Social Monitoring Report # 10 Semiannual Report January 2015 People’s Republic of China: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project Prepared by Wuzhou College for the Wuzhou Municipal Government and the Asian Development Bank. CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of 15 January 2015) Currency unit – Chinese Yuan (CNY) CNY1.00 = $6.204 $1.00 = CNY0.1612 ABBREVIATIONS ADB – Asian Development Bank AP – affected person EIA – environmental impact assessment report FSR – feasibility study report HH – household IA – Implementing agency kilometer – km LAR – land acquisition and resettlement MLG – minimum living guarantee PMO – project management office ROW – right of way RP – resettlement plan WMG – Wuzhou Municipal Government WEIGHTS AND MEASURES millimeter – mm mu – 666.67 m2 square meter – m2 square millimeter – mm2 NOTE In this report, "$" refers to US dollars. 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. The 10th External Resettlement Monitoring Report ADB Loan No.: 2491-PRC Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project The Tenth External Resettlement Monitoring Report (July to December 2014) Wuzhou College Wuzhou, P. R. China January 2015 The 10th External Resettlement Monitoring Report Table of Content I. Introduction .................................................................................................... 1 II. Resettlement and Land Acquisition .............................................................. 5 III. Compensation ................................................................................................ 14 IV. Relocation ...................................................................................................... 16 V. Income Rehabilitation and Training ............................................................ 20 VI. Issues and Suggestions ............................................................................... 38 The 10th External Resettlement Monitoring Report I. Introduction Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project was approved with the amount of $100 million by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on 15 December 2008 and became effective on 28 July 2009. The physical completion of the project and the closing dates are expected on 30 June 2014 and 31 December 2014, respectively. Wuzhou College monitored the resettlement progress and situation of Pingminchong Valley Geohazard Resettlement & Prevention component and Hongling Road Network and Related Infrastructure component for ADB Loan 2491-PRC: Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project. During the tenth external resettlement monitoring, we continued to make the contact with Pingminchong Demolition Management Office and Changzhou District Land Acquisition and Resettlement Management Office, and conducted our routine work. We made regular consultation and monitoring, as well as went to resettlement communities, Economy Housing Community, and Cheap-rental Housing Community for field research and investigation. We’ve taken a sample survey of total 71 affected households for their incomes and training in 2014. Of the 71 households, 61 are affected by Pingminchong Valley Goehazard Resettlement and Prevention Component and 10 by Hongling Road Network and Related Infrastructure Component. We’ve also conducted home visit (or telephone interview) and held consultation meeting with some APs, and we focused on the monitoring of resettlement implementation of Longping Village’s un-resettled households who are affected by Hongling Road Network. This 10th External Resettlement Monitoring Report is prepared based on our survey and investigation. It covers from 1 July to 31 December, 2014. The original design for Hongling road network component was to constructed, expanded and reconstructed 32 roads (Road 1# to 5#, 8# to 31#, 35# to 37#) with total length of 36.2 km and width of 12-to-60 m. Of the 32 roads, 29 are within the Hongling area, the other 3 are beyond Hongling area. They include expressways, arterial roads, secondary trunk roads and branch roads, with associated drainage pipelines, sewage pipelines, public green areas, street lights and traffic lights. Based on the latest updated RP approved by ADB, land acquisition and housing demolition will involve two urban resident communities (Pingmindong Community and Pingminxi Community) and two rural villages (Longxin Village and Longping Village). The original CB07 contract package was comprised of 22#, 23#, 24#, 25#, 27#, 28#, 29#, 30# and 31#. During the second loan review mission of February 2011, Wuzhou PMO proposed to finance the CB07 contract package (except Road 30#) domestically. The Mission approved in principle. Therefore, only construction of Road 30# remained in Contract CB07. In the second half of 2011, due to the proposed resettlement progress was postponed and the cost would most probably overrun, after close investigation and further argumentation, the IA believed that Road 5# and 30# had less priority compared to other key roads in the project scope, the cancellation of them would not affect the original project objectives and there would be no additional land acquisition and resettlement issues. Thus, during April 16 to 19, 2012, the mission agreed to cancel Road 5# and 30# from the project scope and finance them domestically after consultation. As a result, the original 32 municipal roads now reduce to 22, totaling 29.8 km. The households affected by the land acquisition and resettlement were reduced by 199 (or the APs reduced by 763). Because of the completion of the land acquisition, the impact of permanent land acquisition, the affected enterprises and institutions, and the basic infrastructures and special facilities will remain the same, except the number of the persons affected by the residential structures demolition. After the cancelation of Road 5#, 22#, 23#, 24＃, 25#, 27#, 28#, 1 The 10th External Resettlement Monitoring Report 29#, 30#, and 31#, we should pay special attention to Table 1 (Summary of Land Acquisition and Resettlement Impacts and Progress), Table 5 (Demolishment of Residential Structures and Associated Auxiliaries within and beyond ROW), Table 7 (Affected Basic Infrastructures and Special Facilities), Table 8 (Type and Quantity of Affected Vulnerable Groups within ROW), Table 9 (Residential Structures and Related Auxiliaries Demolition), and Table 11 (Choices of 365 Relocated Households Relocated), and Table 12 (Implementation Progress of Resettlement of the 22 Households to Be Relocated in Longping Village), etc.. The relevant statements have been revised according to the latest RP information and monitoring data. As a result, a total of 891 households or 3,942 persons (634 urban dwellers and 3,308 rural dwellers) will be affected because of permanent land acquisition. The demolition of residential structures will affect 2,108 households or 7,138 persons who living in their private houses or rental houses of institutions and enterprises (including 7 households who run family-based businesses with 15 employees’ families). Furthermore, 2,112 persons from 38 institutions and enterprises will be relocated because of non-residential structure demolition. Of which, in right of way (ROW) of Hongling, a total of 586 households (or 2,556 persons) with 106,200.6 m2 will be affected by house demolition. To date, 365 households (340 in Longxin village, 25 in Longping Village) or 1,677 persons have relocated and 59,706.90 m2 structures have been demolished. Of the remaining 221 households, 199 households (or 763 persons) are in Longxin Village, with 42,778.30 m2 of structures to be demolished, while 22 remaining households (or 116 persons) are in Longping Village, with 3,715.40 m2 to be demolished. The remaining affected 199 households of Longxin Village are within the cancelled Road 5#, 22#, 23#, 24#, 25#, 27#, 28#, 29#, 30#, and 31#. Thus, the remaining un-relocated households for the whole project are 22 households. The construction of the Project has acquired about 3,681.44 mu of land permanently, of which the state-owned land totals 2,865.88 mu, collective-owned land totals 815.56 mu (including 272 mu of farmland, accounting for 7.39%). A total of 225,706.90 m2 residential houses and 19,264 m2 non-residential structures of institutions and enterprises will be demolished. In addition, some auxiliaries, basic infrastructures and special facilities have also been affected to a certain extent. As the latest resettlement monitoring shows, of the affected total population estimated in the original RP, 341 households or about 1,018 persons are classified as vulnerable groups, including 161 households with residential area of less than 12 m2 per capita, 32 households with disabled persons, 108 households headed by women, 18 households living under the minimum living guarantee (MLG), and 22 “Five Guarantees” households. Land acquisition or resettlement will not affect any ethnic minority households. Furthermore, we’ve continued to survey and monitor the vulnerable groups, practically the “Five Guarantees” households, households living under the minimum living guarantee, households headed by women. The result indicates that