Resettlement Action Plan under Xi'an Urban Road Network Improvement Project Xi'an Urban Road Network Improvement Component Public Disclosure Authorized VOL. 8 Resettlement Action Plan ~ Public Disclosure Authorized Xi'an Urban Transport Improvement Project 0ffiCe I September 1,2007 I Public Disclosure Authorized Public Disclosure Authorized Resettlement Action Plan under Xi'an Urban Road Network Improvement Project Table of Contents 1. Overview of Project.................................................................................................................................... 4 1.1 Project Background ........................................................................................................................4 1.2 Construction Contents ....................................................................................................................5 1.3 Construction Scale ........................................................................................................................ 6 1.4 Measures for Reducing Project Impacts on Resettlement.......................................................... 7 2. Socio-economic Background of Project Area .......................................................................................8 2.1 Overview of Xi'an City ...................................................................................................................8 2.2 Socio-economic Background of Beilin District .......................................................................11 2.3 Social and economic background of Lianhu District .................................................................... 12 2.4 Social and economic background of Weiyang District ................................................................. 13 2.5 Social and economic background of Yanta District .................................................................... 13 3. Physical quantity investigation ............................................................................................................14 3.1 Permanent land occupation ....................................................................................................... 15 3.2 Affected residential houses .............................................................................................................16 3.3 Affected nonresidential houses ....................................................................................................... 17 3.4 Affected population ......................................................................................................................... 18 3.5 Affected ground attachments ..........................................................................................................20 4. Project impact analysis ..........................................................................................................................20 5. Relevant migration laws and policies ................................................................................................ 28 5.1 Laws and policies for migration relocation.................................................................................. 28 5.2 Articles of laws and policies involved in migrant relocation ........................................................ 28 5.3 The main missions for resettlement policy for non-volunteer immigrants ..................................... 35 5.4 Migrant resettlement policies .....................................................................................................36 6. Compensation Standard ............................................................................................................................37 6.1 Standard for land using right compensation.................................................................................... 37 6.2 Compensation standard for domicile and house .............................................................................38 6.3 Compensation standard for nonresidential houses ....................................................................... 40 6.4 Compensation standard for public facilities and ground attachment .............................................. 41 7. Plan for Recovering Immigrants' Production and Living ...................................................................... 41 7.1 Occupied land compensation measures .......................................................................................... 41 7.2 Measures for the resettlement of residential houses to be demolished ........................................... 41 7.3 Measures for the resettlement of houses of enterprises and institutions ......................................... 42 7.4 Resettlement of private business owners ..................................................................................... 42 7.5 Measures for the compensation of public facilities and ground attachments.................................. 43 8. Public Participation................................................................................................................................... 43 8.1 Strategy of public participation....................................................................................................... 43 8.2 Disclosure of process and policy for public participation........................................................... 45 9 . Procedures of Appeal .......................................................................................................................... 47 9.1 Organization responsible for appeal acceptance .......................................................................... 47 9.2 Procedures of appeal .................................................................................................................. 47 10. Organization Institution & Responsibility ........................................................................................ 48 Resettlement Action Plan under Xi'an Urban Road Network Improvement Project 10.1 Implementation institution........................................................................................................... 48 10.2 Implementation institution ........................................................................................................... 48 10.3 Coordination institution .............................................................................................................. 48 10.4 Internal supervision institution .................................................................................................. 49 10.5 External supervision institution ................................................................................................. 49 11 . Implementation of Resettlement Action Plan ...................................................................... ...,. .............. 50 12 . Resettlement Fund .................................................................................................................................. 52 12.1 Estimation of Resettlement Fund.................................................................................................. 52 12.2 Source of Fund ..............................................................................................................................! 53 I 12.3 Fund Allocation............................................................................................................................. 53 13. Monitoring and Evaluation ..................................................................................................................... 54 13.1 Internal Monitoring....................................................................................................................... 54 13.2. External Monitoring and Evaluation .......................................................................... .............. 55 14. Statement of Equity ................................................................................................................................ 57 Resettlement Action Plan under Xi'an Urban Road Network Improvement Project 1. Overview of Project 1.1 Project Background Xi'an is one of the four ancient capitals in the world, enjoying equal reputation as Athens, Cairo and Rome. Thirteen dynasties had established their capitals here, such as Zhou, Qin, Han and Tang, etc. Xi'an, located on the development axis of New Asia-Europe Continental Bridge, is the biggest economic growth point in the new Longhai Railway and also one of the most influencing cities in Inland China. With respect to regional economic layout, Xi'an links all directions geographically, playing important strategic roles in the West Development Programme. The comparative advantages of Xi'an can be reflected in three aspects: The world-class sightseeing resources; National scientific research and education and hi-tech industrial base; Regional financial and commercial center, and transport and information hub. Through deepening the reform and expanding the opening up to the outside world, Xi'an is becoming the important open city in Inland China. In recent years, Xi'an has taken the opportunity of West Development Programme and relied upon unique historical, economic, cultural and geographical advantages and industrial advantages of education, scientific research, equipment manufacturing, and high technologies, under the guidance of "internationalized, marketization, culture-orientated and ecological" urban development concept, to boost social and economic development,