Final Report - Asian Development Bank

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TA 4721-PRC: Preparing the Shaanxi-Qinling Mountains Integrated Ecosystem Management Project
Final Report Appendix 6
39. The Village Committee is the collective’s representative appointed by election at a Village
General Meeting or a general meeting of village representatives. The Village Committee manages
village affairs and represents the collective to deal with village affairs in connection with outside
organizations or individuals. The Party Secretary plays an important role in the collective’s affairs. For
significant issues such as contracting land and trading the collective property, the decision must be
made through a meeting of all villagers (Village General Meeting).
40. The Village cannot change its land use type without approval from the Land Management
Authority. It cannot change its forestry land use type to another land use type without approval, and it
cannot log trees without approval. However, it can trade their forests under the forestry regulation
through legal processes. It can also trade their idle land or barren land to improve the land quality as
agriculture land or forestry land. It can trade its cropping land user right, but can only sell their crop
land to the state. By selling land to the state, landownership will be changed from collective to the
state.
41. The ex-situ villages in the project area will participate in the QBG and SARC development
project by contributing their land through acquisition. Some individual households will rent out land or
put their land user rights in some other trading form to transfer land user right to QBG. The
householders will become beneficiaries of QBG development through financial returns determined by
the land use contracts signed in the future. The individual households will have opportunity to
participate in QBG ‘s construction work and tourism service in future as stated in the QBG feasibility
study Report and Resettlement Report.
42. The in-situ village will participate in conservation activities and community development
activities designed in the project’s in-situ strategy. Therefore the village as a whole will be an important
organization for implementing the project.
43. Individual households can organize a legal entity for cooperative production or trading
purposes. There is the possibility to set up such organizations during the project implementation.
3. Conclusion
44. Ex-situ villages will be project stakeholders by participating in the QBG and SARC activities,
but they will not be a project implementing agency since they will not be an independent organization
to implement project activities.
45. In-situ villages are the communities who will directly implement project activities. It is proposed
to work with village groups in the project in-situ strategy. It will be appropriate to work with the village
community when setting up these groups. In-situ villages will be project implementing agencies in
terms of implementing the in-situ strategy.
46. The in-situ villages well represent the typical community through out the Qinling Mountains.
They have few resources to use, limited public infrastructures and services. Their attitude and
activities will give direct impact on Qinling biodiversity conservation. Their livelihood is influenced by
the government conservation program and needs help to improve. A lot of communities inside Qinling
Mountain have traditional ties through marital or blood connection. Their experience of conservation
will be easy to disseminate as a project achievement to the remainder of Qinling Mountain area, giving
impact on other communities.
G. Daoism temple sites
47. There are two Daoism temple sites within the broad project area. One is the Louguantai
Daoism Temple located inside the forestry farm. The other is the Daoism Temple ruins located on the
proposed QBG site.
1. Louguantai Daoism Temple
48. Louguantai is recognized as the oldest Daoist temple in the world with several thousand years
of history, and is the site of the origins of Daoism. The temple is registered with the Zhouzi Religions