, the project has little impact on the family and will not affect our future planting. As long as the
compensation price is in accordance with the standard stipulated by the state and the compensation is paid on
time and reasonably, we are very supportive of it. After all, the road repair is to serve our common people, and
it is convenient for us to travel once the road is completed. After getting the compensation, he hopes to open a
shop, so that his wife does not have to work in the field, but sells things in the shop every day, which can increase
the family's economic income and won't be too hard. After the road is repaired, he believes the customer flow will
increase, and the shop business will become better and better. Yang Jinxing said that now the national policies
can truly consider the interests of farmers and benefit them, as long as the compensation and resettlement is
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reasonable, they are willing to participate in the project and support the implementation of the project.
Attitude towards the project:
1. We support the road construction. After all, the people who benefit from the road construction are farmers and
it is beneficial to us.
2. It is hoped that the payment of compensation will be fair and reasonable, and the full compensation will be
paid in time. As long as it does not affect their own interests and the project needs, they are willing to do their
best to support the development of the project.
3. We hope that the land acquisition work can be completed as soon as possible and reasonably arranged so as
not to affect our production and life. In addition, we should pay attention to safety measures.
4.3.2. Interview Evaluation
59 During this period, 106 households (including male and female) who affected by land acquisition and housing demolition were interviewed and investigated. Though the investigation, it found that all the affected people support and agree with this project, due to the project is benefit for the people. the construction of the project involves the housing demolition and residents’ interest, so the affected people hope that the compensation shall be paid timely according to compensation standard. At the same time, the affected people put forward their opinions, hoping that some measures can be taken to manage the garbage, dust and noise generated by the project construction, and do not affect their normal life. In addition, residents said the project not only improved residents’ living environment and
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60 The investigation of this period found that all the affected people hope that the compensation of land acquisition and house demolition can be paid in accordance with the national standards, and fully consider the interests of affected people, then make reasonable compensation plan and pay compensation in time.
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5.1. Public Participation
61 According to the monitoring team visiting the Fukang Housing and Urban-rural Construction
Bureau, NRB, Housing Demolition Office and community/village committee affected by the project and doing site inspection of the project, having an informal discussion and questionnaire investigation with the APs to learn that this project attached great importance to community participation and consultation, widely listened to social organizations, government, community and resettlements advice, encourage the parties to participate in resettlement and reconstruction work in the policy formulation, planning and implementation stage of resettlement.
62 From feasibility study of the preparation stage, the PMO and the engineering design company had asked the suggestions and advice of project construction content, resettlement channels, resettlement method, etc. to local departments concerned, villagers’ organizations, township governments and the villagers. In the preparation of resettlements, project LA and HD office also asked local governments at all levels and representatives of the vast number of resettlements for their opinions on resettlement and compensation policies. During the implementation phase of the project, resettlement agencies at all levels will further encourage people to participate in resettlement, production recovery and reconstruction.
5.1.1 Public Participation Activities Carried out
63 As the preparation and implementation of the project carry forward, Fukang PMO, NRB, Housing
Demolition Office and community/village committee will carry out further public participation, which mainly includes: compensation standards for LA and HD and RP; The content of training provided to the APs; To publicize the problems encountered in the project construction and the ways to solve them;
Listen to the opinions and expectations of the APs ; Publish compensation standards and channels for appeal, and get to know the implementation of the RP and the livelihood recovery of APs.
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64 During the project design and planning phase, the PMO organized the design institution, resettlements preparation unit, local committee and APs to publicize the information from June to
October in various ways. For example, doing socio-economic survey of affected households, discussing the issues related to LA and HD with the communities and put the results of consultation into RP; Listening extensively to the opinions of affected households, and discuss resettlement plans for LA and HD; Identifying and confirming vulnerable groups and give special consideration to the needs of them.
65 As of this baseline investigation，the ADB Project working group has been set up to make sure the plan working effectively. The PMO organize the affected villagers to have a discussion meeting to introduce project construction content, announce the project demolition scope and compensation scheme, solicit the opinions and suggestions of the residents, listen to the opinions of the affected villagers and report to the higher authorities to in order to minimize the adverse impact on all stakeholders in the implementation process, and to ensure the maximum protection of the legitimate rights and interests of the affected groups.
