*OFFICIAL USE ONLY Guangxi Chongzuo Border Connectivity Improvement Project Environmental and Social Management Plan (Draft) Guangxi Chongzuo City Construction Investment Development Group Co., Ltd. April 2021 *OFFICIAL USE ONLY Environmental and Social Management Plan of Guangxi Chongzuo Border Connectivity Improvement Project Contents Project Background ........................................................................................................ 1 Abstract .......................................................................................................................... 8 1 Legal and Regulatory Framework ............................................................................ 17 1.1 China's Environmental Protection Related Laws and Regulations and Departmental Regulations ............................................................................................ 17 1.2 Technical Guidelines and Codes for Environmental Impact Assessment .......... 22 1.3 Guangxi Laws, Regulations and Codes on Environmental Protection .............. 24 1.4 Relevant Requirements of AIIB ......................................................................... 25 1.5 Relevant Planning ............................................................................................... 28 1.6 Environmental Quality and Pollutant Emission Standards ................................ 32 2 Environmental and Social Management System ...................................................... 38 2.1 Composition of the Environmental and Social Management Organization ....... 38 2.2 Management Responsibilities and Objectives .................................................... 41 2.3 Environmental and Social Management Organization of the Employer ............ 43 2.4 Related Requirements After Project Adjustment ................................................ 46 3 Project Overview ...................................................................................................... 48 3.1 Wuzhou (Longyanzui)-Shuolong Expressway (Chongzuo–Jingxi Expressway to Shuolong Port Section) ................................................................................................ 48 3.2 Detian-Shuolong Highway ................................................................................. 64 3.3 Shuolong Port (Phase II of Shuolong Main Gate) .............................................. 71 4 Environmental Sensitive Objects .............................................................................. 77 4.1 Wuzhou (Longyanzui)-Shuolong Expressway (Chongzuo–Jingxi Expressway to Shuolong Port Section) ................................................................................................ 77 4.2 Detian-Shuolong Highway ................................................................................. 88 4.3 Shuolong Port (Phase II of Shuolong Main Gate) ............................................ 100 5 Environment Impact Analysis and Mitigation Measures ........................................ 104 5.1 Wuzhou (Longyanzui)-Shuolong Expressway (Chongzuo–Jingxi Expressway to Shuolong Port Section) .............................................................................................. 104 5.2 Detian-Shuolong Highway ............................................................................... 121 5.3 Shuolong Port (Phase II of Shuolong Main Gate) ............................................ 131 6 Environmental Management and Environmental Monitoring Plan ........................ 138 6.1 Environment Management Plan ....................................................................... 138 6.2 Environmental Monitoringand Budget ............................................................. 171 6.3 Completion Acceptance for Environmental Protection .................................... 177 6.4 Budget .............................................................................................................. 181 7 Social Impact and Management Plan ...................................................................... 182 7.1 Situation of Vulnerable Groups and Implementation of Government Support Policies ....................................................................................................................... 188 7.2 The Status of Women and the Implementation of the Programme for Promoting Equal Opportunities ................................................................................................... 191 7.3 Occupational Health and Work Safety Management Plan ............................... 195 *OFFICIAL USE ONLY Environmental and Social Management Plan of Guangxi Chongzuo Border Connectivity Improvement Project 8 Monitoring and Evaluation of Resettlement Action Plan ....................................... 200 8.1 Internal Monitoring .......................................................................................... 200 8.2 External Monitoring ......................................................................................... 200 9 Public Participation and Information Disclosure .................................................... 203 9.1 Purposes of Public Participation ....................................................................... 203 9.2 Identification of Stakeholders .......................................................................... 203 9.3 Information Disclosure and Public Participation ............................................. 204 9.4 Information Disclosure and Public Participation Completed in Preparation Stage .................................................................................................................................... 205 9.5 Schedule of Information Disclosure and Public Participation in Resettlement Action Plan during Project Implementation .............................................................. 215 9.6 Plan of Stakeholders during Project Implementation ....................................... 216 10 Establishment and Management of Appeal Mechanism ....................................... 220 10.1 Scope of Appeals ............................................................................................ 220 10.2 Appeal Modes ................................................................................................. 220 10.3 Appeal Channels ............................................................................................. 221 11 Environment and Social Management Training .................................................... 226 11.1 Training Purpose ............................................................................................. 226 11.2 personnel arrangement and training objects ................................................... 226 11.3 Training content .............................................................................................. 227 11.4 Training expenses ........................................................................................... 230 12 Reporting Mechanism ........................................................................................... 234 12.1 Information Exchange .................................................................................... 234 12.2 Recording Mechanism .................................................................................... 234 12.3 Reporting Mechanism .................................................................................... 234 *OFFICIAL USE ONLY Environmental and Social Management Plan of Guangxi Chongzuo Border Connectivity Improvement Project Project Background ASEAN is an important part of China's in-depth cooperation with its neighboring countries. Guangxi is the most convenient gateway to the sea connecting the inland in the southwest and mid-south of China with ASEAN countries in the Indochina Peninsula, and has advantages in serving the open development of the region. As an important fulcrum of China-ASEAN cooperation, Vietnam plays a bridge role in promoting the development of China and ASEAN. Relevant parties in China and Vietnam are accelerating the construction of cross-border economic cooperation zones, which designate specific areas in the border areas between the two countries. Special policies such as goods trade, technology trade, and open-up in investment are given, and special cross-border customs supervision is implemented in the region to attract people flow, materials flow, capital flow and other production factors to gather. By integrating the surrounding resources, we can realize the full interaction and make use of complementary advantages of the border areas between the two countries to promote the rapid economic development of the region, and then radiate and drive the surrounding areas. Cross-border economic cooperation zone is a specific area designated in the border areas of the two countries, which is endowed with special policies for business such as goods trade, technology trade, investment opening, etc., and is subject to special cross- border customs supervision to attract flows of people, material, and capital as well as other production factors. By integrating the surrounding resources, we can realize the full interaction and make use of complementary advantages of the border areas between the two countries to promote the rapid economic development of the region, and then radiate and drive the surrounding areas. The construction of the China-Vietnam Cross-border Economic Cooperation Zone has made positive progress. Taking infrastructure construction as an example, within the planning