China Hubei Xiangfan Urban Transport Project

The development objective of the Zhangjiakou Hohhot (ZhangHu) Railway Project for China is to respond to existing and anticipated transport demand along the Hohhot-Zhangjiakou corridor by providing increased capacity for freight and passengers, and faster travel time and increased frequency of services for passengers.

Some of the negative and mitigation measures include: a) the cultivated land requisitioned by the project has been contracted by each households which depend on the land to different extent, but the compensation policies have restricted flexibility in operation, the village collectivities cannot share the risk by adjusting the land again arbitrarily, thus increasing the living risk for the rural households mainly dependent on the land; and b) reduction of arable lands may make the peasants become more concerned on the maintenance and production of these lands.

The boundary of farmlands and irrigation water sources will become more sensitive issues among peasants and villages. If without proper treatment, it will directly influence the normal life of residents.

World Bank. China - Hubei Xiangfan Urban Transport Project

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China.Hubei Xiangfan Urban Transport Project

This Hubei Xiangfan Urban Transport Project aims to establish a complete traffic network system in Panggong Subdistrict, promote the development of this district, and improve the public transport system in Xiangyang city, enhance the capability of traffic management organizations and improve traffic control.

Negative impacts include: loss of farm land, loss of houses, loss of employment, loss of crops, and loss of trees. Mitigation measures include: 1) providing compensation for the loss of properties like houses; 2) providing living rehabilitation allowance for compensating the temporary impacts on the life and social activities of displaced persons; 3) providing the persons losing means of subsistence with capital and enterprise support through employing or training for restoring their incomes; 4) providing affected communities with communality facilities and services; and 5) the persons losing farmland due to the project construction are entitled to enjoying directly obtaining land compensation fees, resettlement allowance and young crops compensation fees.

If the land is occupied temporarily, the loss of young crops, income loss, infrastructure damage and re-cultivation cost arising there from should be compensated accordingly

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China.Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport Project

China's dramatic economic growth over the past twenty years has been accompanied by unprecedented urbanization. The urban population has increased from less than 25 percent of the total in1985 to 46.5 percent in 2009. The Government expects 20 million people to migrate from the countryside to urban areas each year for the next 20 years. Rapid growth in urban areas combined with a restructuring of the economy has led to large and growing urban transport challenges.

Economic growth and urbanization have not occurred uniformly: a number of coastal cities and major regional economic centers (often the provincial capitals) have absorbed a large percentage of economic and urban growth, while smaller cities in the hinterland have developed more slowly.

In recent years, however, urban growth has picked up Western China, and many inland cities have started facing many of the challenges that major coastal city centers (e.g., Beijng, Shanghai) had experienced in the earlier phases of their rapid development. The most notable challenge is a rapid rise in motorization rates leading to increased congestion, deteriorated performance of public transport service, degraded air quality, and rising traffic accidents and fatalities.

World Bank. Author. Fang,Ke. Document Date 2011/11/22.Document Type: Project Information Document. Report Number: PIDA99. Country: China.Disclosure Date. 2011/11/22. Doc Name.Project Information Document (Appraisal Stage). Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport.P119071. Language English. Rel.Proj ID. CN-Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport. P119071

 

Project Information Document (Appraisal Stage). Hubei Xiangyang Urban Transport. P119071