Shijianzhuang-Zhengzhou Railway Project

Resettlement Action Plan

Executive Summary

January 2007

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Contents

A. Project Introduction

1. Significance and Purpose of Project Construction

2. Project Composition

3. Measures for Avoidance or mitigation of impact due to LAR

B. Scope of Impacts

4. General

4.1 Land to be acquired

4.2 Dwelling Houses or other Buildings to be Demolited and Relocated

4.2.1 Demolition Coverage for Project

4.2.2 Demolition Coverage for Environment Impact and Environment

Protection

4.3 Fixed assets taken

4.4 Businesses (and employees) affected by temporary or permanent

displacement

5. Impact on Socio-Cultural Environment

5.1 Nationalities

5.2 Cultural Relics

C. Policy Objectives, Principles and Definitions

6. Laws, Rehlations and Documents

7. Policy Objectives

8. Policy Principles

9. Definition of "Affected Population"

10. Definition of "Replacement Cost "

D. Compensation

1 1. Compensation

1 1.1 Land compensation fee

1 1.2 Woodland

11.3 Young crop compensation

1 1.4 Relocation subsidy to householders

1 1.5 Compensation for loss of business 1 employment opportunities

1 1.6 Relocation of public buildings

1 1.7 Land adjustment

1 1.8 Training courses

1 1.9 Compensation qualifications and closing date

E. Rehabilitation Measures

12.1 House Demolition and Restoration Plan

12.1.1 New Site Planning, Development and Selection

12.1.2 Ways of house rehabilitation

12.1.3 Implement new village construction through relocation

12.1.4 Ways of compensation and transit

12.2 Production rehabilitation

12.3 Resettlement of enterprises and schools

12.4 Reconstruction of infrastructure I public facilities

12.5 income rehabilitation measures

12.5.1 General rules

12.5.2 STIPULATION OF INCOME RESTORATION STRATEGIES

12.5.3 INCOME RECOVERY: LAND ADJUSTMENT

12.5.4 Income restoration: use of compensation

12.5.5 In-project Employment

12.5.6 Training plan

12.6 The Vulnerable Group

12.7 Environment governance

12.8 RATIONAL ANALYSIS OF RECOVERY MEASURES

F. Implementation Arrangements

13.1 Resettlement organizations

13.2 Capacity Building and Staff Training

G. Budget and Funding Arrangements

14.1 Compensation Standards

14.2 Budget Sufficiency

14.3 Fund flow

H. Consultation, Disclosure and Grievance Procedures

1 5.1 Public Participation

15.1.1 Public Participation in Project Preparation Phase

15.1.2 Public involvement and consulting plans in the phase of project

implementation

15.2 Information Disclosure

15.3 Complaint Channel

I. Monitoring Arrangements

16. Monitoring Arrangements

16.1 Internal Monitoring

16.1.1 Organizations and Personnel

16.1.2 Monitored Contents

16.1.3 Implementation Procedure

16.2 External Monitoring and Evaluation

16.2.1 Methodology and Content

16.2.2 Sampling

16.2.3 Survey Timing

16.3 Reporting and Distribution

16.3.1 Internal Monitoring Report System and Delivery

16.3.2 External Monitoring Report System and Delivery

A. Project Introduction

1. Significance and Purpose of Project Construction

The project refers to the Shijiazhuang-Zhengzhou Special Passenger

Line Double-track Electrification Railway Construction project.

Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line is a part of Beijing-Guangzhou

Special Passenger Line- Chinese high-speed railway network

consisting of "Four transverse and four longitudinal railways". As the

major channel for south-north transportation of China, construction of

Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line will not only fulfill separate

transportation of passenger and freight, improve the passenger

transportation service quality in a large range, abridge time-space

distance between cities along the line, improve the service frequency

and facilitate the tourists'outgoing, but also release capacity of

Beijing-Guangzhou Line, effectively alleviate the tensioned freight

transportation situation, and meet the passenger and freight

transportationdemands of cities along the railway line and the affected

areas. It is of great significance for China to implement the

sustainable development strategy, enlarge radiation intensity of Bohai

rim economic circle towards the central and western areas, promote

the reasonable configuration of resources, drive healthy and rapid

development of the national economy and improve the

comprehensive national strengths of China. It is expected that this

project and the relevant development activities will promote

development of industry, natural resources and the tourism, create

employment opportunities, increase income of the poor, and alleviate

the local poverty situation.

2. Project Composition

Shijiazhuang-Zhengzhou Special Passenger Line starts from

Shijiazhuang City in north- the provincial city of Hebei Province and

extends to the Yellow River SuperLarge Bridge (exclusive of it) in

Zhengzhou in south. The trunk line of it is 355.17km long in total. It

extends 204.62km within the territory of Hebei Province and

150.55km within the territory of Henan Province. It passes by

Shijiazhuang City, Xingtai City and Handan City of Hebei Province,

Anyang City, Hebi City and Xinxiang City of Henan Province. Six

stations in total will be established along the entire line. The new

Xingtai Station, new Handan Station, new Anyang Station, new Hebi

Station and the new Xinxiang Station are the intermediate stations.

The new Gaoyi Station is the overtaking station. There are 72 super

large and medium and large bridges along the trunk line of the special

passenger line and they amount to 246171.75m. The length of the

bridges accounts for 69.3% of the length of the trunk line.

It is expected that the total costs will be RMB 35.068654 billion yuan

or so. It is jointly hnded by the Ministry of Railways, Hebei Province

and Henan Province. The World Bank will provide a sum of loan

totalling USD 300 million. The civil engineering of the control

projects will start at the beginning of 2007. The railway will be open

for traffic officially at the end of May 201 1.

Table 1-1 Maior technical indices SN

0 1

02

03

04

05

06

07

08

09

Category

Grade of the railway

Total length

Design speed

Expropriated land

Relocated buildings

Bridges Total length of bridges

Data source: feasibility study, TSDI, September 2006.

Newly constructed railway stations

Culverts

Unit

km

kmh

Mu

10,000 m2

Mlsite %

Piece

M (transverse)/site

Propertylquantity Special passenger

line 335.17

200kmk and above 17568

45.393

2461 72/72

69.3

6

1486291481

Remarks

13284mu of land for temporary use 8.5373 of it belongs to relocation of

enterprise and institutional enterprises

3. Measures for Avoidance or mitigation of impact due to LAR

One of key design principles in the railway line location is to reduce

expropriation and house demolition as well as reconstruction as

possible. Expropriation and house demolition for the project will be

started early 2007, and measures for mitigation of expropriation

impact include:

"Approach, but not go through, the urban area": in other words,

avoidance of the urban areas, towns and the highly crowded areas;

The railway line will go through the side of a village, but not the

center, so as to decrease the relocation of houses and buildings and

occupation of fertile land and economic forests;

The railway line will run parallel to the current highways or

national roads to the largest extent possible and get as closer as

possible to them, so as to decrease the expropriated land and

obstruction to land partition and travel;

Be away from or avoid the natural scenic areas, waterhead and

other facilities that are sensitive to shock and noise;

Makes bridges play the role of roads (the bridges account for

69.3%) to the largest extent possible in a bid to decrease the land

occupation;

Be helphl to improve the ambient environment of the railway

line, promote the economic development and create social and

economic benefits.

B. Scope of Impacts

4. General

To ascertain relocation and expropriation objects and quantity of the

project, based upon the expropriation and relocation scope and the

expropriation and relocation indices in kind of the project listed under

the Feasibility Study (First Draft) as of April 2006 of TSDI-the

designer of the project, TSDI organized, during April-August 2006,

the concerned persons to analyze the indices in kind of different

impact targets such as people, houses, land and exclusive facilities

listed under the Feasibility Study as of September 2006 and carried

out the supplementary investigation.

Survey method of people, land and houselbuilding: ascertain the

houseslbuildings and auxiliary facilities to the concrete families based

upon the Feasibility Study (First draft) as of April 2006 of TSDI as

well as the foundation to divide owership limit of county

(citylprefecture), township and village (resident' s committee). Full

investigation into quantity of people involved and affected by

houselbuilding relocation; ascertainment of land to the village

(resident's committee) and supplementary inviestigation of other land

types.

The expropriation and relocation impact scope of the project consists

of twenty-five counties (cities, prefectures), sixty townships

(townships) and 316 administrative villages (resident's committee).

The relocation affects and involves 22 counties (cities, prefectures),

42 counties (township) and 71 administrative villages (resident's

committee). The relocation and resettlement residents total 150,873

persons of 3029 families. The lands expropriated amount to 17,568mu;

the land occupied temporarily for purpose of construction amounts to

13,284mu; The area of houses/building relocated for purpose of

construction of the project total 368,557m2 (where housing is 343365

m2, simple structure is 25 192 m2), 3 1 ,300m2 of h~useslbuildin~ shall

be relocated to meet the shock conformity. 162,660 units of scattered

trees and a small amount of auxiliary and exclusive facilities will be

influenced along the railway line will be felled.

The population affected by the permanently expropriated land is

9,815 persons. 1,285 persons of them lose the ownership of all lands.

The rural relocation and resettlement population is 15,087 persons

and 4,134 persons will be affected by relocation and resettlement of

eight schools and forty-seven enterprises. In addition, it is estimated

that 984 persons will be affected by relocation and resettlement for

consideration of environment protection and that 7,380 persons will

be affected by the temporary land occupation. So, it is estimated

currently that the population that will be affected by the project

directly amounts to 37,400 persons.

4.1 Land to be acquired

-The project-related expropriation and relocation consists of

subgrade, barrel-drain, culverts and stations of the railway line.

Generally speaking, the bridge projects of the project are 2 1 -meter-

wide. The subgrade projects are usually 35-46m wide to meet

different heights and gradients of the subgrade projects. The station

sites are usually 150-200m wide (the station line extends

approximately 1,900m). The total area of the lands expropriated for

the project is 17,568mu, consisting of 16,082mu arable land, 440mu

garden plot, 1 Olmu woodland and 947mu land for other purposes.

County (city and prefecture) and township (township) specific

quantity of land expropriation is listed in Table 2.

-The temporary land occupation of the project consists of land

occupied temporarily for purpose of stock ground, spoil ground,

facilities to meet living during the construction period and temporary

roads. In total 13,284mu lands are borrowed by the project and the

averge borrow period is one year.

The project maintains one tracking base, sixteen beam fabrication and

stock yards, thirteen graded gravel blending stations, nineteen

improved soil blending stations and seven track plates prefabrication

sites. The newly built construction shortcuts are 61. lkm long, the

restructured construciton shortcuts are 148.5km long and the newly

built railway side lines are 1.2km long. The barren mountain and

slopes shall be selected as the borrow ground of the project. The

nineteen borrow grounds of the project consist of fourteen slow slope

wasteland and five dry lands. The farming level of 0.3-0.4m of the

arable land that will be used for construction of temporary projects

and borrow grounds shall be stocked aside before the construction

starts. After the project is over, the surface shall be rehabilitated for

farming. At the same time, the earth bag weir shall be established

surrounding the temporary stock ground for protection.

Consideration shall be made for the temporary projects to make them

serve both the permanent and temporary purposes. The existing sites

or the permanenet expropriation land and city land within the station

area shall be used to the largest extent, Consideration shall be made to

construct the construction shortcuts of the project for both temporary

and permanet purposes, with a view to make them serve as approach

station roads, village roads, railway maintenance roads. The

construction vehicles shall go strictly by the specified traveling roads,

so as to prevent the construction vehicles from pressing and

destroying the original surface vegetation randomly during the

construction period.

Table 2 Checklist of land permanently expropriated for Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line

Continued Table 2 Checklist of land permanently expropriated for Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line

are involved throughout the railway line

Data source: site survey, April-August 2006; feasibility study, September 2006.

Table 3 Table of configuration of the large-sized temporary auxiliary facilities

and the quantity of land occupation 1

Tracking base

SN

Box beam fabrication

yard

Graded gravel blending station

Description

Prefabrication yard of track

plates

Unit

Improved soil 5 blending

station

Unit

Unit

Unit

Unit

QUantit

Dongying, Zhaozhuang, Dongbao, Xifu Village, Wangtongzhuang, Xin'an Village, Xizhang Village,

Dalei Village, Xingtai, Beizhao, Baita, Xizhen Village, Dongwating, Matun, Hebi, Wangzhuang, Xinxiang,

1

16

13

7

6 The newly built shortcuts are 61.1 km long and

the restructured shortcuts are 148.5km long

Land ,ccupatior , (mu)

Auto transportation

shortcuts

Remark

175.5

3024

723

420

4.2 Dwelling Houses or other Buildings to be Demolited and Relocated

4.2.1 Demolition Coverage for Project

The total area of the houses/buildings to be relocated due to

construction of the project amounts to 368,557m2, including private

and collectively owned houses/building. The area of the housing

amounts to 343,365 m2 and that of the simple structure houses

amounts to 25,192 m2. Please refer to Table 4 for county (city and

district) and township (township) floor area of the various kinds of

houses/buildings and auxiliary facilities to be relocated.