Table 5-1: General Situation of Public Participation Purpose Mode Time Agencies Participants Topics Progress Disclosure of compensation Disclosure of the Distribution 2016.11 Fukang PMO All APs rates, and Done RP and RIB appeal channel, Disclosure of RP ADB website 2016.11 ADB Website Done on ADB Website Detailed Design
According to the Affected Fukang PMO, To conduct final design community, NRB, HDO, affected measurements verification bulletin board, 2017.03 All APs Done staffs of and detailed survey village/resident communities/villages assessments (DMS) meeting Update the RP Affected staff Update the RP according to the Updating the Fukang PMO, NRB, 2019.4-6 of villages and and submit to Ongoing modified data data of the RP HDO communities ADB and DMS Disclosure of the ADB website 2019.8 ADB Ongoing Updated RP Hold a villagers' Fukang PMO, Public meeting to Village 2019.08 NRB, HDO, affected participation, All APs Done publicize the committee 2020.04 staffs of information project content communities/villages disclosure
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Picture 5-1: Villagers' Meeting
5.1.2 Public Participation Organized by External Monitoring Company
66 During this monitoring, the external monitory team from Xinjiang Linshuishe Engineering
Technical Consulting Company. has visited Fukang PMO, Bureau of Labor and Social Security, NRB,
HDO, affected streets and communities to do questionnaire survey and villagers meeting. Through this monitoring, it was found that in the design and implementation of the project, the executing agencies attached great importance to the participation and consultation of the affected units and people, listened to the opinions of APs extensively, studied and designed the project repeatedly, and tried to reduce the number of land expropriation and migration, so as to minimize the adverse impact on the residents in the affected areas. Check the public participation organized by Xinjiang Linshuishe
Engineering Technical Consulting Company from table 5-2.
Table 5-2: Overview of Public Participation Activities Organized by the Project Unit No. Time Location Mode Topics Participants Conclusion Determine the actual To understand the impact of each sub- actual impact of the Staff of PMO, project, as well as the PMO, NRB, project, the relevant offices compensation 1 2020.4.13 HDO and the Interview schedule of LA and and external standard for land relevant units HD, and LA monitory team expropriation and compensation member house demolition, standards resettlement measures, etc.
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To understand the Staff of PMO To understand the 2 2020.4.13 PMO Interview progress of each and external progress of each sub- sub-project monitory team project
To understand the The actual impact of grievance of the project Staff of the resettlements in the construction on the Symposium, PMO, APs of project area, the 2020.4.14- PMO, NRB, local people. Site 3 household HD and staff of financial status of 16 and HDO visit to check the survey external typical families, and current project monitory team their views and construction attitudes towards the progress project Check the construction site to Staff of the residents, the PMO, relevant environment and The project The scene Relevant measures office and 4 2020.4.17 other aspects of the area view taken by PMO external mitigation measures, monitoring team to understand the member employment situation.。 5.2. Appeal Procedure
67 In order to address issues effectively and ensure the successful implementation of project construction and land acquisition, a transparent, accessible and effective grievance redress mechanism has been established. The system has shown in figure 5-2. The basic grievance redress system is as follows:
Stage 1: If any AP is dissatisfied with any land acquisition and resettlement of any other
safeguards related problems, he/she may file an oral or written appeal with the community
committee/sub-district office orally or in writing. In case of an oral appeal, the community
committee/sub-district office shall handle such appeal and keep written records. Such appeal
should be solved within 2 weeks.
Stage 2: If the AP is dissatisfied with the disposition of Stage 1, he/she may file an appeal with
Fukang City Department of Natural Resources or the LA and HD management office (depending
upon the issue) after receiving such disposition, which shall make a disposition within 2 weeks.
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Stage 3: If the AP is still dissatisfied with the disposition of Stage 2, he/she may file an appeal
with Fukang City PMO receiving such disposition, which shall make a disposition within 2 weeks.
Stage 4: If the AP is still dissatisfied with the disposition of Stage 3, he/she may apply for
administrative reconsideration with Fukang City Government after receiving such disposition
within 3 months. If good faith efforts are still unsuccessful, they may submit their complaint to
ADB's Accountability Mechanism (2012).1 The first step requires good faith efforts to resolve the
problem with the ADB Project Team. Besides, reporting behaviors which are against ADB's
policies or procedures also welcomed. Website is: www.adb.org/Accountability-Mechanism/
68 The APs may file an appeal on any aspect of resettlement, including compensation compensation, etc. The above means of appeal, and the names, locations, persons in charge and telephone numbers of the appeal accepting agencies will be communicated to the APs at a meeting, through an announcement or the RIB, so that the APs know their right of appeal. Mass media will be used to strengthen publicity and reportage, and comments and suggestions on resettlement from all parties concerned will be compiled into messages for disposition by the resettlement organization at all levels.
