Resettlement Planning Document Resettlement Plan Document Stage: Final Project Number: 39038 September 2011 PRC: Heilongjiang Road Network Development Project Prepared by Winlot Consulting Ltd. for the Heilongjiang Provincial Communications Department and the Asian Development Bank. The resettlement plan 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. ADB Financed Heilongjiang Road Network Development Project Resettlement Completion Report Winlot Consulting Ltd. September 26, 2011 - 1 - 1 About the project 1.1 Project overview 1. The Linkou-Baiquan Class 2 Highway (hereinafter referred to as “LBSR”) project is one of the arterial highway networks of the state under the "Development Plan of Rejuvenating Road & Waterway Transport Development in Northeast Old Industrial Base”, i.e.: Linkou-Fangzheng-Tonghe-Tieli-Qingan-Suileng-Hailun-Baiquan. This project is a most important measure to open the "East-west corridor" in the central part of Heilongjiang Province and build up the road network of “connecting the south and the north vertically, the west and the east horizontally, with appropriate scale and appropriate layout”; moreover the project is a key project to open the “East-west corridor” in the central part of Heilongjiang, eliminate the un-networked road between adjacent counties (cities), and coordinate the regional economic development. This project is a need to expedite the construction of commodity grain base of Heilongjiang Province, rejuvenate coal city and forest area, and implement “General Plan to Re-energize Heilongjiang Province – The old industrial base of China”. 2. The road is originated from Jixi City, stretching from the east to the west generally; the road shall get across the east part of Linkou County, Gucheng Town, Jiantang countryside and cross over Mudanjiang River in Shuangwu Village, connect with Tongsan Highway in Daluomi Town, cross over the Songhua River from the area between Fangzheng and Tonghe County, get acoss Fengshan Village, Ailin Tree Farm, the west of Taoshan Town, the west of Teili City, Shuangfeng Town, Anqing County, Shangji Town, and bypass the south of Suiling County, and then cross over Suibei Railway to go to Hailun City and Sandao Town, and then end in Baiquan County. 3. For construction scale of the project. The arterial line’s construction length of the project is 427.995km, with 22 branch lines of 170.383km totally. The project and the - 2 - 22 branch lines to be constructed newly shall improve the traffic conditions of all countryside and towns in the coverage of the project zone. to a great extent, and improve economy development and people’s living level in the project area. 4. Integral road sections of the project (see Table 1 & 2 as follows). Table 1 Mileage of Every Arterial Road Section of Linquan Highway No. Road section Length (km) Class From Linkou to 1 K63+152.240～k77+231.169 14.079 Class 2 Gucheng From Jiantang to K116+000～k204+587.074 88.254 Short line: 332.757m Daluomi From Fangzheng 2 K245+490～k268+897 21.701 Class 1 & 2 to Tonghe K245+490～k260+620 13.424 Class 1 K260+620～k268+899 8.277 Class 2 From Tonghe to 3 K268+900～k408+2674.9 155.429 Long line: 15.928km Tieli Long line: 274.173 From Anqing to 4 K433+600～k503+893.1 70.271 Class 2 Suiling From Hailun to K543+267.89 5 78.261 Class 2 Baiquan ～k621+528.724 Subtotal 8.277 Class 1 419.718 Class 2 Total 427.995 - 3 - Figure 1 Linkou-Baiquan Highway Alignment - 4 - Table 2 Length of Every Branch Section of Linquan Highway and Road Section Class Local county No. Name of highway branch Highway class Construction length (km) (municipality) 1 Linkou County Gucheng branch Class 4 1.386 2 Linkou County Santongdao branch Class 4 27.565 3 Linkou County Lianhua branch Class 4 34.356 4 Linkou County Diaoling branch Class 4 5.978 Branch in memorial site in which 5 Linkou County eight heroines who drowned Class 4 0.558 themselves in a river 6 Tonghe County Malang River branch Class 4 0.861 7 Tonghe County Taiping Tree Fram branch Class 4 12.092 8 Tieli County Taoshan branch Class 4 2.401 9 Qing’an County Qing’an branch Class 2 2.49 10 Qing’an County Qinlao branch Class 4 15.086 11 Suiling County Shangji branch Class 4 1.399 12 Suiling County Nil River branch Class 4 4.642 13 Suiling County Changshan Countryside branch Class 4 10.62 14 Suiling County Houtou branch Class 4 5.156 15 Suiling County Suiling branch Class 2 2.582 16 Hailun County Hailun branch Class 2 2.136 17 Hailun County Qianjin Countryside branch Class 4 4.445 18 Hailun County Gonghe Countryside branch Class 4 11.445 19 Hailun County Yonghe Countryside branch Class 4 1.5 20 Baiquan County Santongdao branch Class 4 2.088 21 Baiquan County Xinsheng Country branch Class 4 19.597 22 