The western side of Yageying Station of Beijing-Guangzhou Railway Line

Zhangye, Dongzhang Village, Yincun Village, Wangma Village, Xisu Village, Changzhangce,

Liliangzhuang, Xiying, Anyang, Nandian, Caozhuang, Dongqiaom, Niwan Township,

Renzhuang, Liudi, Shizhai Township Dongying, Ximaxian, Houliu Village, Yincun Village,

Daliu Village, Chengshuanglou, Beiniantou, Nanshangsong, Dongwating, Daguanzhuang,

Zhouzhuang, Weihui, Zhangzhuang

Mengcun, Beixinzhuang, Tiancun, Huanglong Village, Fengjiapo, Qi County, Langgongmiao

7 Railway side lines

Total

km

7,5 10.5

1.2 37.5 The western side of Yageying Station of

Beijing-Guangzhou Railway Line

Table 4 Checklist of houses/buildings relocated for construction of Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line

Continued Table 4 Checklist of houses/buildings relocated for construction of Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line

Henan Province: 3 cities, 8 counties and 18 townships in

Data source: site survey, April-August 2006; feasibility study, September 2006.

Demolition Coverage for Environment Impact and Environment

Protection

Impact scope of noise is the areas that are located on both sides of the

railway line and are less than 200m away from the centerline of the

outer track. The impact scope of shock refers to the scope that is

within 100m away from the centerline of the outer track. The impact

scope of electromagnetic radiation for TV program signal reception is

the scope that is within 80m away from the centerline of the outer

track on both sides of the railway line respectively. The impact scope

of shelter and reflection by the elevated line is the scope that is within

160m away from the centerline of the outer track on both sides of the

railway line respectively.

In order for the project to meet indoor vibration goal, additional house

of 30500m2 shall be removed (according to environment impact

report presented by No. 3 Railway Survey & Design Institute Nov.

2006). Other impacts can be avoided or reduced by taking some

measures, so goal can be reached.

Please refer to Table 5 for environment friendly relocation quantity.

Table 5 Checklist of environment friendly relocation of Shi-Zheng Special

4.3 Fixed assets taken

-In total 162,660 pieces of scattered trees along the railway line

will be influenced, 141,160 of them are within the territory of Hebei

Province and 21,500 are within the territory of Henan Province. In

total 205 tombs shall be relocated for construction of the project, 120

of them are within the territory of Hebei Province and 85 of them are

within the territory of Henan Province.

-The rural production and living facilities affected by

construction of the project consist mainly of machinery farming roads,

footpath, motor-pumped well and irrigation channels. Where the

project necessarily occupies 530 pumped wells in total (320 wells in

Hebei Province and 210 wells in Henan Province).

-The appropriate irrigation and drainage culverts shall be set at

sections where the line passes by the flood drainage ditch and the

agricultural irrigation channels. When the project occupies or covers

the above-mentioned facilities, the moval and restructuring shall be

carried out to assure that functions of the original facilities will not be

affected.

-After the project is implemented, it is evitable that the subgrade

and station will partition the villages and arable land, inconveniencing

the travel and work of the residents. It is designed to be a hl ly flyover

project and sections where it crosses the current roads and the planned

roads are designed with bridges or culverts. The bridge culverts may

be used as passengers of residents on both sides of the railway and

impact will be decreased.

-The barrel-drain shall be designed in line with the local situation,

economical and suitable. They shall be made at sections with good

landform and good geological conditions to the largest extent possible.

The outlet of the barrel-drain shall be introduced to the natural

channels. Efforts shall be made to prevent the water from entering

into the farmland and villages to harrnlinfluence the agricultural

production and the people's living.

-The construction shortcuts for both permanent and temporary

purposes of the project shall be taken into consideration, so as to find

out the way to use them as station-approach roads, village roads and

railway maintenance roads. The construction shortcuts shall be set

based upon the situation of the local machine farming roads, so as to

make use of the original machinery farming roads and existing roads

to the largest extent possible (the original roads used reach 148.5km)

and reduce impact to the agricultural operation environment by

building temporary roads.

-The affected exclusive facilities of the project consist mainly of

power line, communication optical fiber, etc. It is designed that the

alleviation and repair measures will be applied in respect of project

design.

Please refer to Table 6 for statistics of the degree of the influence.

4.4 Businesses (and employees) affected by temporary or permanent

displacement

The construction of the project produces influence to fifty-five

institutional units and enterprises (inclusive of eight schools) and the

relocation areas amount to 8,5373m2.

Please refer to Table 7 for statistics of the degree of the influence.

Table 6 Statistics of major exclusive facilities and production and living facilities of Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line

Hebei Province

Segment

Shij iazhuang City

Xingtai City Handan

City

Alteredlmoved roads (m)

13420

8546

11384

Subtotal of Hebei Province

33350

6510

608 1

9509

22100

55450

Henan Province

Movelalternation of communication

line (Krn)

93.1

85.3

87.4

Any ang City

Hebi City Xinxiang

City

265.8

106

89.8

130.5

326.3

592.1

Subtotal of Henan Province

Total

Movelalternation of power line

(Km)

12 1

79.5

93.3

293.8

65.1

3 5.2

76.5

176.8

470.6

Irrigation channels

(Km)

8.2

6.9

9

24.1

4.8

3.3

7.1

15.2

39.3

Tomb (unit)

46

35

39

Motor-pumped well (unit)

135

8 6

99

120

29

2 5

31

85

205

320

8 1

5 1

78

2 10

530

Continued Table 7 Statistics of institutional units and enterprises that are influenced by construction of Shi-Zheng Special

Affected institution

Continued Table 7 Statistics of institutional units and enterprises that are influenced by construction of Shi-Zheng Special

Data source: April-August 2006, site survey.

Continued Table 7 Statistics of institutional units and enterprises that are influenced by construction of Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line

Affected institution

Quantity affected people

(person)

869

358

12

7

No.10 Primary and Middle School

Villager's committee of

Zhangcun Village Langgongmiao

Flour Plant Langgongmiao

Citylprefecture

Xinxiang City

ofQuantiq of

being affected (unit) 283

8

2 5

Countyldistrict

Weihui City

Weihui City

Xinxiang County

Relocation area (M2)

13380

1860

750

720

Township

Total: 6 Chengguan

Su"Xingc~ Township

Langgongmiao Townshi

Including:

Framework structure

(M2)

Brick- concrete

structure ( M ~ )

11040

1860

720

Brick-wood structure

(M2)

75 0

Building (M2)

Other (M2)

2340

5. Impact on Socio-Cultural Environment

5.1 Nationalities

The line connects Hebei Province and Henan Province and is

located at the central plains, the birthplace of the ancient culture

of China. Through consultation of chorography and relevant

documents of each city and county, there isn't natural village

and township of minority along the railway line.

Through verification of the site investigation made by TSDI

through December 2005 through March 2006 for purpose of

development of the feasibility study to the socio-economic

survey made by TSDI from April through August 2006 as well

as consultation with the local civil adminstration departments in

this regard, it is acknowledged that there isn't minority resident

along the railway line.

5.2 Cultural Relics

The line links Hebei Province and Henan Province and passes

by the birthplace of the ancient culture of China. There are

abundant tourism resources along the railway line. There isn't

other rare cultural relic within the impact scope of the project

currently on the basis of consultation with the local competent

authority of cultural relics as well as the primary survey and the

collected materials.

The construction unit shall communicate with the cultural relics

departments of Hebei Province and Henan Province before the

construction starts and keep close contact with them. The

construction unit shall do a good job of cultural relics protection

in line with the requirements of the competent authorities.

In addition, the awareness to protection cultural relics and

cultural relics census shall be intensified in the course of the

construction, with a view to avoid damage to the historic and

cultural relics. The construction shall be halted without any

delay upon discovery of the cultural relics. The cultural relics

site shall be well protected. The competent authority of cultural

relics and the concerned departments shall be advised of it

immediately. It is up to them to fix the professional protection

measures and decide the following construction.

C. Policy Objectives, Principles and Definitions

6. Laws, Refulations and Documents

Below are some laws, regulations, and documents applicable to

this project:

Land Administration Law of the People's Republic of China

revised and effective in October 2004;

Regulatory Rules for Management of Planning and

Construction of Villages and Towns implemented in

November 1999 (#I16 Order of the State Council of the

People's Republic of China);

Resolution of the State Council on Deepening Reform and

Reinforcing Land Administration effective in October 2004

(Guofa Document #[2004]28);

Notice of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security on

Directions of Employment Training and Social Security of

the Farmers Deprived of Their Lands Forwarded by the

General Office of the State Council dated April 2006 (Guofa

Document #[2006]29);

Notice of the State Council on the Issues Concerning

Reinforcement of Land Control effective in August 2006;

Notice of the Ministry of Land Resources on Printing and

Issuance of the Official Document on Reinforcement of

Residential Land Administration in the Rural Areas dated

November 2004 (Guotuzi Document # ( 2004 ) 234);

Notice of the Ministry of Land Resources on Printing and

Issuance of the Official Document on Completing the

System for Compensation and Resettlement for Land

Expropriation dated November 2004 (Guotuzi Document #

(2004) 238);

Official Document of Further IntensifLing Protection of

Basic Farmland issued by the Ministry of Land Resources,

the Ministry of Agriculture, the State Development and

Reform Commission, the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry

of Constructions, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the

State Administration of Forest Industry in September 2005

(Guotuzi Document # ( 2005 ) 196);

Hebei Province Land Administration Rules revised in May

2005

Notice of the People's Government of Hebei Province on

Reinforcement and Improvement of Land Expropriation and

Establishment of the System for the Basic Living Security of

the Farmers Deprived of Their Lands effective in June 2004

(Jizheng Document # [2004]3 7)

Notice of the People's Government of Hebei Province on

Printing and Issuance of the Official Document of

Deepening Reform and Reinforcing Land Administration

effective in December 2004 (Jizheng Document #

[2004] 15 1);

Implementary Rules of Hebei Province for Regulations on

Relocation of Urban Houses effective in April 1992 (Order

#70 of the People's Government of Hebei Province);

Implementary Rules of Hebei Province for the Land

Administration Law revised in June 2005 (see Attachment

4);

Implementary Rules of Hebei Province for Regulations on

Relocation of Urban Houses effective in September 2002;

Notice of the General Office of the People's Government of

Shijiazhuang City on Printing and Issuance of the Criteria

for Compensation for Young Crops and Accessories of the

Collective Lands in the Urban Areas effective in June 2003

(Shizhengban Document #[2003]74);

Notice Hebi City of Adjustment of the Criteria for

Compensation for Accessories of the Lands Expropriated for

National Construction effective in February 2006 (Hezheng

Document #[2006]3);

Involuntary Resettlement - World Bank OP4.12 Directory

7. Policy Objectives

Key policy objectives include:

a) Avoidance or minimization of land acquisition and other

adverse impacts

b) Those adversely affected ("displaced persons," as defined

below) are compensated at replacement cost for lost assets,

and otherwise receive any assistance necessary to provide

them with sufficient opportunity to improve, or at least

restore, incomes and living standards

8. Policy Principles

Key policy principles include:

(a) When possible, resettlement plans should be conceived as

development opportunities, so that those affected may

benefit from project activities.

(b) Lack of legal rights does not bar displaced persons in

peaceful possession from compensation or alternative forms

of assistance.

(c) Compensation rates refer to amounts to be paid in full to the

individual or collective owner of the lost asset, without

deduction for any purpose. In China, individual owners

receive compensation for affected structures and other fixed

assets, and villages receive compensation for acquired land

in rural areas.

(d) When cultivated land is acquired, it often is preferable to

arrange for land-for-land replacement through collective land

redistribution. In some cases, as when only small proportions

of income are earned through agriculture, alternative

measures such as payment of cash or provision of

employment are acceptable if preferred by the persons losing

agricultural land.

(e) Replacement houseplots, sites for relocating businesses, or

redistributed agricultural land should be of equivalent use

value to the land that was lost.

(f) Transition periods should be minimized. Compensation

should be paid prior to the time of impact, so that new

houses can be constructed, fixed assets can be removed or

replaced, and other necessary measures can be undertaken

before displacement begins.

(g) Displaced persons are consulted during the planning process,

so their preferences regarding resettlement arrangements are

considered; resettlement plans are disclosed in a publicly

accessible manner.

(h) The previous level of community infrastructure and services

and access to resources will be maintained or improved after

resettlement.

(i) The borrower is responsible for meeting costs associated

with land acquisition and resettlement, including

contingencies.

(j) Resettlement plans include adequate institutional

arrangements to ensure effective implementation of

resettlement measures.

(k) Resettlement plans include arrangements for internal and

external monitoring of resettlement implementation.

(1) Resettlement plans include procedures by which displaced

persons can pursue grievances.

Definition of "Affected Population"

"Displaced persons" refers to all the people who, on account of

the activities listed above, would have their (1) standard of

living adversely affected ; or (2)right, title, interest in any

house, land (including premises, agricultural and grazing land)

or any other fixed or movable asset acquired or possessed

temporarily or permanently; (3) access to productive assets

adversely affected, temporarily or permanently; or (4)business,

occupation, work or place of residence or habitat adversely

affected; and "displaced person" means any of the displaced

persons.

10. Definition of "Replacement Cost " "Replacement cost" is defined as follows: For agricultural land,

it is the pre-project or pre-displacement, whichever is higher,

market value of land of equal productive potential or use located

in the vicinity of the affected land, plus the cost of preparing the

land to levels similar to those of the affected land, plus the cost

of any registration and transfer taxes. For land in urban areas, it

is the pre-displacement market value of land of equal size and

use, with similar or improved public infrastructure facilities and

services and located in the vicinity of the affected land, plus the

cost of any registration and transfer taxes. For houses and other

structures, it is the market cost of the materials to build a

replacement structure with an area and quality similar to or

better than those of the affected structure, or to repair a partially

affected structure, plus the cost of transporting building

materials to the construction site, plus the cost of any labor and

contractors' fees, plus the cost of any registration and transfer

taxes. In determining the replacement cost, depreciation of the

asset and the value of salvage materials are not taken into

account, nor is the value of benefits to be derived fiom the

project deducted from the valuation of an affected asset. Where

domestic law does not meet the standard of compensation at full

replacement cost, compensation under domestic law is

supplemented by additional measures so as to meet the

replacement cost standard. Such additional assistance is distinct

from resettlement measures to be provided under other clauses

in OP 4.12, para. 6.

