Resettlement Monitoring Report Project Number: 40643 January 2015 PRC: Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project Prepared Xinjiang Project Management Office This resettlement monitoring report is a document of the borrower. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent those of ADB's Board of Directors, Management, or staff, and may be preliminary in nature. In preparing any country program or strategy, financing any project, or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document, the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area. ADB Financed Xinjiang Urban Transportation and Environmental Improvement Project Summary Report of Resettlement for Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Xinjiang Urgur Autonomous January 2015 Summary report of Xinjiang Urban Transportation and Environmental Improvement Project Forwords ADB financed Xinjiang Urban Transportation and Enivronmental Improvement Project (XUTEIP) consists of Altay Roads and Environmental Improvement Project, Changji Roads and Environmental Improvement Project, Hami Roads and Environmental Improvement Project, Kuitun Roads and Environmental Improvement Project and Turpan Roads and Environmental Improvement Project. Up to present, all of sub-projects have been accomplished. Comment on the success of Project not only depend on engineering quality, but also need to consider resettlemnt implementation. In order to conclude the resettlement work of XUTEIP, in January 2015, Xinjiang Uygur Autonmous Rigion Housing and Construction Bureau authorised National Research Center for Resettlement of Hohai University to compile resettlement final report. NRCR organized special staff to carry out interviews and questionnairs survey, the amount of questionnaires is 148, involve 15 villages or communities of Altay, Changji, Hami and Turpan within Project scope, Kuitun sub-project does not have resettlement impact, so not included in the survey. From August, 2012 to January, 2015, NRCR carried out field investigations in Project area and develops the final report based on data collected from Project area. i Summary report of Xinjiang Urban Transportation and Environmental Improvement Project Contents 1 Project Background .............................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Project Sub-Components ............................................................................................... 1 1.1.1 Altay Roads and Environmental Improvement Project ............................................... 1 1.1.2 Changji Roads and Environmental Improvement Project .......................................... 1 1.1.3 Hami Roads and Environmental Improvement Project .............................................. 1 1.1.4 Kuitun Roads and Environmental Improvement Project............................................. 2 1.1.5 Turpan Roads and Environmental Improvement Project ........................................... 2 1.2 Project Investment ....................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Project Progress ........................................................................................................... 2 1.3.1 Altay Roads and Environmental Improvement Project Progress ............................... 2 1.3.2 Changji Roads and Environmental Improvement Project Progress ........................... 4 1.3.3 Hami Roads and Environmental Improvement Project Progress ............................... 5 1.3.4 Kuitun Roads and Environmental Improvement Project Progress ............................. 6 1.3.5 Turpan Roads and Environmental Improvement Project Progress ............................ 7 1.4 Project Resettlement Summary Work ........................................................................ 9 1.4.1 Work Procedure .......................................................................................................... 9 1.4.2 Work Contents .......................................................................................................... 10 2 Project Impact ...................................................................................................................... 11 2.1 Affected Land .............................................................................................................. 11 2.1.1 Rural Collective Land Acquisition ............................................................................. 11 2.1.2 Permanent State-owned Land Acquisition ................................................................ 14 2.1.3 Temporary Land Occupation ..................................................................................... 16 2.2 Houses Demolition ..................................................................................................... 16 2.2.1 Residential Houses Demolition ................................................................................. 16 2.2.2 Non-residential Houses Demolition .......................................................................... 24 2.3 Affected Ground Attachments, Public Facilities and Infrastructure ..................... 24 2.4 Affected Population .................................................................................................... 32 2.5 Ethnic Minorities ......................................................................................................... 35 2.6 Vulnerable Groups ...................................................................................................... 36 3 Resettlement Progress and Measures .............................................................................. 38 3.1 Resettlement Progress .............................................................................................. 38 3.2 Basci Information of Resettlement ........................................................................... 39 4 Resettlement Compensation Policies ............................................................................... 59 4.1 Compensation Standard for Collective Land Acquisition ...................................... 59 4.2 Compensation Standard for Permanent State-owned Land Acquisition ............. 62 4.3 Compensation Standard for House Demolition ...................................................... 65 4.3.1 Compensation Standard for Houses Demolition in Altay Sub-project ...................... 65 I Summary report of Xinjiang Urban Transportation and Environmental Improvement Project 4.3.2 Compensation Standard for Houses Demolition in Changji Sub-project .................. 71 4.3.3 Compensation Standards for House Demolition in Hami Sub-project ..................... 77 4.3.4 Compensation Standards for Houses Demolition in Turpan Sub-project ................. 80 4.4 Compensation Standards for Ground Attachments ............................................... 85 4.5 Other Costs and Taxes ............................................................................................... 87 5 Disbursement of Resettlement Fund ................................................................................ 89 5.1 Cash Flow .................................................................................................................... 89 5.2 Disbursement of Resettlement Fund ....................................................................... 89 6 Resettlement and Rehabilitation Plan ............................................................................... 91 6.1 Sampling Survey ........................................................................................................ 91 6.1.1 Illustration of Sampling Survey ................................................................................. 91 6.1.2 Sampling Survey Contents ....................................................................................... 92 6.2 Production and Livelihoods Restoration Plan ........................................................ 99 6.2.1 Eliminate and Mitigate Negative Impacts Caused by Project Construction ............. 99 6.2.2 Attach Importance to Land Acquisition Resettlement ............................................. 100 6.2.3 Employment of Local Labor Force .......................................................................... 104 6.2.4 Skill Training ............................................................................................................ 105 6.2.5 Encourage Ethnic Minorities Women Employment ................................................ 106 6.2.6 Strengthen Assistance for Vulnerable Group .......................................................... 108 6.3 Evaluation of Affected Households Income Restoration ..................................... 109 7 Homestead Selection and Houses Reconstruction ....................................................... 116 7.1 Homestead Selection ............................................................................................... 116 7.2 Transition and Reconstruction Security Measures .............................................. 116 7.3 Brief Introduction of Resettlement Communities ................................................. 117 7.4 Feedback from APs on Houses Reconstruction ................................................... 120 7.5 Evaluation of Homestead Selection and Houses Reconstruction .....................