Baiquan County Xinguo Countryside branch Class 4 2 Total 170.383 1.2 Area scope to be affected by the project 5. The arterial highway and its branches affected totally 8 countries, 36 towns & countryside, 130 villages, 6 forestry bureaus and 24 tree farms (the arterial highway and some of its branches get repetition somewhere, so the repeated part is not calculated herein). Among which, the arterial highway affected totally 8 countries, 31 towns & countryside, 111 administrative villages, 140 village groups, 6 forestry bureaus, 20 tree farms, 11 enterprises and public - 5 - institutions; the branches affect 17 towns & countryside, 37 administrative villages, 37 village groups, 2 forestry bureaus and 12 tree farms. 6. The land to be acquired for the arterial highway permanently affected 5532 households totaling 22331 people, the branch affected 131 households totaling 527 people; the house to be demolished involved in 286 households totaling 802 people and 11 enterprises totaling 147 people. 1.3 Statistical data for land acquisition, demolishment and relocation 7. The LBSR project had been opened to traffic wholly on schedule on September 30, 2009, and the resettlement work for people involved in the arterial highway and its branches were done successfully in May 2009 and April 2009 respectively; where the land to be acquired totally was 19,838.7 mu(1,322.6 hectares), including the one of 1,189 hectares for the arterial highway and the one of 133 hectares for its branches; totally 286 households were relocated under the compensation of RMB45,354,482. The land and house compensation base was higher by 18% whilst negotiating with the people affected; the total expense for land acquisition and resettlement was RMB306,042,258. 2. Relocation & resettlement institute 8. The LBSR project was established purposely the Relocation & Resettlement Office to be specially responsible for land acquisition and resettlement, including the work to determine land acquisition scope, quantity, land acquisition and demolishment compensation standard, handle and solve problems involved in the demolishment process. - 6 - 9. All countries and municipalities designated the Land and Resources Burea at country or municipality level to be responsible for the local land acquisition and demolishment work, providing land acquisition and demolishment data and resettlement policy, supervising allocation and payment of land acquisition and demolishment compensation capital, coordinating and solving disputes related to traffic, water resources, power and telecommunication in the project implementation course. 10. The Forestry Bureau at county or municipality level was responsible for tree farm acquisition and relocation work in the local area, providing demolishment and relocation technical data and resettlement policy, supervising tree farm acquisition and compensation capital use. 11. The countryside or township government assisted Land and Resources Bureau at country or municipality level, Forestry Bureau at country or municipality level and the project implementation institute in land acquisition coordination work in respective local area. 12. Tree farm was responsible for the management work for the tree farm acquisition. 13. Village committees were responsible for verifying and reporting land acquisition and demolishment data and information related to land and property owner and user, population, labor force, and participating in land acquisition and demolishment investigation and verification work, selecting relocation site, revealing complaints of people affected, designating agricultural recovery plan and organizing and re-building houses. 14. The LBSR construction headquarters, whilst determining the land acquisition and demolishment scope, organized the team comprising of officials of Land and Resources Bureau at country or municipality level, officials of Forestry Bureau at country or municipality level, officials of countryside and township in charge of land - 7 - acquisition and demolishment, director of village committees, villager representatives to jointly survey the border, and the representatives from 5 parties signed to conform the border scope and land quantity. The construction headquarters, Land and Resources Bureau at country level and Forestry Bureau at country level were responsible for publishing the land acquisition and demolishment compensation standard to the society and households affected, the village committee of every village affected by the land acquisition and demolishment work was responsible for reporting the data related to farmers and population affected to countryside or township government; and the countryside or township government was responsible