D. Compensation

11. Compensation

On the basis of the Rules of Hebei Province for Land

Administration revised in May 2005 and the Implementary

Measures of Henan Province for the Land Administration Law

revised in June 2005, the compensation rates this project adopts

are introduced hereinafter. Refer to Table 1 1, 12for different

compensation rates.

11.1 Land compensation fee

The land compensation fee and resettlement subsidy of

permanently expropriated land shall be several times of AAOV

of the expropriated farmland.

Hebei Province:

Land compensation fee:

Farmland: 6-10 times

Agricultural lands and construction lands other than

farmland: 5-8 times

Unused land: 3-5 times

Resettlement subsidy:

Farmland: 4-6 times

Agricultural lands and construction lands other than

farmland: 4-6 times

Unused land: no resettlement subsidy.

According to the relevant regulations set forth in the Rules

of Hebei Province for Land Administration, resettlement

subsidy shall be increased as approved by the provincial

government when the original standard of living of the

farmers can't be maintained after payment of land

compensation fee and resettlement subsidy. However, the

total sum of land administration fee and resettlement subsidy

shall not exceed the following limit:

Farmland: no more than 30 times of the AAOV of the

expropriated farmland;

Agricultural lands and construction lands other than

farmland: no more than 25 times of the AAOV of the town

where the expropriated land is located.

Henan Province:

Land compensation fee:

Farmland: 6 times for the suburbs of a municipality under

the provincial government, 5 times for other suburbs, mining

areas and towns under a county, and 4 times for other areas.

Other lands: 3 times.

Resettlement subsidy:

The criteria for resettlement subsidy per mu of expropriated

farmland is as follows: 3 times of the annual output value for

per capita farmland of one mu or more, 4 times of the annual

output value for per capita farmland of over 0.7mu but below

one mu, 5 times of the annual output value for per capita

farmland of over 0.5mu but below 0.7mu, 7 times of the

annual output value for per capita farmland of over 0.3mu

but below 0.5mu, and 10 times of the annual output value for

per capita farmland of below 0.3mu.

For expropriation of other lands, the resettlement subsidy

shall be paid by 2-6 times of the annual output value of the

expropriated land.

In the event that the original standard of living of the farmers

can't be maintained after payment of land compensation fee

and resettlement subsidy, the municipal government shall

submit a resettlement plan and a proposal for increase of

resettlement subsidy to the provincial government for

approval, so as to increase the resettlement subsidy

reasonably. However, the total sum of land administration

fee and resettlement subsidy shall not exceed 20 times of the

AAOV of the expropriated land.

Woodland

Compensation shall be made according to the value of the wood

cumulation in the land. For expropriation of woodland of young

woods, compensation shall be made by 50% of the value of the

adult woods. For expropriation of shrub woodland and sparse

woodland, compensation shall be made by 3 times of the annual

output value per mu to the affected forest administration, which

shall be responsible for recovery of the equal amount of

woodland.

-Residential land, house 1 building and their accessories

The compensation for loss of residential land, house 1 building

and their accessories shall be made in full on the basis of

replacement cost, without deduction of the removal cost and the

remaining value of the building materials. Compensation for

residential land shall be directly paid to the affected village, and

on the basis of negotiation between the village commission and

the affected villagers, the commission shall provide the affected

farmer families with free residential land. If this approach

doesn't work, the township government shall take the

responsibility. For houses, other buildings, apartments, and the

relevant accessories, the compensation shall be made directly to

the affected people according to the replacement cost. Land

transfer cost and other related costs shall be paid by the project

owner if not exempted.

For tenants of the affected houses, lease contracts of the same

conditions shall be provided to them. They shall be informed

two months in advance before they move out of the houses.

11.3 Young crop compensation

Compensation for young crops of the expropriated lands in

Hebei Province shall be calculated with the output value of

season crops.

Compensation for young crops of the expropriated lands in

Henan Province shall be made to the following criteria: 60-80%

of season output value of the planted young crops, and 40-60%

of season output value of the non-planted young crops.

11.4 Moving and Transition Subsidy

In addition to house and land compensations, relocation subsidy

shall also be paid. This includes resettlement / relocation cost

and house rent fee during transition period inclusive of

contingency loss and expenses relating to house relocation and

new house construction (relocation transit subsidy), all family

articles and building materials for new house construction and

old house removal, and cost of move to the new house

(transport subsidy). All said subsidies shall be paid to the

affected farmer families at one go. In normal cases, the affected

people build their houses on their own, and they may stay in

their relatives' houses during construction of their new houses.

In the event that they don't have free accommodation, the

affected people will get rent subsidy for six months for payment

of house rate to the criteria of RMB60 per month per person. In

the case that an affected person doesn't resettle (in six months),

the project execution organization shall double the transit

subsidy for the affected person losing hidher house (RMB120

per month per person).

In addtion, RMBYSOO for each household expended on three

accesses and site leveling at centralized resettlement locations is

accounted in estimation budget, and used at centralized

resettlement locations under central control by local

governments.

11.5 Compensation for loss of business / employment opportunities

In the event that commerce or business along the railway to be

constructed is affected, transit subsidy for move from the old

place to the new place shall also be paid in addition to the house

compensation. This subsidy shall be calculated on the basis of

the after-tax profit for the six months before move, which is

issued by the taxation bureau.

11.6 Relocation of public buildings

Compensation shall be made for all affected public buildings to

the owner in cash, or they shall all be re-constructed. For school

buildings, new school buildings shall be established before

removal of the old ones. In the event that these public buildings

are to be expanded by this chance, the project organization shall

require the local owner to provide the supporting hnds (thus

ensuring 100% of hnds needed for building construction).

11.7 Land adjustment

Generally speaking, the land-deprived farm families will get

"land for land" through land adjustment inside the villagers'

commission. In the event that land adjustment can't assure that

the farmer families obtain sufficient farmland, cash payment

shall be made for compensation while land adjustment is made.

This payment may be made to the farmer families that choose

this way of compensation, and 1 or those farmer families that

don't get sufficient land after land adjustment. The

compensation rate shall be determined according to the actual

situations and after negotiations between county governments,

affected villages and affected people.

11.8 Training courses

The affected people will take certain training courses in the

place where the county or town is located for a period of two

weeks. All participants will have subsidies for travel, food and

accommodation. Also, some h n d will be provided for some

special training courses in the project area. These training

courses may be provided after land expropriation or even after

relocation. These trainings courses include those on building

workers, as well as agricultural techniques or non-agricultural

skills. Basically, the farmers will have fair compensation for

their lost land so as to recover their incomes. However, the post-

resettlement training courses may assure that some farmer

families won't get into the trouble of poverty after lost of their

lands.

11.9 Compensation qualifications and closing date

For the lands, buildings 1 houses, crops, and sources of income

that the affected populations and organizations (privately or

publicly owned) lose, compensation and rehabilitation shall be

made by the types and quantities of these losses. These losses

include the data of impact acquired during the detailed

measurement and survey by TSDI and Shi-Zheng Railway

construction agency, or the goods temporarily affected during

construction.

Generally, the local government will issue an order prohibiting

construction of any new building along the railway. However,

the routing of the railway has not been determined due to some

reasons. Therefore, for those cases of uncertainties / disputes,

the date on which the detailed measurement and survey is

completed can be taken as the closing date of compensation

qualification. After the closing date, the farmlands, buildings,

and other goods of the affected people in the project area won't

be listed in the range of compensation or subsidy. Buildings,

crops or trees added only for additional compensation won't be

compensated for.

E. Rehabilitation Measures

12.1 House Demolition and Restoration Plan

12.1.1 New Site Planning, Development and Selection

No village needs to move as a whole. The farmer families will

reconstruct their houses right in their own villages, and it is not

necessary to develop new sites. Most farmer families that need

relocation are independent or dispersed along the line. However,

over ten farmer families need to move in some places (there is

no such a case that over one hundred farmer families have to

move).

Massive relocation is usually due to construction of railway

stations, and is not necessary in this project.

All buildings planned to relocate will be "relocated in the field"

according to the regulations of the World Bank. In most cases,

the villages of the affected people will provide the new sites for

construction of their houses. Due to routing or station

construction, some villages will arrange relocation with their

existing lands, and the affected people will choose "backward

relocation" on their own. There is no such a case that " the

Ministry of Railways selects the relocation site".

The relocation plan is based on the following three aspects:

(1)The capability of the village-level communities of

conducting land adjustment. The project is a linear one.

Compared with other projects of the same scale, it occupies

less land. If the all villagers of the affected villages share the

loss of lands, the per capita loss of farmland may be very

small. Therefore, it would be no problem for the local

communities to adjust the lands.

(2)The capability of the village-level communities of providing

new residential lands. Out of the 71 villages, 3029 affected

farmer families will move. On average, 43 families need new

residential lands in each village. According to the overall

land planning of each village, they reserve residential lands

(non-farming lands). The residences are distributed, and it is

no problem to select the residential lands.

(3)Selection of new residential lands by the affected people.

Although most affected people can easily get suitable

residential lands in the vicinity of their farmlands, their

preference in selection of residential lands shall be extremely

respected. For instance, the relocation plan for distributed or

centralized residence shall be flexible. The centralized

residential areas are usually designed according to the

development status of the communities or cities, and more

business opportunities may appear to attract more affected

farmer families. In whichever case, the preference of the

affected people in selection of residential lands shall be

discussed at the village-level meetings.

Ways of house rehabilitation

The measures for expropriation and resettlement for destroyed

rural and urban residences are as follows:

The farmer families are resettled separately. They will construct

houses for themselves. The house compensation allowances

include labor and material costs. The farmer families that

choose to construct houses on their own may use the allowances

to increase the area or improve the fitments of the new houses.

Alternatively, they may construct a house similar to their

original one, and use the allowances in some other way. The

sites of new houses will be determined through discussions with

the villagers and villages. Selection of sites for new houses may

carried out through discussions with the villagers and villages,

and the villages may provide the farmer families with sites of

new houses free of charge.

Centralized resettlement is preferred in construction of new

villages. Streets and stores will be constructed according to the

small town development plan. There are several choices. No. 1,

the local governments take care of construction of streets and

supporting infrastructure facilities, while the affected people

construct their houses according to the uniform plan. No. 2, the

equivalent houses will be returned to the affected people. No. 3,

cash compensation may be provided to the affected people

instead of new house construction if they like. It shall be up to

the affected people which approach shall be adopted.

The principle for building relocation is construction the first and

removal the second. In the case of removal the first and

construction the second, rent subsidy shall be paid for the transit

period. In either case, transport fee shall be paid.

The expropriation and resettlement offices at the county and

city level shall be responsible for review of the expropriation

and resettlement plan, distribution of the expropriation and

resettlement funds, as well as preparation, management and

control of the expropriation and resettlement process. The

expropriation and resettlement offices shall also work with the

Ministry of Railways. The township expropriation and

resettlement offices shall as implementation bodies of

expropriation and resettlement, and will consult with the

villagers and representatives from the farmer commissions, so

as to establish resettlement action plans suitable for each village.

The resettlement action plan of each village will be approved by

the country or municipal expropriation and resettlement office,

and implemented by the township expropriation and

resettlement office and villagers commission.

During relocation and relocation, the following principles shall

be followed:

The new sites for construction of houses must be provided to

the farmer families for free, so that they don't have to pay for

lands for construction of houses. The provided land area shall

be equal to that of the old house.

The new sites of houses will be determined between the

villagers commissions and the affected farmer families through

negotiations. The affected farmer families are prone to construct

their new houses where convenient transport is available,

namely, in the vicinity of highway or county-level roads. The

villages will fulfill their needs to the max extent, and in the

range of new sites available for construction of their new houses,

the farmer families may select their specific sites.

It takes four or five months to build a farmer house. The

affected farmer families hope to build their houses on their own.

They may take building materials from the old houses. However,

using the building materials taken from the old houses doesn't

necessarily mean the cost of these building materials shall be

deducted from the house compensation.

The affected people will get relocation compensation. The

county-level expropriation and resettlement offices (CRO) will

provide cash directly to the affected farmer families.

The principle stipulates that new houses shall be built before old

houses are removed. In the case of removal the first and

construction the second, rent subsidy shall be paid for the transit

period, so that they can rent houses. During the transit period,

the farmer families may stay in their relatives' houses. In this

case, the transit subsidy shall also be paid to them.

Even though the farmer families build their new houses in the

same villages, transport fee shall still be paid to them as

stipulated. The transport fee shall be separately listed, or

combined with other item of compensation.

When the farmer families re-build their new houses, they shall

pay the additional expenses if they want to increase the area or

improve the quality of their houses. On the basis of their

financial strength, they may make their own decision whether or

not to increase the area or improve the quality of their houses.

The villager commissions, the township governments, and the

expropriation and resettlement offices will be responsible for

house reconstruction and relocation of the affected farmer

families. The governments at all levels will jointly resolve the

issues that take place.

Those farmer families with women playing the major role shall

enjoy equal treatment in house reconstruction, opportunities and

compensations. Any behavior of reducing their house areas or

depriving them of their rights will be illegal.

