Social Monitoring Report Annual Report March 2012 PRC: Taiyuan-Zhongwei Railway Project Prepared by Research Institute of Foreign Capital Introduction and Utilization, Southwest Jiaotong University for the Ministry of Railways and the Asian Development Bank. This social 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. Asian Development Bank (ADB) Loan Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway Construction Project External Monitoring Report on Resettlement (Phase V) Research Institute of Foreign Capital Introduction and Utilization, Southwest Jiaotong University (RIFCIU-SWJTU) March, 2012 Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway Construction Project loaned by Asian Development Bank CONTENTS 1 OVERVIEW........................................................................................................................................................5 1.1 BASIC INFORMATION OF THE PROJECT......................................................................................................... 5 1.2 CONSTRUCTION PROGRESS OF THE PROJECT................................................................................................ 6 1.3 PROGRESS OF RESETTLEMENT.......................................................................................................................6 1.4 MONITORING & ASSESSMENT WORK.............................................................................................................7 2 MONITORING ON PROJECT IMPACT.......................................................................................................8 2.1 MONITORING ON MATERIAL INDEXES OF PERMANENT LAND ACQUISITION..................................................8 2.2 MONITORING ON MATERIAL INDEXES OF HOUSE DEMOLITION..................................................................... 8 2.3 MONITORING ON TEMPORARY LAND OCCUPATION........................................................................................8 2.4 MONITORING ON SCATTERED TREES............................................................................................................. 8 2.5 MONITORING ON GROUND APPURTENANCES AND PRODUCTION FACILITIES...............................................17 2.6 MONITORING ON INFRASTRUCTURE............................................................................................................ 22 2.7 MONITORING ON IMPACTS ON ENTERPRISES AND INSTITUTIONS.................................................................22 3 MONITORING ON COMPENSATION STANDARD AND COMPENSATION FEE............................23 3.1 MONITORING ON COMPENSATION POLICY...................................................................................................23 3.1.1 Policy basis.............................................................................................................................................23 3.2 MONITORING ON COMPENSATION STANDARD............................................................................................. 24 3.2.1 Changes of land acquisition compensation standards...........................................................................24 3.2.2 Changes of house demolition compensation standards......................................................................... 25 3.2.3 Conclusion of monitoring on compensation standard........................................................................... 27 3.3 FUND APPROPRIATION MONITORING........................................................................................................... 27 4 MONITORING ON RESETTLEMENT RESULTS.....................................................................................35 4.1 MONITORING ON PERMANENT LAND ACQUISITION AND RESETTLEMENT RESULTS.....................................35 4.2 MONITORING ON HOUSE DEMOLITION AND RESETTLEMENT RESULTS........................................................ 36 4.3 TYPICAL SURVEY AND INTERVIEW............................................................................................................... 39 4.3.1 The Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region....................................................................................................39 4.3.2 Shaanxi province.................................................................................................................................... 42 4.3.3 Shanxi Province...................................................................................................................................... 49 4.4 MONITORING ON RESULTS OF RESETTLEMENT OF ENTERPRISES AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS......................60 4.4.1 Assessment on general resettlement results of enterprises and public institutions............................... 60 4.5 MONITORING OVER RESTORATION OF INFRASTRUCTURES...........................................................................64 4.6 MONITORING OVER RECOVERY OF TEMPORARY LAND ACQUISITION........................................................... 64 5 MONITORING ON RESETTLEMENT ORGANIZATIONS....................................................................66 5.1 OVERALL MONITORING ON RESETTLEMENT ORGANIZATIONS..................................................................... 66 5.2 SPECIFIC MONITORING ON RESETTLEMENT ORGANIZATIONS......................................................................66 5.2.1 Monitoring on resettlement organizations of Taizhongyin Railway Co., Ltd........................................ 66 5.2.2 Monitoring on resettlement organizations of local governments.......................................................... 66 5.3 MEASURES FOR STRENGTHENING CAPABILITIES OF ORGANIZATIONS........................................................ 67 RIFCIU-SWJTU 2 Monitoring Report on Resettlement Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway Construction Project loaned by Asian Development Bank 6 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION & COMPLAINT CHANNEL........................................................................ 68 6.1 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION............................................................................................................................... 68 6.2 COMPLIANT CHANNEL.................................................................................................................................69 7 CONCLUSIONS, PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS...............................................................................71 7.1 MONITORING AND EVALUATION CONCLUSIONS.......................................................................................... 71 7.2 PROBLEMS AND SUGGESTIONS.................................................................................................................... 72 7.3 WORK ARRANGEMENTS OF EXTERNAL RESETTLEMENT MONITORING ORGANIZATION IN THE NEXT STEP..73 ATTACHMENTS......................................................................................................................................................74 ATTACHMENT 1 LISTS OF ENTERPRISES, INSTITUTIONS AND SCHOOLS DEMOLISHED FOR TAIYUAN-ZHONGWEI-YINCHUAN RAILWAY............................................................................................................ 74 ATTACHMENT 2 COMPENSATION CRITERION FOR LAND ACQUISITION AND RELOCATION OF NINGXIA OF 201082 RIFCIU-SWJTU 3 Monitoring Report on Resettlement Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway Construction Project loaned by Asian Development Bank Preface According to the loan agreement between the Ministry of Railways and Asian Development Bank (ADB), the external monitoring organization for resettlement of Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway Construction Project shall submit the External Monitoring Report (Phase V) on Resettlement of Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway Construction Project to ADB in March, 2012. In March, 2012, the external monitoring organization for resettlement organized a monitoring, survey and evaluation group to monitor and survey along Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway in the territory of Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province and Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region respectively based on the determined monitoring and survey outline and monitoring and evaluation indicators. This monitoring, survey and evaluation work belongs to Phase V of external monitoring, survey and evaluation. The cutoff date for information data of evaluation basis is December, 2011. Information about acceptance and valuation provided by local resettlement departments along Taiyuan-Zhongwei-Yinchuan Railway is the primary basis for relevant monitoring and evaluation data with respect to land requisition, house demolition and resettlement. Besides, macro data provided by Taizhongyin Railway Co., Ltd is used as a reference. Based on field survey along the whole line, full comprehension of construction, land acquisition, house demolition and resettlement progress, compensation standards and fund appropriations for land acquisition & house demolition as well as resettlement implementation plans, the monitoring group has objectively and fairly assessed the present resettlement effects of the Project up to now, by collecting a wide range of opinions and suggestions from dislocated persons about the resettlement results,