IPP723 V2 Utilizing World Bank Loans --- A Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas Social Assessment Report Foreign Capital Project Management Center of State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development April, 2014       Contents LIST OF FIGURES ....................................................................................................................... 5  ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................................  I  1  FOREWORD ......................................................................................................................... 1  1.1  PROJECT PROFILE ..................................................................................................................  1  1.2  SOCIAL ASSESSMENT TASKS ..................................................................................................  1  1.3  ...............................................................................  2  OBJECTS/SCOPE OF SOCIAL ASSESSMENT  1.4  MAIN CONTENTS OF SOCIAL ASSESSMENT .............................................................................  2  1.5  SOCIAL ASSESSMENT METHODS ............................................................................................  3  2  SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PROJECT AREAS ........................................... 7  2.1.  DEFINITION OF PROJECT AREAS .............................................................................................  7  2.2.  SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC PROFILE ...........................................................................................  7  2.2.1.  population ....................................................................................................................  7  2.2.2.  income ..........................................................................................................................  9  2.2.3.  land ............................................................................................................................  11  (1)  LAND RESOURCES .......................................................................................................  11  (2)  LAND TRANSFER AND LAND CONSOLIDATION...................................................... 13  2.2.4.  planting ......................................................................................................................  14  2.2.5.  ......................................................................................................................  15  breeding  2.3.  CURRENT STATUS OF PROFESSIONAL FARMER COOPERATIVES ..............................................  17  (2) SICHUAN PROVINCE ..........................................................................................................  18  2.4.  CURRENT DEVELOPMENT OF ADVANTAGEOUS INDUSTRIES ..................................................  21  (2) SICHUAN PROVINCE ..........................................................................................................  22  3  STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS .............................................................................................. 25  3.1  IDENTIFICATION OF STAKEHOLDERS .....................................................................................  25  3.2  DEMANDS OF THE STAKEHOLDERS FOR THE PROJECT .......................................... 25  3.3.1.  rural households .........................................................................................................  25  3.3.2.  enterprises related to the development cooperative industry chain ............................. 29  3.3.3.  rural agents, household of individual business, and owners of small processing 1    workshops ................................................................................................................................... 31  3.3.4.  poverty reduction office ..............................................................................................  31  3.3.5.  members of existing farmer cooperatives ....................................................................  32  3.3.6.  other relevant government departments ......................................................................  33  3.3  ANALYSIS ON THE PROJECT IMPACT .....................................................................................  35  3.3.1.  ...............................................................................................................  35  opportunities  3.3.2.  risks ............................................................................................................................  41  4  FARMER COOPERATIVE ANALYSI ................................................................................ 52  4.1  FARMER COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATION ...............................................................................  52  4.2  CURRENT STATUS OF PROFESSIONAL FARMER COOPERATIVES ..............................................  55  4.2.1.  classification of professional farmer cooperatives ......................................................  55  4.2.2.  organizational composition and staffing .....................................................................  56  4.2.3.  profit distribution ........................................................................................................  57  4.2.4.  participation and benefit sharing of the poor ..............................................................  59  4.3  OPERATIONAL MODES OF PROFESSIONAL FARMER COOPERATIVES AND THEIR ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES ....................................................................................................................  107  4.3.1.  company + cooperative + base + rural household ...................................................  107  4.3.2.  company + cooperative + rural household ...............................................................  109  4.3.3.  cooperative + base + rural household ......................................................................  111  4.3.4.  cooperative (association) + rural household ............................................................  111  4.4  ............. 116  RURAL HOUSEHOLDS’ UNDERSTANDING AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS COOPERATIVES  4.5  PROBLEMS IN THE OPERATION OF PROFESSIONAL FARMER COOPERATIVES ......................... 119  4.6  SUGGESTIONS ON IMPROVING COOPERATIVES ....................................................................  124  5  POVERTY ANALYSIS ...................................................................................................... 127  5.1  POVERTY STATUS .............................................................................................................  127  5.2.1.  POVERTY STATUS IN GUIZHOU, SICHUAN AND GANSU PROVINCE ................................ 127  5.2.2.  .........................................................  128  MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD OF POOR HOUSEHOLDS  5.2.3.  SITUATION OF POOR HOUSEHOLDS’ PARTICIPATION IN THE COOPERATIVE ................ 130  5.2.4.  POOR HOUSEHOLDS’ CAPACITIES OF ADVANTAGEOUS INDUSTRIES ............................ 131  5.2  .......................................... 133  IMPACT ANALYSIS OF THE PROJECT ON POOR HOUSEHOLDS      5.3.1.  POSITIVE INFLUENCE ................................................................................................  133  5.3.2.  POTENTIAL RISKS ......................................................................................................  135  5.3  POVERTY GROUP’S AWARENESS AND DEMANDS OF THE PROJECT .................................. 136  5.3.1.  POVERTY GROUP’S AWARENESS OF THE PROJECT ......................................................  136  5.3.2.  .....................................................  139  POOR HOUSEHOLDS’ DEMANDS FOR THE PROJECT  5.4  BENEFICIAL MECHANISM FOR POVERTY GROUP ............................................................  142  6  SOCIAL GENDER ANALYSIS.......................................................................................... 145  6.1  WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT STATUS ..................................................................................  145  6.1.1.  WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT STATUS IN GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SICHUAN PROVINCE, GANSU PROVINCE 145  6.1.2.  WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT STATUS IN PROJECT AREA ..................................................  146  6.1.3.  WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN PROJECT AREA ............................................  148  6.2  ANALYSIS OF WOMEN’S COOPERATIVE ...........................................................................  149  6.2.1.  GENERAL SITUATION OF WOMEN’S COOPERATIVE .....................................................  149  6.2.2.  WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN THE COOPERATIVE .......................................................  151  6.2.3.  WOMEN’S PERCEPTION AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS PROFESSIONAL FARMER ............................................................................................................................  152  COOPERATIVE  6.3  INFLUENCE OF THE PROJECT ON WOMEN .......................................................................  154  6.3.1.  POSITIVE INFLUENCE OF THE PROJECT .....................................................................  154  6.3.2.  POTENTIAL RISKS IN THE PROJECT ............................................................................  156  7  ............................................................................ 158  ANALYSIS OF ETHNIC MINORITIES  7.1  NATIONAL MINORITIES SITUATION IN THE PROJECT AREA ............................................  158  7.1.1.  DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION ........................................................................................  158  7.1.2.  RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS ..............................................  161  7.1.3.  MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD .............................................................................................  165  7.1.4.  ..............................................................................................  166  SOCIAL ORGANIZATION  7.2  DISCRIMINATION AND SCREENING OF ETHNIC MINORITIES ............................................  167  7.3  ETHNIC MINORITIES’ AWARENESS AND ATTITUDES OF THE PROJECT ............................. 169  7.4  PREPARATION OF ETHNIC MINORITIES’ DEVELOPMENT PLAN ....................................... 173  8  INFORMATION PUBLICATION AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION ................................ 176      8.1 PREPARATION PERIOD OF INFORMATION PUBLICATION AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION .......... 176  8.2  ........................................................................  183  THE RESULTS OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION  8.3  THE CONTENTS INCLUDED IN THE PROJECT IMPLEMENT BROCHURE ........................... 185  2.1  ...................................................................  185  PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PREPARATION  2.2  WHOLE PROCESS OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION...........................................................  185  2.3  SUPERVISION AND EVALUATION OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION .................................. 185  8.4  COMPLAINTS SYSTEM ......................................................................................................  192  9  ACTION PLAN AND IMPLEMENTATIO ........................................................................ 194  9.1  Project’s Social Risk and Mitigation Measures ...........................................................  194  9.2  Measures to Promote Social Gender and Development ...............................................  211  9.3  Implementing Agency and Time Schedule ...................................................................  214  9.4  .Monitoring and Evaluation ........................................................................................  220  ATTACHMENTS ...................................................................................................................... 221  ATTACHMENT I FIELD SURVEY DISTRIBUTION MAP ...................................................................  221  ATTACHMENT II SOCIAL INVESTIGATION SCHEDULE AND CONTENTS ........................................ 221  ATTACHMENT III FIELD SURVEY PICTURES COLLECTION ..........................................................  221  ATTACHMENT IV MINUTES OF STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS .......................................................  221  ATTACHMENT V IDENTIFICATION OF LAND ACQUISITION AND DEMOLITION IN PROJECT AREAS ......................................................................................................................................................  221    ATTACHMENT VI IDENTIFICATION OF FARMER COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS IN PROJECT AREAS ..........................................................................................................................................  221  ATTACHMENT VII VILLAGES IDENTIFIED AS MINORITY SETTLEMENTS ..................................... 221  List of Tables  TABLE 8-1 THE PROCEDURES OF INFORMATION PUBLICATION AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION .................. 179  ...............................................................  183  TABLE 8-2 PERCEPTION OF THE PROJECT TO THE FARMERS  TABLE 8-3 PERCEPTION SITUATION OF THE PROGRAM TO FARMERS (%) .............................................  183  TABLE 8-4 PERCEPTION OF THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PROJECT TO FAMILY (%) .................................. 183  TABLE 8-5 SUPPORT OF THE PROJECT FROM THE FARMERS..................................................................  184  TABLE 8-6 FARMERS’ WILLINGNESS TO COOPERATE WITH GOVERNMENT TO IMPLEMENT THE PROJECT (%)  .................................................................................................................................................  184      TABLE 8-7 WILLINGNESS OF THE FARMERS TO VOLUNTEER TO WORK ................................................  184  TABLE 8-8 SOCIAL PARTICIPATION ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE ..................................................................  186  TABLE 9-1 SOCIAL ACTION PLAN FOR A PILOT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT OF INDUSTRIAL POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY-STRICKEN CONCATENATED AREAS ......................................................  200  TABLE 9-2 SOCIAL GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT PLAN OF A PILOT DEMONSTRATION PROJECT OF INDUSTRIAL POVERTY REDUCTION IN POVERTY-STRICKEN CONCATENATED AREAS .................... 212  TABLE 9-3 IMPLEMENTING AGENCY OF PROJECT COUNTY ..................................................................  215  TABLE 9-4 STATISTICS OF PARTICIPATION IN TRAININGS OF IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES IN PROJECT COUNTIES OF GUIZHOU PROVINCE .............................................................................................  217  TABLE 9-5 STATISTICS OF PARTICIPATION IN TRAININGS OF IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES IN PROJECT COUNTIES OF SICHUAN PROVINCE .............................................................................................  217  TABLE 9-6 STATISTICS OF PARTICIPATION IN TRAININGS OF IMPLEMENTING AGENCIES IN PROJECT COUNTIES OF GANSU PROVINCE ................................................................................................  218  TABLE 9-7 IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE ............................................................................................  219  List of Figures FIGURE 8-1 COMPLAINT AND APPEAL PROCEDURES ...........................................................................  193  FIGURE 9-1 STRUCTURE CHART OF PROJECT ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT .............................. 214      Abstract The Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas sponsored by World Bank loans (World Bank Poverty Reduction Project Phase VI) is the sixth large-scale integrated poverty reduction project under cooperation of the Chinese government and the World Bank in the field of poverty reduction. The project area covers 537 project villages, 135 towns, 27 counties (districts/municipalities), 10 cities (prefectures) in Wumeng Mountain and Liupan Mountain ruled by Sichuan, Guizhou and Gansu. The poverty incidence in the project area is up to 44% and the per capita net income of farmers is RMB 3,510. The building blocks include 4 sub-projects of development of modern industrial value chain, public infrastructure and service support, study and promotion of industrial poverty reduction mechanism, project management, monitoring and evaluation. The project is committed to developing and demonstrating representative development models of rural pillar industries in poor areas to enhance sustainable agricultural production systems, improve organizational arrangements and increase rural incomes. A. Purposes and Process of Social Assessment The main purpose of this social assessment is to help improve the design and implementation of the proposed project so that those individuals and groups that are most likely to be influenced by the project activities will support the project and effectively participate in those activities. Under the strong support and cooperation of project offices at all levels, the social assessment was carried out from October 27 to November 29, 2013. Field investigation that lasted for 34 days was organized by the Social Assessment Group in 69 villages, 63 townships (towns), 27 counties (districts/municipalities), 10 cities (prefectures) in 3 provinces. The main investigation and research methods included literature study, participant observation, key informant interview, in-depth interview, symposium, and survey. B. Analysis on the Needs of Major Stakeholders The main stakeholders in the project include rural households, enterprises related to the development cooperative industry chain, poverty reduction offices, members of established farmer cooperatives, rural agents, household of individual business, owners of small processing workshops, etc. Analysis on the needs of major stakeholders is as follows: (a) Rural households: Beneficiaries in the project areas cover 946,400 rural households, including 342,900 poor rural households (36.23%), 462,200 women (48.83%), and 240,900 minorities (25.45%). The main needs include: science and technology and management training on planting and breeding to high-yield and efficient agriculture and increase revenue; solutions to sales problems of agricultural and livestock products to broaden sources of household income and increase revenue; construction of their own organizations and improvement in the ability to resist market risks; improvement in infrastructure conditions to develop agricultural production, increase revenue and improve living standards. (b) Members of established farmer cooperatives: The cooperatives hope to meet the following needs i    through the project: learning about advanced concepts on cooperative building and improve the current status of the established organizations; improving the software and hardware facilities of cooperatives and the construction level of farmer cooperatives; solving the infrastructure conditions that limit industrial development to lay a foundation for better operation of farmer cooperative organizations; fostering new cooperatives to form synergy with other farmer cooperative organizations to jointly facilitate the farmers to get rich. (c) Enterprises related to the development cooperative industry chain: their needs include: constructing public market facilities, providing public services like product transactions and quarantine testing, and reducing market transaction costs; establishing professional farmer cooperatives, improving and regulating the market behavior of cooperatives, stabilizing the service relationships between companies and rural households, and securing stable sources of cheap and fine raw materials or agricultural products; obtaining the technical support of domestic and international high-profile experts by participating in the project to improve the R&D capability of products and production processes and increase the added value of products and market share. (d) Rural agents, household of individual business, owners of small processing workshops, etc.: their needs include: improving the current status of water, roads, markets and other infrastructure to create a favorable environment and conditions for trade and marketing of agricultural products; joining cooperatives to integrate resources, improve market bargaining power, and enhance the ability to resist market risks through the platforms of cooperatives; reducing costs and improving added value of products through organizational and scale production, processing and sales. (e) Poverty reduction offices: their needs include: facilitating the project to be completed smoothly as soon as possible by communicating and coordinating with different partners; increasing the income of the poor and facilitating the poor to get rid of poverty; exploring ways and means appropriate to the local industrial poverty reduction and provide experience for the undertaking of domestic poverty reduction; improving the social images of the implementing agencies. C. Analysis on the Current Operation and Problems of Cooperatives (a) Current status of cooperatives: basic conditions of professional farmer cooperatives: among the visited 40 cooperatives/associations, integrated farmer cooperatives are dominant ①, accounting for 94.87%; the management of a cooperative generally consists of 5-10 persons, and cooperatives in Guizhou and Gansu are mainly driven by capable individuals and large households in Guizhou and Gansu, with ratios of 83.3% and 48%, respectively; in Sichuan Province, the cooperatives are mainly driven by village cadres, with a ratio of 62.5%. profit distribution and participation: among 39 cooperatives, 17 have established a profit distribution mechanism, accounting for 43.6%, but only 5 actually distributed profits to the participating rural households, accounting for 20%; the profit distribution mechanisms of cooperatives basically consist of returning by trading volume and dividend                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ①   Integreted cooperatives are cooperatives that are more or less engaged in providing seeds and other production means, technical training, standardized management, storage and sale of agricultural products, and other services.  ii    sharing by contributed capital; rural households participate in cooperatives mainly by getting means of production free or purchasing it at a low price from cooperatives, leasing land to cooperatives for land rent, joining cooperatives with land and other means of production to get dividends, obtaining wages by working in production bases, participating in technical guidance and training in cooperatives, selling products to get profits through cooperatives, etc. (b) Operational modes of cooperatives: There are four main operational modes: 5 cooperatives follow the mode of “company + cooperative + base + rural household”, accounting for 12.82%; 4 follow the mode of “company + cooperative + rural household”, accounting for 10.26%; 12 follow the mode of “cooperative + base + rural household”; 19 (including an association) follow the mode of “cooperatives (association) + rural household”, accounting for 47.5%. Operating results: among 39 cooperatives, 12 (30.77%) operate well; 7 (17.95%) operate modestly; 9 (23.08%) operate poorly; 11 (20.2%) do not operate at all. Those that operate well mainly adopt the mode of “cooperative + base + rural household” while those that operate poorly mainly adopt the mode of “cooperative + rural household”. (c) Farmers’ understanding of and attitudes towards cooperatives: among the 1,507 surveyed rural households, 47.4 % and 22.8 % knew little or nothing about cooperatives, respectively; 95.6% of the rural households supported the building of cooperatives, 3.6 % showed an indifferent attitude, while 0.8% did not support the building of cooperatives, considering that cooperatives belong to capable individuals and large households only while not functioning for ordinary households; 71.1% of the households did not join any cooperative and 28.9% have joined. Of the rural households that did not join any cooperative, 95.6% of them were willing to be part of a cooperative. Of the services that the surveyed rural households expected cooperatives to provide, 72.6% voted for technical guidance on planting and breeding. The rural households mainly needed seed sowing and breeding technology, crop cultivation and field management, crop epidemic disease control, breeding stock cultivation and variety improvement, forage planting and concentrated feed configuration, prevention and control of livestock disease. 59.7% voted for sales services; 43.5% needed market information; 37.8% needed supply of preferential offering of production means; 33.8% hoped to join cooperatives and share dividends; 93.2% of the rural households considered it necessary to carry out training and other capacity-building activities in cooperatives; 67.8% believed that there was a need for technical training in the planting and breeding industry . (d) Main existing problems in the operation of cooperatives: few rural households understand cooperatives: The survey learned that 29.7% of the rural households “knew very well” or “knew” cooperatives, and 70.3% only heard of or simply never heard of cooperatives. Few rural households join cooperatives: in fact, the percent of rural households participating in cooperatives is 28.9 %, while that of rural households that did not join any cooperative is 71.1%, indicating a low percent of rural households participating in cooperatives; secondly, because most of the cooperatives in the villages stay dormant and the members are in name only without participating in actual activities of cooperatives; in part of the functioning cooperatives, it is common that the rural households simply sell agricultural products and participate in relevant technical guidance and training through cooperatives while ordinary farmers rarely participate in cooperative management or profit distribution. More dormant cooperatives but poor operation effects: according to the research information and data from the Agriculture Bureau, 179 cooperatives that operate well in the project counties of Guizhou Province iii    account for 17.96%; 572 operate moderately, accounted for 57.47%; and 245 operate poorly, accounting for 24.57%; in Gansu Province, there are totally 471 cooperatives in the project counties, including 71 that operate poorly or do not function, accounting for 15.07%; in Sichuan Province, there are totally 845 cooperatives in the project counties, including 702 that operate poorly or do not function, accounting for 83.08%. Of the 39 cooperatives, 12 (30.77 %) operate well, 7 (17.95%) operate moderately, 9 (23.08 %) operate poorly, and 11 that do not operate at all. Low development level and non-standardized management of cooperatives: most of the cooperatives have been established for a short time, with everything at the exploratory stage. Of the interviewed 39 cooperatives, 10 were established in 2013, accounting for 25.64%, and there are 7, 4 and 9 cooperatives that were registered in 2010, 2011, and 2012, accounting for 17.95%, 10.26% and 23.08%, respectively. Especially in terms of organization and management, cooperatives are mostly dominated and operated by capable individuals, large households, or village cadres, and hardly provide services for rural households; cooperatives generally lack professional talents that have management or technological knowledge or have marketing capability, and they also lack professional financial management personnel. Incomplete and non-transparent profit distribution mechanisms of cooperatives: there are no clear provisions about the withdrawal of surplus accumulation fund, public welfare fund, or dividends. Even if there are provisions about deciding the profit distribution based on the resolution proposed at the general assembly of members (representatives), in fact, cooperatives seldom convene a general assembly of members (representatives) for a vote; instead, decisions are made by several key members of the cooperative and the decisions about the ratios of income dividends to share and profits to return are highly arbitrary; basically each cooperative has a different way and standard of dividends sharing and profits returning, and the whole information about income distribution is not transparent and rarely published; there are various ways and standards of profit distribution and the mechanisms are not perfect. D. Poverty Analysis (a) Poverty situation in the project areas: of the 98 project villages in Guizhou Province, 85 are poor villages, accounting for 86.7%; the poverty rate of 90,775 people in the 31,208 poor households is 28.14%; of the 199 project villages in Sichuan Province, 196 are poor villages, accounting for 98.5%; the poverty rate of 87,665 people in the 28,532 poor households is 33.62%; all of the 241 project villages in Gansu Province are poor villages, accounting for 100%; the poverty rate of 178,466 people in the 41,587 poor households is 49.68%. (b) Understanding and needs of the poor groups for the project: Of the 758 poor households that participated in the survey, 85.4% have heard of the project and 14.6% have not; secondly, 95.8% of the poor households expressed their support for the construction of the project, 93.7% said that they are willing to cooperate with the government in implementing the project, 95.3% of the poor households that have not joined any cooperatives expressed their willingness to join a cooperative, which indicated a high degree of willingness of poor rural households to join cooperatives. The needs of poor population for the project mainly include: joining cooperatives, access to employment opportunities, participating in skills training, improving local infrastructure, and access to loans. (c) Participation of poor households: of the 758 surveyed poor households, 67.4% have not joined any cooperatives was 67.4%, and 94.5% that have not joined any cooperatives expressed their willingness to iv    join a cooperative. The main difficulty for poor rural households to join cooperatives is lack of the capital to participate in cooperative activities, such as money, land, or labor; the purpose for them to join cooperatives is to obtain market information and agricultural sales channels and to improve planting and breeding technology. 21.1% of the poor rural households considered that they have mastered the professional skills in the local advantageous industries, 29.8% did not think so, and 49.1% thought that they have mastered part of the skills and there is space for improvement. 95.7% of the poor rural households considered it is necessary for them to receive professional and technical training in advantageous industries, and 94.3% expressed their willingness to be involved in the characteristics advantageous industries to be developed in the project. E. Social Gender Analysis (a) Development of the women population in the project areas: according to the survey results, women aged from 30 to 59 take up the largest proportion in the survey sample, accounting for 82.8%, 2.1% higher than the proportion of men; the sum of the percents of women with primary school education or illiterate is 52.4%, 10% higher than those of men; most of the women are engaged in farming, with a percent of 89.2%, slightly higher than men (84.6%); women who earn between RMB 380-1000 every month take up the highest proportion (43.7%), and 72.5% of the women earn less than RMB 1,000 every month, higher than 66.4% of the men; judging from the information on education, employment and monthly income, the socio-economic status of women is slightly inferior to that of men. (b) Women’s participation in cooperatives: women’s cooperatives: there are few cooperatives initiated by women in the project areas, and of the 40 cooperatives/association visited by the Social Assessment Group, only one was initiated and established by women and is primarily managed and operated by women; there are one cooperative whose legal person is female but is actually managed and run by male; women’s participation in cooperatives: of the 40 cooperatives/association, 19 do not have any women in their management, accounting for 47.5 %; there are totally 297 management staff in the 40 cooperatives/association, including 37 women, which account for 12.46%; women mostly work as accounting, cashiers or office clerks, and are less involved in core business of cooperatives; cooperative members come in household, but in fact, generally the head of a household, who is usually a male in the family, such as the husband or the father-in-law (father of the husband), signs an admission agreement, and the membership is rarely registered in the name of women; women in households that participate in activities of cooperatives are mainly engaged in planting and breeding, technical training, picking and so on. (c) Women’s understanding of and attitudes towards cooperatives: in the questionnaire survey, 22% said they had no idea of cooperatives, 48% revealed that they knew little about cooperatives, and 30.1% said they knew about cooperatives; 95.6% of women supported the construction of cooperatives, 95.5% of the women who have not joined cooperatives are willing to join one and 93.9% believed that it is necessary for them to receive training through cooperatives; this data analysis shows that women understand little about cooperatives but they show strong willingness to participate and strong support for cooperatives. (d) Project impact on women: the positive impact includes: reducing the burden on women, increasing women’s income; enhancing women’s development capacity; improving the quality of women’s v    survival and their living standards; improving women’s status in the family and the external environment. The potential risks include: women’s poor understanding of cooperatives and the project affects women’s initiative in participating in the project and actual activities while low participation in cooperatives affects women’s fair access to the benefit from the project. F. Analysis on Minority Nationality (a) Status of minority nationalities in the project areas: Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu are all provinces inhabited by multi-ethnic population. In the project counties in Guizhou, Miao nationality accounts for the largest population of 18,228 people, representing 5.62%, mainly distributed in Zhijin County and Dafang County in Bijie City. In the project counties in Sichuan, Yi and Miao nationalities represent most of the population. There are 160,660 Yi people, accounting for 61.62% and mainly distributed in Zhaojue County, Butuo County, Meigu County, and Jinyang County in Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture of Yi Nationality in Sichuan; there are 13,394 Miao people, accounting for 5.14 % and mainly distributed in Xuyong County. Hui and Dongxiang nationalities take up most of the population in the project counties in Gansu, with 19,928 Hui people, accounting for 5.62% and mainly distributed in Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County and Yongjing County, and with 11,500 Dongxiang people, accounting for 3.25% and mainly distributed in Dongxiang Autonomous County. (b) Differences in minority nationalities: Miao, Yi , Hui and Dongxiang nationalities are the main minority nationalities in the project areas and the differences in these four nationalities are mainly reflected in: Language: Miao people speak their own language and 37.1% can speak mandarin, and the percent of women who can speak Mandarin is 18.2%, significantly lower than men (45.8%); Yi people speak their own language and 22.1% can speak Mandarin, and the percent of women who can speak Mandarin is slightly lower than that of men; the Hui people can speak Chinese and the percent is 65.1%; the Dongxiang people speak their own language and the percent of Dongxiang people who cannot speak Mandarin is 98.9%, with only 1.1% of the population that can speak Mandarin; overall, Dongxiang nationality has the lowest percent of Mandarin speakers, followed by Yi and Miao, while Hui nationality has the highest percent. In terms of traditional festivals, the main traditional festivals in Miao nationality are the New Year of Miao and the Dragon Boat Festival; those of Yi nationality are the Torch Festival and the New Year of Yi; the main traditional festivals of Hui and Dongxiang nationalities are Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, and Mawlid; except the similarity in the traditional festivals of Hui and Dongxiang nationalities, the other two nationalities show differences. In terms of traditional culture: Miao nationality mainly believes in nature worship and ancestor worship; Yi nationality has the tradition of secret branch worship and show strong tendency to family clan; Hui and Dongxiang nationalities have the common belief in Islam. In terms of livelihood patterns: Miao nationality lives on agriculture, mainly growing food, tobacco, sweet orange, walnut, bamboo, etc., and breeding pigs and cattle, with heavy reliance on the mercy of the elements and unstable agricultural sources of income; working as migrant workers becomes supplement to the agricultural income of families. Compared with the Han nationality in the same region, Miao nationality has a lower income level and is poorer. Yi nationality is dominated by agriculture, mainly growing maize, potatoes, buckwheat and other crops, mostly dependent on the mercy of the elements. In addition to farming, animal husbandry is also an important source of livelihood for the Yi people, especially cattle, sheep, horses and pigs. These animals are mostly bred outside cages in summer and in captivity in winter; a small part of the bred cattle and vi    sheep will be for sale, while most are save for reproduction and consumption. In addition, in recent years more and more young people from Yi nationality have turned to be migrant workers. Compared with other minority nationalities in the project areas, Yi people have a deeper level of poverty and encounter greater difficulty in getting rid of poverty. The Hui people mainly live on agriculture and animal husbandry as the main sources of livelihood, mostly planting wheat and corn, with the complements of alfalfa, oats, etc., and mainly raising cattle and sheep. Compared with Han and other nationalities, Muslims have more experience in rearing cattle and sheep and have more farmers who master rearing experience. In addition to planting and breeding industries, the sources of income for the Hui people also include running business and working as migrant workers. The businesses they run are dominated by catering, for example, the catering industry in Zhangjiachuan are dominated by Hui restaurants; the Hui migrant workers are generally engaged in seasonal jobs and the types of work they do are relatively simple. Dongxiang nationality mainly lives in Dongxiang County in the project areas and lives on the sources similar to those of the Hui people. Their main sources of livelihood include breeding, cultivating, and working as migrant workers. They generally raise sheep and planting corn, potato, and wheat, complemented by alfalfa, oats, etc. to feed livestock. Migrant workers are mostly young men, who seek jobs in Lanzhou, Xinjiang and Qinghai on short-term or seasonal basis. In terms of social organization: the Miao people mostly live together with the Han people, without social organizations specific to them but living together in the unit of administrative village. Family clan is the basic structure in the society of Yi nationality and is composed by paternal kinship. It is the basic unit for social mobilization and actions. Members in a family clan help each other and help the poor. Except praying in mosques at a fixed time each week, the Hui and Dongxiang nationalities in the project areas do not retain other traditional social organizations. (c) Identification and screening of minority nationalities: there 209 project villages that have minority collectives relying on the project areas, mainly including Miao, Yi, Hui and Dongxiang nationalities. Of the 601 minority population that participated in the survey, 93% acknowledged importance of the project, 96.4% supported the project, and 96.5% were willing to participate in the project. In order to facilitate the minority nationalities to participate in the project in a way that adapts to their culture and benefit from the project, a development plan of minority nationalities is prepared for the project. G. Social Impact Analysis (1) Project Opportunities (a) Improving the organizational degree of farmers through standardized construction of cooperatives: cooperative is an important carrier and platform to improve the organizational degree of farmers in poor areas. The Social Assessment Group found in the survey that the current organizational degree of farmers in the project areas is relatively low and the main problems are: the cooperative structure is not standardized; the cooperatives are poorly operated; few rural households actually join cooperatives; there is low involvement of rural households in cooperatives. It seemed to the rural households that in spite of the many problems in the operation of cooperatives, construction of the project will indeed bring many opportunities for the development of cooperatives and farmers’ organization: first, by building office space and providing office equipment of cooperatives, and offering supporting facilities and equipment for processing, storage, sales and other industrial chain vii    extension services, the project will lay a good hardware basis for the institutional settings of cooperatives and development of advantageous industries and regulate the external conditions of cooperatives; second, the project will standardize the organizational structure and operation system of cooperatives by staffing cooperatives with counselors and establishing joint-stock cooperatives that rural households (especially most of the poor ones) join to form small and micro enterprises; third, the project will enhance the operation ability of cooperatives and increase the competitiveness of cooperatives as small and micro enterprises in the market through training; fourth, the project will not only increase the involvement of poor rural households in the economic and industrial value chain but also encourage them to consciously apply the organizational practice experience they learn from cooperatives in other social and economic activities in the villages and constantly improve their self-development awareness by promoting poor rural households to join cooperatives and increase their organizational practice experience and ability. The project will provide training on establishment, management, technology, and marketing of cooperatives and exchange visits. Specialized training will be conducted for demonstration households on crop cultivation technology. The training will be conducted in a variety of ways and multiple categories to improve the involvement and practice of rural households in cooperatives; various measures will be taken to improve the organizational degree of farmers. (b) Taking cooperatives as carriers to improve the subject consciousness and self-development ability of farmers by empowering them: judging from the understanding of farmers about themselves and their family development, the Social Assessment Group learned that the rural households in the project areas believed the most important reasons for their poverty are their lack of skills, technology, capital, and knowledge and their outdated ideas and concepts, in addition to harsh climate and poor infrastructure conditions like water and electricity lines. When asked “Have you ever thought about how to live a better life in the future”, most of the villagers just smiled, saying that “I may plant or raise something.” Basically they would continue the original way of production and lifestyle; younger people choose to go out to work, which will help them make some money. Concerning expectations and suggestions for the project, they hoped to receive some training on, for example, planting techniques, scientific breeding, pest control and agricultural product marketing, and have access to market information and other knowledge and technology. They believed they would develop the planting and breeding industries well once they mastered this knowledge and technology. They would slowly accumulate experience and capital, and life would get better when they or their families have improved their ability and changed their concepts. For the construction and development of cooperatives, the villagers hoped to build cooperatives that can incorporate more villagers instead of being monopolized by large households or capable individuals; in their view, the development of cooperatives needs the demonstration of capable individuals and large households, who are expected take the initiative and lay the foundation for villagers; addition to access to training, the villagers hoped the cooperatives could get everyone involved to purchase seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and other production materials, so as to get more favorable prices and guarantee the quality and prevent the problem that some rural households may purchase fake seeds, fake fertilizers, or fake pesticides; the villagers may sell their agricultural products collectively at prices higher than the prices sold individually, and the agricultural products may be sold through multiple means such as viii    negotiations, opening up sales channels, and developing contract farming. Rural households in cooperatives can learn experience and technology from each other, consult and discuss together, and any questions can be answered anytime and anywhere. The ability of rural households will also be improved. While the self-development ability of villagers is being improved, the development ability and level of the whole village is constantly improved and enhanced. The construction of village roads, hardening and construction of services roads for production, farmland irrigation and water conservancy facilities, and trading markets of agricultural products in the project will create conditions for the industrial development of project villages; the facilities to construct will be decided by the villagers, and the village committees and villagers will participate in the construction of most of this public infrastructure, which will help develop the self-organization, self-management, independent decision-making and independent implementation capacities of villagers. (c) Changing the agricultural production and operation modes, improving product quality and standards, improving the ability of farmers to withstand market risks, and increasing the income of poor rural households through the project construction: interviews in the project areas showed that individual rural households generally sell their agricultural products through the following channels: the rural households sell the products to the local vendors, who then resell the products to wholesale markets or traders from other places; traders from other places directly purchase the products from the rural households. The rural households sell their agricultural products locally at prices lower than the prices they sell in market towns or markets in the county, but they will encounter various problems such as inconvenient transportation, lack of transportation vehicles and high transportation costs if they want to sell the products beyond the local place. As a result, most of the rural households choose to sell their agricultural products to small local vendors or traders who visit them for a purchase at lower prices and the prices are forced down from one link to another. Individual rural households do not have the ability to negotiate or price advantages. Therefore, the rural households hope: First, the training on the establishment and management of cooperatives and capacity building in the project allow rural households in the project areas to be organized through the carrier and platform of cooperatives and change the original small decentralized production mode practiced by single household into industrialized, large-scale and standardized large production mode; second, farmers are organized through cooperatives and take collective actions resist market risks like market information asymmetry and poor negotiating capacity that may be faced by individual rural households; third, the use of good seedlings/breeding stocks and adoption of unified production means, unified production standard, unified field management, unified harvest, unified sales or processing to provide agricultural products that meet the market demand will provide rural households with easier access to markets and increase the competitiveness and negotiation ability of rural households, and the subproject of industry chain development can increase the added value of products and improve the quality and yield of agricultural products; fourth, improvement in the quality of agricultural products and scale operations can enhance the market competitiveness of agricultural product, extend the industrial value chain, improve farmers’ perception of market and resilience, improve the ability of rural households to withstand market risks, and ultimately increase the income of farmers, especially the income of the majority of poor rural households. (d) Improving infrastructure to create conditions for local agricultural production and livelihood of ix    rural households: the Social Assessment Group visited the project areas and found that some villagers mentioned the roads, water and other agricultural infrastructure are in poor conditions, of which water and road (mainly service roads for production) shortages are the main problems that restricts the development of local industries and affect the lives of villagers. Therefore, the villagers hope: First, the project will improve the agricultural production materials such as seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and farming equipment and the transportation conditions to sell agricultural products to other places through construction of village roads and service roads for production; second, the project will prevent or mitigate the impact of natural disasters like drought on the growth and harvest of crops and gradually solve the drinking problems of men and animals in some villages by improving irrigation facilities, irrigation techniques and conditions, and by constructing water cellars for men, water tanks and drinking water project facilities; third, the construction of distribution and sale facilities and equipment like trading venues of agricultural products and livestock, product storage and processing facilities can create conditions for rural households to carry out production. Agriculture is an important source of livelihood for rural households in poverty-stricken areas, while poor infrastructure is the key issue that constrains the agricultural production and development in poor areas. Therefore, improving infrastructure can help improve the production and livelihood of rural households. (e) Increasing the chances for rural households to fairly share benefit and promoting the sustainable development of poor rural households: based on the benefits that rural households get from cooperatives, the general problems are no benefit or narrow benefit ranges, single benefit channels and lack of the right to speak in sharing benefits. After being implemented, the project will increase the chance for rural households to fairly share benefits through a variety of channels: first, the project will establish cooperatives that uphold shared benefits among villagers and shared responsibilities to ensure a wide range of rural households, especially the poor ones, are involved in cooperatives; second, the project will establish joint-stock farmer cooperatives that the majority of rural households join with collective investment and that are collectively owned to ensure member rural households have equitable access to dividends and rebates; third, the project will increase the ability of rural households to obtain profits by enhancing their involvement in cooperatives, such as through providing training, employment and management opportunities. (f) Increasing employment opportunities, especially for the poor and women, improving employment conditions, and increasing the unit value of labor force: first, villagers in the project areas will be preferred to volunteer to work with payment in the construction of infrastructure, such as hardening or new construction of roads, drinking water tank for men and animals/cellar trimming, and building of trading markets; second, the scale development of local advantageous industries will increase the demand for local labor and drive some idle labor force to join the industries, while capable individuals and large households may continue to develop through the development of advantageous industries and the platforms of cooperatives and gradually grow into owners of small or micro enterprises; third, improvement in infrastructure conditions, and scale development and agglomeration of competitive industries can improve the local investment environment and create better employment conditions; four, the labor skills and productivity of rural households in the development of advantageous industries will be improved, the unit labor value will be increased, the income of rural households will be increased, and women and poor households will have more job opportunities and higher income. x    (2) Potential Risks Meanwhile, the Social Assessment Group believes that the following potential risks may exist in the construction and operation process of the project: (a) Risks in land acquisition and land management: there are mainly three ways of land occupancy: land lease, land donation and land acquisition. Land for bases of planting and breeding. Generally, the planting and breeding bases will be equipped with certain standardized facilities, and as they cover large areas, the land is mostly acquired through lease or pooling of land as shares. The acquired land will be collectively operated, managed and maintained by cooperatives. General public infrastructure and agricultural supporting facilities. The project involves the construction of public infrastructure and agricultural supporting facilities such as production roads, farm tracks, farmland facilities, irrigation and drainage facilities. As they usually take up small areas in linear trends and are mostly facilities needed or urgently needed by rural households to develop agriculture, the villagers are willing to provide land through land donation. Land for cooperatives. The land for construction of new cooperatives in the project is usually from the land owned by the village collectives. Village committees in the project villages will hold a general assembly of villagers to listen to the views of the villagers, and sign agreements on the use of collective construction land with cooperatives; some cooperatives may acquire land through leases. Land for trading markets. Trading markets to be constructed under the project will need to occupy large areas of land and are generally located in places where there are convenient transportation and high flows of people like town centers. The Social Assessment Group learned that the land for trading markets under the project comes from three main sources: state-owned land, collective construction land, and villagers’ collective land. State-owned land: The trading market that is built on state-owned land is the trading market of livestock in Zhangjiachuan County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province. The market is constructed in the existing Golden Comprehensive Agricultural Market in Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County; the Golden Comprehensive Agricultural Market covers 25 mu and the certificate of land use right was issued by the Land and Resources Bureau of Zhangjiachuan in September 2010. The Poverty Reduction Office of Zhangjiachuan County consulted with the legal person of the company on renting a 10-mu idle land in the market as the construction land for a trading market of livestock under the World Bank Project (Phase VI) for a term of 10 years. Upon expiration, the two sides may agree on renewal. Collective construction land: the trading markets to be constructed on collective construction land are generally divided into two types. The first one is reconstruction of the original trading markets, such as the trading market in Shubo Village, Nanwa Township, Jinyang County, whose construction site is in the market of Nanwa Township; the trading market in Zhuanchengzi Village, Maojing Township, Huanxian County in the original collection-distribution point of livestock, where there is a lack of basic market infrastructure and whose land belongs to the village collective, covering about 10 mu, while the proposed new standard trading market will be equipped with the necessary trading venues, booths, parking space and security facilities; trading market of livestock in Shuangcheng Village and xi    Xieguozhui Village, which will be constructed with land contributed as shares and will not involve land acquisition or resettlement. The other type is construction of new trading markets. The newly constructed trading markets will mostly be at village or township levels (except in Huachi County). The construction sites of the trading markets are coordinated by the county poverty reduction offices and county governments with village committees and decided at the general assemblies of villagers. villagers’ collective land. The “Construction Project of Livestock Trading Market” in Huachi County covers 107 mu and is located in Xinbao Grass and Animal Industry Demonstration Zone in Yuele Town of the county. It is constructed on the collective land of Xinbao Village by the county government through renting the collective contracted land in September 2002. The first lease period is 20 years and the rent is disbursed by the county finance. The land does not belong to state-owned land. The Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the county provided supporting documents of construction land use and the land lease agreement. (For details, please refer to Table 3-2 in Chapter 3). As the specific locations and effects of some construction projects in the project cannot be determined, the following risks may exist in the construction and industrial development of the project: firstly, both the project construction and industrial development requires availability of land, the development and construction of project in concatenated areas may be affected if the rural households are not willing to contribute their land; second, in addition to the small amount of land used for the construction of cooperative offices, colony houses, feed stores, epidemic prevention rooms, trading markets, warehousing collection and distribution points, processing sites and other civil works will inevitably involve land occupation. Most rural households in the project areas live on agriculture, with farming and harvesting grain and other agricultural products as their main livelihood. Once the project involves land acquisition and resettlement, it may have a negative impact on the production, lives and livelihoods of rural households, leading to reduction in the land resources of rural households and decline in agricultural income. Some rural households may be faced with the risks of falling into poverty, re-poverty or worsened poverty. Secondly, some of the cooperatives under the support of the project may need to set up or expand production bases. Such construction or expansion may be carried out through transfer of land or joining cooperatives by contributing land as shares. This could lead to the following risks in land management: rural households involved in such arrangements may not be entirely voluntary and vulnerable rural households may not share benefits equitably. (b) Ecological migration and Relocation from place to place: the Social Assessment Group learned through field investigation and from the supplemental information obtained by communicating with the project offices in the three provinces that there is no ecological migration in Sichuan and Gansu Provinces while 329 people in 66 households have been relocated as ecological migrants in Wenge Township, Dafang County, Guizhou Province, and 708 people in 150 households have been relocated as ecological migrants in Shibao Township, Chishui City. Interviews with villagers showed that the ecological migrants, like other villagers, show strong willingness to participate in the project. They expected to participate in the cooperative construction and industrial development project and have the equal rights of participation and benefit sharing as local villagers. However, as some of the migrants are separated from their land, for example, ecological xii    migrants living in the villages of destination while leaving their land in the villages of origin, they may be faced with risks of rejecting the villages of destination and origin, insufficient resources or assets, and passivity or being marginalized when participating in the construction of cooperatives and industry development. (c) Equal benefiting from conditional grants to cooperatives: The Social Assessment Group learned that rural households in the project areas generally reflect a lack of funds for development and production, for example, lack of funds to buy seedlings, livestock, fertilizers, pesticides, mulches, chaff cutters and other production materials. Due to lack of production funds, poor rural households can not buy better seeds or use organic fertilizers, and the effects of their industrial development are affected; rural households in the project areas held strong demand and expectation for the conditional grants to cooperatives. Thus, the equitable distribution of conditional grants to cooperatives in the implementation of the project and how to ensure poor rural households can fairly benefit from them may affect the implementation of the project and realization of the goal for the project contribute to the sustainable income of poor rural households. (d) Risks in shortage of labor needed for the development of cooperatives and industrial chain and poor management skills of the labor force: risks in the labor force are mainly reflected in satisfaction of the demand for labor in the construction of infrastructure and of the demand for talents in the establishment of cooperatives in the project. Most of the young and strong labor force in the project areas chooses to work in other places, leaving the elderly, children and women behind. The infrastructure construction in the project requires the participation of labor force, one that has certain strength and relatively abundant time. The women, elderly, and children who are left in rural areas hoped that the completion of project will provide better economic benefits to attract the outflow family member to return to develop local industries and take care of the families. Establishment, management and maintenance of cooperatives, industrial planning and implementation, and management of production bases all require labor force and raise some requirements on the education levels, social skills and technical skill levels of the labor force. Thus, how to attract the labor force back through the project construction to ensure sufficient labor force for the operation of cooperatives and industrial development has a great impact on the smooth implementation and development of the project and realization of the goal to develop efficient, ecological, and high value-added industries. (e) Risk in the operation and management of public infrastructure in rural areas: newly constructed or renovated production roads, terraces, irrigation facilities, electricity facilities and other infrastructure are aimed to lay a foundation for adjustment in the agricultural industrial structure and development of modern industry value chain by improving infrastructure and public services. In views of the villagers, these infrastructure facilities can provide convenience for their production and lives and are also an important problem that they are eager to improve through the project as it cannot be solved by a single village or several individuals. Villagers are particularly concerned about water shortage and lack of flat or hardened roads. In their opinions, without water, crops cannot be grown and cattle or sheep will not live; without good roads, pesticides and fertilizers can not be transported into the village while crops, cattle and sheep cannot be sold out. Interviews with the persons in charge of xiii    cooperatives revealed that infrastructure has become an important factor limiting the development of cooperatives, especially water sources for irrigation, farm tracks, access roads and trading markets. Because this public infrastructure is public undertakings, it is difficult to solve by single effort. They hoped the government can help solve this problem; but at the same time, the villagers also fear that this public infrastructure may lose their functions for constant use and wear if nobody maintains or manages them. In that case, their production and live will become inconvenient again. In the interviews with some of the township and village cadres, they considered that management of infrastructure is more important than construction. Without management after construction, the infrastructure will soon wear out. H. Major Suggestions from Social Assessment (1) Suggestions to Enhance the Social Benefits of the Project (a) Improving the organizational degree of farmers, including: focusing on the establishment of joint-stock cooperatives that uphold shared benefits and shared responsibilities among farmers to ensure that the proportion of registered poor households in cooperatives gradually reaches 80% or more; providing technical and management training for cooperative members and strengthening the organizational and standardized management, including developing guidance/guideline on the construction of cooperatives in the project areas; offering demonstration and guidance of production bases or demonstration households and organizing extensive rural households to participate in industrial development; establishing an open and transparent profit sharing mechanism and enhancing farmers’ sense of belonging to cooperatives. (b) Enhancing the subject consciousness and self-development ability of farmers: including developing information disclosure, publicity and training programs that run throughout the pre-, mid- and late phrases of the project, especially about community mobilization and publicity in the preparatory phase; adopting multiple publicity and participatory methods such as convening villager representative assemblies and villager group meeting to democratically elect members of director boards and supervisory boards of cooperatives and select cooperative members on the informed and voluntary basis of villagers, especially allowing for the needs and thoughts of women, minority nationalities, and poor households; establishing joint-stock cooperatives that uphold broad participation of villagers and democratic management to focally solve the problem of insufficient funds that poor households are faced in when joining cooperatives; conducting technical and skill training related to industrial development and operation and management of cooperatives according to the urgency of villagers needing different trainings and, if possible, allowing for the characteristics and needs of agricultural activities carried out by the villagers in all seasons; the project training should not be done during ethnic festivals, busy seasons, housework time of women, and, if possible, should be arranged with full consideration to the schedule throughout the year; the location of training should be near settlements and easily accessible places of villagers and allow for rural households in remote areas; the training methods vary by region and by people, and the training should be provided in local language or easy to understand and may be complemented by videos, posters, brochures, etc.; on the basis of respecting the wishes of women, minority nationalities, poor households and other vulnerable groups, the publicity of project information should ensure that 80% of households are informed and the training should xiv    ensure 30% of the participants are women, 80% are poor rural households, and 30% are minority nationalities (in minority nationality areas); conducting random inspection on the publicity and training effects on a regular basis of 2 times/year in the early phase of the project and 1time/year in other phases. (c) Improving the ability of farmers to withstand market risks: a comprehensive assessment of the project, including village agricultural situation and the needs of public infrastructure, on-demand production of sidewalk construction, irrigation and other facilities, to avoid repeated use of funds to improve infrastructure in industrial development; strengthen cooperative management and industrial development-related training to improve the capacity for sustainable development of cooperatives, such as the management of the organization on a regular basis, management training, standardization of production training, efficient agricultural technology training, technical training, marketing and processing of agricultural products, etc.; targeted establishment of the acquisition of agricultural point, storage distribution points, agricultural market, agricultural market information release platform, agricultural product tracing system and other supporting facilities and systems necessary to the market development of industries; constructing bases of stock breeding as technology and capital permit to practice standardized construction of unified seedling/breeding, unified cultivation, unified field management, unified sale or processing. (d) Improving the adaptability of the infrastructure construction to the production and livelihood development and demands of rural households, including: convening villager representative assemblies, villager group meetings, and adopting participatory methods like problem tree to discuss about the infrastructure needed by the production and livelihood development of villagers and determine the infrastructure planned to construct; handing over the completed infrastructure facilities like village roads, service roads for production, and irrigation facilities to the village collectives, and exercise supervision, management and maintenance; handing over facilities and equipment of storage, processing and marketing that involve the industry value chain to the collective cooperatives, and assuming supervision, management and maintenance responsibilities. (e) Promoting equitable benefit sharing and sustainable development of rural households: including convening general assemblies of cooperative members to discuss about the development of cooperative profit distribution mechanism and publishing the result, clarifying the ratio and order of profit distribution, determining the percents of public accumulations that are withdrawn aside, such as public accumulation funds, public welfare funds, relief funds, venture funds and development funds, and determining the specific way of profit distribution in the cooperative; transforming the old ownership structure of cooperatives and establishing stock-joint cooperatives that are commonly owned by broad rural households; regularly publishing the results of profit distribution, filing and archiving financial records of cooperatives, and accepting the supervision and questioning of members; establishing sound and easily operated appeal and complaint channel and mechanism; conducting research on equitable benefit sharing mechanism for rural households in cooperatives. (f) Increasing employment opportunities for rural households, improving the employment environment, increasing labor unit value, and increasing the income of rural households: include: conducting training on sowing and seedling cultivation, crop cultivation and field management, crop disease prevention and control, stock breeding and varieties improvement, forage planting and scientific xv    farming methods, prevention and control of livestock diseases, and training on efficient agricultural science and technology, product processing, marketing and other links in the industry value chain according to the situation of the industries and the wishes and demands of villagers in the project villages, ensuring that more than 30% of women and more than 30% of the minority population (in minority nationality areas), and more than 80% of poor households participate in the training; organizing the villagers to participate in infrastructure construction on the basis of respecting the wishes of villagers, and vulnerable groups like women, minority nationalities (in minority nationality areas), and poor households enjoy priority in being provided with 30% of the employment opportunities. (2) Suggestions on Mitigating or Preventing Social Risks: (a) Avoiding the risks in land acquisition and land management: include: carrying out publicity and mobilization so that the farmers can know about cooperatives, learn the opportunities and advantages in rural industrial development, and voluntarily join cooperatives with their land; joining cooperatives with land at convertible prices and joining the production bases of cooperatives with land as shares needs to comprehensively consider the quality and location of the land and assess the expected benefits and avoid forcing down the land price evaluated in terms of shares; minimizing or avoiding land acquisition in the project implementation process; if it is unavoidable, the land acquisition and resettlement activities should be carried out in strict accordance with Policy Framework of Resettlement. Making sure that the cooperatives supported by the project follow the principles of allowing rural households to participate in the project voluntarily and have equal access to the rights of land management and equity arrangements; Making sure that the cooperatives supported by the project follow the principles of allowing rural households to participate in the project voluntarily and have equal access to the rights of land management and equity arrangements （与第 点的最后一句内容重 复）; making sure that rural households has the right to voluntarily choose whether to join a production base, without being affected by adjacency to it; using clear written contracts and promoting short-term, transparent land lease rather than long-term one, so that poor rural households can freely choose to withdraw from cooperatives, especially when the migrant household members return; during project implementation, when cooperatives need to integrate land to build production bases , the world Bank/the provincial project office of Guizhou should review all the land leasing and management programs together in advance; confirming that equity arrangements that require rural households to provide or transfer their land to cooperatives as shares will not be supported by the project . (b) Avoiding the risks the existing ecological migrants and relocated migrants in the project areas being marginalized: migrants moving into the project villages should enjoy equal rights to join cooperatives, participate in the industrial development, and benefiting from the opportunities and rights as the original rural households; migrants who move out of the project villages but leaving their land there should also enjoy equal rights to join cooperatives, participate in the industrial development, and benefiting from the opportunities and rights; project villages that develop planting industry need to make land adjustments with ecological migrants so that they can participate in the project; if adjustments can not be made, the village will not be supported in the project. (c) Avoiding the risk of unequal benefit sharing with the conditional grants to cooperatives: convening general assemblies of members to develop the methods to use and manage grants through full xvi    discussion and consultation of cooperative members; cooperatives that capitalize the grants as shares to their members need to ensure support for 20-30% more poor households than ordinary ones; cooperatives should have a sound internal organizational structure, dedicated person responsible for management and use of grants, regularly publish the use of grants, and accept the supervision and questioning of members. (d) Avoiding the risk of labor shortage: strengthening publicity for the project and conducting the publicity at the time when massive streams of migrant workers return; creating a preparatory group for the establishment of cooperative, supporting and encouraging college students and migrant workers to participate in the preparation and establishment of cooperative, making sure that at least one minority representative (in places where minority nationalities live together), one female representative, and one representative of poor households assist in rural households in the project villages to carry out preparation and establishment activities of cooperative; providing specialized training for the cooperative management elected by villagers about the operation and management of cooperatives, and actively carrying out visiting and research activities in excellent cooperative bases; establishing a cooperative counselor system, selecting counselors who understand policies, have strong organizational skills, and are familiar with the local language, workable and willing to reside in the villages for work, and establishing a counselor management and assessment system which regards the comments of cooperatives on the work of counselors as assessment basis. (e) Avoiding the risks in operation and management of rural public infrastructure: incorporating the property right, operation, and management responsibilities of rural infrastructure into the operating manual and clearly defining them; developing operation and management methods of village-level public infrastructure. (3) Suggestions on promoting social gender development: (a) Promoting women’s participation in the project, including: paying attention to and listening to the needs and ideas of women in the project areas during the establishment of cooperatives and selection of industries for development; making sure that 30% of the attendees at the meetings of the cooperative preparatory group, the procurement group, and about cooperative establishment and industrial development planning are women; making sure that 30% of the participants in the training carried out under the project are women. (b) Improving the understanding of women towards cooperatives and the project: making sure that 30% of the participants in the whole process of information disclosure, publicity and training under the project are women, determining the training time and location with priority consideration to the time and convenience of women, and using local language whenever possible, especially in ethnic minority settlements of Yi, Miao and other minority nationalities; tapping into the advantages of women federations in information dissemination and training and working with women federations to carry out information dissemination and training. I. Public Participation Framework and Complaint and Appeal Mechanism During the project preparation stage, the social assessment process involves conducting free prior informed participation and consultation with key stakeholders and launching a series of information disclosure and public xvii    participation activities. In order to encourage various stakeholders, particularly key ones, to effectively participate in the project and improve their awareness and participation, or ensure the rights of target groups and affected stakeholders at the village level to be informed of, participate, supervise, express and make decisions in the project, and to promote the smooth realization of the project and minimize the social costs in the implementation and operation process, this report prepares a public participation framework which proposes the contents that should be included in the project implementation manual (see Chapter 8 of Social Assessment Report). This project proposes a complaint and appeal mechanism, whose specific procedures are detailed in Section 8.4. J. Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring indicators are developed according to the needs of information disclosure, public participation, and contents and activities in the action plan, and they are listed into the terms of loans. The monitoring and evaluation consists of internal and external monitoring and evaluation. Internal monitoring and evaluation will be done by the central, provincial, city and county project offices on the implementation progress, public participation progress, implementation of the action plan, use of project funds, and implementation of rules and regulations. The internal monitoring report for one phase is submitted every six months. External monitoring and evaluation will engage a third-party monitoring agency to complete the work, and the agency is required to submit a monitoring report for one phase to the World Bank annually. The summary and report of social assessment for one phase will be submitted within half a year after the project is completed. xviii    1 Foreword 1.1 Project Profile Led by the State Council Poverty Reduction Office and applied by the Foreign Capital Project Management Center of LGOP, “A Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Chinese Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas” was officially listed into the planning of applying World Bank loans by the National Development and Reform Commission (Fa Gai Wai Zi No.[2012] No. 2208) and the Ministry of Finance, and has been approved by the State Council. It is the sixth poverty reduction project sponsored by World Bank loans (World Bank Poverty Reduction Project Phase VI) following the previous five integrated poverty reduction project with loans in the Southwest and Qinba regions. The building blocks of the project include five subprojects of development of modern industry value chain, public infrastructure and support services, poverty reduction in poverty-stricken areas (training and learning), and project management, monitoring and evaluation. According to the requirements in the 2011 Outline for Development-oriented Poverty Reduction for China’s Rural Areas (2011-2020), the concatenated poor areas will be regarded as the main battlefield to develop efficient, ecological, and high value-added industries in 27 counties of 10 cities (prefectures) in the three provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu in Liupan Mountain and Wumeng Mountain concatenated areas to provide development models for developing and demonstrating rural pillar industries in representative concatenated poor areas, enhance sustainable agricultural production systems, improve organizational arrangements and increase rural incomes. The total investment of the project is RMB 1.8 billion, of which: the World Bank loan accounts for $ 150 million, equivalent to RMB 900 million (U.S. $ 1 = RMB 6), accounting for 50% of the total; RMB 900 million will be contributed by domestic supporting fund, accounting for 50% of the total. The investments in different provinces are as follows: the total investment in Guizhou Province is RMB 480 million, including $ 60 million from the World Bank loan; the total investment in Sichuan Province is RMB 600 million, including $ 50 million from the World Bank loan; the total investment in Gansu Province is RMB 720 million, including $ 60 million from the World Bank loan. 1.2 Social Assessment Tasks The social assessment in this project is aimed to investigate about agricultural production systems, the current status of professional farmer cooperatives, and the wishes and demands of stakeholders in the 27 counties of 10 cities (prefectures) in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces, to identify social risks of the project, to avoid or mitigate the social risks of the project by developing action plan, to improve the project design, and to promote the feasibility and sustainability of the development models of demonstration industries. Thus, the main tasks of this social assessment are: (1) To identify the main stakeholders in the project and to understand the understanding, demands and suggestions of various stakeholders on the possible impacts and risks of the project; (2) To learn about the construction and development of professional farmer cooperatives in project 1    counties, including the current status of professional farmer cooperatives, the main modes of operation as well as the advantages and disadvantages, and evaluation of the organization, capacity and sustainability of the existing cooperatives; (3) To learn about the current development of project areas and counties, main types and sources of livelihood, sustainable development, main problems and risks of local farmers, and impacts and risks that the implementation of the project may have on the livelihood of farmers; (4) To understand the demands and attitudes of the poor population and women towards the project, especially their views and attitudes on the demonstration industries and cooperatives, and to identify the project’s impact on these groups; (5) To develop an action plan, to enhance positive social benefits, to avoid project risks, and to promote the realization of the project objectives. 1.3 Objects/Scope of Social Assessment The scope of this social assessment includes the entire beneficiary range covered under the construction of the project, namely: 547 project villages in 27 counties of three provinces --- Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu, as well as cooperatives related to industrial development; the objects of social assessment are mainly affected rural households in the project villages, especially the poor ones. 1.4 Main Contents of Social Assessment The main contents of this social assessment include: socio-economic development, stakeholder analysis, cooperatives analysis, poverty analysis, social gender analysis, minority analysis, information disclosure and public participation analysis, development and implementation of action plan. (1) Socio-economic development: defining the beneficiary scope and population in the project areas, defining the project areas, introducing the social-economic status including populations, land, income and planting and breeding industries in the project areas. (2) Stakeholder analysis: identifying major stakeholders involved in the project, such as the affected villagers, professional farmer cooperatives, and leading enterprises in the demonstration industries, especially women, the elderly, the poor and other vulnerable groups, identifying the demands and attitudes of key stakeholders towards the project, analyzing the positive and negative effects of the project implementation on the key stakeholders. (3) Cooperative analysis: analyzing the organizational and operation modes as well as the advantages and disadvantages of the existing cooperatives in the project areas and proposing suggestions on improving the cooperative development according to the requirements of the demonstration industries, in combination with the understanding and attitudes of villagers in the project areas towards cooperatives. (4) Poverty analysis: analyzing the impact of the project on the poor groups based on the poverty conditions in the project areas and the understanding and attitudes of the poor groups towards the project, and establishing profit mechanisms for the poor groups. (5) Social gender analysis: introducing the development status of women and the activities carried out 2    for women in the project areas, and analyzing the impact of the project implementation on women. (6) Minority analysis: introducing the basic situation of minority nationalities in the project area, the attitudes and views of minority nationalities towards the project implementation, and analyzing the impact of the project on minority nationalities. (7) Information disclosure and public participation analysis: identifying the public demand for project information disclosure, establishing and improving an information disclosure mechanism, optimizing the project design, ensuring that different stakeholders can fully and fairly participate in the planning, design and implementation of the project. (8) Action plans and implementation: proposing targeted policy recommendations and action plans by identifying and analyzing the project risks, avoiding or reducing the social risks in the project, and proposing action suggestions on the design of project information disclosure. 1.5 Social Assessment Methods From October 27 to November 29, 2013, the Social Assessment Group conducted a 34-day field investigation in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces under the strong support and cooperative of project offices at all levels, mainly using social research methods like literature study, participant observation, key informant interview, in-depth interview, symposium, and survey, with the purpose to make the materials and data obtained through all kinds of methods can complement and support each other, achieving more accurate social assessment result. The specific process of social assessment was as follows: (1) Literature Study From October to November, 2013, the preparation unit of social assessment searched for information about the project mainly from the secondary literature data provided by the project offices and through Internet. The information includes project background, basic information about the provinces, cities (prefectures), counties and towns where the project is implemented, and project progress. The main information that was collected include: study reports about project feasibility from the project provinces and counties; The “Twelfth Five Year Plan” of the provinces, cities and counties, as well as the relevant departments; latest statistical yearbooks and statistical bulletins for 2013 and 2012 of the provinces, cities and counties; poverty reduction and development planning, industrial development planning, and implementation plans of key projects of the provinces, cities and counties; research reports about the basic information of minority nationalities in the cities and counties where the project is implemented; land transfer and consolidation, relocation and resettlement and planning of ecological migrants in the cities and counties where the project is implemented; development planning of women and research reports about women development in the cities and counties where the project is implemented; development planning of characteristic advantageous industries, management programs of pest control and prevention, agricultural training records, and relevant statistical materials about rural cooperatives in the cities and counties where the project is implemented; materials about the development conditions, management, operational modes and other experience of professional farmer cooperatives in the project counties and other places in other provinces. (2) Participant Observation 3    From October 27 to November 29, 2013, the Social Assessment Group carried out participant observation in the project villages and communicated with leaders at all levels and residents in the towns and villages through field exploration to further understand the social and economical lives of residents, the impact scope of the project, the possible impact on the villagers and the existing and potential problems, so as to provide objective basis for optimizing the project design. (3) Key Informant Interview Interviews were conducted with key informants in relevant departments such as poverty reduction offices, Bureau of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Bureau, Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, and Women’s Federation at city and county/district levels, as well with key informants such as leaders at township/town and village levels, leaders of cooperatives, leaders of associations, and agricultural technology staff. The main purpose of the interviews was to learn the comments and suggestions of stakeholders on the project, with the focus on providing better suggestions on the design and implementation of the project. In the survey, 171 key informants were interviewed. (4) In-depth Interview From October 27 to November 29, 2013, the Social Assessment Group and project offices organized in-depth face-to-face interviews with major stakeholders in the project villages to learn about the production and lives of the affected population, the impact and potential risks brought by the project, and their comments and suggestions on the design and implementation of the project. The social assessment survey involved a total of 69 village collectives in 63 towns in the project areas and conducted 206 in-depth interviews with villager representatives, including 98 women (47.6%); 65 minority people (31.6%), and 87 poor representatives (42.2%). (5) Institutional Seminars From October, 27 to November, 29, 2013, the Social Assessment Group held 37 institutional seminars with relevant government functional departments including the poverty reduction offices, Women’s Federation, the Civil Administration, Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security, Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Land and Resources Bureau, and demolition offices at city (prefecture) and county levels in 27 counties, 10 cities (prefectures) to understand the basic information, development of minority nationalities and women, relevant policies and projects of departments, and comments or suggestions on the project in the project areas. (6) Focus Group Symposium From October, 27 to November, 29, 2013, the Social Assessment Group convened representatives of rural households in the project villages (including poor rural households, women and other vulnerable groups) for symposiums to learn about the production and livelihood of villagers, their participation and practice in the operation of cooperatives and agricultural industrialization, their understanding about the project, and their willingness, attitudes, needs, comments and suggestions about the project. This social assessment held a total of 69 focus group symposiums, with a total of 958 participants, including 201 poor people, accounting for 21.0%; there were 69 women symposiums, with a total of 447 participants. (7) Questionnaire Survey The questionnaire survey adopted a multi-stage random sampling method and the samples covered all 4    the project cities (prefectures). Combining the characteristics of project contents and project counties, with reference to the situation of areas inhabited and not inhabited by minority nationalities, operational modes of different professional farmer cooperatives, and characteristics of different advantageous industries (classified into the planting industry, the breeding industry and the tourism), sample counties were selected for the survey. A total of 20 counties in 10 cities (prefectures) were selected, accounting for 74.1% of the project counties. The total samples selected in this Social Assessment Group were 1,600. There were 1,507 valid questionnaires collected, accounting for 94.2%. Among them, 788 were from men, accounting for 52.3%; 719 were from women, accounting for 47.7%; 758 were from poor households, accounting for 51.3%. After statistics, the basic profile of the samples was shown in Table 1-1: Table 1-1 Distribution of Questionnaire Surveys among Rural Households Sample Valid Questionnaire Region Questionnaire County Remarks City Province (Municipality, Quantity Quantity Percent (%) (Prefecture) District) Dafang 60 60 100.0 Bijie City County Zhijin County 60 60 100.0 Guizhou 53 Tongzi County 60 88.3 Province Xishui County 60 60 100.0 Zunyi City Chishui 60 60 100.0 Municipality Gulin County 60 55 91.7 Luzhou City Xuyong 60 53 88.3 County Zhaojue 120 120 County of Yi 100.0 County Nationality Sichuan Liangshan County of Yi Province Meigu County 120 106 88.3 Autonomous Nationality Prefecture of Yi Jinyang 104 County of Yi 120 86.7 Nationality County Nationality County of Yi Butuo County 120 95 79.2 Nationality Tianshui Zhangjiachuan 90 90 County of Hui Gansu 100.0 City County Nationality Province Wuwei City Gulang 60 60 100.0 5    County Tongwei 60 60 100.0 County Minxian Village of Hui Dingxi City 60 58 96.7 County Nationality Anding Town of Hui 60 47 78.3 District Nationality Qingyang Huanxian 100 Village of Hui 100 100.0 City County Nationality Dongxiang 90 Dongxiang 90 100.0 County Nationality Linxia Prefecture Dongxiang Yongjing 90 90 100.0 Nationality and County Hui Nationality Pingliang Jingning 90 86 95.6 City County Total 10 20 1600 1507 94.2 The establishment and analysis of the questionnaire database were done using the IBM SPSS 20.0 software. Basic information about valid samples after statistics is shown in Table 1-2. Table 1-2 Basic Information about Valid Samples Statistical Statistical Values Indicators Gender Male, accounting for 52.3%; female, accounting for 47.7%. Age The average age was 40, with the minimum age at 18 and the maximum at 80. Han (59.1%); Miao (2.3%); Bai (0.2%); Yi (27.3%); Tujia (0.3%); Hui (4.2%); Dongxiang Nationality (6.1%)l Chuanqing (0.5%)。 College degree or above (5.1%); High school/technical secondary school (8.6%); Junior school Educational Level (39.2%); Primary school (40.5%); Illiterate (6.6%). Marital Status Married (92.7%); single (6.0%); widowed (1.2%); divorced (0.1%). Farmer (86.7%); Migrant worker (10.4%); Private business owners (1.1%); civil servants/workers Occupation in public institutions (0.1%); Self-employed (0.6%); Enterprise employees (0.4%); Housewives (0.5%)； Students (0.1%); Others (0.1%). Mandarin Yes (26.7%); No (73.3%). Poor Household Poor household (50.3%); Ordinary household (46.3%); Affluent household (3.4%). 6    2 Socio-Economic Development in Project Areas 2.1. Definition of Project Areas The project mainly involves concatenated destitute areas in Guizhou, Sichuan, and Gansu in Wumengshan and Liupan Mountains, with a total of 538 project villages (including 359 key villages for poverty reduction), 135 towns, 27 counties (districts), 10 cities (prefectures). The direct beneficiary area is 77764km2 and the direct beneficiary population is 946,400, including 342,900 poor people, accounting for 36.23% of the total beneficiary population; 240,900 minority population, accounting for 25.45% of the total; 462,200 women, accounting for 48.83% of the total. Table 2-1 Direct Beneficiary Scope and Population Benefici Building Beneficiary Areas Beneficiary Population ary Blocks Key Area of Village Total Minorit Coun (km2) Poor Women Project City/ Towns Administr s for (10,00 y Provi ty/ (10,000 (10,000 Prefect hip/ ative Povert 0 (10,000 nce Distri persons, persons, ure Town Villages y perso persons, ct %) %) Reduct ns) %) ion Develop Guizh 14,504 7.93(24. 4.38(13. 15.80(48 2 5 30 98 76 32.68 ment of ou 27) 4) .33) modern Sichu 8.77(33. 2 6 49 199 42 14,862 26.07 16.67(63 12.75(48 industry an 64) .94) .92) value chain, 48,398 public 17.59(49 Gansu 6 16 56 241 241 35.89 3.04(8.4 17.67(49 infrastruc .01) 7) .23) ture and services Total 10 27 135 538 359 77,764 94.64 34.29(36 24.09(25 46.22(48 .23) .45) .83) Source: Statistical yearbooks (2013) and research reports of Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces 2.2. Social and Economic Profile   2.2.1. POPULATION By the end of 2012, the total registered population in the project areas in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu was 946,400, including 223,221 households. Among them, 240,900 were minorities, accounting for 25.5%; the labor force totaled 572,400 people and 240,700 were migrant workers, accounting for 7    42.1%. There were totally 81,273 households in the project areas in Guizhou Province, and the total population was 326,800, including 43,800 minorities, accounting for 13.4%; the labor force totaled 197,400 people, including 101,800 migrant workers, accounting for 51.6%. There were totally 60,874 households in the project areas in Sichuan Province, and the total population was 260,700, including 166,700 minorities, accounting for 63.9%; the labor force totaled 153,200 people, including 4,4500 migrant workers, accounting for 29.1%. There were totally 81,074 households in the project areas in Sichuan Province, and the total population was 358,900, including 30,400 minorities, accounting for 8.5%; the labor force totaled 221,800 people, including 94,400 migrant workers, accounting for 42.6%. According to the statistics in each province, Sichuan had the largest percent (63.9%) of minority population in the total population in the project areas of the province, followed by Guizhou (13.4%), and then by Gansu (8.5%). Guizhou had the largest percent (51.6%) of migrant workers in the total number of labor force in the province and Sichuan had the smaller percent (29.1%). Table 2-2 Populations in Project Counties (Cities, Districts) (2012) Population Total Total of Number of Total Labor Population Minority Migrant Region Number of Force (10,000 Nationality Workers Households (10,000 people) (10,000 (10,000 people) people) people) Dafang 21849 7.89 2.42 4.7 2.11 Bijie City County Zhijin County 11872 4.6044 1.91 2.78 1.64 Tongzi Guizhou 8174 3.56 / 2.52 1.04 County Province Zunyi City Xishui County 24159 11 / 4 2 Chishui 15219 5.6237 0.0468 5.7415 3.389 Municipality Subtotal 81273 32.68 4.38 19.74 10.18 Gulin County 12282 5.67 0.23 3.49 1 Luzhou City Xuyong 10613 4.56 1.2 2.4 1.16 County Zhaojue Liangshan 9864 4.79 4.79 3.11 0.19 Sichuan County Autonomous Province Meigu County 11779 4.58 4.58 2.39 0.43 Prefecture Jinyang of Yi 8595 3.53 2.93 2.09 0.72 County Nationality Butuo County 7741 2.94 2.94 1.84 0.95 Subtotal 60874 26.07 16.67 15.32 4.45 Gansu Zhangjiachuan Tianshui 2982 1.39 0.74 0.74 0.34 Province County 8    City Gulang Wuwei City 5243 2.33 0.02 1.31 0.54 County Tongwei 3349 1.82 0.0045 0.96 0.498 County Longxi Dingxi City 5275 2.3418 / 1.39 0.41 County Qingyang Weiyuan 9410 3.96 / 2.38 0.74 City County Minxian Linxia 6858 3.15 0.0453 1.87 0.62 County Prefecture Anding 6046 2.4 0.49 1.6 0.44 District Lintao County 4640 1.9933 / 0.996 0.63 Huanxian Pingliang 8144 3.77 0.04 2.56 2.08 County City Huachi 3762 1.5048 / 0.8711 0.5394 Tianshui County City Zhengning 8280 3.6062 / 2.39 0.83 County Wuwei City Heshui 5977 2.33 / 1.63 0.48 Dingxi City County Dongxiang 2241 1.15 1.15 0.59 0.29 County Yongjing 3411 1.56 0.55 0.91 0.33 County Jingning 2452 1.156 / 1.08 0.2549 Qingyang County City Zhuanglang 3004 1.4321 / 0.91 0.42 County Subtotal 81074 35.89 3.04 22.18 9.44 Total 223221 94.64 24.09 57.24 24.07 Source: Research reports of Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces 2.2.2. INCOME According to statistics, measured by county, the per capita net income of farmers in the project areas in Guizhou Province in 2012 was RMB 4,544, 462 lower than the average level (5006). The net income of farmers in the project areas mainly came from family business income and wage income, accounting for 45.7% and 42.7% of per capita net income, respectively. This indicated that rural households in the project areas mainly lived on planting and breeding industries and seeking jobs in other places. The per capita net income of farmers in the project areas in Sichuan Province in 2012 was RMB 3,303, 1,299 lower than the average level (4,602). In terms of the income composition, farmers in the project 9    areas mainly lived on family business income, which accounted for 64.3%. This indicated that villagers in the project areas mainly lived on planting and breeding industries. The per capita net income of farmers in the project areas in Gansu Province in 2012 was RMB 2,714.07, 870.88 lower than the average level (3,584.95). In the family income of farmers in the project areas, family business income and wage income accounted for large shares. Rural households mainly lived on planting industry and seeking jobs in other places. Generally, the per capita net income of farmers in the 27 project counties (cities, districts) was lower than that at the county level. The main income sources of farmers were family business income and wage income. Table 2-3 Per Capita Net Income of Farmers in Project Counties (Cities, Districts) (2012) Per Capita Per Capita Net Income of Farmers in the Project Net Income of Counties (Cities, Districts) (%) Region Farmers in Family Total Wage Transfer Property the County Business (RMB) Income Income Income (RMB) Income Dafang 4943 4316 52.1 34.2 10.0 3.7 Bijie City County Zhijin County 4714 4680 55.5 37.6 4.1 2.8 Guizhou Tongzi 4263 3946 20.0 60.0 10.0 10.0 Province County Zunyi City Xishui County 4572 4368 57.5 33.2 4.2 5.0 Chishui 6537 5408 41.2 49.0 6.3 3.5 Municipality Subtotal 5006 4544 45.7 42.7 6.8 4.8 Gulin County 5734.69 3563 45.1 53.0 1.7 0.2 Luzhou City Xuyong 5413 4318 42.8 38.9 14.4 3.8 County Zhaojue Sichuan Liangshan 4297 2965 81.4 12.9 5.4 0.3 County Province Autonomous Meigu County 3981 3872 65.0 20.0 14.0 1.0 Prefecture Jinyang of Yi 4075 2796 89.4 8.6 2.0 0.0 County Nationality Butuo County 4112 2307 80.6 0.0 19.4 0.0 Subtotal 4602 3303 64.3 25.0 9.5 1.1 Tianshui Zhangjiachuan 3343 1964.78 35.2 55.2 8.9 0.6 City County Gansu Gulang Wuwei City 3559 2610 40.5 47.2 10.6 1.8 Province County Tongwei Dingxi City 3365.12 3294 41.6 40.7 0.0 17.6 County 10    Longxi Qingyang 3924 2727 60.5 30.3 1.0 8.2 County City Weiyuan Linxia 3517 2282 55.0 35.0 10.0 0.0 County Prefecture Minxian 3384 2805 61.3 37.2 0.4 1.1 County Anding 3632 3625 56.9 42.2 0.9 0.0 District Lintao County 3841 3129 83.5 15.0 1.3 0.2 Huanxian 3636 3536.28 57.6 32.1 8.3 2.0 Pingliang County City Huachi 4154.5 2440 25.4 37.3 20.9 16.4 Tianshui County City Zhengning 4624 3819 46.9 24.1 14.8 14.2 County Wuwei City Heshui Dingxi City 4120 3200 75.2 17.2 6.0 1.6 County Dongxiang 2413 1875 49.4 25.5 23.1 1.9 County Yongjing 3160.7 2230 46.7 23.2 29.5 0.6 County Jingning 3642 1652 34.0 40.4 14.4 11.2 Qingyang County City Zhuanglang 3529.6 2236 38.0 52.9 1.4 7.7 County Total 3584.95 2714.07 52.2 33.8 8.6 5.5 Source: Research reports of Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces. 2.2.3. LAND (1) Land Resources The total land area in the project areas in Guizhou Province is 104,824 hectares, of which forest land takes up the largest proportion (54.9%), followed by arable land (23.8%); in addition, grass land, waters and other types of land cover an area of 7.1%, 1.2% and 13.1%, respectively. The per capita farmland area is 2.4 mu. The total land area in the project areas in Sichuan Province is 184,803 hectares, of which forest land takes up the largest proportion (40.5%), followed by grass land (29.2%) and then by arable land (12.6%); in addition, waters and other types of land cover an area of 1.2% and 16.5%, respectively. The per capita farmland area is 1.32 mu. The total land area in the project areas in Gansu Province is 766,356.61 hectares, of which other types of land take up the largest proportion (69.2%); followed by arable land (12.9%) and then grass land (10.6%); in addition, forest land and waters account for 6.9% and 0.3% of the total land area, respectively. The per capita farmland area is 3 mu. 11    Generally, Gansu Province has the largest per capita farmland area (3 mu) while Sichuan Province has the smallest, 1.32 mu. The forest land in the project areas in Guizhou and Sichuan Provinces take up the largest proportions in the total land area of the province. In Gansu, the other types of land take up the largest proportion of the total land area. Table 2-4 Land Resources in Project Counties (Cities, Districts) Basic Land Resources in Project Counties (Cities, Districts) Farmland Region Per Total Arable Forest Grass Capita Area Waters Others Land Land Land (mu) (hectare) Dafang County 1 13333 32.9 28.3 12.6 2.1 24.0 Bijie City Zhijin County 1.2 16141 24.0 46.8 9.8 1.7 17.7 Guizhou Tongzi County 4.2 8015 30.4 53.8 10.3 3.2 2.3 Province Xishui County 5.1 42917 24.5 52.9 7.7 0.4 14.4 Zunyi City Chishui 0.6 24418.15 15.1 78.5 0.2 1.0 5.2 Municipality Subtotal 2.4 104824 23.8 54.9 7.1 1.2 13.1 Gulin County 1.08 25543 16.5 56.6 0.0 0.4 26.4 Luzhou City Xuyong 1.05 20151 16.0 57.9 0.8 1.3 24.1 County Sichuan Liangshan Zhaojue 1.35 55211 7.6 45.7 44.6 0.3 1.8 Province Autonomous County Prefecture Meigu County 0.7 41010 8.2 38.5 34.1 0.2 19.0 of Yi Jinyang County 1.8 18969 24.6 28.0 39.7 1.1 6.6 Nationality Butuo County 1.95 23919 15.4 10.2 32.2 5.4 36.7 Subtotal 1.32 184803 12.6 40.5 29.2 1.2 16.5 Zhangjiachuan 1.7 11203 29.9 38.9 20.7 0.0 10.4 Tianshui City County Gulang Wuwei City 3 20313 24.9 0.8 46.8 2.2 25.3 County Tongwei 4 6675.6 72.5 0.7 13.0 0.0 13.8 County Gansu Longxi 2.8 20520.45 24.0 16.1 9.5 7.3 43.1 Province County Weiyuan Dingxi City 2.47 454568 1.2 2.0 1.6 0.0 95.1 County Minxian 1.35 35298 14.5 27.1 49.9 0.0 8.5 County Anding 4 24184 36.2 18.3 25.2 0.0 20.3 District Lintao County 2.17 11080 46.5 7.6 8.7 0.0 37.2 12    Huanxian 4 86400 21.8 0.0 15.6 0.0 62.6 County Huachi Qingyang 7.4 41764.96 39.3 9.2 29.7 0.0 21.8 County City Zhengning 2 10644 42.6 35.7 19.6 0.2 1.9 County Heshui 1.76 17969 25.3 58.2 15.2 0.0 1.2 County Dongxiang 1.26 4836.8 45.7 9.6 2.1 0.2 42.3 Linxia County Prefecture Yongjing 2.5 10366.7 37.3 0.7 35.8 0.9 25.3 County Jingning 3 5824.1 55.4 30.8 2.6 1.1 10.0 Pingliang County City Zhuanglang 2 3709 78.3 13.9 2.3 1.2 4.2 County Subtotal 3 766356.61 12.9 6.9 10.6 0.3 69.2 Source: Research reports of Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces. (2) Land Transfer and Land Consolidation Land transfer: There are different levels of land transfer made in the project areas. The common ways of land transfer in the project areas are land lease and pooling of land as shares. The former is dominant. Land lease is adopted in cattle raising, sheep raising, and potato planting industries. The lease price is determined according to the geographical location, quality of soil, and leveling degree of land through negotiation, usually ranging from 30 yuan/mu - 3000 yuan/mu. Pooling of land as shares is mainly used in Chinese medicinal herbs and white konjac planting industries. The land is evaluated by both parties in terms of shares through negotiation and shareholders will participate in year-end dividend sharing of cooperatives. Land consolidation: Guizhou Province is currently implementing some land consolidation projects. The consolidated wasteland is assigned by the village committee to households. Anyone who is capable and willing to share the land can participate in the project and the candidates will finally be determined at the general assembly of villagers. As most of the land is Rocky Mountains, there is little land consolidation in Sichuan Province. For example, the area of land consolidated is about 25 mu in Meigu County. Land consolidation began in Gansu Province as early as 30 years ago. Mostly barren hills and slopes or slope-to-terrace were consolidated into farmland. The work was mainly state-funded while rural households only needed to contribute a small part of the funds, and all the consolidated land was allocated to households; as there were large scales of land consolidation in early days, now there is little large-scale land consolidation in the project areas in Gansu Province, and there are mostly sporadic small-scale one. For example, Jingning County in Pingliang City mainly develops apple industry. Flat land is suitable to plant apples. As the project villages are largely dominated by steep slopes, to develop apple industry with this project, the local government is developing land leveling project; Huanxian County and Huachi County in Qingyang City develop sheep raising industry and cooperatives are renting cheap wasteland (RMB 30-50 yuan/mu) to self-level and improve land to plant forage. 13    2.2.4. PLANTING By the end of 2012, the total sown area of crops in the project areas of Guizhou was 55,015 hectares, including 48,441 hectares of food crops, accounting for 88.1%. The total sown area of cash crops was 3,371 hectares. The total sown area of crops in the project areas of Sichuan was 38,888 hectares, including 26,644 hectares of food crops, accounting for 68.5%. The total sown area of cash crops was 9,805 hectares. The total sown area of crops in the project areas of Gansu was 165,816.4 hectares, including 129,209.79 hectares of food crops, accounting for 77.9%. The total sown area of cash crops was 17,025.23 hectares. According to the field survey, the planting industry in the project areas is dominated by food crops. The main food crops in the project areas in Guizhou are corn, potato, soybean, and sorghum, and the main cash crops are mainly medicinal herb, tobacco, etc.; the main food crops in the project areas in Sichuan are buckwheat, potato, corn, oat, and bean, and the main cash crops are konjac, green pepper, walnut, sweet orange, etc.; the main food crops in the project areas in Gansu Province are corn, potato, wheat, and bean, and cash crops are mainly apple, tobacco, medicinal herb, vegetable, and alfalfa. Table 2-5 Planting Industry in the Project Counties (Cities, Districts) Sown Area of Crops (hectare) Sown Area of Cash Region Crop (hectare) Area Food Crop Percent Dafang 6992 5569 79.6 1135 Bijie City County Zhijin County 2702 2378 88.0 480 Guizhou Tongzi 2884 2188 75.9 606 Province County Zunyi City Xishui County 38817 35020 90.2 860 Chishui 3619.55 3286.2 90.8 289.81 Municipality Subtotal 55015 48441 88.1 3371 Gulin County 7947 6199 78.0 1747.55 Luzhou City Xuyong 8437 4834 57.3 3602.9 County Zhaojue Sichuan Liangshan 8046 4091 50.8 3656 County Province Autonomous Meigu County 4757 3622 76.1 436 Prefecture Jinyang of Yi 4872 4441 91.2 190.63 County Nationality Butuo County 4830 3457 71.6 172.23 Subtotal 38888 26644 68.5 9805 Gansu Tianshui Zhangjiachuan 3354.42 2802.35 83.5 388.75 Province City County 14    Gulang 4900.7 3069.6 62.6 372.2 Wuwei City County Tongwei 4007 3606 90.0 1885 County Longxi 18900 4700 24.9 1500 County Weiyuan 4913 4268 86.9 210 Dingxi City County Minxian 4694 3495 74.5 2605 County Anding 7450.33 6495.86 87.2 664.1 District Lintao County 4265 3953 92.7 201 Huanxian 61261 53413 87.2 965.64 County Huachi 7538.23 4605.22 61.1 3353.06 Qingyang County City Zhengning 5392 2497 46.3 3029 County Heshui 28781 27889 96.9 892 County Dongxiang 2213 2213 100.0 0 Linxia County Prefecture Yongjing 3399.12 2633.86 77.5 250.88 County Jingning 2778.6 2259.9 81.3 628.6 Pingliang County City Zhuanglang 1969 1309 66.5 80 County Subtotal 165816.4 129209.79 77.9 17025.23 Source: Research reports of Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces 2.2.5. BREEDING By the end of 2012, the inventories of large livestock in the project areas in Guizhou were 42,895; the inventories of live pigs were 123,027; the inventories of sheep were 35,582; the forage area was 20,082.54 hectares. The inventories of large livestock in the project areas in Sichuan were 83,000; the 15    inventories of live pigs were 248,000; the inventories of sheep were 303,000; the forage area was 22,920 hectares. The inventories of large livestock in the project areas in Gansu were 89,240; the inventories of live pigs were 104,670; the inventories of sheep were 320,450; the forage area was 41,397.41 hectares. Table 2-6 Breeding Industry in the Project Counties (Cities, Districts) Inventories of Inventories of Inventories of Large Livestock Pigs by the Sheep by the Forage Area Region by the End of End of 2012 End of 2012 (hectare) 2012 (in 1,000) (in 1,000) (in 1,000) Dafang 19 22 2 278 Bijie City County Zhijin County 1.4 12 1.2 56 Guizhou Tongzi 12 15 7 6000 Province County Zunyi City Xishui County 10.495 38.745 24.240 13692 Chishui 0.308 35.282 1.142 56.54 Municipality Subtotal 42.895 123.027 35.582 20082.54 Gulin County 10.98 41.44 5.12 0 Luzhou City Xuyong 9.44 40.34 0.83 1750 County Zhaojue Sichuan Liangshan 25.86 51.8 122.78 5618 County Province Autonomous Meigu County 8.39 70.99 85.66 2274 Prefecture Jinyang of Yi 23.61 28.63 77.6 4073.39 County Nationality Butuo County 4.23 15.25 11.43 9204.27 Subtotal 83 248 303 22920 Tianshui Zhangjiachuan 9.11 0.66 5.08 163.32 City County Gulang 7.49 13.57 37.19 1458.83 Wuwei City County Tongwei 4.109 2.045 2.788 275 Gansu County Province Longxi 5 8.8 6.5 1710 Dingxi City County Weiyuan 4.09 11.14 6.5 57.06 County Minxian 21 18.8 27 4218 16    County Anding 7.9 9.8 24.44 6367.19 District Lintao County 1.94 7.03 14.77 79.47 Huanxian 10.29 5.09 142 22043 County Huachi 4.575 5.094 22.633 2988.94 Qingyang County City Zhengning 0.937 8.017 1.968 0 County Heshui 1.693 3.2 11.91 980 County Dongxiang 0.23 0 1.96 173 Linxia County Prefecture Yongjing 5.21 4.52 15 672 County Jingning 2.38 3.56 0.4 159.4 Pingliang County City Zhuanglang 3.29 3.34 0.31 42.2 County Subtotal 89.24 104.67 320.45 41387.41 Source: Research reports of Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces 2.3. Current Status of Professional Farmer Cooperatives (1) Guizhou Province There are 997 professional farmer cooperatives in the project counties (cities) in Guizhou Province, and there are 82 cooperatives within the scope of the project, accounting for 8.22% of the total. Among them: there are 130 cooperatives of Chinese medicines, 26 potato cooperatives, 170 sheep cooperatives, 5 tea cooperatives, 67 chicken raising cooperatives, 25 pepper cooperatives, 43 rural tourism cooperatives, 12 fruit cooperatives, 13 bamboo fungus cooperatives, and 397 other cooperatives. In terms of operation, 179 cooperatives are well-run, accounting for 17.96%; 573 are moderately run, accounting for 57.47%; 245 are poorly run, accounting for 24.57%. 17    Table 2-7 Basic Information about Professional Cooperatives in the Project Counties (Cities) in Guizhou Province Professiona l Main Industries that Professional Cooperatives are Engaged in Operation Cooperativ e Regi Chine on Proj Proj Chic Rura Bam se ect ect Pot She T ken Pep l Fr boo Oth W Moder Poo Medic Cou Are ato ep ea Raisi per Tour uit fung ers ell ately rly inal nty a ng ism us Herb Xish ui 120 22 26 6 35 1 17 1 1 6 0 27 7 63 50 Cou nty Chis hui 98 34 16 1 1 0 5 0 2 2 0 71 6 82 10 City Ton gzi 129 4 11 1 4 2 3 0 38 0 0 70 12 69 48 Cou nty Dafa ng 298 12 35 10 63 2 18 9 0 4 0 157 23 187 88 Cou nty Zhiji n 13 352 10 42 8 67 0 24 15 2 0 13 181 172 49 Cou 1 nty Tota 17 997 82 130 26 170 5 67 25 43 12 13 506 573 245 l 9 Source: Research report of Guizhou Province, and Data from Agricultural Bureau and project offices of the counties Note: About operation of professional operatives, “well” means the cooperative operates independently and is profitable; “moderately” means the cooperative functions and makes ends meet; “poorly” means the cooperative does not function and is stagnant. (2) Sichuan Province There are 842 cooperatives in the project counties in Sichuan Province, and there are 63 cooperatives within the scope of the project, accounting for 7.48% of the total. Among them: there are 119 fruit cooperatives, 60 potato cooperatives, 84 sheep cooperatives, 72 dried fruit cooperatives, 3 white konjac cooperatives, 14 green pepper cooperatives, and 493 other cooperatives. In terms of operation, 42 cooperatives are well-run, accounting for 5%; 101 are moderately run, accounting for 11.9%; 702 are 18    poorly run, accounting for 83.1%. Table 2-8 Basic Information about Professional Cooperatives in the Project Counties in Sichuan Province Professional Main Industries that Professional Cooperatives are Operation Cooperative Engaged in Projec Region Drie White Green t Projec Frui Potat Shee Other Wel Moderatel Poorl d Konja Peppe Count t Area t o p s l y y Fruit c r y Xuyon g 262 12 29 3 3 0 0 0 227 42 53 167 County Gulin 527 24 85 47 61 72 0 12 250 0 29 498 County Butuo 8 3 0 2 0 0 0 0 6 0 0 8 County Jinyan g 20 11 5 0 10 0 3 2 0 0 6 14 County Zhaoju e 15 6 0 8 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 County Meigu 13 7 0 0 3 0 0 0 10 0 13 0 County Total 845 63 119 60 84 72 3 14 493 42 101 702 Source: Research Report of Sichuan Province (3) Gansu Province There are 4,502 professional farmer cooperatives in the project counties (districts) in Gansu Province, and there are 835 cooperatives within the scope of the project, accounting for 18.55% of the total. Among them: there are 658 potato cooperatives, 255 apple cooperatives, 526 cooperatives of Chinese medicines, 947 sheep cooperatives, 445 cattle raising cooperatives, 441 pig raising cooperatives, and 1,230 other cooperatives. In terms of operation, 1,444 cooperatives are well-run, accounting for 32.07%; 1,780 are moderately run, accounting for 39.54%; 1,278 are poorly run, accounting for 28.39%. Table 2-9 Basic Information about Professional Cooperatives in the Project Counties (Districts) in Gansu Province Professional Main Industries that Professional Cooperatives are Operation Cooperative Engaged in Proje Region Proje Chinese Sheep Cattle Pig ct Pota App Othe We Moderat Poor ct Medicin Raisi Raisi Raisi Coun to le rs ll ely ly Area es ng ng ng ty Zhangjiach 494 52 138 0 118 55 57 15 111 143 164 187 uan County 19    Guliang 760 13 11 0 16 192 181 186 174 469 158 133 County Tongwei 279 91 33 5 29 57 26 0 129 76 109 94 County Longxi 303 119 106 0 43 68 15 12 59 32 167 104 County Weiyuan 408 68 134 0 145 70 10 4 45 128 200 80 County Minxian 232 6 16 0 116 35 22 43 0 0 232 0 County Anding 247 15 92 0 0 73 7 6 69 101 57 89 District Lintao 377 76 54 0 17 79 68 28 131 120 135 122 County Huanxian 295 209 8 5 1 195 7 6 73 65 130 100 County Huachi 126 44 4 0 5 44 1 16 56 25 50 51 County Zhengning 216 1 3 32 17 3 5 54 102 38 92 86 County Heshui 125 23 2 21 2 27 14 6 53 43 27 55 County Dongxiang 43 0 6 0 1 15 3 0 18 9 21 13 County Yongjing 122 6 14 0 5 32 0 0 71 20 40 62 County Jingning 272 57 8 128 7 2 26 27 74 92 143 37 County Zhuanglang 203 55 29 64 4 0 3 38 65 83 55 65 County 144 Total 4502 835 658 255 526 947 445 441 1230 1780 1278 4 Source: Research report of Gansu Province, and Data from Agricultural Bureau and project offices of some counties 20    2.4. Current Development of Advantageous Industries (1) Guizhou Province Planting industry: Guizhou Province is developing 7 characteristic planting industries, including gastrodia elata, pepper, Chinese medicinal herb and potato in Dafang County, bamboo fungus, potato and tea in Zhijin County, and dendrobe in Chishui City. Table 2-10 Current Status of Planting Industry Development in the Project Counties (Cities) in Guizhou Province Average Average Current Planned Scale to Yield Sales Increasable Developing Planting Planting be Region Yield (kg) per Price per Planting Industry Area Area Improved Unit Unit Area (mu) (mu) (mu) (mu) (kg/mu) (yuan/kg) Gastrodia 25000 75000 30.2 230 25000 11000 11000 elata Pepper 180000 54000000 300 18 150000 28847 28847 Dafang Chinese County medicinal 2000 872000 436.3 12 20000 2500 / herb Potato 500000 410000 820 2.4 100000 4358.33 4358.33 Bamboo 5500 550000 100 500 5000 2000 2000 Zhijin fungus County Potato 434808 500000000 1149 2.4 300000 300000 256000 Tea 50800 11700 15 260 50000 7000 5000 Chishui City Dendrobe 43227 1500000 187.5 40 56773 100000 / Source: Research Report of Sichuan Province Breeding industry: Guizhou Province is developing 3 characteristic breeding industries, including Huaqiu chicken in Tongzi County, Qianbei goat in Xishui County, and black-bone chicken in Chishui City. Table 2-11 Current Status of Breeding Industry Development in the Project Counties (Cities) in Guizhou Province Increasable Planned Average Breeding Existing Additional Developing Selling Amount with Region Inventory Slaughter Breeding Industry Price Existing (head) Amount (RMB/head) Resources (head) (head) Huaqiu Tongzi County 350000 400000 15 450000 300000 Chicken Xishui County Qianbei Goat 53041 37468 1500 176614 89700 Black-bone Chishui City 3089000 5205000 55 5000000 5000000 Chicken Source: Research Report of Guizhou Province 21    Tourism: Tourism is developed in Xishui and Tongzi County. By the end of 2012, there were 248 country inns in Xishui County, having received 120,000 visitors who came for the summer holidays, fishing and other purposes and having created revenue of RMB 54,900,000 for the rural households; Tongzi County had received 3,000 tourists who came for the summer holidays, fishing and other purposes, having created revenue of RMB 5,550,000 for the rural households. (2) Sichuan Province Planting: Sichuan Province is developing 5 characteristic planting industries, including sweet orange and walnut in Gulin and Xuyong County, potato in Zhaojue and Butuo County, walnut in Meigu County, and white konjac in Jinyang County. Table 2-12 Current Status of Planting Industry Development in the Project Counties in Sichuan Province Average Average Existing Planned Scale to Yield Sales Increasable Developing Planting Yield Planting be Region per Price per Planting Industry Area (kg) Area Improved Unit Unit Area (mu) (hectare) (mu) (mu) (kg/mu) (yuan/kg) Sweet 353.33 500175 1415.6 4 733.33 533.33 / Gulin County orange Walnut 761.13 153540 201.73 30 2133.33 1800 / Sweet Xuyong 2700 12176560 4509.84 3.5 1600 900 100 orange County Walnut 2000 684750 342.38 30 1300 933 25 Zhaojue Potato 3169 18888000 5960 1.4 1500 1200 / County Meigu County Walnut 12000 1563720 130.31 30 24600 20000 7000 Jinyang White 100 750000 7500 7 1667 1333 / County konjac Butuo County Potato 2098 55072500 26250 1.5 1000 / / Source: Research Report of Sichuan Province Breeding: Sichuan Province is developing 3 characteristic breeding industries, including cattle in Xuyong and Butuo County, semi-fine wool sheep in Zhaojue and Jinyang County, and Meigu goat in Meigu County. Table 2-13 Current Status of Breeding Industry Development in the Project Counties in Sichuan Province Planned Increasable Existing Average Additional Developing Breeding Amount Region Inventory Slaughter Selling Price Breeding Industry with Existing (head) (RMB/head) Amount Resources (head) (head) Xuyong Cattle 9045 4380 12000 20000 10000 County Zhaojue Semi-fine wool 84061 58842 1000 120000 100000 County goat Meigu Meigu goat 13641 9783 1200 37640 30000 22    County Jinyang Semi-fine wool 62720 37307 1200 62579 60000 County goat Butuo Cattle 4230 1734 12000 8319 3821 County Source: Research Report of Sichuan Province. (3) Gansu Province Planting: Gansu Province is developing 3 characteristic planting industries, including potato in Gulang, Tongwei, Weiyuan, and Yongjing County, apply in Zhengning, Heshui, Jingning and Zhuanglang County, and Chinese medicinal herb in Longxi County. Table 2-14 Current Status of Planting Industry Development in the Project Counties in Gansu Province Average Existing Average Planned Scale to Sales Increasable Developing Planting Yield Planting be Region Yield (t) Price Planting Industry Area per Unit Area Improved per Unit Area (mu) (hectare) (t/mu) (mu) (mu) (yuan/t) Guliang Potato 14135.27 265000 18.75 1100 2000 / 320 County Tongwei Potato 25526.67 37524.2 1.47 700 8000 30000 14000 County Chinese Longxi medicinal 20000 76755.3 3.84 19532 0 1333 1333 County herb Weiyuan Potato 9045.5333 35297 2 1200 3000 1000 1000 County Zhengning Apple 13213 67358.5 5.1 1160 4000 4000 800 County Heshui County Apple 3137 24800 14.74 2000 200 200 333.33 Yongjing Potato 5353.3 17417.5 3.25 1800 2500 8500 8200 County Jingning Apple 34973.33 400000 11.44 3000 10000 1000 / County Zhuanglang Apple 23733 160000 16.5 2998 6000 1600 5000 County Source: Research Report of Gansu Province Breeding: Gansu Province is developing 3 characteristic breeding industries, including cattle in Zhangjiachuan and Tongwei County, sheep in Gulang, Weiyuan, Anding, Lintao, Huanxian, Dongxiang, and Yongjing County, and Juema pig in Minxian County. 23    Table 2-15 Current Status of Breeding Industry Development in the Project Counties (Districts) in Gansu Province Planned Increasable Existing Average Selling Additional Developing Breeding Amount Region Inventory Slaughter Price Breeding Industry with Existing (head) (RMB/head) Amount Resources (head) (head) Zhangjiachuan Cattle 8126 2840 11000 2566 4332 County raising Guliang Sheep 510227 252027 840 77940 12120 County raising Tongwei Cattle 66000 12000 8500 400000 380000 County raising Weiyuan Sheep 73156 23059 1500 18945 3100 County raising Minxian Juema pig 152740 135410 2000 12000 4000 County raising Anding Sheep 152850 98647 860 298825 8441 District Lintao County Sheep 148700 93000 1100 141734 14350 Huanxian Sheep 189050 113600 650 58795 5133 County Huachi Sheep 176385 64105 900 832510 9300 County Dongxiang Sheep 446470 515410 1200 600000 500000 County Yongjing Sheep 144200 84600 1000 10000 30000 County Source: Research Report of Gansu Province 24    3 Stakeholder Analysis 3.1 Identification of Stakeholders Stakeholders are individuals or groups that can affect or are affected by the realization of project objectives. Stakeholders can be divided into major and minor stakeholders. According to field surveys and interviews with relevant agencies, the major stakeholders in this project include:  Rural households in the project areas, especially poor households, women, minority groups, and the elderly;  Enterprises related to the development cooperative industry chain  Rural agents, household of individual business, owners of small processing workshops, etc.;  Poverty reduction offices;  Existing farmer cooperatives; Minor stakeholders include:  Other relevant government departments, such as Agricultural Bureau, Animal Husbandry Bureau, Forestry Bureau, Tourism Bureau, Bureau of Chinese Herbal Medicine Industry. 3.2 DEMANDS OF THE STAKEHOLDERS FOR THE PROJECT Different stakeholders have different demands for the project. Therefore, it is required to analyze the specific demands of different major stakeholders, which is favorable to identify the major social activities, avoid the potential social risks, and ensure the smooth implementation of the project. The Social Assessment Group organized a series of activities for the stakeholder groups in the project areas, such as project information publication and propaganda as well as public participation, and conducted the following analysis on the demands of the major stakeholder: 3.3.1. RURAL HOUSEHOLDS The project areas cover 946,400 rural households that are directly affected populations, as well as the major beneficiaries of the project; the direct beneficiaries include the rural poor households (342,900), women (462,200) and minorities (240,900). The attitudes and behaviors of the rural households in the project areas have a direct influence on the progress of the project. Therefore, whether the demands of the rural households are met is one of the criteria to evaluate the achievement of the project objectives. According to the survey and interviews, the rural households in the project areas have the following expectations: (1) To provide technical and management training on planting and breeding to promote agricultural high yield and efficiency and increase revenue According to the survey on 1,507 rural households that hope the cooperatives can provide technical guidance on planting and breeding made up the largest proportion, accounting for 72.6%; this showed the wish of the rural households to improve planting and breeding technology through this project; in the survey, when asking about the sources of seedlings, 42.2% said that they reserved seed for planting; 25    42.5% said that they bought seeds in the market, and sometimes they bought seeds and pesticide of poor quality; when asking about the “main reason of low agricultural income”, 38.4% said that it was caused by low output of agricultural products. The field interviews revealed that they used traditional seedlings and technology in the local agricultural industry, which failed to meet or hardly reached the requirements of the market, thus greatly affecting the market value and marketing of the products. For instance, in Xinghe Village of Huaqiu Town, the local Huaqiu chicken were mostly hatched and bred by local chicken without purification treatment. As a result, most of the chickens were hybrid ones that were priced lowly. Therefore, the rural households hoped to promote the additional value of products and increase income by learning scientific and advanced agricultural technology and management training.  Villager Symposium in Rijiu Village, Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture: We mainly plant potatoes. Potatoes cover the largest area and provide the largest yield in the village. They are sold at large quantities. Usually private business owners would come to the village to purchase our products. This year, yellow potatoes are sold at 0.5 yuan / kg, while white potatoes 0.3-0.4 yuan/kg, both are unsatisfactory prices. If villagers transport the products to the county, the prices will be about 0.8-1 yuan/kg. The main reasons (for the large price difference) are: a. the village is located in remote mountainous area and entails high transport costs; b. there are few purchasers from other places and the villagers have few transport vehicles; c. villagers who sell their products locally do not understand about the market quotations. The cattle raised in the village are local variety, with small sizes and long fattening period. The profits are poor, making the villagers consider improving the variety. But the calves of Simmental beef cattle are highly priced, the villagers do not have the capital for variety improvement and have to rely on breeding of self-raised old cattle. (2) To solve the sales problem of agricultural products and livestock to broaden sources of household income According to thee survey on 1,507 rural households, those that hoped to boost product sales through cooperatives accounted for 59.7%, which was the second largest proportion among all options. The rural households in Guizhou Province expressed the strongest demand in this regard; when asked “what is the main cause of the low agricultural income?”, 21.1% said that few dealers were willing to come due to the remote location and inconvenient transportation. The rural households generally transported the agricultural products to the market. However, most project villages are remote and poor, and are far away from the township market. For example, the average distance form Hongxing Village, Chishui City, Guizhou Province, to the township is 4 km, and the distance from a farther village community to the township is more than 10km; Tongxin Village in Miao Township of Masi of Gulin County in Sichuan Province is more than 10km away from the township. Due to the high transportation cost, most rural households are unwilling to transport the agricultural products to the township market. In this case, they chose to sell their products at a low price to the rural agents (two-way merchants) who acquired the agricultural products in the villages. With this money, they bought some daily necessities, such as cooking oil and salt. The rural households hoped to improve the local transportation conditions to open the way for marketing the agricultural and animal products through construction of cooperatives and infrastructure. 26     Interview with the Leader of Sanyou Village, Zhangjiachuan County, Gansu Difficulties and problems in the development of cattle raising: a. lack of money, no access to loans as banks require collateral, and there is no mutual aid money in the village; b. the breeding techniques and raising methods are poor: free-ranging cattle need a long growth cycle but have good quality, cattle raised in captivity need a short growth cycle but have less satisfactory quality; c. in terms of sales, two-way merchants earn more money while farmers have to lower their price by a few hundred because we are too far away from markets and it is inconvenient for us to drive the cattle out for sale, the nearest market is in Gongmen Town, over 20 miles away. Some may sell cattle in Malu Township, but there is no market there. In the future if our village is developed and get bigger, we can transport our products out together and earn more money. d. We need to collect water with buckets. There are several pressure wells in the village, but sometimes we are out of water and have to carry water from the opposite side of the village. We usually drive the cattle to drink water outside the village. (3) To build organizations that belong to rural households themselves to improve the ability to resist market risks According to thee survey on 1,507 rural households, those that sold their products in the market account for 62% (among which, about 50% had their products purchased by buyers who came from the market); those whose products were purchased by vendors from other places accounts for 31.4%; enterprise order accounts for 1%; collective sales by cooperatives accounts for 10.1%. In the project areas, the rural households mainly sold their products to acquaintances or in the local township market at low prices. Because of the single structure of agricultural products, small-scale market, limited marketing channel, along with the low bargaining skills of the rural households, the price and demands were always dominated by the buyers. What’ more, the rural households knew little about the supply and demand condition in the market, it is easy for them to blindly follow suit. For example, in Gulin County, the farmers have ever raised pigs or given up raising pigs on a large scale. They plant agricultural products depending on their living needs and local tradition, rather than the market fluctuation. As a whole, they have a very low ability to withstand risks. As a result, they hoped to work together to develop the industry, to understand the market price through cooperatives, and to sell the products at a good price according to the market conditions.  Villager Symposium in Tangjiawuji Village, Jinyang County, Liangshan Prefecture:  We have begun planting while konjac since 1997, but were confined in a small scale and the market price was not stable. From 2012, more and more people began to plant white konjac. More than 100 households carved out a patch of 2- to 4-mu land for the planting. Intercropping konjac with corn and pepper provide better benefits. There is no large grower and every household sells fresh products, selling them as soon as they are harvested. Now there are many difficulties: a. good seeds are not easy to get and they can be bought in the market that is accessed with a few hours of walking, and good seeds are expensive; b. planting white konjac needs phosphate fertilizer which can only be bought in the county; c. there is no irrigation equipment and water can only be carried on back with buckets; d. the seed nurturing and planting techniques are still poor. At the beginning, we did not know how to plant it and consulted the old growers in the village. White konjac could suffer from soft rot easily, and the incidence was 10%. In the previous year, the yield was cut more than 20% due to soft rot; e. the prices of konjac are instable, sometimes27  high and sometimes low; f. due to the poor road conditions, purchasers do not want to come in the village for a deal and products are transported by van or motorcycle for vendors down the mountain.    (4) To improve infrastructure conditions, develop agricultural production, increase income and improve living standards Among the 1,507 surveyed rural households, 52.3% and 35.3% respectively thought that the inadequate and poor infrastructure including irrigation, roads etc. is an important factor that holds back the development of cooperatives. Interviews with villagers showed that they have a strong demand for both the necessary infrastructure and the infrastructure used for the advantageous agricultural industries and cooperatives. Major issues concerning the infrastructure include: a. drinking water. In the project areas, the villagers irrigate their crops depending largely on the rainfall. They get their domestic water by dividing it from mountains nearby. The shortage of drinking water is extremely urgent, especially in dry weather. Some villages suffer from shortage of irrigation water and domestic water, such as Haiba Village, Bijiao Village in Guizhou Province, Yulin Village, Tongxin Village, Tianba Village and Tangjiawuji Village in Sichuan Province. b. Lack of farm land infrastructure such as farm track and service roads for production. The rural households said that the lack of farmland infrastructure can cause the following inconvenience to production: a. The output and benefit of crops is affected. For instance, in Yulin Village, Tianba Village and Yantang Village in Sichuan Province, the agricultural production mainly relies on rainfall due to none or lack of irrigation facility; as a result, the crop production and output will be greatly affected in case no sufficient irrigation water is supplied; b. The burden of productive labor is increased and the production is time-consuming. For example, since there are no service roads for production, farmers have to carry the pesticides, fertilizers and seeds up the hill by manual labor; c. Transportation cost is increased. Since the rural households have to transport the agricultural products to the township market, (the village is too far away from the market and it will spend more than one day to transport the agricultural products to the market and travel the round trip), there is very little profit left excluding the transportation cost and accommodation cost; considering the high transportation cost and dangerous traffic factors, vendors from other places are generally reluctant to com to the village to purchase the agricultural products. As a result, the rural households urgently hope to improve the service roads for production, farm track, irrigation facility and other infrastructure and build agricultural trading markets and processing points to improve the conditions for agricultural development, reduce cost, increase income, and finally improve the living standards.  Villager Symposium in Moci Village, Butuo County, Sichuan:  The biggest difficulty for the village to develop the purple potato industry is infrastructure. The village is located in a remote mountainous area and the roads are bad dirt roads or mountainous roads. It is dangerous to transport the products with vehicles of purchasers who come from other places, and the transport costs are high. So they are reluctant to come here. The products can only transported by cooperatives.   Women Symposium in Yulin Village, Jiaoyuan Township, Gulin County, Sichuan: Now we have to spray pesticides manually and often get sore hands after doing this work at night. We hope to improve that. In busy times, the farmers will help each other with the spraying. But we need to carry the pesticides to the mountain. It’s a long way to go and the load is heavy. There is no road leading to the mountain and the mountain is not accessible by vehicle. 28  The difficulty in planting sweet orange is that: the sites are inaccessible and there is a lack of water; there are hardly roads leading to the mountain; there is serious shortage of water for irrigation.   3.3.2. ENTERPRISES RELATED TO THE DEVELOPMENT COOPERATIVE INDUSTRY CHAIN According to the 1,507 rural households surveyed, only 1% of them sold their products through enterprise order and most of them sold their products through the market and dealers. Currently, there are enterprises that are related to the development of local competitive industries in the project counties. Some of them have built marketing relationship with the existing cooperatives to increase agricultural order. For example, the integrated operation of production, processing and marketing has been established among Shunfeng Ecological Agriculture Development Cooperative in Dafang County of Guizhou Province, rural households in Haiba Village, and Jiulong Gastrodia Elata Company in Dafang County; in addition, similar operational relationship of agricultural order has also be created by Tiandi Jinghua Green Pepper and White Konjac Farmer Cooperative in Jingyang County of Sichuan Province, Baibao Farmer Cooperative of Organic Agricultural Products in Kezhai Township, Longxi County, Gansu. Enterprises established relationship with the rural households in the following two ways: one is to sign production and marketing agreement directly with rural households, while the other one is to build cooperative relationships with them through cooperatives or other intermediary organizations. Enterprises are mainly responsible for purchasing, processing, storing, transporting and selling the agricultural products from the rural households in the project areas. Some enterprises may also provide seedlings, breeding stock and other means of production and technical trainings for the rural households through existing cooperatives. In general, the number of enterprises is relatively limited and they provide very limited training and technical services. They are mainly focused on acquisition of agricultural products. Therefore, the enterprises have the following demands for the project: (1) To construct public market facilities, provide product trading, quarantine testing, and other public services, and reduce market transaction costs Some enterprises that collaborate with the rural households in the project areas said that they seldom purchased agricultural products in the project villages or homes of rural households because it needed high transportation cost and human cost. There are two reasons behind this: one is the long distance between the project areas and the market. The roads are winding and rugged in some areas, where there are many hilly roads, which are dangerous, especially in winter and spring when the roads are covered with snow, causing inconvenience to the vehicle driving. The other reason is that the enterprises usually chose to purchase agricultural products in the concentrated and concatenated production origins of raw materials, rather than from individual farmers. If they purchase the raw materials from individual producers, they will need to entrust local personnel to do the work from house to house, which will increase human cost. Thus, the enterprises hoped to build special agricultural and animal products trading markets in the towns or villages in the project areas to facilitate the acquisition of raw material of agricultural products. When necessary, quarantine testing service of agricultural products should be provided to complete products acquisition and package in the production sites to increase the sales efficiency of agricultural products. (2) To establish professional farmer cooperatives, improve and regulate market behavior of cooperatives, stabilize the service relations between businesses and rural households, and In order to reduce transportation and human costs, the enterprises always purchase agricultural products 29    by establishing relationships with cooperatives or intermediary partners in the origin areas. Thus they can reduce the risks and costs caused by communication and cooperation with individual local rural households. In addition, the enterprises can establish remote, long-term and stable relationships with the cooperatives and intermediary organizations, etc. Therefore, the enterprises hoped to sign contracts with cooperatives constructed in the project. Enterprises sign contracts with cooperatives while cooperatives sign purchasing and marketing agreements and contracts with rural households. This can reduce the transaction cost and the risk of unstable raw material supply caused by purchasing agricultural products in the market. The enterprises can standardize the planting and breeding behavior of rural households through cooperatives, manage the standardized production of the products, and reduce their operating costs. The enterprises and cooperatives often sign short-term contracts, once per year. They will establish protective prices when signing the contract and adjust it once a year based on the market information. Therefore, the enterprises can adjust the price of the products and control the raw material cost relying on the advantage of mastering the market information.  Manager Wen in Jiulongtian Gastrodia Elata Company in Dafang County, Guizhou Founded in 2001, Jiulongtian Gastrodia Elata Company is mainly engaged in the processing and trade of gastrodia elata products, including trade of fresh gastrodia elata, gastrodia elata drying, gastrodia elata capsules, gastrodia elata wine and other deep-processing products. The raw materials of gastrodia elata all come from the county, and some are grown by the rural households in the surrounding counties or cities. The seedlings cultivated by the villagers generally do not meet the requirements of the company. The company usually cooperates with cooperatives and provides seedlings to these cooperatives, which further distribute the seedlings to rural households. The households will grow the seedlings and the company will send technical personnel to provide them with guidance. The company usually signs a contract with cooperatives. The gastrodia elata harvested by the contracted cooperatives will be purchased collectively by the company, and the company will offer a minimum guaranteed price to the cooperatives (the price difference between contracted and non-contracted cooperatives is 2 yuan/kg). This year the minimum guaranteed price for red gastrodia elata is 10 yuan/kg and for black gastrodia elata is 20 yuan/kg. The prices may vary annually. The company trains the rural households in two main ways: backbones of cooperatives and large growers come to the company for specialized knowledge training; or, technical personnel are sent to the village and provide field guidance for villagers. The planting technology of gastrodia elata is not complicated and the farmers grasp it very quickly and are very happy to accept it. (3) To obtain technical support of domestic and international high-level experts, improve the R&D ability of products and production technology, and increase the added value and market share of the products The cooperatives and enterprises in the project areas suffer from weak technical force, which significantly limits the development of enterprises. The cooperatives are mainly engaged in specific planting and breeding activities. Planting activities include seeding, cultivating, field management, crop 30    harvesting and sale of primary products. The breeding activities include raising, management and sales of the livestock. Due to the shortages of capital and talent, the cooperatives are rarely engaged in technical innovation and product upgrading activities. As a result, the cooperatives place much emphasis on the needs for practical agricultural technique. The enterprises are mainly responsible for the activities that are related to the industrial development, that have high technical requirements and that are more competitive in the market, such as seedling/breeding stock cultivation, variety improvement, product research and product quarantine testing. During the interview, Jiulong Gastrodia Elata Company in Dafang County of Guizhou Province mentioned that the major problem in the operation of the company is weak technological strength, embodied in seedling, research and development, as well as product testing. Therefore, the enterprises hoped to get support and guidance of advanced technology through the project construction,. They considered this an important condition for them to improve the R&D capability of products and production processes, increase the added value of products and market share and enhance core competitiveness. This is also one of the preconditions for the development of the enterprise. 3.3.3. RURAL AGENTS, HOUSEHOLD OF INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS, AND OWNERS OF SMALL PROCESSING WORKSHOPS The industry chain consists of the following groups: rural agents, households of individual business, owners of small processing workshops, etc. In fact, there are many rural agents (commonly known as two-way merchants) widely spread in the project areas. They purchase the agricultural products directly from rural households and resell them to enterprises and other operators to take advantage of the price gap. Some rural agents become promoters, organizers and management personnel of cooperatives. In addition, there are some industry-related households of individual business and owners of small processing workshops, such as individual household slaughters and small-scale processing workshops of medicinal herbs. They acquire small amount of agricultural products from the rural households in the project areas and process the products to increase the added value of the products and added profits. The demands of these groups in the industry chain for the project are as follows: to improve the status of water infrastructure, roads and markets to create a favorable environment and conditions for trading and marketing of agricultural products; to join cooperatives, integrating resources through the platform of cooperatives, improve market bargaining power, and enhance the ability to withstand market risks; to reduce costs and improve added value of products through organizational and scale production, processing and sales. 3.3.4. POVERTY REDUCTION OFFICE In order to organize and lead the preparation and implementation of the project, and considering the management needs of the project and the innovative feature of increasing the organizational degree of farmers, the organization and management agencies of the project are set according to the leadership system, execution system, and technical support system of the project. The leadership agency of the project is led by the leaders of responsible departments or responsible government leaders at all levels and composed of members who are leaders of the development and reform department, the finance department, the poverty reduction office, the audit department, and other business departments. The execution agency is set at the poverty reduction offices at all levels, specifically responsible for 31    management and implementation of the project. The technical support service system is composed of staff from different business departments and experts at home and abroad. Each project county has set up a project leading group and a project management office, which is staffed with full-time managers responsible for coordination and specific tasks under the project. The implementation agency of the project is the subject of responsibility throughout the operation stages of the project. It not only needs to exercise rights and obligations agreed in the contract as principal of the project, but also is responsible for coordinating and addressing technical, economic, financial, environmental and all the other issues related to the project. During the implementation and follow-up regulatory process, they are the most relevant stakeholders in the project. Therefore, the implementing agencies of the project hope to: contribute to early and successful completion of the project through communication and coordination among the partners; increase the income of the poor and promoting the poor to get rid of poverty; explore ways and means suitable for the local poverty reduction through industrialization; improve the social images of the implementing agencies. 3.3.5. MEMBERS OF EXISTING FARMER COOPERATIVES Since Law of the People’s Republic of China on Professional Farmer Cooperatives was introduced in 2007, the State has encouraged and guided professional farmer cooperatives to develop through financial support, tax incentives, financial, technological and talent support and industry policies. Currently, farmer cooperatives have been gradually spread across the country. Some of the project villages have established or are planning to build a variety of farmer cooperatives. The questionnaire survey on 1507 rural households showed that 27.2% of them have joined one cooperative, 1.3% have joined two, 0.4% have joined more than two, and 71.1% have not joined any. According to the field survey, some project villages have established cooperatives, but they are generally operated poorly. There are few cooperatives that are operated well. The detailed analysis is shown in section 4.2. The relations between farmer cooperatives and rural communities are mainly reflected in the following aspects: 1) a farmer cooperative is a mutual economic organization, while administrative village is the most fundamental administrative unit; the activities of a farmer cooperative are carried out with reliance on the administrative village and the cooperative is a form of economic organization in the administrative village. 2) Their objectives are consistent. Farmer cooperatives follow the principle of serving for the common interests of all members while village committees are aimed to serve for the political, economic, cultural and social development. 3) Organizational and management structure: under normal circumstances, the management of farmer cooperatives and the management function of administrative village are independent of each other: farmer cooperatives have their independent charter and organizational structure, generally including the general assembly of members, board of directors and supervisory board; the general assembly of members is the organ of power in farmer cooperatives and is guided by the competent administrative department of agriculture; administrative village is managed by a group of leadership (the party branch and the village committee) and practices democratic management by villagers; the power rests in the village committee and the village is guided by the township government. 4) Management and members: rural households may join one or more cooperatives, but they belong only to one administrative village. The management of a farmer cooperative may or may not be members of a village committee. For example, the promoter of a farmer cooperative could be the leader or party secretary of a village. For instance, the farmer cooperative in 32    Xinzhai Village, Zhijin County, Guizhou Province, was initiated and built by the village committee, and the committee members are also management of the farmer cooperative. Some farmer cooperatives also include party branches, which assume supervisory duties that are usually performed by the village committee members. 