Measures of Chongqing Municipality on Implementing the Immigration Regulations for the Construction of Three Gorges Project

Chapter I General Provisions Article 1 In order to do a good job in the resettlement work in Chongqing Reservoir Area of the Three Gorges Project, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the migrants, ensure the smooth construction of the Three Gorges Project and promote the economic and social development of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area, these measures are formulated in accordance with the Regulations on Resettlement in the Construction of the Three Gorges Project and in light of the actual situation of this Municipality. Article 2 These Measures shall apply to the migrants for the construction of the Three Gorges Project within the administrative area of this Municipality. Article 3 The Municipal People's Government shall be responsible for the resettlement of the Three Gorges Project within the administrative area of this Municipality. The people's governments of counties (autonomous counties and cities) shall be responsible for the resettlement work of the Three Gorges Project within their respective jurisdictions.

City, county (autonomous county, city) people's government immigration administrative departments responsible for the comprehensive management of immigrants within their respective jurisdictions.

The relevant administrative departments of the people's governments of cities, districts and counties (autonomous counties and cities) shall perform their respective duties in accordance with the division of functions and conscientiously do a good job in immigration management.

Township (town) people's governments and sub-district offices shall undertake the immigration management entrusted by the people's governments of counties (autonomous counties and cities) and their administrative departments. Article 4 Resettlement units and immigrants shall enjoy the right to compensation according to law and undertake the obligation of relocation. Article 5 The people's governments of cities, districts and counties (autonomous counties, cities) shall adhere to the sustainable development strategy and strengthen soil and water conservation, environmental protection and ecological environment construction in the reservoir area according to the environmental protection construction plan of the reservoir area and the development plan of the ecological economic zone in the Three Gorges reservoir area of this Municipality. Sixth immigration work to implement the target responsibility system.

The Municipal People's Government and the people's governments of counties (autonomous counties, cities), counties (autonomous counties, cities), township (town) people's governments and sub-district offices shall sign letters of responsibility for phased and annual resettlement work, and implement phased and annual assessment, acceptance, rewards and punishments. Chapter II Resettlement Article 7 The people's governments of districts and counties (autonomous counties and cities) shall, according to the outline of reservoir inundation treatment and resettlement planning of the Three Gorges Project of the Yangtze River and the resettlement planning of the whole city, prepare resettlement plans within their respective jurisdictions, and report them to the Municipal People's Government for examination and approval, and prepare resettlement implementation plans and household resettlement plans according to the approved resettlement plans.

The Municipal People's Government and its immigration administrative departments shall strengthen supervision over the implementation of the resettlement plan. Eighth rural migrants should first be resettled in counties (autonomous counties and cities). If the local counties (autonomous counties and cities) cannot be resettled, the Municipal People's Government shall resettle them in other counties (autonomous counties and cities) within the administrative area of this Municipality, or in other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government according to national planning.

Rural resettlement shall be organized and implemented by the people's governments of counties (autonomous counties and cities), and shall be implemented in accordance with the resettlement plan and annual plan. Article 9 Where rural migrants are resettled in the form of agricultural production within the administrative area of this Municipality, the people's governments of counties (autonomous counties and cities) in the resettlement areas shall take measures such as adjustment, development and transformation to arrange a piece of cultivated land not lower than the per capita standard of the resettlement areas for each rural migrant.

Resettlement in the suburbs, the per capita arable land is less than 0.033 hectares (0.5 mu), upon the written application of the immigrant himself, with the approval of the township (town) people's government or the subdistrict office, can implement work-study resettlement. Article 10 Where rural migrants are resettled in the districts and counties (autonomous counties and cities), the rural collective economic organizations in the resettlement areas shall sign resettlement agreements with the immigration administrative departments of the districts and counties (autonomous counties and cities) or the township (town) people's governments and sub-district offices entrusted by them, and the people's governments of the districts and counties (autonomous counties and cities) shall verify them.

Rural migrants who are resettled in other counties (autonomous counties and cities) within the administrative area of this Municipality shall sign agreements with the people's governments of the counties (autonomous counties and cities) where they have moved out.

Where rural migrants are resettled outside the administrative area of this Municipality, the municipal people's government and the provincial people's government of the resettlement place shall sign an agreement in accordance with the relevant provisions of the state. Eleventh secondary and tertiary industries to resettle rural immigrants, immigrants themselves should apply to the township (town) people's government and street offices.

After being audited by the people's government of a township (town) and the subdistrict office and approved by the immigration administrative department of a county (autonomous county or city), the production resettlement fee will be sent to the immigrant himself, and the immigrant himself and the receiving unit will sign a resettlement employment contract. Units receiving immigrants shall handle unemployment insurance and endowment insurance for migrant workers. Article 12 Rural migrants who have the conditions to engage in self-employment can find their own jobs upon their own application, with the consent of the village and group, with the approval of the people's government of a township (town) or the subdistrict office, and with the approval of the immigration management departments of counties (autonomous counties and cities), and the production and resettlement fees shall be paid by the migrants themselves. Thirteenth rural migrants whose land has been expropriated due to the relocation of the Three Gorges Project, who are resettled in the secondary and tertiary industries or engaged in self-employment, may be transferred to non-agricultural registered permanent residence upon their written application and approval of the people's governments of the relevant districts and counties (autonomous counties and cities). The local public security organ shall go through the relevant formalities according to law. Fourteenth rural immigrants who move out to resettle their relatives and friends, the people's government of the receiving township (town) or the sub-district office shall sign a resettlement agreement with the immigrants themselves and issue a certificate of acceptance; The public security organ of the county (autonomous county, city) of the receiving place shall issue a residence permit; The people's governments of counties (autonomous counties and cities) in the receiving areas shall sign opinions.

Rural migrants who visit relatives and take refuge in friends and move out independently shall apply for resettlement in the place where they move out. With the consent of the people's government of the village, group or township (town) or the subdistrict office, the immigration administrative department of the county (autonomous county, city) shall examine and approve the application, and the people's government of the county (autonomous county, city) in the place where they move out shall issue a certificate.