69 All agencies will accept grievances and appeals from the APs for free, and costs so reasonably incurred will be disbursed from the contingency costs. During the whole construction period of the
Project, these appeal procedures will remain effective to ensure that the APs can use them to address relevant issues.
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City Legal authority Fukang City People’s Government
City Disciplinary ADB Inspection authority
NRB/HDO/PMO Resettlement City appeal accepting external monitoring authority Agency
Town government/subdistrict/co mmunity/village committee
Affected households/people
Figure 5-2: Grievance Redress Flowchart
70 As the LA and HD work of this project has not been carried out for the time being, there has not been a grievance redress of resettlements.
5.3. Appeal Contact Information
71 In order that the APs can feed back their grievances timely, contacts have been appointed for different appeal accepting agencies and their contact information disclosed.
Table 5-3: Contact List for the Project
No. Unit Post Name Telephone Remark
Fukang Housing and Secretary/Director 1 Urban-rural Construction Kong Qifeng 18999541208 of PMO Bureau
Fukang Housing and 2 Urban-rural Construction Deputy director Shi Jianjie 13565329501 Bureau
Fukang Housing and 3 PMO Dong Li 15292656555 Urban-rural Construction
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Bureau
Fukang Housing and 4 Urban-rural Construction PMO Ren Junxin 18999556918 Bureau
Fukang Bureau of Natural 5 Principal Luo Yi 18999556980 Resources
Fukang Bureau of Natural 6 Principal Zhang Senlin 13899631108 Resources
7 Fukang Shed Levy Office Director Sa Bin 13899665808
Fukang Housing 8 Director Yu Zhiyong 13899611895 Demolition Office
Chenguan Town 9 Staff Guo Haidong 18997818836 Government
10 Ganhezi Town Government Principal Luo Zhiyang 15199661119
11 Ganhezi Town Government PMO Li Jianyong 15509007855
Ganhezi Town Housing 12 Director Ma Zhizhong 13899611177 Levy Office
13 Fukang Vocational school Headmaster Shi Li 18909941636
14 Banganliang Village Secretary Gao Zhiping 15299981306
Chiyuan Assessment 15 Person in charge Zhang Haiying 13319006280 Company
Fukang Social Security Zhao 16 Person in charge 13579628589 Office Rongzhang
17 Fukang Civil Affairs Bureau Person in charge Ren Juan 13709941992
Letters and Visits 18 Director Yang Jianhu 13899671896 Department
Disciplinary Inspection 19 Secretary Ma Hongming 13899649001 Department
20 Legal Department Director Huang Dandan 13029605500
21 External M&E agency Principal Gu Li 0991-3638030
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6.1. Resettlement Action Agencies
72 In order to ensure the smooth progress of the resettlement work and achieve the expected results, the Fukang government first ensured the smooth progress of the preparation of the project and the resettlement work from the aspects of the establishment of the organizational structure and the strengthening of the capacity in order to do the resettlement work well. Since June 2019, various institutions have been established for the resettlements in Fukang city, and their responsibilities have been clarified. The agencies responsible for the planning, management, implementation and monitoring of the project’s resettlement activities are:
XAUR PMO (EA)
Changji PMO (IA)
Fukang people’s government (sub IA)
Fukang city ADB Loaned Project Management Leading Group (Fukang PMLG)
Fukang Project Management Office /Fukang Housing and Urban-rural Construction
Bureau (Fukang PMO/PIU, under Fukang PMLG)
Fukang Bureau of Natural Resources (Land expropriation, grassland expropriation
agencies/implementing agencies)
Fukang house acquisition management office (house demolition implementation agency
IA)
Chengguan Town Government(participation)
Ganhezi Town Government (participation)
Affected villages (participation)
Design Institute (DI) (project design institute entrusted by Changji PMO)
External M&E agency
6.2. Organizational Chart
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Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Reginal Government（Executive Agency/XJPMO）
Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture Government (Implementation Agency/CHPMO)
Fukang Government (IA)
ADB Project Leading Group (PLG)
Fukang LRB
Fukang FURCB/Forestry External Monitoring Fukang House Demolition Bureau/Education Bureau （PMO/PIU） Levy Office
Fukang Grassland Affected Villages/Communities Supervision Station
Figure 6-1: Resettlement Organizational Chart
6.3. Fukang City ADB Loaned Project Management Leading Group
73 The resettlement staffs of Fukang city are from functional departments of Fukang Municipal
Government. They have rich working experience and have participated in LA and resettlement in a number of local municipal projects and will play a good organizing and coordinating role in the implementation of the project. The Project Leading Group is composed of the following persons:
Leader: Ding Chu Municipal Standing Committee, Executive Deputy Mayor
Members: Han Ding Deputy Mayor of the People's Government of Handan City
Kong Qifeng Municipal Secretary of Housing and Urban-Rural Development