5) There are several cases in the service range of farmer cooperatives and coverage of administrative villages: there are administrative villages that build a cooperative, and there are those that build two or more cooperatives. For example, Yulin Village in Gulin County in Sichuan created two cooperatives: sweet orange planting cooperative and walnut planting cooperative; there are cooperatives that serve a number of administrative villages. For example, the improved variety of Wuzhu Potato Breeding Cooperative in Weiyuan County in Gansu has members that cover Wuzhu Village, Shitougou Village, Luming Village, and Guojiagou Village. Both the renovation of old cooperatives and establishment of new cooperatives in the project will affect the existing other farmer cooperatives in the project villages, while the current status, experience and lessons of existing farmer cooperatives will affect the project. Some villagers assume roles and function in a number of farmer cooperative organizations. Therefore, the existing farmer cooperative entities hope to: learn about advanced concepts of building cooperatives and improve the current status of existing organizations; improve the hardware and software facilities of cooperatives and improving the organizational and construction levels of farmer cooperative organizations; overcome the limitations of infrastructure in the industrial development to lay the foundation for better operation of farmer cooperative organizations; cultivate new cooperatives and forming synergy with other farmer cooperative organizations to help farmers increase their income and get rich. 3.3.6. OTHER RELEVANT GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS On one hand, the governmental and relevant departments guide, support and serve for the cooperatives and industrial development in the project areas; on the other hand, the development of cooperatives and industries in the project areas directly affects the political performance of governmental and relevant departments as well as the adjustment in agricultural structure, increase of farmers’ income and improvement of living conditions, stability of local rural community, and the achievement of building a well-off society in rural areas. The governmental and other relevant departments related to the development of cooperatives and industrial development in the project mainly include Agricultural Bureau, Animal Husbandry Bureau, Bureau of Chinese Herbal Medicine Industry, Tourism Bureau, Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Women’s Federation at all levels and township governments. Therefore, the governmental and other relevant departments hope to: avoid the negative effects and social risks brought by the project as much as possible to ensure social stability; improve the organizational degree of farmers; increase the income of rural households in the project areas, reduce poverty, drive the villagers in the project areas to get rich, and improve the production and living standards of rural households; improve the agricultural production and operation, adjust rural industrial structure, and promote the development of agricultural industrialization; achieve the objective of building a well-off society through economic development; promote economic and social development, achieve social and political stability, and improve the image of the government. 33    Table 3-1 Analysis on the Demands of Major Stakeholders Involved in the Project Stakeholder Interest Demand To provide technical and management training on planting and breeding to promote agricultural high yield and efficiency and increase revenue; To solve the sales problem of agricultural products and livestock to broaden sources of household income; Rural households in the project areas To build organizations that belong to rural households themselves to improve the ability to resist market risks; To improve road, transport and water conditions, develop agricultural production, increase income and improve living standards. To construct public market facilities, provide product trading, quarantine testing, and other public services, and reduce market transaction costs; To establish professional farmer cooperatives, improve and regulate market behavior of cooperatives, and stabilize the service relations between businesses and rural Enterprises households. To obtain technical support of domestic and international high-level experts by participating in the project, improve the R&D ability of products and production technology, and increase the added value and market share of the products. To improve the status of water infrastructure, roads and markets to create a favorable environment and conditions for trading and marketing of agricultural products; Rural agents, household of individual To join cooperatives, integrating resources through the platform of cooperatives, business, owners of small processing improve market bargaining power, and enhance the ability to withstand market risks; workshops, etc. To reduce costs and improve added value of products through organizational and scale production, processing and sales. To contribute to early and successful completion of the project through communication and coordination among the partners; To increase the income of the poor and promoting the poor to get rid of poverty; Poverty reduction offices To explore ways and means suitable for the local poverty reduction through industrialization; To improve the social images of the implementing agencies. To learn about advanced concepts of building cooperatives and improve the current status of existing organizations; To improve the hardware and software facilities of cooperatives and improving the organizational and construction levels of farmer cooperative organizations; Existing farmer cooperatives To overcome the limitations of infrastructure in the industrial development to lay the foundation for better operation of farmer cooperative organizations; To cultivate new cooperatives and forming synergy with other farmer cooperative organizations to help farmers increase their income and get rich. To avoid the negative effects and social risks brought by the project as much as possible to ensure social stability; To improve the organizational degree of farmers; To increase the income of rural households in the project areas, reduce poverty, drive the villagers in the project areas to get rich, and improve the production and living Other relevant government standards of rural households; departments To improve the agricultural production and operation, adjust rural industrial structure, and promote the development of agricultural industrialization; To achieve the objective of building a well-off society through economic development; To promote economic and social development, achieve social and political stability, and improve the image of the government. 34    3.3 Analysis on the Project Impact 3.3.1. OPPORTUNITIES (1) Improving the organizational degree of farmers through standardized construction of cooperatives Cooperative is an important carrier and platform to improve the organizational degree of farmers in poor areas. The Social Assessment Group found in the survey that the current organizational degree of farmers in the project areas is relatively low and the main problems are: a. The cooperative structure is not standardized. Some of the interviewed responsible persons said that their cooperatives only need a person-in-charge and a bookkeeper, while some cooperatives still engage sales persons; although most of the cooperatives have a standard charter, which also states the name of members in the director board and the supervisory board, their division of labor actually remains unclear. Many members are in name only to make the charter and organizational structure seem standardized. In addition, most responsible persons of cooperatives believe that the development of cooperatives lack professional and technical personnel, marketing personnel, and accounting personnel. Responsible persons and members of existing cooperatives have expressed their hope to improve the current non-standardized organizational structure of cooperatives through cooperative building and training. b. The cooperatives are poorly operated. According to the analysis result of the operation of cooperatives provided by the Agricultural Economics and Management Stations of Bureaus of Agriculture and project offices, there are 245 cooperatives that are operated poorly in Dafang, Zhijin, Tongzi, Xishui and Chishui Counties (Cities) in Guizhou Province, accounting for 24.57% of the total; only 179 cooperatives are operated well, accounting for 17.96%. There are 702 cooperatives that are operated poorly in Gulin, Xuyong, Jinyang, Butuo, Zhaojue, and Meigu Counties in Sichuan Province, accounting for 83.1% of the total, while only 42 are operated well, only accounting for 5%. There are 1,278 cooperatives that are operated poorly in Gulang, Tongwei, Longxi, Weiyuan, Minxian, Anding District, Lintao, Dongxiang, and Yongjing counties (districts) in Gansu Province, accounting for 28.39% of the total, and 1,444 are operated well, accounting for 32.07%. In addition, judging from the interviews with cooperative leaders and the evaluation of village committees and villagers towards cooperatives, 3 of the 6 interviewed cooperatives in Guizhou Province are operated well, accounting for 50% of the total; 3 are not officially operated or poorly operated, accounting for 50%. Of the 8 interviewed cooperatives in Sichuan Province, 3 are operated well, accounting for 37.5% and 3 are operated poorly, accounting for 37.5%. Of the 25 interviewed cooperatives in Gansu Province, 6 are operated well, accounting for 24% and 14 are not officially operated or poorly operated, accounting for 56%. Most of the cooperatives interviewed by the Social Assessment Group are those operated well or under operation. In fact, those that are dormant or that are operated poorly take up a larger share. Thus, on the whole, the cooperatives in the three provinces are poorly operated, and among them the cooperatives in the project areas of Sichuan Province are even more underdeveloped. However, most of the farmers interviewed hope that the cooperatives can be under better operation, so as to better sell local agricultural products and secure more promising industrial development. c. Few rural households actually join cooperatives. According to the survey, only 6.4% and 23.3% of 35    the rural households knew cooperatives very well or knew something about them, and 28.9% of them join in cooperatives; the Social Assessment Group found in the interviews that the rural households actually knew less about cooperatives, and most of them do not join any cooperatives. But they showed strong willingness to join, for example, the questionnaire survey showed that about 95.6% of rural households are willing to join cooperatives. d. There is low involvement of rural households in cooperatives. The interviewed rural households reported that members of cooperatives are large households among villagers, and few ordinary rural households join; according to the interviews with cooperative members, the main function of cooperatives is to sell agricultural products of members and there are few training or service activities. Most rural households do not join cooperatives as shareholders or are involved in getting profits from cooperatives. The member rural households obtain profits from the sales revenue. It seemed to the rural households that in spite of the many problems in the operation of cooperatives, construction of the project will indeed bring many opportunities for the development of cooperatives and farmers’ organization: first, by building office space and providing office equipment of cooperatives, and offering supporting facilities and equipment for processing, storage, sales and other industrial chain extension services, the project will lay a good hardware basis for the institutional settings of cooperatives and development of advantageous industries and regulate the external conditions of cooperatives; second, the project will standardize the organizational structure and operation system of cooperatives by staffing cooperatives with counselors and establishing joint-stock cooperatives that rural households (especially most of the poor ones) join to form small and micro enterprises; third, the project will enhance the operation ability of cooperatives and increase the competitiveness of cooperatives as small and micro enterprises in the market through training; four, the project will not only increase the involvement of poor rural households in the economic and industrial value chain but also encourage them to consciously apply the organizational practice experience they learn from cooperatives in other social and economic activities in the villages and constantly improve their self-development awareness by promoting poor rural households to join cooperatives and increase their organizational practice experience and ability. The project will provide training on establishment, management, technology, and marketing of cooperatives and exchange visits. Specialized training will be conducted for demonstration households on crop cultivation technology. The training will be conducted in a variety of ways and multiple categories to improve the involvement and practice of rural households in cooperatives; various measures will be taken to improve the organizational degree of farmers.  Person in charge of the Walnut Cooperative in Yulin Village, Jiaoyuan Township, Gulin County, Sichuan:  I was engaged in supermarket running and was familiar with trading, but I have never involved in management; now our cooperative is not standardized enough. We don’t have professional accountants and lack professional knowledge. We plan to build the cooperative with our partners and slowly explore in the days to come.    Leader of Futian Breeding Professional Cooperative in Shuangbao Village, Pingxiang Town, Tongwei County, Gansu: The leader of cooperative is a large breeder and leader of the village. This sheep breeding cooperative was just founded this year by 5 persons. Now, it is basically supported and operated by me only. I raise the most sheep and the other members are breeders in the village, but their business is in a small scale and they have little experience in running 36  a cooperative. The cooperative is not standardized and does not define any division of labor.    (2) Taking cooperatives as carriers to improve the subject consciousness and self-development ability of farmers by empowering them Judging from the understanding of farmers about themselves and their family development, the Social Assessment Group learned that the rural households in the project areas believed the most important reasons for their poverty are their lack of skills, technology, capital, and knowledge and their outdated ideas and concepts, in addition to harsh climate and poor infrastructure conditions like water and electricity lines. When asked “Have you ever thought about how to live a better life in the future”, most of the villagers just smiled, saying that “I may plant or raise something.” Basically they would continue the original way of production and lifestyle; younger people choose to go out to work, which will help them make some money. Concerning expectations and suggestions for the project, they hoped to receive some training on, for example, planting techniques, scientific breeding, pest control and agricultural product marketing, and have access to market information and other knowledge and technology. They believed they would develop the planting and breeding industries well once they mastered this knowledge and technology. They would slowly accumulate experience and capital, and life would get better when they or their families have improved their ability and changed their concepts. For the construction and development of cooperatives, the villagers hoped to build cooperatives that can incorporate more villagers instead of being monopolized by large households or capable individuals; in their view, the development of cooperatives needs the demonstration of capable individuals and large households, who are expected take the initiative and lay the foundation for villagers; addition to access to training, the villagers hoped the cooperatives could get everyone involved to purchase seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and other production materials, so as to get more favorable prices and guarantee the quality and prevent the problem that some rural households may purchase fake seeds, fake fertilizers, or fake pesticides; the villagers may sell their agricultural products collectively at prices higher than the prices sold individually, and the agricultural products may be sold through multiple means such as negotiations, opening up sales channels, and developing contract farming. Rural households in cooperatives can learn experience and technology from each other, consult and discuss together, and any questions can be answered anytime and anywhere. The ability of rural households will also be improved. While the self-development ability of villagers is being improved, the development ability and level of the whole village is constantly improved and enhanced. The construction of village roads, hardening and construction of services roads for production, farmland irrigation and water conservancy facilities, and trading markets of agricultural products in the project will create conditions for the industrial development of project villages; the facilities to construct will be decided by the villagers, and the village committees and villagers will participate in the construction of most of this public infrastructure, which will help develop the self-organization, self-management, independent decision-making and independent implementation capacities of villagers.  Interview with Villager in Da’an Village, Xishui County, Guizhou Mr. Li, aged 50, Han nationality: Currently I have joined the sheep raising cooperative in the village and the membership did not charge anything. But the cooperative has functioned now, so I do not have close contact with it. I bred or purchased my sheep, and the technical training was provided by the Bureau of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry. The grown sheep were purchased by vendors. I bargained with the sheep traders myself, without any assistance of the cooperative. If the cooperative is well operated and really work in the interests of breeders, I’ll still support it. 37  After all, it is an advantage that we join together to bargain with sheep traders. I am also willing to assume the responsibility as a large breeder to drive and help other rural households to get rich and provide them with technical guidance.     Mr. Wang in Tianba Village, Xuyong County, Sichuan: Never heard of this project and nor do I know what cooperatives are about, but I hope to set up an organization that allows us to buy and sell cattle together and raise more cattle.  Villager in Chenghao Village, Huachi County, Gansu: I have joined in a cooperative, but it was just created. I have no idea of what it is doing. I’ll see how it goes.  Women symposium in Baima Village, Huachi County, Gansu: I know nothing about cooperative and I don’t want to contribute my sheep. I can raise them myself, so I have the autonomous right. I can decide whether to practice fine breeding or not. If I give the sheep to a cooperative, it’s like egalitarian and they will not be well taken care of. The dividends of cooperative are simply organic fertilizers. (3) Changing the agricultural production and operation modes, improving product quality and standards, improving the ability of farmers to withstand market risks, and increasing the income of poor rural households through the project construction Interviews in the project areas showed that individual rural households generally sell their agricultural products through the following channels: A. the rural households sell the products to the local vendors, who then resell the products to wholesale markets or traders from other places; B. traders from other places directly purchase the products from the rural households. The rural households sell their agricultural products locally at prices lower than the prices they sell in market towns or markets in the county, but they will encounter various problems such as inconvenient transportation, lack of transportation vehicles and high transportation costs if they want to sell the products beyond the local place. As a result, most of the rural households choose to sell their agricultural products to small local vendors or traders who visit them for a purchase at lower prices and the prices are forced down from one link to another. Individual rural households do not have the ability to negotiate or price advantages. Therefore, the rural households hope: First, the training on the establishment and management of cooperatives and capacity building in the project allow rural households in the project areas to be organized through the carrier and platform of cooperatives and change the original small decentralized production mode practiced by single household into industrialized, large-scale and standardized large production mode; second, farmers are organized through cooperatives and take collective actions resist market risks like market information asymmetry and poor negotiating capacity that may be faced by individual rural households; third, the use of good seedlings/breeding stocks and adoption of unified production means, unified production standard, unified field management, unified harvest, unified sales or processing to provide agricultural products that meet the market demand will provide rural households with easier access to markets and increase the competitiveness and negotiation ability of rural households, and the subproject of industry chain development can increase the added value of products and improve the quality and yield of agricultural products; fourth, improvement in the quality of agricultural products and scale operations can enhance the market competitiveness of agricultural product, extend the industrial value chain, improve farmers’ perception of market and resilience, improve the ability of rural households to withstand market risks, and ultimately increase the income of farmers, especially the income of the majority of poor rural households. 38     Male Symposium in Longkou Village, Zhangjiachuan County, Gansu: I sold a cattle at RMB 8,000-10,000 in the county market, but if I sold it to a vendor locally, the price was about RMB 5,000. The cattle get be sold at higher prices through cooperative than in the county, but it is really inconvenient for me to travel so far away to the county.  Leader of Kangwang Village, Malu Township, Zhangjiachuan County, Gansu: The villagers now sell their cattle to vendors. Selling the cattle themselves and selling them to vendors has a price gap of RMB 500-1,000, very few people sell their cattle in the market as the transport costs are high. We are near Jinchuan, so it will be good if a livestock trading center can be built in Jinchuan. That will be very convenient for us to sell our cattle.   General Symposium in Sanyou Village, Zhangjiachuan County, Gansu: Vendors can earn more than 500 yuan from the price gap. After a cooperative is created, the earnings can be retained in the cooperative or given to villagers.  General Symposium in Hujiashan Village, Kezhai Township, Longxi County, Gansu: The main problem for rural households to sell Chinese medicinal herb is that the market information is not well-informed. Vendors have partnership with Shouyang Trading Center, which thus generally sell the herbs of these vendors and the products transported by the rural households themselves are less popular. There are potato cooperatives in the village. They purchase the potatoes supplied by rural households at prices 0.01-0.02 yuan higher than the market prices, but for the products supplied by other producers, they follow the market prices. (4) Improving infrastructure to create conditions for local agricultural production and livelihood of rural households The Social Assessment Group visited the project areas and found that some villagers mentioned the roads, water and other agricultural infrastructure are in poor conditions, of which water and road (mainly service roads for production) shortages are the main problems that restrict the development of local industries and affect the lives of villagers. For example, because there is no service road leading to the mountain in Haiba Village, Wenge Township, Dafang County, Guizhou, the harvested gastrodia elata has to be transported down the mountain by manual labor or by horse, and seeds, mulch and other materials are transported in the same way; the trading of konjac in Youfang Village, Lugao Town, Jinyang County, Sichuan, was also transported by manual labor or by horse. Although roads were built in 2008, there are no service roads for production, and the roads in the village are all dirt roads, which are inconvenient for trading of materials and products in rainy days. The same cases are found in Ripai, Moci and other villages. In terms of water use, drought is frequent in the project areas due to harsh natural conditions and fragile ecological environment. For instance, as Bijiao Village in Maochang Town of Dafang County in Guizhou suffers water shortage due to climate, the farmers there have to spend more than one hour walking to the waterwheel by the roadside and carry the water to their field. They have to carry 15-20kg for a single trip. Lejing Village in Huaqiu Town of Tongzi County is faced with problems like lack of water sources (which are far away) and lack of electricity during peak 39    demand in developing rural tourism. Yulin Village in Jiaoyuan Town of Gulin County, Tongxin Village in Miao Township of Masi, Tianba Village in Yi Township of Shuiliao in Xuyong County, Yantang Village in Yi Township of Shiba in Sichuan all suffer seasonal water shortage due to the impact of drought. The old and backward water conservancy irrigation in these local places hardly meets the needs to develop planting and breeding industries. Thus, the villagers hope that: First, the project will improve the agricultural production materials such as seeds, pesticides, fertilizers and farming equipment and the transportation conditions to sell agricultural products to other places through construction of village roads and service roads for production; second, the project will prevent or mitigate the impact of natural disasters like drought on the growth and harvest of crops and gradually solve the drinking problems of men and animals in some villages by improving irrigation facilities, irrigation techniques and conditions, and by constructing water cellars for men, water tanks and drinking water project facilities; third, the construction of distribution and sale facilities and equipment like trading venues of agricultural products and livestock, product storage and processing facilities can create conditions for rural households to carry out production. Agriculture is an important source of livelihood for rural households in poverty-stricken areas, while poor infrastructure is the key issue that constrains the agricultural production and development in poor areas. Therefore, improving infrastructure can help improve the production and livelihood of rural households.  Mr. Zhang, Leader of Wenge Township, Dafang County, Guizhou: Currently the most important factor that limits the development of cooperatives is poor infrastructure, especially serious shortage of irrigation water sources, farm track, access roads, processing equipment, plants and warehouses.  Women Symposium in Haiba Village, Dafang County, Guizhou: Suggestions on the project: 1) deep processing of gastrodia elata to get more economic income; 2) implementing the project as soon as possible; 3) building good infrastructure.  Leader of Shunfeng Ecological Agriculture Development Cooperative in Haiba Village, Dafang County, Guizhou: Current limitations in the development of cooperatives are: weak initial capital; the need for local experts in technology; inconvenience in transportation; lack of processing equipment. The processing is done manually, using water for washing or stove for drying.  Women Symposium in Tianba Village, Yi Township of Shuiliao, Xuyong County, Sichuan:  The main difficulties are: lack of water for irrigation and domestic use. Generally the villagers have to get at five and walk for one hour to carry water. They have to carry 30-40 kg water for a trip and have to carry water twice a day. This is a burden on women.  (5) Increasing the chances for rural households to fairly share benefit and promoting the sustainable development of poor rural households Based on the benefits that rural households get from cooperatives, the general problems are no benefit or narrow benefit ranges, single benefit channels and lack of the right to speak in sharing benefits. After being implemented, the project will increase the chance for rural households to fairly share benefits 40    through a variety of channels: first, the project will establish cooperatives that uphold shared benefits among villagers and shared responsibilities to ensure a wide range of rural households, especially the poor ones, are involved in cooperatives; second, the project will establish joint-stock farmer cooperatives that the majority of rural households join with collective investment and that are collectively owned to ensure member rural households have equitable access to dividends and rebates; third, the project will increase the ability of rural households to obtain profits by enhancing their involvement in cooperatives, such as through providing training, employment and management opportunities.  Leader of Jinmao Fruit Cooperative in Zhuanglang County, Gansu: The cooperative was built on a company. Local rural agents joined the cooperative to be responsible for sales and contacting dealers from other places for purchase. The apples of cooperative members are stored in the air-conditioned warehouse of the company at a charge of 0.17 yuan/kg. Those who are not members of the cooperative will not enjoy such favorable charge and they have to pay 0.2 yuan/kg to store their apples in the warehouse.  Wuzhu potato breeding cooperative in Weiyuan County, Gansu: Products of the cooperative are produced to order and purchased at the protection price. When the market price is lower than 0.5 yuan/250g, the purchase price will be 0.5 yuan/250g; when the market price is higher than 0.5 yuan/250g, the purchase price will be 0.5 yuan/250g. (6) Increasing employment opportunities, especially for the poor and women, improving employment conditions, and increasing the unit value of labor force First, villagers in the project areas will be preferred to volunteer to work with payment in the construction of infrastructure, such as hardening or new construction of roads, drinking water tank for men and animals/cellar trimming, and building of trading markets; second, the scale development of local advantageous industries will increase the demand for local labor and drive some idle labor force to join the industries, while capable individuals and large households may continue to develop through the development of advantageous industries and the platforms of cooperatives and gradually grow into owners of small or micro enterprises; third, improvement in infrastructure conditions, and scale development and agglomeration of competitive industries can improve the local investment environment and create better employment conditions; fourth, the labor skills and productivity of rural households in the development of advantageous industries will be improved, the unit labor value will be increased, the income of rural households will be increased, and women and poor households will have more job opportunities and higher income. 3.3.2. RISKS (1) Risks in land acquisition and land management In terms of land acquisition, according to the screening schedule of land use in the project provided by the project offices and the field sampling investigation of the Social Assessment Group, there are mainly three ways of land occupancy in the project: land lease, land donation and land acquisition. Land for bases of planting and breeding. Generally, the planting and breeding bases will be equipped with certain standardized facilities, and as they cover large areas, the land is mostly acquired 41    through lease or pooling of land as shares. The acquired land will be collectively operated, managed and maintained by cooperatives. General public infrastructure and agricultural supporting facilities. The project involves the construction of public infrastructure and agricultural supporting facilities such as production roads, farm tracks, farmland facilities, irrigation and drainage facilities. As they usually take up small areas in linear trends and are mostly facilities needed or urgently needed by rural households to develop agriculture, the villagers are willing to provide land through land donation. Land for cooperatives. The land for construction of new cooperatives in the project is usually from the land owned by the village collectives. Village committees in the project villages will hold a general assembly of villagers to listen to the views of the villagers, and sign agreements on the use of collective construction land with cooperatives; some cooperatives may acquire land through leases. Land for trading markets. Trading markets to be constructed under the project will need to occupy large areas of land and are generally located in places where there are convenient transportation and high flows of people like town centers. The Social Assessment Group learned that the land for trading markets under the project comes from three main sources: state-owned land, collective construction land, and villagers’ collective land. State-owned land: The trading market that is built on state-owned land is the trading market of livestock in Zhangjiachuan County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province. The market is constructed in the existing Golden Comprehensive Agricultural Market in Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County; the Golden Comprehensive Agricultural Market covers 25 mu and the certificate of land use right was issued by the Land and Resources Bureau of Zhangjiachuan in September 2010. The Poverty Reduction Office of Zhangjiachuan County consulted with the legal person of the company on renting a 10-mu idle land in the market as the construction land for a trading market of livestock under the World Bank Project (Phase VI) for a term of 10 years. Upon expiration, the two sides may agree on renewal. Collective construction land: the trading markets to be constructed on collective construction land are generally divided into two types. The first one is reconstruction of the original trading markets, such as the trading market in Shubo Village, Nanwa Township, Jinyang County, whose construction site is in the market of Nanwa Township; the trading market in Zhuanchengzi Village, Maojing Township, Huanxian County in the original collection-distribution point of livestock, where there is a lack of basic market infrastructure and whose land belongs to the village collective, covering about 10 mu, while the proposed new standard trading market will be equipped with the necessary trading venues, booths, parking space and security facilities; trading market of livestock in Shuangcheng Village and Xieguozhui Village, which will be constructed with land contributed as shares and will not involve land acquisition or resettlement. The other type is construction of new trading markets. The newly constructed trading markets will mostly be at village or township levels (except in Huachi County). The construction sites of the trading markets are coordinated by the county poverty reduction offices and county governments with village committees and decided at the general assemblies of villagers. Villagers’ collective land. The “Construction Project of Livestock Trading Market” in Huachi County covers 107 mu and is located inXinbao Grass and Animal Industry Demonstration Zone in Yuele Town of the county. It is constructed on the collective land of Xinbao Village by the county government through renting the collective contracted land in September 2002. The first lease period is 20 years and 42    the rent is disbursed by the county finance. The land does not belong to state-owned land. The Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau of the county provided supporting documents of construction land use and the land lease agreement. 43    Table 3-2 List of Construction Land for Trading Markets Quantit Proposed Sites of Actu y of Area of Construction al Trading Constructi Planne Area Time of Provin Planned Land City County Market on d and of Acquisiti Remarks ce Industry Township/To Nature s to Content for Use Village Land on wn Constru (m2) Used ct (mu) Collectiv Constructi Trading Dendrobium e on site not Zunyi Chishui 1 3000 / / 6 / market nobile constructi determine on land d Collectiv Constructi Comprehens Farmers’ e on site not A 500 ive trading / / 1 market constructi determine market on land d Trading Collectiv Constructi Guizho market at Bamboo e on site not B 500 / / 1 / u village fungus constructi determine Zhijin level on land d Bijie 3 County Trading Collectiv Constructi market at Bamboo e on site not C 500 / / 1 / village fungus constructi determine level on land d Trading Collectiv Constructi market at Bamboo e on site not D 500 / / 1 / village fungus constructi determine level on land d 44    Quantit Proposed Sites of Actu y of Area of Construction al Trading Constructi Planne Area Time of Provin Planned Land City County Market on d and of Acquisiti Remarks ce Industry Township/To Nature s to Content for Use Village Land on 2 wn Constru (m ) Used ct (mu) Trading Collectiv Constructi Xuyong market for Chishui Xiekou e on site not Luzhou 1 1500 Fruit 2.3 / County agricultural Township Village constructi determine products on land d Sichua Renovated n Trading from the Liangsh Semi-fine Nanwa Shubo State-own Jinyang 1 market for 3333 5 / original an wool sheep Township Village ed land livestock trading market Trading Tianshu Zhangjiach Malu Jinshan State-own Septembe 1 market for 6666 Beef cattle 10 i uan County Township Village ed land r, 2010 livestock Renovated Wholesale Collectiv from the Weiyuan market of Wuzhu e waste old Dingxi 1 9990 Potato Wuzhu Town 15 / Gansu County improved Village constructi drama variety on land stage in the village Xinbao Collectiv Construct Trading Qingyan Huachi Sheep Grass and e ed on the 1 market for 71262 Yuele Town 107 / g County raising Animal constructi collective livestock Industry on land land of 45    Quantit Proposed Sites of Actu y of Area of Construction al Trading Constructi Planne Area Time of Provin Planned Land City County Market on d and of Acquisiti Remarks ce Industry Township/To Nature s to Content for Use Village Land on 2 wn Constru (m ) Used ct (mu) Demonstrat Xinbao ion Zone Village by the county governme nt through renting the collective contracte d land in Septembe r 2002. The first lease period is 20 years and the rent is disbursed by the 46    Quantit Proposed Sites of Actu y of Area of Construction al Trading Constructi Planne Area Time of Provin Planned Land City County Market on d and of Acquisiti Remarks ce Industry Township/To Nature s to Content for Use Village Land on 2 wn Constru (m ) Used ct (mu) county finance Original Collectiv collection 666 Sheep Maojing Zhuancheng e and A 10 / 6 raising Township zi Village constructi distributio on land n point of livestock Trading Huanxian Collectiv 3 market for County 666 Sheep Shuangchen e livestock B Quzi Town 10 / 6 raising g Village constructi on land Collectiv 666 Sheep Yanwu Xieguozui e C 10 / 6 raising Township Village constructi on land Source: Screening Schedules of Land Acquisition and Demolition, Research Reports and Data Provided by Project Offices of Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu 47    As the specific locations and effects of some construction projects in the project cannot be determined, the following risks may exist in the construction and industrial development of the project: first, both the project construction and industrial development requires availability of land, the development and construction of project in concatenated areas may be affected if the rural households are not willing to contribute their land; second, in addition to the small amount of land used for the construction of cooperative offices, colony houses, feed stores, epidemic prevention rooms, trading markets, warehousing collection and distribution points, processing sites and other civil works will inevitably involve land occupation. Most rural households in the project areas live on agriculture, with farming and harvesting grain and other agricultural products as their main livelihood. Once the project involves land acquisition and resettlement, it may have a negative impact on the production, lives and livelihoods of rural households, leading to reduction in the land resources of rural households and decline in agricultural income. Some rural households may be faced with the risks of falling into poverty, re-poverty or worsened poverty. Secondly, some of the cooperatives under the support of the project may need to set up or expand production bases. Such construction or expansion may be carried out through transfer of land or joining cooperatives by contributing land as shares. This could lead to the following risks in land management: rural households involved in such arrangements may not be entirely voluntary and vulnerable rural households may not share benefits equitably. (2) Ecological migration and relocation from place to place The Social Assessment Group learned through field investigation and from the supplemental information obtained by communicating with the project offices in the three provinces that the ecological migration in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces is: 1) Guizhou: The Social Assessment Group learned through field investigation that townships that involve ecological migration in the project areas of Guizhou Province are Wenge Township in Dafang County and Shibao Township in Chishui City in Guizhou. The specific information is as follows: Haiba, Zhongzhai and Anqing Villages in Wenge Township of Dafang County are project villages and they altogether have 66 households, including 328 people, moving from Tianba Community of Haiba Village. All of the migrant rural households are poor households and they applied for the migration voluntarily. The reason was that the place of origin was characterized by inconvenient transportation, backward infrastructure facilities, harsh natural environment, and poor living conditions. In order to improve the production and living conditions, the poor rural households moved to Haibai Village, where there are convenient transportation, better living conditions and better infrastructure. These villagers live in Haibai Village but leaving their land in Zhongzhai Village, place of their origin. The nearest distance between their new residence and their land is 1-2 km and the farthermost is 8 km. Yiqun Village and Hongxi Village in Shibao Township in Chishui City are within the scope of the project. In 2014, they will have 150 households, including 708 people, moving to the settlement in Chaoyang Community 48    under the ecological migration project for poverty reduction in Shibao Township.① It includes 15 poor households, which voluntarily move from Datan Village, Xingnong Village and Yiqun Village to the migrant settlement in Hongxing Village. The farm land of these migrants in their original village community will still belong to them and they will not be distributed with new farm land in the destination of migration. The nearest distance from the new residence to the original residence and the land is 3-5 km and the farthermost distance is more than 10km. 2) Sichuan: The project villages that the Social Assessment Group visited do not have ecological migrants. After consulting and communicating with the project offices at all levels in Sichuan Province, the Social Assessment Group learned that in the ecological migration within the scope of Sichuan Province, the villagers voluntarily moved from the mountainous area to the stream area in the village. The government did not organize any ecological migration or have any planning. There is no government-led ecological migration in Gulin County and Xuyong County. 3) Gansu: After visits and investigation with the local project offices, the Social Assessment Group confirmed that there is no ecological migration in the project counties of Gansu Province. Interviews with villagers showed that the ecological migrants, like other villagers, show strong willingness to participate in the project. They expected to participate in the cooperative construction and industrial development project and have the equal rights of participation and benefit sharing as local villagers. However, as some of the migrants are separated from their land, for example, ecological migrants living in the villages of destination while leaving their land in the villages of origin, they may be faced with risks of rejecting the villages of destination and origin, insufficient resources or assets, and passivity or being marginalized when participating in the construction of cooperatives and industry development. (3) Equal benefiting from conditional grants to cooperatives The Social Assessment Group learned that rural households in the project areas generally reflect a lack of funds for development and production, for example, lack of funds to buy seedlings, livestock, fertilizers, pesticides, mulches, chaff cutters and other production materials. Due to lack of production funds, poor rural households can not buy better seeds or use organic fertilizers, and the effects of their industrial development are affected; the cost of a cow aged 3 months in the project areas is RMB 6,000-7,000, and the costs for cattle raising are high. In the process of cattle raising, there are costs for disease prevention and treatment and feed. Generally, rural households in the project areas held strong demand and expectation for the conditional grants to cooperatives. Thus, the equitable distribution of conditional grants to cooperatives in the implementation of the project and how to ensure poor rural households can fairly benefit from them may affect the implementation of the project and realization of the goal for the project contribute to the sustainable income of poor rural households.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ① According to the zoning result, the resettlement belongs to Group 1 of Hongxing Village in Shibao Township and is close to Chaoyang Community. It is within the planning area of market town. Thus, resettlement is defined as the resettlement of Chaoyang Community. Hongxing Village is the planning area of “World Bank Project Phase VI”. The original residence of the migrants does not belong to the planning area of the project.  49     Leader of Ripai Village in Butuo County, Sichuan: The main difficulty in developing potato industry in the village is lack of capital. Without money, we can’t buy good seedlings, which affects the scale of planting.   Interview with Villager in Erdanwu Village, Zhaojue County, Sichuan: Our family needs money. We want to raise more sheep, but we do have the money to expand the raising scale.  Leader of Sanyou Village in Zhangjiachuan County, Gansu: Larger breeders in the village have 3 cattle, while small ones have one or two. There are those who do not raise any cattle, because they don’t have the money. They have no access to loans as banks require collateral and there is no mutual aid money in the village  Leader of Baima Village in Huachi County, Gansu: In the past, we gave the sheep directly to the rural households for poverty reduction. Many of them sold the sheep when they needed money. It didn’t work to reduce poverty. (4) Risks in shortage of labor needed for the development of cooperatives and industrial chain and poor management skills of the labor force Risks in the labor force are mainly reflected in satisfaction of the demand for labor in the construction of infrastructure and of the demand for talents in the establishment of cooperatives in the project. Most of the young and strong labor force in the project areas chooses to work in other places, leaving the elderly, children and women behind. For example, Hongxing Village in Shibao Township of Chishui City in Guizhou has a total population of 3,716, including 1,740 labor forces, which includes more than 1,200 migrant workers, accounting for more than 68.96% of the total labor force in the village. There are more than 700 old people and more than 300 children left in the village. The women who are left in the village seldom participate in external activities as they have to take care of the children and the elderly at home. In Yantang Village in Shiba Township of Xuyong County in Sichuan Province, more than 80% of the men aged under 40 seek jobs in other places, leaving the women and the elderly behind to do all the housework and farm work. The infrastructure construction in the project requires the participation of labor force, one that has certain strength and relatively abundant time. The women, elderly, and children who are left in rural areas hoped that the completion of project will provide better economic benefits to attract the outflow family member to return to develop local industries and take care of the families. Establishment, management and maintenance of cooperatives, industrial planning and implementation, and management of production bases all require labor force and raise some requirements on the education levels, social skills and technical skill levels of the labor force. Thus, how to attract the labor force back through the project construction to ensure sufficient labor force for the operation of cooperatives and industrial development has a great impact on the smooth implementation and development of the project and realization of the goal to develop efficient, ecological, and high value-added industries.  Mr. Zhang in Haiba Village, Dafang County, Guizhou: There are more than 400 households depending on the minimum living guarantee in the village. Few households are engaged in gastrodia elata planting. They don’t have the start-up capital, and most of 50  children go out to work, leaving the elderly and the these households do not have labor. The disabled family members at home.   (5) Risk in the operation and management of public infrastructure in rural areas Newly constructed or renovated production roads, terraces, irrigation facilities, electricity facilities and other infrastructure are aimed to lay a foundation for adjustment in the agricultural industrial structure and development of modern industry value chain by improving infrastructure and public services. In views of the villagers, these infrastructure facilities can provide convenience for their production and lives and are also an important problem that they are eager to improve through the project as it cannot be solved by a single village or several individuals. Villagers are particularly concerned about water shortage and lack of flat or hardened roads. In their opinions, without water, crops cannot be grown and cattle or sheep will not live; without good roads, pesticides and fertilizers can not be transported into the village while crops, cattle and sheep cannot be sold out. Interviews with the persons in charge of cooperatives revealed that infrastructure has become an important factor limiting the development of cooperatives, especially water sources for irrigation, farm tracks, access roads and trading markets. Because this public infrastructure is public undertakings, it is difficult to solve by single effort. They hoped the government can help solve this problem; but at the same time, the villagers also fear that this public infrastructure may lose their functions for constant use and wear if nobody maintains or manages them. In that case, their production and live will become inconvenient again. In the interviews with some of the township and village cadres, they considered that management of infrastructure is more important than construction. Without management after construction, the infrastructure will soon worn out.  Women Symposium in Tongxin Village, Miao Township of Masi, Gulin County, Sichuan: I hope the project can promote the construction of irrigation facilities and farm track. We can travel by tricycle so save labor and expenses; usually we have to walk to the field and carry the agricultural products with pack baskets. It’s a heavy labor burden. The constructed roads and water facilities must be managed, or they can break down easily and become useless. 51    4 Farmer Cooperative Analysi 4.1 Farmer Cooperative Organization The farmer cooperative organizations in the project counties can be divided into 4 types, including: 1) professional farmer cooperative; 2) professional farmer association; 3) fund cooperation society; 4) mutual aid group of villagers. The natures, functions, characteristics and operational modes of these 4 farmer cooperative organizations are shown in the following table. 52    Table 4-1 List of Farmer Cooperative Organization Types in the Project Counties No. Type Nature Function and Characteristics Operational Modes Remarks For example, in the improved variety of Wanfo virus-free a. carrying out for-profit business potato breeding cooperative in activities on the basis of household Xuwan Village, Yongjing contract management right; County, Linxia Prefecture, b. carrying out entity business activities Gansu, the rural households sell Registered in the industrial and like purchase of production materials, and the potato they produce sales to commercial administration sales, processing, storage, and the cooperative, which then will department, having operational Professional Economic transportation of agricultural products; store the potatoes in the modes varying with the subject and 1 farmer organization with c. voluntary membership of rural warehouse and sell them when relationship in the industrial chain, cooperative corporate capacity households; there is property price. Its main and the profit distribution d. funding from the capital stock or operational modes are: company mechanism. entrance fees contributed by members; + cooperative + rural household, e. with dual economic and social company + base + cooperative, attributes, for-profit externally and cooperative + rural household, non-profit internally. farmer cooperatives, cooperative + base + rural household. a. carrying out nonprofit business For example, in Fuqiang Sheep activities; Raising Association in b. providing technical exchanges and Dongxiang County, Linxia Registered in the civil affairs Professional services for members; Prefecture, Gansu, the department as a civil society Society 2 farmer c. voluntary membership, weak binding association was initiated by the organization, relatively loose organization association force, and dramastic variations in local large sheep breeders to be organization and management, not membership; mainly responsible for engaged in profitable activities d. funding from the annual membership providing guidance about fees. raising techniques to breeders. 53    Its main mode is agricultural association + rural household. For example, in the Mutual Aid Group of Villagers in Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture, a. self-organization and voluntary Mutual aid groups were created under Sichuan, the members raised membership of villagers; the initiative of the Heifer Project Mutual aid Non-governmental money as mutual funds for relief 3 b. self-financed by villagers; International, mainly distributed in group organization assistance for members. The c. nonprofit; Meigu and Butuo Counties in specific financing and d. mutual aid tradition of Yi nationality. Liangshan Prefecture borrowing limits, repayment period and interest are determined by the group itself. For example, the mutual help society (fund cooperative a. voluntary membership and withdrawal; society) in Qiaolu Village, b. mutual funds from the government, Dongxiang County, Linxia The fund cooperation societies were enterprises and rural households; Prefecture, Gansu, follows the developed from the previous mutual Fund c. required mutual aid fund from financing channel of aid associations for poverty Society 4 cooperation members, on a household basis, one “government + company + reduction in Linxia Prefecture, but organization society household for one member; member + others”. The loaning with more diverse financing channels d. mutual funds sourced from guaranteed of one household needs the and stronger operability, commonly loans for members in the society for a guarantee of two and the loan known as “the Linxia Mode”. term of 1 year. ranges from RMB 3,000 to 20,000 for a period of one year. The annual interest is 6 ‰. 54    4.2 Current Status of Professional Farmer Cooperatives 4.2.1. CLASSIFICATION OF PROFESSIONAL FARMER COOPERATIVES Based on the classification criteria stated in the Classification of National Economic Industries, with sales, processing, transportation and storage of a certain agricultural product, purchase of its materials, and technology, information and other services related to the production and operation of such agricultural product as the bond…（这句中文是不是没写完，请核查） (1) By Industry By the businesses they are engaged in, professional farmer cooperatives can be classified into: planting farmer cooperatives, breeding farmer cooperatives, and tourism farmer cooperatives; by the industrial characteristics of the project areas, planting farmer cooperatives can be sub-classified into: grain planting farmer cooperatives, vegetable planting farmer cooperatives, tea planting farmer cooperatives and Chinese medicinal herb planting farmer cooperatives.③ According to the field investigation of the Social Assessment Group, specific information about the professional farmer cooperatives in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu Provinces is as follows: The surveyed professional farmer cooperatives in the project areas in Guizhou Province are divided into the following main categories: 4 planting farmer cooperatives, accounting for 66.8%; one breeding farmer cooperative, accounting for 16.6%; one tourism farmer cooperative, accounting for 16.6%. The planting farmer cooperatives include 2 Chinese medicinal herb planting farmer cooperatives, one vegetable planting farmer cooperative and one tea planting farmer cooperative. The surveyed professional farmer cooperatives in the project areas in Sichuan Province all belong to planting farmer cooperatives, and there are 8 cooperatives in total: 3 fruit/nut planting farmer cooperatives, 4 grain planting farmer cooperatives, and one vegetable planting farmer cooperative. The surveyed professional farmer cooperatives in the project areas in Gansu Province are divided into the following main categories: 9 planting farmer cooperatives and 17 breeding farmer cooperatives. The planting farmer cooperatives include 2 grain planting farmer cooperatives, one Chinese medicinal herb planting farmer cooperatives, and 6 fruit planting farmer cooperatives. Table 4-2 Classification of the Surveyed Professional Farmer Cooperatives Planting Farmer Breeding Farmer Tourism Farmer Total Province Cooperative Cooperative Cooperative n % n % n % n % Guizhou 4 66.8 1 16.6 1 16.6 6 100 Sichuan 8 100 0 0 0 0 8 100                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ③ The analysis of professional farmer cooperatives in this chapter does not include farmer associations. There are 25 professional farmer cooperatives and one farmer association in the basic information table about professional farmer cooperatives in Gansu Province, but the farmer association is not included in the statistical analysis.  55    Gansu 8 32 17 68 0 0 25 100 Total 20 51.3 18 46.2 1 2.5 39 100 (2) By Service According to the services they provide, cooperatives in the project areas can be divided into: integrated cooperatives, production cooperatives, warehousing cooperatives, marketing cooperatives, and processing cooperatives. The Social Assessment Group found through field investigation and analysis that 37 of 39 professional farmer cooperatives are integrated cooperatives, except Xinyuan Breeding Cooperative in Zhangjiachuan County and Shuanghong Breeding Cooperative in Jingning County. Integrated cooperatives are those that are more or less engaged in providing means of production (such as seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides), technical training, standardized management, and services like storage and sale of agricultural products. Thus, the professional farmer cooperatives in the project areas are mostly integrated cooperatives. 4.2.2. ORGANIZATIONAL COMPOSITION AND STAFFING The organizational structure of professional farmer cooperatives includes the general assembly of members, the board of directors, and the supervisory board. The general assembly of members is composed of all the members; the board of directors is responsible for daily operations of the cooperative; the supervisory board is responsible for internal supervision over the operation of the cooperative. The field investigation showed that the 39 surveyed professional farmer cooperatives have basically set up organizational structures according to Law of the People’s Republic of China on Professional Farmer Cooperatives. (1) Scale of Management Personnel in Cooperatives The management personnel responsible for the major daily activities of cooperatives are: members of the director board, members of the supervisory board, and the financial and accounting staff. According to field investigation, the management personnel of a cooperative generally include 2-20 people, specifically: Most of the professional farmer cooperatives in Guizhou have a 5-person or less management team, accounting for 50%; the second largest proportion, 33.3%, is a 5- to 10-person team; cooperatives having a 10-person or more management team take up 16.7%. Most of the professional farmer cooperatives in Sichuan have a 5- to 10-person management team, accounting for 62.5%; the second largest proportion, 25%, is a 10-person or more team; cooperatives having a 5-person or less management team take up 16.7%. Most of the professional farmer cooperatives in Gansu have a 5- to 10-person management team, accounting for 48.7%; the second largest proportion, 41%, is a 5-person or less team; cooperatives having a 10-person or more management team take up 10.3%. Overall, most of the professional farmer cooperatives have a 5- to 10-person management team. Table 4-3 Scale of Management Personnel in the Surveyed Professional Farmer Cooperatives 56    5 People or Less 5-10 People 10 People or More Total Province n % n % n % n % Guizhou 3 50 2 33.3 1 16.7 6 100 Sichuan 1 12.5 5 62.5 2 25 8 100 Gansu 12 48 12 48 1 4 26 100 Total 16 41 19 48.7 4 10.3 39 100 (2) Driving Forces of Cooperatives According to composition of promoters and management of cooperatives, cooperatives can divided into those driven by village cadres, those driven by capable individuals and large households, and those driven by village cadres + capable individuals and large households, specifically: The percent of cooperatives driven by village cadres in Guizhou is 16.7%; the percent of those driven by capable individuals and large households is 83.3%; those that are driven by capable individuals and large households are dominant. The percent of cooperatives driven by village cadres in Sichuan is 62.5%; the percent of those driven by capable individuals and large households is 37.5%; those that are driven by village cadres are dominant. The percent of cooperatives driven by village cadres in Gansu is 20%; the percent of those driven by capable individuals and large households is 48%; those that are driven by village cadres + capable individuals and large households is 32%; those that are driven by capable individuals and large households are dominant. Table 4-4 Driving Forces of the Surveyed Professional Farmer Cooperatives Driven by Village Driven by Capable Driven by Village Cadres + Capable Individuals and Total Province Cadres Individuals and Large Large Households Households n % n % n % n % Guizhou 1 16.7 5 83.3 0 0 6 100 Sichuan 5 62.5 3 37.5 0 0 8 100 Gansu 5 20 12 48 8 32 25 100 Total 11 28.2 19 51.3 8 20.5 39 100 The field investigation found that there are huge differences in the establishment of professional farmer cooperatives in different places due to regional differences and ethnic minority areas. For example, cooperatives in Yi Nationality of Liangshan in Sichuan are mostly created by agents of families or guided by professional personnel from the government; the professional farmer cooperatives in Huanxian County and Zhengning County in Gansu mostly set up a party branch composed of members of village committee to provide theoretical and policy guidance on the development of cooperatives. 4.2.3. PROFIT DISTRIBUTION (1) Establishment of Profit Distribution Mechanisms in Cooperatives of Rural Households Rural households participating in profit distributing of cooperatives is about the distribution of profits 57    (i.e., surplus) obtained by cooperatives through external operation activities. The establishment of the profit distribution of cooperatives for rural households is the precondition for the follow-up profit distribution. The analysis on the participation of rural households in the profit distribution of cooperatives in three provinces yielded the following results: Half of the professional farmer cooperatives in Guizhou have established a profit distribution mechanism for rural households and the other half of the cooperatives have not; according to field investigation and feedback from rural households, only 2 cooperatives actually distributed profits to the rural households, accounting for 33.3%. 37.5% of the professional farmer cooperatives in Sichuan have established a profit distribution mechanism for rural households and 62.5% have not; 3 cooperatives actually distributed profits to the rural households. 43.6% of the professional farmer cooperatives in Gansu have established a profit distribution mechanism for rural households and 56.4% have not; only 5 cooperatives actually distributed profits to the rural households, accounting for 20%. Table 4-5 Establishment of Profit Distribution Mechanisms for Rural Households in the Surveyed Cooperatives Without A Profit With A Profit Distribution Mechanism Total Province Distribution Mechanism n % n % n % Guizhou 3 50 3 50 6 100 Sichuan 3 37.5 5 62.5 8 100 Gansu 11 44 14 56 25 100 Total 17 43.6 22 56.4 39 100 (2) Ways for Rural Households to Participate in the Profit Distribution of Cooperatives Analysis on the profit distribution of professional farmer cooperatives needs to involve how profits are distributed in additional whether they are distributed. Judging from the situation in the project areas, cooperative members mainly get free or favorable means of production, technical guidance and training, product sales and other services, and are less involved in the actual profit distribution. In most of the areas, especially in poor ones, the rural households know little about cooperatives. The statistics about the participation of rural households in the profit distribution of cooperatives does not include distribution of the profits only on the basis of contribution shares of cooperatives partners; therefore, based on the profit distribution of the surveyed cooperatives, the main distribution ways include: ① Returning by trading amount: the surveyed cooperatives in Guizhou have not yet created the profit distribution based on trading amount; 2 cooperatives in Sichua follow such profit distribution way, accounting for 40%; 7 cooperatives in Gansu follow such profit distribution way, accounting for 58.4%. ② Sharing dividends by contributing capital: all the cooperatives, totally 3, surveyed in Guizhou share dividends by contributing capital; 2 cooperatives in Sichuan share dividends by contributing capital, accounting for 40%; 3 cooperatives in Gansu Province share dividends by contributing capital, accounting for 25%. 58     Leader of Jiangshan White Konjac Cooperative in Jinyang County, Sichuan: Revenue obtained from planting and selling white konjac, after the costs for fertilizers, seeds, workers, management and pesticides are deducted, are distributed according to the shares of capital and land. For example, the profit in 2013 was RMB 100,000 while the costs were RMB 20,000, so the profit was RMB 80,000. The land contributed by rural households was converted into capital contribution that accounted for 20% shares, the capital contribution of rural households was valued 20% shares, while the capital contribution of partners was 60% shares. Thus, the profit, RMB 80,000, was distributed according to the shares of 20% (specific to the share of each household), 20% and 60%. If cooperatives have signed agreements with rural households, the profit distribution is the job of accountants.  ③ Stock dividends: The surveyed cooperatives in Guizhou and Sichuan do not follow the profit distribution by stock dividends, while one cooperative in Gansu follows this way, accounting for 8.3%. ④ Bonus: The surveyed cooperatives in Guizhou do follow the profit distribution by bonus, while one cooperative in Gansu follows this way, accounting for 8.3%. Judging from the field investigation, rural households may be distributed with profits in one way or more than one way. For example, the purple potato cooperative in Butuo County of Liangshan Prefecture distributes its profits by both trading amount and bonus. Distributing profits by trading amount and contributing capital are two prevailing ways. Table 4-6 Statistics on the Ways of Profit Distribution for Rural Households in Cooperatives By Trading Volume By Contributing Capital By Stock Dividends By Bonus Province n % n % n % n % Guizhou 0 0 3 100 0 0 0 0 Sichuan 2 40 2 40 0 0 1 20 Gansu 7 58.4 3 25 1 8.3 1 8.3 Note: A cooperative may follow several ways of profit distribution, thus it may be included more than once in the statistics. 4.2.4. PARTICIPATION AND BENEFIT SHARING OF THE POOR It is found through field investigation that the ways rural households participate in cooperatives mainly include: ① rural households have free access to or purchase agricultural means of production at low prices through cooperatives; ② rural households get rent of land after leasing land to cooperatives; ③ rural households get shares and profits after being shareholders through investing soil and other means of production to cooperatives; ④ farmers work at production bases of cooperatives and get labor income; ⑤ rural households accept technical guidance and training from cooperatives; ⑥ rural households sell products through cooperatives and benefit from high sale prices; ⑦ rural households acquire rebates; ⑧ rural households express their views at the general assembly of members; etc. Although rural households in the project areas face such difficulties as living at the mercy of the elements, inconvenient traffic, poor agricultural infrastructure, fragile ecological environment and low level of education, the poor rural households are often in low level of participation ability and degree in cooperative development due to insufficient labor, sick family members, high life pressure for more elderly and children, etc. Their participation and benefit sharing in cooperative development are as 59    follows: (1) Having free access to or purchasing agricultural means of production at low prices through cooperatives It is common for rural households to have free access or purchase agricultural means of production at low prices in planting cooperatives. The ways in which cooperatives provide seeds/seedlings, fertilizers and other means of production to rural households include: A. Providing for free to rural households before planting, and then deducting the cost of production when rural households have harvested or acquired capital; for example, Wuzhu Potato Breeding Cooperative in Weiyuan County in Gansu would provide seed potatoes to poor rural households in advance for free; B. The cooperatives get cheaper prices through a unified purchase of means of production such as seeds, fertilizers, etc. and then sell them to rural households at prices lower than market levels; C. Some cooperatives provide free means of production to rural households by participating in projects and acquiring capital. For example, Fule Vegetable Planting Cooperative in Meigu County of Sichuan financed RMB 10,000-20,000 for purchasing cabbage seeds through Rural Work Office of the County Party Committee and provided them for farmers for free; Yulin Walnut Cooperative in Gulin County of Sichuan develops walnut industry with 100-mu (about 6.67 hectares) walnut seedlings provided by Forestry Bureau of the county. The way of providing free access to or purchasing agricultural means of production at low prices can make poor rural household directly participate and benefit. Breeding farmer cooperatives have similar ways of participating and benefit sharing to planting farmer cooperatives. For example, Langdutan Breeding Farmer Cooperative in Minxian County of Gansu allows rural households to take 10 lambs from the base and deducts the cost after they have sold their sheep. In addition, some breeding cooperatives can effectively reduce the purchase price through a unified purchase of high quality ewe/cow from other places. Some counties and cities have the projects like providing ewe/cow in entire-village advancement projects. For example, the poverty reduction project in Anding District distributed one to three lambs to generally poor households, and the households raised half the cost (about 500 yuan per lamb); besides, some breeding enterprises cooperated with rural households to carry out the project of investing ewe/cow to return lamb/veal.  Baima Village in Huachi County, Gansu: The cooperative provides 10 lambs for villagers to raise at home. Lambs will be collectively purchased and fattened at farm. If the villagers raise the lambs well, the cooperative will help them sell the sheep as agent. The cooperative can provide lambs to villagers for free and villagers need to return 10 lambs and 10 sheep in three years, or 10 lambs and 3 sheep in one year. (2) Getting rent of land after leasing land to cooperative It is common in rural areas that rural households get rent by leasing their land to cooperatives or enterprises as a production base or breeding area. The land rent is related to its location, fertilization and distribution. In general, the rent of farm land that is closer to roads or with convenient traffic is higher. The rent of fertile land is higher than that of non-fertile land and the rent of concatenated 60    land higher than that of scattered land. For example, the planting area of the base belonging to Tiandi Jinghua Green Pepper and White Konjac Farmer Cooperative in Jingyang County of Sichuan Province is over 300 mu (20 hectares), in which 100 mu (about 6.67 hectares) is contracted and more than 200 mu (about13.33 hectares) is purchased from wasteland for reclamation. The contracted land costs a rent of 800 yuan/mu, and the contract signed with the rural household lasts for 5 years. Generally, the rented land is arable land that is relatively flat and concatenated. (3) Getting shares and profits after being shareholder through investing soil and other means of production to cooperatives Rural households can become shareholders of cooperatives in many ways, such as by contributing capital, labor, or land. Poor rural households mostly contribute land to be shareholders of cooperatives. It is difficult for them to invest capital or labor due to insufficient labor, capital or other reasons. Meanwhile, capital and labor are also reasons that restrict poor rural households from being engaged in agricultural activities. Thus, poor rural households are more willing to be shareholders of cooperatives by contributing their land.  Leader of Jiangshan White Konjac Cooperative in Jinyang County, Sichuan: The cooperative signed contracts with rural households in April this year. Totally 100-mu (about 6.67 hectares) land is transferred and 89 rural households are involved, in which 12 of them invest land and 77 lease land. The land is converted to capital for shares and is divided into four grades – 500 yuan/mu (about 0.07 hectares), 700 yuan/mu, 800 yuan/mu and 1,000 yuan/mu, according to geographical location (Grande I and II land has been determined during land contracting) and soil texture, through negotiation with rural households. Some rural households invest capital, but not large. The rural households transferring land can work at the base of the cooperative or plant on their other land. (4) Working at production bases of cooperatives for labor income Working at production bases of cooperatives is a way for rural households to get income through cooperatives. It is common in planting farmer cooperatives, such as cooperatives of improved potato planting and Chinese medicinal herb planting. Generally, members or shareholders are prioritized when a cooperative has job opportunities. For example, they will be provided first for rural households that have transferred their land to the cooperative. In this case, rural households can get work income without leaving the village. However, due to the strong seasonal feature of planting, rural households get limited amount of revenue through working at bases of cooperatives, and the attraction of employment opportunities in cooperatives to rural households is also limited. In addition, there are few employment opportunities provided by breeding farmer cooperatives, and the demand of modern farms for manpower is even less. The premise for poor rural households to get employment opportunities in cooperatives is that they must be able to provide certain labor. Therefore, few poor rural households can be employed by cooperatives.  Villager of Haiba Village in Dafang County, Guizhou: Gastrodia elata planting requires full manual without any mechanized operations. Rural households that transferred their land to cooperatives enjoy the priority to work at the base of the cooperative. The work is generally settled by day and the wage is generally 50-80 yuan/day; labor is required generally 61  for seeding in March-April and harvest in October-December. Field management and fertilizer application are not required basically in the middle months; 12-15 workers are needed for cultivation on the land per mu (about 0.07 hectares) of land.    Leader of Saishidai Chinese Medicinal Herb Cooperative in Dafang County: There are two ways for rural households to participate. One is joining cooperatives. Rural households can plant and sell Chinese medicinal herb through cooperatives; the other is working at the bases of cooperatives. The medicinal herb is sold at 3 yuan/0.5 kg and the rural households can gain 50-100 yuan a day, generally 50-70 yuan. 30 workers are needed in one day on average, and each of them can earn more than 100 yuan at most. The workers are mostly women. Male workers are required for plowing.  (5) Participating in the technical guidance and training of cooperatives Providing industry-related technical guidance and training to members is one of the service functions that cooperatives perform. Based on the communication with rural households, the demands of rural households for cooperatives include, in addition to getting sale services, having access to relevant information and technical guidance and training. The Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau and other relevant departments develop training programs for cooperatives each year, but most of them are designed for the leaders and relevant managers of cooperatives, and few can benefit to cooperative members. In fact, cooperatives also rarely hold theoretical lectures indoors. In most cases, technical staff would offer guidance and explanation to rural households about their planting and breeding in the fields; also, some members may consult skilled personnel of cooperatives during the planting and breeding process to get technical guidance.  Wuzhu Potato Breeding Cooperative in Weiyuan County, Gansu: Training on potato planting: Four times a year at least. It is led by agricultural technique spreading center and agricultural department. The town has an Agricultural & Forestry Service Center and conducts poverty reduction training relying on professional sectors and industry management office. The training can cover 98% of rural households. The training is targeted at household as a unit, one person from one household. Cooperatives also provide training for their members.  