Villagers commissions, township governments, and

expropriation and resettlement offices will pay special attention

to the poverty-stricken farmer families, the handicapped, and

the protected families, and provide assistance to them. If they

can't build their houses on their own, the governments at all

levels will help them with their relocation and resettlement.

There are two measures: helping them build their houses, or

buying houses of the same area and quality for them in the same

villages.

There is one possibility for relocation of urban residents, i.e.,

they bought commodity houses. In this case, they will get

compensation of replacement cost. That is, they will be

compensated at the market price of local commodity houses, so

that they can re-buy commodity houses. In addition, transport

subsidy shall be paid to them.

The second possibility for urban residents is that they bought

lands on which they built their houses on their own. In this case,

they will get new sites of the same area and quality as well as

compensation for house construction and transport fee.

Chinese farmers shall apply for building houses in the lands that

belong to the villages. The application shall be approved by the

villagers meeting, reviewed by the villagers commissions and

township governments, and eventually submitted to the county

or city government for approval. This type of lands for house

construction is free, and the farmers have to pay few proceeding

fees.

This type of land allocation is sufficient for the farmers. The

farmer families may use over 100 m2 lands to build two-four

floor brick houses or concrete houses. At present, most farmers

along Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line adopt new designs to

build their houses. The new designs occupy less land area than

the old designs (bungalows), while the area of new houses is

equal to or bigger than that of the old houses. The fowls and

livestocks of the relocation families won't be adversely affected

by the relocation.

Implement new village construction through relocation

In a village with over 30 families of relocation, rural

reconstruction shall be accelerated through the relocation, and

new village construction shall be implemented. On the basis of

village and town planning, construction of rural infrastructure

facilities shall be accelerated.

Firstly, a scientific and rational village and town planning,

construction and management system shall be established, and

the planning and construction of villages and towns shall be

standardized. On the principles of "adjusting measures to the

local conditions, giving prominence to the local features, being

unprecedented to some extent, and making accomplishment at

one go" and in line with the requirements of "removing and

combining small villages, removing hollow villages, reducing

natural villages, and constructing central villages", special

forces shall be organized to plan the layout of the villages in the

area, and prepare the outlines of the villages.

Secondly, on the principle of "planning the first and

construction the second, and no planning no approval for

construction", the planning shall be strictly abided by. The

approved planning shall be strictly followed to guide the

villagers to do a good job in construction of houses,

infrastructure facilities and public utilities, encourage the

villagers to adopt a variety of construction modes, such as

dispersed families moving into the villages, reconstruction of

the original villages, protective reconstruction of historic

villages, naturally ecological villages, and new farmer villages.

Thirdly, construction of villager houses shall stick to such

principles as compliance with planning, limiting to their

abilities, respecting the farmers' wishes, and being stylish.

Compulsory requirements shall not be applied, and it is not

necessary to build all villages with one look. Total removal and

complete reconstruction, which is not practical, shall not be

adopted.

Fourthly, village appearance shall be improved, and the

environment of township bazaars shall be controlled. Great

efforts shall be made to carry out the clean village program,

conduct such activities as "removing waste, removing slurry,

removing road barriers, improving roads, improving water

pipeline, improving kitchens, improving toilets, and improving

pens", beautify the environment, lead the farmers to resolve the

issue that residences are mixed with fowl and livestock pens,

and realize the people's expectations of "flat roads, clean water,

clean toilets, and clean houses".

Fifthly, great efforts shall be made to complete the

infrastructure facilities of villages and towns as well as their

service functions. The clear village program shall be accelerated,

and focus shall be on hardening of village roads. Regenerative

clean energy sources as marsh gas and straw gasification shall

be greatly developed in the villages, and efforts shall also be

made to push the farmer families to improve their water pipeline,

toilets, pens, kitchens, and baths.

Promotion of three-connection marsh gas toilets: three-

connection marsh gas toilets shall be connected to toilets,

livestock pens, and marsh gas tanks. Excrement and urine

directly enter the tanks through straight pipes without being

exposed. The liquid and debris shall not be taken out of the

outlet unless full fermentation. The raw materials are rationally

configured, and include excrement and urine, pen straw, ground

straw, vegetation, hydrophytic plants, weeds, etc. The marsh

liquid and debris may be used as fertilizers.

Promotion of ecological toilets with excrement and urine

separately collected: this kind of toilet comprises of urine

storage tank, excrement storage tank, and heat absorption plate.

Adding ash after relieving is the key to management of this kind

of toilet. Sufficient ash keeps the excrement dry. Before the first

use of this kind of toilet, 5-10cm ash shall be added in advance.

After use each time, certain amount of ash shall be added, to be a more exact, three times of excrement. Excrement is kept in the

tank for about 0.5-1 year. Urine shall not enter the excrement

storage tank. The urine storage tank shall be away from sunlight,

and closed. Urine shall be diluted with five times of water, and

directly used as fertilizer.

12.1.4 Ways of compensation and transit

Since most building materials of the new houses are from the

old houses, new houses can't be built unless the old houses are

removed. According to the survey results, during the 3-5

months of transit period, the affected people have two ways to

get accommodation: (1) staying in relative's houses; and (2)

setting up tents on the new sites. Since most building materials

of the new houses are from the old houses, transit compensation

shall be paid to the affected farmer families in all counties and

cities. However, if the affected farmer families don't agree with

the said measure due to any reason, the project implementation

organization shall agree to provide them with temporary houses

for six months or longer. In this case, it is not necessary to pay

transit compensation to them.

The compensation will be paid to the farmer families before the

old houses are removed. The supporting facilities of all houses,

including rails, toilets, pens, yards, water banks, wells, cables,

fruit trees, other trees, and plants, shall be all compensated for.

This is to protect the interests of the relocation farmers.

Special attention shall be paid to the poverty-stricken families

and vulnerable groups, like families with handicapped members,

with women mainly taking care of everything, and old people.

In the event that they fall across any problem during transit,

resettlement or reconstruction of their houses, the villagers

commissions and the town governments shall provide them with

assistance. Recommendations, free provision of building

materials, or cash compensation may be provided to them.

These measures aim to successful expropriation and

resettlement of the farmer families, and better residential

conditions than before.

Some farmer families may accept additional compensation,

which is not over the criteria for replacement cost. Most new

brick houses and concrete houses are built in the suburbs of

cities or towns. The final result of compensation is that all

relocation families successfully accept and conduct relocation.

12.2 Production rehabilitation

If a farmer family loses a small piece of land, the village will re-

allocate their lands, and the compensation for the lost land will

be used to improve the productivity of the remaining land. For

instance, the compensation may be used to improve the

irrigation facilities. That is, through investment, the village can

achieve equal or higher productivity with the fewer lands.

If industrial or commercial buildings, which belong to profit-

making enterprises, are removed, the compensation may be used

to reconstruct their buildings, so that they can continue their

operations at the same or better level.

If a farmer family loses most or all land, and doesn't have new

land as compensation, the compensation fee the farmer family

gets may be used in small business, training or education, move

to a place with land available or opportunity of employment.

If suitable audit and management system is available and the

requirements of Chinese laws and the World Bank are fulfilled,

the compensation will be sufficient to address the needs of the

affected people, and their incomes and living will be assured.

The auditing and reporting procedures incorporated in the

resettlement action plan can assure their incomes and living.

12.3 Resettlement of enterprises and schools

The compensation and its payment schedule shall be

corresponding to relocation and reconstruction of non-

residential facilities. The policy for relocation of non-residential

facilities is for completion of relocation before confirmation of

lands for railway construction. This is especially important to

the affected schools.

No big plant or enterprise has to relocate. Some small township

enterprise, like some repair stores, small brick plants, small

workshops, and small metal material processing shops, may be

affected. Some belong to the local governments, some belong to

villages, and some are privately owned.

The affected commercial buildings, plants and enterprises for

profit making purpose will be reconstructed. To them, transport

fee and compensation for loss of income during relocation shall

be paid, and the market price of the relocation sites shall be

considered.

The towns or village commissions shall be responsible for

reconstruction of the affected schools after receiving the

compensation. If a school needs expansion, the town

government or village commission will take care of the

additional cost.

The compensation for relocation of these enterprises includes

three parts:

Compensation for factory building and other buildings;

Cost of equipment transport;

Compensation for loss due to shutdown.

These fees are paid to the owners of the enterprises. The criteria

for (1) compensation are similar to those of compensation for

farmer houses. For (2) and (3) compensation, the criteria will be

determined between the railway owner and the affected parties

through negotiations.

The towns and villages will help these enterprises reconstruct

their buildings and recover their production, and guide and help

them to select new sites. The township or village-level

enterprises shall have new sites still in the lands of the towns

and villages. The privately owned enterprises usually rent the

lands from the village collectives. Obtaining compensation, they

can still rent lands from the rural collectives to re-open their

plants or other businesses.

The details of preliminary estimate on compensation of

enterprises and institutions affected by construction of this

project sees table 8.

Brickyard of Yincun 15 200 30

units Passenger

Quantity o f

affected people

(person)

2 5

275

260

22

20

15

3 5

40

6

180

650

120

8

2 5

122

55 7

25

66 1956

and enterprises Line

area (M')

3290

4926

3002

1530

725

2450

2130

585

1000

730

10980

1500

72

202

1881

677 766

350

1469 38265

Table8 Statistics of moving compensation of institutional that are influenced by construction of Shi-Zheng Special

Moving compensation

(yuan 1

30

150

150

20

20

5 0

120

60

2

50

230

80

3

2

100

50 1

2

5 0 1170

30

City/prefecture

Shijiazhuang

Countyldistrict

Qiaoxi District

Luquan City

Luancheng County

Yuanshi County

G a o ~ i County

L O L ~ ~ ~ O Xingtai City

Township Qiaoxi District

Sijiazhuang TOWnsh'p

Township

Macun Township

Chengguan Township

hi^

Township

Total: 19 Y incun

Affected institution

Breeding yard of Gongjia Village

Xinhua Industrial Oven Co., Ltd.

Luquan City Maosheng Titanium Industry Co., Ltd.

Xiliangzheng Breeding Yard

Douyu Board Plant

Douyu Breeding Yard

Yuanshi County No.2 Cotton and Oil

Plant

Shijiazhuang Boyan Diamond Products

Co., Ltd. Processing Plant

Dangpuzhuang Breeding Base

Nanj ian Primary and Middle School

Hengda Middle School

Shijiazhuang City Funong Fertilizer

Co., Ltd.

Lirenzhuang Nusery

G107 Road maintenance area

Weaving plant

Zinc oxide workshop Hennery

Lihan Crude Oven Tube Workshop of Xitaying Village

Weaving plant

- Y incun Village

Coun Township Hospital

2

100

80

Wangkuai Nanshi Coal Plant 8 Township 700 50

Shahe City S::";,","rg Qingjie School 80 400 5 0

Total: 7 219 5420 342 - Yongnian County Y ongnian Handan City County Yonglv Fruit and 20 1500 50 Township egetable Company

iyisheng's cigarette 3 63 1 C‘""Y Township if^^^ Village

Shun'an decoration shop of Qifang 4 66 1

Village

Yuehai Traffic hdustry Co., Ltd. 110 2400 150

3ebei Shennong Vew and Hi-tech 65 1800 150 Co., Ltd.

Jianzhuang Baotaisi Lantian Township Kindergarten 115 690 2

Baotaisi Lu's bathhouse 3 4 5 1

Nanbao Lijiakou Milk Cow 33 Township Plant 1500 30

Shangcheng Lvj iazhuang Cheng'an County Township Benzene Plant 5 60 2

Hebei Wanlong 26 Chemical Co., Ltd. 900 30

Linzhang County Nandongfang Zhangxiutun

Township H ~ ~ g e r y 15 384 20

Hongyun Vinegar Ducun Township Plant (Xiying 9 600 1

Village)

Total: 12 408 10008 438 Total in Hebei 2583 53693 1950

Anyang City Yuniu Anyang City Wenfeng District Dairy Co., Ltd. 8 0 4800 80 Baibi

Township {Dongbeiwu Village)

Dongbeiwu Village Milk Cow Plant 4 40 5

1800

1200

400

25

40

25

Village

Hennery of Daliu Village

Wood processing plant of Wangma

Village Wood processing

plant Daxian Village

Neiqiu County

Xingtai County

Jindian Township

Township

12.4 Reconstruction of infrastructure 1 public facilities

The affected infrastructure facilities include water supply

(including drinking water and irrigation water) facilities, power

cables, telecom cables, and roads. Most infrastructure facilities

are public one. Some are state owned, some by the local

governments, and some by the rural collectives (like irrigation

channels and township roads).

There are mainly three measures for reconstruction of the

infrastructure facilities affected by Shi-Zheng Special Passenger

Line:

Tangyrn County Chengguan Township

Yigou Township

~ u l i c u n school

Yangjiucun Primary School

Jiangcheng Breeding Base

Yigou Township No.2 Middle School

Xinxiang City

869

358

12

7

35

8 5

30

5

15

35

682 1551 4134

200

85

50

450

Total in Henan Total amount throughout the line: 55

Weihui City

Weihui City

Xinxiang County

Yuanyang County

13380

1860

750

720

1430 -

540

400

400

9000

600

2600

18300 31680 85373

169

15

2

1

2

5.5

3

3

0.5

4

5

41 210

2160

950

400

3450

3740

Total: 6 Chengguan Township Sunx~ngcun Townshlp

Township

Township

Total: 11

5

16

3

60

No.10 Primary and Middle School

Villager's committee of Zhangcun Village

LanggongmiacLanggongmiao Flour Plant

Langgongmiao Cotton Processing

Plant Cuizhuang Primary

School of Langgongmiao

Township Xinxiang City

Yonghua Oil Pant & Chemical Plant

Shizhai Tax Bureau

Xingya Plunge Bath

Hospital of Shizhai Township

Shizhai Cotton and Oil Plant

Some infrastructure facilities will be directly reconstructed by

the construction agency during construction of the railway, for

instance, the irrigation channels and village roads.