Qu Jingyun Secretary of the Municipal Development and Reform Commission
Ma Yuren Director of Finance Bureau
Wang Qin Director of the Municipal Audit Bureau
Wang Baojun, Secretary of the Party Committee of Ganhezi Town
Yin Zhenguo Secretary of the Municipal Ecological Environment Bureau
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Luo Yi Director of the Natural Resources Bureau
Chen Liang Secretary of the Party Committee of the Municipal Water
Conservancy Bureau
Jiao Xinguo Secretary of Fukang City Education Bureau
Sa Bin Director of the shed change director of Fukang City
Yu Zhiyong Director of the Housing Acquisition Office of Fukang City
Ma Jianming Secretary of the Party Committee of Chengguan Town
Shi Li Principal of Vocational College
Shi Jianjie Deputy Director of the Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural
Development Bureau
Zhang Senlin Deputy Director of the Natural Resources Bureau
Luo Zhiyang Deputy Mayor of Ganhezi Town
74 The Leading Group office is located in Fukang Housing and Urban-rural Construction Bureau;
Director of the Office is Kong Qifeng, office staff are drawn from the relevant departments to deal with daily affairs
75 The primary duties of the office are responsible for completing the tasks assigned by the leading group; To be responsible for the coordination of ADB loan projects; Responsible for the management of the interim adjustment, and the audit and summary of the project withdrawal; deploying, directing, coordinating the county ADB loaned project related work;
76 Responsibilities of each member unit: Fukang Housing and Urban-rural Construction Bureau is responsible for the specific implementation of the project and the implementation of project accounting;
The municipal Audit Bureau assisted the prefecture audit bureau in the financial audit of the project, and followed up and guided the project in the whole process; The municipal Finance Bureau assisted the prefectural finance bureau in the audit of withdrawals, and the municipal development and reform commission assisted the prefectural development and reform commission in the docking, coordination, supervision and management of projects. The municipal environmental protection bureau assists the prefectural environmental protection bureau in the environmental impact assessment of the project.
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The municipal bureau of urban and rural planning assisted the prefectural bureau of urban and rural planning in completing the project planning procedures.
6.4. Division of Responsibilities among Agencies 6.4.1. XUAR PMO
Responsible for the overall project management and coordinating, entrusting external
monitoring agency and submission of project progress reports to the ADB.
6.4.2. Changji PMO
Responsible for the overall project management and coordinating, entrusting external
monitoring agency and submission of project progress reports to the ADB.
6.4.3. Fukang people’s government
Responsible for the LA and HD of the subproject, leadership and coordination of
resettlement, examining the RP, and implementing internal supervision and inspection.
6.4.4. Fukang Project Leading Group
Responsible for project leadership, organizing, coordination and policy formulating,
examining the RP, implementing internal supervision and inspection, and making decisions
on major issues arising from resettlement.
6.4.5. Fukang City PMO
Entrust design institutes to measure the project impact scope;
Organize socioeconomic survey;
Organize and incorporate the preparation of the RP;
Implement the RP policies;
Confirm and coordinate the RP implementation according to the project schedule;
Disburse and monitor the RP fund utilization;
Guide, coordinate and supervise activities and progress of the RP implementation;
Organize and implement RP internal monitoring, determine RP external monitoring agency,
and assist the external monitoring;
Review the external monitoring report;
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Coordinate to solve problems related to the resettlement.
Coordinate to solve complains and appeals on the resettlement; and
Report the progress and fund use of the resettlement implementation.
6.4.6. Fukang Municipal Construction Bureau
Organizing the socioeconomic survey;
Conducting the DMS and baseline survey;
Organizing public participation activities;
Negotiating resettlement programs and organizing the preparation of the RP;
Applying for the license for planning of land use and the license for land used for
construction;
Implementing measures for LA;
Implementing the state policies and regulations on construction land management;
Developing resettlement and compensation programs according to the policies, and
submitting them to competent authorities for approval;
Handling the land use approval formalities;
Implementing the RP;
Entering into compensation and resettlement agreements with the affected economic
organizations together with L&R bureau;
Entering into compensation agreements for temporary land occupation;
Entering into compensation and resettlement agreements with the affected households
and entities.