Member of Yuhong Rural Tourism Cooperative: It does not need to pay any fee to join the cooperative. Rural households as members of the cooperative would get training on attracting tourists and other relevant issues from the cooperative. The cooperative and the county tourism office provide relevant training mainly on ceremonial reception, sanitation, cooking and other aspects. Villagers can participate in the training voluntarily and do not pay any fees. Selling products through cooperatives Members of cooperatives can get marketing information and channels of agricultural products through cooperatives. It is learnt from interviews with organizational personnel of cooperatives and rural households that generally the agricultural products of members can be sold through cooperatives or self-marketing; some cooperatives build relationships with enterprises and sign order-based agriculture contracts with them. Enterprises will purchase the products of cooperative members at a protective price. Those who are not members of cooperatives can also sell their products through cooperatives, but a higher handling charge is required. 62     Leader of Xingkun Fruit Industry Cooperative in Heshui County, Gansu: The cooperative provides supporting agricultural means of production and their own agricultural outlets with slightly lower price than market price; the cooperative has broker who negotiates with vendor on price and the final negotiated price is 2-3 cents higher than that sold by rural household. (6) Getting rebates According to the investigation and analysis data on cooperatives in three provinces, totally 9 cooperatives mention rebates in their profit distribution systems, which accounts for 23% of the surveyed cooperatives; however, only 3 to 4 cooperatives actually offer rebates to their members and most of these cooperatives are composed of planting and breeding households and capable people. The poor rural households getting rebates are less. The participation of poor rural households in the rebate distribution of cooperatives depends on the membership of poor rural households in cooperatives and the organizational structure and operation of the cooperatives they join.  Leader of Dashu Village, Dongxiang Autonomous County, Gansu: Now there is no cooperative in our village, and it is difficult to found a cooperative in future. One reason is villagers’ distrust in profit sharing and the other reason is that most of the villagers are accustomed to the mode household farming and marketing. In addition, large amount of capital is required on centralized establishment of sheepfolds on farms and centralized purchase of lambs, which is totally beyond the means of cooperatives. However, household farming and management is still supported and it is better to build cooperatives for unified management under government’s guidance, because this can save part of the costs. (7) Expressing views at the general assembly of members In fact, the cooperatives visited by the Social Assessment Group are relatively better ones in the eyes of the village committees involved in the project. However, among the actually investigated cooperatives, only 19 run moderately or well, accounting for 48.72% of all the surveyed cooperatives. The participation of rural households in cooperatives can be estimated from two aspects: one is the activities organized and conducted by the leaders and relevant managers of cooperatives, and the other is rural households’ understanding of and participation in cooperatives. From the view of cooperative leaders, cooperatives seldom host general assembly of members. If there is something important to discuss, only several directors and supervisors are convened to make decisions together; most cooperatives rarely host general assembly of members and the few cooperatives that host the general assembly usually convene some villager representatives to attend and talk about the cooperative casually. Based on the understanding of rural households towards cooperatives and their attendance in the general assembly of members, most rural households do not join any cooperatives. They simply heard about them, or even had no idea that there are cooperatives in their village. Few members participated in the general assembly of members, and therefore fewer members had the chance to express their views at that. The reasons behind this common phenomenon include: first, the inconvenient traffic in poor areas and scattered settlements bring difficulty for the hosting of such general assembly. Second, leaders of cooperatives consider that the general assembly is 63    inefficient and it will be hard to reach a consensus if too many people participate to contribute their opinions. Besides, villagers generally do not express any opinion. Third, villager assembly is rarely opened and villagers are usually informed of any information through broadcasting station in the village. (8) Being managers of cooperatives The field investigation showed that cooperatives are generally launched by major breeding households, village cadres, fortune makers, businessmen, and personnel from the agriculture and animal husbandry sector in towns, who are mostly economic or political elites in the villages with good eloquence and abundant social networks or work experience in other places. Also in ethnic minority areas, the promoters of cooperatives have minority cultural backgrounds and customs. For example, in the Yi minority region, the cooperatives are generally launched by Degu (authority in Yi nationality) or family elites. Among the surveyed cooperatives, none of them was launched by poor rural households and no poor rural farmers are listed in the organizational management structures, such as the board of directors, supervisory board, accountants, etc. There are only few poor rural households as members. 64    Table 4-7 Basic Conditions of Professional Farmer Cooperatives in Project Counties in Guizhou Province Name of Organizational Shares and No Cooperative Villages Operational Labor division of all Structure of Area Operational Registry Profit . Organizatio Involved Status bodies Professional Farmer Business Mode Distribution ns Cooperatives The legal The company is responsible person holds for sales. The Cooperative 60% and is responsible for seedlings, shareholders techniques, purchases and hold 20%, and processing. The basis refers Administration: 8 rural to the planting area of Registered people of Han household gastrodia elata on in 2009 nationality, including hold 20%. Shunfeng transferred land. with a 3 women. Driven by Members of Ecological Households with large registered able men and the the Planting, Dafang Agriculture Company+ amount of gastrodia elata capital of initiator was engaged cooperative processing County, Developmen Haiba cooperative + Operated are modeling. The 112,000,00 in business before. 1 can subscribe and Bijie t Village base + rural well processed products by the 0 RMB Members: 5,200 in 10,000 RMB marketing City Cooperative household cooperative may either be which is total, including 1944 to of gastrodia in Dafang directly sold to the now added women, 580 people of 100,000,000 elata County company or be marketed by to minority ethnic RMB. For the company with 3%-5% 281,000,00 groups, and 2012 each 10,000 of the sales drawn by the 0 RMB. impoverished. RMB, the company. The households household can can transfer their lands, or enjoy a work in the base or plant dividend of the gastrodia elata on their 2,000 RMB to own. 5,000 RMB by 65    the end of the year. And impoverished people can subscribe with their lands. The cooperative provides seeds, techniques and The head of chemical fertilizers. Registered the Administration: 5 Standard management is in 2010 Cooperative people including 2 exercised. The rural with a holds 90% of Planting, women. It is driven households can have their registered the total shares marketing, Dafang Juli Modern by able men. Cooperative lands transferred and work capital of and rural product County, Farming Shiguan Operated Members: 1,260, 2 + base + rural on the base. There are ten 160,000 households development Bijie Professional Village well including 508 household greenhouses of 13,000 RMB which hold 10%. The of chilli and City Cooperative women, 415 people of square meters for seedling is now equity is information minority ethnic growing. The planting base added to distributed consultation. groups and 315 covers an area of 10,000 600,000,00 either in impoverished. mu, covering Dafang Town, 0 RMB. capital or in Shuangshan Town and lands. Zhuyuan Town. Saishidai Administration: all 5 The head of Planting, Registered Professional people are women. It the seedlings in 2010 Cooperative Company + The rural households is driven by able man. Cooperative cultivation, Dafang with a of Chinese cooperative + Operated transfer their lands to the The initiator was a holds 25% of primary 3 County, Bijiao registered Medicinal base + rural well Cooperative and work on community-sponsored the total shares processing, Bijie Village capital of Hebal in household the base. teacher who was and each of storage, City 500,000 Dafang engaged in business the other 4 transportatio RMB. County before. shareholders n and 66    Members: 46 people, holds 18.75%. marketing of including 43 women. Members do Chinese not pay herbals. membership fees. The Cooperative has paid shares which The Company provides free are paid either training on seedling and in capital or in techniques, and is Administration: 6 land. When responsible for intensive people, including 2 paid in land, Tea planting, It is still processing and marketing women. It is driven the area and primary Professional under of tea. The Cooperative is by leaders of the benefit are processing Zhijin Company + Farmer application responsible for land village. The village seen as the and then County, Xinzhai cooperative + Under 4 Cooperative procedures transfer, management of tea committee and the measurement transported Bijie Village rural application in Xinzhai and not planting, technological Cooperative are under of value. The to the City household Village started yet. guiding, and primary the leadership of the lands are Company for processing of tea. Rural same group of leaders transferred at intensive households become though they have the price of processing. shareholders of the different titles. 200 cooperative, participating in RMB/mu/Year planting or rent their lands. and land of large pieces enjoys a priority when transferred. 67    Professional Breeding of Farmer native goats 6 Not under Xishui Cooperative in north administra standard Administration: both County of Native Coopertive + The Cooperative has not Registered Guizhou, tive operation. 2 people are male. It No members 5 in Goat rural started yet, and members in July, processing villages in Not is driven by able big paid for the Zunyi Breeding in household are not closely related. 2013 and Liangcun functioning household. shares. City Xishui marketing of Town yet. County commodity sheep. No shares. The sales of local products are the main source of capital of the The Cooperative is Cooperative. Registered Service of responsible for publicity, Administration: 3 Some farmers Xishui in 2011 tourist Yuhong training on catery, etiquette, people, including 1 are in the County Cooperative with a distribution, Rural Yangjiu Not under and security, tourists woman. It is driven Cooperative 6 in + rural registered and Tourism Village standard distribution, and marketing by able men. And the while others Zunyi household capital of marketing of Cooperative operation of local products. The Cooperative is organize their City 100,000 tourist Cooperative has privately-owned. own RMB. commodity independent offices. cooperatives. Some farmers in the Cooperative are attracting customers on their own. 68    Table 4-8 Basic Conditions of Professional Farmer Cooperatives in Project Counties in Sichuan Province Name of Organizational Village Cooperat Structure of Shares and s Operationa Operational Labor Division of All No. Area ive Registry Professional Profit Busines Involve l Mode Status Bodies Organiza Farmer Distribution s d tions Cooperatives Operated moderately. The sweet Administration: all 6 Registere oranges have people are male. It is Sweet d in 2012 not fruited driven by leaders of Planting Orange The first batch of with a Gulin yet. Rural the village. The and Planting seedlings are purchages registere No members County in Yulin Cooperative househols village secretary is marketin 1 Cooperati with special funds for d capital holding shares Luzhou Village + rural with large in charge of the g of ve in poverty allivation by the of for dividends City household amount of Cooperative. sweet Yulin Agriculture Bureau 500,000, oranges Member: 78, oranges Village 000 account for including 5 RMB. one third of impoverished. the Cooeprative. Operating not In the initial stage of the Registere Administration: 6, No rural Walnut well or Cooperative, the d in 2011 including 2 women. household shares Planting Gulin Planting standardly. It seedlings and with a It is driven by able yet. The Cooperative and County in Cooperati Yulin is newly technological guiding registere men. The person in Cooperative 2 + rural marketin Luzhou ve in Village established are provided by the d capital charge of the rents a land of household g of City Yulin and it takes 5 Forestry Bureau while of Cooperative runs a 100 Mu from walnuts Village to years for cultivation techniques 500,000, supermarket on his rural households the walnut to and pest control 000 own. Two of the 6 at the price of 69    fruit. techniques are provided RMB. people are members 900 RMB/mu. by Sichuan Academy of of the Village Agricultural Science. In Committee. the later state, the Literacy, economic Cooperative is condition, social responsible for ability, Party seedlings, technological membership are guiding, purchasing and taking into marketing of walnuts. consideration when Rural households are a member is responsible for planting admitted. walnuts and learning techniques of walnut planting. Administration: all 6 No shares. The people are male. It is government driven by leaders in assigned the Sweet The Cooperative is the village. The lands suitable for Orange responsible for director and the sweet oranges as Cooperati large-scale pest Registere Planting associate director the modeling Xuyong ve in prevention and control, d in and Yantan Cooperative are from two base. Land County in Yantang Operated on-site training technical 2011, the marketin 3 g + rural neighboring villages contractors in the Luzhou Village, poorly guiding for villagers. registere g of Village household who are members of base are City Shiba Rural households are d capital sweet the village responsible for Township responsible for planting unknown oranges committee of their orange planting , Xuyong sweet oranges and . respective village. while the County field management. Members: 50-60 Cooperative and households. The the government Cooperative is helps marketing, 70    guided by gaining benefits government of the in accordance country level and with the sales. the township level. Pieces of connected lands are assigned as modeling base in two villages of which the altitude is between 600 and 800 meters which is suitable for planting sweet oranges. Villagers in the range of the base are members of the Cooperative while those out of the base are not members. The Cooperative Registere Administration: 6 Lands of 12 rural Planting, supplies seedlings, d in 2013 people, including 3 households of processi Jianshan fertilizers, and pesticides with a women. It is a the 89 ng, Jinyang White Tangjia Cooperative to rural households. registere family cooperative households marketin 4 County in Konjac nwuji + rural Operated well After getting profits, the d capital driven by able men. involved in land g, Liangshan Cooperati Village household costs of seedlings, of It has two legal transfer paid for transport ve fertilizers and pesticides 500,000, representatives. One the shares with ation, of rural households will 000 is a master hand in their lands while selling, be deducted. The RMB. konjak planting the rest rent their storage 71    government provides while the other lands. Land of white free training, guiding on enjoys a wide range shares: the land konjak techniques and field of social resources. is converted to and management, and And a full-time capital when informat purchases the products at accountant is paid for shares. ion a guaranteed price. The employed. The lands are services, rural households are assessed in etc. responsible for planting, accordance with providing lands or work geographical on the base, participating location in the training. (according to which the lands are classified into Level I and Level II when contracted) and soil property and classified into four price levels: 500 RMB/Mu, 700 RMB/Mu, 800 RMB/Mu, and 1000 RMB/Mu. Capital shares: capital shares are mainly consisted of the capital of the two partners. 72    Some rural households also paid for the shares with their capital, but in small amount. Mode of dividend: after deducting costs and fees of fertilizers, seedlings, employees, management and pesticides, the income of konjak will be distributed in accordance with proportions of the capital and the lands. Land shares: capital shares of rural households: capital shares of partners= 20%:20%:60%. 73    Purchasi ng and supplyin g of means The Cooperative Farmers are not of provides seeds, organic involved in producti fertilizers, and dividend on, marketing. The costs of distribution. The purchase primary production will Cooperative , Tiandijin be deducted from sales 100 万。 purchases white transport ghua after selling. The rural Registere konjak from ation, Green households are d in 2010 farmers at a Company + Administration: 3 storage, Jinyang Pepper responsible for planting with a protective price. Tangjia cooperative people, including 1 processi County in and and participating in the registere The lands are 5 wuji + base + Operated well woman. It is a ng, Liangshan White training of techniques. d capital rented at the Village rural family cooperative packagin City Konjac The Company is of price of 800 household driven by able men g, Farmer responsible for 100,000, RMB/mu and in the family. marketin Cooperati processing and selling 000 farmers are g, ve white konjak. The base RMB. working in the import covers an area of more base. The barren of new than 300 mu of which hills are bought varieties 100 mu are rented and at a price of , the rest are bought 20,000 technical barren hills. RMB/mu. training, technical commun ication and 74    consulta tion. Conditions for Providin rural households g seeds for buy shares: a cabbage land which seeds, covers more than organizi Administration: 15 3 mu should be ng people including 1 transferred to the purchasi woman. All 15 Cooperative. ng, people are 60% of the marketin The Cooperative Registere minorities. It is earnings will be g, new Fule Operated provides seeds and d in 2010 driven by village returned to the techniqu Meigu Vegetable moderately. technical training, with a Luoeyi Cooperative leaders. The person households in e and County in Planting The office is calling up farmers for registere 6 gan + rural in charge of the accordance with new Liangshan Cooperati set in the the training, and helps d capital Village household Cooperative is the their distributed variety City ve in village marketing. of village secretary. amount. The rest importin Meigu committee. The rural households are 435,000 The 15 member of the earnings g, responsible for planting. RMB. households are will be fairly providin villagers who plant distributed to g large amount of 108 households technical cabbages. on average after training deduction some and cooperation fees. informat The lands are ion transferred at a consulta price of 1080 tion. 75    RMB/mu. The grown cabbages may be sold at a price of 4,000 RMB/mu with the production of 1,000 Jin/mu. There is no other invested money except for that of seeds. The person in charge applied 10,000 to 20,000 RMB to buy seeds from the Office of Agriculture and Rural Work of the County Government, which will be given to the farmers free of charge. Farm manure is applicable. 76    Administration: all The Cooperative The Cooperative is 20 people of male is responsible for responsible for planning, and Yi minority. marketing. The monitoring, guiding, and The president and profits deducting motivating planting and the supervisor are costs of purchasing. Planning voted by rural transportation, refers to planning the households to bags, and planting area in the establish the management village in accordance Cooperative. A expenses will be with the annual market family is seen as a distributed to the condition, guiding unit of management households. Planting, villages to plant at a group. Big families Awards will be producti Registere Operated suitable rate. Monitoring have more group presented to the on, Bushi Purple d in 2012 Cooperative well. The refers to guiding leaders while small households who purchasi County in Potato with a 7 Moci + rural office is villagers to sow seeds families have less plant excellent ng, and Liangshan Cooperati registere Village household located at the and apply fertilizers at a group leaders. But at potatoes with marketin City ve d capital village relatively uniform time, least 1 group leader high productivity g of of 20,000 committee. and prohibiting them is needed. Families and sells well. purple RMB. from applying fertilizers are managed Awards are set potatoes. like urea. Tutoring refers separately. up as follows: technical guidance Members: 186 one household which is carried out by households. Most for first prize, the leading person of the villagers are willing second prize, Cooperative. The to join the third prize and Cooperative is Cooperative, and no forth prize responsible for membership fees are respectively. contacting clients for needed. And the bonus purchase and for each prize, transporting the products which will be 77    to the County. The rural included in the households are management responsible for planting expenses, is 800 purple potatoes, RMB, 600 RMB, accepting training 500 RMB and provided by the 400 RMB. Cooperative and following such requirements of the Cooperative as no urea should be used. The rural households will send harvested potatoes to the village committee, which will be selected and bagged by specially assigned persons. Dimo Administration: all 7 30 households Village Operated people are of Yi distributed for , Ba’er poorly. The Cooperative is minority, including the shares with Registere Marketi Village Withou responsible for 1 woman. It is 50 RMB each d in 2010 ng of Zhaojue Lire , Bozuo funds, and purchasing and selling, driven by village and with no with a potatoes County in Potato Village Cooperative abilities, what organizing training and leaders. All dividend. 8 registere for the Liangshan Cooperati , Wagu + rural the contacting experts to management people Due to limited d capital involved City ve Village household Cooperative solve problems. The are leaders of the fine varieties and of 2,550 househo , Erbu can do is just rural households are village. And a funds provided RMB. lds. Village training or responsible for planting. common household by the , Erwu selling. in the management Agricultural Village is voted by villagers. Bureau, only 30 78    , etc. Members: 30 households can households. participate. Generally, the families with many labors and large pieces of lands, of which members are literate, highly motivated, manageable, and at home, are selected. Table 4-9 Basic Conditions of Professional Farmer Cooperatives in Project Counties (Districts) in Gansu Province Organization Villag al Structure Name of Operatio Shares and No es Operatio Labor Division of All of Area Cooperative nal Registry Profit Business . Involv nal Bodies Professional Organizatio Mode Distribution ed Status Farmer ns Cooperatives Administratio Wanfo Operated n: all 5 people No shares Improved moderate The Cooperative purchases Registere Cooperat are males. It purchase Culture, Variety ly. The stock seeds from seed d in 2007 ive + is driven by mechanism. promotion Yongjing Breeding office is multiplication farm at the with a Xuwan base + village Rural and 1 County in Cooperative settled in price of 0.3 RMB/Grain, registered Village rural cadres. The households are marketing of Linxia of Virus-free the which will then be given capital of househol person in not involved in virus-free Potatoes in village away to the villagers. The 70,700 ds charge is the profit potatoes Yongjing committe Cooperative will direct RMB. village distribution. County e. them in sterilization, secretary. 79    planting, fertilizer And the application and purchase. supervisor is When purchasing, the a leader in the products are weighted and town booked together, then government. storage in the warehouse of Members: 5 the Cooperative, and sold RMB should together finally. After be paid for selling, the Cooperative the will draw a certain amount membership. of money from the sales as 152 the costs for management households. and operation of the Those who Cooperative. And the have not remained money will be joined are distributed to farmers in mainly folk accordance with the workers amount of their products. working However, at present the outside the profits are distributed to the village. households whereas the Cooperative has not retained any management fee. Wages for management workers are still unpaid. Hengliang Cooperat Not Registere Administratio No shares Breeding and Gulang Hengli Breeding ive + officially The cooperative is d in 2013 n: all 5 people purchase marketing of 2 County in ang Cooperative rural started responsible for purchasing with a are males. mechanism. pigs, sheep Weiwu City Village in Gulang househol yet. The piglets and fodder, plague registered The person in Rural and cattle. 80    County d office is control and unified sales. capital of charge is the households are settled in The households are 1, village not involved in the responsible for feeding in 450,000 accountant. profit village accordance with RMB. Group leaders distribution. committe requirements. in the village e for the are members time of the board being. of directors and the board of supervisors. No special accountant or cashier yet. Members: more than 100 households. 50RMB should be paid for the membership. HenchangR The Cooperative is Administratio Partners Cooperat MB responsible for importing Registere n: All 5 distribute for ive + Not Breeding and Professional Danan basic ewes of good strain, d in 2013 people are shares while Gulang base + officially marketing of 3 Breeding chong reproducing and fattening with a males. It is other rural County in rural started sheep and Cooperative Village lambs for marketing. It also registered driven by households do Weiwu City househol yet. cattle. in Gulang provides small-scaled plague capital of able men. The not. Rural d County control, directions on 2,000,000 person in households are 81    technical fodder allocation, RMB. charge is a not involved in and making contacts with big breeder in profit clients for selling for the the village. distribution. scattering sheep of members. Members: However, the sheep are still membership breed in a scattering way. A fee should be breeding district could be paid for built in the future in the admission. condition that the No other rural Cooperative is developing households well. are admitted other than the 5 partners. The dividend Fattening, Administratio will be breeding, n: All 6 distributed in reproducing people are accordance (not males. No with the including Registere minorities. It contribution stud stock) Cooperat d in 2013 Zhangjiachu The Cooperative helps is driven by ratio. The and XinRMB Longk ive + Operated with a an County in members sell cattle free of able men. The contribution marketing of 4 Breeding ou rural moderate registered Tianshui charge while the households person in ratio of the 6 thin cattle, Cooperative Village househol ly capital of City breed cattle. charge is shareholders is guidance on d 1,190,000 working as a shown as breeding RMB. folk worker follows: techniques, before. There 21.08%： training, are village 15.78%： importing leaders in 15.78%： and managers. 15.78%： promotion of 82    Members: 9 15.78%. new breeding rural Villagers are techniques. households not involved in with 60 men profit and and 9 women. dividend No distribution minorities. The membership fee is charged at 20 to 30 RMB. Administratio n: All 5 people are males.. It is driven by Partners Registere village distribute for d in 2013 Futian Cooperat Generall The Cooperative is leaders. The shares while Breeding and with a Tongwei Breeding Shuan ive + y not in responsible for technical person in villagers do marketing of registered 5 County in Cooperative gbao rural operation guidance and marketing charge the not. Villagers beef cattle capital of Dingxi City in Tongwei Village househol . No while households are head of the are not and mutton 1, County d office. responsible for breeding. village. involved in sheep. 000,000 Others are profit RMB. breeders in distribution. the village who are motivated by the head of 83    the village. Members: no member fees for admission. The person in charge aims to motivate villagers to breed. The Company: purchasing Administratio Capital shares: Not in and selling Chinese herbals. n: All 5 5 members standard people are contributed, operation The Cooperative: the bridge males. It is including the . The between medicine Planting, driven by head who manage enterprises and rural storage, Baibao able men. The contributed ment households. It is responsible Registere transportation Farmer Compan person in 900,000 RMB, structure for 1) training, 2) providing d in 2013 and Cooperative y+ charge has and the other 4 just policies, 3) regular publicity with a marketing of Longxi of Oragnic cooperati been engaged members Kezhai started is of market information and 4) registered Chinese 6 County in Agricultural ve + in herbal jointly Village still updating concepts of capital of herbals Dingxi City Products in rural business for contributed perfectin farmers. 1, (codonopsis Kezhai, househol many years. 100,000 RMB. g. The 000,000 pilosula and Longxi d Big planters: planters whose He knows Labor shares: office is RMB. astragalus County planting area is 5 to 10 mu well about the the members settled in membranace play a leading role in market will be the old us) training and techniques. information. employed at a village They have a closer relation And he has price a little committe to the Cooperative because penetrated lower than the e. of the large planting area. into sales market price 84    terminals to (if the market Rural households: establish the price is 100 responsible for planting, marketing RMB /Day, the weeding and harvesting. network of Cooperative his own. will pay 80 Members: 90 RMB/Day). members, Land shares: including 32 the land can be impoverished contributed for households. shares at the No price of 800 membership RMB/mu. By fee is charged now there are for now. But 20 households it will be who charged from contributed common rural their lands for households in the shares, 2-3 the future. mu each. And the fee 50% or more can be profits will be relieved for distributed to impoverished the 5 households. members. For the rest part, 80% will be distributed to households, and the 85    remained 20% will be used as the development fund of the Cooperative. The capital and dividend of the 5 members will be used for the further development of the Cooperative instead of being withdrawn now. Operated The Cooperative has a Administratio The partners moderate breeding base where 120 Registere n: All 9 are holding Cooperat ly. 0.5% cattle, 150 sheep (all ewes d in 2010 people are shares. The Breeding and Langdutan Minxian ive + to 1% of of the appropriate age), 50 with a males. It is head marketing of Breeding Lvjing 7 County in base + the native pigs and 200 registered driven by contributes native pigs, Farmer Village Dingxi City rural profits is common pigs (only for capital of able men. The 300,000 RMB sheep and Cooperative househol retained fattening but not for sale. 600,000 person in while each of cattle. d as Members enjoy priority in RMB. charge was a the rest 5 manage selling pigs, and the veterinarian households 86    ment fee. fattened pigs are only sold before. contributed when there are few left) are Members: 60,000 RMB bred. It also provides lambs 150 (including for rural households. The households, cattle and base is on the breeding including 30 sheep shares). 3 farm of the Cooperative. impoverished more people And the rural households ones. No entered later, are breeding at home. member fee. each contributing 20,000 RMB. The rural households do not hold shares. WuZh The cooperative, which u develops from the Partners Village association, is responsible Administratio contribute Improved , for providing seeds in the n: 4 people, capital for the Variety of Shitou following three ways: 1) Registere including 2 shares while Cooperat seeds all distributed free of members do Wuzhu gou d in 2009 women. It is ive + charge: distributed free of not contribute. Breeding and Weiyuan Potato Village with a driven by base + Operated charge and purchase at a The marketing of 8 County in Breeding , registered able men. rural well. price no less than the market Cooperative is good-strain Dingxi City Cooperative Lumin capital of Members: househol price (1:10, 10 returned for 1 responsible for potatoes. in Weiyuan g 760,000 2006 d distributed seed); 2) seeds purchasing at County in Village RMB. households. Gansu , partly free: if the market No member the protective Guojia price is relatively high, the fee. price. When the gou seeds will be distributed market price is Village partly for free (1:6, 6 lower than 0.5 returned for 1 distributed RMB/Jin, the 87    seed); 3) the households buy Cooperative seed own their own, and the will purchase at Cooperative will buy the the price of 0.5 products at a protective RMB/Jin. And price. The Cooperative is when the also responsible for market price is providing technical higher than 0.5 guidance, new pesticides, RMB/Jin, the and training of standardized Cooperative planting and marketing. The will purchase at households are responsible the market for planting, and they can price. When the market on their own, too. profits reach a certain point, the Cooperative will return part of the profits to the members. Operated The Cooperative provides Administratio 5 people moderate stabling, breeding techniques Registere n: All 7 contributed, TianRMB ly. The and basic ewes. The d in 2011 people are including the Muge Cooperat first two products will be sold in a with a males who head who Weiyuan Professional Shitou ive + years unified form at the price no registered are big contributed Feeding and 9 County in Breeding gou base + witnesse lower than the market price. capital of breeders in 700,000 RMB, marketing of Dingxi City Cooperative Village rural d All fees will be cleared at the 1, the village. and each of livestock. in Wuzhu, househol successiv time of selling. Some sheep 300,000 Members: 30 other 6 Weiyuan City d e losses. in good physical conditions RMB. members at partners And the are used for reproduction. the contributed 88    third and They will hybrid with beginning. 10,000 RMB. forth mutton sheep. Another part No member The profits year will be bred as mutton sheep fee. will be begin to which will directly sent to distributed in witness market. The rural households accordance profits. are responsible for feeding. with the share Capable rural households holding rate. with open minds will be Three selected in the first batch of households feeders. And the second rent their lands batch will be driven by the to the first batch. Cooperative at a price of 3000 RMB/mu. After selling sheep, 50% of the profits will be distributed to households while the rest kept by the Cooperation for development. 89    The Company is the Partners organizer who is responsible contribute for for investment, financing, Administratio the shares in brand owning, maintenance, n: 7 people, capital. The publicity and promotion. It including 2 capital also establishes the women. It is distribution and marketing system, including driven by profit the distribution system or able men. The distribution rate chain operation system, the person in is 4：1.5：1.5： system of human resources, charge was 0.75：0.75： finance and backup systems. working in a 0.75：0.75. Cooperat Registere Profits will be Aotelan Just Furthermore, it is in charge listed Grass ive + d in 2013 distributed in Planting and establish of establishment and company growing, Weiyuan Shuijia base + with a accordance Breeding ed, but maintenance of public before. And breeding, 10 County in yao rural registered with the Cooperative not relations, extension and there are 2 butchering, Dingxi City Village househol capital of shareholding in Weiyuan officially reproduction of key poverty technique and d+ 200,000 rate. The County operated. alleviation patterns, training masters. marketing. company RMB. Company buys management for the Members: Cooperative and most of the at a protective establishment of 56 members price which is a sub-systems. are big little higher breeders in than the market The Cooperative is the price. Rural the village executor who is in charge of households can with large organizing and recruiting contribute for pieces of farmers on a family basis to shares with land. establish the cooperative their land for which is responsible for benefit sharing. operation. It is also The formula of 90    responsible for the dividend establishment and operation distribution: of the breeding or planting (profits-operati base, attracting households on fees-capital to enter the Cooperative on a shares)/18mu*t family basis to plant and he area of land breed. Other duties include contributed by establishment and operation each of specified standardized household. 7% slaughter houses, the of the profits establishment of the lab for will be kept by culturing quality pasture and the Cooperative artificially inseminated for the public variety of good strain, and reserved fund specialized training for and dividend households. for villagers. The rural households are producers who are responsible for specific businesses like planting, breeding, meet and food processing. They are also responsible for establishing the base for quality pasture and cornstalk (which is used for ensilage) planting, breeding mutton sheep of fine variety in accordance with orders, slaughtering and 91    production of mutton sheep bred in the Cooperative or bought by the Cooperative, production of meat with slaughtered mutton sheep, and production and promotion of livestock of fine varieties cultured by the Cooperative. Administratio The person in n: All 5 charge people are contributes for males. The shares in The Company is responsible initiator owns capital. Profits for intensive processing, and a permanent will be marketing with added value. Compan Not urban distributed in Ershipu The Cooperative, placed in Registere y+ officially residence accordance Breeding, Professional the Company, is responsible d in 2013 Lintao cooperati started certificate, with the processing, Breeding Ership for importing and promotion with the 11 County in ve + yet. And and runs a shareholding transportation Cooperative u of livestock of good strain, registered Dingxi City rural no company of rate. Plus, the and in Lintao Village and technique training and capital househol profits or his own. The wage of the marketing of County management. The unknown. d effect. rest 4 people accountant is sheep households are responsible are breeding 1000 for breeding in accordance masters in the RMB/Month. with standards. village. And allowance Members: 40 and bonus will households. be given to No member other 4 92    fee. workers. No villagers holding shares. Administratio n: 2 people, including 1 Partners woman. It is contribute driven by capital for Malian village Registere shares. Profits Professional The Cooperative is leaders. The d in are distributed Cooperative Operated responsible for importing person in Purchasing Cooperat 2012with in accordance Anding of Purchasing poorly. livestock of good strain, charge is the and Malian ive + a with the 12 District in and Villagers training, plague control, village marketing of Village rural registered holding ratio. Dingxi City Marketing of rarely breeding and marketing. The secretary who sheep and househol capital of Rural Cattle and participat households are responsible is also a big cattle ds 50,000 households are Sheep in e. for breeding. breeder in the RMB. not involved in Dingxi City village share payment Members: and profit about 5 distribution. households, mostly big breeders. Registere Administratio Partners Taiping The Cooperative is Cooperat d in 2010 n: 6 people, contribute Chicken responsible for unified Feeding of Anding Taipin ive + with a including 2 capital for Breeding Operated purchasing and marketing, broiler and 13 District in g rural registered women. It is shares. Profits Cooperative poorly technical training and layer Dingxi City Village househol capital of driven by are distributed in Dingxi guidance. Big planters are chickens d 70,000 able men and in accordance City responsible for breeding. RMB. village with the 93    leaders. holding ratio. Members: Rural 165 households are households, not involved in mostly big share payment breeders. The and profit Cooperative distribution. develops from the Breeding Association. Administratio No The Cooperative has n: all 7 people membership Breeding and established a breeding base. are males. It Registere fees. Capital reproducing It is responsible for is driven by Yujun Cooperat Just d in 2013 will be cashmere breeding, technical training, able men. Huachi Professional ive + started, with a contributed for goats and plague control, providing Members: all County in Breeding Baima base + and not registered shares. Now short-tailed 14 stud sheep, fodder allocation 21 members Qingyang Cooperative Village rural officially capital of there are 21 sheep. The and marketing, etc. are City in Huachi househol launched 3, people holding products are Households in the shareholders County d yet. 000,000 shares, each cashmere Cooperative are responsible and relatives RMB. holing a capital goats and for grass growing and of the person stock of at least short-tailed breeding. in charge, 20,000 RMB. sheep. too. Rongchang Operated The Cooperative is Administratio At least 30,000 Breeding and Huachi Professional Duzhai Cooperat poorly. responsible for technical Registere n: 9 people, RMB per share. reproducing County in 15 Cooperative zi ive + Not guidance and marketing. d in 2012 including 1 Sheep, cash or good-strain Qingyang of Village base + regulated Households holding shares with a woman, 3 forage can be short-tailed City Short-tailed rural yet. are responsible for grass registered feeders, 1 contributed for sheep. The 94    Sheep househol growing and breeding. capital of cook, 2 grass shares. product is Breeding in d 2, growers, 1 short-tailed Huachi 600,000 person in sheep. County RMB. charge and 1 accountant. Members:12 people, each of whom contributes 30,000 RMB or more. No member fee. Administratio n: all 5 people The partners are males. It contribute is driven by capital for Just able men. No shares. The establish The Cooperative has Registere membership head contribute Cooperat ed, but established a base. It is d in 2013 fee for now. 1,000,000 Huachi Jingsheng ive + not responsible for breeding, with a Breeding and Cheng Villagers can RMB while County in Professional base + officially technical guidance, training, registered marketing of 16 hao enter or drop other 4 partners Qingyang Cooperative rural started and marketing. The capital of sheep Village out at their contribute City of Sheep househol yet. No households are responsible 3, free will. 500,000 RMB. Breeding ds profits or for grass growing and 000,000 Management No rural effect breeding. RMB. fee will be households are yet. charged in the involved in future. Now dividend there are distribution. more than 30 95    households, breeding or growing grass in the village Supplying The partners means of distribute production, capital for purchasing shares. The Administratio and head n: 7 people. It marketing contributes is driven by products of 70,000 RMB The base has a land of 60 mu able men. members, while each of Privately which are still owned by Registere Members are transportation Xingkun Cooperat other 6 big -owned. shareholders and not counted d in 2008 big planters , storage and Heshui Professional ive + planters Tianya Operated in the shares. The with a in the village, processing, County in Fruit base + contributes10,0 17 o poorly. Cooperative supplies registered including the packaging of Qingyang Cooperative rural 00 RMB. Village There is agricultural materials and capital of person in the products, City in Heshui househol Profits are independ fertilizers, pruning workers, 130,000 charge. importing County d distributed in ent office and marketing. The RMB. Members: 50 new accordance house. households are responsible big techniques, with the for grass growing. households new varieties, holding ratio. and 181 small training, No rural households communicati households are on and involved in consultation dividend on distribution. techniques. 96    Administratio Partners n: all 6 people contribute are males. It capital for is driven by shares and able men. The dividend. The person in head charge is a contributes big apple 300,000 RMB Planting, planter who while each of production has a model other 6 people Panma and base which contributes Village The Cooperative provides marketing of Huinong Registere covers an area 120,000 RMB. , Privately means of production like apples, Professional Cooperat d in 2012 of 15 mu. Rural Hejiap -owned. fertilizers, pesticides, and purchasing of Heshui Cooperative ive + with a Members: 37 households an Operated bags, technical training and means of 18 County in of Apple rural registered members, purchase shares Village well. No standards for production. production, Qingyang Planting in househol capital of covering 3 at a price of at , fixed The households are training and City Heshui d 900,000 villages. least 2,000 Yaoke office. responsible for grass information County RMB. Households RMB/share. nglao growing. related to with an And there are 8 Village apple orchard of 2 people holding production mu per capita shares and can apply for (including 1 operation. membership. person who has The orchards dropped out are managed because of by the illness). No households. land shares. And a The dividend in management 2012 was 97    fee of 0.01 distributed in RMB/Jin will accordance be retained. with the bank interest rate. 5% of the profits are kept as the reserve fund while the remained 95% are distributed in accordance with shares held. Administratio Partners and n: all 10 members Operated The cooperative is people are contribute well. In responsible for selling lambs males. It is capital for fact, the of fine variety. The rural Registere driven by shares. There mode is households are responsible d in 2012 organizing Liuhebi Cooperat able men. The are 75 Huanxian “Village for breeding. The Village with a members of Breeding ive + secretary of members who County in Gaozh party Party Branch is responsible registered the 19 Cooperative base + the Party contribute Qingyang ai branch + for technical guidance, capital of Cooperative in Huanxian rural branch is the 746,000 RMB City Village Cooperat feeding management, sheep 11, to breed County househol supervisory. at a price of at ive + transportation, financial 000,000 sheep d Two village least 1,000 Rural monitoring, and also making RMB. officials take RMB/share. No househol contacts externally and part in. and service will be ds supervising internally. other provided members are without shares. 98    basically big And the breeders in dividend will the village. be distributed Members: 75 in accordance members with shares holding held. shares. Administratio The n: all 5 people shareholding are males, ratio of the 5 including 2 partners is 6： Operated The Cooperative provides Mengji Party 1：1：1：1. They well. A stud sheep, plague control, azhai members, and share price is company technical training, and Village 1 production 5,000 (Huanxia marketing of beef and Quzizhong , Registere master. There RMB/share. n mutton. It supplies 15 sheep Professional Songji Cooperat d in 2011 are 13 fixed And there are Shouzho to each household, including Huan Cooperative aRMB ive + with a workers, 60 members ng 14 basic ewes and 1ram. In Sheep County in of Cashmere Village base + registered including 9 (including 20 20 Mutton the primary stage, the sheep breeding and Qingyang Goat Culture , Liuqi rural capital of feeders, 1 new comers Industry are provided to 60 marketing City and Breeding Village househol 1, technician, 1 this year) who and impoverished households in Huanxian , d 200,000 translator, 1 hold shares. Trade free of charge, and the County Loufan RMB. accountant 2,000 Co. Ltd) households will return sheep gzi and 1 cashier. RMB/share is in of the same amount in 3 Village It is driven by will be preparati years. The households are , etc. village distributed by on. responsible for breeding. leaders able the end of the men. year. The Members: of newcomers the 120 contribute at 99    members, 60 least 20,000 are holding RMB. When shares while the Company is the other 60 approved, the are not. sum will be Villagers can increased to enter or drop 50,000 RMB. out of the No one Cooperative proposed for at their free dividend will. No distribution by member fee. now. All dividends are used as liquid capital in the Cooperative. Administratio n: 11 people, Operated The Cooperative has a Registere including 1 The one partner well. It’s breeding district, grass base. d in 2010 woman. It is Cooperat of the Seeding, Huanxian SanheRMB operation It provides technical with a driven by Yangji ive + Cooperative sheep County in Professional is similar guidance and marketing of registered village 21 awa rural contributes breeding and Qingyang Breeding to that of products. The households, capital of leaders and Village househol with capital. marketing, City Cooperative an which are mostly big 4, able men. The d No household processing enterpris breeders, are responsible for 500,000 organizer and contributes. and catering. e. breeding. RMB. manager is a member of the village 100    committee. He also plays a leading role in the efforts to get rich. And he is one of the households. The person in charge is a boss in the industry of hotel, grocery and commodity. Administratio Five partners The Village Party Branch is n: all 5 people contribute for responsible for learning and are males. It the shares with implementing policies, Registere is driven by 50,000 RMB associating directors in daily Fuxing Cooperat d in 2013 village each. No Zhengning Not work, and enforcing the Professional Dongs ive + with a leaders. The guaranteed Planting and County in officially construction of the Party 22 Cooperative hantou rural registered management price has been marketing of Qingyang started Branch. The Cooperative is of Apple Village househol capital of is constituted agreed between apples City yet. responsible for technical Marketing d 250,000 of members the Cooperative guidance, training and RMB. of village and farmers. marketing. The rural Party branch When farmers households are responsible and big are selling for planting. planters in the apples, 101    village. 0.02-0.05 RMB Members: 96 /Jin will be households, drawn as the mostly local fund for fruit growers. operation of the Cooperative Administratio n: 8 people. The legal The 8 people representative are big planters is a female who raised The Cooperative is while the rest 400,000 RMB, responsible for technical are male. It is 50,000 RMB Operated guidance, purchase of sales driven by each. The poorly. of agricultural materials, Registere village partners Hardly training and marketing. The Cooperat d in 2013 leaders and contribute for Hengtong Shang motivate operation cost is obtained Zhengning ive + with a able men. Of the shares in Professional guanzh d, the from the price difference Apple 23 County in rural registered the 8 people, capital, and no Fruit uang rural between purchase and sales marketing. Qingyang househol capital of 3 are rural Cooperative Village househol of agricultural materials. City d 400,000 members of households ds rarely When selling apples, 0.05 RMB. the village contributed for participat RMB/Jin will be charged as committee shares. The e service fee. Rural while the rest shares will be households are responsible are big purchase at the for planting. planters. price of 100 Members: RMB/share 110 later on. households. No 102    membership fee. Every household has an orchard of 3-5 mu. No shares purchased Administratio n: 5 people, Establish including 3 Apple ed in Associati The Association provides members of Zhengning Association 2008 and It is an Technical on + Operated publicity on policies, the village County in in Xichu Xichu has not association. No consultation 24 rural moderate technical consultation and committee Qingyang Village of Village registered shares or and service househol ly. guidance, monitoring of and 2 big City Zhengning . No dividend. of apple d orchards. planters in the County registered planting village. capital Members: needed. more than 30. Administratio Apples The Company provides Registere n: all 3 people produced by Jinmao Compan services of storage and sales. d in 2012 are males. It members of Professional y+ The Cooperative sells means with a is driven by the Apple Zhuanglang Fruit Dongji cooperati of production such as Operated registered able men. The Cooperative planting, 25 County in Cooperative e ve + base fertilizers, and provides well. capital of person in are stored in storage and Qingyang in Village + rural services like market 1, charge of the the marketing. City Zhuanglang househol information, loan and sales. 350,000 Cooperative air-conditione County d The rural households are RMB. is the village d warehouse responsible for planting. director, of the 103    chairman of company. (If the board of the members’ directors and apples need chairman of storage, they the must be stored association. in the Membership: warehouse of one must be the Company). good natured The fee for and have an storage is 0.17 orchard if he RMB/Jin. 40% wants to join of the storage the fee is in the Cooperative. possession of The the membership Cooperative fee is 200 while the rest RMB/year. 60% is in the possession of the Company. A part of the fund in the possession of the Cooperative is used for the operation and management of the 104    Cooperative while another part is used as risk capital. Still another part is used for development, and the rest profit will be distributed to members in physical forms, e.g., fertilizers, plastic mulch, pesticides. A small part of the 60% which is in the possession of the Company will be used as awards for excellent growers (those who grow a great amount and those who grow well). 105    And the rest part belongs to the Company. Administratio n: all 6 people are males. Each of the 6 households The Cooperative is Registere contributes Providing Shuanghong Cooperat responsible for making d in 2012 100,000 breeding Jingning Professional ive + contact with cow dealers for with a RMB, and the 6 partners Operated techniques County in Breeding Gaoliu base + rural households (the 6 registered rest of the contribute in 26 moderate and fodder Qingyang Cooperative Village rural households who distributed) capital of registered capital for the ly. for cattle, City in Jingning househol free of charge. Other 2, capital is a shares . sheep, pigs County d households in the village 000,000 loan from a and chickens. have not took part in yet. RMB. bank. The person in charge of the Cooperative is the Village Secretary. 106    4.3 Operational Modes of Professional Farmer Cooperatives and Their Advantages and Disadvantages 4.3.1. COMPANY + COOPERATIVE + BASE + RURAL HOUSEHOLD According to the analysis on the basic conditions of professional farmer cooperatives in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu, of the 39 cooperatives, 5 adopt the operational mode of “company + cooperative + base + rural household”, accounting for 12.82%; 4 are well operated, while one is not officially started yet as it was just established. According to the survey results and the analysis on the types of cooperatives, 21.6% of cooperatives that rural households join adopt the operational mode of “company + cooperative + base + rural household”. The percents of cooperatives following the operational mode of “company + cooperative + base + rural household” in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu were 36.6%, 15.4% and 17.1%. (1) Operation Status and Characteristics Cooperatives that follow the operational mode of “company + cooperative + base + rural household” are created relying on enterprises, or enterprises are derived in the development process of cooperatives. A long-term operation mechanism that upholds risk and benefit sharing among leading enterprises, cooperatives, bases, and rural households is built. Households are organized and scattered household production and operation activities are introduced to the market. Joint-stock cooperatives undertake production operation, allocation and management to achieve intensive and standardized production. In this mode, companies are in a strong position and often determine the purchase prices, criteria and profit distribution of agricultural products. Cooperatives are in a dependent state while rural households are put at a disadvantage. Judging from the operation of such mode under investigation: A. Enterprises: mainly responsible for processing and marketing of products. Most enterprises provide production supplies. Because the planting of gastrodia elata and radix pseudostellariae, for example, raises high requirements on the cultivation and selection of seedlings and the planting conditions, it is difficult for rural households in poor areas to complete the work independently; for example, Aotelan Planting and Breeding Cooperative in Weiyuan County improved the breeding technology by introducing the Blackhead Suffolk cross sheep from Australia to mate with the local short-tailed sheep. To meet the requirements of industrial development needs to rely on the technology and capital of enterprises. This mode is more common in industries characterized by high input and high efficiency or long investment cycle and high efficiency. For example, the cost for planting gastrodia elata on 1-mu land is around RMB 2,200, and a conservative estimate of the production value of gastrodia elata per mu is RMB 6,000 (measured at the production of 200 kg per mu and 15 yuan / 0.5 kg). The net profit of gastrodia elata per mu is RMB 3,800. Such industry that requires high investment and entails high risk is beyond the capacity of individual rural households, especially those in poor areas. Poor rural households mostly lack funds while large households in the village have limited financial capacity and have to rely on the power of enterprises. Enterprises can take advantage of the national support policies on funding, credit, taxation, land use and electricity use of cooperatives and reduce some of the costs for 107    their operation. To some degree, cooperatives are partners of enterprises. B. Cooperatives: Responsible for connecting businesses and rural households. They sign production orders with enterprises and planting contracts with rural households. Cooperatives are mainly engaged in providing rural households with training and guidance on the planting and breeding technology in accordance with the production requirements and standards of enterprises, purchase or roughing process, and construction and operation of breeding bases. The purchased agricultural products or primary products after initial processing will be given to enterprises for further processing or sales. For example, Tiandi Jinghua Green Pepper and White Konjac Farmer Cooperative gives the fresh white konjac to enterprises, which process the products into vermicelli, soup, slimming capsules, cosmetics and other products and sell them in the market. Shunfeng Ecological Agriculture Development Cooperative in Dafang County sells the fresh gastrodia elata it purchases from rural households to enterprises gastrodia elata wine, gastrodia elata capsules and other products. Raw gastrodia elata is sold at 15-16 yuan/0.5kg, while dried gastrodia elata 90-100 yuan/0.5kg. Gastrodia elata wine and gastrodia elata capsules have even higher prices. Cooperatives and rural households generally do not have baking machinery or product testing technology. Therefore, even if there are individual rural households that are interested in gastrodia elata processing or smoking it with sulfur,① the products are often eliminated due to poor quality. However, rural households can not afford to buy high-priced baking equipment. Cooperatives and rural households can only sell the products to enterprises at lower prices, leaving the processing and refining procedures that will bring high returns to the enterprises. Cooperatives operated under this mode usually have their own brand names for the products their produce. For example, Shunfeng Ecological Agriculture Development Cooperative uses the brand trademark of “Wenchangge”; Saishidai Chinese Medicinal Herb Cooperative in Dafang County attaches the registered name of “Saishidai” to its products; Tiandi Jinghua Green Pepper and White Konjac Farmer Cooperative in Jinyang has registered a product name of “Yukui”; Jinmao Professional Fruit Cooperative in Zhuanglang County uses the brand trademark of “Zijinghong”; Aotelan Planting and Breeding Cooperative in Weiyuan County has applied the registration of trademark name “Yuangudui”. Nevertheless, most of the brand trademarks are owned by enterprises. C Production base: generally established and operated by cooperatives. Production bases has a variety of functions. For example, gastrodia elata bases provide seedlings for rural households, sheep breeding farms provide rural households with breeding ewes to hybrid with rams. In addition to providing seedlings and breeding stock, production bases can also be used to grow crops or raise livestock for direct sales. On one hand, cooperatives play a demonstration role in scale planting for rural households and guide them in planting; on the other hand, cooperatives can earn revenue through production bases. D Rural household: mainly responsible for planting and breeding, and carrying out specific types of                                                                                                                                                                                                                   ① Rural households mentioned that this year the state strengthens the monitoring and supervision over Chinese herbal medicines, prohibiting the use of sulfur smoked herbal medicines. Vendors and enterprises specialize in sulfur smoked herbal medicines therefore stop purchasing; non-fumigated Chinese herbal medicines can only be preserved in 2-6 months, while sulfur smoked herbal medicines can be preserved for about 1-2 years; in the past rural households could get high reveue through anti-seasonal sales, but they do not dare to try the luck after the prohibition was effective. As ordinary rural household can not afford to buy baking equipment, planters of medicinal herbs have to sell their products at lower prices.  108    planting and breeding activities. Agricultural products harvested by rural households can be sold to cooperatives or sold independently. As enterprises would generally define a guaranteed price while signing purchase orders, rural households, in order to avoid or reduce risks, usually sign contracts with cooperatives. Although guaranteed prices are lower than the market prices, but rural households for the long run will choose the stable sales channel of contract farming. Rural households are mostly put at a disadvantaged position, which is mainly reflected in poor independence in product pricing and access to profit distribution. As cooperatives have weak negotiating capacity or enterprises are profit-oriented, it is more difficult to protect the interests of rural households. Characteristics: a. strong dependence and poor independence of cooperatives; cooperatives are closely related with enterprises and they are often affiliated to enterprises or a link in the industrial chain related to the development of enterprises. b. The organizational structure of cooperatives shows the characteristics of enterprises; cooperatives generally accept the management of enterprises and manage the production bases according to standardized production model. Cooperatives are in charge of the bases and responsible for the connections between bases, rural households and enterprises. Some cooperatives provide the services of purchasing production materials and technical guidance and training. c. Cooperatives are highly regulated; generally cooperatives have to unify seedlings, standards, brands, disease prevention, agricultural means of production, and product sales. Thus, cooperatives have to meet high requirements. d. The bases are self-financing, and the surpluses are returned according to the shares invested by members.  Symposium in Agricultural Bureau of Longxi County: Of the 51 demonstration cooperatives, 12 are cooperatives of Chinese medicial herbs and most of them are of enterprise nature. “Company + cooperative + base + rural household”. They are all registered companies engaged in rough and primary processing. Farmers can do planting work in cooperatives. The processing work also needs plenty of labor force. (2) Analysis on Advantages and Disadvantages Advantages: a. Achieving optimized combination of production factors like land, labor, technology and capital through scale and enterprise-based agricultural production. Enterprises have stable sources of raw materials and stable sales channels; b. Facilitating standardized, professional and scientific production to add vitality into the operation of cooperatives. Disadvantages: a. The interests of rural households are easily damaged or hard to protect. Under this model, due to the monopoly of enterprises, the interests of rural households can not be guaranteed. Driven by the principle of maximizing profits, enterprises often focus only on their economic efficiency, making it difficult for rural households to get more profits. In serious cases, the interests of farmers are damaged, affecting the initiative of rural households to join professional farmer cooperatives; b. Poor independence of cooperatives. 4.3.2. COMPANY + COOPERATIVE + RURAL HOUSEHOLD According to the analysis on the basic conditions of professional farmer cooperatives in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu, of the 39 cooperatives, 4 adopt the operational mode of “company + cooperative + 109    rural household”, accounting for 10.26%; among them, one is operated moderately, while the other 3 are not officially started yet. According to the survey results and the analysis on the types of cooperatives, 9.7% of cooperatives that rural households join adopt the operational mode of “company + cooperative + rural household”. The percents of cooperatives following the operational mode of “company + cooperative + rural household” in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu were 16.1%, 2.2%, and 11.2%. (1) Operation Status and Characteristics Enterprises are processing and distribution businesses of agricultural products that establish buying and selling relationships with rural households through cooperatives. Enterprises and cooperatives form business relationships and define the rights and obligations of each other. Cooperatives are intermediaries and bind rural households through cooperative charter. They form an interest community with rural households. Cooperatives provide rural households with supporting services, such as providing quality seeds, advanced technology and services during the production process. They will define protective prices through consultation with enterprises to collectively purchase primary products of rural households, give them to companies, and bear the risk of production. Characteristics: Cooperatives are independent from enterprises. Cooperatives may sign or not sign orders with enterprises to collectively supply seedlings, implement applicable new technologies, configure production materials, practice disease prevention, coordinate loans, and sell product; cooperatives connect both enterprises and member rural households to implement standardized production and industrialized management; cooperatives are responsible for docking with companies through ways like signing contracts and organizing purchase; surpluses are mainly returned according to the ratios of trading amounts between members and professional farmer cooperatives. (2) Analysis on Advantages and Disadvantages Advantage: a. Enterprises and cooperatives bear the market risk and management risks for farmers; b. A profit distribution mechanism that upholds interest sharing and risk sharing for enterprises, cooperatives and farmers is established to adapt to unstable industry and high market risks to a large extent; c. Companies enjoy greater advantage in product development and market expansion, while cooperatives have the unique organizational and management power with a large number of scattered rural households. Both sides can join to complement each other; d. Cooperatives negotiate with companies in the interests of rural households to reduce the transaction costs and risks that individual rural households may have to bear when making transactions alone, improve farmers’ ability of trading, and to some extent protect the profits of rural households; Disadvantages: a. Cooperatives overly rely on leading enterprises for market development. Once the enterprises suffer management crisis, the cooperatives will be in trouble; b. The services of cooperatives are confined in market information, technical advice, supply of seedlings and production materials, and sales of primary products, while they lack extension of industry value chain, such as deep processing, fine processing and higher added value of products; c. Due to the low organizational degree, weak financial strength, lack of talents, and low technological level, professional cooperatives have inadequate capacity and have difficulty in performing its due functions; d. Cooperatives lack the ability to adapt to and develop new markets. 110    4.3.3. COOPERATIVE + BASE + RURAL HOUSEHOLD According to the analysis on the basic conditions of professional farmer cooperatives in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu, of the 39 cooperatives, 12 adopt the operational mode of “cooperative + base + rural household”, accounting for 30.77%; among them, 4 are operated well, accounting for 33.33%; 3 are operated moderately, accounting for 25%; 2 are operated poorly, accounting for 16.67%; 3 are not officially started yet, accounting for 25%. (1) Operation Status and Characteristics Under this mode, cooperatives provide technical guidance and pest / disease prevention for rural households before, during and after the production through production bases, and purchase and sell the agricultural products of their members according to the standards. Production bases are often responsible for introduction and breeding of fine varieties, providing quality and high-yield seed sources for cooperative members, or developing scale production to increase revenue. Promoters and organizers of cooperatives are usually large planters and breeders with certain economic strength and ability in the village; cooperatives gather part of the concatenated land together by renting the land of rural households or allowing rural households to contributing their land as shares to build production bases. Characteristics: Capable individuals and large households drive the development of cooperatives. Capable individuals and large households are key decision makers of cooperatives and responsible for the daily operation and management of cooperatives; members can work at the bases of cooperatives and the production bases make the connection between cooperatives and rural households become closer; surpluses are mainly returned according to the shares invested by members, and rural households may also earn wages by working at the bases. (2) Analysis on Advantages and Disadvantages Advantages: a. Production bases boost rural households to understand and interact with cooperatives and make the connection between the two side become closer; b. Cooperative organizers are familiar with the local environment, resources and policies, and thus have easy means to create cooperatives that suit local conditions; c. Standardized, professional and scientific production can be achieved to add vitality into the operation of cooperatives. Disadvantages: The operation and maintenance of production bases raises high requirements for cooperative management. Without maintenance by personnel with certain technology and ability, the production bases will affect the continued operation of cooperatives and affect the interests and initiative of farmers to join cooperatives. 4.3.4. COOPERATIVE (ASSOCIATION) + RURAL HOUSEHOLD According to the analysis on the basic conditions of professional farmer cooperatives in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu, of the 40 cooperatives (association), 19 adopt the operational mode of “cooperative (association) + rural household”, accounting for 47.5%; among them, 4 are operated well, accounting for 21.05%; 4 are operated moderately, accounting for 21.05%; 7 are operated poorly, accounting for 36.85%; 4 are not officially started yet, accounting for 21.05%. According to the survey results and the 111    analysis on the types of cooperatives, 67.4% of cooperatives that rural households join adopt the operational mode of “cooperative (association) + rural household”. The percents of cooperatives following the operational mode of “cooperative (association) + rural household” in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu were 43.8%, 82.4% and 70.6%. (1) Operation Status and Characteristics Cooperatives following this mode are generally developed, organized and operated by large planting and breeding households, large marketing households or farmer agents with certain economic strength and capacity. Promoters and key members of cooperatives generally contribute more. With technical expertise or management capacity, they are key decision makers of cooperatives and are in charge of the daily management of cooperatives. They are the core to cooperatives and play a decisive role in the survival and development of cooperatives. Characteristics: Capable individuals and large households drive the development of cooperatives. Capable individuals and large households are key decision makers of cooperatives and responsible for the daily operation and management of cooperatives; they practice joint-stock management by joining rural households that share the same interest with them; surpluses are mainly returned according to the shares invested by members. (2) Analysis on Advantages and Disadvantages Advantages: a. Cooperative organizers are familiar with the local environment, resources and policies, and thus have easy means to create cooperatives that suit local conditions; b. As the promoters and backbone members of cooperatives are large planting and breeding households, large marketing households or farmer agents with certain economic strength and capacity, or people who enjoy prestige and power in the villages, they are usually well-informed and have extensive social network and rich experience in market operation. c. It is easy to find partners and members in familiar villages to build cooperatives. Disadvantages: a. Large households and capable individuals may be likely to control cooperatives and form interest groups, excluding ordinary rural households that have different opinions from theirs; b. Large households and capable individuals invest more capital and hold large shares, while ordinary rural households invest less capital and less shares and are in a subordinate position in the organizations, without not much right to speak. As a result, ordinary members can only gain very limited profits from the surpluses of cooperatives based on their trading amount and shares; c. As the cooperatives may be monopolized by large households and capable individuals, once the promoters make wrong decision, the cooperatives may suffer significant loss. 112    Table 4-10 Analysis on the Operational Modes of Professional Farmer Cooperatives and Their Advantages and Disadvantages No. Operational Characteristics Advantages Disadvantages Mode 1  The organizational structure of cooperatives shows the characteristics of enterprises; cooperatives are closely related with enterprises;  Due to the monopoly of enterprises,  Cooperatives are in charge of the bases and  Achieving optimized combination of the interests of rural households can responsible for the connections between production factors like land, labor, not be guaranteed. Driven by the Company + bases, rural households and enterprises. They technology and capital through scale principle of maximizing profits, cooperative provide production materials and technical and enterprise-based agricultural enterprises often focus only on their + base + guidance and training; production; economic efficiency, making it difficult rural  Cooperatives have to unify seedlings,  Facilitating standardized, for rural households to get more household standards, brands, disease prevention, professional and scientific profits. In serious cases, the interests of agricultural means of production, and product production to add vitality into the farmers are damaged, affecting the sales. Thus, cooperatives have to meet high operation of cooperatives. initiative of rural households to join requirements; professional farmer cooperatives.  The bases are self-financing, and the surpluses are returned according to the shares invested by members. 