The power cables and telecom cables will be reconstructed by

some special organizations on the account of the Ministry of

Railways.

The public infrastructure facilities, like water towners and

power transmission lines, will be reconstructed through

compensation by the constructor to the relevant organization.

The local farmers pay special attention to the adverse impact of

Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line to the irrigation facilities.

There are two ways out: reconstruction of the irrigation

facilities by the railway construction agency, or reconstruction

of them by the affected people with the compensation from the

railway organization. The irrigation facilities shall be

reconstructed on the following principles:

Improving all functions of the irrigation facilities;

All on the account of the relevant railway organization;

Quick reconstruction, for the purpose that the agricultural

production in the area won't be adversely affected.

Which mode shall be adopted is determined between the

affected party and the railway party through negotiations.

12.5 Income rehabilitation measures

12.5.1 General rules

The objective of income restoration is to help all people that are

affected by the project and lost their livelihood (inclusive of

land) improve, or at least maintain, their income and living level

to that before the "project" starts.

Generally speaking, there are five kinds of resettlement modes

for the rural population that are affected by land expropriation.

Their meanings and implementation premises are as follows:

Agricultural resettlement: with the resolution reached on the

villager's meeting or consent of more than 213

representatives of villagers as well as approval of the

agricultural component authority of the people's government

at the township level or the people's government at the

county level, land reallocation is carried out within the

collective economic organization of villagers. If the land

reallocation lags behind, the farmer families whose lands

have been expropriated shall be compensated with

agricultural production value loss compensation.

Resettlement by enterprises: the resettlement subsidy for

land expropriation is to be managed and used by the rural

collective economic organization collectively, which will be

used to developlrun and establish the village enterprises. The

rural people to be resettled will be employed to work for

these village enterprises. The competent institutional units

(enterprises) are encouraged to employ the rural people to be

resettled. If the rural people to be resettled agree to work for

certain institution unit (enterprise), the resettlement subsidy

may be appropriated to the institutional unit (enterprise) for

it to resettle the rural people to be resettled.

Resettlement by cash: with the approval of the land

administration department of the people's government at

township level and the land administration department of the

people's government at county (district) level, the

resettlement subsidy will be paid to the individual to be

resettled directly in line with the plan worked out by the

villager's collective economic organization. These

individuals will search for occupation independently and

invest the resettlement subsidy to run stores, maintenance

shop and handcraft workshop and grow into the craftsmen.

Payment insurance: with the approval of the people to be

resettled, the resettlement subsidy will be used to buy

insurance for them. This kind of resettlement is adopted by

families with the aged members only.

Resettlement by land reclamation: the villages with the land

reserve resources may use the land compensation fee to

reclaim the wasteland and hilly country by the surplus rural

laborers under the premise that the ecological environment

will not be damaged.

The construction of Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line will

make approximately 8,600 persons lose all their lands and

consequently some income. According to the socio-

economic investigation, more than 80% farmer families have

other income sources besides agricultural income and the

income from foodstuff and economic crops accounts for only

25.5% of their total income. The proportion is even smaller

in respect of net income. So, land expropriation will not

produce serious influence to livelihood of the people living

in the project areas.

It is specified for this project that the compensation will be

made to the landowners directly. The compensation for crops

and trees (by market price) will be paid to the affected

farmer families if they are damaged.

The optional methods for the landowners to use the

compensation are specified under the current laws and

regulations. The compensation shall be favourable to the

farmer families no matter it is paid to the farmer families,

directly or indirectly. The following issues can be fixed

through opening of the meeting of the affected people

representatives carry out land reallocation and make farmer

families losing land gain land again and use the

compensation for public interest construction of the

community; or pay compensation to the affected people

directly; The combination of these two is applicable as well,

which shall be submitted to the people's government at the

township level for approval.

STIPULATION OF INCOME RESTORATION STRATEGIES

Any income restoration strategies shall give full consideration

of the preference of the affected people and the implementation

methods. The income restoration strategies depend also on the

distribution mode of the compensation between the community

and the individual. Under such background, the socio-economic

investigation (inclusive of farmer families and village head)

shows option between land reallocation and cash compensation.

To provide sufficient evidence for stipulation of the income

restoration strategies, the major results of the site survey and

opinion consultation conducted in April 2006 are as follows:

More than 70% villages prefer to land reallocation, so as to

make the affected people continue agricultural production;

Almost all people don't agree to use the compensation by the

village collectively - which is to be further acknowledged on

the villager's meeting.

With the above-mentioned (survey) result as the foundation, the

income restoration strategy will be flexible, democratic, village-

specific and self-managed. The preference learned from the held

meeting will be voted and supplemented by the affected villages

through the appropriate official meeting. The income restoration

strategy will make the majority of the affected people continue

the agricultural production, even they have lost their arable land,

in whole or in part. The strategies consist mainly of the

following parts:

Land reallocation (to be implemented with the help of the local

land administration bureau)

The major objective of the community to invest by the

compensation is to make all people involved by the land

reallocation draw benefits, affecting individual from investing

by the compensation.

Training

Employment opportunities provided by the project-related

industries.

12.5.3 Income recovery: land adjustment

Generally speaking, the land-deprived farm families will get

"land for land" through land adjustment inside the villagers'

commission. In the event that land adjustment can't assure that

the farmer families obtain sufficient farmland, cash payment

shall be made for compensation while land adjustment is made.

This payment may be made to the farmer families that choose

this way of compensation, and 1 or those farmer families that

don't get sufficient land after land adjustment. The

compensation rate shall be determined according to the actual

situations and after negotiations between county governments,

affected villages and affected people.

According to the discussion and the results of the site survey,

under the majority of situations, the majority of the investigated

villages maintain the land reserves. Besides, there are a great

amount of land resources along the railway line. So, land

reallocation within these areas is feasible.

12.5.4 Income restoration: use of compensation

( I ) Community-based income restoration measures

The agricultural productivity of the affected people will drop

within a short period of time no matter if the land is

reallocated or not. The compensation made to villages is

made to mainly improve the agricultural productivity,

especially the following aspects:

Improve the irrigation facilities and extend them to the non-

irrigation areas

Create new arable lands through reclamation of wastelands

at the appropriate sections

Develop orchard and other economic crops

Improve production of stock raising

Develop processing of primary products

The villages are entitled to appropriate certain sum of money

to social and infrastructure projects such as schools, roads

and water supply network. The detailed suggestions are to be

finalized by all villagers on the basis of the supplementary

selection results before the compensation is distributed.

(2) Use of compensation by individual

A considerable part of the compensation paid to the affected

people shall be used by them for income restoration. If so, no

social problem will be produced. It is because that many

people have strong initiative or desire to invest in the

productive activities in the project areas. It is this kind of

initiative reflects their capacities to use the compensation. As

a matter of fact, the economic crops and service industries of

the project areas develop rapidly in the recent years.

The individuals accepting the socio-economic survey show

the preference to investment in non-agriculture (Table 17),

such as small-sized business. The individuals above forty

years old show preference to development of agriculture,

stock raising and fishery. They prefer to some exploitable

land-expropriation resettlement compensation and some land

compensation. Thus, they can improve new animal varieties

or improve their farmland irrigation conditions. In addition,

some farmer families choose to provide better education for

their offspring by the compensation. These families are

future-oriented and make plan for a better hture of the entire

family.

12.5.5 In-project Employment

The construction of Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line will

create the temporary work opportunities. The farmers may seize

hold of these opportunities to gain additional income by cash. It

is helphl to restore the livelihood. The majority of building

workers shall be employed from the local villages.

The affected poverty people enjoy the priority to work for

construction of Shi-Zheng Special Passenger Line. The

expropriation and resettlement office at the county, city and

township level will execute these measures with the project

construction team and/or the subcontracting project team jointly.

12.5.6 Training plan

To meet the major task of the affected communities and

individuals of income restoration, a series of training shall be

performed. These plans with the separate estimate fimds consist

of the items listed below. The responsible persons of all villages

involved in land expropriation for this project as well as one

representative of the affected farmer families are entitled to join

one or two training courses organized by the county and they

are responsible for experiment and promotion of these items to

their villagers.

Stock raising and breedinglfishery;

Planting of economic crops;

Training plan of woman's embroidering and weaving skill;

Maintenance skills of motorcycle, auto, tractors and agricultural

tools;

Marketing of products.

The training will be performed on site or within the training

center of the concerned countylcity. The training fees will be

paid directly to the trainer agencies such as agriculture

promotion department, exclusive technology training

department and NGO from the contingency. The trainees that

accepting the training at the places that are far away from their

own villages will be paid with allowances. A half of the trainees

shall be woman. It is planned that the training will start from the

beginning of 2007. It is aimed to make the affected learns and

masters at least one useful technology.

Please refer to Table 9 for training plan of the affected farmer

families.

Table 9 Training plan of the affected farmer families I I Fund I Trainingthe

me Major contents

yuan) National laws and regulations of China, policies of the

estimate .y UI training

(RMB day 10,000

World Bank, relocation and resettlement policies of the Policy project, compensation methods and standards, significance learning of the project, possible social, economic and environment im~acts of the ~roiect

Remarks

:act methods of the m l\bPl b J C . I I L u L 1 v b V1

n o - r o n n t v n l nf I - n A I the affected farmer 1 632 persons ( 1 1 1 Control of I A D o ~ m ~ c . n t ~ t ; x m r \ f I I I expropriati Composition, responsibilities and con1

on and land expropriation and relocation agellbr, uVllLIVl vl lulru

relocation expropriation and relocation implementation, it-"--': -- 1 families I of25 I 0.5 I :--I + --l!--&:-- - -+L -A -J?-..Ll:- -- A:-:--+:-... ---- ilur111ili1u11 I I I I ~ I G I I I G I I L C;UIIGC;LIUII, IIIGLIIUU UI ~ U U I I C ; ~ ~ L I L I L I ~ ~ ~ L I U I I , appeal channel A Responsible person

1 ,+:,, I of the villages in

I Construction of new village, planning, development and I - .

selection of new address Restoration Biogas use technology, stock raising and breeding measures technology, planting technology of economic crops

and Woman's embroidering and weaving technology and skills technical Skills to maintain motorcycles, autos, tractors and learning agricultural tools.

relation to the land expropriation and relocation

(Marketing of products

counties, 60 townships I 1 79 and 3 16 villages

Organize the training class

respectively, five days each

632 12.5 79

1 25 groups I . -

of county- specific

training in total

12.6 The Vulnerable Group

The vulnerable group involved in this line refers to some poor people.

The majority of the villages affected by Shi-Zheng Corridor belong to

North China Plain, where there is relatively abundant land resources

and products. However, it is doubtless that expropriation of some

lands of the farmers will lead to certain inconvenience to them,

especially the farmer families with relatively low income and heavy

burdens. It is a hard nut to effectively guarantee living of these people

when their lands are expropriated.

Approximately 213 poor farmer families are "(short of development

capacity) the poverty-stricken farmer families". In other words, the

family members or the major laborers of these families suffer from

some yearlong injuriesldiseases (physically, mentally or socially).

After consultation with some officials taking charge of the poor

farmer family work for features of these families, the major reason

leading to their poverty lies on the poor physical conditions of their

major laborers or failure of them to plant their lands effectively.

Another reason is their deficiency in skills. The civil affairs

department of the concerned towns take charge of providing "five

kinds of guarantees" to the said poverty-stricken families, including

foodstuff, dwelling, clothes, heating resources and fbneral expenses.

The training plan is helphl to the members of the vulnerable farmer

families. The strong members of the vulnerable farmer families enjoy

the priority to gain opportunities to work for construction of the

railway.

Additionally, some vulnerable groups (such as orphan, widow,

families enjoying "five guarantees", minorities, families that are

poverty-stricken due to diseases, families that are poverty-stricken

due to children's education, disabled and psychopath), the local

people's government and the headquarters of Shi-Zheng Special

Passenger Line will pay the total land compensation and resettlement

subsidy to the concerned parties.

Other poverty alleviation and preferential treatment will be provided

for other vulnerable groups:

(1)If they are the relocated families, they enjoy the priority to choose

the subsistence homestead in advance; if they are affected by the

land expropriation, they enjoy the priority upon land reallocation;

(2)The skill training will be provided those women who are the

householders of their families. The small-amount credit will be

provided for them.

(3) The farmer families that are poverty-stricken due to children's

education will be provided with the education loan or donation.

For example, the loan limit for the primary school student is RMB

500 yuan and that of the middle school student is RMB 1,000 yuan.

One family is entitled to apply for loan for two students and the

loan limit shall be within RMB 1,500-3,000 yuan.

(4) The farmer families that are poverty-stricken due to diseases will

be provided with the one-off subsidy. The amount of subsidy for

each family is to be approved on the villager's meeting, which will

be submitted to the resettlement office at the township level and

county level for approval. The range of the subsidy is between

RMB 1,000-1 0,000 yuan.

(5) The endowment insurance or the lowest living guarantee will be

provided for the orphan, widow and the aged.