Reviewing resettlement implementation.
Managing information on LA, HD and resettlement;
Training staff;
Coordinating and handling conflicts and issues arising from implementation;
Coordinating and handling disputes and appeals;
Reporting LA, HD and resettlement information to the Fukang PMO.
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71. Led by the leaders in charge, and composed of party office, land management and other units and various community key officials. Its main responsibilities are:
Participating in the survey of the Subproject, and assisting in the preparation of the
updated RP;
Organizing public participation, and propagandizing the resettlement policies;
Implementing, inspecting, monitoring and recording all resettlement activities within its
jurisdiction;
Responsible for the disbursement and management of land compensation fees;
Supervising the LA and contract signing
Reporting LA, HD and resettlement information to the Fukang Bureau of Natural
Resources and PMO;
Coordinating and handling conflicts and issues arising from its work.
6.4.8. Affected Village Committees/Communities
72. Composed of key officials of committee. Its responsibilities are:
Participating in the socioeconomic survey and DMS;
Organizing public consultation, and propagandizing the policies on LAR;
Paying and managing relevant funds.
Reporting the APs’ comments and suggestions to the competent authorities.
Reporting the progress of resettlement implementation.
Providing assistance to displaced households with difficulties；
Cooperate with other higher-level units with land acquisition related work
6.4.9. Design Institute
Reducing the impacts of the Subproject through design optimization; and
Identifying the range of LA.
6.4.10. External Monitoring and Evaluation Agency
During the implementation of the resettlement plan, to track, monitoring and evaluation the
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implementation activities, and track and monitoring resettlement regularly twice a year.
Monitoring progress, quality, funding for resettlement, and give advice;
Verify the data and conclusions of the internal monitoring reports,
Submit monitoring and evaluation report every six months to XUAR PMO, Changji PMO
and Fukang PMO.
6.5. Measures to Strengthen Institutional Capacity
73. In order to implement resettlement successfully, the APs and resettlement staff must be trained under a program developed by the Fukang PMO.
74. A staff training and human resources development system for the county sub-district and community-level resettlement agencies will be established. This training includes both the immigration project management and the resettlements process management training. Training will be conducted in such forms as expert workshop, skills training course, visiting tour and on-site training. The scope of training includes:
• Principles and policies of ADB’s involuntary resettlement;
• Resettlement plan design, update and implementation.
• Resettlement monitoring and evaluation;
• Resettlement financial management;
• Resettlement information system;
6.6. Evaluation of Organizational Ability
81. During the implementation of the project, PMO has established a top-down organizational structure for the planning, coordination and monitoring of resettlements activities. Its main responsibility is to strengthen the leadership of the project, responsible for the policy formulation of the resettlement activities of the project and the organization and coordination of the relationship between the resettlement agencies at all levels. The leading group has an office under to handle daily affairs. The office is located in the Fukang construction bureau. This monitoring found that the project unit mainly took the following measures to build the capacity of resettlements institutions:
（1）Well-defined responsibilities: clearly define the duties and responsibilities of resettlement
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ADB and relevant laws and regulations of the country.
（2）Equipped with high-quality staff: gradually enhance the capacity of resettlement agencies of all levels, especially professional technical force, the staff shall have certain special skill and managerial quality, and is required to have strong overall point of view, policy level, professional skill, especially mass work experience, and strengthen the technical equipment such as computer, monitoring device, transport, etc.
（3）Select staff strictly and strengthen business technical training, and carry out training for administrative staff and technical staff to improve their business ability and management ability.
（ 4 ） Guarantee appropriate number of woman cadres to give full play of woman during resettlement implementation process.
（5） Establish database and strengthen information feedback to make sure the information channel is smooth, significant problems shall be solved by resettlement leading group decision & solution.
（6）Strengthen the reporting system and internal monitoring, and solve issues timely; and
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7.2. Recommendation 80 Further strengthen management and implementation of personnel training in the form of theoretical study and field study. Especially, to go to ADB financed projects that are completed or are implementing for conducting investigation and study in order to strengthen the organization's efficiency and the ability to execute. 81 Members of PMO should pay close attention to whether any design variation will occur and cause resettlement impact. 82 Continue to strengthen the institutional capacity building. PMO staff needs to accelerate entities survey based on the detailed design and the consultation work of affected people. Prepare for the upcoming construction projects according to the DMS timely update resettlement plan report. Speed up the work progress of the data of the implementation of resettlement, data collection and statistics and submit materials in a timely manner. 83 The PMO, House Demolition Office, community, village committees should work together, to
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