2  Cooperatives are independent from  Enterprises and cooperatives bear the  Cooperatives over rely on leading enterprises. Cooperatives may sign or not market risk and management risks enterprises for market development. sign orders with enterprises; for farmers; Once the enterprises suffer Company +  Cooperatives collectively supply seedlings,  A profit distribution mechanism that management crisis, the cooperatives cooperative implement applicable new technologies, upholds interest sharing and risk will be in trouble; + rural configure production materials, practice sharing for enterprises, cooperatives  The services of cooperatives are household disease prevention, coordinate loans, and sell and farmers is established to adapt to confined in market information, product; unstable industry and high market technical advice, supply of seedlings  Cooperatives connect both enterprises and risks to a large extent; and production materials, and sales of 113    member rural households to implement  Companies enjoy greater advantage primary products, while they lack standardized production and industrialized in product development and market extension of industry value chain, such management; expansion, while cooperatives have as deep processing, fine processing and  Cooperatives are responsible for docking the unique organizational and higher added value of products; with companies through ways like signing management power with a large  Due to the low organizational degree, contracts and organizing purchase; number of scattered rural weak financial strength, lack of talents,  Surpluses are mainly returned according to households. Both sides can join to and low technological level, the ratios of trading amounts between complement each other; professional cooperatives have members and professional farmer  Cooperatives negotiate with inadequate capacity and have difficulty cooperatives. companies in the interests of rural in performing its due functions; households to reduce the transaction  Cooperatives lack the ability to adapt costs and risks that individual rural to and develop new markets. households may have to bear when making transactions alone, improve farmers’ ability of trading, and to some extent protect the profits of rural households; 3  Capable individuals and large households  Production bases boost rural drive the development of cooperatives. households to understand and  The operation and maintenance of Capable individuals and large households are interact with cooperatives and make production bases raises high key decision makers of cooperatives and the connection between the two side requirements for cooperative Cooperative responsible for the daily operation and become closer; management. Without maintenance by + base + management of cooperatives;  Cooperative organizers are familiar personnel with certain technology and rural  Members can work at the bases of with the local environment, resources ability, the production bases will affect household cooperatives and the production bases make and policies, and thus have easy the continued operation of cooperatives the connection between cooperatives and means to create cooperatives that suit and affect the interests and initiative of rural households become closer; local conditions; farmers to join cooperatives.  Surpluses are mainly returned according to  Standardized, professional and the shares invested by members, and rural scientific production can be achieved 114    households may also earn wages by working to add vitality into the operation of at the bases. cooperatives. 4  Large households and capable individuals may be likely to control  Cooperative organizers are familiar cooperatives and form interest groups, with the local environment, resources excluding ordinary rural households and policies, and thus have easy that have different opinions from means to create cooperatives that suit theirs;  Capable individuals and large households local conditions;  Large households and capable drive the development of cooperatives.  As the promoters and backbone individuals invest more capital and Capable individuals and large households are members of cooperatives are large hold large shares, while ordinary rural key decision makers of cooperatives and planting and breeding households, households invest less capital and less Cooperative responsible for the daily operation and large marketing households or farmer shares and are in a subordinate position (association) management of cooperatives; agents with certain economic in the organizations, without not much + rural  They practice joint-stock management by strength and capacity, or people who right to speak. As a result, ordinary household joining rural households that share the same enjoy prestige and power in the members can only gain very limited interest with them; villages, they are usually profits from the surpluses of  Surpluses are mainly returned according to well-informed and have extensive cooperatives based on their trading the shares invested by members. social network and rich experience in amount and shares; market operation;  As the cooperatives may be  It is easy to find partners and monopolized by large households and members in familiar villages to build capable individuals, once the cooperatives. promoters make wrong decision, the cooperatives may suffer significant loss. 115    4.4 Rural Households’ Understanding and Attitude towards Cooperatives During the project preparation stage, the project implementation unit and the Social Assessment Group learned about the understanding and attitudes of rural households towards the farmer cooperative organizations in the project areas through questionnaires, discussions, interviews, etc. This has a positive significance to improving and perfecting farmer cooperative organizations and promoting the participation of rural households. (1) Rural Households’ Knowledge of Cooperatives Currently, professional farmer cooperatives nationwide are encouraged to drive the development of the rural households. Field interviews in the project areas showed that most of the rural households have heard of cooperatives, but very few of them have ever actually joined one. Those that join cooperatives mostly sell products through cooperatives or ask about planting and breeding technical questions from cooperatives. According to analysis of the survey results, 6.4% of the rural households knew cooperatives very well, 23.3% knew cooperatives well, 47.4% knew a little about cooperatives, while 21% and 1.8% had no idea or had totally no idea of cooperatives. Comparison of the understanding of rural households towards cooperatives in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu showed that Guizhou Province has the largest percent of rural households that knew about (very well and well) cooperatives, 44.4%; Sichuan Province has the largest percent of rural households that did not know about (no idea and totally no idea) cooperatives, 41.2%. Table 4-11 Sampled Rural Households’ Understanding of Cooperatives Province Very Well Well A Little No Idea Totally No Idea Guizhou 15.0 29.4 39.6 13.7 2.4 Sichuan 3.6 23.5 31.7 38.6 2.6 Gansu 5.0 20.6 63.1 10.4 0.9 Total 6.4 23.3 47.4 21.0 1.8 (2) Rural Households’ Support for Cooperatives Interviews with rural households showed that rural households that knew something about cooperatives generally believed that cooperatives play a good role in helping rural households to sell products, providing guidance on seed breeding technology, conducting exchanges, etc., and can, to some extent, promote the development of local industries. According to the analysis of the survey results, 48.2% of the rural households strongly agreed on the establishment of cooperatives in the project; 47.4% agreed on that; 3.6% were indifferent; 0.7% and 0.1% disagreed and strongly disagreed. Comparison of the degree of support from rural households for cooperatives in the three provinces showed that all of them generally had high percents of rural households that strongly agreed or agreed on the establishment of cooperatives. The percents of rural households that chose “Strongly Agree” and “Agree” in Guizhou, Sichuan, and Gansu were 97.7% 92.8% and 97.1%, respectively. Table 4-12 Support of Sampled Rural Households for Cooperatives Province Strongly Agree Agree Indifferent Disagree Strongly Disagree Guizhou 60.8 36.9 1.7 0.7 0 Sichuan 45.0 47.8 5.6 1.5 0 Gansu 45.4 51.7 2.8 0 0.1 Total 48.2 47.4 3.6 0.7 0.1 116    (3) Rural Households’ Willingness to Join Cooperatives Despite the low willingness of rural households to join cooperatives, rural households hoped to sell agricultural products and have access to cheap and convenient production materials and other services. According to the survey results, 27.2% of the surveyed rural households joined one cooperative, 1.3% join, 0.4% join two or more, and 71.1% do not join any. This indicated that most of the rural households do not join any cooperatives. Sampled Rural Households’ Joining in Cooperatives Province One Two More Than Two None Guizhou 35.2 2.4 1.0 61.4 Sichuan 25.6 0 0 74.4 Gansu 25.0 1.9 0.4 72.7 Total 27.2 1.3 0.4 71.1 According to the analysis on the willingness of rural households that have not joined any cooperatives, 95.6% said that they are willing to join one and 4.4% said that they were not willing. Generally, the three provinces showed high percents of rural households that were willing to join cooperatives, 98.6%, 90%, and 97.9%, respectively. Table 4-13 Willingness of Sampled Rural Households to Join Cooperatives Willing Unwilling Province Number of Respondents Percent (%) Number of Respondents Percent (%) Guizhou 283 98.6 4 1.4 Sichuan 367 90 41 10 Gansu 620 97.9 13 2.1 Total 1270 95.6 58 4.4 (4) Rural Households’ Expectation about Cooperatives It can be seen from the analysis above that the rural households showed strong tendency to joining cooperatives. In terms of the expectations about the roles of cooperatives, 72.6% of the rural households hoped cooperatives to provide guidance on planting and breeding technology; 59.7% hoped cooperatives to develop sales channels; 43.5% hoped cooperatives to provide market information; 37.8% hoped cooperatives to provide preferential conditions in purchase of production materials; 33.8% hoped cooperatives to distribute dividends. Table 4-13 Sampled Rural Households’ Expectation about the Roles of Cooperatives Dividend Purchase of Guidance on Expanding the Providing Provi s of Production Oth Planting and Breeding Sales Channels of Market nce Coopera Materials at ers Technology Products Information tives Favorable Prices Guizh 60.6 65.9 36.5 34.1 40.3 0 ou Sichu 73.2 62.5 36.0 41.1 49.2 0 an Gansu 77.2 54.9 31.0 36.9 40.5 0.1 Total 72.6 59.7 33.8 37.8 43.5 0.1 117    About the serious factors that restrict the development of cooperatives, 57.6% of the rural households considered it is the small scale of industries; 43.7% consider it is the weak policy support from the government; 41.3% considered it is the lack of cooperative leaders; 35.3% considered it is the poor infrastructure that restricts the development of cooperatives; 16.9% considered it is because the operation mechanisms of cooperatives are not smooth; 15.1% considered it is the imperfect policies and regulations. Table 4-15 Factors Restricting the Development of Cooperatives in the Eyes of Sampled Rural Households Industry Weak Unsmooth Poor Prov Lack of Lack of Incomplete Policies Scale Too Suppor Operation Infrastruct ince Leaders Initiative and Regulations Small t Mechanism ure Guiz 70 39.2 49.1 27.0 13.7 10.6 7.7 hou Sich 50.1 49.0 38.3 19.5 19.3 20.8 42.8 uan Gans 58.1 41.4 40.2 25.0 12.5 16.4 40.5 u Tota 57.6 43.7 41.3 23.4 15.1 16.9 35.3 l (5) Capacity Building of Cooperatives In terms of capacity building through training, 58.9% of the rural households believed it is very necessary to carry out the training; 34.3% believed it is necessary to carry out the training; 5.7% believed that the training can be or cannot be provided; 1.0% believed it is unnecessary; 0.1% believed it is very unnecessary. On the whole, rural households believed it is necessary to enhance the strength of cooperatives by carrying out training. Table 4-16 Sampled Rural Households’ Understanding of the Necessity for Cooperative to Provide Training Province Very Necessary Necessary Average Unnecessary Very Unnecessary Guizhou 62.8 36.2 0.7 0 0.3 Sichuan 54.0 33.0 10.3 2.6 0 Gansu 61.1 34.5 4.3 0.1 0 Total 58.9 34.3 5.7 1.0 0.1 According to the further analysis of rural households’ needs for training provided cooperatives, 67.8% believed they need technical training about the planting and breeding industry; 18.5% believed they need training on market information; 7.3% believed they need training about cooperative charter and management; 5.7% believed they need training on project publicity and promotion; 0.6% of households believed they need training on other aspects. It is known from interviews with rural households that their needs in breeding and planting techniques are mainly as follows: ① Seeding and seedling growing techniques. Original seeds of some crops like gastrodia elata, radix pseudostellariae and potatoes have a high demand on seedling growing which is refined and complicated. Seeds of some crops need procedures like sterilization and detoxification which cannot be handled by common rural households due to their limited conditions and abilities. And there are still problems in transportation and test planting if buying seedlings from nonlocal areas. ② Culture of crops and field management. That scattered single household neglects management after planting is a 118    common phenomenon. There were failures in walnut planting in Luoeyigan Village, and sweet orange planting in Yulin Village resulted from households who did not know techniques of planting, pruning and grafting, assuming that no management is needed after planting. As a result, problems like low survival rate and long fruiting period occurred. ③ Plague control for crops. Potatoes and konjac tend to be affected by soft rot which can be prevented but is difficult to be brought to permanent control if symptoms occur. ④ culture of stud livestock like basic ewes and cows, e.g., the purification and rejuvenation of Huaqiu chickens and breed improvement of cattle and sheep. ⑤ Grass growing and allocation. Some rural households still believes in the concept of “feeding whatever you plant” and few scientific methods are used in breeding and planting. The extensive breeding results in longer time of fattening than that of refined breeding and more slowly profiting. ⑥ Plague control for livestock. Generally speaking, twice plague controls per year will be conducted by local Animal Husbandry Bureau in spring and autumn. However, illnesses of livestock, e.g., FMD and gastrointestinal problems of sheep caused by eating plastic mulch, are unavoidable. Table 4-17 Needs of Sampled Rural Households for Cooperative Training Planting and Provin Breeding Market Charter and Management Project Promotion and Othe ce Industrial Information Knowledge Publicity rs Technology Guizho 53.8 19.0 8.6 16.6 1.7 u Sichua 69.0 19.8 8.6 2.4 0.2 n Gansu 73.2 17.3 5.8 3.2 0.3 Total 67.8 18.5 7.3 5.7 0.6 4.5 Problems in the Operation of Professional Farmer Cooperatives (1) Little Knowledge of Rural Households about Cooperatives Judging from the survey, 29.7% of the rural households knew cooperatives “very well” and “well”. 70.3% of them simply heard or not heard of cooperatives. Field visits to the project villages showed that some of the rural households had no idea of what cooperative is when the Social Assessment Group mentioned the term “cooperative”. Most of the rural households have never heard of cooperatives. Some even had no idea that cooperatives have already been created in the villages. Women knew and understood less about cooperatives than men, and minority areas knew and understood cooperatives more poorly. In terms of regional differences, the villagers in the project areas in Sichuan Province knew about cooperatives less than those in Guizhou and Gansu. The project areas are concatenated impoverished area which lack water resource and are difficult to access. Industries in these areas are underdeveloped. There are few cooperatives and even no one exists in some villages. Therefore, the rural households in the areas know little about cooperatives. Second, most of the project areas are in remote mountain areas where rural people scatter. With few mass media communications, e.g. TVs, radios, and computers, information cannot easily be communicated. The cooperatives hardly help improve the conditions of rural people, thus they rarely can attract their attention. In some villages, cooperatives have been established. However, most of them are established by several 119    able men or big breeders or planters. Some cooperatives do not profit though exist. And some are small companies in nature constructed by several people and common rural people hardly join them. As a result, even though rural people have ever heard of cooperatives, they do not know what they are doing.  Mr. Zhou, Leader of Sanyou Village, Zhangjiachuan County, Tianshui City, Gansu: I hope to change the poverty with the cooperative. We have abundant lands and grass here. We can organize the surplus laborers to make some money. The older generation know cooperatives (of 1950s), but young people now do not know anything about them. They all went to cities as folk workers. They don’t want to stay at home.  Symposium of Villagers in Yida Village, Jinyang County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan: I never heard of cooperatives. My own sheep cannot meet the market demand. The cooperative should aim at marketing. It can be established, as long as it helps development.   Symposium of Villagers in Ripai Village, Butuo County, Liangshan Prefecture, Sichuan:  I don’t know much about cooperatives and never took part in one. We cannot speak mandarin fluently, so we cannot communicate with others. Young people who can communicate went out to work in cities. With no market knowledge, we are worried that the price will not be good even though products are transported out. And freight is still needed. If we cooperate with a company, a price higher than the market price should be guaranteed. (2) Little Participation of Rural Households in Cooperatives The participation of rural households in cooperatives is analyzed from two aspects, the will and conditions of rural households and activities those who join cooperatives take part in. From the former respect, through analyzing the knowledge of and attitude toward cooperatives, it is known that 28.9% of the rural households took part in cooperative while the remained 71.1% did not. A relatively small proportion of rural households have joined cooperatives. However, 95.6% of the rural households are willing to join cooperatives, the proportion much higher than that of those who have joined cooperatives. Second, from the latter respect, most cooperatives are not organizing activities. The members are just nominal who do not take part in any activities in fact. In some operating cooperatives, it is commonly found that rural households sell agricultural products through the cooperatives. Some cooperatives provide technical guidance and training related to the industries together with Animal Husbandry Bureau, providing some means of production, e.g., pesticides, seeds, and fertilizers, for rural households, by obtaining funds and projects. Common rural households are rarely involved in management of cooperatives. And most cooperatives do not hold member meetings. There are internal reasons and external reasons for the phenomenon that rural households seldom participate in cooperatives. The internal reasons include: A. Rural households are insufficient in their abilities. They are short of funds and skills. In addition, some impoverished people lack conditions of joining cooperatives and participating in industrial development due to their physical or mental disabilities (illnesses or handicaps). B. Rural households cannot undertake market risks, so most of them focus on short-term profits. For example, three approaches to land transfer are provided to villagers in Shuiliao Township, Xuyong County, Sichuan Province for the construction of sweet orange model park. First approach is that lands of rural households will be rent at a price of 400 Yuan/Year, which is chosen 120    by 80% of the households. The second approach is that no rent will be paid for the first three years, but the households will be involved in dividend distribution after the production goes into operation, which is chosen by more than 10% of the rural households. The third approach is that rent will be paid in the first three years during which sweet oranges are planted and managed, and the households can still be involved in dividend distribution at a ratio lower than that of the second approach, which is only chosen by several households. External reasons: A. Cooperatives are not constructed in accordance with regulations. Most cooperatives are controlled by the initiator and one or more partners who are not willing to share profits of the cooperative with others. Some big breeders or planters and masters are not willing to share their expertise. It is commonly found that big breeders and masters monopoly techniques and funds. B. the cooperatives are insufficient in abilities. Most cooperatives are small-scaled with little fund. They are incapable of organizing large amount of rural households to participate in operation.  Symposium of Villagers in Kezhai Village, Longxi County, Gansu:  We have a cooperative in the village. But none of the present villagers is a member. Someone in the village committee told us later that the place we had the meeting belongs to the cooperative. 2 households even don’t know they are members of the cooperative. They didn’t attend any meetings, receiving training and no one told them so. We hope the cooperative provide technical guidance, because the herbals planted by the cooperative and marketing are better than that of villagers.   Symposium of Villagers in Haiba Village, Dafang County, Guizhou:  Mr. Wang, 57, Chuanqing Minority. I joined the cooperative, too. There are many villagers in the cooperative, women accounting for 80%. No specific condition but signing up is needed to join the cooperative. The cooperative provides seedlings for us. And we sell the products to it after harvesting. Some people in the village also transfer their lands to the cooperative as the base and work in the base themselves. They can earn 60 or 70 Yuan per day. The radix pseudostellariae has a great demand on techniques. The cooperative has provided training on the techniques, and now basically everyone has mastered the techniques.   Interviews with Women in Bijiao Village, Dafang County, Guizhou: Mr. Liu, 51, Han Nationality: I have taken part in the agricultural technique training. But because of my limited literacy, I have some difficulties in understanding the training knowledge. It is too complicated. I hope the cooperative provide comprehensive support.  Interviews with Villagers in Yangjiu Village, Xishui County, Guizhou:  I have a farmhouse inn and I didn’t join the cooperative, because I think the cooperative is privately-owned and I don’t believe in the ability of the person in charge. Moreover, I already have abundant customers. And every year we cannot provide enough service for our passerby customers and regular customers, so it is not necessary to join the cooperative. I learned my cooking skills in training provided by the tourism office. If the cooperative develops well and standardized, I will consider about it.   Interviews with Villagers in Da’an Village, Xishui County, Guizhou:  Mr. Li, 50 Han Nationality: I have joined the sheep breeding cooperative in the village without any fees. But it is not working right now, so we don’t connect closely. The lambs are reproduced or bought 121 on our own. Techniques are trained by the   Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau. And we sell sheep through sheep dealers. And we bargain with sheep dealers on our own. The cooperative is not involved.    (3) Large Number of Dormant Cooperatives and Poor Operation Results According to the statistics of cooperative operation provided by Operation Management Station of the Agriculture Bureau, in Guizhou Province, there are 179 cooperative which operate well, 573 ones which operate moderately, and 245 ones which operate poorly, accounting for 17.96%, 57.47%, and 24.57% respectively. And in Sichuan Province, of the 845 cooperatives in the project counties, 702 operate poorly with no function, accounting for 83.08%. According to field interviews, cooperatives in Guizhou, Sichuan and Gansu are not working well in fact. There are 12 ones working well out of 40 cooperatives (associations) in the project district, accounting for 30%. 9 ones are operating poorly, accounting for 22.5%. And 11 ones are not officially started, accounting for 27.5%. In fact, most cooperatives visited by the cooperative assessment group are the best ones in the area. And the actual proportion of cooperatives which are operating poorly or not started is higher than the current proportion. Similar dormant cooperatives are existing in many places. Many are not operating though created. Many are created in order to obtain subsidies and preferential policies of the government. In addition, low entry cost and no fee is charged in registry, for example, only 5 names, duplicates of their IDs and a few forms and signatures are needed for application and registry, also contribute for the situation. Furthermore, the nation encourages developing cooperatives, and each county, town, and village has to achieve the assigned annual goals of cooperative construction. In some areas, the constructed cooperatives cannot enjoy preferential policies accordingly due to their own situation. For example, some cooperatives cannot meet with conditions for loans because they do not have sufficient capital accumulation and assets for mortgage. Thus, they lack financial support, and cannot enjoy the preferential conditions in capital or tax. All the above reasons result in the large amount of cooperatives merged in recent a few years. Operating cooperatives are few though there are many registered.  Interviews with Key Informants in Council of Agricultural in Bijie City, Guizhou: If the cooperative develops well and exercises in the interests of breeders, I can be very supportive. After all, we will have an advantage if we bargain with sheep dealers in a joint way. I also am willing to fulfill my obligations as a big breeder, and leading others to get rich and provide guidance on techniques. There are more than 3,000 cooperatives (in Bijie). But they are not regulated and operate poorly. Every year10 agricultural cooperatives at the municipal level will be selected to which an (4) Underdevelopment and Non-standardized allowance of about 20,000 Management Yuan each will be provided of Cooperatives as encouragement. Th development off cooperatives The i lf iin the project b t are ti areas f mostly in ti ll Th For example, their infancy. l i flof the 40 interviewed cooperatives (association), 10 were founded in 2013, accounting for 25% of the total surveyed cooperatives. In addition, there were 7, 4 and 9 cooperatives established in 2010, 2011, and 2012, accounting for 17.5%, 10%, and 22.5%, respectively. These cooperatives have short histories and have low development levels. In terms of organizational structure, the promoters, also big shareholders in cooperatives, occupy the dominant positions, and the operation and maintenance of cooperatives mainly depends on individual reputation and authority. Partners of cooperatives are generally large households and capable individuals and village cadres, while ordinary and poor rural households seldom become part of the management. In addition, there is a lack of professional talents that understand management, technology and have marketing ability in the organizational structure, and there is a shortage of financial staff. Due to the small scale, little capital, and lack of professional and technical staff, most of the cooperatives carried out few operation activities and provide few services for members. In addition, due to lack of water resources and inconvenient transportation in poor areas, it is difficult for cooperatives to 122    play their due functions and roles.  Leader of Shunfeng Ecological Agriculture Development Cooperative in Dafang County, Guizhou: At the primary stage, cooperatives are short of funds. In techniques, native experts are needed. They are difficult to access and short of process equipment.  Interviews with Key Informants in Agricultural Bureau in Xishui County, Guizhou: Now the cooperatives are facing with easy establishment but hard consolidation. Major difficulties are as follow: they lack masters and leaders in the cooperative, and the persons in charge are hardly motivated; it is difficult to financing; and they are limited in the ability to explore the market.  Leader of Fuxing Professional Cooperative of Apple Marketing in Zhengning County, Gansu:  Difficulties in the cooperative: lack of capital; unenlightened of market information; lack of planting expertise; no working office; the office is rent from the village at the price of 10,000 Yuan per three years.   Leader of Huinong Professional Cooperative of Apple Planting in Heshui County, Gansu:  The major difficulty of the cooperative is lacking of fixed office. Now a simple office is constructed (in my own land close to the road). We want to grow bigger and stronger and become a company of intensive processing. We also want to build a refrigerating chamber but we are short of capital. We have problems in planting skills, but the capital is only enough for experts in the county. We negotiate with factories when organic fertilizers are concerned and negotiate with agencies when others are concerned. There are still rooms for increasing the profits.  Leader of Jiangshan White Konjac Cooperative in Jinyang County, Sichuan:  Both the two partners of the cooperative know little about management. Now they just know some local knowledge. We learn with the aid from the konjac office and search for information from books or from the Internet. If there are any training on management and skills, I want to attend it. (5) Incomplete and Non-transparent Profit Distribution Mechanisms of Cooperatives The Social Assessment Group learned from the field investigation that some cooperatives do not have no clear provisions about the withdrawal of surplus accumulation fund, public welfare fund, or dividends in their financial management systems. Even if there are provisions about deciding the profit distribution based on the resolution proposed at the general assembly of members (representatives), in fact, cooperatives seldom convene a general assembly of members (representatives) for a vote; instead, decisions are made by several key members of the cooperative and the decisions about the ratios of income dividends to share and profits to return are highly arbitrary. Generally share dividends are given first, with the remaining surpluses for rebates. During the distribution of dividends, dividends are first shared according to capital contribution and then land or other contributions. The forms of dividends and rebates are diverse. Basically each cooperative has a different way and standard of dividends sharing and profits returning, and the whole information about income distribution is not transparent and rarely 123    publishe; there are various ways and standards of profit distribution and the mechanisms are not perfect. 4.6 Suggestions on Improving Cooperatives (1) Carrying out publicity and training to improve the understanding of rural households towards cooperatives and the project The following suggestions are proposed to deal with the poor understanding of rural households towards the project and cooperatives: 1) A plan for information disclosure, publicity and training throughout the early, mid and late stages of the project should be developed (see the project implementation manual). The project offices should organize to prepare guiding opinions or guidance on the development and management of cooperatives and distribute them to the rural households in the project areas. The early stage will focus on publicity about understanding of the project and cooperatives, the mid stage will focus on publicity of implementation information about creation of cooperatives, choices for industrial development, community procurement, construction information, production and technical training, and the late stage will focus on publicity about operation of cooperatives, such as profit distribution and financial management. 2) The publicity and training of information about the project and cooperatives should fully consider the participation of special groups like women , minorities, and the poor. 3) The publicity and training should be done in slack periods of rural households, or other appropriate periods; the publicity and training should be done in places where rural households usually assemble and which are easily accessible, such as the village committee and wide-open areas. Concentration of rural settlements in the project villages should be fully considered to set up organizations on natural village, administrative village or family habitation basis; the training language and text should be simple and easy to understand, using familiar local languages and scripts; considering that most of the farmers in poverty-stricken areas are illiterate or poorly literate, the information should be mostly conveyed in oral language or through pictures. 4) The publicity about the project and cooperatives should ensure that at least 80% of households (100% of registered poor households) are informed and 30% of women, 80% of poor households and 30 % of minorities are involved. 5) Random inspection on the publicity and training effects should be conducted on a regular basis of 2 times/year in the early phase of the project and 1time/year in other phases. (2) Developing measures for rural households to participate in all processes of cooperatives to improve their ability and chances of participating The following suggestions are proposed in response to the little participation of rural households in cooperatives: 1) Creating a preparatory group of cooperatives, and ensuring that the group includes 50% of the villager representatives, as well as a certain number of women, minority groups, and representatives from poor households; 124    2) Convening a general assembly of villagers or villager representatives to preliminarily screen members, determine the type of cooperative to be developed and major industries, and finally determine the members of cooperative, and ensure that the percent of registered poor households of cooperative gradually reaches 80% or more; 3) Convening a general assembly of members to determine the organizational structure, charter, management rules, and profit distribution, create file management, and disclose and publish relevant information; 4) Providing technical and management training and guidance on industrial development and operation of cooperative, which should cover as much members as possible; 5) Fully informing cooperative members of seedling/breeding stock selection and procurement, respecting the opinions and ideas of members, and maintaining data filing and archiving; 6) Prioritizing members, especially poor members, when employment and training opportunities are provided; 7) Fully informing about the information on the contracts signed with enterprises and members, and respecting the wishes of members; 8) Treating all the members equally when offering sales prices, and regularly publishing the distribution of profits; 9) Establishing a complaint and appeal mechanism for cooperative members. (3) Establishing cooperatives that adapt to the local industrial development, needs of rural households, and market demands, and improving the Capacity of cooperatives to serve for rural households The following suggestions are proposed to deal with the poor operation effects of cooperatives: 1) Keeping the members fully informed of the establishment of cooperatives and selection of industries, and making decisions after all the members have discussed; 2) Initially identifying several industries to be developed according to the status of local industries, and finally determining the industries to be developed by cooperatives through SWOT analysis; 3) Establishing cooperatives that adapt to the needs of rural households, conducting publicity and training based on the needs of members, and providing services like supply and sales of production materials. (4) Creating dedicated guidance team for cooperative development and improving the self-organization and management level of rural households The following suggestions are proposed to deal with low development level and non-standardized organization and management of cooperatives: 1) Creating a preparatory group of cooperatives to provide guidance and supervision services on the creation of cooperatives and selection industries; 2) Staffing cooperatives with counselors who need to have experience in rural work and knowledge in sociology, agriculture, and economics, understand the local language, have strong organizational skills, 125    and are able to work in villages; 3) Convening a general assembly of members to discuss and develop methods to manage conditional grants to cooperatives; (5) Developing reasonable, open and transparent profit distribution mechanism to improve the benefits of rural households The following suggestions are proposed to deal with the incomplete and non-transparent profit distribution mechanism of cooperatives: 1) Convening a general assembly of members to the profit distribution mechanism of cooperative, which should clearly define the ratios and order of profit distribution; defining the percents of public accumulations that are withdrawn aside, such as public accumulation funds, public welfare funds, relief funds, venture funds and development funds, and determining the specific way of profit distribution in the cooperative, such as profit returning and share dividends. 2) The profit distribution mechanism and specific distribution should be open and transparent, keeping financial filing and achieving of cooperative, and regularly informing members of financial information to receive supervision and questioning of members. 126    5 Poverty Analysis 5.1 Poverty Status 5.2.1. POVERTY STATUS IN GUIZHOU, SICHUAN AND GANSU PROVINCE (1) Guizhou Province There are 98 project villages in Guizhou Province, 85 of which are poor villages, accounting for 86.7%. In the project area, there are 31208 poor households and 90775 poor people, with 28.14% poverty incidence. Thereinto, Dafang County, Bijie City accounts for the highest poverty incidence with 32.70%; Tongzi County, Zunyi City for the lowest poverty incidence with 17.80%. (2) Sichuan Province There are 199 project villages in Sichuan Province, 196 of which are poor villages, accounting for 98.5%. In the project area, there are 23853 poor households and 87665 poor people, with 33.62% poverty incidence. Thereinto, Meigu County, Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Liangshan accounts for the highest poverty incidence with 39.65%; Gulin County, Luzhou City for the lowest poverty incidence with 28.12%. (3) Gansu Province There are 241 project villages in Gansu Province, all of which are poor village. In the project area, there are 41587 poor households and 178466 poor people, with 49.68% poverty incidence. Thereinto, Yongjing County, Linxia Prefecture accounts for the highest poverty incidence with 80.49%; Anding District, Dingxi City for the lowest poverty incidence with 35.62%. Table 5-1 Poverty Status of Project Counties Project Poor Poor Poor Region Poor People Villages Villages Households Incidence (%) Guizhou Dafang 19 19 8341 25811 32.70 Province Bijie City County Zhijin County 22 11 4627 12715 27.61 Tongzi 12 10 2258 6341 17.80 County Zunyi City Xishui County 26 26 11779 32471 30.71 Chishui 19 19 4203 13437 23.89 County Total 98 85 31208 90775 28.14 Sichuan Gulin County 20 20 4664 15933 28.12 Province Luzhou City Xuyong 20 17 3408 14088 30.88 County Yi Zhaojue 42 42 5616 17394 36.32 127    Autonomous County Prefecture Meigu County 52 52 4558 18168 39.65 of Jinyang 36 36 3002 11998 33.94 Liangshan County Butuo County 29 29 2605 10084 34.32 Total 199 196 23853 87665 33.62 Gansu Tianshui Zhangjiachuan 16 16 2472 8234 59.73 Province City Wuwei Gulang 16 16 1066 4753 78.14 City County Tongwei 14 14 2032 8902 54.34 County Longxi 12 12 2542 11223 47.90 County Weiyuan Dingxi 18 18 4094 16391 41.44 County City Minxian 20 20 2950 13611 43.31 County Anding 16 16 1759 8456 35.62 District Lintao County 12 12 1891 7502 37.64 Huanxian 25 25 3991 18460 49.00 County Huachi 16 16 1674 6876 40.67 Qingyang County City Zhengning 13 13 3775 13299 36.88 County Heshui 12 12 2576 9787 42.00 County Dongxiang 12 12 1382 7000 60.87 Linxia County Preecture Yongjing 18 18 2698 12133 80.49 County Jingning 10 10 1497 7611 65.87 Pingliang County City Zhuanglang 11 11 2223 10966 70.68 County Total 241 241 41587 178466 49.68 5.2.2. MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD OF POOR HOUSEHOLDS Means of livelihood plays an influential and decisive role in families’ financial situation. For poor households in the project area, traditional agricultural production is their major income sources, besides, 128    working outside accounts for a certain proportion, but making up a small portion of their general incomes. Compared with ordinary rural households, poor households’ means to make a living is relatively single, with a greater dependence on traditional crop farming. Questionnaire survey reveals 79% of 758 surveyed poor households choose “farming at home” as their major income sources; 19% choose “working outside”; 0.9% choose “transporting”; 1.1% choose “other options”. In the project area, poor households take agricultural production as the principal option, and working outside as the second. According to the colloquium and interviews, it is found that traditional agriculture and traditional production mode are the ordinary means of poor households. Crop farming (mainly for grain) provides poor households with guaranteed food and clothing. Some poor households will raise sheep, pigs and cows in small scale as the subordinate income sources. In the interviews, it is learned that some poor households work outside to make a living. Most of them would do temporary or seasonal works for others in local or surrounding areas at slack farming season, while a small portion do long-term works in further areas. With lower educational levels and comprehensive quality, however, they can only engage in such low-paid jobs with few employable skills as construction, porting, clean-keeping, housekeeping and catering.  Mr. Jin from Tangjiawuji Village, Mayizu Township, Jinyang County, Sichuan Province: I have 11 mu of land, with 5 mu of corns and 6 mu of green prickleyash, interplanting white conjac and sweet potatos. I didn’t make much money last year in Shenzhen. This year I focus my attention on crop farming. I can make a profit of RMB 3000 yuan from a mu of green prickleyash interplanting with corns. We may have some corns for food, but most are used for feeding pigs and chickens. We raise 2 pigs and 10 chickens. We reserve sweet potatos for food only. Now I make money mainly from crop farming.  Mr. Zhang from Muyeli Village, Dongxiang County, Linxia Preecture, Gansu Province: My family is poor in the village with net annual income RMB 2000 yuan last year. Cultivated land per capital in the village is 1.2 mu, used for planting corns and potatos for family food. We don’t earn much from crop farming, and the main income of my family is from my manual work at the factory nearby. I usually work outside for 2-4 months every year, and go home to help at busy farming season. There are 4 sheep in my family, all raised by my wife. Table 5-2 Major Income Sources of Poor Households What Is Your Major Income Source? Province Farming at Home Working Outside Transporting Others Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Guizhou 134 89.9 14 9.4 1 0.7 0 0.0 Province Sichuan 221 84.7 39 14.9 0 0.0 1 0.4 Province Gansu 244 70.1 91 26.2 6 1.7 7 2.0 Province Total 599 79.0 144 19.0 7 0.9 8 1.1 Source: Questionnaire survey data Note: 1,600 copies of questionnaires are sent out in the social survey, with 1,507 copies of valid questionnairs 129    including 758 pieces from poor households. Similarly hereinafter. 5.2.3. SITUATION OF POOR HOUSEHOLDS’ PARTICIPATION IN THE COOPERATIVE (1) Status Quo of Participation in the Cooperative Statistics show that 32.6% of 758 surveyed poor households have participated in the cooperative, among which most (30.5%) have joined the same cooperative, and 67.4% haven’t participated in any cooperative. Thereinto, surveyed poor households in Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province and Guansu Province account for respectively 53.4%, 28.0% and 34.2%. In the field visits, it is found that in the cooperative management level, administrative personnel mainly consists of village committee, capable people in rich and influential families, and agricultural technicians, while few people in poor households are able to participate in the management layer of the cooperative. The main purposes of poor households to participate in the cooperative are to provide them with quick access to symmetric market information, and with sales channels of agricultural products. Table 5-3 Situation of Poor Households’ Participation in the Cooperative Have You Participated in the Local Cooperative? Have Participated Have Participated Have Participated Two Haven’t Participated Province One Local More Than Two Local Cooperatives Any Local Cooperative Cooperative Local Cooperatives Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Guizhou 74 49.7 5 3.4 2 1.3 68 45.6 Province Sichuan 47 18.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 214 82.0 Province Gansu 110 31.6 8 2.3 1 0.3 229 65.8 Province Total 231 30.5 13 1.7 3 0.4 511 67.4 Source: Questionnaire survey data (2) Willingness to Participate the Cooperative According to the colloquium and interviews, it is found that social regime in the project area hasn’t been well develop, and most parts of the cooperative organization are far from perfect and standard operations. The cooperative hasn’t established close interest relationship with rural households, and isn’t well functioning. The participation rate of poor households is not high, especially in Sichuan Province with only 28%. Poor households who haven’t participated in the cooperative are strongly willing to participate, hoping the cooperative can improve production management technologies, and solve the sales problems of agricultural and sideline products. Statistics show 94.5% of them are willing to participate in the cooperative. The rate in the three surveyed provinces reaches to more than 90%. Rural households are willing to participate in the relatively well developed cooperatives which yield good economic returns with strong impetus ability.  Mrs. Li from Bijiao Village, Maochang Town, Dafang County, Guizhou Province I have 5 mu of land. A few years ago, I planted corns and soybeans. In recent years, I found that traditional Chinese medicinal herbs wre very profitable, so I followed the trend to plant some but not too much at first. Now I have mastered certain planting technologies. There is a cooperative in the village, named Saishidai 130  Traditional Chinese Medicinal Herbs Planting Specialized Cooperative. I haven’t joined in the cooperative, but am planning to because I’ve seen that the members have made a lot of money and the copperative provides them with technical instructions and services. We are all planning to join in the cooperative.   Though poor households have the strong willing to participate in the cooperative, few are willing to take part in the operation and management. In the interviews, it is found that overwhelming majority of poor households participate in the cooperative for the purpose of developing with the cooperative and obtaining economic benefits, but it is widely believed that they are not capable of and don’t have to be involved in the organization and management of the cooperative.  Mr. Wang from Yulin Village, Jiaoyuan Township, Gulin County, Sichuan Province I joined in the cooperative for the sales of oranges because I didn’t sell well on my own, but with the help of the cooperative it becomes more convenient, so everyone is willing to join in the cooperative. I’ve joined in the cooperative at a relatively early time, and I trust the person in charge, because he is the old fellow in the village. We are at ease to have him and several others to lead the cooperative. Table 5-4 Poor Households’ Willingness to Participate in the Cooperative Are You Willing to Participate in the Cooperative? Province Yes No Number Percentage Number Percentage Guizhou 66 97.1 2 2.9 Province Sichuan 195 91.1 19 8.9 Province Gansu 222 96.9 7 3.1 Province Total 483 94.5 38 5.5 Source: Questionnaire survey data 5.2.4. POOR HOUSEHOLDS’ CAPACITIES OF ADVANTAGEOUS INDUSTRIES Investigation and statistics show that 21.1% of poor households in the project area think they have mastered professional skills, 29.8% think they haven’t, while those who think they have mastered a part of but not enough professional skills account for 49.1%. According to the colloquium and interviews, most poor households think they are able to master the farming and breeding skills to a certain extent, but compared with the rich and influential households and ordinary households, they are not professional enough, which should still be improved. For instance, the poor household from Wacha Village, Xixiang Township, Jingning County reported that as apple industry requires relatively high management technology on the orchard, and they are lack of many techniques on production and management such as trimming, pruning and topdressing, they have rather less fruit yield of the apple trees at the same tree-age than that of the rich and influential households who are capable of management. Table 5-5 Poor Households’ Mastery Degree of the Required Skills Have You Mastered Professional Skills Required by Characteristic Advantageous Industries? Have Mastered Some, But Not Province Yes No Enough Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Guizhou 16 10.7 17 11.4 116 77.9 131    Province Sichuan 62 23.8 125 47.9 74 28.3 Province Gansu 82 23.6 84 24.1 182 52.3 Province Total 160 21.1 226 29.8 372 49.1 Source: Questionnaire survey data According to the survey, 95.7% of poor households think it “very necessary” or “necessary” to have trainings on professional skills of advantageous industries, and only 0.1% think it unnecessary. The proportions of “very necessary” or “necessary” in Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province and Gansu Province are 100%, 94.6% and 95.7% respectively. Therefore, poor households in the project area are strongly willing to participate in trainings, in the hope that their professional skills can be to some extent improved. Table 5-6 Poor Households’ Willingness to Participate in the Trainings on Professional Skills of Advantageous Industries Do You Think It Necessary to Have Trainings on Professional Skills of Advantageous Industries? Province Very Necessary Necessary Indifferent Unnecessary Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Guizhou 89 59.7 60 40.3 0 0 0 0 Province Sichuan 166 63.6 81 31 14 5.4 0 0 Province Gansu 202 58 127 36.5 18 5.2 1 0.3 Province Total 457 60.3 268 35.4 32 4.2 1 0.1 Source: Questionnaire survey data When asked about “Are you willing to participate in the project to develop characteristic advantageous industries?” 94.3% of surveyed poor households express their “definite willingness”, with a high proportion of 90% in three surveyed provinces. In the field surveys, poor households are quite supportive for the project construction, and are willing to develop characteristic advantageous industries for economic benefits. Table 5-7 Poor Households’ Willingness to Develop Characteristic Advantageous Industries Are You Willing to Participate in the Project to Develop Characteristic Advantageous Industries? Province Yes No It depends. Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage Guizhou 145 97.3 0 0.0 4 2.7 Province Sichuan 237 90.8 5 1.9 19 7.3 Province Gansu 333 95.7 0 0.0 15 4.3 Province Total 715 94.3 5 0.7 38 5.0 132    Source: Questionnaire survey data On the whole, the characteristic industries selected in every county have had a preferable development foundation in the local county with a certain industry scale and a long history and experience of civil plantation and breeding. In the colloquium, it is found that poor households are strongly willing to participate in the advantageous industries with a high motivation. Though they have been capable of the industry development to some extent, they still need to improve their technological levels on production and management through the facilities in the project and relevant trainings, promoting their strengths to participate in the advantageous industries.  Mr. Zhu from Kangriwan Village, Lintao County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province We have a long history of raising sheep, but compared with the rich and influential households, poor households like us don’t have qualified feeding techiniques. Though we have had some trainings, we haven’t mastered very well. So I hope someone can teach us the feed matching mehods and scientific breeding mehods. 5.2 Impact Analysis of the Project on Poor Households 5.3.1. POSITIVE INFLUENCE (1) To Promote the Adjustment of Industrial Structure, and to Accelerate the Development of Industrial Standardization and Scale The project villages depend mainly on traditional agriculture and production mode, with single industrial structure, underdeveloped industries and low technical contents. Therefore, it is appropriate to develop characteristic advantageous industries according to local conditions, which can increase the incomes of poor households in a sustained and steady manner with scale and industrialized operation. Those advantageous industries that have a certain industrial foundation and are easy to survive and develop should be selected to develop via integrating with local geology, environment and climate. At present, the farming and breeding industries in the project area have problems of low yield, low quality and relatively underdeveloped standardized production. Insufficient knowledge and attention have been paid to pollution-free standardized production, which cannot be effectively implemented in the production and cause weak links after the production. The project organizes production and sale via establishing farmers’ professional cooperative, which greatly improves production efficiency, extends industrial chain, promotes rural economic development, and adjusts the structure of farming and breeding industries. Through the programs of “One Village One Product” and “One County One Product”, the project promotes the rapid development of advantageous industries. (2) To Improve the Extent of Farmer’s Systematism, and to Promote Poverty Group’s Abilities on Labor Skills and Production Management Current production status of the project area is single-family operating, which is difficult to open the market sales due to less product quantity and the difficult access to information. While, farmers’ professional cooperative plays a role of organization and coordination to unite rural households and generate organization brand effect, and leads the single-family to enter the market. The cooperative has 133    played a powerful supportive role in regulating the behavior of inside members, accumulating from the small, becoming strong from the weak, reducing agricultural production cost, improving the quality and price of agricultural products, and enhancing the market competition of agricultural products. For poor households, firstly, they are lack of scientific technologies on production and management in the process of production, storage, processing and sales of agricultural and sideline products; secondly, they are on their own, and don’t ally to form industrial scale; thirdly, since they haven’t formed large-scale industry and have to meet the purchaser or the market alone when they sell their products, they have mastered insufficient market information and weak capacity to resist market risks. The cooperative can provide members with basic services before, during and after the production, to realize a coordinated process of production, supply and marketing, to promote the advantageous industries to form scale benefit, and to liberate poor households from worries. Compared with ordinary rural households, poor households haven’t mastered enough techniques on production and management of breeding industry, and through cooperative construction and relevant trainings, poor households in the project area have access to new development ideas, management concept, market ideology and management technology, therefore they are able to promote their labor skills, improve the quality of production and management. Objectively, the cooperative helps poor households to change their minds, and develop their concept and development model. (3) To Improve Infrastructure Construction, and to Improve Farmers’ Production and Living Environment Infrastructure construction is an important part of project construction, and such infrastructure as roads to every village and every group, irrigation and drainage, and public market are of particular significance to It is the villagers especially the poor households in the project area, which are also imperative for the industry development. The project implementation has improved to some extent infrastructure condition in project area, which provides poor households in the project area with indispensable basic conditions for developing characteristic advantageous industries, offers local poor households with development conditions, and renders poor households in the project area more development opportunities. Through the project implementation, infrastructure of farming and breeding industries have been particulary improved, and related facilities of tourism have been equipped, which can improve the production and living environment in the project area. Living environment of poor households have been improved, their living standards have been raised, and their physical and mental health have been promoted. (4) To Promote the Development of Local Characteristic Advantageous Industries, and to Increase Farmers’ Incomes In the project area, there exist problems of manpower shortage in production and underdeveloped labor skills in poor households. Through the project implementation, the previous local characteristic industries are expanded, standardized and industrialized. The project renders more poor rural households to participate in the cooperative, which provides them with more financial support, technical instruction, as well as maximum benefit. In the project area, the farm and pasture products are sold in a low price, thus industrialized products with deeply processing can achieve a higher price, and then increase poor rural households’ incomes. The 134    cooperative makes purchases for breeder seeds, which lowers the cost and ensures the good quality; with unifying scientific instructions on breeding/farming technologies, the cooperative is able to ensure to the largest extent the quality; to sell the products en masse, the cooperative presents the maximum degree of integration with the market, which guarantees the sale prices, maintains the interest of poor rural households, and increases their incomes. (5) To Promote Full economic Development in the Project Area The project implementation will promote the development of related industries, improve the development of rural economy, and be beneficial for the benign adjustment of rural industrial structure. With the development and expansion of the market, there will be new income-generating opportunities in sales. Meanwhile, rural enterprises, such as various types of processing factories and sand factories, will be promoted to develop, which broaden employment channels for farmers. 5.3.2. POTENTIAL RISKS (1) Livelihood Risks Some industries in the project need higher costs, while the poor households are generally shortage of necessary funds for launching the industry. The input cost and their ability to pay will directly affect their participation enthusiasm and economic benefits of the project. To take cattle breeding industry for instance, the project promotes to breed cattle in the barn, and has relatively strict requirements for the barn, which increases undoubtedly the economic burden to those poor households who have no barns or humble barns, because they need firstly to build up a new barn, or rebuild their old barns. In addition, some industries have long development cycle with slow effect, such as apple industry with the mature period of 5 years and nearly RMB 2,000 per mu of annual input cost. For poor households in the project area, especially for those with single livelihood sources and maintaining basic life on government allowance, it will bring challenges to their livelihood models in the early period of the project, which exerts an impact on their enthusiasm and confidence to participate in the project. (2) Technical Risks Poor households in the project area have backward mode of production, predominated by traditional farming and breeding models. According to field surveys, it is revealed that poor households have extensive agricultural production mode, with the characteristics of low yield and dependence on the weather; they raise livestock in an unscientific way, which hasn’t reached to the degree of fine breeding, and has certain risks on disease prevention and control. Take sheep breeding industry in Huachi County for example. Some poor households didn’t feed ewes during pregnancy in meticulous way, so that with insufficient nutrition, their lamb would be dead in several days after birth. (3) Market Risks Due to the project implementation pilot are mostly in the isolated mountainous areas, residents in the project area haven’t mastered accurate market information and been lack of necessary knowledge and capacity to cope with the market risks. Agricultural products are prone to be affected by the fluctuations of market price, which would hurt farmers with low prices. Product marketing exerts direct influence on economic benefits and rural households’ participate in enthusiasm, which will lay great influence on the 135    project implementation and economic benefits. After the adjustment of industrial structure in the project area, some project villages are prone to be influenced by market fluctuations on the whole due to their single industrial organizations and instabilities to cope with the market risks. In addition, a period is needed for some industries (such as rural tourism) to be cognized by the market and to be recognized by consumers, thus they may not obtain obvious benefits at the early stage of the project, which will affect their enthusiasm. (4) Participation Risks During the project implementation, as it is impossible to achieve complete just and fair in the selection of project households, it is easy to cause internal contractions in the villages, which brings unhealthy social impact. Since the project involves various interest groups, there exists a risk whether the project can properly take interests of every aspect into consideration and fully listen to various opinions in the respect of benefit distribution and degree of participation. The differences between rural households and the administrators, different cultural qualities, ideologies and understandings of the project from beneficiaries in different genders, and various participation degree, may bring some risks to the project implementation. 5.3 Poverty Group’s Awareness and Demands of the Project 5.3.1. POVERTY GROUP’S AWARENESS OF THE PROJECT (1) Awareness of the Project Construction Surveys show that 85.4% of 758 surveyed poor people have heard of the project, while 14.6% said they haven’t. The awareness rates of surveyed poverty group to the project are respectively 97.3%, 77.3% and 86.0% in Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province and Gansu Province, which reveals that poverty group in the project are highly aware of the project. Survey data show that 11.1% and 30.4% of surveyed poverty group said that they have respectively “quite known” and “known” of the project; 53.3% have “known a little”; while 5.4% have “not known much”. There are low proportions of “not known much” by the surveyed poverty group with 1.4%, 6.4% and 6.5% respectively in Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province and Gansu Province. In addition, from interviews and conferences, investigators learned that most of staff in the project counties would go to the villages for the project promotion, and inform villagers of project building blocks. Overall, overwhelming majority of poverty group have learned something about the project, and have some knowledge of project building blocks. Table 5-8 Poor Households’ Knowledge of the Project Have You Ever Heard the Project? Have You Known about the Project? (%) Region (%) Quite Known Not Yes No Known Unknown Known A Little Known 136    Much Dafang 100.0 0.0 62.7 23.5 13.8 0.0 0.0 Bijie City County Zhijin County 100.0 0.0 0.0 33.3 66.7 0.0 0.0 Tongzi Guizhou 100.0 0.0 6.7 13.3 80.0 0.0 0.0 County Province Zunyi City Xishui County 93.3 6.7 0.0 32.1 67.9 0.0 0.0 Chishui 95.5 4.5 21.4 26.2 47.6 4.8 0.0 County Total 97.3 2.7 29.0 25.5 44.1 1.4 0.0 Gulin County 96.2 3.8 20.0 36.0 32.0 12.0 0.0 Luzhou City Xuyong 68.8 31.3 9.1 68.2 13.6 9.1 0.0 County Zhaojue Yi 100.0 0.0 9.7 67.7 21.0 1.6 0.0 Sichuan County Autonomous Province Meigu County 74.0 26.0 0.0 1.9 92.6 5.5 0.0 Prefecture Jinyang of 51.4 48.6 36.8 26.3 31.6 5.3 0.0 County Liangshan Butuo County 67.7 32.3 4.8 14.3 66.6 14.3 0.0 Total 77.8 22.2 10.3 36.9 46.3 6.4 0.0 Tianshui Zhangjiachuan 80.8 19.2 8.5 50.8 30.5 10.2 0.0 City County Gulang Wuwei City 83.3 16.7 2.9 14.3 82.8 0.0 0.0 County Weiyuan 85.7 14.3 11.1 61.1 27.8 0.0 0.0 County Minxian Dingxi City 58.3 41.7 0.0 42.9 42.9 14.2 0.0 County Anding Gansu 100.0 0.0 0.0 63.6 27.3 9.1 0.0 District Province Qingyang Huanxian 85.5 14.5 1.4 12.5 76.4 9.7 0.0 City County Dongxiang 78.9 21.1 0.0 13.3 86.7 0.0 0.0 Linxia County Preecture Yongjing 95.8 4.2 0.0 8.7 84.8 6.5 0.0 County Pingliang Jingning 91.4 8.6 3.1 28.1 65.7 3.1 0.0 City County Total 86.0 14.0 3.3 28.4 61.8 6.5 0.0 Total 85.4 14.6 11.1 30.4 53.1 5.4 0.0 Source: Questionnaire survey data 137    (2) Supportive Attitudes towards Project Construction Statistics shows that 95.8% of surveyed poverty group are supportive for the project construction, with support rates of 99.3%, 95.0% and 94.8% respectively in Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province and Gansu Province. When asked about “Are you willing to coordinate the government with the project implementation?”, 93.7% of surveyed poverty group have expressed their consent to cooperate with related departments, with support rates of 96.0%, 93.1% and 93.1% respectively in Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province and Gansu Province. When interviewed, the poverty group said the project was good for them which could bring many benefits, increase their incomes and help them out of poverty, and they also expressed their support for the project construction, in the hope that the project can be implemented as soon as possible. Table 5-9 Poor Households’ Supportive Attitudes towards the Project Are You Willing to Coordinate the Do You Support the Government with the Project Region Project? (%) Implementation? (%) Yes No Indifferent Yes No Indifferent Unaware Dafang 100.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Bijie City County Zhijin County 100.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Tongzi Guizhou 100.0 0.0 0.0 80.0 20.0 0.0 0.0 County Province Zunyi City Xishui County 100.0 0.0 0.0 96.7 3.3 0.0 0.0 Chishui 97.7 0.0 2.3 95.5 0.0 0.0 4.5 County Total 99.3 0.0 0.7 96.0 2.7 0.0 1.3 Gulin County 100.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 Luzhou City Xuyong 100.0 0.0 0.0 93.8 0.0 6.3 0.0 County Zhaojue Yi 100.0 0.0 0.0 98.4 0.0 1.6 0.0 Sichuan County Autonomous Province Meigu County 100.0 0.0 0.0 98.6 1.4 0.0 0.0 Prefecture Jinyang of 64.9 2.7 32.4 64.9 2.7 32.4 0.0 County Liangshan Butuo County 100.0 0.0 0.0 96.8 3.2 0.0 0.0 Total 95.0 0.4 4.6 93.1 1.2 5.7 0.0 Tianshui Zhangjiachuan 86.3 0.0 13.7 86.3 0.0 8.2 5.5 City County Gulang Wuwei City 100.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 County Gansu Weiyuan Province 100.0 0.0 0.0 85.7 14.3 0.0 0.0 County Dingxi City Minxian 83.3 0.0 16.7 75.0 8.3 16.7 0.0 County Anding 100.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 138    District Qingyang Huanxian 100.0 0.0 0.0 100.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 City County Dongxiang 82.4 0.0 15.8 89.4 5.3 5.3 0.0 Linxia County Preecture Yongjing 97.9 2.1 0.0 95.8 0.0 2.1 2.1 County Pingliang Jingning 94.2 2.9 2.9 88.6 11.4 0.0 0.0 City County Total 94.8 0.6 4.6 93.1 2.3 2.9 1.7 Total 95.8 0.4 3.8 93.7 2.0 3.3 1.1 Source: Questionnaire survey data  Mr. Jia from Sanyou Village, Yanjia Township, Zhangjiachuan County, Gansu Province  We are very supportive for the project because it can bring us civilians a lot of benefits, and help us raising cattle. We all like to breed cattle, and the project can help us become rich. We’re expecting it. 5.3.2. POOR HOUSEHOLDS’ DEMANDS FOR THE PROJECT In the field surveys, the editorial team has an in-depth knowledge of poverty group’s opinions of the project’s influence on them via talks and interviews. Most of poor households have showed great interest in the project, and considered it as a good opportunity to get rid of poverty and become rich. Through deep understanding and analysis, poverty group’s demands for the project in project villages of three provinces are as follows: (1) Demands for Participating in the Cooperative 1) Demands for participating in the cooperative. Statistics show that 67.5% of surveyed poverty group haven’t participated in the cooperative. On the one hand, it is because many villages don’t have cooperative; on the other hand, some cooperatives have critical requirements for rural households to join in, some of which even demands them to buy a share, therefore, although the poverty group are willing to join in the cooperative, they are unable to due to these requirements. 95.3% of poverty group who haven’t joined in the cooperative express their willingness to participate in the cooperative. When they have seen that the cooperative has brought practical and visible benefits to villagers at or around the local village, they show strong interest in participating in the cooperative. 2) Hope the cooperative can play a leading role. Compared with the rich and influential households and ordinary rural households, poor households are less capable of aiming at the market information and resisting risks, which renders them in a disadvantageous position in the process of production and sale. Led by the rich and influential households, the cooperative unites the single-operating poor households together, to achieve common prosperity. According to the interviews and discussions, for those poor households who have joined in the cooperative, they hope the cooperative can provide them with agricultural production materials in a low price, help them to broaden the marketing channels for products, and update effective market information in a timely manner. 139     President Wang from Jingsheng Cooperative, Chenghao Village, Wujiao Township, Huachi County, Gansu Province:  On the foundation of the cooperative on Octomber, I thought the cooperative could unite rural households together to resist market risks; villagers can sell sheep at home, and don’t have to worry about the market. Farmers have a high positivity to join in the copperative, and they are all the villagers from this village. When people have seen other cooperatives have brought benefits to the members, they are willing to join in the cooperative. Poor households, in particular, hope the cooperative can help them to sell sheep. (2) Demands for Job Opportunities 1) Demands for jobs during the project construction. In the period of project construction, such as the cooperative construction, market facilities, road construction, etc., some unskilled jobs will be provided, and during the interviews, it is found that poverty group hope to get these jobs. By communicating with the project office, 30% of the unskilled jobs will be preferentially offered to the disadvantaged groups such as poor households and women during the project construction. 2) Demands for jobs after the completion of the project. When the project construction has completed, especially after the establishment of the cooperative, some long-term and stable jobs as well as short-term and temporary jobs will be provided, 30% of which will be preferentially offered to the disadvantaged groups such as poor households and women. For example, in the cooperative base for sheep raising, long-term employees are needed to process forage, and put in the feed; in the cooperative for apple industry, employees are needed to transfer and pack apples. Trained poor households are definitely competent to these jobs which don’t have high requirements for employees’ comprehensive quality. It is thus clear that poor families in the project area will increase their economic incomes via these jobs provided directly during the project construction and operation.  Mrs. Sun from Shangguanzhuang Village, Yongzheng Township, Zhengning County, Gansu Province:  I grow apple trees, and our village develops apple industry. After joining in the cooperative, when purchasing apples the cooperative would hire the idle labor force in our village. Women in poor households like us would take the job when we are not busy. They’ll pay us a few dozen yuan a day for sorting and packing apples. If jobs can be provided during the project construction, we’re very pleased to take the jobs. (3) Demands for Technical Trainings 1) Technical trainings for production management. In the field surveys, it is learned that due to poor economic conditions, impoverished people have less opportunities to accept education than ordinary families, thus their degrees of education are low. Survey results show that most of poverty group have the primary school education (44.3%) or junior high school education (35.0%). Due to their low educational levels, poverty group have relatively poor ability to learn and accept new things. Compared with ordinary rural households, poor households have old-fashioned mode of production and management, with insufficient mastery of production management technology. According to the interviews, it is learned that poverty group hope to adopt “hierarchy training system”, with regular or irregular trainings of experts from scientific research institutions and institutions of higher learning every year and trainings organized by local counties and cities, related companies, and local experts. There are mainly three kinds of trainings in the project area: the meeting lectures, issuing materials, and on-site instructions. Relevant personnel will study in the meeting, and then go down to the “fields” of villages to instruct farmers to 140    practice, which is the popular way of training in the poverty group. Poverty group hopes to receive trainings on sowing and seeding, crop cultivation and field management, disease prevention and control, farming and breeding and breed improvement, forage planting and allocation, to improve current mode of production and management and increase productivity of agricultural and pasture products. 2) Trainings on employability skills. In the field surveys, it is found that some poor people can find a job because of the lack of employability skills, so they hope they can get trainings and jobs via the project. Therefore, it is necessary to give trainings to those poor labor forces who have demands for trainings and jobs and are willing to start business, so that they can master a professional skill and obtain stable employment. Through greater effort on intelligent poverty reduction and full improvement of rural labor’s comprehensive quality, the project creates conditions for poor households to work outside and seek jobs. In terms of technical trainings, with the goal of meeting the job qualifications, trainings on basic skills and regulations for technical operations should be given to impoverished people in accordance with various industries, types of work, and jobs. 3) Trainings on Chinese mandarin. In the field visits, the investigators found that some poor households, especially poor households in ethnic minority regions, couldn’t speak and understand Chinese mandarin, and even the village cadres could also feel difficult to introduce the situation of the village and answer questions to the research group in Chinese mandarin. For example, in Wazi Village, Saladipo Township, Zhaojue County, Sichuan Province, the research group could only communicate with the chief and villagers with the help of an interpreter. Some poor households couldn’t understand Chinese mandarin, which was bad for their technical trainings on production and management and job trainings. In addition, for some poor households who seek jobs outside, they thought their ignorance of Chinese mandarin was a great obstacle to seek a job, and wanted very much to have trainings on Chinese mandarin. Questionnaire survey shows that 80.1% of poor households can’t speak Chinese mandarin, while 60.1% of them think that it will bring inconvenience to them when working outside; 80.8% of poor households think it is “very necessary” or “necessary” to have trainings on Chinese mandarin. (4) Demands for Improving Infrastructure Project villages are basically located in mountain and plateau section with relatively poor natural conditions, which requires higher construction cost for infrastructure, and is lack of road irrigation and necessary infrastructures for the development of other industries. Poor households have a profound experience in backward infrastructure in the villages such roads and irrigation. Almost all the villagers in the surveyed villages revealed that the backward infrastructure of the villages was the pivotal cause of poverty, and they also expressed their strong willingness that the project could help them to improve the infrastructure of the villages. They said they didn’t have money, but they could offer their labor. 1) Demands for improving traffic condition. In the project villages, especially in the mountainous rural areas, inconvenient transportation has always been one of the important factors of restricting the development of local economy, which is also the problem that rural households have reported and complained the most. For some project villages, they have insufficient accessibility to production roads and motor roads. Some roads in some villages and groups are so narrow that even vehicles in a small size can’t pass through. In addition, most of the existing roads haven’t been strengthened with sands, thus it is very difficult for poor households to work at fields and transport agricultural products. For instance, the villager from Wazi Village, Jiefang Township, Zhaojue County, revealed that vendors will not come into the village to purchase sheep because of the poor quality of the village 141    roads. It will take villagers more than two hours to the nearest market to sell the sheep, and in the rainy season, they cann’t sell sheep because the roads haven’t been strengthen with sands, and will become muddy. 2) Demands for improving irrigation and water facilities. In the field surveys, it is found that most villages in the project area don’t have irrigation equipment, especially in Mawa Village, Gaozhai Village, Gesi Village of Gansu Province. Due to the shortage of irrigation equipment, agricultural harvest totally depends on the weather. For some sections of developing stock farming, drinking water of livestock in dry season is a problem because poor households are lack of funds to build water cellar. In addition, there exist such problems as water shortage in dry season and in peak time, poor water facilities for human and animal use, insufficient irrigation facilities in some project villages such as Haiba Village and Bijiao Village in Guizhou Province. In Yulin Village, Tongxin Village, Tianba Village, Tangjiawuji Village and Yantang Village of Sichuan Province, irrigation and water facilities are lacking, thus there exists water shortage for irrigation and domestic use. They hope to build water cellar to effectively ensure human and animal drinking water, and at the same time, to lessen the water shortage of the crop production to some extent. (5) Demands for Loans In the field surveys, it is found that the problem reported the most by the poor households is short of money. Insufficient start-up capital greatly limits the development of the poor households. Although some places in the project area have implemented the loan projects, such as loans from China Development Bank, many poor households can’t obtain the loans because of limited loans and critical requirements for debit sides. Poor households hope urgently that the project can provide them with some loans, so that they can have sufficient funds to participate in the cooperative and to purchase production materials.  