Environment governance

The local power organ implementing the expropriation and

resettlement is entitled to take charge of the environment governance

should the environment issues take place in the course of

expropriation and resettlement. The local power organ is established

with the environment governance departments. Any and all

environment issues met in the course of expropriation and

resettlement shall be submitted to the environment governance

department for settlement.

The environment impact assessement report of the project describes

in details the environment issues, resettlement measures and the

management mechanism of the project.

12.8 Rational analysis of recovery measures

The project construction only brings impact on small part of houses

and lands in valliges along the railway line, does not greatly impact

original rural production and living system. Emigrant relocation plan

is discussed in symposia form in affected towns ahd valliges.

Accoding to emigrant opinion and practical situations in affected

areas, the following has been determined: Project-affected emigrants

will be all resettled in the original communities, so as to maintain

original emigrant production and living ways, customs and social

relation stabilization and to facilitate emigrants to resume or improve

their production and living levels after resettlement. In order to reduce

impact of project construction on production and living of affected

households, all project-affected houses will not be demolished till

new houses are completed. Rural households to be expopriated are all

relocated in their original vallige. In terms of production and

development, land allocation is primary, second and tertiary industry

development is secondary. After economic compensation is

transferred to valliges, according to valligers' intention, land shall be

adjusted within their villages (resident administration committees) or

their groups for land and farming arrangement. For valliges and

groups which are greatly impacted by expropriation, according to

local related policy, basic living provision system for expropriated

farmers shall be established. With the said measures, emigrants'

production and living levels can be recovered, improved and

increased, so as to realize lasting social stabilization, therefore,

preliminary recovery measures plan shall be feasible.

I?. Implementation Arrangements

13.1 Resettlement organizations

MOR (Ministry of Rai1way)will sing a project work summary with

two provinces, railway expropriation and relocation issues will be

entrusted to affected local governments.

According to summary between MOR and the two Provinces, Hebei

Provincial State Land and Resource Bureau will be responsible to

lead specific LAR in Hebei section, railway construction party Shitai

SPRL Corp. will sign agreement with Hebei Provincial State Land

and Resource Bureau on LAR of the project in Hebei section, duties

on each party shall be defined, and Hebei Provincial State Land and

resource Bureau will coordinate, organize and set up LAR offices at

city, county and township levels.

Construction of the project section in Henan Province will be

responsible by Shiwu SPRL Henan Corp. (preparation group), Henan

Provincial Land Reserve Center will lead specific LAR work, Shiwu

SPRL Henan Corp. and Henan Provincial Land Reserve Centre will

sign agreement on expropriation and relocation of the project section

in Hebei Province, duties on each party shall be defined, and

Provincial State Land and Resource Bureau will coordinate, organize

and set up LAR offices in city, county and township levels.

Project construction party shall coordinate and monitor resettlement

of affected population. According to project features and broad

studies by MOR and local governments, organization chart liable for

specific LAR is shown in Fig. 7- 1, 7-2 and Table 7-1.

MOR appoints a LAR coordinator and Shizheng special passenger

railway line (SPRL) construction party shall as well set up a

expropriation and resettlement office. At prefecture level, an LAR

office shall be set up in each affected region. In addition,

corresponding offices shall be set up in affected districts and counties.

Such an office shall contain one districtlcounty leader and 5-8 officers

from different agencies, such as communication bureau, land

administration bureau, environment bureau and forestry bureau,

usually one officer from each bureau. Each affected township shall

dispatch at least 4 persons to LAR office, and each village shall

delegate at least one person. Such appointed persons shall be liable to

perform all work related to resettlement, and execute economic

recovery plan in cooperation with township governments and village

administration committees.

FIG. 7-1 LAR ORGANIZATION CHART (HEBEI PROVINCE

COVERAGE)

MOR LAR Coordinator

project under County State Land and construction units Resource Bureau

+ 4

Y LAR group at township level

b

LAR leader team of Shitai SPRL

LAR group at village level

Hebei Provincial leader team of Shiwu SPRL

Construction

LAR leader team of Hebei Provincial State Land and 57 Rresource Bureau Shiwu

SPRL g 8

8 EL 5 4

.c T

+ Shiwu SPRL LAR office v under Hebei Provincial State

> % % -g J

4 $ R

LAR Office, Land and Resource Bureau

Tech. --

Arrangement Dept, Shitai

Municipal State Land and

FIG. 7-2 LAR ORGANIZATION CHART (HENAN PROVINCE

COVERAGE)

MOR LAR Henan Provincial leader Coordinator b team of Shiwu SPRL

Construction

I

1 1 LAR leader team of Shiwu SPRL LAR Office Shiwu SPRL Henan under Hebei State Land and 5 g

Corp(Preparation Resource Bureau g. 3 Group) 8 e

> E ? % g 4 ; t 4

Henan Provincial Expro 2 Reserve Center(Provincia1

= Expro & Resettle Office)

LAR Office, Tech. Arrangement Dept, Shwu SPRL Henan

- Corp. 'I

-+ Shiwu SPRL LAR Office under Municipal State

--* Land and Resource Bureau

Shiwu SPRL LAR office LAR ~Ifficers of b under County State Land

and Resource Bureau construction

partyunits "1 LAR group at township

+ level

'I

LAR group at village level

Capacity Building and Staff Training

A variety of measures will be taken to support capacity building and

ensure effective implementation and control of the RP. These include:

1) Vertical linking agencies will set up reporting system, to report

once a month.

2) Horizontal linking agencies will hold coordinating meetings

quarterly to enhance information exchange.

3) Issues put forward by the APs will be reported and disseminated

through the resettlement offices at each level.

4) Issues which occur during construction will be reported by the

resident engineer, first to hislher organizational level and then, if

necessary, upwards through each of the hierarchical levels;

5) Problems raised by affected persons and contractors will be

delivered to village administration committee, township- county-

municipality construction coordination groups. If severe, such

problems will also be reported to Shizheng SPRL Corp and project

construction leader teams of Hebei and Henan Provinces.

6) Both the MOR and the local governments have carefully chosen

persons experienced in land acquisition and resettlement with

managerial skills and dada processing skills to train the

resettlement institutions of all levels. These persons should be

stable along the whole construction period.

7) At the preparation stage, both MOR and the local governments

should invite the consulting units to train their major staff

members engaged in land acquisition and resettlement and to help

them to learn and have a good grasp of China's resettlement

policies, the World Bank's requirements and the successful cases

of other administrative sectors in China and learn to master the

skills of collecting and processing data.

Refer to Table 10 for LAR Organization Ability Cultivation and

Personnel Training Plan.

8) Internal monitoring, evaluation and problems solving skills will be

reinforced when judged to be weak.

M c . - C .- : c o .G m N .- 5 8 - 8 > S c 9

Training Subject

Policy study LAR

implement control

Measures for

recovery

Other professiona

l studies

Experience exchange

Table 10 LAR Organization Ability Cultivation

Main Contents

State laws, regulations & policies, World Bank policy, the project LAR policy, compensation measures & standard LAR organization formation, accountability, objectives, principles, LAR implement progress control, compensation fund flows and complaint settlement

ew site planning, development and selection, house restoration, construction of infrartructurel public facilities, production recovery, income recovery, concern and recovery of vulnerable farmers, training plan, environment harnessing Method for information release and public participation, technology of information acquisition and processing, investigation method for project physical impacts, documentation of RAP, internal and external monitoring method and report documentation Visit and study of successful experience from other domestic projects

Visit and study of successful experience from foreign projects

Sub-total

and Personnel

Trainees

A MOR Foreign Capital Centre Coordinator

A Deputy GM of LAR & LAR leader in tech Arrangement of Shitai SPRL Corp

A Deputy Group Leader of LAR & LAR leader in tech Arrangement Dept of Shiwu SPRL Henan COT (Preparation Group)

A Shiwu SPRL LAR Office leaders of Hebei & Henan Provincial State Land and Resource bureaux

A Shiwu SPRLLAR Office leaders of Shijiazhuang, handan, Xingtai, Xinxiang, Hebi and Anyang Cities

A RAP leader of No.3 Railway Survey & Design Institute

A Leaders of external monitoring agencies

Training Plan

Number of Trainees

I5 persons

-- 15

Number of days

1.0

0.5

4.0

2.0

7.0

13.0

27.5

Outlay Estimatio n(RMB Y l o 4 )

5.9

9.2

31.2

46.3

Remark

Domestic

Overseas

G. Budget and Funding Arrangements

14.1 Compensation Standards

According to affected date presented in Chapter 11, by use of Law of

The People's Republic of China on Land, Hebei Provincial Land

Management Regulations, Henan Provincial Implementation

Measures for Land Management Regulations, Hebei Provincial

Government Notification of Enhancement and Improvement of

Expropriation work as well as Establishment of Basic Living

Provision System for Expropriated Farmers, and with simultaneous

reference to the summary between MOR and Hebei & Henan

Provinces, Shijiazhuang Municipal Government General Office

Notification of Issuance of Compensation Standard for Young Crops

and Attachments in Expropriated Collective Land in Urban Areas

within Shijiazhuang Municipal Jurisdiction and Hebi Municipal

Notice on Adjustment of Compensation Standard for Attachments on

Land Expropriated by State Construction Projects, compensation

standard is initialized (in this report, Hebei and Henan provincial

compensation standard is temporarily and respectively referenced to

Shijiazhuang and Hebi municipal compensation standard for

attachments on expropriated land, and may be practically adjusted

according to State and local policy over time ).Items unlisted in the

standard and other special cases may be specifically measured and

negotiated by both sides during LAR process, relying on such base

and actual conditions, however, compensation shall not be lower than

this standard of the same condition.

Table 11 Compensation Standard for Shizheng SPRL LAR (Hebei Province

Coverage) T w e I Unit I Compensation Unit Price (RMBY)

1. Expropriation 1.1 Land com~ensation. Resettle grant in aid mou

:l)Basic farming land mou 30900

f2)General farming land: garden plot mou 16480 Other general farming land 11328

I3)Unexploited land mou 1500

1.2 Compensation for young crops [ 1 )Wheat mou 1000

f2)Corn 1 mou 1 950

(3)other grains and cash crops mou 1100

I4)melon. fruit and solanberry vegetable: non-fruiting mou 1000 major onset of fruiting mou 2600

final stage of fruiting mou 300

(5)leaf vegetables: seedling stage mou 800 Growing and harvest stage mou 2200

1.3 Arable land reclamation cost mou

(])Basic farmland mou 9990 (2)General farmland mou 6600

1.4 Attachments on expropriated land 1.4.1 Scattered trees

( I )timber forest I I --

Diameter breast height 15 cm and under cm 2

Diameter breast height 15-20 cm cm 5

Diameter breast height 20-25 cm cm 6

Diameter breast height 25-30 cm cm 8

Diameter breast height 30-40 cm cm 10

Diameter breast height 40 cm and above cm 15

(2)Nursery garden

Fruit tree nursery tree 2

I -year timber nursery tree 1

2-year timber nursery tree 2.8

Shrub tree 1.5

(3)Fresh fruits

Initial fruiting stage mou 1500

Full fruit ~ e r i o d I mou I 2700 - -

(4)Dried fruits Small trees(Diameter lOcm and under) tree 70

Table 1 1 (Cont'd)Compensation Standard for Shizheng SPRL LAR (Hebei

Province Coverane', U ~ I

I woody

Type

Middle trees(Diameter 10-20 cm)

Big trees(Diameter 20 cm and above)

1.4.2 Flowers

herb

I mou 1 4000 1 1.4.3 Sod I mou I 5000

Unit

tree

tree

mou

2. Demolished buildings

Compensation Unit Price

(RMBY) 100

150

1000

I (3)Earth-timber structure I m2 I 200

2.1 House buildings

(1)Brick-concrete structure

(2)Brick-timber structure

1 2.2 Fence wall I I

m2

m2

(4)Simple structure

350

300

I (2)2m and longer I m

m2

(1)2m and shorter

70 plus increment unit price I (RMB Y 15lm added for

100

m 70

2.3 Tomb

2.4 Large shed

(1)Greenhouse

(2)Steel bar reinforced

1 2.5 Other attachments I I

cave

. , I I

I (1)Manure pool, water reservoir I 1

each increment of 30 cm) 300

m2

m2

m2

(3)Brick-timber structure

I Earth made I m2 I 10

3 0

25

15

m2 5

Brick & stone made

Concrete made

(2)Hog house

(3)Cattle shed

(4)chicken & duck house

1 Earth & concrete hardened I m I 15 2

m2

m2

(5)lime & lime paste pool

Brick & stoen masonrv

35

5 0

m2

m2

m2

45

65

25

m2

(6)Fishery pond

I 8m high I pole I 33 1

5 0

(7)Electric pole

7.5m hiah

m2 1500

pole 238

Table 11 (Cont'd)Compensation Standard for Shizheng SPRL LAR (Hebei

Province Coverage) I Compensation Unit Price Unit

(RMBY)

9m high pole 397

10m high pole 456

10m high pole 549

12m high pole 73 1

(8)Relocated telephone sets set 100

(9)limekiln m3 200

(1 0)Lavatory

Brick & stone masonry with roof m2 80

Brick & stone masonry without roof m2 60

(1 1)Gate tower m2 3 00

1 2.5.1 Water ditch 1 m 1 I (])Prefabricated cement pipe(thinner than 30 cm) I m 1 40

