Deal #10642

The land acquisition and ethnic minority development plan (LAEMDP) in 2012 showed that the project would permanently acquire 246 hectares (3,690 mu)1 of jointly contracted grass land with 50 years land use rights since 1984, which belong to 153 people of 31 households in Taositu Village, Xuji Township, Delingha City, Qinghai Province. The land to be acquired is semi-arid unused land, which is 0.7% of the total grazing land area for grazing owned by the affected households. The 31 households included 30 Mongolian households of 148 persons and one Tuzu household of five members. There is no vulnerable household affected. During implementation, there was no change in project scope and land acquisition impacts. Source: adg.org

Land was originally used as glass land by the 31 households. The land was classified as lowest grade of V and under grazing ban since 2007. This type of land was not permitted to be grazed, so each household got a government subsidy of CNY4.5 per mu for 66 mu out of the 119 mu acquired. The land loss impact was very insignificant as each household lost only 0.7% of their total land on average and 0.5% of annual average net household income. Each household received CNY167,552 which is equivalent to 564 times of government subsidy per year from the acquired land which is CNY297 per household per year. Source: adb.org