Mr. Gao (44 years old) from Shitan Village, Biyu Township, Tongwei County, Gansu Province  I’ve raised two heads of cattle with one cow and a newly-born calf. Raising cattle is very profitable, but for the poor like us, we don’t have money to buy cattle. It costs 4000 yuan to buy a calf, even not that good calf, but we can’t afford it. Besides, the cowshed needs to be rebuilt, but we can do nothing about it without money. We have thought about the loans, but it’s very difficult. We hope the project can bring loans to the poor like us. 5.4 Beneficial Mechanism for Poverty Group The poverty group is the real subject of poverty alleviation and development. Whether the poverty reduction project has played a real effect depends primarily on to what extent poverty group participate in the project to obtain economic benefits and development opportunities. The project should attach particular importance to the essential problems, including how to promote poor households to participate, how to further strengthen their sense of ownership, how to improve their abilities to take active part in poverty reduction project, how to make poor rural households play principal role in poverty alleviation and development, and how to ensure the poverty group to obtain the greatest benefits. Therefore, we should guide the poor households to participate in the project construction, and realize their maximum benefits via participation mechanism, guidance and incentive mechanism, appealing and complaining mechanism and supervisory mechanism. (1) Participation Mechanism 142    Poverty alleviation project cannot receive expected effect without the participation of the impoverished people. Participation mechanism provides the poverty group with access to obtaining benefits and development. The quality and depth of their participation is of significance to the project implementation. The poverty group can benefit from the diversified, various and multi-stage participation. 1) Participation in the Cooperative A. The cooperative preparatory group. Preparation of the cooperative is the process of capacity building. Poor households need to participate in cooperative preparatory group as representatives. On the basis of communication and fully respecting the will of poor households, at least one poor household should be guaranteed in the group, so that they can fully participate in the preparation of the cooperative, through which the poor households in the project villages can have a better knowledge of the project, and communicate with each other to exchange and discuss their opinions and suggestions of the cooperative. B. Participating in and managing the cooperative. The project establishes the cooperative to provide the local villagers, especially the poverty group, with supports and services. Members should be registered in cards, to ensure the participation of the poor households. There need be also a certain proportion of poor households in the cooperative council, board of supervisors, and the members’ congress, and candidates are determined on the basis of communication and negotiation. In the representative conference of the cooperative, we should listen to poor households’ opinions and suggestions, make sure they can play a proper role when the cooperative makes important decisions and protect their interests. In this way, we can gradually improve farmers’ capacities of self-organizing, self-government and self-development. C. Agricultural materials services and technical exchange. Through this kind of profitable interaction, the cooperatives can establish a relatively close benefit mechanism to provide poor households with an affordable price when they buy fertilizers and pesticides, etc., in the cooperatives, to ensure their economic interests. Technical exchanges on production and management should be held inside the cooperative, and the rich and influential households can do demonstrations to the poor households. D. Job opportunities in the cooperative. After the cooperative has been set up, some long-term or temporary jobs are provided, and 30% of unskilled jobs of which the poor households are capable, will be preferentially offered to the poverty group. On the one hand, they can obtain some economic benefits, and increase the supply of interests; on the other hand, they can exchange information and study with each other, and develop and build their own capacities. 2) Participation in Industrial Development A. Participation in industrial chain. At present, under the existing conditions an overwhelming majority of poor households can only benefit from the initial industrial chain, which is the production phase. With the project implementation, it is essential to gradually deepen their benefits in the industrial chain. Poor households should take part in the production, storage, procession, transportation and packing as much as possible, and on the basis of fully respecting their wills, jobs should be preferentially offered to the poor households. B. Industrial preparations and planning. The project develops advantageous industries to help the poor households out of poverty, therefore, it should ensure poor households’ participation on the basis of fully respecting villagers’ wills, and instruct them to perform their subjective initiative. C. Industrial trainings. Compared with the rich and influential households, the poor households need to 143    further improve their skills on industrial production and management, therefore, it should concern about poverty group’s demands in the trainings, and ensure they can get effective training results in the way they can understand and comprehend. 3) Participation in the Project Construction It should be open, fair and transparent in project procurement, capital management and monitoring, so that the poor households can have a full knowledge of the project procedure and capital operation, to ensure their interests. (2) Guidance and Incentive Mechanism A. Mobilizing the community. To well mobilize and promote the community is the key of smooth implementation of the project. Only when the rural households, especially the poor households have a full understanding of the project will they completely participate, and then the cooperative can smoothly prepare to set up and operate. Only when the rural households fully participate will the cooperative be their own, which will improve democratic decision-making ability and operation efficiency of the cooperative. The poor households should be properly guided to participate in the cooperative, and be mobilized to create benefits actively. B. Education trainings. Through trainings on superior authorities of related departments, first-line managers, and villagers, “paternalism” should be eliminated, and democratic rights of the villagers especially the poor households should be fully respected. In addition, efforts should be made to guide the poor households to understand the project in a correct manner, and to improve their abilities to integrate in the project. (3) Appealing and Complaining Mechanism In the process of project preparation and implementation, as the direct shareholders and participants, the poverty group might come across some unforeseen problems and related experience and suggestions. In order to ensure their active and extensive participation, the project should establish transparent and effective channels for complaints and suggestions, to which they can resort when their interests are harmed. (4) Supervisory Mechanism As the important link to ensure the project to implement according to the project targets, supervisory mechanism can feed back problems existing in the project implementation in a timely manner, regulate cooperatives and enterprises, and balance the social, economic and cultural benefits generated by the project development. By supervising the whole process of the project and correcting the existing problems timely, the mechanism ensures the smooth implementation of the project, and guarantees the poverty group to obtain their due interests. In a word, as the core of the whole beneficial mechanism, poor households promote and implement the mechanisms, which are built around the interests of the poverty group. Guidance mechanism is the precondition of poverty group to participate in the project, the participation mechanism provides them the access to obtaining benefits and development, appealing and complaining mechanism is their guarantee, and supervisory mechanism the supplementary part. The four mechanisms interact with each other to guarantee the benefits of poverty group. 144    6 Social Gender Analysis 6.1 Women’s Development Status 6.1.1. WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT STATUS IN GUIZHOU PROVINCE, SICHUAN PROVINCE, GANSU PROVINCE (1) Women’s Population Distribution Guizhou Province: In 2012, women’s population in Guizhou Province is 16.785 million, accounting for 48.34% of the total population, and the male-female ratio is 106.89, which is at equilibrium. Female population of Yi nationality is 404,900, accounting for 1.17% of the total population; women’s population of Miao nationality is 1.9275 million, accounting for 5.55% of the total population; female population of non-identified people’s community is 292,700, accounting for 0.84%. Sichuan Province： In 2012, women’s population in Sichuan Province is 44.124 million, accounting for 48.50% of the total population, and the male-female ratio is 106.18, which is at equilibrium. In female population, women in cities and towns are 16.0268 million, accounting for 40.5% of total female population, while women in villages are 23.5629 million, accounting for 59.5% of total female population. Gansu Province： In 2012, women’s population in Gansu Province is 12.6068 million, accounting for 48.91% of the total population, and the male-female ratio is 104.46, which is at equilibrium. Among them, the total population of minority women is 1.5687 million, accounting for 6.09% of the total population. Table 6-1 Female Population Situation in Three Provinces Total Population (ten Female Population (ten Proportion Sex Province thousand) thousand) (%) Ratio Guizhou 3472.3 1678.5 48.34 106.89 Province Sichuan 9097.7 4412.4 48.50 106.18 Province Gansu Province 2577.6 1260.68 48.91 104.46 Source: Statistic yearbooks in Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province, and Gansu Province (2013) (2) Women Employment and Protection Guizhou Province： In 2012, female employees at divisions of non-private institutions in cities and towns of Guizhou Province accounts for 32.5% of total employees, among which female employees in Prefecture-owned units accounts for 33.95% of total employees in Prefecture-owned units, female employees in collective-owned units account for 27.39% of the total employees in collective-owned units, while female employees in other units account for 29.26% of the total employees. Sichuan Province： In 2012, the number of female employees at divisions of non-private institutions in cities and towns of Sichuan Province is 2.166 million. Among them, the number of female employees in Prefecture-owned units is 1.305 million, accounting for 60.25% of the total employees in 145    Prefecture-owned units; the population of female employees in collective-owned units is 91,000, accounting for 4.20% of total employees in collective-owned units; the number of female employees in other units is 770,000, accounting for 35.55% of the total employees. Gansu Province： In 2012, the number of female employees at divisions of non-private institutions in cities and towns of Gansu Province is 932,300, among which the number of female employees in Prefecture-owned units is 703,900, the population of female employees in collective-owned units is 34,900, and the number of female employees in other units is 193,500. Tale 6-2 Female Employment Status in Three Provinces Industry Category Prefecture-owned Units Collective-owned Units Other Units Total Guizhou Province 592591 18675 257783 869049 Sichuan Province 1305000 91000 770000 2166000 Gansu Province 703899 34938 193460 932297 Data sources：Statistic yearbooks in Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province, and Gansu Province (2013) (3) Female Educational Background According to Guizhou Statistic Yearbook -2013, Sichuan Statistic Yearbook -2013, Gansu Statistic Yearbook -2013, female educational backgrounds at school are classified as elementary school, junior high school, high school, secondary vocational education, regular higher education, and the number are shown in the following table. Table 6-3 Female Educational Backgrounds in Three Provinces Educational Regular Higher Secondary Vocational High Junior High Elementary Backgrounds Education Education School School School Guizhou Province 201277 199383 377426 1010120 1775234 Sichuan Province 632044 645977 768176 1458022 2661628 Gansu Province 316972 205870 322865 573091 1002059 Source：Statistic yearbooks in Guizhou Province, Sichuan Province, and Gansu Province (2013) 6.1.2. WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT STATUS IN PROJECT AREA In order to have a knowledge of female development status in project counties, questionnaires and interviews are conducted to the women in field surveys, in which 719 respondents of questionnaire survey are females, accounting for 47.71% of the total respondents. (1) Age Structure. From the overall age distribution of the survey sample, it shows that the age group of 30 to 59 years old accounts for the largest population, with 80.7% males and 82.8% females. In the sample distribution of female population, age group of 30 to 59 years old has the largest share of the population, followed by the age group under 30 years old. Table 6-4 Fact Sheet on Gender and Age of Survey Sample Male Female Total Age Number Percentage Number Percentage Number Percentage (%） (%） (%） Under the age of 30 89 11.3 80 11.1 169 11.2 146    30 to 59 years old 636 80.7 595 82.8 1231 81.7 60 years old or above 63 8.0 44 6.1 107 7.1 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1507 copies of valid questionnaires (2) Educational Background. As shown in the table below, 52.4% of women are primary educational level and illiterate, which is higher than the sum of male proportion; however, on the whole women’s educational level is lower than men’s. Table 6-5 Male and Female Educational Background in Survey Sample Males Females Total Educational Background Number Percentage Number Percentage (%） Number Percentage (%） (%） Junior college and above 24 3.0 53 7.4 77 5.1 Senior high school/technical 9.6 7.4 129 8.6 76 53 secondary school Junior high school 354 44.9 236 32.8 590 39.2 Elementary school 291 36.9 321 44.6 612 40.6 Illiteracy 43 5.5 56 7.8 99 6.6 Source：Questionnaire survey data, with 1507 copies of valid questionnaires (3) Occupational Structure. According to the sampling survey, it shows that the overwhelming majority of surveyed women are farmers, accounting for 89.2%, and few women choose to work outside, with the proportion of 7.8%. Little disparity exists between men and women. Table 6-6 Male and Female Occupational Structure in Survey Sample Males Females Total Occupation Number Percentage (%） Number Percentage (%） Number Percentage (%） Farmers 667 84.6 641 89.2 1308 86.8 Migrant workers 101 12.8 56 7.8 157 10.4 Self-employed 1.4 0.8 17 1.1 11 6 entrepreneurs Civil servants/staff 0 0.1 1 0.1 in public 0 1 institutions Freelancers 3 0.4 6 0.8 9 0.6 Employees in 4 0.5 2 0.3 6 0.4 enterprise Housewives 0 0 7 1.0 7 0.5 Students 1 0.1 0 0 1 0.1 Others 1 0.1 0 0 1 0.1 Source：Questionnaire survey data, with 1507 copies of valid questionnaires (4) Composition of Income. According to the sampling survey, it shows that males and females with 380 to 1000 yuan monthly incomes have the largest share of the population, accounting for 35.3% 147    and 43.7% respectively; the proportion of female monthly income of 380 yuan and below is 28.8%, which is lower than male (31.1%); females with monthly income of 1000 yuan and above account for 72.5%, which is higher than the males (66.4%). On the whole, surveyed men and women have low monthly incomes. Table 6-7 Male and Female Composition of Income in Survey Sample Males Females Total Monthly Income Number Percentage (%） Number Percentage (%） Number Percentage (%） ≤380 yuan 245 31.1 207 28.8 452 30.0 380-1000 yuan 278 35.3 314 43.7 592 39.3 1000-2000 yuan 207 26.3 158 22.0 365 24.2 2000-3000 yuan 45 5.7 32 4.5 77 5.1 3000-4000 yuan 4 0.5 4 0.6 8 0.5 4000-5000 yuan 3 0.4 3 0.4 6 0.4 5000-10000 yuan 3 0.4 0 0 3 0.2 ≥10000 yuan 3 0.4 1 0.1 4 0.3 Source：Questionnaire survey data, with 1507 copies of valid questionnaires 6.1.3. WOMEN’S DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES IN PROJECT AREA In the planning of the women’s development, three provinces have made development plan (2011-2020). Meanwhile, the Women’s Federation in three provinces has also carried out a series of women’s development activities to help women from various aspects, including: (1) Petty Loans for Women. The project aims to help women start their own business; help eligible urban and rural women apply for small-sum guaranteed loans, and implement finance discount policy of small-sum guaranteed loans in which loan limit is 50,000 yuan with a maximum amount of 80,000 yuan and two-year repayment period, to solve the financial difficulties of the women’s entrepreneurship and employment. (2) Employment and Re-employment. Led by Women’s Federation, employment recruitment activities are promoted to help the rural female surplus labor force, returning female migrant workers, unemployed women in cities and towns, female college graduates to get employed. In general, united with People Club Bureau, Agricultural Bureau, Poverty Alleviation Office, the Women’s Federation carries out female career trainings, including trainings on housekeeping, cuisine, lactagogue, confinement-caring, etc. (3) Carrying out Trainings on Agricultural Skills. United with Agricultural Bureau and Animal Husbandry Bureau, the Women’s Federation conducts trainings on agricultural skills, among which “Splendid Plans” held by small and middle-sized enterprise, mainly gives aid to the production of handicrafts made by rural women, including embroidery, wax printing, production bags, etc. Besides, the project also help grow economic crops such as Chinese medicinal herbs and potatoes, and scientifically breed farm animals such as cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens. (4) General Survey on Gynaecological Diseases (General Survey on “Two Cancers” of Rural 148    Women). General checks on cervical cancer and breast cancer are conducted to women from poor families, and financial aids are provided to eligible women (10,000 yuan per person), which exerts greatly positive impact on family burden alleviation and disease treatment. (5) Construction of Water Cellars. The project helps women get rid of poverty and backwardness caused by water shortage. In project area, the problem of water shortage brings women life burdens and diseases, and women have shoulders heavy life responsibilities several times of the normal circumstances. The project helps build concrete water cellars to store water, and repair damaged water cellars. The activities alleviate the water shortage situation for women in the project area, and improve their life quality. (6) Trainings on Legal Knowledge. To enhance women’s legal consciousness, the Women’s Federation in the project area carries out related trainings, mainly in two forms: one is to send out publicity materials, and instruct women to read; the other is to hold on-site trainings, in which experts are invited to give trainings to women in a more perceptual way. Efforts are made to improve women’s awareness and ability to study, abide by and practice the law, to help women solve problems when their rights are prejudiced via providing quality and convenient legal aids. 6.2 Analysis of Women’s Cooperative 6.2.1. GENERAL SITUATION OF WOMEN’S COOPERATIVE There are few cooperatives launched by women in the project area. Through field visits, the editorial team learned that Saishidai Chinese Medicinal Herbs Planting Professional Cooperative in Bijiao Village, Dafang County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province is the only cooperative started by women, therefore, analysis of the cooperative would be made to have knowledge of the basic situation, advantages and existing problems in the women’s cooperative. (1) Basic Situation a. Saishidai Chinese Medicinal Herbs Planting Professional Cooperative was established by five women of Bai nationality, Yi nationality and Han nationality in June 2012 with the registered capital of 500,000 yuan. It has grown radix pseudostellariae for one year before it was officially established. Chinese medicinal herbs planted now in the cooperative are registered as “Saishidai”. b. Reasons of Establishment: the head of the cooperative took care of the family at home before, and did business which rendered her some market and development awareness. Later, she heard that planting radix pseudostellariae brought dozens of benefits than growing corns and beans; to expand the planting scale, she called on four like-minded friends to establish the professional cooperative, the main business of which includes Chinese medicinal herbs planting, seedlings cultivation, processing raw products, storage, transportation and sales, etc. c. Women’s participation. 1) all five administrative staff in the cooperative are female, who have detailed divisions of work and remain general cooperation in the process of production, purchasing and marketing of the Chinese medicinal herbs; 2) among 46 cooperative members, 43 are female, accounting for 93.48%; 3) working at the cooperative: the cooperative needs around 30 workers on average and more than 100 workers at peak time every day, most of whom are female, and male 149    workers are needed only when turning the soil with the wages of 50 to 100 yuan a day; 4) when working at the cooperative, workers can learn techniques on Chinese medicinal planting and field management. (2) Women as Masters at the Cooperative Compared with other cooperatives, Saishidai Chinese Medicinal Herbs Planting Professional Cooperative is started by women, and its administrative staff and members are mostly female, which is the result of: 1) the head of the cooperative did business outside and had a sense of market and business, as well as a certain economic basis; 2) in the field interviews, interviewed villagers revealed that they trusted their female leaders, who had certain prestige and had earned great trust among villagers; 3) support from primary-level organization; the relatives of the female leader were members of the village committee who were familiar to the procedure of the foundation and registration of cooperative, which rendered external support for the establishment of the cooperative; 4) government support; after the interview with Bijie Women’s Federation, it was learned that special support and care was rendered to the women’s cooperative in the project area, including the special support form Agricultural Bureau, Women’s Federation and the government, to create a good policy environment for the smooth development of the women’s cooperative; 5) in Bijiao Village, 50% of male young adults were working outside, and men took less part in agricultural production; 6) due to a shortage of labor force, the cooperative was an effective and convenient way to achieve mutual help among women. (3) Analysis of Strengths and Weaknesses of Women’s Cooperative Women’s cooperative is established in certain social, community and individual background, which is the product of their combined action. Through interviewing the cooperative heads, cooperative members and non-members, it is found several strengths and weaknesses in the cooperative operating process as follows. a. Strengths: 1) to provide women with local employment opportunities: rural unmarried women are mostly migrant workers, while most married women stay at home to take care for the elder and children, and have no additional source of incomes; women’s cooperative attracts the participation of most women, especially the married women, and provides them with jobs, increases their economic incomes, and improves their social status; 2) women’s cooperative is relatively stable: as women have a relatively strong sense of responsibility and credibility, women’s cooperative is strongly stable, and high integrity and credibility, with easily united and separated female labor force, helps women’s cooperative to expand the markets of agricultural products; 3) adapted to the characteristics of scattered rural female labor force and low labor skills: in terms of production and processing, women’s cooperative has low technical requirements and high flexibility of time, so that women can choose idle time or adjust their housekeeping time according to the work time to finish their jobs, besides, as it has relatively low technical requirements in production and roughly processing for farming and breeding industries, women can participate in without training or much training; 4) to cultivate a batch of professional technical personnel of Chinese medicinal herbs planting and field management, and to promote the adjustment of local industrial structure and the development of agricultural industrialization. b. Weaknesses: 1) due to the influence of traditional concepts, female leaders are usually in a weak position in marketing development, and have certain constraints in the ability and scope of social interaction; 2) in the project area, women’s educational level is generally low, and with the development 150    of the cooperative, their current knowledge is insufficient to support the cooperative to keep on developing, so it needs to strengthen the education and trainings of the cooperative heads to enhance the capacity of sustainable development; 3) there is some hysteretic nature in women to learn advanced technologies and management knowledge. 6.2.2. WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN THE COOPERATIVE (1) Women in Administrative Level of the Cooperative The editorial team has conducted field surveys on 40 rural professional cooperatives and associations, of which cooperatives without women in administrative level are 21, accounting for 52.5%. Thereinto, Gansu Province accounts for the highest proportion with 65.38%, that is to say, 17 of 26 professional cooperatives don’t have women in management; followed by Sichuan Province with 37.5%; Guzhou Province with 16.67% accounts for the lowest proportion. According to field investigations, there are 297 administrative staff in 40 professional farmer cooperative, with 7.42 on average for each cooperative, among which female administrators are 37, accounting for 12.46%. Among them, professional farmer cooperative in Guizhou Province have the highest share of female administrators with 27.94%, while Sichuan Province and Gansu Province have the similar proportion, with 8.45% and 7.59% respectively. Statistics show that women have a low share of administrators in professional farmer cooperative, and their role in cooperative management is restricted and women’s participation in the cooperative is not guaranteed, thus the project implementation need to focus on women’s participation in the administrative level of the cooperatives. Table 6-8 Women’s Participation in the Administrative Level of the Cooperatives Number of Number Number of Number of Cooperative Percentage of Percentage Province Administrative Cooperatives Without Female (%) Women (%) Staff (Person) Administrators (Person) Guizhou 6 1 16.67 68 19 27.94 Province Sichuan 8 3 37.50 71 6 8.45 Province Gansu 26 17 65.38 158 12 7.59 Province Total 40 21 52.50 297 37 12.46 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 40 copies of valid sample According to the field interviews, it is learned that in cooperatives with female administrators, two cooperatives have women as the legal person, which are respectively Saishidai Chinese Medicinal Herbs Planting Professional Cooperative in Bijiao Village, Dafang Counrty, Bijie City, Guizhou Province, and Hengtong Fruit Rural Professional Cooperative in Shangguanzhuang Village, Zhengning County, Qingyang City, Gansu Province; there is only one cooperative with femal president of cooperative council, which is Saishidai Chinese Medicinal Herbs Planting Professional Cooperative in Bijiao Village, Dafang County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province; in other well operating cooperatives, women work mostly as accountant, cashier, and office clerk to do paper work and receive visitors; in most cooperatives, 151    women only have a position, but don’t do the real work; industrial market development and technical trainings are mostly charged by men. (2) Female Cooperative Members According to field surveys, it is learned that some cooperative members are based on the household, and although there is no special provisions for the registered gender in cooperative members, that is to say, both men and women can be registered as a cooperative member, in fact, head of the household generally signs the agreement of the cooperative, who are normally male, such as the husband or the father-in-law (husband’s father), and few women signs the agreement; women of these households in the cooperatives participate mainly in cooperative trainings, working in production base, and sales of agricultural products, but from the field interviews, it is learned that in this kind of professional cooperatives, it is men or joined by women who frequently participate in the cooperative activities, in which women have less say and low degree of participation. In cooperatives based on individuals, the proportion of female members is low, such as in Xinyuan Breeding Professional Cooperative of Zhangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County, Tianshui City, Gansu Province, 9 of 69 cooperative members are women, accounting for 13.4%. In this cooperative, women mainly receive technical trainings on cultivation, management, epidemic prevention and treatment, and sell the cattle via the cooperative. The interviewed villagers reported that at the early period of the cooperative, female members usually showed little interest, but with the gradually development of the cooperative, women gradually realized the importance of the cooperative, and showed increasing interest and participation ability, therefore, women played an important role in the domestic industry development, and made great contributions to family economic incomes, and thus their social and family status was improved. In addition, by participating in the cooperative, women could learn more market information from outside, which widened their field of vision, promoted the development of women’s comprehensive quality, and enhanced their self-development ability. 6.2.3. WOMEN’S PERCEPTION AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS PROFESSIONAL FARMER COOPERATIVE (1) Women’s Knowledge of the Cooperatives Social and economic surveys show that 7.8% of women are quite known about professional farmer cooperative, 22.3% are known, 48% are know a little, while 20.3% and 1.7% are respectively not know too much and unknown. Statistics show that women have a better knowledge of professional farmer cooperative. Compared with men, there is no significant distinction from women, with 30.1% of women and 29.4% quite known or known about professional farmer cooperative, which shows not much difference between the two. However, women’s knowledge of professional farmer cooperative doesn’t play a directly decisive role in their less participation in the cooperatives. In field interviews, it is learned that women account for low degree of participation, mainly caused by traditional intra-household labor division and the traditional gender concept that men played the key role in the society while women were confined to the family chores, which requires women to shoulder more family chores, therefore, when women have too much activities outside the family, they tend to have less time for housework, which is prone to dissatisfying their husband or other family members. Table 6-9 Women’s Knowledge of Professional farmer cooperative (%) 152    Sex Quite Known Known Known A Little Not Known Too Much Unknown Male 5.2 24.2 47.0 21.7 1.9 Female 7.8 22.3 48.0 20.3 1.7 Total 6.4 23.3 47.4 21.0 1.8 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1507 copies of valid questionnaires (2) Women’s Supportive Attitudes towards the Cooperative In the women’s personal interviews and women forums, surveyed women generally revealed that they were supportive for the project construction, and hoped the cooperative could promote industrial development, broaden income sources, and improve the level of incomes. Statistics show that 47.8% of women are quite favorable to professional farmer cooperative, 47.8% are favorable to the establishment of cooperatives, while 3.8% and 0.6% are respectively with indifferent and disapproval attitudes. It is shown that women are very supportive for the construction of professional farmer cooperatives. There is no significant difference between male and female attitudes, with 95.7% of men and 95.6% of women who are quite favorable or favorable to professional farmer cooperatives. Table 6-10 Women’s Supportive Attitudes towards Professional Farmer Cooperative（%） Sex Quite favorable Favorable Indifferent Disapproving Deeply disapproving Male 48.6 47.1 3.4 0.8 0.1 Female 47.8 47.8 3.8 0.6 0.0 Total 48.2 47.4 3.6 0.7 0.1 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1507 copies of valid questionnaires (3) Women’s Willingness to Participating in the Cooperative Questionnaire surveys show 95.5% of women are willing to participate in the cooperative, while 4.5% are unwilling, and men show nearly the same proportion as women in the two aspects. Statistics suggest that in terms of participating willingness, women and men are both strongly willing to participating in the cooperative. Table 6-11 Women’s Willingness to Participating in the Cooperative Willing Unwilling Sex Number Percentage (%) Number Percentage (%) Male 675 95.7 30 4.3 Female 595 95.5 28 4.5 Total 1270 95.6 58 4.4 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1507 copies of valid questionnaires (4) Women’s Awareness and Demands for the Cooperative Trainings Social economic surveys show that 59.8% of women think it is very necessary that professional farmer cooperatives provide trainings, 34.1% consider is necessary, 5.4% think it indifferent, while 0.7% and 0% think it unnecessary and quite unnecessary respectively, which suggest that women have strong demands for trainings from professional farmer cooperatives. Women show slightly higher desire for trainings than men. 153    Table 6-12 Women’s Awareness of Professional Farmer Cooperative Trainings（%） Sex Very Necessary Necessary Indifferent Unnecessary Quite Unnecessary Male 58.1 34.5 6 1.3 0.1 Female 59.8 34.1 5.4 0.7 0.0 Total 58.9 34.3 5.7 1.0 0.1 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1507 copies of valid questionnaires 6.3 Influence of the Project on Women 6.3.1. POSITIVE INFLUENCE OF THE PROJECT (1) To Alleviate Women’s Burden, and Increase Women’s Incomes The establishment of the cooperative in the project has a positive effect on liberation of female labor force. First of all, working collectively improves the efficiency of labor. According to the field surveys, in the project area without cooperatives, women from several households help each other at busy farming season, which can effectively improve the work efficiency. In project villages, some labor force is migrated out of home, causing the labor shortage at home, therefore, the cooperative unites female labor force together to make up for the lack of labor force. Secondly, they can obtain more incomes by becoming a shareholder of the cooperative and working at the cooperative. According to the questionnaire surveys, it is learned that 224 women participate in one cooperative, 7 participate in two cooperatives, while one participates in two or more cooperatives. 95.51% of women who haven’t joined in the cooperatives are willing to participating in the cooperative, while 4.49% are unwilling to because of the high standards of participating requirements. Women can participate in the cooperative by becoming a shareholder, and obtain incomes in the form of dividend. In addition, women can work for the cooperatives at slack season, paid by day or working load. The field surveys reveal that in villages with cooperatives of the project area, women can get wages from 80 yuan to 100 yuan in the cooperative. Women are basically engaged in work requiring low labor intensity and high flexibility, such as stringing codonopsis pilosula, sweeping the livestock and poultry housing, cleaning and classifying gastrodia. For women, they make use of their leisure time to expand economic sources. Thirdly, infrastructure is built in the project area to reduce women’s labor intensity. Through building the infrastructure, it provides convenience for involved farming and breeding industries. For example, the construction of production shortcuts improve the working environment, and reduce women’s efforts of irrigation, fertilization and harvest. (2) Women’s Ability to Be Developed Women take deep part in the project by attending trainings on agricultural skills and management skills. On the one hand, trainings on labor skills enable to improve women’s abilities of scientific farming and breeding, to increase the output of agricultural and pasture products and reduce the plant diseases and insect pests and epidemic diseases via changing the traditional farming and breeding way. Questionnaire surveys show that 66.47% of total female samples hope they are able to get industrial technical trainings on agriculture and farming and breeding; 19.5% hope to get trainings on market information; 6.35% hope to have trainings on the cooperative management and the articles of association; 7.53% hope to have trainings on project promotion; through attending trainings on cooperative management, women can learn management knowledge and improve their management awareness. Women play a key and advantageous 154    role in the process of cooperative operation, proposes women’s demands, and leads women in the project village to improve their status in the cooperative. According to the field survey by social assessment team, women in the project area have high demands for the project, and interviewed women also expreesed their wishes that the project could bring new planting and breeding technologies. Some women said if technical and financial support were provided, they would like to establish the cooperative and encourage women in the village to achieve prosperity together.  Women’s Colloquia in Kezhai Village, Kezhai Township, Longxi County: 6 women have attended the meeting. About two-thirds of the village land is used for planting medicinal herbs, including mainly codonopsis pilosula, some astragalus membranaceus and scutellaria baicalensis. Women usually shoulder heavy burden because they need not only to take care of the field corps and medicinal herbs, but also to look after the elder and children, as well as family chores. When planting codonopsis pilosula, more labor force is needed, and because women are relatively skillful, most of the work is done by women, with the wage of 130-140 yuan per day, which is higher than men’s. Six women in the colloquia have planted Chinese medicinal herbs, some of whom have known the meaning and function of the cooperative. Some women also said that they wanted to set up the cooperative, but they couldn’t do that due to local water shortage and lack of capital investment. Other women also expressed their willingness to participating in the cooperative established by women, and thought it would brought more support and assistance to women. (3) To Improve Life Quality, and to Raise the Living Standard Through the implementation of the project, more economic incomes are obtained, which can improve the life in many aspects. Firstly, it can meet the demand of domestic materials. According to the field visits, the economic conditions in project villages are generally poor, and some rural households have poor infrastructure conditions. Questionnaire results show that 58.28% of women think the project is very important for the family, 35.05% of women think it is of significance to the family, 3.06% attach a little importance to the project, while only 3.62% deem the project is nor important or indifferent to the family. Secondly, it can alleviate family economic crisis. Betrothal gifts for weddings, attending schools and seeing doctors all need money. According to the surveys, some rural households become poor because they have to pay their children for college tuition, and some others are poor due to the high lobola. Via the project, the above situations are alleviated and reduced. Thirdly, via the project, women open their life circle, and are able to come into contact with the outside society and knowledge. Women can learn new things and get hold of new information, which can improve women’s life quality to a large extent.  Women’s Colloquia in Moci Village, Meisa Township, Butuo County: Six women of Yi nationality said that women of Yi nationality basically return home after getting married due to relatively poor natural condition, poor life and the influence of the traditional customs, thus the project exerts obvious influence on them. As there is a high lobola in Yi nationality, some families need to sell anything valuable to get married, and some even have to lower their original living standards, which leads to poverty. Women have high enthusiasm for the project because they think it can improve the status quo of their economic incomes. (4) To Improve Family Status and External Position While elevating their ability via the project, women can improve family status and expand their right to speak. First of all, women can improve their farming and breeding capacities via agricultural trainings, to increase family incomes. When women improve their consciousness and raise constructive suggestions, 155    their husband will change concept on women, and respect more women’s opinions, which promote family gender equality. Secondly, the improvement of their ability helps promote women’s status in the village. By participating in the cooperative management, women put forward suggestions for cooperative operation, to solve the existing problems in the cooperative. Furthermore, the project is likely to make the migrant men return home to develop characteristic industries, which exerts positive influence on the maintenance of family ties and women’s family burden.  Women’s Colloquia in the Cooperative of Wuzhu Town, Weiyuan County: Mrs. Yang, from Wuzhu Town Weiyuan County Dingxi City Gansu Province, 47 years old, Han nationality, with two person at home and two sons working outside. In 2012, she joined in Tianyuan Muge Farming and Breeding Professional Cooperative, with 10,000 yuan investment, and last year she got the dividend of 20,000 yuan. Now she has raised 4 sheep at home. Mrs. Yang said she has been confident to the future development of the cooperative, so she invested 10,000 yuan. She wanted to learn scientific technologies on farming and breeding. Doing farm work at home was laborious with insufficient labor force. There were 12 mu of land, 6 mu of which has transferred to relatives and neighbors for 1000 yuan. Mrs. Yang thought participating in the cooperative could increase incomes and alleviate burdens. After participating in the cooperative, she has learned new technologies, therefore her family status has been raised, and she has won her husband’s respect who has changed his attitudes. Her self-decision ability has relatively improved. Her suggestions and opinions for the cooperative operation and development have been basically adopted and solved. With more incomes, her life quality becomes better. 6.3.2. POTENTIAL RISKS IN THE PROJECT According to social economic surveys, and colloquium of Focus Group as well as seminars from different levels of institutions, it shows that although the project is beneficial to women, it also brings potential risks to women such as reducing or eliminating their benefits due to lack of sensibility to social gender difference in the process of project design, implementation and operation. Main risks are as follows: (1) Women’s Low Degree of Participation in the Cooperative 1) Women have low degree of participation in the cooperative administrative level, so that they are lack of right to make decisions: From women’s participation situation in the project area and the distribution of female administrators in the cooperatives, it is found that 21 of 40 cooperatives or associations don’t have female administrators, accounting for 52.5% of total cooperatives; furthermore, 37 of total 297 administrators in 40 cooperatives or associations are women, accounting for 12.46% of total administrators. In field visits, it is found that most presidents of cooperative council are men, and women work mainly as accountants and cashiers, who are lack of decision-making rights in the cooperative; on the whole, women account for low share of participation in cooperative management, and the dominant rights of the cooperative lie in the men. 2) Women take little part in the specific activities of the cooperative with low additional value of labor force: for instance, the overwhelming majority of women have joined in the cooperative in the name of her husband, while few are in their own names; furthermore, women are mainly engaged in such primary producing activities requiring less labor as crop picking, sorting, pruning, sealing plastic mulch, which is generally paid by days or working load, with the characteristics of: low technical requirements, 156    non-heavy manual work and little development potential. Women rarely participate in significant decision-makings and activities of the cooperative, for example, most members have joined in the cooperative on the basis of households; therefore, when the cooperative needs members to vote or raise suggestions, men in the family would participate, and women would attend only when males are out of home. Besides, even though women participate, they would never express their views and opinions at the meeting. As it is the householder who signs the agreement in the operation and practice of the cooperative, those who join in the cooperative, attend the meeting, and have trainings are almost all men. Although a small number of women take part in production, processing and sales, the cooperative will lay less positive social impact if women are not clearly encouraged to take an active part in the cooperative. (2) Women’s Awareness to the Cooperative and the Project Questionnaire survey shows that 10% and 36.1% of women are quite known and known about the project respectively, and 7.8% and 22.3% of women are quite known and known about the cooperative respectively, and the overall awareness level of men and women is low with little difference. Nevertheless, women present very high willingness and enthusiasm to support and participate in the cooperative, for example, 47.8% and 47.8% of women are quite favorable and favorable to the cooperative establishment respectively, and 95.5% of women are willing to join in the cooperative. There exists great contrast between women’s low awareness and their high participation enthusiasm. Field visits reveal that compared with men, women have little knowledge of the established cooperatives in the villages, and women in the villages which don’t have cooperatives have less knowledge of cooperatives, most of whom have never heard of it; as they have learned little about the cooperative and the project, women show less enthusiasm and interest in the cooperative, which presents great difference from women in female cooperatives. It is certain that some women have reported that they didn’t know how to participate in the cooperative and what they could do in the cooperative because they were not familiar with the cooperatives; after communicating with the editorial team, it is learned that women actually concern more about the opportunities and benefits that the project and the cooperatives would bring to them, such as working opportunities, participating in the cooperative management, obtaining incomes, etc., meanwhile, they also have some concerns about their shortage of techniques, capacities, and time. Therefore, women’s little knowledge of the cooperative and the project influences or imposes restrictions on to some extent women’s participation in the cooperative, which causes women to obtain less benefits than men does. 157    7 Analysis of Ethnic minorities The purpose of this part is to promote the public participation of the ethnic minorities, to identify the interaction between the minorities and the project, to avoid the social risks brought by the project to minorities, to identify the necessity of tailored development plan for ethnic minorities, so that the minorities can obtain better benefits from the project. The chapter focuses on the following issues: 1) general situation of ethnic minorities in the project are; 2) ethnic minorities’ participation situation in the project; 3) project impact on ethnic minorities; 4) to determine the necessity of the ethnic minorities development plan. 7.1 National Minorities Situation in the Project Area 7.1.1. DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION (1) Guizhou Province As a multi-ethnic province, Guizhou Province has 18 localized nationalities of Han, Miao, Buyi, Dong, Tujia, Yi, Gelao, Shui, Hui, Bai, Yao, Zhuang, She, Maonan, Man, Mongol, Mulao, and Qiang, with jurisdiction of 6 prefecture-level cities and 3 autonomous prefectures (Southwest Guizhou Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Southeast Guizhou Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, and South Guizhou Buyi and Miao Autonomous Prefecture), in which national autonomous areas account for 55.5% of the whole province. Statistics show that the total population of project services in project counties of Guizhou Province is 324,406, among which 293,836 are of Han nationality, accounting for 90.27%; 18,228 are of Miao nationality, accounting for 5.62%; 2,863 are of Yi nationality, accounting for 0.88%. Bijie City has the majority of ethnic minorities, accounting for 23.38%, among which 17,143 are of Miao nationality, accounting for 13.5% of the total population in project counties of Bijie City; 2,863 are of Yi nationality, accounting for 2.26% of the total population in project counties of Bijie City. Table 7-1 Nationality Structure of Population of Project Counties in Guizhou Province Yi Han Miao Other City/Prefe County/C Total Nationalit Province Nationality Nationality Nationalities5 cture ity Population y n % n % n % n % Dafang 6720 85. 172 2.1 Guizhou 78928 5962 7.55 4042 5.12 Bijie City County 3 14 1 8 Province Zhijin 47920 2998 62. 1118 23.3 114 2.3 5615 11.72                                                                                                                                                                                                                      5 Other nationalities in Xuyong County refer to nationalities of Bai, Chuanqing, Mongol, Buyi, and Kelao; other nationalities in Zhijin County refer to nationalities of Chuanqing, Kelao, Bai, Buyi, Hui, Mongol, and Zang. Other nationalities in Xishui County refer to nationalities of Zang, Bai, Buyi, and Shui. Other nationalities in Chishui County refer to nationalities of Chuanqing, Li, and Bai.   158    County 2 57 1 3 2 8 9718 76. 1714 13.5 286 2.2 Total 126848 9657 7.61 5 62 3 0 3 6 Tongzi 3560 35600 100 / / / / / / County 0 Xishui 1044 98. 105721 793 0.75 / / 528 0.5 County 00 75 Zunyi City Chishui 5565 98. 56237 293 0.52 / / 293 0.52 County 1 96 1956 99. Total 197558 1085 0.55 / / 821 0.42 51 03 2928 90. 1822 286 0.8 Total 324406 5.62 10478 3.23 36 27 8 3 8 Source: Provided by County Project Office (2) Sichuan Province Distributed with nationalities of Han, Yi, Zang, Qiang, Miao, and Hui, Sichuan Province is known as “China’s second largest Tibetan area”, and “the largest gathering place of Yi nationality”, with jurisdiction of 18 cities, and 3 national autonomous prefectures (Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture). Statistics show that the total population of project services in project counties of Sichuan Province is 260,728, among which 86,306 are of Han nationality, accounting for 33.1%; 13,394 are of Miao nationality, accounting for 5.14%; 160,660 are of Yi nationality, accounting for 61.62%. Xuyong County has the majority of Miao nationality, accounting for 24.41% of the total population in project county. The population of Yi nationality in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture accounts for 96.49% of the total population in project county, among which 100% of population in Butuo County, Zhaojue County, and Meigu County are of Yi nationality. Table 7-2 Nationality Structure of Population of Project Counties in Sichuan Province Other City Total Han Nationality Miao Nationality Yi Nationality Province County Nationalities6 (Prefecture) Population n % n % n % n % Gulin County 56661 54341 95.91 2255 3.98 65 0.11 / / Xuyong Luzhou City 45627 26408 57.88 11139 24.41 7652 16.77 428 0.94% County Sichuan Total 102288 80749 78.94 13394 13.09 7717 7.54 428 0.43 Province Liangshan Butuo County 29385 / / / / 29385 100 / / Yi Jinyang 35348 5557 15.72 / / 29791 84.28 / / Autonomous County Prefecure Zhaojue 47889 / / / / 47889 100 / /                                                                                                                                                                                                                      6 Other nationalities refer to nationalities of Kelao, Zhuang, Tujia, and Dong. 159    County Meigu 45818 / / / / 45818 100 / / County Total 158440 5557 3.51 / / 152883 96.49 / / Total 260728 86306 33.1 13394 5.14 160660 61.62 428 0.14 Source: Provided by County Project Office (3) Gansu Province Gansu is one of the traditional settlements and original places of Han nationality with 54 ethnic minorities, of which there are 16 localized nationalities of Hui, Zang, Dongxiang, Tu, Yugu, Baoan, Mongol, Sala, Kazakh with exclusive nationalities of Dongxiang, Yugu, Baoan. Gansu Province have jurisdiction of two national autonomous prefectures of Gannan and Linxia, seven national autonomous counties of Tianzhu, Sunan, Subei, Akesai, Dongxiang, Jishishan, Zhangjiachuan, and 39 national townships. Statistics show that the total population of project services in project counties of Gansu Province is 354,326, among which 322,441 are of Han nationality, accounting for 91%; 19,928 are of Hui nationality, accounting for 5.62% who distribute in Zhangjiachuan County Tianshui City and Yongjing County Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture; 11,500 are of Dongxiang nationality, accounting for 3.25%, who inhabit in Dongxiang Autonomous County Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture; 457 are of other nationalities, accounting for 0.13%. See details in Table 7-3. Table 7-3 Nationality Structure of Population of Project Counties in Gansu Province City Total Hui Dongxiang Other Provinc Han Nationality (Prefecture County Populatio Nationality Nationality Nationalities7 e ) n n % n % n % N % Tianshui Zhangjiachuan 13936 6536 46.90 7400 53.10 0 0 0 0 City g Wuwei City Gulang County 23287 23051 98.98 / / / / 236 0.02 Tongwei 18200 18155 99.75 45 0.25 / / / / County Longxi County 23418 23418 100 / / / / / / Weiyuan Gansu 39600 39600 100 / / / / / / County Province Dingxi City Minxian 31500 31047 98.56 453 1.44 / / / / County Anding County 24000 19100 79.58 4900 20.42 / / / / Linyao County 19933 19933 100 / / / / / / Total 156651 151253 96.55 5398 3.45 / / / / Qingyang Huanxian 37700 37300 98.94 400 1.06 / / / / City County                                                                                                                                                                                                                      7 Other nationalities in Gulang County refer to Zang nationality, and Tu nationality in Yongjing County. 160    Huachi 15048 15048 100 / / / / / / County Zhengning 36062 36062 100 / / / / / / County Heshui 23300 23300 100 / / / / / / County Total 112110 111710 99.64 400 0.36 / / / / Yongjing 10961 4010 36.58 6730 61.4 / / 221 2.02 Linxia Hui County Autonomou Dongxiang 11500 / / / / 11500 100 / / s Prefecture County Total 22461 4010 17.85 6730 29.96 11500 51.20 221 0.98 Jingning 11560 11560 100 / / / / / / County Pingliang Zhuanglang City 14321 14321 100 / / / / / / County Total 25881 25881 100 / / / / / / Total 354326 322441 91.00 19928 5.62 11500 3.25 457 0.13 Source: Provided by County Project Office 7.1.2. RELIGIOUS BELIEF AND CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS (1) Miao Nationality Overall Characteristics: At present, Miao people mainly inhabit in the southeast of Guizhou Province, Damiao Mountain of Guangxi Province, Hainan Island, and the junction zone of Guizhou Province, Hunan Province, Hubei Province, Sichuan Province, Yunnan Province, and Guangxi Province; in the scope of the project services, Miao people are mainly distributed in Dafang County and Zhijin County of Bijie City, Guizhou Province, Gulin County and Xuyong County of Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, besides, Xishui County and Chishui County of Zunyi City, Guizhou Province have a small number of Miao people. Dietary and Costume: Located in hills and valleys, Miao people have food crops of corn, rice, wheat, sorghum, buckwheat, barnyard grass, millet, and potato, etc. In mountainous areas or water shortage areas, corn is the staple food, and the rest crops are non-staple food; Miao people who live in Pingba or Erbanshan areas, have rice as the staple food, and the rest as non-staple food. Miao people in various areas generally like eating food with sour flavor; therefore, sour soup is indispensible in every family with chili as the main spice. In general, Miao costume maintains traditional Chinese handicrafts and techniques of weaving, embroidery, cross-stitch and dyeing. When the editorial team visited Miao people in Dafang County, Zhijin County, Gulin County and Xuyong County, it is found that only parts of middle-aged and elderly people who stay at home throughout the year are dressed in national costumes, while young women generally don’t wear national costumes but in important festivals or ceremonies. 161    Festivals: Main traditional festivals in Miao nationality are: Caishan Festival, the Spring Festival, Kanhuoxing (a ritual to celebrate the harvest and eliminate disasters), and Ganmiaochang (a traditional gathering). For instance, Miaon nationality in Xuyong County and Gulin County of the project area will hold twice a year respectively on February 13rd and July 3rd of Chinese lunar calender. Language and Character: Miao language belongs to Miao-Yao Branch of Sino-Tibetan language. There are three main dialects of Miao language, which are Western Hunan Dialect (also termed as Eastern Dialect), Eastern Guizhou Dialect (also termed as Middle Dialect), and Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan Dialect (also termed as Western Dialect). Field survey shows that 37.1% Miao people can speak standard Chinese mandarin, among which women account for 18.2%, which is obviously lower than men with 45.8%. In visited project counties, the editorial team found that Miao people except parts of the elder whose mother language are Sichuan-Guizhou-Yunnan Dialect could speak Chinese with local accent. Religious Belief: Miao people were animists, who worshiped the nature and enshrined ancestors; therefore the forms of their primitive religions are mainly nature worship, totem worship, and ancestors worship; some Miao people are Christians and Catholics; Miao people who believe in Buddhism and Taoism are mainly those of Eastern Dialect. (2) Yi Nationality Overall Characteristics: Yi nationality is mainly distributed in Yunnan Province, Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, and Guangxi Province. Yi people refer to themselves in different ways, such as Nuosu, Nasu, Luowu, Misapo, Sani, Axi; Yi people in the project area mainly inhabit in Butuo County, Jinyang County, Zhaojue County and Meigu County of Liangshan Prefecture; besides, a small number of Yi people distribute in Gulin County and Xu Yong County of Luzhou City, and Dafang County and Zhijin County of Bijie City. Dietary and Costume: Yi people have corns and potatoes as the staple food, with rice, buckwheat and beans as non-staple food. They mainly have pork, mutton, beef and chicken, and cook them as “Tuotuo Meat”, simmering tureen of mutton or roast mutton, and roast porket; they don’t eat dog meat, horse meat and snack meat. In rural villages, they have two meals a day, and sit and eat on the ground without desks and chairs. Yi people like drinking. They have two kinds of wine with sweet and spicy flavor. They made sweet wine with sticky rice, and spicy wine with sorghum or corn at home in the past. They have the tradition that “it is rude to treat the guest without wine.” In Liangshan area, men often wear black upper garment with right slopping lapels and narrow sleeves, and wide pants with wrinkles, while in some other areas men wear narrow pants, and wear a strand of long hair at the middle of their head, and tie a pincerlike knot at the right side; women usually wear a turban, loincloth and belt, and they are used to wearing longuette; when Yi people go out, they will wear Ca’erwa (a kind of cloak). Their jewelry includes eardrops, bracelets, rings, and collar flowers, etc., which are mainly made of gold, silver and jade.  Village Secretary of Gengze Village, Bapu Town, Meigu County, Sichuan Province:  Gengze Village (originally Liuhong Village) has 258 households with 1149 villagers of Yi nationality, which is an inhabitance for Yi nationality.. They usually have two meals a day, at 10:00 in the morning and at 17:00 in the afternoon; so do the children in school, but their school now provides free lunch at 12:00 with rice and side dishes; The specialty of Yi nationality is Tuotuo Meat, and Yi people don’t have dog meat, horse meat and snake meat. Yi people have their own national costumes (longuette, tippet, hat, etc.), but usually the elder wear these national 162  costumes, and the young people wear common costumes like Han people. The whole villagers would be dressed in the set of national costumes only at festivals, weddings and funerals.   Festivals: Yi nationality has many traditional folk festivals, mainly including October Year, the Torch Festival, and regional festivals and worship ceremonies. October Year: it is the traditional year of Yi nationality, which is often held at the beginning of October every year with 5-6 days; during the festival, they sacrifice pigs and sheep and some rich families will sacrifice cattle; in the festival, people dress up to attend the banquets, visit relatives and friends, and send presents to each other. The Torch Festival: it is the grandest traditional festival of Yi nationality, which is held at June 24th of Chinese lunar calendar; during the festival, they will sacrifice cattle and sheep sacrifice to the ancestors, as well as to the land lord in some areas; in the festivals, people attend the banquets, eat Tuotuo meat, and drink a toast for good harvest; the Torch Festival usually last 3 days; at the first day, the whole family gather together; during the rest two days, various activities are held, including wrestling, horse racing, bull fighting, boat racing, and tug-of-war, and then it will hold a grand bonfire party throughout the whole night. Language and Character: Yi nationality has its own national language and character. Yi language belongs to Sino-Tibetan language. In 1980, Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province systemized a set of Standard Program of Yi Language, including 819 alphabets. 22.1 of surveyed Yi people can speak Chinese mandarin, and the proportion of women (22.1%) who can speak Chinese mandarin is slightly lower than that of men. Most Yi people except the elder and children in coexisting area of Dafang County and Zhijin County, can understand Chinese, and communicate with the editorial team in Chinese mandarin during the interviews; Yi people living in Liangshan area mostly speak Yi language, and few can understand and communicate with Chinese. Religious Belief: The Yi mainly worship the nature, the totem, and the deified ancestors. They mainly regard spirit and ghost as their nature worship. Totem worship is the development and deepening of nature worship, and from Yi’s genealogy, it is found that they often take animal, plant, and other natural objects as their family name. Two rituals are generally performed to worship the deified ancestors, including Rest the Deceased in Peace, and Send off the Deceased. “Bimo” and “Suni” officiate religious activities of Yi nationality; Bimo, especially, is also the transmitter of Yi culture. One can become Bimo by patrilineal descent. They are proficient in Yi scriptures, and have a good knowledge of Yi documents such as astronomic calendar, genealogy, ethics, epics, and tales of lengendia. Bimo officiate at births, funerals, festivals, gatherings, sickness and disasters. However, Suni only performs god dances to expel the evils, and they don’t have scriptures. A Suni must be elected without gender limitation. (3) Hui Nationality Overall Characteristics: Hui people mainly inhabit in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and also distribute in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Yunan, Henan, Shangdong, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang. Hui people in the project area mainly live in Zhangjiachuan County Tianshui City Gansu Province and Yongjing County Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, with a small group living scattered in Tongwei County, Minxian County and Anding District of Dingxi City, and Huanxian County of Qingyang City. Hui people are good at doing business, especially excel in catering industry. Dietary and Costume: Hui people in Zhangjiachuan County and Yongjing County mainly have wheat, corns, highland barley, and potatos as their daily staple food. Cakes of flour with salt and fried dough twist are their favorite specialties. Their folk characteristic food are steamed noodles, stretched noodles, 163    noodles with gravy, fried noodles with meat, tofu jelly, cooked chopped entrails of oxen, and noodles with ingredients. They are particularly fond of beef and mutton. Hui costumes are distinctly of national characteristics. Men wear white caps and women wear headscarves, as is the Muslim costumes of Hui characteristics. Festivals: Hui nationality has mainly three festivals: Lasser Bairam, Id al-Adjha (Eid al-Adha), and Mawlid, all of which are exactly same as other Muslims and have close relations. Language and Character: The lingua franca of Hui people is Chinese, with Arabic as their second language. Hui language remains plenty of Arabic and Persian words in daily contacts and religious activities. Hui people in project area mainly speak Chinese, and survey results show that 65.1% of Hui people can speak Chinese mandarin, which is higher than that of Miao, Yi and Dongxiang. Religious Belief: Hui people believe in Islam, with Masjid in densely inhabited place. Akhond officiates religious activities, with Koran as the main scripture. The followers are called Muslim, who stick to Hui traditions, abide by the canon, pay attention to hygiene, and don’t have pork, dog meat and animal’s blood for food. (4) Dongxiang Nationality Overall Characteristics: Dongxiang nationality get its name from Dongxiang County Linxia, Gansu Province, the place where Dongxiang people inhabit, and they also refer to themselves as Sarta, who are mainly Sarta people, assimilating into local Hui, Han and Mongol. Dongxiang people in the project area mainly live in Dongxiang Autonomous County, Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, Gansu Province. Dietary and Costume: Dongxiang people have the same dietary customs as Muslims with their own regional characteristics at the same time, which basically have wheat, highland barley, corns, beans, potatoes as the staple food, with such common wheaten food as steamed bun, noodles, cake of flour with salt, etc. “Lashiha” (stretched noodles, or sliced noodles), fried cake of flour with salt, “Gajiwa” and boiled mutton are the important food with great reputation for Dongxiang people to treat guests. Dongxiang costumes are similar with the costumes of Han and Hui, which mainly focuses on headwear. Men often wear white or black caps without brims, called “Hao Cap”; while women wear “veils” in silk, and maidens and newly-married women wear green veils, middle-aged women wear cyan veils, and the elderly women wear white veils, with the length to the waist and covering the whole hair. Festivals: Dongxiang nationality has festivals every month, and rotating from month to month every year with thirty six-year cycle time, which is closely related with their religious belief. Dongxiang people are four main festivals: Lasser Bairam, Eid al-Adha, Ed al-Fitr, Ashura, which are all originated from Islam. Language and Character: Dongxiang language belongs to the Altaic Mongolian language, with many loanwords from Chinese, Turkic, Arabic and Persian. Dongxiang nationality has national oral language but is lack of a written language. For now they use Chinese as their written language, and most Dongxiang people can understand but few can speak Chinese mandarin. Religious Belief: Dongxiang people believe in Islam. Early in thirteenth century, Dongxiang region has become the education center of Islam scripture hall in China. Hitherto, in Dongxiang Autonomous County, there still are some tombs of ancient Islamic sages. There are two denominations in Dongxiang region: Qadim and Ikhwan, which also called old religious sect and Protestanism. 164    (5) Integration of Various Nationalities Due to the special relationship of the ethnic origins, Miao and Yi in the project area have a strong identity with each other. They interact with each other in languages, ideas, planting customs, and economic life, and remain frequent and active communication, as well as harmonious relationship. Common living regions and similar cultural background enable Miao and Yi to be related by marriage, and render a close and harmonious communication with each other. Hui and Dongxiang in project area have the same religious belief – Islam, and all belongs to Muslim, therefore they have strong consistency in the values, wedding and funeral, religious life, and dietary traditions. Under the influence of Islamic value of “all Muslims are families”, they intermarry, enter the same mosques to attend religious activities together, and have maintained a close and harmonious relationship. 7.1.3. MEANS OF LIVELIHOOD (1) Miao Nationality Miao people in the project area take agriculture as their primary means of livelihood, including growing grain, tobacco, sweet orange, walnut, and bamboo, and breeding pigs and cattle, which is dependent on the weather, and brings unstable agricultural incomes; apart from grain production, Miao people in Gulin County and Xuyong County also make living in planting tobacco and breeding live pigs; due to unstable agricultural incomes, more and more Miao people work outside to make money as the additional incomes of family agricultural incomes. Compared with Han people in the same area, Miao people have lower income level and are poorer.  Village Secretary of Tongxin Village, Masi Miao Township, Gulin County, Sichuan Province:  Over 700 of total 2400 villagers in Tongxin Village are minorities, mainly of Miao nationality and scores of them in Yi nationality, with more than 6000 mu of land and around 300 migrant workers. The main incomes of the village are from agricultural production, and half of the villagers are planting tobacco. With eight-month growth cycle and great influence of the weather, the tobacco yields 3000-4000 yuan per mu. (2) Yi Nationality Yi people in the project area take agriculture as their primary means of livelihood, including growing corns, potatoes, and buckwheat. Due to the poor geographic, soil and climate conditions, and simple farming technology as well as lack of water conservancy facilities, they are mainly dependent on weather. Yi people in Liangshan area don’t grow rice, but they will sell potatoes and corns to exchange for rice, so they have rice, potatoes and buckwheat as their staple food. Apart from farming industries, animal husbandry is also the primary means of livelihood of the Yi nationality, mainly breeding cattle, sheep, horses, and pigs, which are bred outside in the summer, and reared in pens during the winter, and the elder and children in group put livestock in mountains to breed, and they also entrust others to raise the livestock; a small number of breeding livestock will be sold, and most are used for breeding and family food. In addition, the number of migrant workers of Yi nationality has gradually increased in recent years, and the young people are more likely to work outside, with young men and unmarried women accounting for the greatest share. The poor agricultural production conditions in Liangshan Yi inhabitant region has contributed to the low level of incomes and deeper poverty; due to the rural geographical location, they 165    have weak development concept, so it is of more difficulty to get rid of poverty.  Village head of Hagu Village, Longmen Township, Meigu County, Sichuan Province:  There are 240 households in Hagu Village with 875 villagers, who are all of Yi nationality. The village has more than 1000 mu of land, which are mainly used for growing potatoes, corns and buckwheat. Potatoes yield 1500 kg per mu, corns yield 200-250 kg per mu, and the buckwheat yields 100-150 kg per mu, which are basically used for family food to satisfy basic needs. Every household in the village has farming and planting industry in small scale. They basically raise several goats. As it is easy to raise goats in Meigu County and goats have good breeding capacity, villagers like to breed goats.  Village Secretary of Ashengrida Village, Tuojue Township, Butuo County, Sichuan Province:  There are 260 households in the village with 1054 villagers, who are all of Yi nationality. The village has 1800 mu of cultivated land, which are mainly used for growing potatoes, corns, buckwheat, and oats. Potato is the main crop to plant, with corns and buckwheat as the supplementary crops. Oats and buckwheat are used as the (3) Hui Nationality supplementary food of the families, while corns are usually used to feed pigs. In general, villagers need to buy rice vermicelli Hui people area food. as the staple in the project mainly inhabit in Zhangjiachuan County and Yongjing County. They take agriculture and animal husbandry as their primary means of livelihood, among which they mainly grow wheat and corns, and also plant alfalfa and oats, and mainly breed cattle and sheep. For example, in Tanzi Village, Hongquan Town, Yongjing County, there are 3482 mu of cultivated land, of which 70% are used for growing corns, 5% for potatoes, and 15% for Chinese medicinal herbs; other project villages such as Wanzi Village Wang Tai Town Yongjing County and Kangwang Village Malu Township Zhangjiachuan County also primarily plant corns. Nearly every household breeds cattle or sheep, and mostly is in small scale with 2-3 cattle and several to scores of sheep. Compared with Han and other nationalities, Hui nationality has more experience in breeding livestock, with more rural households getting hold of breeding experience. Apart from farming and breeding industries, Hui people make money from doing business and working outside. Hui people take catering industry as the primary business, for instance, in catering industry of Zhangjiachuan County, there are basically Hui restaurants; migrant workers of Hui nationality work outside seasonally, and are engaged in single type of work. (4) Dongxiang Nationality Dongxiang people in the project area mainly inhabit in Dongxiang County, whose means of livelihood is similar to Hui people. They make a living primarily from breeding and farming industry and working outside. Dongxiang people mainly breed sheep, and grow corns, potatoes and wheat, as well as some alfalfa and oats, which are used to feed livestock. For example, in Dashu Village Dashu Township, nearly every household breed cattle and sheep, some with twenty to thirty cattle and some with only two to three cattle. Migrant workers are mainly young men, mostly in Lanzhou, Xinjiang, and Qinghai, and primarily to do some short-term work seasonally. 7.1.4. SOCIAL ORGANIZATION (1) Miao Nationality Miao people mostly live with Han people together, and they don’t have social organizations and inhabit in the unit of administrative villages. They regard monogamous nuclear family as the basic unit, and relatives help each other. 166    (2) Yi Nationality The traditional hierarchy of Yi people splits people into Chieftain, Black Yi, White Yi, Anjia slaves and Guozhuang slaves. At present, the slave hierarchy has been gradually abolished. Family is the basic structure of Yi society in accordance with the patriarchal consanguinity, which is the basic unit of social mobilization and action. Family members help each other, and support the poor. In Liangshan area, civil disputes are often mediated in accordance with the common law, and most local disputes can be coordinately solved through the family authority “Degu”. (3) Hui Nationality and Dongxiang Nationality Other than gonging to the mosque at a fixed time every week, Hui and Dongxiang people in the project area don’t reserve other traditional social organizational activities. 7.2 Discrimination and Screening of Ethnic minorities (1) Discrimination Basis The word “minority” refers to ethnic minorities in general, which are unique and weak social and cultural groups8, and it has the following characteristics in different degrees: (a) Self-identified as a member of a unique minority cultural group, and the characteristic is acknowledged by others; (b) Collectively attached to the residential areas or ancestral territories with unique geographical features in the project area, and dependent on the natural resources of these residential areas and territories9; (c) Having traditional culture, economic, social or political system, which are distinct from mainstream society and culture; (d) Having minority languages, which is different from the official language of the country or the local area. (2) Discrimination Methods (1) Field investigation. Through field investigation, one knows the population structure, ethnic composition, economic structure, the minority village recognition, and whether the minority live in a compact community in the project villages. (2) Data collection and literature reference. By collecting the statistical yearbooks, report forms, municipal records, county records that reflect the population, nationality, culture and customs of the project area, one can know the characteristics of the minorities and whether there is a difference on                                                                                                                                                                                                                      8 The policy is not set minimum number, because the population of the minority group is likely to be very small, which can make them more vulnerable. 