- --

( (2)~refabricated cement pipe(30-80 cm) 1 m 1 60

(3)Prefabricated cement pipe(above 80 cm) m 150

(4)Cement slab, coverless m 3 0

I (5)Brick & stone masonry I m I 25

I block stone, brick masonry I m I 50

I Slab stone (brick, concrete)

2.5.3 Pumped well 3500

2.6 Moving & transition subsidy person 3 60

2.7 Fee for three accesses & site leveling at new house site

househould 500

Basic Costs(1-2)

3 Expense for administration

1 3.1 Panning for RAP I 0.1% 1 - 3.2 Organization ability cultivation1 LAR 0.1% workman training

1 3.3 Unified lump expropriation work cost 1 mou I 900

3.4 Lump demolition work cost m2 2 1

3.5 Land administration charge (State land 2.0% of total and resource bureau) expropriation price 3.6 Internal independent monitoring organization

0.1%

3.7 External independent monitoring agency 0.2% 0.5% of expropriation 4 Contingencies compensation find

Table 12 Compensation Standard for Shizheng SPRL LAR (Henan Province

Coverage) Compensation

Unit Unit Price

I I

3 cm and thinner tree 1 -

3-5 cm tree 5 5-10 cm tree 12

4Grane -

1 year old & younger tree 3.5 2-3 year old tree 5 4-7 year old tree 3 0

!. Demolished buildings !.l House buildings 1)Brick-concrete structure m ' 295 2)Brick-timber structure m ' 265 3)Earth-timber structure mZ 2 10 4)Simple structure mL 80 !.2 Fence walls(1)Brick mL 2 5

Table 12 (Cont'd)Compensation Standard for Shizheng SPRL LAR (Henan Province Coverage)

Compensatio

Type Unit n Unit Price (RMBYI -

(2)Earth mL 19 (3)Adobe construction m 14 2.3Tomb cave 400 2.4 Large shred mL 3 0 (1)Greenhouse mL 40 (2)Steel bar reinforced

L m 5 5 (3)Brick-timber mL 45 2.5 Other attachments (1)Water (biogas) storage pool m' 150 (2)Power & communication lines

Concrete electric pole 8-10 high pole 180 Concrete electric pole 1 1-1 5 high pole 260 Wooden electric pole pole 80

(3)Off-village lavatory Brick wall m 40 Earth wall or Adobe construction

L m 2 5 (4)Courtyard flooring

Cement flooring L m 25

Brick flooring L m 20

Cinder flooring m 15 (5)Fishery pond Formal fishery pond with water depth 2m or more, complete facility, nutritious water mou(water surface) 3500 Simple fishery pond, with water depth less than 2m, poor water quality, lack of facility mou(water surface 1600 2.5.1 Water channel m

With cross section more than 1 mL m 50 With cross section 0.5-lmL m 40 With cross section less than 0.5mL m 25 Earth channel m 10

2.5.2 Water wells (1)Pumped well 40 m deep, brick masonry well PC 3500 (2)brick masonry well with diameter 1.2 m & depth 10m PC 1800 (3)well with diameter less than 1.2 m & depth less thanlOm PC 300 (4)Hand-pumped well PC 230 2.6 Other LAR costs (1)Sweet potato silo PC 150

Basic costs(1-2) 2.7 Moving & transition subsidy person 360 2.8 Fee for three accesses & site leveling at new house site househould 500 3.1 LAR planning 0.1% 3.2 Organization ability cultivation/ LAR workman training 0.1% 3.3 LAR administration charge (State land and resource bureau) 3.5%

As per Rh4B Y 18,0001 km acc. to

3.4 Survey delimitation cost delimitates length 3.5 Internal independent monitoring organization 0.1% 3.6 External independent monitoring & supervision 0.2%

0.5% of expropriation 4Contingencies compensation find

14.2 Budget Sufficiency

By LAR sub-item cost estimation, total cost is RMBY928.35

millions (where RMBY542.97 millions for Hebei Province and RMB

Y385.38 millions for Henan Province). It can be seen that total LAR

cost of RMBY933.25 millions (where RMBY 55 1.7 millions for

Hebei Province and RMB Y 3 82.3 millions for Henan Province)

estimated in design and environment evaluation is fully sufficient.

Table 13 LAR Estimates ( Hebei Province Coverage)

Table 14 LAR Estimates (Henan Province Coverage)

Compensated Item

1. Expropriation

1.1 Expropriation compensation 1.2 Compensation for young crops 1.4 Attachments

5.4 Lump demolition work cost

Note: such unit prices may not be used for compensation, but for evaluation estimation.

Type of loss

Basic farmland General farmland

Quantity

6058 293

468

6351

Irrigated land Vegetable field

House sites and others

Unit price (RMBY)

30900 30900

1 1328

1000

Unit

mou mou

mou

mou

Cost(RMB Y104)

21474.0 18719.2 905.4

530.2

635.1

14.3 Fund flow

The most basic principle is that the compensation shall be paid to

organizations and individuals who directly take charge of

rehabilitation of the original facilities and incomes. According to the

compensation policy and times mentioned above, the Ministry of

Railways will sign compensation agreement with Henan and Hebei

provinces, and both provinces will assign the local land

administrations 1 expropriation and resettlement offices, supporting

institutions, companies, and public facilities institutions to make a

detailed compensation payment plan. The compensation will be made

according to the said agreement, and the time set forth in the said

agreement.

The different forms of payment of compensation may result in great

differences. In most cases, an institution dedicated to rehabilitation of

public facilities will directly get the payment, just as a collective or a

farmer family that suffers from property loss directly gets payment.

The compensation for young crops will be directly paid to the farmers

and the forest bureau that owns the woodlands. All transit and

relocation subsidies as well as compensation for temporary use of a

land will be directly paid to the affected people. The land cultivation

fee will be directly paid to the governmental agency that directly

takes charge of land cultivation.

The land compensation and resettlement subsidy are initially paid to

the village collectives. According to the relevant laws, it is very

flexible for the collectives who own the lands to use this sum of

money. The collective organizations may use this sum of money in

some economic activities (either agricultural or non-agricultural

economic activities), or use this sum of money to improve the public

facilities and infrastructures or to hold training courses, or directly

pay it to the affected farmer families. According to the relevant laws,

the villager representative meeting is the organization that may make

the decision, which shall be approved by the township government.

Payment of land compensation: in the case of land adjustment, some

compensation will be paid to the collective 1 village commission who

own the lands, and they are responsible for improving the

productivity and recovering the economic level of the affected people

(including those who lose their lands during land adjustment). In the

case of no land adjustment or collective investment, the land

compensation shall be directly paid to the farmers who lose their

lands.

Payment of expropriation and resettlement subsidies: these subsidies

will be paid to the organization that is responsible for resettling the

affected farmers, and it is usually a village commission or a collective

that owns the lands. These organizations shall be responsible for

providing the farmers with appropriate measures for recovering the

incomes. In the event that such measures are not provided or the

affected people are willing to take their own measures, the subsidies

shall be directly paid to the farmer families. In this case, it is not

necessary to provide the strategy for recovering incomes. However,

these farmer families must prove that they have got plans or measures

for use of the subsidies for income recovery. In evaluation whether or

not the resettlement action plan succeeds, these farmer families shall

be included in the samples.

The resettlement action plan especially focused on the ways the

collectives that own the lands use the controllable compensations.

Particularly, in each affected village, a villagers meeting shall be

held to make the following decisions: whether or not to carry out

land adjustment and the degree of land adjustment, and the

proportion of compensations directly paid to the affected farmer

families.

Use of the partial compensations the collective keeps.

Whether or not provide new sites for the farmers and public

buildings, and the locations of the new sites.

The purpose of acquisition of approval of the said plan from the

county and township governments as well as internal and external

supervision is to make sure that the decisions each village makes

is transparent, acceptable to most people, and made directly for the

affected farmer families that lose lands and / or properties - either

directly or in land re-allocation. The impacts and risks brought to

the vulnerable groups must be identified and resolved.

Picture 3 provides the simple description of the h n d flow.

Table 3 Flow of compensation

Ministry of Railways, and provincial governments of Henan and Hebei(construction investment companies of Henan and Hebei)

Relocation and resettlement sections of the land resource departments of Henan and Hebei

Municipal / county land resource bureau

-

1 1 v 1 1 Affected farmer Privately owned Collective Infrastructure

families and public facility Forest bureau buildings organizations institution

Property loss, Land loss, Lost land subsidy for building loss + (compensation + Loss of cables Woodland

temporary land subsidy subsidy) and pipelines loss use

7

Affected farmer Collective organizations Labor bureau / families town

Cash payment Agricultural and non- for lncome recovery, like training agricultural activities courses

H. Consultation, Disclosure and Grievance Procedures

15.1 Public Participation

15.1.1 Public Participation in Project Preparation Phase

Public consulting of this project started with the series of

surveys that TSDI did in 2005. After that, TSDI conducted field

investigation and initial social and economic survey. One of the

purposes of field investigation is to inform the villages along

the railway of construction of Shi-Zheng Special Passenger

Line. Another purpose is for the designers to understand the

local situations and the concerns of the local farmers, including

establishment of sufficient cross passageways and remaining of

existing irrigation systems. At that time, most affected people

got certain understanding of the project.

During socio-economic investigation (April to August, 2006),

1,390 households in 60 affected towns ware practically

investigated, where only a minor part of farmers (10%) did not

know massage about shijiazhuang-Zhengzhou special passenger

railway line. This message was known to the public through

meetings of the officials at all levels, newspapers, TV stations,

as well as the field surveys of the three institutes.

Four major consulting meetings were held in the project area.

Local officials from the districts, counties and towns (including

the land resource bureaus) as well as some affected people took

part in the meetings. Table 15 shows some key consulting

meetings and the discussed issues.

The conclusions of these meetings and surveys deeply affect the

policies set forth in the resettlement action plan. Particularly,

they played a critical role in determination of the compensation

ratio, as well as formulation of income rehabilitation strategy

based on land re-allocation, direct payment of compensations,

and life / training plans.

Table 15 Records of stakeholder involvement and consulting I I Number I

Organization 1 Date 1 Attendees 1 of 1 Purpose I Feedback / major issues discussed or concerned persons

Hold a symposia with the responsible persons of the local governments and the relevant departments (about 80 government officials took part in the symposia), to introduce both comprehensive and detailed information such as the routing, major technical specifications, significance, and project implementation of the railway,

Conduct field so that the local governments along the line can verification of the understand almost all issues relating to the project, whicl

roadmap for they are concerned about. Also, the local governments Farmers, feasibility study reported the symposia through TV, radio and village of the project. newspapers, so that the public could understand the

October officials, Collection and project in detail. TSD1 2004 local survey of basic In selection of the routing, interference with villages / 840

government data. buildings shall be avoid whenever possible, so as to officials Collect ideas reduce relocation.

from the local During field verification, detailed survey of the villages , governments buildings affected by the routing shall be made in detail,

along the line. and symposia shall be held with the planning management departments of the local governments. Comprehensive comparison shall be made in regards to routing, railway engineering, avoidance of interference with buildings, etc. Since there are not many farmlands along the line, the plan with less farmlands occupied shall be selected.

Farmers, Mid inspection in During the mid inspection, the local governments village he field, to check consider from the angles of city planning, long-term

ovembe~ officials, the coordination development, reduction of land expropriation, impact of ' 2005 local 540 of the routing the railway buildings on the local landscapes, etc. government with the c lq The railway design partially interferes with the planning

officials planning and of the local government (which is in design). . road planning

Farmer Support project construction, and assist in inspection -epresentativ Social and The local people expressed their attitudes towards the

es, village economic survey project, April- officials, as during Visit the farmer families along the designed line.

TSD1 August as 750 preparation of the consult the affected people, including some farmers, an 2006 officials resettlement visit some towns and villages. from action plan (the Social and economic information about the affected

counties and first phase) communities towns

Attendees of these meetings include representatives fror the affected villages. Officials from the project execution organization and thl districts preside the meetings. The land resource

~~k~ bureaus, execution organization, and other governmenta

preparations for agencies provide technical recommendations and Farmers, survey of assistance.

Project village resettlement Implications, merits and weakness of different ways of and

April- >fficials, anc impact and compensation / land adjustment are discussed.

implementation August local 320 development of The consulting meetings are involving and transparent,

agencies 2006 government resettlement and the invited villager representatives give their

officials action plan as preferential ways and express their attitudes towards lar

well as income adjustment. The attendees show their support to the project. The local government officials state the prospect of economic development after project implementation. Reasonable compensation shall be made so that the affected people can recover their standard of living.

Number of all persons involved in the consulting 2450

In addition to the meetings mentioned above, a number of

meetings were held between the three institutes, the local

environmental protection administrations, and the local land

resource administrations (Oct. 2004-Dec. 2006.) to discuss in

depth how to reduce relocation from routing selection and

station construction, and how to perform the resettlement action

plans, including the policies and requirements of the World

Bank, the needed information, the policies and action plans for

expropriation and resettlement as well as income rehabilitation.

The municipal governments along the line all put forward clear

recommendations and requirements on routing and station

construction, which the design institute has incorporated in the

design.

15.1.2 Public involvement and consulting plans in the phase of

project implementation

Although public consulting has been conducted for a number of

times, the Ministry of Railways and the local governments both

believe consulting meetings shall be held during

implementation of the resettlement action plans, and that the

following contents shall be included in the activities to be held:

Official villagers meetings held to approve land re-allocation

and payment of compensation.

Detailed field surveys to measure the final data about

expropriation and relocation of each affected farmer family /

company, and to reach agreement.

