What is the compensation standard for resettlement of Three Gorges Project?

Improve and unify the standard of compensation and subsidy for cultivated land. According to the new regulations, if large and medium-sized water conservancy and hydropower projects expropriate cultivated land, the sum of land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies is 16 times of the average annual output value of the cultivated land in the three years before expropriation. If the standard compensation subsidy of 16 times still can't maintain the original living standard of immigrants, the standard can be further improved with the approval of the project examination and approval department, that is, the vast majority of water conservancy and hydropower project immigrants will be compensated according to the standard of 16 times in the future.

The main considerations of this provision are:

1)1The Land Management Law revised and implemented in 1999 stipulates that the standard of land compensation for the construction of expropriated cultivated land is 6 to 10 times of the average annual output value in the three years before the expropriation, and the standard of resettlement subsidy is 4 to 6 times of the average annual output value in the three years before the expropriation. Farmers who need to be resettled cannot maintain their original living standards, and with the approval of the provincial people's government, resettlement subsidies can be increased, but land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies can be increased. The revision of the Land Management Law and the development of economy and society have greatly improved the compensation and subsidy standards for land acquisition for construction projects such as expressways and commercial housing development. Compared with this, the compensation and subsidy standards stipulated in the current laws and regulations are low.

2) Because there is no uniform compensation and subsidy standard in the current laws and regulations, there is a problem of compensation and subsidy standard for one project in practice, and even the compensation and subsidy standards for the same project in the same area are not uniform, which leads to the mentality of keeping up with the competition among immigrants and affects the smooth progress of project construction and social stability.

3) In the land acquisition of South-to-North Water Diversion Project, the compensation subsidy standard of 1.6 times was adopted, and the practice proved that the effect was good and the immigrants were basically satisfied.

The new regulations raise and unify the compensation and subsidy standards according to the upper limit stipulated in the land management law, which is not only conducive to safeguarding the interests of immigrants, but also conducive to solving the imbalance between compensation and subsidies in reality. It is a summary of successful experience in practice, which fully embodies the concern and love of the party and government for the interests of immigrants.