9     “Collective attachment” means there have been several generations living in the land and territory where related groups possess, use or occupy, and have economic contacts, including areas with special meanings, such as the holy land. “Collective attachment” also refers to the attachment that the nomadic ethnic groups have to the territory they use seasonally or cyclically. 167    production and living between the minorities and Han people in the project area. (3) Interviewing the key informants. Via interviewing the key informants in Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, one learns the minority types, the population, national characteristics, and concentrated distribution in the project area, and related projects which are implemented to promote the development of ethnic minorities in the project area. (3) Screening the Ethnic minorities With the support and coordination of various project offices and relevant institutions, social assessment team has carried out a detailed screening on the results of minority discrimination, and made the comparison analysis between the collected information about minorities and Han nationality, to determine whether the minority collectively attach to the project area, and to know the differences and vulnerability of minorities compared with the mainstream. Screening results show that Miao people mainly cohabit in Dafang County and Zhijin County of Bijie City Guizhou Province, and in Xuyong County of Luzhou City Sichuan Province; Yi people mainly inhabit in Butuo County, Jinyang County, Zhaojue County of Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture Sichuan Province, and cohabit in Xuyong County of Luzhou City; Hui people mainly live in Zhuangjiachuan Hui Autonomous County Tianshi City Gansu Province, and cohabit in Yongjing County Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture; Dongxiang people mainly inhabit in Dongxiang Autonomous County Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture. Table 7-4 Screening Situation of Minorities in a Compact Community Number Number of of Total Minority Provi Percenta City County Townshi Inhabita Populatio Populatio Type of Minority nce ge (%) ps And nt n n Towns Villages Guizh Dafang Miao nationality（13.55%）Yi 4 5 21740 8277 38.07 ou County nationality（10.97） Bijie City Provin Zhijin Miao nationality（30.33%）Yi 3 5 11348 6448 56.82 ce County nationality（8.68%） Luzhou Xuyong Yi nationality（24.77%）Miao 3 10 24480 15694 64.11 City County nationality（36.41%） Butuo 6 29 29385 29385 100.00 Yi nationality（100%） Sichu County Liangshan an Jinyang Yi 16 35 35348 29791 84.28 Yi nationality（84.28%） Provin County Autonomo ce Zhaojue us 8 42 47889 47889 100.00 Yi nationality（100%） County Prefecture Meigu 10 52 45818 45818 100.00 Yi nationality（100%） County Zhangjiac Tianshui Gansu huan 2 13 13936 7400 53.10 Hui nationality（53.10%） City Provin County ce Linxia Hui Yongjing 4 6 6622 6421 96.96 Hui nationality（96.96%） Autonomo County 168    us Dongxian 6 12 11500 11500 100.00 Dongxiang nationality（100%） Prefecture g County 7.3 Ethnic Minorities’ Awareness and Attitudes of the Project (1) Ethnic Minorities’ Awareness of the Project By comparing the four ethnic minority groups’ knowledge of the project (the Miao, Yi, Hui, and Dongxiang) with the overall sample survey results, it shows that 82.5% of ethnic minority groups have heard of the project, which is slightly lower than the overall samples (86.1%), among which Dongxiang people account for the highest awareness to the project, while Yi people account for the lowest. Through looking into their knowledge of the project in terms of gender, it is found that men of Miao and Yi nationality have a higher knowledge of the project than women; on the contrary, men of Hui and Dongxing nationality have a lower knowledge of the project than women. Thus, the majority of the minorities have heard of the project, and there is little difference on the knowledge of the project between the main minorites and the overall samples; combining with the field interviews, it is learned that although surveyed rural households have a relatively high knowledge of the project, few of them actually know the project building blocks, especially for ethnic minority groups, who mostly have a superficial knowledge, therefore, the project promotion needs to be further enhanced. Table 7-5 Ethnic Minority Groups’ Awareness of the Project in Terms of Different Sex Heard of the Project Never Heard of the Project Nationality Sex n % n % Male 22 91.7 2 8.3 Miao nationality Female 10 90.9 1 9.1 Total 32 91.4 3 8.6 Male 160 80.8 38 19.2 Yi nationality Female 166 77.9 47 22.1 Total 326 79.3 85 20.7 Male 23 79.3 6 20.7 Hui nationality Female 29 85.3 5 14.7 Total 52 82.5 11 17.5 Male 33 86.8 5 13.2 Dongxiang nationality Female 53 98.1 1 1.9 Total 86 93.5 6 6.5 Male 680 86.3 108 13.7 Total Female 617 85.8 102 14.2 Total 496 82.5 105 17.5 Overall Samples / 1297 86.1 210 13.9 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 601 copies of valid samples By comparing ethnic minority groups’ knowledge of the project with the overall samples, it shows that 44.2% of ethnic minority groups have known about the project (including “quite known” and “known”), which is slightly higher than the overall samples (43.8%), while 4.4% of ethnic minority groups are blind to the project, which is 1% by the overall samples, among which Miao people account for the highest 169    proportion, while Dongxiang people account for the lowest. Through looking into their knowledge of the project in terms of gender, it is found that 59.1% and 12.1% of men in Miao nationality and Dongxiang nationality respectively have known about the project (including “quite known” and “known”), which is slightly higher than that of women of the same nationality, while 57.2% and 72.4% of women in Yi nationality and Hui nationality respectively have known about the project, which is higher than that of men of the same nationality. In general, surveyed groups have a low knowledge of the project, therefore promotion of the project information and education needs to be strengthened to the rural households in the project areas. Table 7-6 Ethnic Minority Groups’ Knowledge of the Project in Terms of Different Sex (%) Nationality Sex Quite Known Known Known A Little Not Known Too Much Unknown Male 18.2 40.9 31.8 9.1 0.0 Miao nationality Female 10.0 40.0 50.0 0.0 0.0 Total 15.6 40.6 37.5 6.3 0.0 Male 11.2 31.2 50.6 6.9 0.0 Yi nationality Female 4.8 52.4 39.8 3.0 0.0 Total 8.0 42.0 45.1 4.9 0.0 Male 4.3 34.8 47.8 13.0 0.0 Hui nationality Female 6.9 65.5 27.6 0.0 0.0 Total 5.8 51.9 36.5 5.8 0.0 Male 0.0 12.1 87.9 0.0 0.0 Dongxiang nationality Female 0.0 7.5 90.6 1.9 0.0 Total 0.0 9.3 89.5 1.2 0.0 Male 9.7 29.8 53.8 6.7 0.0 Total Female 4.3 44.2 49.2 2.3 0.0 Total 6.9 37.3 51.4 4.4 0.0 Overall Samples / 9.6 34.2 50.8 5.2 0.2 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 601 copies of valid samples (2) Ethnic Minorities’ Awareness of the Project Significance In field surveys, interviewed minorities also reported that the project was of great significance to them, and they hoped that the project could be implemented as soon as possible so that they could get rid of poverty and become rich as early as possible. In terms of the significance of project to their families, 52.4%, 40.6%, 5%, 0.5% and 1.5% of ethnic minorities think respectively the project is very important, important, a little important, not important, and indifferent. Therefore, ethnic minorities generally think the project is of great significance to their families. By comparing ethnic minority groups’ knowledge of the project significance with the overall samples, it shows that 93% of ethnic minorities think the project is important (including “very important” and “important”), which is slightly higher than that of overall samples (92.1%), among which Miao people have the highest share of proportion, which is 100%, while Yi people account for the lowest with 84.1%. 170    Table 7-7 Ethnic Minorities’ Awareness of the Project Significance (%) Nationality Sex Very Important Important A Little Important Not Important Indifferent Male 54.2 45.8 0.0 0.0 0.0 Miao nationality Female 90.9 9.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 Total 65.7 34.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 Male 52.5 37.9 8.1 0.5 1.0 Yi nationality Female 59.2 36.2 2.8 0.9 0.9 Total 56.0 37.0 5.4 0.7 1.0 Male 62.1 13.8 20.7 0.0 3.4 Hui nationality Female 76.5 14.7 2.9 0.0 5.9 Total 69.8 14.3 11.1 0.0 4.8 Male 23.7 71.1 2.6 0.0 2.6 Dongxiang nationality Female 16.7 81.5 0.0 0.0 1.9 Total 19.6 77.2 1.1 0.0 2.2 Male 49.8 40.5 8.0 0.3 1.4 Total Female 54.8 40.7 2.2 0.6 1.6 Total 52.4 40.6 5.0 0.5 1.5 Overall Samples / 54.4 37.7 4.5 0.7 2.7 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 601 copies of valid samples (3) Ethnic Minorities’ Supportive Attitudes towards the Project Social survey shows that 96.4% of ethnic minorities are supportive for the project construction, 0.3% are not supportive, while 3.3% are with indifferent attitude. The support ratios of Miao, Yi, Hui, and Dongxiang are respectively 100%, 97%, 87.3% and 98.9%. Statistics show that ethnic minorities are very supportive for the project, which reveals that the project construction can meet the realistic demands of the ethnic minorities. By comparing ethnic minority groups’ supportive attitudes towards the project with the overall samples, it shows that 96.4% of ethnic minority groups are supportive for the project construction, which is slightly higher than that of the overall samples (95.6%), among which Miao nationality account for the highest support ratio with 100%, while Hui nationality accounts for the lowest with 87.3%. Table 7-8 Ethnic Minorities’ Supportive Attitudes towards the Project Supportive Not Supportive Indifferent Nationality Sex n % n % n % Male 24 100 0 0.0 0 0.0 Miao nationality Female 11 100 0 0.0 0 0.0 Total 35 100 0 0.0 0 0.0 Male 191 96.5 1 0.5 6 3.0 Yi nationality Female 208 97.7 1 0.5 4 1.9 Total 399 97.1 2 0.5 10 2.4 Male 24 82.8 0 0.0 5 17.2 Hui nationality Female 31 91.2 0 0.0 3 8.8 Total 55 87.3 0 0.0 8 12.7 171    Supportive Not Supportive Indifferent Nationality Sex n % n % n % Male 37 97.4 0 0.0 1 2.6 Dongxiang nationality Female 53 98.1 0 0.0 1 1.9 Total 90 97.8 0 0.0 2 2.2 Male 276 95.5 1 0.3 12 4.2 Total Female 303 97.1 1 0.3 8 2.6 Total 579 96.4 2 0.3 2 2.2 Overall samples / 1442 95.6 6 0.4 59 3.9 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 601 copies of valid samples (4) Ethnic Minorities’ Willingness to Participating in the Project In the willingness survey of investing with their labor, 96.5% of ethnic minorities are willing to participating in the project, 1% are unwilling, while 1.8% and 0.7% are respectively indifferent and unknown. In the field surveys, most interviewed ethnic minorities are willing to participating in the project construction, or obtain employment via the project. By comparing ethnic minority groups’ willingness to investing with their labor with the overall samples, it shows that 96.7% of ethnic minorities are willing to participating in the project to invest with their labor, which is slightly higher than that of the overall samples (94%), among which have the strongest willingness with 100%, while Hui people have the weakest willingness with 87.3%. Table 7-9 Ethnic Minorities’ Willingness to Invest Their Labor to the Project (%) Nationality Sex Willing Unwilling Male 100 0 Miao nationality Female 72.7 27.3 Total 91.4 8.6 Male 96.5 3.5 Yi nationality Female 96.7 3.3 Total 97.0 1.5 Male 96.6 3.4 Hui nationality Female 97.1 2.9 Total 87.3 0.0 Male 97.4 2.6 Dongxiang nationality Female 100 0.0 Total 98.9 0.0 Male 96.9 3.1 Total Female 96.5 3.5 Total 96.7 3.3 Overall Samples / 94 1.8 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 601 copies of valid samples 172    7.4 Preparation of Ethnic Minorities’ Development Plan (1) Discrimination Results of Ethnic Minorities According to World Bank business guide rule OP4.10 Ethnic Minorities Business Handbook, the project offices carry out meticulous discrimination work of ethnic minorities through the field investigation, and the results are： a. In Guizhou project area, the total population of project services is 324,406, among which 31,569 are ethnic minorities, accounting for 9.73%, including Miao, Yi, Gelao, Bai, and Mongol; among them, Miao people are 18,228, accounting for 5.62% of total population, and Yi people are 2,863, accounting for 0.83%. b. In Sichuan project area, the total population of project services is 260,728, among which 174,422 are ethnic minorities, accounting for 66.9%, including Yi, Miao, and Zhuang; among them, Yi people are 160,660, accounting for 61.62% of total population, and Miao people are 13,394, accounting for 5.14%. c. In Gansu project area, the total population of project services is 365,826, among which 43,385 are ethnic minorities, accounting for 11.86%, including Hui and Dongxiang, among which Hui people are 19,928, accounting for 5.62% of total population, and Dongxiang people are 11,500, accounting for 3.25%. (2) Screening Results of Ethnic Minorities in a Compact Community Based on the discrimination of ethnic minorities, with the cooperation of various project institutions, social assessment team screen the distribution and settlement of the ethnic minorities via field survey, data collection and literature reference, and the results show： Ethnic minorities in 209 project villages collectively attach to the project areas, including nationalities of Miao, Yi, Hui and Dongxiang. a. Among them, 10 project villages of 7 townships or towns in Guizhou project area are the residential villages of ethnic minorities, with the population of 14,725, among which 6,388 are of Miao nationality, accounting for 19.31%, and 3,633 are of Yi nationality, accounting for 10.97%, living primarily in Dafang County and Zhijin County of Bijie City. b. In Sichuan project area, 168 project villages of 43 townships or towns area are the residential villages of ethnic minorities, with the population of 168,577, among which 158,947 are of Yi nationality, accounting for 87.28%, distributing primarily in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture; 8,913 are of Miao nationality, accounting for 4.89%, living primarily in Xuyong County of Luzhou City. c. In Gansu project area, 31 project villages of 11 townships or towns area are the residential villages of ethnic minorities, with the population of 25,321, among which 13,821 are of Hui nationality, accounting for 43.11%, distributing primarily in Zhangjiachuan Autonomous County Tianshui City and Yongjing County Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture; 11,500 are of Dongxiang nationality, accounting for 35.87%, all living in Dongxiang Autonomous County Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture. 173    Table 7-10 Beneficial Population of Ethnic Minorities in Three Provinces Ethnic Minorities Han Dongxi Prov Popula Miao Yi Hui Nation Popula ang ince tion % Natio % Nation % Nation % % ality tion Nation nality ality ality ality Guiz hou Prov ince 33088 18363 14725 44.5 6388 19.31 3633 10.97 / / / / Sich uan Prov ince 182120 13543 168577 92.57 8913 4.89 158947 87.28 / / / / Gans u Prov ince 32058 6737 25321 78.98 / / / / 13821 43.11 11500 35.87 Tota l 247266 38643 208623 84.37 15301 6.19 162580 65.75 13821 5.59 11500 4.65 Source: Provided by Project Office Table 7-11 Discrimination Results of Ethnic Minorities in Project Areas Miao Dongxiang Screening Basis (World Bank OP4.10) Yi Nationality Hui Nationality Nationality Nationality Self-identified as a member of a unique minority cultural group, and the √ √ √ √ characteristic is acknowledged by others Collectively attached to the residential areas or ancestral territories with unique geographical features in the project area, √ √ √ √ and dependent on the natural resources of these residential areas and territories Having traditional culture, economic, social or political system, which are distinct from √ √ √ √ mainstream society and culture Having minority languages, which is different from the official language of the √ √ country or the local area (3) Conclusion In accordance with the discrimination and screening of the ethnic minorities, the results show that the Miao, Yi, Hui and Dongxiang collectively attach to the project areas, and all the ethnic minorities show difference from the mainstream society in terms of economic structure, social organization structure, 174    production and living customs, language, social interactions, and religious belief. In order to have a better knowledge of the real demands and suggestions from the ethnic minorities to the project, ethnic minorities development plan should be made to ensure that the project activities can be organized and implemented in the form of ethnic minorities’ cultural adaptability, details see A Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas – Ethnic Minorities’ Development Plan. 175    8 Information Publication and Public Participation 8.1 Preparation Period of Information Publication and Public Participation Since November, 2011, the Foreign Capital Center of State Council Leading Group Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development has been undertaking a series of investigation and public consultation in coordination with Guizhou province, Sichuan province, Gansu province and authorities at all levels. Simultaneously, during the preparation of the project, the feasibility authorized units, social assessment report authorized groups and related departments have proceeded to publicize the correlative information and previously adequate informed consultation and public participation. The authorization of social assessment report is based on the questionnaire survey, focus panel, key multitude interview, stakeholders seminar and public participated activities. Detailed information concerning public participated activities can be obtained in Table 8-1. (1) Notification and Publication of Project Information Leaded by the State Council Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development, and organized by the Center of the Foreign Capital, the declaratory Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas was enrolled in the project planning from 2013 to 2015 of the National Development and Reform Committee and the Ministry of Finance by use of the World Bank loans Guizhou Province: A) In September 2013, the report of authorized environmental assessment in Guizhou Province is due to be conducted. B) In 2013，the feasibility project units proceed to investigate the project area and authorize the feasibility study report. Sichuan Province: A) On August 31, 2012, the Foreign Capital Project Management Center of Sichuan Provincial Project Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development held the meeting of the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI), with the attendance of the project municipal, prefecture, and county leaders of the Poverty Alleviation and Development Office. The preliminary designs, plannings and suggestions were discussed and deployed during the meeting. B) On September 27, 2012, the Center of Sichuan Provincial Foreign Capital issued the Notification on Making Adequate Preparation for the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI), which required the project counties to make well preparation for selected program of implementary area, and further practiced the organization and guarantee measures. The primary leaders of the Center of Sichuan Provincial Foreign Capital led the team to inspect and instruct on the spot in Zhaojue, Jinyang and Butuo counties in Liangshan prefecture. C) In April 2013, the Center of Sichuan Provincial Foreign Capital informed counties to work out the Project Proposal and Projected feasibility Study Report, and amended it for several times. Gansu Province：A) The provincial project proposal of each project shall be reported before the 15th January, 2012, and the Provincial Development and Reform Committee and the Provincial Finance Department shall provide Commitment Letter. B) On July 25, 2012, the National Development and 176    Reform Committee and the Ministry of Finance printed and distributed the Notification on the Request for Alternative Project Planning During 2013-2015 Fiscal Year by the National Development and Reform Committee and the Ministry of Finance by Use of the World Bank Loans with the article volume [2012]2208 of the Foreign Capital of Development and Reform. (2) Fieldwork Fieldwork Situation in Guizhou Province A) On May 10-12, 2012, the Foreign Capital Center of the State Council of Poverty Alleviation and Development Sent officials to Guizhou Province to undertake the research of the World Bank Loans and Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI). The research panel proceeded to the fieldwork by means of farmers interview, enterprises visitation, spot inspection, colloquia, the inspection of germination center, agricultural development specialized cooperatives, the program base of Poverty reduction. B) On April 27, 2013, the Center of Guizhou Provincial Poverty Alleviation and Development proceeded to Zunyi to investigate the preparation for the World Bank Loans and Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI), and held colloquia to inspect the institution authorization, and the project expenditure. C) In September 2013, the first technology preparation group experts and the National Poverty Alleviation and Development inspected the situation in Guizhou Province. Fieldwork Situation in Sichuan Province A) On October 15-19, 2012, the economist expert Wu liwei of the World Bank assumed the post of the Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas, leading his 15-member team undertake project identification in Sichuan Province. The team investigate infrastructure and industrial development of Zhaojue, Jinyang county successively, and listened to the preparation situation of the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI) reported by Liangshan prefecture and two counties. B) On December 19-20, 2012, the project leader of the Center of Sichuan Provincial Foreign Capital led a team to Xuyong and Gulin to investigate the preparation situation of the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI). C) On 13-16th June, 2013, the first technology preparation group of the World Bank inspected the situation in Sichuan Province. Fieldwork Situation in Gansu Province A) On November 6-8, 2012, the identification group expert team of the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI) proceeded to Weiyuan, Longxi and Jingning counties to conduct an inspection. The identification group of the World Bank Poverty Reduction and Loans Project (Phase VI) inspected and identified the counties and villages of the World Bank Poverty Reduction and Loans Project (Phase VI), and obtained an overview of the project areas. B) On June 3-7, 2013, the preparation group of the Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas of the World Bank (World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI) ) conducted a fieldwork to Huanxian, Zhangjiachuan counties and Anding District. From October to November 2013, the social assessment authorized units conducted a fieldwork to the project areas, paid a visit to three provinces, ten cities and 27 counties relating to the project, obtained the detailed information of the living condition of the residents who may tend to be influenced along the project areas by means of questionnaire, colloquia, interview, consulted the general public about the opinions and advice of the project implementation, and recorded it accurately. (3) Focus Panel On October 27 to November 29 in 2013, 138 focus panel meetings have been held, including 69 general panel meetings with a total number of 958 villagers, among whom 305 members are women accounting 177    for 31.84%, and 69 women panel meeting with a total number of 447 women. The meetings put great emphasis on the participation, requirement, and suggestion of the project area residents. (4) Intensive Interview of the Villagers On 27th October to 29th November in 2013, a personal intensive interview aiming at three provinces and 267 counties involving 206 people in the project areas was conducted, and 98 women accounting for 47.6%, 65 ethnic minorities people accounting for 31.6%, and 87 impoverished group people accounting for 42.2% are included. The content of the interview mainly concerned about the production and living condition of the interviewee, the opinions of the cooperation, the potential risks and influences of the project, and the views of the project designs, and implementation. (5) Interview of the Key Multitude The social assessment investigation group conducted an interview of 171 people, consisting of the project areas Office of Poverty Alleviation, Agricultural Bureau, Bureau of Animal Husbandry, the Bureau of Nationality and Religion, the Women’s Federation and the relating departments, the Village Committees, Cooperative Person in Charge, Association Person in Charge, Agricultural Technology Experts and other key person. The interview aimed at obtaining the opinions and suggestion of the stakeholders to the project, putting emphasis on providing preferential advice to the project design and implementation. (6) Institution Seminar An interview of the institution person in charge of the Women’s Federation, the project areas Office of Poverty Alleviation, Agricultural Bureau, Bureau of Animal Husbandry, the Bureau of Statistics, the Bureau of Nationality and Religion, and the Bureau of Civil Affairs was conducted and 37 institution seminars were performed. Besides, the information of women development situation, impoverishment, distribution of ethnic minorities, cooperative development situation of agriculture and husbandry was obtained, and the relevant policies, implement project, and the suggestion of the authorities were investigated. 178    Table 4-1 The procedures of Information Publication and Public Participation Participant Number Time Location Participants Remarks Types Related prefecture, township officials, Guizhou village heads, villagers, the feasibility Authorization of Guizhou environmental assessment report; fieldwork of project areas September,2013 Project authorized units and environmental by feasibility project units; authorization of the feasibility project study. Areas assessment authorized units The Foreign Capital Project Management Center of Sichuan Provincial Project Office of Poverty Alleviation and Development held the meeting of the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI), with the attendance of the project municipal, prefecture, and county leaders of the Poverty Alleviation and Development Office. The preliminary designs, plannings and suggestions were discussed and deployed during the meeting; Related prefecture, township officials, The Center of Sichuan Provincial Foreign Capital issued the Notification on Making Sichuan village heads, villagers, the feasibility Notification of August, 2012 to Adequate Preparation for the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI), which Project authorized units and environmental 1 Related Project April, 2013 required the project counties to make well preparation for selected program of Areas assessment authorized units Information implementary area, and further practiced the organization and guarantee measures. The primary leaders of the Center of Sichuan Provincial Foreign Capital led the team to inspect and instruct on the spot in Zhaojue, Jinyang and Butuo counties in Liangshan prefecture; The Center of Sichuan Provincial Foreign Capital informed counties to work out the Project Proposal and Projected feasibility Study Report, and amended it for several times. The National Development and Reform Committee and the Ministry of Finance printed Related prefecture, township officials, January,2012 to Gansu and distributed the Notification on the Request for Alternative Project Planning During village heads, villagers, the feasibility Decembe Project 2013-2015 Fiscal Year by the National Development and Reform Committee and the authorized units and environmental r,2012 Areas Ministry of Finance by Use of the World Bank Loans with the article assessment authorized units volume[2012]2208 of the Foreign Capital of Development and Reform. 179    A) On 10-12th May, 2012, the Foreign Capital Center of the State Council of Poverty Alleviation and Development Sent officials to Guizhou Province to undertake the research of the World Bank Loans and Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI). The Experts Group of the World Bank, the research panel proceeded to the fieldwork by means of farmers interview, enterprises Foreign Capital Center of the State visitation, spot inspection, colloquia, the inspection of germination center, agricultural May, 2012 to Guizhou Council of Poverty Alleviation and development specialized cooperatives, the program base of Poverty reduction. B) On September, Province Development, the Foreign Capital 27th April, 2013, the Center of Guizhou Provincial Poverty Alleviation and 2013 Center of Guizhou Poverty Development proceeded to Zunyi to investigate the preparation for the World Bank Alleviation and Development Loans and Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI), and held colloquia to inspect the institution authorization, and the project expenditure. C) In September, 2013, the first technology preparation group experts and the National Poverty Alleviation and Development inspected the situation in Guizhou Province. A) On15-19th October, 2012, the economist expert Wu Liwei of the World Bank assumed the post of the Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in 2 Fieldwork Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas, leading his 15-member team undertake project Experts Group of the World Bank, the identification in Sichuan province. The team investigate infrastructure and industrial Foreign Capital Center of Sichuan development of Zhaojue, Jinyang county successively, and listened to the preparation October, 2012 Sichuan Poverty Alleviation and Development, situation of the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI) reported by to June, 2013 Province the first technology preparation group Liangshan prefecture and two counties. B) On December 19-20, 2012, the project leader of the World Bank of the Center of Sichuan Provincial Foreign Capital led a team to Xuyong and Gulin to investigate the preparation situation of the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI). C) On June 13-16, 2013, the first technology preparation group of the World Bank inspected the situation in Sichuan Province. A) On 6-8th November, 2012, the identification group expert team of the World Bank November, Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI) proceeded to Weiyuan, Longxi and Jingning Gansu 2012 to June, Experts Group of the World Bank, counties to conduct an inspection. The identification group of the World Bank Poverty Province 2013 Reduction and Loans Project (Phase VI) inspected and indentified the counties and villages of the World Bank Poverty Reduction and Loans Project (Phase VI), and 180    obtained an overview of the project areas. B) On 3-7th June, 2013, the preparation group of the Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas of the World Bank (the World Bank Poverty Reduction Project (Phase VI)) conducted a fieldwork to Huanxian, Zhangjiachuan counties and Anding District. 3 provinces, The social assessment authorized units conducted a fieldwork to the project areas, paid a 10 cities visit to three provinces, ten cities and 27 counties relating to the project, obtained the October to and 27 detailed information of the living condition of the residents who may tend to be November, counties Social assessment authorized units influenced along the project areas by means of questionnaire, colloquia, interview, 2013 related to the consulted the general public about the opinions and advice of the project project areas implementation, and recorded it accurately. Related villages and The contents of the questionnaire survey: the current situation of participant agricultural October to residents of 10 cities and 27 counties of Guizhou cooperatives, the requirement of the cooperatives, the assistance, project situation, and Questionnaire 3 November, 3 provinces, Province, Sichuan Province, Gansu personal information requisite from the cooperative. The total number of effective Survey 2013 10 cities and Province, questionnaire is 1506, among which 47.6% is from women. 27 counties Visit to the project area of 63 towns and 69 village collectivity; Interview of the related person in charge of Interview of the October to Information of the social and economic situation of the project areas, the development Project county-level institution Women’s 4 Key Multitude November, situation of the agriculture, husbandry, women development, and impoverishment; The Villages Federation, Office of Poverty 2013 consultation of the local requirement, attitude, opinions, and suggestion. Alleviation, the Bureau of Nationality and Religion, Agricultural Bureau, Bureau of Animal Husbandry. Related Intensive October to village and Investigation of the population Intensive interview of the residents in the project areas, and the information of the 5 Interview of November, residents of influenced in the project area, and residents’ living condition, project influences, attitude and suggestion. Residents 2013 the project 181    area General Related 69 general panel meetings with 958 October to Panel villages of attendance, including 305 women Basic information of the villages; Consultation of the attitudes, opinions, and November, Meetings the project accounting for 30.15% requirements. 2013 Focus areas 6 Panel Women Related 69 women panel meetings; 447 October to Panel villages of attendance of the women group Emphasis on the attention to the attitudes, requirements and suggestions of women November, Meeting the project discussion 2013 areas City( prefecture)-level, county-level of the project areas Office of Poverty Alleviation, the Women’s Federation, the Bureau of the Civil Affairs, the Project October to Bureau of Nationality and Religion, Institution office; 7 November, the Bureau of Labor and Social Information of related policies, implement programs, suggestions of the authorities Seminar related 2013 Security, the Bureau of Agricultural institutions and Animal Husbandry, the Bureau of Land and Resources, Demolition Office and the related government departments. 182    8.2 The Results of Public Participation (1) The Situation of the Project Awareness and Perception According to the statistics, 86.1% of the interviewees in the project areas have heard of the project, while13.9% of the interviewees don’t; among all the project provinces, the popularity of the project in Guizhou Province reaches the highest, accounting for 96.9%; the percentage in Gansu project areas is 88.3%, and 77.3% in Sichuan project areas. From the perspective of perception, 9.6% of the interviewees well perceive the project, 34.2% know the project, while 50.8% know little, 5.2% don’t know, and 0.2% even never heard of the project. The statistics indicates that the majority has heard of the project, but just knows a little. During the fieldwork, most of the interviewees demonstrated that they had noticed the dissemination of the project, but had no idea about the detailed contents and arrangements.. Table 4-2 Perception of the Project to the Farmers Heard Not Heard Provinces N % n % Guizhou 284 96.9 9 3.1 Sichuan 412 77.3 121 22.7 Gansu 601 88.3 80 11.7 Total 1297 86.1 210 13.9 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1,507 effective questionnaires Table 4-3 Perception Situation of the Program to Farmers (%) Provinces Well Perceived Known Known Little Not Known Never Heard Guizhou 20.8 34.2 43.0 1.4 0.7 Sichuan 9.0 42.2 43.2 5.6 0.0 Gansu 4.9 28.7 59.7 6.7 0.0 Total 9.6 34.2 50.8 5.2 0.2 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1,507 effective questionnaires (2) Perception of the Significance of the Project to Family According to the social economic investigation results, 54.4% of the interviewees attach the great importance of the project to family; 37.7% think the project is important to family; 4.5% believe the project is of a little importance to family; while, 0.7% think not important, and 2.7% don’t care about it. Obviously, the influenced interviewees generally hold that the project is of great significance to family. During the fieldwork, many interviewees expect the project could be implemented as soon as possible so that they can be benefited imminently. Table 4-4 Perception of the Significance of the Project to Family (%) Provinces Very Important Important Comparative Important Not Important Don’t Care Guizhou 58.0 39.6 0.7 0.7 1.0 Sichuan 54.4 34.3 4.9 0.9 5.4 Gansu 52.9 39.5 5.9 0.4 1.3 Total 54.4 37.7 4.5 0.7 2.7 183    Source: Data of questionnaire survey; Effective questionnaire: 1507 (3) Support of the Project In the investigation of the support to the project, 95.7% of the interviewee support the project construction. Guizhou reaches the highest accounting for 98.6%; 0.4% of the interviewees oppose the project construction, and 3.9% of the interviewees don’t care. The statistics indicates that the program is generally supported, and is popular among the villagers in project areas. Table 4-5 Support of the Project from the Farmers Support Oppose Don’t Care Provinces n % n % n % Guizhou 289 98.6 1 0.3 3 1.0 Sichuan 498 93.4 3 0.6 32 6.0 Gansu 655 96.2 2 0.3 24 3.5 Total 1442 95.7 6 0.4 59 3.9 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1,507 effective questionnaires The influenced people in the project areas support to construct the project, and simultaneously most of them, accounting for 94% agree to cooperate with the government to implement the project, while 1.8% are against, 3.5% don’t care, and 0.7% have no idea. Table 4-6 Farmers’ Willingness to cooperate with Government to Implement the Project (%) Provinces Willing Unwilling Don’t Care Don’t Know Guizhou 95.6 2.0 1.7 0.7 Sichuan 92.5 1.5 6.0 0.0 Gansu 94.6 1.9 2.2 1.3 Total 94.0 1.8 3.5 0.7 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1,507 effective questionnaires (4) Willingness to Volunteer to Work Social economic investigation results indicate that 96% of the interviewees are willing to obtain jobs by the project, Gansu accounting for 98.1% reaches the highest, followed by Guizhou accounting for 96.9%; Sichuan accounting for 92.7% is the lowest. The statistics indicates that the enthusiasm of the influenced project areas is rather high, and the demand of jobs by the project is urgent for the reason of income increase. Table 4-7 Willingness of the farmers to Volunteer to Work Willing Unwilling Provinces Number (n) Percentage (%) Number (n) Percentage (%) Guizhou 284 96.9 9 3.1 Sichuan 494 92.7 39 7.3 Gansu 668 98.1 13 1.9 Total 1446 96.0 61 4.0 Source: Questionnaire survey data, with 1,507 effective questionnaires 184    8.3 The Contents Included in the Project Implement Brochure 2.1 PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION PREPARATION During the preparation of the project and the social assessment procedures , the previously unrestricted and informed participation and cooperation with the stakeholders, a series of project information publication and public participation have been conducted. In order to promote the enthusiasm stakeholders, especially the effective participation of the related stakeholders, improve their perception and participation of the project, guarantee the right to be informed, right to participate, right to supervise, right to express and right to decide of the objective people and related stakeholders, promote the achievement of the project with the lowest social cost in the implementation of the project, a brochure of community participation is required during the preparation of the project. The participant opportunity, methods and the rights and obligations during the participation should be clarified and systematized; the directly benefited or harmed groups, especially ethnic minorities, the impoverished and women should be insured. 2.2 WHOLE PROCESS OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION The project community participant activities which include the main contents of the project participation, participants and their roles, methods and requirements of the participation are involved thoroughly in the whole procedures of the project preparation, implementation, operation and maintenance. The detailed plans of each project stage are listed in Table 8-8. 2.3 SUPERVISION AND EVALUATION OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION Supervision and Evaluation Institution: The county project office is designated as the executive body of the interior supervision ; the supervision and evaluation of the third party shall be in the charge of independent supervision institution. The contents and indicators of the supervision and evaluation: The detailed contents and indicators of the supervision and evaluation are clarified in the project implementation brochure. The arrangements of the supervision and evaluation: The arrangements of the supervision and evaluation consist of the mid-evaluation, late-evaluation, social influences supervision, migration settlement supervision and the environmental influences supervision. 185    Table 4-8 Social Participation Activities Schedule Project Participant Participant Participant Rules and Methods Responsible Bodies Results Stages Activities Methods Objects Put up the counselor recruitment notice All villagers The villagers could be informed of the Counselor Village in the villages; Publicize the results of and village County project office content and result of the counselor Recruitment Publicity the counselor recruitment in the cadres recruitment. villages Provincial project The villagers could be informed of the Media office, project information. All villagers Publicity Publicize the basic project situation of city/county/area the villages in the city/ county/ area project office Publicize the project contents on the The villagers could be informed of the Internet City/county/area All villagers institution websites of the poverty project information. Publicity project office alleviation. Project Village The villagers could be informed of the Preparation cadres project information. Stage Project meetings The county project Publicity and the office, project Mobilization general All villagers The county project Office holds the township, village assembly of meetings of village head or village cadres villagers secretary in cooperation with the representativ township, and informs the basic project es information. Village The villagers could be informed of the Publicity( no project information. tices, All villagers Publicize the key contents in the Village cadres banners, and villages, with the publicity time no less broadcast) than 2 weeks) 186    Proposals Village cadres shall send to families The villagers shall be informed of the All villagers Village cadres Publicity after the reception of proposals project information. Villagers shall take part in the Evaluation of the counselors; supervision of counselors in Complaint situation of the counselors Supervising Village cadres, information publicity and mobilization, collected by the Village Committee and the All villagers city/county/ area cooperative foundation, training, project office Supervision counselors project office、 industrial development planning and and the operation situation. Management Supervision he villagers could be informed of the The county project of the All villagers, Supervision of the construction quality construction situation office, construction Project cooperatives by the Villagers companies construction Basic Project Situation, Industrial Publicity cadres shall be informed the basic Village development planning, project project situation, industrial development Project cadre, operation procedures, establishment of planning, project operation procedures; Cadres Implementat counselors, stock cooperative, the requirements The county project Publicity cadres shall be informed the Training ion Stage villagers of the donation by cooperatives, Office mobilization methods and contents. Publicity representativ infrastructure construction, and the es village publicity and mobilization activities. Organization Basic Project Situation; advantages and The villagers shall be informed the basic and Training disadvantages of the operation project contents, industrial development procedures; industrial development planning, and project operation procedures. Villagers Village cadres, planning, establishment of stock Publicity counselors and All villagers cooperative, the requirements of the Mobilization villagers donation by cooperatives, Training representatives infrastructure construction, and the village publicity and mobilization activities. 187    Send out the The county project The villagers shall be informed the basic publicity All villagers Project Office shall send the brochures Office and village project contents, industrial development brochure to all villagers by Village Committee. cadres, planning, and project operation procedures. Mobilization Willing to participate in the The cooperative members are informed the meetings of reorganized general meeting of the project information, cooperative Cooperative council, reorganizin cooperative, inform the project reorganization procedures, and vote results. All villagers and the board of g the information, and conduct information supervisors cooperative publicity and vote of the reorganized s cooperative. Villagers shall be informed the contents Cooperative The right and obligations of the and procedures arranged by the Arrange Village cadres and All villagers Cooperative arrangement group shall cooperatives. ment counselors be informed. The group members shall The group members shall be generated Groups be elected. cooperative arrangement group. Establishme The basic information of cooperatives, The villagers shall be informed the basic nt/Reorganiz the conditions, and requirements to join project contents; ation the in the cooperatives, and the income The right and obligations of the Preparation Cooperative Cooperatives All villagers distribution shall be informed to the Cooperative; Meeting arrangement groups villagers. The requirements of the The requirements of the donation by donation by cooperatives, and cooperatives, and cooperative constitution cooperative constitution draft. draft. Establishment of the Cooperative Cooperative constitution and the general conference agenda and the management; the rolls of the generation of Cooperative election shall be generated by voting; the council and the supervisory board; the All members determination of the cooperative Cooperative contributive inventory of members; cooperative general designation; the cooperative director of arrangement groups cooperative industrial development members meetings the council, members of the council, planning, and The management of the executive supervisor, members of the donation by cooperatives; supervisory board; cooperative The election of cooperative council and 188    constitution; appointment of the supervisor board; cooperative financial personnel; The population ratio of women, ethnic cooperative industrial development minority and impoverishment. schedule and project implementary plans; The management of the donation by cooperatives; the formulation of the cooperative interior management system; the percentage of women shall be no less than 30%, and the election results shall be publicized. Construction personnel shall publicize Villagers shall be informed of the The county project the construction information once a construction situation Put up the All villagers, office, and the month, and publicize the construction Construction posters cooperatives construction communicators and the contact Informatio companies information. n The county project The results of project construction Publicity Villagers meeting shall be held once Villagers’ All villagers, office, and the complaints the construction problems are found, meeting cooperatives construction and submit after the collection. companies Priority shall be given to the job- The county project The situation of volunteer to work of Construction Villagers provision to the villagers in office, and the villagers Participatio volunteer All villagers Infrastructure construction. 30% construction n to work priority shall be given to women. companies Villagers shall be informed of the Operation Cooperative Cooperative operation and the capital Cooperative council, cooperative operation situation (the sales Cooperative Situation members, all condition shall be arranged and supervisory board price of agricultural produce, and income Operation Publicity villagers publicized quarterly. and counselors distribution); percentage of members who participate in cooperative activities. 189    Investigation results of the training requirements; training plans; training agricultural According to the local development photos; percentage of the impoverish and County project office, industrial, the expert training shall be members among those who have technologica All villagers counselors and organized. The ethnic minority and participated in the industrial training; l training of Village Committee women shall be no less than 30%. percentage of women members among Industrial villagers those who have participated in the and industrial training Cooperative The cooperative management shall be The number of cooperatives with the training 训 Cooperative County project office, Cooperative trained, and the cooperative members training experience of operation and management counselors and managers enjoy the equal opportunities to be management; the training record of the training Village Committee trained cooperative management personnel Send out County project office, The situation of the villagers’ acquisition Send out the plantation and cultivation the training All villagers counselors and of training brochures brochures to project areas villagers brochures Village Committee Appointment Dividing the maintenance personnel The continuous management of the County project office of based on the influences of the infrastructure All villagers and Village maintenance infrastructure; the government shall Committee personnel employ the villagers to manage County project office, The situation of the maintenance personnel Maintenance Infrastructure maintenance training Project Infrastructur Maintenance Construction training and textual information personnel shall be conducted to the maintenance Operation e personnel companies and training personnel Stage maintenance Village Committee Implementation and supervisory Expenditure management of infrastructure Village Maintenance system shall be formulated based on County project office maintenance Committee, expenditure the expenditure management of and Village Cooperatives management infrastructure maintenance; supervision Committee and villagers shall be conducted by the villagers 190    Any discontent during the Clarification implementation and operation of the Provincial project Complaints of the project shall be resorted to the office, County project villagers and Appeals appeals complaints system. Detailed office and Village procedures procedures are clarified in the Committee Complaints and Appeals procedures. 191    8.4 Complaints System During the implementation and operation of the project, any discontent could be resorted to the complaints system. Detailed procedures are as followings: Stage 1：Report to the Village Committee by means of written or oral form, and then the Village Committee works out the solution and records it by written form. The Village Committee should reply and solve within two weeks. Stage 2： If the villagers are dissatisfied with the results, the appeal could be raised to the township project station, the county project office, the provincial project office, or the central project coordinative office after receiving the results. The management institutions should make out the final decision within 2 weeks. The institutions receive the complaints and appeals from the villagers freely, while the reasonable cost generated from the project will be disbursed from the contingencies. The telephone numbers and the office address of the working personnel in charge of receiving the complaints and appeals shall be publicized. 192    Complainant Fe Appeal by means letters, ed telephone or E-mails ba ck to the Township project County project  Provincial Project National Project  co mp lai na nts According to the appeal contents .Pu bli cit y if Process Directly Process by Process by Process by the ne Obligating reporting to the judicial ces sar y Opinions and Results of Process Appeal Process Process Feedback Figure 4-1 Complaint and Appeal Procedures 193    9 Action Plan and Implementatio 9.1 Project’s Social Risk and Mitigation Measures (1) Measures to Enhance Social Benefits of Project 1) Improving the Organizational Degree of Farmers Through the construction of standardized cooperatives and training, organizational degree of farmers has been improved; meanwhile, the challenge is how to set up farmers' organization, and how to avoid marginalizing rural households. Therefore, it is recommended: ①Establish stock cooperatives in which farmers share interests and responsibility, and ensure the proportion of poor households with cards gradually reach 80 % or more; ②Carry out technical and management training for cooperative members, and strengthen the organization construction and standardized management, including constructing guidance/ guidelines for the development of cooperatives in the project area; ③Conduct demonstration and guidance by building production base or model households, and organize rural households to participate in industrial development; ④Set up an open and transparent revenue sharing mechanism, and enhance the sense of belonging to cooperatives of rural households. 2) Enhancing Subject Awareness and Self- development Capacity of Farmers Project can enhance self-development ability of rural households, especially rural households’ subject awareness. At the same time, the survey shows a lot of rural households do not understand cooperatives, rural households rarely really participate in the construction and operation process of cooperatives, and participants of cooperatives do not have a sense of belonging, which are the challenges we are facing. How to cultivate subject consciousness of rural households? How to allow the villagers to participate? How to conduct training? How to empower? To solve these problems is of great significance to improve subject awareness and self- development capacity of rural households. Therefore, it is recommended: ①Develop information disclosure and publicity as well as training programs throughout the early, mid and late stages of project (see project implementation manual), especially community mobilization and publicity in the early preparation stage of project; ②Through various publicity and participation ways such as villager congress and village group meetings, democratically elect members of Cooperatives Council and Supervisory Board. On the basis of right to know and voluntary, produce cooperative members, especially considering the needs and ideas of women, minorities and poor households; ③Establish shareholding cooperative with broad participation of villagers and democratic management, and focus on solving the problem of insufficient funds for the poor households in participating in 194    cooperatives; ④According to the urgency of the various training needs of the villagers, especially the characteristics and needs of the agricultural activities carried out by the villagers in four seasons, carry out skills and technical training related to industrial development as well as operation and management of cooperatives; ⑤Project training time should avoid ethnic festivals, farming season and women housework time and fully consider the timetable throughout the year; ⑥Training location should be near to villagers’ settlements, which are easy to access, and take care for individual rural households in remote areas; ⑦Training methods should vary from person to person and from area to area, maximize the use of the local language and verbal expression, complemented by videos, posters, brochures, etc.; ⑧On the basis of respecting the willingness of women, minorities, poor households and other vulnerable groups, the publicity information of projects and cooperatives should be known to 80% or more of households (awareness rate of poor households with cards should be 100%). The participants of project training program should include 30% of women, 80% of poor households, and 30% of minorities (project areas for ethnic minorities). ⑨It should regularly conduct random check of publicity and training situation, including twice a year in early stage of project, and once a year in other stages. 3) Improving Farmers’ Ability to Withstand Market Risks The key to the change of farmers’ production and operation pattern, and the enhancement of their ability to withstand market risks, lies in establishing their own cooperatives, which can make villagers voluntarily join together to develop competitive industries. Therefore, the challenge is how to improve the ability of farmers to withstand market risks. Based on this, it is recommended: ①Conduct comprehensive assessment of agricultural public infrastructure project status and needs in project villages, build production shortcut, irrigation and other facilities as required, to and avoid repeated use of funds to improve infrastructure in industrial development; ② Strengthen cooperative management and industrial development-related training to improve the sustainable development capacity of cooperatives, such as conduct training for administrative staff on a regular basis, including organizational and management capability training, standardized production training, efficient agricultural technology training, marketing and processing training of agricultural products, and so on; ③ Establish agricultural products collection points, storage distribution points, agricultural products trading market, agricultural market information release platform, agricultural products tracing and other supportive facilities and systems required by market-oriented agricultural development; ④Within the constraints of technology and funds, carry out stock breeding base building, and develop a seed/breeder, cultivation, field management, sales or processing and other standardized construction in a unified manner. 4) Improving the Adaptation of Infrastructure to Rural household's Production, Livelihood Development and Requirements 195    Irrigation, public transport and other infrastructure can help rural households improve production and living conditions. Meanwhile, the challenge is how to build the infrastructures that are appropriate to rural households’ production and livelihood development and requirements? And it should ensure infrastructure built can conduct sustainable operation and play a corresponding role. For this reason, it is recommended: ①By holding villager representatives meeting and village group meetings, adopting issue tree and other participatory approaches, discuss the infrastructure related to the production and livelihood of the villagers, and determine construction plans; ②Hand over the built public infrastructure, such as village road, production shortcut, irrigation facilities, etc. to the village collective ownership, and conduct supervision, management and maintenance; turn over storage, processing, marketing and other facilities and equipments related to industry value chain to cooperative collective ownership, and assume supervision, management and maintenance responsibilities. 5) Advancing Rural Households’ Equitable Benefit and Sustainable Development Increasing the chances of equitable benefit for rural households, making a real benefit for villagers, are the key to consolidate beneficiary connection of cooperatives, and promote sustainable development of rural households. Meanwhile, the challenge is how to empower the poor and make them integrate into cooperatives, so that the poor have a fair chance to benefit. Recommendations: ①Hold general meetings of members to discuss the development of cooperative income distribution mechanism and conduct publicity. Be sure to clarify the income distribution scale and order, determine the ratio of pre-aside funds, public welfare funds, relief funds, venture funds, development funds and other public accumulation in income distribution, and then determine the specific way of cooperatives’ income distribution; ②Transform of the old cooperative ownership structure, and establish broad shareholding cooperatives jointly possessed by rural households; ③Regularly open revenue allocation results, file cooperative finance that accepts members’ supervision and query; ④Establish sound complainant channels and mechanisms that are easy to operate; ⑤Conduct research on the equitable benefit mechanisms of rural households in the cooperatives. 6) Increasing Employment Opportunities for Rural Households, Improving Employment Environment, Enhancing Labor Unit Value and Promoting Rural Households' Income Increase in rural households' income can be achieved by enhancing the unit value of labor, increasing employment opportunities, and improving employment conditions. Meanwhile, the challenge is how to increase income by improving the production factor of labor, especially by to improving poor rural households’ resource situation. Suggestions: ①Combine the industries of project village with the wishes and needs of villagers, conduct training in seedling and nursery, crop cultivation and field management, disease prevention and control, stock breeding and breed improvement, forage planting and scientific farming methods, livestock disease control, high efficient agricultural science and technology, product processing and marketing and other 196    industrial value chain, and ensure that more than 30 percent of women and 30 percent or more of the minority population ( in the project area of minority ), 80 % or more of the poor households participate in the trainings; ②Organize the villagers to participate in infrastructure construction, and on the basis of respecting the wishes of the villagers, give 30% of the employment priority to poor households, minorities, women and other vulnerable groups. (2) Measures to Reduce Social Risks 1) Avoiding the Risks of Land Acquisition and Land Management In order to avoid or reduce the risk of land acquisition and land management in project, it is recommended: Conduct publicity and mobilization, to make farmers understand cooperatives, rural industrial development opportunities and advantages and encourage them to voluntarily prepare land and join cooperatives. Cooperatives raise money to convert land value into shares, and turn the land into cooperatives’ production base, which needs to consider the quality and location of the land, assess the expected benefits and avoid forcing down the price of land as shares; Reduce or avoid land acquisition and demolishing in the implementation process of project; If unavoidable, it needs to be in strict accordance with the Resettlement Policy Framework to carry out land acquisition and resettlement activities. Ensure that cooperatives supported by projects follow the principle of voluntary participation of rural households, access to fair land management and equity arrangements; Ensure that rural households can voluntarily choose whether to join the production base, without being affected by adjacent production bases; Adopt the way of clear written contract to promote short-term and transparent land lease, rather than long-term land lease, so that poor rural households are free to opt out of cooperatives, especially in the conditions that immigrant household members return to village; During the implementation of the project, if it needs to integrate land cooperatives to establish production bases, the World Bank / PMO of Guizhou Province should together review all land leasing and management programs in advance; Confirm that the share arrangement, which require rural households to provide or transfer the land to cooperatives as a share option, will not be supported by the project. 2) Avoiding the Risk of Marginalizing Ecological Migration, Relocation Migration as well as such Immigrants in the Past There exists ecological migration and relocation migration in project areas. In order to minimize the adverse effects of immigration and emigration immigration on the cooperatives construction and industrial development in project villages and promote the participation of immigrants and households, it is recommended: 197    ①For immigrants moving into project villages, they can enjoy opportunities and rights of equal participation, industrial development, and equitable benefit; ②In combination of poverty reduction loans, poverty reduction assistance and other project supporting, it can provide ecological migration (especially poor households)with funding, technology and other support; ③For project villages planning to develop crop farming, it is necessary to adjust land for ecological migrants in order to help them participate in project; If not, then the village will not be supported in the project. 3) Avoiding the Risk of Unequal Benefit Caused by Conditional Grants of Cooperatives In order to avoid monopoly use of grants by powerful group, it is recommended that: ①It should hold general meetings of members, to develop the use and management methods of grants through full discussion and consultation of cooperative members; ②It can take the policy to turn grants into the shares of members in cooperatives, and it needs to ensure the support of poor households is more 20-30 percent than ordinary ones; ③It can improve the internal organizational structure of cooperatives, in which specially assigned person take in charge of the management and use of grants, regularly public the use condition of grants, and accept the supervision of members. 4) Avoiding the Risk of Labor Shortages In order to avoid labor shortages in projects, and promote the rational flow of rural labor resources, it is recommended that: ①It should strengthen publicity for the project, and publicity can be conducted in the period of massive return of migrant labor; ②It should establish cooperatives preparatory group to support and encourage students, migrant workers and other people to participate in the preparation and preparation of cooperatives, and it should ensure that at least one representative of ethnic minorities (ethnic minorities live together), a woman representative, a representative of poor households to assist peasants in project villages to carry out the preparation and setting up of cooperatives; ③ It should conduct specialized training in the operation and management of cooperatives for cooperative management personnel elected by villagers, and actively carry out visit to cooperative excellent base; ④It should set up cooperatives counselor system, select counselors who are aware of policies, have strong organizational skills, are familiar with the local language and workable, and can be stationed in villages to carry out works, and it also should establish counselor management and appraisal system, which views the cooperative work of counselors as a basis for the assessment. 5) Avoiding the Risks of Public Infrastructure Operation and Management in Rural Areas In order to avoid the appearance of situation that no person manage the built public infrastructure in rural areas and management and protection are conducted untimely, and to ensure the project continues to 198    generate benefit, it is recommended that: ①It should conclude the property, operation and management responsibilities of built rural infrastructure into operating manual and make clear description; ②It should develop village-level operation and management measures for public infrastructure. 199    Table 4-9 Social Action Plan for a Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas Recomm Target Group Implementin Tim Specific Action Funds Monitoring Indicator endations g Agency e Source for Action A-Measures to enhance social benefits of project 1. Guizhou Province, Project 2014- ①Focus on the establishment of stock cooperatives Project funds ①Contribution of rural Improvi Sichuan Province and Managemen where farmers share interests and responsibilities, and for households to cooperatives and ng Gansu Province have 27 t Office, ensure the proportion of poor households with cards comprehensi allocation of shares of poor organiz counties, 538 Poverty gradually reach 80 % or more; ve industry households; ational administrative villages, Reduction ②Carry out technical and management training for chain ②The number of households degree with a total population of Office, cooperative members, and strengthen the organization development participating in the cooperatives, of 946.4 thousand, of which Agriculture construction and standardized management, including (250.58 and the number and proportion farmers poor people accounts for and Animal constructing guidance/ guidelines for the development of million yuan of poor households, and voting 342.9 thousand, Husbandry, cooperatives in the project area; for Guizhou record of poor households; minorities 240.9 and other ③Conduct demonstration and guidance by building Province, ③Records of training times, thousand, and women relevant production base or model households, and organize rural 387.83 number of participants, and 462.2 thousand. industry households to participate in industrial development; million yuan contents, and records of poor offices, ④Set up an open and transparent revenue sharing for Sichuan households participating in the township mechanism. Province, trainings; governments 558.3916 ④Guidance / guidelines for , village million yuan cooperative building; committees, for Gansu ⑤Demonstration construction of etc. Province), cooperatives; and special ⑥Cooperatives’ income funds of distribution. Agriculture and Animal Husbandry 200    2. Guizhou Province, PMO, 2014- ①Develop information disclosure and publicity as well Project funds ①Records of training times, Improvi Sichuan Province and Poverty as training programs throughout the early, mid and late for number of participants, and ng self- Gansu Province have 27 Reduction stages of project (see project implementation manual), comprehensi contents, and original records of develop counties, 538 Office, especially community mobilization and publicity in the ve industry poor households participating in ment administrative villages, Agriculture early preparation stage of project; chain the trainings; capacit with a total population of and Animal ②Through various publicity and participation ways such development ②Rural households’ awareness y of 946.4 thousand, of which Husbandry, as villager congress and village group meetings, (250.58 of and participation in rural poor people accounts for Women’s democratically elect members of Cooperatives Council million yuan cooperatives, and needs, househ 342.9 thousand, Federation, and Supervisory Board. On the basis of right to know and for Guizhou suggestions and voting record of olds minorities 240.9 Bureau of voluntary, produce cooperative members, especially Province, women, minorities, poor and thousand, and women Ethnic and considering the needs and ideas of women, minorities 387.83 households; commu 462.2 thousand. Religious and poor households; million yuan ③The number of households nities Affairs, and ③Establish shareholding cooperative with broad for Sichuan getting conditional grants from relevant participation of villagers and democratic management, Province, cooperatives, and the number of industry and focus on solving the problem of insufficient funds for 558.3916 poor rural households and the offices, the poor households in participating in cooperatives; million yuan amount of support payments; township ④According to the urgency of the various training needs for Gansu ④Evaluation of rural households governments of the villagers, especially the characteristics and needs Province) , on training time, place and mode , village of the agricultural activities carried out by the villagers in and special selection; committees, four seasons, carry out skills and technical training funds of ⑤Contrast between training etc. related to industrial development as well as operation and Agriculture content and the training needs of management of cooperatives; and Animal rural households; ⑤Project training time should avoid ethnic festivals, Husbandry ⑥Suitability of training to rural farming season and women housework time and fully households’ production and life; consider the timetable throughout the year; ⑦The number and proportion of ⑥Training location should be near to villagers’ women, minorities, and poor settlements, which are easy to access, and take care for households participating in individual rural households in remote areas; training; ⑦Training methods should vary from person to person ⑧Records of spot check results 201    and from area to area, maximize the use of the local of project awareness and language and verbal expression, complemented by training. videos, posters, brochures, etc.; ⑧On the basis of respecting the willingness of women, minorities, poor households and other vulnerable groups, the publicity information of projects and cooperatives should be known to 80% or more of households (awareness rate of poor households with cards should be 100%). The participants of project training program should include 30% of women, 80% of poor households, and 30% of minorities (project areas for ethnic minorities). ⑨It should regularly conduct random check of publicity and training situation, including twice a year in early stage of project, and once a year in other stages. 3. Guizhou Province, PMO, 2014- ①Conduct comprehensive assessment of agricultural Project funds ①The mount and proportion in Improvi Sichuan Province and Poverty public infrastructure project status and needs in project (417.12 total investment of built ng rural Gansu Province have 27 Reduction villages, build production shortcut, irrigation and other million yuan infrastructure; househ counties, 538 Office, facilities as required, to and avoid repeated use of funds for Guizhou ②The scale of repaired or olds’ administrative villages, Agriculture to improve infrastructure in industrial development; Province, new-built roads, drinking water ability with a total population of and Animal ②Strengthen cooperative management and industrial 535.67 facilities, irrigation facilities and to 946.4 thousand, of which Husbandry, development-related training to improve the sustainable million yuan other infrastructure; withsta poor people accounts for Trade and development capacity of cooperatives, such as conduct for Sichuan ③Contributions of rural nd 342.9 thousand, Industry training for administrative staff on a regular basis, Province, households to cooperatives; market minorities 240.9 Bureau , and including organizational and management capability 651.891920 ④The number of rural risks thousand, and women relevant training, standardized production training, efficient yuan million households participating in the 202    462.2 thousand. township agricultural technology training, marketing and for Gansu cooperatives, and the number ① committees processing training of agricultural products, and so on; Province) , and proportion of poor and village ③Establish agricultural products collection points, and special households; committees, storage distribution points, agricultural products trading funds of ⑤Records of training times, etc. market, agricultural market information release platform, Poverty number of participants, and agricultural products tracing and other supportive Reduction contents; facilities and systems required by market-oriented Office/Agric ⑥Supporting facilities and agricultural development; ulture and institution building of relevant ④Within the constraints of technology and funds, carry Animal market-oriented development of out stock breeding base building, and develop a Husbandry industries; seed/breeder, cultivation, field management, sales or and other ⑦Standardized production of processing and other standardized construction in a relevant industries related to unified manner. departments cooperatives. 4. Guizhou Province, PMO, 2014- ①By holding villager representatives meeting and Construction ①Infrastructure of project Improvi Sichuan Province and Poverty 2018 village group meetings, adopting issue tree and other funds for villages needs investigations and ng the Gansu Province have 27 Reduction participatory approaches, discuss the infrastructure infrastructure corresponding results; adaptati counties, 538 Office, related to the production and livelihood of the villagers, of project ②The property ownership of on of administrative villages, Agriculture and determine construction plans; (166.54 public infrastructure, and infrastr with a total population of and Animal ②Hand over the built public infrastructure, such as million yuan responsible agency of operation ucture 946.4 thousand, of which Husbandry, village road, production shortcut, irrigation facilities, etc. for Guizhou and maintenance. to rural poor people accounts for design units, to the village collective ownership, and conduct Province, househ 342.9 thousand, construction supervision, management and maintenance; turn over 147.84 old's minorities 240.9 units, and storage, processing, marketing and other facilities and million yuan product thousand, and women relevant equipments related to industry value chain to cooperative for Sichuan ion, 462.2 thousand. township collective ownership, and assume supervision, Province,                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ① This part of the project funds comes from the sub-project 1 (sub-project of modern industry value chain development ) and sub-item 2 (sub-project of public infrastructure and service support). 203    liveliho committees management and maintenance responsibilities. 