Compensation standard for reservoir resettlement in 2022

Land compensation fees and resettlement compensation fees for construction land of large and medium-sized water conservancy and hydropower projects shall be levied according to the standards stipulated by provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the same compensation standards as those for infrastructure land such as railways shall be implemented. Scattered trees and seedlings on the expropriated land shall be compensated according to the standards set by the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where the expropriated land is located. The ancillary buildings on the expropriated land shall be compensated according to the original scale, standard or the principle of restoring the original function; Appropriate subsidies will be given to poor immigrants whose compensation expenses are not enough to build basic housing. State-owned cultivated land used by other units or individuals according to law shall be compensated according to the compensation standard for requisitioned cultivated land; State-owned idle land that has not been determined for use by units or individuals shall not be compensated. If the immigrants move to distant places, the trees and houses scattered by the immigrants above the flood line of the reservoir shall be compensated according to the standards stipulated in the second and third paragraphs of this article.

Regulations on Land Requisition Compensation and Resettlement for Large and Medium-sized Water Conservancy and Hydropower Projects

Article 22 Land compensation fees and resettlement subsidies for land requisitioned by large and medium-sized water conservancy and hydropower projects shall be the same as those for infrastructure projects such as railways, and shall be implemented in accordance with the standards stipulated by the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where the requisitioned land is located.

The compensation standards for scattered trees and young crops on the expropriated land shall be implemented in accordance with the standards stipulated by the provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government where the expropriated land is located.

The attachments on the expropriated land shall be compensated according to their original scale, original standards or the principle of restoring their original functions; Appropriate subsidies should be given to poor immigrants whose compensation expenses are not enough to build basic housing.

Other units or individuals who use state-owned cultivated land according to law shall be compensated according to the compensation standard for expropriation of cultivated land; Units or individuals that use unused state-owned land with undetermined purposes shall not be compensated.

After the immigrants move away, the scattered trees and houses owned by the immigrants above the submerged line around the reservoir shall be compensated according to the standards stipulated in the second and third paragraphs of this article respectively.