Table 16 includes the time schedule and contents of a

consulting plan.

15.2 Information Disclosure

The expropriation and resettlement work is a very critical social

work. Information about the expropriation and resettlement

plan Attendees

All affected people

All affected people

All affected people

AII affected people

All affected

Public consulting Implementation

organization Project implementation organization, and the

-esettlement organizations of the counties, cities,

districts, and towns Project implementation organization, and the governments of the

counties, cities, districts and towns

Project execution and implementation

organizations, the -esettlement organizations

of counties, cities, districts and towns, as

well as township officials

The expropriation and resettlement officer of

counties, cities, districts and towns, as well as

village officials

Project implementation organizations, the

-esettlement organizations of counties, cities,

districts, and towns, as well as the local

government officials

shall be released in advance, so as to make sure the relevant

Remarks

~ i ~ ~ ~ i b ~ ~ i ~ ~ to the towns,,,p resettlement organizations

Issuance through all local media and open to all affected people

(i) All checklists of lands and properties of expropriation; (ii) production of name list of the affected people that have been

verified; (iii) preparation of basi materials for (signing) the compensation contracts.

(i) Provide and distribute new residential lands; (ii) finalize thc

~~~~~~t~~~~~~~!~~bd; (iii) discuss and how to use / invest the compensatior

that is not distributed to the affected people

(i) Publicize to the affected people the procedure for

complaining; (ii) establish the transaction system;

and (iii) make publicization in the affected villages

16 Time

schedule

Jan. 2007

Jan, 2007

Ja;i:;b

Early 2007 (including meetings removal of all issues on

the resettlement action plan)

Early 2007

Purpose of activity

1. To announce the outlines of the

resettlement action plan

2. To announce the Linal resettlement actior

plan

3. To conduct detailed measurement and

survey announce the and -esettlement action plan

updated according to the results of DMS

4. Finalization and implementation of the

village-level resettlement action

plans

5. To establish complaint and

nformation distribution mechanism

7

people understand the objectives of the project, as well as the

Table Task

Distribution of

action plan brochures

Issuance of the Chinese

resettlement action plan

Face to face

cy!$lT people

Villagers meeting

Posters and booklets

policies and procedures concerning land expropriation,

expropriation and resettlement, compensation, complaining, and

appeal.

The project execution organization will issue a resettlement

action plan by January 2007.

The resettlement action plan will be announced through the

media of Henan and Hebei by early December 2007.

15.3 Complaint Channel

During the actual implementation of the land acquisition and the

resettlement of displaced population, if the affected population

have any problems, grievances and discontent regarding land

acquisition, housing demolition, compensation payment and

resettlement, they may appeal to either (1) the project owner,

(2) the external independent monitoring institution, (3) the

township and the county land administration department, (4) the

county government or (5) take legal action.

0 Appealing to the Project Owner Unit. The project owner

is the eventual user of the land acquired, and has the duty

to resolve problems arising from land acquisition, housing

demolition and resettlement. Project owner units Shitai

SPRL Corp. and Shiwu SPRL Henan Corp (Preparation

Group) will perform construction liabilities during project

construction and will execute operation and management

liabilities after project completion.

O Appealing to the External Monitoring Institution. The

external monitoring institution conducts chasing-up

investigation on the production of affected villages several

times in the year during the monitoring period, evaluates

the resettlement consequences and submits its M&E

reports to the project owner, the local institutions

conducting land acquisition and housing demolition and

the World Bank. The affected persons, therefore, may

express their discontent and grievances to the external

monitoring institution, which is obligated to listen to and

find out the dissentient and grievances.

I7 Appealing to the Township and the County Land

Administration Department. According to the

administrative procedure of the local government, the

discontent and grievances rising from acquisition and

resettlement should first be handled by the land

administration department. This should be facilitated by

township leaders in the purpose of assisting vulnerable

groups and dealing with AP's grievances. In case the land

administration department is unable to resolve the

grievances, the appealer may turn to other conduits. These

are the conduits of the land administration departments the

appealer may go to:

A. The municipal land administration bureau;

B. The county land administration bureau; and

C. The township land administration bureau.

Appealing to the County Government. If the discontent

can not be resolved by n the land administration

department, it can be appealed to the "correspondence and

visitation department" of the local governments, set up by

various levels of government organs to handle letters and

visits from the masses. The appealer may express his

discontent orally or in writing to the correspondence and

visitation departments, which may coordinate departments

concerned to have the matter resolved. If again the

discontent cannot be resolved in this way, the

correspondence and visitation departments will report the

matter to the leaders of the local government.

Legal Action. If discontent and grievances can not be

resolved through the above 4 conduits, the appealer may

resort to legal action by bringing the case to the court.

I. Monitoring Arrangements

16. Monitoring Arrangements

In order to ensure that the implementation of the land

acquisition and resettlement plan is in accordance with

requirements, monitoring of implementation, both "internal"

and "external", will be carried out during and after the

implementation of the Project.

16.1 Internal Monitoring

16.1.1 Organizations and Personnel

Internal monitoring of project LAR work is presided by Shiwu

SPRL LAR leader teams of State Land and resource Bureaux of

Hebei and Henan Provinces and executed by CROs(command

headquarters) and villages. In order to execute internal

monitoring hnction effectively, special persons are appointed

in RAP organization at different levels, who have already

participated in preparation and implementation of RAP and will

internally monitor and control RAP execution and practice.

16.1.2 Monitored Contents

Emigrant compensation payment and application;

New house sites selection and allocation;

Private house reconstruction;

Support to vulnerable group;

Employment arrangement of affected labourers;

Quality and quantity of newly reclaimed land;

Land adjustment and allocation;

Payment of land grant in aid;

Resettlement of enterprises and business households;

Special facility recovery;

Schedule of said activities;

Execution situation of RAP policy and regulations;

0 Emigrant participation and negotiation during

implementation;

Staffing, training, work timetable and operating condition

of LAR organization at different levels.

16.1.3 Implementation Procedure

A. Shiwu SPRL LAR leader teams of State Land and resource

Bureaux of Hebei and Henan Provinces will promote

internal monitoring operation mechanism to check LAR

activities, to build up LAR basic database and to monitor the

whole process of LAR preparation and implementation.

B. During implementation, RAP organizations at different

levels shall build up corresponding RAP information

depositories and update them according to practical

implementation progress, transfer current activity records

and implementation progress to RAP organization at higher

level, so as to monitor RAP implementation continuously.

C. In the said monitoring operation mechanism, information

form in specified format will be drawn up, so as to realize

continuous information flow from village level to project

emigrant relocation office. CROs (Command headquarters)

and township (town, street) relocation work groups are

important part of internal monitoring system, and will make

regular inspection and verification.

16.2 External Monitoring and Evaluation

An institute or organisation totally independent of the both

parties of EA, and independent of the local governments along

the alignment, to be contracted as the lead agency to carry out

the external monitoring and evaluation work under this RP. A

preferred candidate for this task is the Southwest Jiaotong

University (SWJU) in Chengdu which already has experience in

monitoring work for international agencies.

16.2.1 Methodology and Content

The general methodology will involve a mix of one-on-one

questionnaires administered to households, and participatory

rapid appraisal techniques (PRA) repeated on a six-monthly or

yearly basis during the resettlement and construction activities

associated with the project.

The household surveys will concentrate on the changes in

economic activity, incomes and other social conditions of

individual households. Key indicators will include: household

composition, ethnicity, education and skill levels, experience in

positions of influence, pre-acquisition rights over land, size and

condition of house, accumulated assets, annual income, relative

mix of productive activities, marketing channels, access to

utilities and services (including social services and irrigation

systems), and nature and frequency of major social and cultural

activities. This survey will provide a series of socio-economic

indicators which can subsequently be monitored in order to

evaluate the success of the resettlement and income restoration

process.

Refer to Table 17 for major monitored indicators.

Item

'rocess :ontrol ndicators

Recovery indicators

Composite evaluation indicators

Table 17 Mi

Indicator

Compensation standard

Compensation fund flow and payment time

Information communication

Complaint settlement

New site planning, development and selection

House recovery

Infrastructure1 public facilities reconstruction

Production recovery

Income recovery

Concern and recovery of vulnerable farmers

Training plan

Environment harnessing

Overall LAR progress

General living and production levels

Integral effectiveness of LAR policy and practice

)r Monitored Indicators

Content

Whether put in place,

Whether received by affected persons on time

2ommunication and consultation channel 3etween managers and affected people are :stablished and unblocked. Extent and :ffectiveness of disclosure of information about ;ompensation standards and their selection, LAR process and recovery measures.

Whether or not timely and effective

Whether or not implemented on schedule and effective

Whether or not implemented on schedule and effective

Whether or not implemented on schedule and effective

Whether or not implemented on schedule and effective

Whether or not implemented on schedule and effective

Whether or not implemented on schedule and effective

Whether or not implemented on schedule and effective

Whether or not implemented on schedule and effective

Details of annual RAP execution, reasons for progress delay

Whether or not general living and production levels of affected population are recovered or improved after LAR completion Comprehensive project efficiency, validity, impact and sustainability of the project LAY policy and practice

In addition, the baseline survey, undertaken as soon as possible

after the DMS will ask questions on:

Household plans to do when confronted with the impending

loss of land and/or housing,

The extent and effectiveness of the dissemination of

information on compensation standards and options,

acquisition processes and restitution measures.

The baseline survey will also ask an open-ended question about

the farmers' anticipations and apprehensions regarding the

impending land acquisition and resettlement process. The

baseline survey should give the complete socioeconomic profile

of the sampled APs with gender-disaggregated data and details

of losses.

The PRA surveys will be conducted at the village level and will

include similar indicators to those described above but

focussing on the village as a whole. The objective is to provide

a wider assessment of the effectiveness of the resettlement

process than is possible from the surveys of individual

households. These surveys will involve focus group discussions

and key informant interviews. Experience shows that these

surveys can provide a greater understanding of changes in

socio-economic conditions than can be obtained from household

interviews. In contrast, the household interviews are more

suitable for providing a set of quantifiable indicators which can

be compared over time.

Subsequent surveys will use the same format but with greater

emphasis given to the changes that have occurred since the

baseline survey was undertaken, the actual timing of

compensation related activities (signature of contracts,

disbursement of funds, identification of new housing sites,

construction of new buildings, effectiveness of grievance

procedures, and on general levels of satisfaction/ dissatisfaction

with the resettlement process. Both household and PRA

surveys will be designed to distinguish between changes that are

attributable to involuntary resettlement and loss of land and

those that result from external factors, e.g. a slump in vegetable

prices, the opening of a new factory, etc.

The surveys will be completed by interviews with owners or

directors of the non-residential establishments affected, eg.

schools, enterprises.

16.2.2 Sampling

As required by the World Bank, the baseline survey for

launching monitoring and evaluation (M&E) activities should

cover 10 percent of the APs. At this stage, it is anticipated that

around 6696 households will be affected giving a total sample

size of around 670.

A two-stage stratified random sample should be used. The first

stage sampling will involve the selection of 71 of the affected

villages. The initial selection of villages should involve those

losing which will be most affected by land and property losses.

Around 10 households should be sampled in each selected

village. The sample will be chosen randomly from the schedule

of affected households obtained during the DMS.

16.2.3 Survey Timing

The schedule has been designed to provide, as required, six

investigations throughout the implementation of the project (one

baseline survey, two yearly evaluation surveys, two semi-annual

monitoring surveys and a post-construction evaluation survey).

The household surveys would be repeated every year starting

with the baseline survey implemented as soon as possible after

the DMS. The PRA-type surveys would be repeated every 6

months within two year after the start of the land acquisition

and resettlement. All selected villages would be visited at this

time and annually when the household surveys are being carried

out.

The final post railway construction survey should take place

approximately one year after the construction is completed. Its

main objective is to assess whether the objectives of the RP

were achieved, i.e. whether the restoration of income and

welfare has been efficiently and adequately restored, and

whether the land acquisition and resettlement process has been

effective.

16.3 Reporting and Distribution

16.3.1 Internal Monitoring Report System and Delivery

Village and township level reports will be prepared on a

monthly basis so that prompt action can be taken, if necessary,

by higher-level officials without adversely affecting the

resettlement execution.

County resettlement officer shall quarterly report to internal

monitoring group of provincial resettlement office under

Shizheng SPRL Corp, and the group shall then report to

Shizheng SPRL Corp.

Copies of these reports will be submitted to the World Bank.

These reports should include: name of reporting agency, date of

reporting, details on the implementation of the resettlement

programs scheduled for that year, reasons for any delays,

problems encountered, corrective actions and their results, and

problems that need to be resolved at a higher level.

In addition to the above arrangements, the traditional financial

watchdog - the Audit Bureau - will at each level of Government

be monitoring and auditing the fund use in the compensation

program.

16.3.2 External Monitoring Report System and Delivery

Monitoring evaluation reports documented by external

independent monitoring agency shall be presented annually to

MOR, Hebei and Henan Provincial governments, county

governments, township governments and World Bank, where

reports submitted to World Bank must be written in English.

The baseline survey should be reported in full. Subsequent

reports should provide summaries of principal findings,

tabulations of key indicators, qualitative and quantitative

descriptions of main changes in socio- economic changes of

APs and affected villages and conclusions and implications, if

any, for additional action1 assistance.

The report on the post-construction survey will constitute a final

assessment report on the resettlement process and detail the

extent to which the compensation paid and other measures have

enabled APs to maintain or enhance their pre-project social and

economic living conditions.