World Bank Loaned Harbin Cold Weather Smart Public Transportation System Project Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Social, Land Acquisition and Resettlement Assessment Report (For Adjusted Contents During Mid-term Adjustment) Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized HJI Group, Inc Feb. 2019 INDEX 1 Background ............................................................................................................. 4 2 Socioeconomic Profile of the Project Area and the Project Introduction ............... 8 2.1 Socioeconomic Profile of the Bus Priority Corridor Subproject .................. 8 2.2 Bus Priority Corridors Project Area ........................................................... 11 2.2.1 Design of Bus Priority Corridors ........................................................ 11 2.2.2 Beneficial Areas ............................................................................... 12 3 Social Impact Analysis ......................................................................................... 14 3.1 Project social impact .................................................................................. 15 3.1.1 Project social impact overview ........................................................ 15 3.2 Project beneficiary ...................................................................................... 16 3.2.1 Vulnerable Groups .............................................................................. 16 3.3 Involuntary Immigration ................................................................................ 22 3.4 Category and Analysis of the Stakeholders ................................................ 23 3.4.1Category of Stakeholders ..................................................................... 23 3.4.2 Project Social Impact Analysis ........................................................... 25 3.4.3 Project Social Risk Analysis ............................................................... 32 4. Planning and Implementation of Social Management .......................................... 34 4.1 Social Management Plan of the Project ......................................................... 34 4.1.1 Develop Resettlement policy framework............................................ 34 4.1.2 Social Impact Mitigation Plan of the Project during Construction ..... 35 4.1.3 Social Impact Mitigation Plan during Operation of the Project ......... 37 4.1.4 Developing Traffic Safety Management Plan ..................................... 37 4.1.5 Vulnerable Groups (Old and Sick Pregnant, etc.) Care Plans ............ 37 4.1.6 Stakeholder Participation Plan ............................................................ 38 4.1.7 Complaints and Appeals ..................................................................... 42 4.2 The Implementation of Social Management Plan .......................................... 45 4.2.1 Institutional Arrangements and Capacity Building ............................ 45 4.2.2 Implementation Plan ........................................................................... 47 4.2.3 Emergency Plan .................................................................................. 48 5. Conclusions and Suggestions ................................................................................... 49 5.1 Conclusions .................................................................................................... 49 5.1.1 The construction of bus priority corridor project will promote local sustainable development .............................................................................. 49 5.1.2 The development of vulnerable group can benefit from the implementation of the project ...................................................................... 50 5.1.3 The Immigration and land Acquisition effect of the project............... 50 5.1.4 Projects have little impact on ethnic minorities .................................. 50 5.2 Suggestions .................................................................................................... 51 5.2.1 Increase the transparency of project information and public participation ................................................................................................. 51 5.2.2 Mitigation measures and suggestions for environmental impact during construction .................................................................................................. 51 5.2.3 Further strengthen public participation ............................................... 52 5.2.4 Strengthen public traffic safety education .......................................... 52 1 Background With the development of Harbin city, the number of motor vehicles increase rapidly. Meanwhile, the urban transport issues, with the most typical characteristics as urban congestion, become prominent gradually which need to resolve in an immediate way. Based on the spirit of “The Thirteenth Five-Year Economic and Social Development Plan of Harbin City”, and considering the actual requirements of traffic development, Harbin municipal government established a development strategic with the priority to public transport, and proposed to build a smart public transport system which can enhance the development of regional economy, society, urban environment, and urban development through the construction sustainable transportation. Accordingly, the Harbin municipal government intends to loan from World Bank, to carry out Harbin Cold Weather Smart Public Transportation System Project (hereinafter called the Project or HCWSPTSP). The overall goal of this project is taking the scientific development concept as the guiding ideology, facing the extremely cold weather in the city, by developing people-oriented, transit-oriented, efficient and safe, low-carbon environmental protection, sustainable economic and convenient public transportation system, with the features of low energy consumption, low pollution, low land occupation, low travel costs and low financial burden, actively responding to the urban transportation problems caused by the extremely cold weather, urbanization, and motorization superimposing, and promoting the sustainable development of urban transport, which may also provide metropolitan public transportation development in extremely cold regions with available successful practices and case that can be implemented, learned from, and can promoted. And finally, it would provide an important transportation security for the realization of economic revitalization of Heilongjiang Province. The total investment of the project is 1,171.96 million Yuan as per the latest approved preliminary design in November 2018 (Harbin DRC approval [2018] 85), of which 100 million USD (equivalent to 610 million yuan, the exchange rate 1:6.1000) will be loaned from World Bank and 561.96 million yuan is solved by the local government’s counterpart funding from local financial. Projects involving Harbin Development and Reform Commission, the Municipal Finance Bureau, the Municipal Housing and Urban Construction Bureau, the Municipal Transportation Bureau, the Municipal Public Transport Authority, Urban Construction Investment Group Co., Ltd., City Water Supply and Drainage Group and other relevant units. The project has 5 sub-projects: 1) bus priority corridor construction project; 2) public transportation infrastructure construction project; 3) traffic management and safety construction project; 4) road maintenance and emergency response construction project; 5) institutional capacity building project. The construction period of the project is 2014-2020, and the bus priority corridor subproject starts construction in the second half of 2018 and is expected to be completed in the first half of 2020. 公公共共交交通通基基础础设设施施建建设设项项目目 公交基础设施建设 公交车辆采购 公交智能化建设 交交通通管管理理与与安安全全建建设设 道道路路维维护护与与应应急急响响应应 公公交交优优先先走走廊廊项项目目 项项目目 建建设设项项目目 公交优先道路安全信号控 道路、桥梁检测设备建设 制系统 公交优先走廊建设 公交优先道路安全监控及 道路维护系统设施建设 执法系统 公交走廊智能化建设 公交优先道路安全指挥调 道路应急响应系统建设 度中心系统 机机构构能能力力建建设设 城市交通建设项目融 高寒城市恶劣天气综 公交及安全管理人员 资与公共交通改善策 机构能力加强 国内外调研与培训 合应急管理策略研究 培训 略研究 Figure 1-1: Project Structure and Project Logical Framework Bus priority corridor subproject is the core of the alpine city of Harbin intelligent transportation system construction project, and it is also the only sub-project subjected to content adjustment after the mid-term adjustment in this project. On October 14, 2015, the Harbin Municipal People's Government held a special meeting ("Harbin Municipal People's Government Special Meeting Minutes 2015 No. 123"). The meeting decided to adjust the construction of the bus priority corridor. It’s important for easing traffic pressure in the city center, promoting energy conservation, convenient for people to travel. Bus priority corridor subproject originally planned to locate proposed three corridors on the Youyi Road, Hongqi Street, and Xinyang Road. As the project goes, there is a conflict between the project original plan two bus priority corridor, Hongqi Street and Youyi Road, and Metro Line 3 and city utility tunnel construction project in terms of construction schedule and space. The implementation of those projects simultaneously is difficult, so the Harbin municipal government sets forth the alteration for original program by taking urban strategic planning, urban construction, industrial layout, the actual resident trip into consideration. The contents of this mid-term adjustment is mainly includes: On October 14, 2015, Harbin Municipal People's Government held a special meeting ("Harbin