93.5003 od and village million yuan develop committees, for Gansu ment etc. Province), and and funds require from Poverty ments Reduction Office / Agriculture and Animal Husbandry a nd other relevant departments 5. Guizhou Province, PMO, 2014- ①Hold general meetings of members to discuss the Project funds ①The number of households Advanc Sichuan Province and Poverty development of cooperative income distribution (252.58 getting conditional grants from ing Gansu Province have 27 Reduction mechanism and conduct publicity. Be sure to clarify the million yuan cooperatives, and the number of rural counties, 538 Office, income distribution scale and order, determine the ratio for Guizhou poor rural households and the househ administrative villages, Trade and of pre-aside funds, public welfare funds, relief funds, Province, amount of support payments; olds’ with a total population of Industry venture funds, development funds and other public 389.63 ②Voting records of poor equitabl 946.4 thousand, of which Bureau, and accumulation in income distribution, and then determine million yuan households participating in the e poor people accounts for relevant the specific way of cooperatives’ income distribution; for Sichuan building of cooperatives; benefit 342.9 thousand, universities, ②Transform of the old cooperative ownership structure, Province, ③Original records of poor and minorities 240.9 research and establish broad shareholding cooperatives jointly Gansu households participating in the sustaina thousand, and women institutions, possessed by rural households; 558.9916 activities of cooperatives; ble 462.2 thousand. township ③Regularly open revenue allocation results, file million yuan ④Specifics of income 204    develop committees cooperative finance that accepts members’ supervision for Guansu distribution mechanism, ① ment and village and query; Province) publicized results and the committees, ④Establish sound complainant channels and awareness of members; etc. mechanisms that are easy to operate; ⑤Results of old cooperative ⑤Conduct research on the equitable benefit mechanisms ownership reform; of rural households in the cooperatives. ⑥Publicity, filing as well as supervision and feedback records of income distribution of cooperatives; ⑦Results and records of complainants 6. Guizhou Province, PMO, 2014- ①Combine the industries of project village with the Project funds ①Records of training times, Increasi Sichuan Province and Poverty wishes and needs of villagers, conduct training in (417.12 number of participants, and ng Gansu Province have 27 Reduction seedling and nursery, crop cultivation and field million yuan contents, and the number and employ counties, 538 Office, management, disease prevention and control, stock for Guizhou proportion of women, minorities, ment administrative villages, Agriculture breeding and breed improvement, forage planting and Province, and poor households opportu with a total population of and Animal scientific farming methods, livestock disease control, 535.67 participating in the trainings; nities 946.4 thousand, of which Husbandry, high efficient agricultural science and technology, million yuan ②The participation of rural for poor people accounts for design units, product processing and marketing and other industrial for Sichuan households in the building of rural 342.9 thousand, construction value chain, and ensure that more than 30% of women Province, project infrastructure, and househ minorities 240.9 units, and and 30% or more of the minority population ( in the 651.891920 willingness to work and olds, thousand, and women relevant project area of minority ), 80 % or more of the poor million yuan participation of poor households, improvi 462.2 thousand. township households participate in the trainings; for Gansu minorities, and women. ② ng committees ②Organize the villagers to participate in infrastructure Province)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ① This part of the project funds comes from the sub-project 1 (sub-project of modern industry value chain development ) and sub-item 3 (sub-project of investment costs of poverty reduction mechanism through industrial development and promotion). ② This part of the project funds comes from the sub-project 1 (a sub-project of modern industry value chain development ) and sub-item 2 (sub-project of public infrastructure and service 205    employ and village construction, and on the basis of respecting the wishes of ment committees, the villagers, give priority of 30% employment environ etc. opportunities to poor households, minorities, women and ment, other vulnerable groups. enhanci ng labor unit value and promoti ng rural househ olds' income B-Measures to reduce social risks of project 1. Guizhou Province, PMO, Poverty 2014-2 ①Cooperatives raise money to convert land value Project funds ①The standards and scale of Avoiding Sichuan Province and Reduction 018 into shares, and turn the land into cooperatives’ (domestic cooperatives to treat the price of the risks Gansu Province have 27 Office, Bureau of production base, which needs to consider the quality funds) land as shares, and the of land counties, 538 Land resources, and location of the land, assess the expected participation of cooperative acquisitio administrative villages, Agriculture and benefits and avoid forcing down the price of land as members; n and with a total population Animal shares; ②Land acquisition cases; land of 946.4 thousand, of Husbandry, ②It should reduce or avoid land acquisition and reference to Resettlement Policy managem which poor people relevant demolishing in the implementation process of Framework; ent accounts for 342.9 township project; thousand, minorities committees and ③If it is unavoidable to involve land requisition and     support). 206    240.9 thousand, and village demolishing during the process of project women 462.2 thousand. committees, etc. implementation, it needs to be in strict accordance with the Resettlement Policy Framework to carry out land acquisition and demolishing activities. ④It should ensure that cooperatives supported by projects follow the principle of voluntary participation of rural households, access to fair land management and equity arrangements; ⑤It should ensure that rural households can voluntarily choose whether to join the production base, without being affected by adjacent production bases; ⑥It should adopt the way of clear written contract to promote short-term and transparent land lease, rather than long-term land lease, so that poor rural households are free to opt out of cooperatives, especially in the conditions that immigrant household members return to village; ⑦During the implementation of the project, if it needs to integrate land cooperatives to establish production bases, the World Bank / PMO of Guizhou Province should together review all land leasing and management programs in advance; ⑧It should confirm that the share arrangement, which require rural households to provide or transfer the land to cooperatives as a share option, will not be supported by the project. 2. Guizhou Province, PMO, Poverty 2014-2 ①For immigrants moving into project villages, they / ①The participation of Avoiding Sichuan Province and Reduction 018 can enjoy opportunities and rights of equal immigrants moved into project 207    the risks Gansu Province have 27 Office, participation, industrial development, and equitable villages in cooperatives, of counties, 538 Development benefit; industrial development, and marginali administrative villages, and Reform ②In combination of poverty reduction loans, equitable benefit; zing with a total population Commission / poverty reduction assistance and other project ②The participation of emigrants ecological of 946.4 thousand, of Board, and supporting, it can provide ecological migration moved out of project villages in migration, which poor people relevant (especially poor households)with funding, cooperatives, industrial relocation accounts for 342.9 township and technology and other support; development, and equitable migration thousand, minorities village ③For project villages planning to develop crop benefit. as well as 240.9 thousand, and committees, etc. farming, it is necessary to adjust land for ecological such women 462.2 thousand. migrants in order to help them participate in project; immigran If not, then the village will not be supported in the ts in the project. past 3. Guizhou Province, PMO, Poverty 2014- ①It should hold general meetings of members, to Conditional ①Development process and Avoiding Sichuan Province and Reduction develop the use and management methods of grants grants for implementation of grants the risks Gansu Province have 27 Office, through full discussion and consultation of cooperatives management methods; of counties, 538 Agriculture and cooperative members; for projects ②Number of rural households unequal administrative villages, Animal ②It can take the policy to turn grants into the shares (213.46 and poor households which have benefit with a total population Husbandry, and of members in cooperatives, and it needs to ensure million yuan obtained conditional grant caused by of 946.4 thousand, of relevant the support of poor households is more 20-30 for Guizhou support from cooperatives, and condition which poor people township and percent than ordinary ones; Province, the amount of support payments; al grants accounts for 342.9 village ③It can improve the internal organizational 345.65 ③Management staff and usage of thousand, minorities committees, etc. structure of cooperatives, in which specially million yuan publicity of grants, and cooperati 240.9 thousand, and assigned person take in charge of the management for Sichuan supervision and feedback ves women 462.2 thousand. and use of grants, regularly public the use condition Province, records of members. of grants, and accept the supervision of members. 512,1971 million yuan for Gansu Province) 208    4. Guizhou Province, PMO, Poverty 2014- ①It should strengthen publicity for the project, and Project funds ①Dissemination of project Avoiding Sichuan Province and Reduction publicity can be conducted in the period of massive (21.0221 information; the risk of Gansu Province have 27 Office, return of migrant labor; million yuan ②Composition and preparation labor counties, 538 Agriculture and ②It should establish cooperatives preparatory group for Guzihou of the preparatory group of shortages administrative villages, Animal to support and encourage students, migrant workers Province, cooperatives; with a total population Husbandry, and and other people to participate in the preparation 18.6539 ③Participation of management of 946.4 thousand, of relevant and preparation of cooperatives, and it should million yuan staff in training and which poor people township ensure that at least one representative of ethnic for Sichuan investigation; accounts for 342.9 committees and minorities (ethnic minorities live together) , a Province, ④Selection criteria, selection thousand, minorities village woman representative, a representative of poor 17.375 results, assessment criteria and 240.9 thousand, and committees, etc. households to assist peasants in project villages to million yuan assessment results of ① women 462.2 thousand. carry out the preparation and setting up of for Gansu) cooperatives counselors. cooperatives; ③It should conduct specialized training in the operation and management of cooperatives for cooperative management personnel elected by villagers, and actively carry out visit to cooperative excellent base; ④It should set up cooperatives counselor system, select counselors who are aware of policies, have strong organizational skills, are familiar with the local language and workable, and can be stationed in villages to carry out works, and it also should establish counselor management and appraisal system, which views the cooperative work of counselors as a basis for the assessment.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      ① This part of the cost comes from the training funds in the cooperative development, and project funds of Sichuan Province comes from training funds in cooperative development. 209    5. Guizhou Province, PMO, Poverty 2014- ①It should conclude the property ownership, Self-raised ①Determination of rural Avoiding Sichuan Province and Reduction operation and management responsibilities of built by project infrastructure’s ownership, the risk of Gansu Province have 27 Office, rural infrastructure into operating manual and make villages / operation and management public counties, 538 Agriculture and clear discretion; cooperatives responsibilities; infrastruct administrative villages, Animal ②It should develop village-level operation and ②Formulation of public ure with a total population Husbandry, and management measures for public infrastructure. infrastructure operation and operation of 946.4 thousand, of the relevant management measures. and which poor people township and managem accounts for 342.9 village ent in thousand, minorities committees rural 240.9 thousand, and areas women 462.2 thousand. 210    9.2 Measures to Promote Social Gender and Development (1) Promoting Women's Participation in Projects According to the field survey and observation, women are the main force of housework and agricultural production in project areas, with relatively low participation degree in village affairs in general, which is not significantly different between different ethnic groups. To promote the development of women and their equitable benefit from the project, it needs to strengthen the participation of women in all stages of the project. Suggestions: 1) During the establishment of cooperatives and the selection process of industrial development, it needs to focus on listening to women’s needs and ideas in the project area; 2) It should ensure that cooperatives preparatory group and purchasing group has at least one female, and there is 30% of women participating in the development of cooperatives and industrial planning and other village meetings; 3) It should ensure 30% of women to participate in trainings undertaken by the project. (2) Raising Women's Awareness of Cooperatives and Projects The findings show that both women and men have relatively low awareness of cooperatives and projects; women's participation in cooperatives is significantly lower than that of men. In order to promote women's participation in the industrial development of cooperatives, it is recommended that: 1) in the whole process of projects information publication, advocacy and training, it should ensure that at least 30 % of women join, training time and location selection need to give priority to women's time and convenience, and it needs to try to use the local language, especially in the ethnic enclaves of Yi and Miao nationalities; 2) it should make use of the advantages of Women’s Federation in information dissemination and training, and cooperate with Women’s Federation to carry out information publication and training. 211    Table 4-10 Social Gender and Development Plan of a Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas Recommendation Target Group Implementing Time Specific Action Funds Source Monitoring Indicator for Action Agency 1. Promoting Guizhou Province, Design units, During the ① During the establishment of Project funds ①Records of women’s requirements and women's Sichuan Province construction implementation cooperatives and the selection process of for the suggestions; participation in and Gansu Province units, PMO, of project industrial development, it needs to focus development ②Employment figure of women; project have 27 counties, Women’s on listening to women’s needs and ideas of ③The number and proportion of women 538 administrative Federation, and in the project area; comprehensive in preparatory groups, purchasing groups villages, with a total relevant township ② It should ensure that cooperatives industrial and cooperatives, and women's voting population of 946.4 governments and preparatory group and purchasing group value chain records; thousand, of which village has at least one female, and there is 30 (250.58 ④ Original records of women’s poor people committees percent of women participating in the million yuan participation in the activities of accounts for 342.9 development of cooperatives and for Guizhou cooperatives. thousand, minorities industrial planning and other village Province, 240.9 thousand, and meetings; 387.83 million women 462.2 ③ It should ensure 30% of women to yuan for thousand participate in trainings undertaken by the Sichuan project Province, 558.3916 million yuan for Gansu Province), and special training funds from Women's Federation 2. Raising women's Guizhou Province, Agriculture and During the ① In the whole process of project Project ① Number of women participants in awareness of Sichuan Province Animal implementation information publication, advocacy and training funds trainings; cooperatives and and Gansu Province Husbandry, of project training, it should ensure that at least (21.0221 ② Training time and manner; 212    Recommendation Target Group Implementing Time Specific Action Funds Source Monitoring Indicator for Action Agency project have 27 counties, Bureau of Human 30 % of women join, training time and million yuan ③ Language used in training. 538 administrative Resources and location selection need to give priority to for Guizhou villages, with a total Social Security, women's time and convenience, and it Province, population of 946.4 Women's needs to try to use the local language, 18.6539 thousand, of which Federation, PMO, especially in the ethnic enclaves of Yi million yuan poor people and relevant and Miao nationalities; for Sichuan accounts for 342.9 township ②It should make use of the advantages Province, thousand, minorities governments and of Women’s Federation in information 17.375 million 240.9 thousand, and village committees dissemination and training, and cooperate yuan for women 462.2 with Women’s Federation to carry out Gansu thousand information publication and training. Province) 213    9.3 Implementing Agency and Time Schedule (1) Implementing Agency According to managerial demand of project and innovative features of improving farmers organization, the project has established a relatively complete sound organizational management framework. Departments, agencies fulfill their function and coordination, and jointly complete preparation, design, organization, management and implementation of the project and other works. Central Project Coordination Office Provincial Leading Group of Provincial Project Office Poverty Reduction and Municipal Leading Group of City/Prefecture Poverty Reduction and Project Office County Leading Group of Poverty Provincial Project Project Technical Reduction/County Project Leading Office/Incubation Center Advisory Group Group Counselor Township Workstation of Poverty Reduction Village committee Cooperative Note: The solid lines represent project management relationship, while dashed lines represent coordination or guidance relationship. Figure 4-2 Structure Chart of Project Organization and Management In order to do preparation of project and organization and leadership of implementation, the project counties have set up a leading group for the project and set up a project management office, which are equipped with full-time managers, in charge of coordination and specific works. Strong regulatory agencies of organization and implementation can ensure the realization of goals of poverty reduction projects, and also protect the involvement of stakeholders in the project. 214    Table 4-11 Implementing Agency of Project County Project Province City/Prefecture Unit of Management Office Contact Office Phone County Foreign Capital Project Management Center of Gao Dafang County 0857-5236355 County Poverty Reduction Dengrong Office Bijie City Foreign Capital Project Management Center of Fangjin County Liu Yun 0857-7625481 County Poverty Reduction Office Foreign Capital Project Jiang Yi Guizhou Management Center of Tongzi County 0852-6623816 Province County Poverty Reduction Office Foreign Capital Project Luo Management Center of Shenghua Zunyi City Xishui County 0852-2524813 County Poverty Reduction Office Foreign Capital Project Wang Qun Management Center of Chishui County 0852-2861071 County Poverty Reduction Office County Poverty Reduction Gulin County Wang Huailin 0830-7222695 Office Luzhou City County Bureau of Poverty Xuyong Reduction and Immigration Peng Qiang 0830-6233191 County Affairs County Office of Poverty Jinyang County Wu Anping 0834-8733419 Reduction and Development Sichuan County Bureau of Ethnic, Province Zhaojue Religious, Poverty Asheng Youji 0834-8332029 Yi Autonomous County Reduction and Immigration Prefecture of Affairs Liangshan County Bureau of Poverty Meigu County Reduction and Immigration ChenYing 0834-8241792 Affairs County Bureau of Poverty Duan Butuo County 0834-8531237 Reduction and Immigration Xingrong 215    Project Province City/Prefecture Unit of Management Office Contact Office Phone County Affairs County Poverty Reduction Anding District Liu Zhihua 18693218988 Office Tongwei County Poverty Reduction Li Fengzhi 18093265212 County Office County Poverty Reduction Wang Dingxi City Longxi County 13830252006 Office Jiancang Tongwei County Poverty Reduction Yang Juping 18919321169 County Office County Poverty Reduction Linxtao County Zhang Yulong 13993271486 Office Zhangjiachuan County Poverty Reduction Tianshui City Li Xiaojuan 18993815026 County Office County Poverty Reduction Huan County Xie Shigui 18298892208 Office Gansu County Poverty Reduction Huachi County Li Junhong 13830453288 Office Province Qingyang City County Poverty Reduction Heshui County Li Yunfeng 15097101812 Office Zhengning County Poverty Reduction Xu Wenhua 13993485359 County Office Zhuanglang County Poverty Reduction Zhang 18919336942 County Office Xiaoming Pingliang City Jingning County Poverty Reduction Zhang Zhen 15249323400 County Office Yongjing County Poverty Reduction Xiao Yutang 0930-8832257 Hui Atonomous County Office Prefecture of Dongxiang County Poverty Reduction Linxia Autonomous Ma Jinfu 0930-7121760 Office County County Poverty Reduction Wang Wuwei City Gulang County 15214109676 Office Zhixiang Source: Project offices (2) Capacity Building 216    In order to facilitate the smooth progress of the project and enhance capacity of implementing agencies of project, from 2012 to today, the key personnel of each PMO has participated in various training organized by the World Bank. Specific trainings involve the preparation of the feasibility report, project design, financial analysis, environmental assessment, social evaluation, etc. Table 4-12 Statistics of Participation in Trainings of Implementing Agencies in Project Counties of Guizhou Province No. Training Time Training Place Participant Training Contents Recognition of Word Bank’ delegation 1 November, 2012 Guiyang All project offices on project area in Guizhou 2 December, 2012 Guiyang All project offices Planning formulation in project area Chishui, First investigation of World Bank’ 3 January, 2013 All project offices Guizhou delegation on project Dafang, 4 February, 2013 All project offices Complication of project proposals Guizhou Promotion meeting of project planning 5 March, 2013 Chengdu All project offices formulation Promotion meeting of project planning 6 April, 2013 Lanzhou All project offices formulation 7 July, 2013 Guizhou All project offices Compilation of project’s feasibility report Guidance of expert group on project’s 8 July, 2013 Xishui, Guizhou All project offices feasibility report 9 September, 2013 Chengdu All project offices Training on project financial analysis Second investigation of World Bank’ 10 September, 2013 Zunyi, Guiyang All project offices delegation on project Revision meeting of project purchasing and 11 October, 2013 Guiyang All project offices feasibility report Source: Project offices Table 4-13 Statistics of Participation in Trainings of Implementing Agencies in Project Counties of Sichuan Province Training No. Training Time Participant Training Contents Place 1 September 5 to 6, 2012 Beijing All project offices Project preparation work meeting Luzhou, Selection and review of project area and 2 January 15 to 20, 2013 All project offices Sichuan leading industry Preparation of project proposals and Chengdu and methods and requirements of feasibility 3 March 18 to 22, 2013 Nanyun of All project offices report, and field visit to Nanchong on Sichuan poverty reduction through industrial development Lanzhou, Sixth review meeting of World Bank on 4 April 20 to 25, 201 All project offices Gansu project design Chengdu, Collective discussion on and compilation 5 May 2 to 10, 2013 All project offices Sichuan of feasibility study report 217    Meigu, Training on village-level industrial 6 May 20 to 22, 2013 All project offices Sichun development planning Yongxu, Training on compilation of feasibility 7 June 13 to 17, 2013 All project offices Sichuan report Chengdu, Compilation of feasibility report and 8 August 2 to 15, 2013 All project offices Sichuan project logical framework Chengdu, 9 September 3 to 6, 2013 All project offices Compilation of project logical framework Sichuan Collective discussion on, modification and 10 September 23 to 29, 2013 Chengdu All project offices perfection of feasibility study report Chengdu, Compilation of feasibility report and 11 October 5 to 15, 201 All project offices Sichuan project logical framework Source: Project offices Table 4-14 Statistics of Participation in Trainings of Implementing Agencies in Project Counties of Gansu Province Training No. Training Time Participant Training Contents Place Proposals compilation of A Pilot Demonstration Project of Industrial Poverty 1 January 5 to 7, 2012 Lanzhou All project offices Reduction in Poverty-stricken Concatenated Areas, and Training on relevant knowledge Study on relevant documents of World Bank, Lanzhou 2 September 3 to 4, 2012 All project offices and notes of World Bank’s project design of provincial DRC and financial experts Compilation methods of World Bank’s Lanzhou 3 September 18 to 20, 2012 All project offices project requirements, working procedure, proposals and feasibility report Relevant knowledge and requirements in 4 November 8 to 9, 2012 Lanzhou All project offices project recognition period Selection criteria of project village, design thinking of industrial project, project design 5 January 14 to 15, 2013 Lanzhou All project offices plan, etc.(Sixth review meeting of World Bank on project design) Compilation methods and requirements of Chengdu and project proposals and feasibility report and 6 March 18 to 22, 2013 Nanchong of All project offices field visit to Nanchong on poverty reduction Sichuan through industrial development Training on financial analysis, environmental 7 April 8 to 9, 2013 Lanzhou All project offices impact assessment, social assessment and product requirement analysis Lanzhou, Sixth review meeting of World Bank on 8 April 20 to 25, 2013 All project offices Gansu project design 218    Training No. Training Time Participant Training Contents Place 9 June 25 to 27, 2013 Lanzhou All project offices Project design guideline(project design framework) 10 August 20 to 26, 2013 Lanzhou All project offices Chengdu, Project design framework and expense 11 September 3 to 6, 2013 All project offices Sichuan arrangement Related work training of project preparation 12 September 24 to 26, 2013 Lanzhou All project offices period Source: Project offices (3) Time Schedule Implementation plan of project’s social assessment is developed in accordance with reparation of project building and implementation process of activities. Specific implementation time may, due to deviations of overall progress of the project, make appropriate adjustments. The main phase of the project is divided into the preparation period, implementation period and the period of six months after completion of implementation. a. Preparation period, work contents of social assessment include: project publicity, recognition of stakeholders of project and analysis of social impact, compilation of social assessment report, etc. b. Implementation period, work contents of social assessment include: internal monitoring and external independent monitoring. Internal monitoring is undertaken by the PMO responsible, who should submit a an internal monitoring report half-yearly to the World Bank; third-party independent monitoring agency, hired by the project owner, carry out the monitoring and evaluation of project’s social impact, who should, before the implementation of project, prepare working outline, investigate the outline and tables, establish a monitoring system, clarify mandate, select monitoring sites, use a participatory methods to conduct social impact assessment and baseline survey and follow-up survey, and submit an annual external independent monitoring and evaluation report during project implementation period to the World Bank. c. Within six months after completion of implementation, it should submit a final report of social assessment to the World Bank. Table 4-15 Implementation Schedule Project Work Contents Schedule Phase Publictiy of project’s relevant information January, 2012 to October, 2013 Recognition of stakeholders of project and November, 2013 analysis of social impact Preparation Public participation of stakeholders Overall process period Compilation of social assessment report November, 2013 to April, 2014 Announcement of social assessment report May, 2015 Approval of social assessment report June, 2014 From May to July 2015, submitting monitoring and Implementat Monitoring and evaluation evaluation reports of first phase(including basement ion period survey), and during the implementation period (2015 to 219    Project Work Contents Schedule Phase 2020) , submit an internal monitoring report semiannually, and submitting an external monitoring report annually Period of six months Submission of one summative evaluation of social after Summative evaluation assessment within half a year after the completion of project implementation completion 9.4 .Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and evaluation is to ensure that the project is implemented in accordance with the project objectives and project information disclosure, public participation and social management plan of the report design can get attention and be an important part of and implementation. Meanwhile, it is an important participation mechanism and correction mechanism in the project. To this end, the project has established a monitoring and evaluation mechanisms, including internal supervision and external monitoring and evaluation. Internal supervision is the monitoring and evaluation conducted by the PMO on the implementation progress of project, implementation of social management plans, information disclosure, public participation in plans, project funds usage, and the implementation of rules and regulations. It should submit an internal monitoring report every six months. PMO will engage an independent monitoring agency to carry out external monitoring of social management plan implementation. Independent monitoring and evaluation agency should conduct tracking monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of social management plan on a regular base, provide advisory opinions, and submit an annual monitoring and evaluation report to the World Bank. It should submit a final report of social evaluation within six months after project completion. 220    Attachments Attachment I Field Survey Distribution Map Attachment II Social Investigation Schedule and Contents Attachment III Field Survey Pictures Collection Attachment IV Minutes of Stakeholder Interviews Attachment V Identification of Land Acquisition and Demolition in Project Areas Attachment VI Identification of Farmer Cooperative Organizations in Project Areas Attachment VII Villages Identified as Minority Settlements 221    Attachment I: Field Survey Distribution Map Figure 1 Field Survey Distribution in the Project Area of Guizhou Province Figure 2 Field Survey Distribution in the Project Area of Sichuan Province 222    Figure 3 Field Survey Distribution in the Project Area of Gansu Province 223    Attachment II: Social Investigation Schedule and Contents Table 1 Social Investigation Schedule and Contents of the Social Assessment Group in Guizhou Project Area Time Location Attendee Main Items Remarks September Referring to literature and primarily compiling 24-October / Social Assessment Group of Hohai University questionnaires, interview outlines and social assessment 26 outlines Getting to know the latest project development and Provincial Leading Group Office of Director Shu, Director Xu, Director Pan, the situation of land requisition and demolition; Poverty Alleviation and Group A Director Li and the Social Assessment Group filling in forms, arranging schedules and making Development coordinations Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Bureau of Civil Holding interviews on key institutional information Affairs, Bureau of Statistics, Competent departments and collecting relevant institutional materials of Group B Poverty Reduction Office of Dafang County Dafang County Getting to know the basic information of Haiba October 28 Village and the cooperative, the project expectations Shunfeng Professional and suggestions from villagers, current development Eco-Agricultural Farmer of the gastrodia elata industry and the future plans of Cooperative of Haiba Village, Township Head, Village Head, Cooperative the cooperative; familiarizing basic information of Wenge Township, Dafang County; Director, villagers and the Social Assessment Bijiao Village and the Saishidai Chinese Medicinal Group B Dafang Saishidai Chinese Group Herbs Cooperative, current development of radix Medicinal Herbs Cooperative of pseudostellariae and codonopsis pinosula, Bijiao Village, Maochang Town development projects the cooperative intends to further and the project expectations and suggestions from villagers October 29 Land and Resources Bureau, Competent departments and the Social Holding interviews on key institutional information Group A 224    Construction Bureau, Chinese Assessment Group and collecting relevant institutional materials of Herbal Medicine Industrial Bureau, Dafang County Bureau of Agriculture, Women’s Federation, Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs and other institutions in Dafang County Getting to know the operation of the pepper plant and Qiongfang Pepper Plant of Dafang the gastrodia elata company, the cooperation with the Plant Manager Gao, Manager Wen and the County, Jiulong gastrodia elata cooperative, and Dafang local planting of gastrodia Group B Social Assessment Group Planting Co., Ltd elata; visiting the seedling and planting base of gastrodia elata Director Yang, Director Liu, Director Hao, Daozi Village, Heitu Township, Township Head, Village Head, Villager Getting to know the expectations and concerns of Group B Zhijin County Representative and the Social Assessment villagers and the planting of bamboo fungus Group Director Yang, Director Liu, Director Hao, Getting to know the expectations and concerns of October 30 Baima Village, Xiongjiachang Township Head, Village Head, Villager villagers, the planting of bamboo fungus and the Group B Township, Zhijin County Representative and the Social Assessment construction of the cooperative Group Director Hao, Village Secretary, Villager Getting to know the expectations and concerns of Xinzhai Village, Baini Township, Representative and the Social Assessment villagers, the planting of tea and the construction of Group B Zhijin County Group the cooperative Municipal Agricultural Committee, Director Chen of Commercial Crop Bureau of Civil Affairs Human Development Office of the Municipal Resources and Social Security Agricultural Committee, Director Yang of the Holding interviews on key institutional information October 31 Bureau, Land and Resources Development and Planning Department, and collecting relevant institutional materials of Bijie Group A Bureau, Bureau of Ethnic and Director Wang of the Technical Training City Religious Affairs, Bureau of Department, Office Director Xu, Secretary Wu Statistics, Women’s Federation and of the Plant Protection Station, Director Chen 225    Poverty Reduction Office of Bijie of the Agricultural Economic Operation and City Management Station and other directors; the Social Assessment Group Municipal Poverty Reduction Office, Bureau of Civil Affairs, Bureau of Statistics, Land and Holding interviews on key institutional information Resources Bureau, Bureau of Competent departments and the Social and collecting relevant institutional materials of Group A, B and C Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Assessment Group Zunyi City Women’s Federation, Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, etc. Collecting relevant institutional materials of Tongzi November 1 County; getting to know the policies related with Land and Resources Bureau, land requisition and house demolition and the Human Resources and Social compensation and settlement plans in Tongzi; getting Security Bureau, Employment Competent departments and the Social to know the implementation of old-age insurance of Bureau, Bureau of Civil Affairs, Group A Assessment Group urban and rural residents and the land-requisitioned Women’s Federation, Bureau of farmers; getting to know the labor force transfer Ethnic and Religious Affairs and training and rural tourism training; understanding the other institutions of Tongzi County development of women and minority nationalities in Tongzi and corresponding supporting policies Section Chief Jiang, Director Jiang, Director Getting to know current rural tourism development Lejing Village, Huaqiu Town, Li of Poverty Reduction Office of Tongzi of Lejing Village, the existing problems, the Tongzi County (developing rural County, Secretary Li of the Discipline villagers’recognition of the project and their tourism) and Xinghe Village, Inspection Commission of Lejing Village, November 2 understanding of the cooperative;getting to know the Group A Huaqiu Town (developing the Villager from Lejing Village, Secretary Mu of basic information of Xinghe Village, the raising of industry of raising Huaqiu local Xinghe Village, Head of the Animal Huaqiu local chicken, existing problems and the chicken) Husbandry Station, Villager from Xinghe villagers’ understanding of the cooperative Village and the Social Assessment Group 226    Section Chief Lin of the Municipal Poverty Reduction Office, Director Li, Director Mu Getting to know current rural tourism development in Yangjiu Village, Xianyuan Town, and Section Chief Luo of Poverty Reduction Yangjiu Village, existing problems, villagers’ November 2 Xishui County (developing rural Office of the County, Committee Member Group B recognition of the project and their understanding of tourism) Huang of Xianyuan Town, Secretary Ma of the cooperative Yangjiu Village, Village Head Wang and villagers of Yangjiu Village Section Chief Lin of the Municipal Poverty Da’an Village, Liangcun Town, Reduction Office, Director Li, Director Mu Getting to know basic information of Da’an Village, Xishui County (developing the and Section Chief Luo of Poverty Reduction the raising of north Guizhou Ma goats, existing Group B industry of raising north Guizhou Office of the County, Chairman Zhong of the problems and villagers’ recognition of the Ma goats) NPC of Liangcun Town, Secretary Luo of cooperative Da’an Village and Director Song Competent departments including Poverty November 3 Reduction Office, Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Bureau of Ethnic and Holding interviews on key institutional information Forum of Poverty Reduction Office Religious Affairs, Bureau of Statistics, and collecting relevant institutional materials of Group B of Xishui County Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau, Xishui County Women’s Federation, Land and Resources Bureau, Bureau of Civil Affairs and other seven project townships Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Bureau of Civil Bureau Director Zhu, Bureau Director Tang, Affairs, Land and Resources Bureau Director Dai, Bureau Director Yang, Holding interviews on key institutional information Bureau, Bureau of Statistics, November 2 Bureau Director Yang, Director Yanghuai, and collecting relevant institutional materials of Group C Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Chairman Ma Hongxia, Bureau Director Deng Chishui City Affairs, Dendrobium Office, and the Social Assessment Group Women’s Federation, Poverty Reduction Office and Agriculture 227    and Animal Husbandry Bureau Getting to know basic information of Hongxing Hongxing Village, Shibao Bureau Director Deng, Director Guo, Village Village, the planting of dendrobium and the plans, Township, Chishui City Head, Village Secretary Yuan Runming, the existing problems, villagers’ expectations and Group C (developing the raising of Village Director, Villager and the Social suggestions, construction and planning schemes of dendrobium) Assessment Group the cooperative Yuhuang Village, Guandu Town, Bureau Director Deng, Director Guo, Village Getting to know basic information of the village, the Chishui City (developing the Head, Village Secretary, Village Director raising of black-bone chicken, existing problems and Group C industry of raising black-bone Gong, Villager and the Social Assessment difficulties, plans and concerns towards the chicken Group cooperative and the villagers’ expectations November 3 Getting to know information about the cultivating of Longquan Original Ecological Bureau Director Deng, Director Guo, the main seeds and seedlings of the dendrobium Dendrobium Industrial Co., Ltd of Manager, the employees and the Social Group C industry; visiting and exploring the dendrobium base Chishui City Assessment Group and understanding its growth Table 2 Social Investigation Schedule and Contents of the Social Assessment Group in Sichuan Project Area Time Location Attendee Main Items Remarks Land and Resources Bureau, Women’s Federation, Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Bureau of Agriculture, Poverty Competent departments and the Social Holding interviews on key institutional information and November 4 Reduction Office, Bureau of Assessment Group collecting relevant institutional materials of Gulin County Statistics, Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Agricultural Committee and 228    Association of Industry and Commerce of Gulin County Tongxin Village, Masi Miao Director Luo of the Masi Miao Nationality Getting to know basic information of the planting of Nationality Township, Gulin Township, Director Wu of Poverty Reduction walnuts in Tongxin Village, perspectives from women of Group A County (developing the industry Office of Gulin County, Engineer Li and the minority nationalities and opinions of villagers on of walnuts) Social Assessment Group developing the cooperative and walnut industrial chain Township Head Yue of Jiaoyuan Township, Getting to know the basic information of the planting of Yulin Village, Jiaoyuan Director Wang of Poverty Reduction Office of naval oranges and walnuts in Yulin Village; paying Township, Gulin County Gulin County, Head of Yulin Village, Principal attention to the expectations and needs of women and (developing the industry of sweet of the Cooperative, Village Secretary and the minority nationalities and the current development as well oranges and walnuts) Social Assessment Group as future plans of the cooperative Holding interviews on key institutional information and Institutional Forum of Xuyong Competent departments and the Social November 5 collecting relevant institutional materials of Xuyong County Assessment Group County Director Peng of Poverty Reduction Office of Tianba Miao Nationality Village Getting to know basic information of Shuiliao Township Xuyong County, Head Yang of Shuiliao of Shuiliao Yi Nationality and Tianba Village, raising of the beef cattle in Tianba Township, Head of Tianba Village, Clerical Township, Xuyong County Village and the opinions of villagers towards the Group A Assistant of Tianba Village, Villager (developing the industry of cooperative; visiting the Sweet Orange Demonstration Representative of Tianba Village and the Social November 6 raising beef cattle) Garden Assessment Group Yantang Village, Shiba Getting to know basic information of Yantang Village; Township, Xuyong County County Project Office staff, the Village giving priority to expectations and needs of minority Group B (developing the industry of sweet Secretary and the Social Assessment Group nationalities and women as well as the future plans of the oranges) cooperative Director Xia of Poverty Reduction Office of Getting to know the information, schedule adjustment and November 7 Arriving at Xichang Liangshan Prefecture and the Social Assessment arrangement of Liangshan Prefecture Project Group County Project Office staff and the Social Consulting with the Project Office of Jinyang County on November 8 Arriving at Jinyang County Group A Assessment Group work arrangement and organizing the work of collecting 229    materials Getting to know basic information of the village, current Village Secretary, Village Head, Principal of the Yida Village, Yida Township, industrial development and development of the Cooperative, Director Xia and the Social Group A Jinyang County cooperative; holding relevant interviews and forums; Assessment Group collecting materials Village Secretary, Village Head, Principal of the Getting to know basic information of the Village, current Rekejue Village, Rekejue Cooperative, Director Xia and the Social industrial development and development of the Township, Jinyang County Assessment Group cooperative; holding relevant interviews and forums; collecting materials November 9 Village Secretary, Village Head, Principal of the Getting to know basic information of the Village, current Youfang Village, Lugao Town, Cooperative, Director Xia and the Social industrial development and development of the Jinyang County Assessment Group cooperative; holding relevant interviews and forums; collecting materials Village Secretary, Village Head, Principal of the Getting to know basic information of the Village, current Tangjiawuji Village, Mayizu Cooperative, Director Xia and the Social industrial development and development of the Township, Jinyang County Assessment Group cooperative; holding relevant interviews and forums; collecting materials Getting to know the planting of amorphophallus albus, Director Siwang Lawu, Director Xia of the encountered problems and the experience and lessons; Prefecture Poverty Reduction Office, Principal getting to know current operation mode of the November 10 Konjac Office of Jinyang County of the County Poverty Reduction Office, Group A amorphophallus albus Cooperative, the situation of land Proprieter Yang Youge and the Social circulation and farmers’ participation as well as the Assessment Group problems Getting to know basic information of the Village, current Head of Liuqie Township, Deputy Township Hejue Village, Liuqie Township, industrial development and development of the Head, Clerical Assistant of Hejue Village, Group A Zhaojue County cooperative; holding relevant interviews and forums; November 11 villagers and the Social Assessment Group collecting materials Dimo Village, Dimo Township, Poverty Reduction Office, Village Head Ergu Getting to know basic information of the Village, current 230    Zhaojue County Lire of Dimo Village and the Social Assessment industrial development and development of the Group cooperative; holding relevant interviews and forums; collecting materials Getting to know basic information of the Village, current Director of Poverty Reduction Office, Head of Erdanwu Village, Saladipo industrial development and development of the the Erdanwu Village, villagers, Director Xia and Township, Zhaojue County cooperative; holding relevant interviews and forums; the Social Assessment Group collecting materials Getting to know basic information of the Village, current Director of Poverty Reduction Office, Village Wazi Village, Saladipo industrial development and development of the Secretary of Wazi Village, villagers, Director Township, Zhaojue County cooperative; holding relevant interviews and forums; Xia and the Social Assessment Group collecting materials Chairman Zhao of the Project Office, Bureau Human Resources and Social Director Li Chengkun of Poverty Reduction Security Bureau, Bureau of Civil Office, Chairperson Mahai Wuhui of Women’s Affairs, Land and Resources Federation, Bureau Director Wu Liwen of Bureau, Bureau of Statistics, Holding interviews on key institutional information and Bureau of Agriculture, Liu Guanghua of Human Bureau of Ethnic and Religious collecting relevant institutional materials of Meigu Group B Resources and Social Security Bureau, Chen Affairs, Women’s Federation, County Baolin of Bureau of Civil Affairs, Liu Jun of November 8 Poverty Reduction Office and Bureau of Statistics, Luo Yan of the Bureau of Agriculture of Meigu Employment Management Bureau and the County Social Assessment Group Getting to know the preparation and implementation Project Office of Poverty Chairman Zhao, Director Chen, Section Chief outlines for the project, the construction mode of the Reduction Office of Meigu Group B Liu and the Social Assessment Group cooperative, industrial development outlines and the County Bimo Culture of the Yi Nationality Getting to know the expectations of villagers on industrial Chairman Zhao, Section Chief Liu, Director Gengze Village, Bapu Town, selection; further understanding the Yi Nationality culture November 9 Chen, Project Office staff, Village Secretary, Group B Meigu County and attitudes, expectations and needs from the villagers villagers and the Social Assessment Group towards the cooperative 231    Chairman Zhao, Section Chief Liu, Township Getting to know current industrial development of Waluo Head and Secretary of Jiukou Township, Project Waluo Village, Jiukou Township, Village and the economic and industrial structure of the Office staff, Village Head Jisha Laji, Village Group B Meigu County village; listening to the voices of villagers airing opinions Secretary, villagers and the Social Assessment on industrial development Group Chairman Zhao, Section Chief Liu, Project Getting to know current industrial development of Luoeyigan Village, Luoeyigan Office staff, Village Secretary of Luoeyigan Luoeyigan Village, the economic and industrial structure Group B Township, Meigu County Village, villagers and the Social Assessment of the village, project needs and suggestions from the Yi Group Nationality and future plans for the cooperative Getting to know current situation of the institution, Mr./Ms. Ge from the International Service activity implementation of the institution in Project Office of the Immigration Bureau Institution, Principal Qieji Riluo of the Texi Village and suggestions on the Poverty Reduction Group B for Poverty Reduction Village Cooperative, Lu Xiao, Director Chen Project; familiarizing the construction of the cooperative, and the Social Assessment Group its current development, the difficulties it run into and the development plans; summarizing the experience Chief of Butuo County, Bureau Director of the Immigration Bureau for Poverty Reduction, Getting to know the project awareness of villagers in the Group Head Duan, Bureau Director and the staff Project Village, current development and needs of the Ashengrida Village, Tuojue of Bureau of Agriculture, Bureau Director and beef cattle industry, needs and suggestions from the Group B County, Butuo County the staff of Animal Husbandry Bureau, cooperative and the situation of the social organization in Township Head, Village Head, Village the village. Secretary, villagers and the Social Assessment November 10 Group Chief of Butuo County, Bureau Director of the Getting to know the project awareness of villagers in the Immigration Bureau for Poverty Reduction, Project Village, current development and needs of the Ripai Village, Tuojue Town, Group Head Duan, Bureau Director and the staff Potato industry, needs and suggestions from the Group B Butuo County of Bureau of Agriculture, Bureau Director and cooperative and the situation of the social organization in the staff of Animal Husbandry Bureau, the village like the management mode of “Party Branch Township Head, Village Head, Village plus Association”. 232    Secretary, villagers and the Social Assessment Group Bureau Director of the Immigration Bureau for Poverty Reduction, Group Head Duan, Bureau Getting to know basic information of the village, the Director and the staff of Bureau of Agriculture, Moci Village, Meisa Township, industrial development structure, villagers’ participation Bureau Director and the staff of Animal Group B Butuo County in the project and the preparation as well as current Husbandry Bureau, Township Head, Village situation of the cooperative Head, Village Secretary, Cooperative Director, villagers and the Social Assessment Group November 11 Bureau Director of the Immigration Bureau for Poverty Reduction, Group Head Duan, Bureau Director and the staff of Bureau of Agriculture, Getting to know basic information of the village, current Rijiu Village, Bu’er Township, Bureau Director and the staff of Animal situation of beef cattle breeding, suggestions on industrial Group B Butuo County Husbandry Bureau, Township Head, Village development and the opinions on the project Head, Village Secretary, villagers and the Social Assessment Group Table 3 Social Investigation Schedule and Contents of the Social Assessment Group in Gansu Project Area Time Location Attendee Main Items Remarks Arriving at Zhangjiachuan Staff of County Project Office and the Social Consulting with Zhangjiachuan County Project Office on November 13 Group A County, Tianshui City Assessment Group work arrangements and organizing materials collection work Section Chief Li of Poverty Reduction Office of Tianshui City, Director Li of County Getting to know the cattle raising in Longkou Village, Longkou Village, Malu Township, November 14 Poverty Reduction Office, Village Secretary current problems and difficulties, construction of the Group A Zhuangjiachuan County Du Cunxiang, villagers, Principal of the cowshed and future plans for the cooperative Cooperative and the Social Assessment Group 233    Section Chief Li of Poverty Reduction Office Getting to know current problems and difficulties in the of Tianshui City, Director Li of County Kangwang Village, Malu breeding industry of Kangwang Village, expectations and Poverty Reduction Office, Village Director Li Group A Township, Zhangjiachuan County suggestions from villagers, construction of the cowshed and Yingxue, villagers and the Social Assessment future plans for the cooperative Group Poverty Reduction Office of Zhangjiachuan County, Women’s Holding interviews on key institutional information and Federation, Bureau of Ethnic and Competent departments and the Social November 15 collecting relevant institutional materials of Zhangjiachuan Group A Religious Affairs, Bureau of Assessment Group County Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Bureau and other institutions Village Head Zhou Wantong of Sanyou Village, villagers of Sanyou Village, Section Chief Li of Poverty Reduction Office of Getting to know cattle raising in Sanyou Village, Sanyou Village, Yanjia Township, November 16 Tianshui City, Director Li of County Poverty construction of the cowshed and preparation for the Group A Zhangjiachuan County Reduction Office, Liu Xing,Township Head of cooperative Yanjia Township and the Social Assessment Group Arriving at Tongwei County, Staff of County Project Office and the Social Consulting with Tongwei County Project Office on work November 17 Group A Dingxi City Assessment Group arrangements and organizing materials collection work Head of Biyu Township, Head of Shitan Getting to know cattle raising of villagers in Shitan Village, Shitan Village, Biyu Township, Village, villagers of Shitan Village, Director villagers’ awareness of the project and suggestions from Group A Tongwei County Bao of County Foreign Aid Center, Li Fengzhi them and the Social Assessment Group November 18 Head of Pingxiang Town, Head Li of Shuangbao Village, villagers of Shuangbao Getting to know cattle raising of villagers in Shuangbao Shuangbao Village, Pingxiang Village, Director Bao of County Foreign Aid Village, operation of the Cattle-Raising Cooperative and Group A Town, Tongwei County Center, Li Fengzhi and the Social Assessment suggestions from villagers Group 234    Bureau of Agriculture of Tongwei County, Agricultural Economic Operation and Institutional interviews of Management Station, Women’s Federation of Getting to know project-related policy support and Group A Tongwei County Tongwei County, Animal Husbandry Bureau implementation from the institutions of Tongwei County of Tongwei County and the Social November 19 Assessment Group Director Wei of Bureau of Agriculture in Longxi County, Bureau Director Mao of Getting to know support for traditional Chinese herbal Institutional interviews of Longxi Bureau of Chinese Herbal Medicine medicine industrial development from the institutions of Group A County Development, Director Wang of Poverty Longxi County and current situation of the industry Reduction Office Director Wang of Poverty Reduction Office, Getting to know the planting of the Chinese herbal medicine Head of Kezhai Village, Principal Shi Xincun of Kezhai Village, problems and difficulties in the planting Kezhai Village, Kezhai Township Group A of the Cooperative and the Social process, suggestions on the project from villagers and future Assessment Group plans and preparations for the cooperative Getting to know the planting of the Chinese herbal medicine Director Wang of Poverty Reduction Office, November 20 Hujiawa Village, Kezhai of Hujiawa Village, problems and difficulties in the planting Head of Hujiawa Village and the Social Group A Township process, suggestions on the project from villagers and future Assessment Group plans and preparations for the cooperative Getting to know women’s development in Longxi County, Women’s Federation of Longxi Chairperson Zhou of Women’s Federation and women-related activities under way, supporting policies, Group A County the Social Assessment Group future plans and the influence of the project on women Bureau of Agriculture of Min Director Yao of Bureau of Agriculture, Bureau County, Animal Husbandry Director Wu and Director Mei of Animal Getting to know the support and relevant policies for the Bureau, Women’s Federation, Husbandry Bureau, Director Yao of Women’s November 21 project from the institutions in Longxi County and the Group A Poverty Reduction Office and Federation, Director Yang of Poverty implementation Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Reduction Office and the Social Assessment Affairs Group 235    Getting to know basic information of Lvjing Village, needs Deputy Chief of Lvjing Town, Director Guan Lvjin Village, Lvjing Town, Min and difficulties in raising sheep and fern hemp pigs, in poverty reduction staff, Head of Lvjing Group A County villagers’ suggestions on the cooperative and future plans for Village and the Social Assessment Group the cooperative November 22 Deputy Township Head of Shendu Township, Group A Getting to know basic information of Qingtu Qingtu Village, Shendu Township, Director Yang of Poverty Reduction Office, Village,breeding difficulties, expectations of villagers and Min County Head of Qingtu Village and the Social future plans for the cooperative Assessment Group staff of County Project Office and the Social Consulting with Weiyuan County Project Office on work Group A November 23 Arriving at Weiyuan County Assessment Group arrangements and organizing materials collection work Head Zheng of Wuzhu Town, Weiyuan Group A Getting to know basic information of Wuzhu Village, County, Principal Liu Yonghong of Wuzhu Wuzhu Village, Wuzhu Town, planting of certified-seed potatoes in the village, difficulties November 24 Certified-Seed Potato Professional Weiyuan County in raising the potatoes and villagers’ needs, current Cooperative, Principal Yue Jiwu of Idyll development of the cooperative and future plans. Cooperative and the Social Assessment Group Head of Shuijiayao Village, Village Secretary, Group A Principal of Shennong Professional Getting to know basic information of Shuijiayao Village, the Shuijiayao Village, Shangwan Cooperative, Poverty Reduction Office of village farming conditions, farming difficulties that villagers Township, Weiyuan County Weiyuan County and the Social Assessment run into and the villagers’ needs Group Bureau of Agriculture of Tongwei Group A Director Wang, Director Liu and the Social Holding interviews on key institutional information and November 25 County, Potato Office, Epidemic Assessment Group collecting relevant institutional materials of Tongwei County Prevention and Control Office Director of Poverty Reduction Office of Linxia Getting to know basic situation of the village, current Prefecture and Section Chief Dong, Director development of the potato industry, construction and Xuwan Village, Yongjing County, Hao, Director Che, Engineer Xiao, Township November 13 operation of the cooperative, current operation of the Mutual Group B Gansu Province Head, Village Head, Village Secretary, Aid Cooperative, project needs from the villagers of the Accountant, villagers and the Social Project Village, and etc. Assessment Group 236    Director of Poverty Reduction Office of Linxia Getting to know basic information of the village, current Prefecture and Section Chief Dong, Director development of the sheep-raising industry, villagers’ project Wanzi Village, Yongjing County Hao, Director Che, Engineer Xiao, Township Group B needs and current situation and future plans of partnership Head, Village Head, Village Secretary Zhou, breeding. villagers and the Social Assessment Group Getting to know basic information of the village, operation Director Hao, Secretary Che, Engineer Xiao, of the mutual aid cooperative for industrial development, Township Head, Village Head, Village Tanzi Village, Yongjing County needs and suggestions of the cooperative, operation of the Group B Secretary, villagers and the Social Assessment “One Discussion for One Case” Project and the current Group situation of partnership breeding November 14 Section Chief Dong of Linxia Prefecture Bureau of Agriculture, Animal Poverty Reduction Office, Secretary Che, Husbandry Bureau, Women’s Holding interviews on key institutional information and Engineer Xiao, people in charge like bureau Group B Federation, Bureau of Finance of collecting additional materials directors of the institutions and the social Yongjing County Assessment Group Section Chief Zhang of Linxia Prefecture Poverty Reduction Office, Director Ma of Getting to know basic information of the village, current Qiaolu Village, Dongxiang County Poverty Reduction Office, Engineer development and needs of the sheep-raising industry, Group B County Ma, Head and Secretary of Dashu Township, operation of the Mutual Aid Cooperative and reflection of Principal of the Cooperative, villagers and the the culture of Dongxiang Nationality in the project social Assessment Group Section Chief Zhang of Linxia Prefecture November 16 Poverty Reduction Office, Director Ma of Getting to know basic information of the village, current County Poverty Reduction Office, Engineer development and needs of the sheep-raising industry, Dashu Village, Dongxiang County Group B Ma, Head and Secretary of Dashu Township, operation of the Mutual Aid Cooperative and reflection of Principal of the Cooperative, villagers and the the culture of Dongxiang Nationality in the project social Assessment Group Xuyeli Village, Dongxiang Section Chief Zhang of Linxia Prefecture Getting to know basic information of the village, current Group B County Poverty Reduction Office, Director Ma of development and needs of the sheep-raising industry, 237    County Poverty Reduction Office, Engineer operation of the Mutual Aid Cooperative and reflection of Ma, Head of Suonan Town, Principal of the the culture of Dongxiang Nationality in the project Cooperative, villagers and the social Assessment Group Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau of Gulang County, Wuwei City, Land and Resources Bureau, Water Conservancy Bureau, Traffic Director Hu of Immigration Office for Poverty Bureau, Bureau of Ethnic and Reduction, Director Wang, competent Holding interviews on key institutional information and November 18 Religious Affairs, Women’s Group B departments and people in charge of the collecting materials according to the materials list Federation, Bureau of Finance, institutions and the Social Assessment Group Bureau of Statistics, Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Bureau of Civil Affairs and Immigration Office for Poverty Reduction Director Hu of Poverty Reduction Office, Dananchong Village, Getting to know basic information of the village, historical Director Wang, Head of Huangyangchuan Huangyangchuan Town, Gulang and current development of the sheep-raising industry, Group B Town, Village Secretary, villagers and the County industrial needs and development suggestions, etc. Social Assessment Group November 19 Director Hu of Poverty Reduction Office, Getting to know basic information of the village, historical Director Wang, Head of Hengliang Township, Hengliang Village, Hengliang and current development of the sheep-raising industry, Village Secretary, Principal of the Group B Township, Gulang County industrial needs and development suggestions and the Cooperative, villagers and the Social operation of the cooperative, etc. Assessment Group County Chief Yang, Director Chang of Poverty Getting to know basic information of the village, planting Kangriwan Village, Manwa November 21 Reduction Office, Director Zhang, Secretary of and breeding structure, expectations and suggestions on Group B Township, Lintao County Township Party Committee, Village Secretary, developing the sheep-raising industry 238    villagers, etc.; the social assessment group County Chief Yang, Director Chang of Poverty Getting to know basic information of the village, planting Reduction Office, Director Zhang, Town Ershilipu Village, Longmen and breeding structure, expectations and suggestions on Head, Principal of the Cooperative, Village Group B Town, Lintao County developing the sheep-raising industry and operation of the Secretary, villager and the Social Assessment cooperation, etc. Group Bureau of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Bureau, Women’s Federation, Bureau of Institutional Forum of Lintao Holding forums on key institutional information and November 22 Finance, Land and Resources Bureau, Poverty Group B County collecting materials according to the materials list Reduction Office and the Social Assessment Group Director Liu and Director Wang of Poverty Getting to know basic information of the village, planting Malian Village, Xiangquan Town, Reduction Office, Town Head, Village and breeding structure, expectations and suggestions on Group B Anding District Secretary, villagers and the Social Assessment developing the sheep-raising industry Group November 23 Director Liu and Director Wang of Poverty Getting to know basic information of the village, planting Taiping Village, Lujiagou Town, Reduction Office, Town Head, Village and breeding structure, expectations and suggestions on Group B Anding District Secretary, villagers and the Social Assessment developing the sheep-raising industry Group Poverty Reduction Office, Bureau of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry Bureau, Women’s Federation, Bureau of Civil Affairs, Institutional Forum of Anding Holding forums on key institutional information and November 24 Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, Group B District collecting materials according to the materials list Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Land and Resources Bureau and the Social Assessment Group Poverty Reduction Office, Animal Husbandry November 25 Institutional Visits in Dingxi City Bureau, Bureau of Agriculture, Women’s Holding forums and collecting materials Group B Federation, Bureau of Civil Affairs, Human 239    Resources and Social Security Bureau, Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Ethnic and Religious Affairs, Land and Resources Bureau and the Social Assessment Group Poverty Reduction Office of Poverty Reduction Office, staff of the Holding institutional forums and collecting materials November 13 Group C Qingyang Office institutions and the Social Assessment Group according to the materials list Poverty Reduction Office, County Chief, staff Poverty Reduction Office of Huan Holding institutional forums and collecting materials of the institutions and the Social Assessment Group C County according to the materials list Group November 14 Director Zhang of County Poverty Reduction Shiqiang Cultivation and Breeding Office, Engineer Xie, Director Shao of Holding interviews in the cooperative Group C Professional Cooperative Municipal Poverty Reduction Office and the Social Assessment Group Director Zhang of County Poverty Reduction Basic information of Huangjia Village, current problems and Office, Engineer Xie, Director Shao of Huangjiashan Village, Yanwu difficulties in sheep raising, expectations and requirements Municipal Poverty Reduction Office, Village Group C Township, Huan County of the villagers on the project and preparation for the Secretary, villagers and the Social Assessment cooperative Group Director Zhang of County Poverty Reduction Basic information of Gaozhaigou Village, current problems Office, Engineer Xie, Director Shao of Gaozhaigou Village, Benbo and difficulties in sheep raising, expectations and November 15 Municipal Poverty Reduction Office, Village Group C Town, Huan County requirements of the villagers on the project and preparation Secretary Li Jiguo, villagers, Principal of the for the cooperative Cooperative and the Social Assessment Group Director Zhang of County Poverty Reduction Basic Information of Menjiazhai Village, current problems Office, Engineer Xie, Director Shao of Menjiazhai Village, Quzi Town, and difficulties in sheep raising, needs and suggestions of Municipal Poverty Reduction Office, Village Group C Huan County women, problems villagers run into in developing the sheep Director Yuan Weihua, villagers and the Social raising industry and preparation for the cooperative Assessment Group 240    Director Shao of Municipal Poverty Reduction Getting to know project situation of Huachi County and November 16 Huachi County Group C Office and the Social Assessment Group schedule adjustment and coordination Director Shao of Municipal Poverty Reduction Office, three cadres of County Poverty Basic information of Chenghao Village, development of the Chenghao Village, Wujiao Reduction Office, Deputy Township Head of village mutual aid fund, difficulties in the cultivation and Group C Township, Huachi County Wujiao Township, Village Secretary Mu breeding industry, current operation of the cooperative and Wanjue, Principal of the Cooperative, villagers future plans and the Social Assessment Group November 17 Director Shao of Municipal Poverty Reduction Office, three cadres of County Poverty Basic information of Baima Village, difficulties in project Reduction Office, Township Secretary Zhang Baima Village, Baima Township, implementation, difficulties villagers run into in cultivation Wuning, Deputy Township Head Wang Group C Huachi County and breeding and their needs and future plans for the Haigang, Village Secretary, Principal of the cooperative Cooperative, villagers and the Social Assessment Group Staff of County Poverty Reduction Office, Holding interviews on key institutional information and Huachi County people in charge of the institutions and the Group C collecting materials according to the materials list Social Assessment Group November 18 County Chief, staff of County Poverty Holding institutional forums in Heshui County and Heshui County Reduction Office, people in charge of the Group C collecting materials according to the materials list institutions and the Social Assessment Group Director Shao of Municipal Poverty Reduction Office, three cadres of County Poverty Basic information of Hejiapan Village, apple-planting of Hejiapan Village, Hejiapan Reduction Office, cadres of the Township, November 19 villagers, current problems and difficulties and operation of Group C Township, Heshui County Village Secretary Cao Dexiao, Principal of the the cooperative Cooperative, villagers and the Social Assessment Group 241    Director Shao of Municipal Poverty Reduction Office, three cadres of County Poverty Basic information of Mawa Village, apple-planting of Mawa Village, Banqiao Reduction Office, cadres of the Township and villagers, women’s needs, current problems and difficulties Township, Heshui County Village, Village Secretary Wu, Principal of the and operation of the cooperative Cooperative, villagers and the Social Assessment Group Before noon: Heshui County the Social Assessment Group Sorting out office work Group C November 20 Staff of County Poverty Reduction Office, Holding institutional forums and collecting materials After noon: Zhengning County people in charge of the institutions and the Group C according to the materials list Social Assessment Group Three cadres of County Poverty Reduction Basic information of Xiwu Village, apple-planting of Xiwu Village, Yulinzi Town, Office, cadres of relevant townships and villagers, focusing on the needs of women and Group C Zhengning County villages, Village Secretary Wu, villagers and poverty-stricken population, problems and difficulties in the Social Assessment Group planting and future plans for the cooperative Three cadres of County Poverty Reduction Basic information of Shangguanzheng Village, Shangguanzhuang Village, Office, cadres of relevant townships and apple-planting of villagers, focusing on the needs of women November 21 Yongzheng Township, Zhengning villages, Principal of the Cooperative, Village and poverty-stricken population, problems and difficulties in Group C County Secretary Li Xihuai, villagers and the Social planting, current operation of the cooperative and future Assessment Group plans Three cadres of County Poverty Reduction Basic information of Dongshantou Village, apple-planting of Dongshantou Village, Gonghe Office, cadres of relevant townships and villagers, focusing on the needs of women, problems and Group C Town, Zhengning County villages, Principal of the Cooperative, villagers difficulties in planting, current operation of the cooperative and the Social Assessment Group and future plans November 22 Arriving at Qingyang City the Social Assessment Group Collecting materials and sorting out the office work Group C Staff of Municipal Poverty Reduction Office Before noon: Pingliang City Arranging the schedule and sorting out the office work Group C and the Social Assessment Group November 23 After noon: Zhuanglang County the Social Assessment Group Sorting out the office work Group C 242    Two cadres of County Poverty Reduction Basic information of Gesi Village, current apple-planting Office, people in charge of relevant townships, Gesi Village, Wanquan Town, situation, problems and difficulties villagers run into in Principal of the Cooperative, Village Group C Zhuanglang County apple-planting, current operation of the cooperative and Secretary, villagers and the Social Assessment future plans November 24 Group Two cadres of County Poverty Reduction Basic information of Wangping Village, current Wangping Village, Zhudian Office, people in charge of relevant townships, apple-planting situation, problems and difficulties villagers Group C Town, Zhuanglang County Principal of the Cooperative, villagers, Village run into in apple-planting, current operation of the Head and the Social Assessment Group cooperative and future plans Relevant institutions of the County, cadres of Institutional forums of Holding interviews on key project information and November 25 township institutions and the Social Group C Zhuanglang County collecting materials according to the list Assessment Group County Poverty Reduction Office and the Coordinating the schedule, arranging work and sorting out November 26 Arriving at Jingning County Group C Social Assessment Group the office work Basic information of Gaoliu Village, current apple-planting Two cadres of County Poverty Reduction situation, problems and difficulties villagers run into in Gaoliu Village, Gucheng Office, people in charge of relevant townships, apple-planting, needs of women and the poverty-stricken Group C Township, Jingning County Principal of the Cooperative, villagers, Village population, current operation of the cooperative and future Head and the Social Assessment Group plans November 27 Basic information of Wacha Village, current apple-planting Two cadres of County Poverty Reduction situation, problems and difficulties villagers run into in Wacha Village, Xixiang Office, people in charge of relevant townships, apple-planting, needs of women and the poverty-stricken Group C Township, Jingning County Principal of the Cooperative, villagers, Village population, current operation of the cooperative and future Secretary and the Social Assessment Group plans Basic information of Weiwan Village, current apple-planting County Poverty Reduction Office, cadres of Before noon: Weiwan Village, situation, problems and difficulties villagers run into in November 28 township institutions, villagers and the Social Group C Jieshipu Town apple-planting, expectations of villagers on the cooperative, Assessment Group current operation of the cooperative and future plans 243    After noon: Meeting Room on the Relevant cadres of the county institutions and Holding institutional forums and collecting relevant Group C Fourth Floor of Jingning Hotel the Social Assessment Group materials From November 29 Sorting out materials, filling in questionnaires, analyzing data and / Social Assessment Group of Hohai University to January 8, preparing the report draft 2014 244    Attachment III: Field Survey Album Male Forum of Haiba Village, Dafang County, General Forum of Yangjiu Village, Xishui County, Guizhou Province Guizhou Province Institutional Forum of Xishui County, Guizhou Head Interview of Xinzhai Village Cooperative in Province Zhijin County, Guizhou Province 245    Rural Households Filling in Questionnaires in Village Secretary Interview in Hongxing Village, Hongxing Village, Chishui City, Guizhou Province Chishui City, Guizhou Province Women Forum of Yulin Village, Gulin County, Women Forum of Tongxin Village, Gulin County, Sichuan Province Sichuan Province Male Forum of Yantang Village, Xuyong County, Women Forum of Tianba Village, Xuyong County, Sichuan Province Sichuan Province 246    Village Secretary Interview in Youfang Village, Male Forum of Youfang Village, Jinyang County, Jinyang County, Sichuan Province Sichuan Province Male Forum of Erdanwu Village, Zhaojue County, Male Forum of Wazi Village, Zhaojue County, Sichuan Province Sichuan Province Women Forum of Gengze Village, Meigu County, Villagers Filling in Questionnaires in Waluo Village, Sichuan Province Meigu County, Sichuan Province 247    Women Forum of Ripai Village, Butuo County, Institutional Forum of Butuo County, Sichuan Province Sichuan Province Institutional Forum of Anding District, Gansu Women Forum of Taiping Village, Anding District, Province Gansu Province Women Forum of Riwan Village, Lintao County, Villagers Interview in Hengliang Village, Gulang Gansu Province County, Gansu Province 248    Male Forum of Qiaolu Village, Dongxiang County, General Forum of Wacha Village, Jingning County, Gansu Province Gansu Province Head Interview of the Professional Jinmao Apple Interview at Rongchang Professional Farmer Farmer Cooperative in Zhuanglang County, Gansu Cooperative of Small Tailed Han Sheep Breeding in Province Huachi County, Gansu Province Villagers Interview in Huangjiashan Village, Huan Male Forum of Menjiazhai Village, Huan County, County, Gansu Province Gansu Province 249    Male Forum of Yanjing Village, Min County, Gansu Male Forum of Shangguanzhuang Village, Zhengning Province County, Gansu Province 250    Attachment IV: Minutes of Stakeholder Interviews Minutes 1: Women Forum of Xinghe Village, Tongzi County, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province Discussion time: In the morning on November 2, 2013 Discussion Location: Xinghe Village Committee Participants: 5 people, including 3 in poverty Record of Main Contents: 1. Project Understanding Women have not heard of this project, but have a certain degree of understanding of cooperatives. After being informed of the contents of the project, women are very supportive and have high enthusiasm. 2. Feeding Chicken 1) Women are more worried about chickens that are likely to get sick, since this situation has happened before, caused a relatively high death rate. And now, without professional and technical personnel guidance, problems can only be resolved by themselves. 2) There exists lack of funds. At present, chicken market is very broad, which has occurred short supply. This makes each household want to feed more chickens. But because there is no money to buy forage, so there is no way to for them to expand the scale. 3) They are worried about sudden power outage. Since the Xinhe Village is a part of lightning struck area, thunderstorm is common in this area, which leads the electric power sector to take power down measures. Power down is the biggest fear of the households that have hatching machines with eggs in the process of hatching. 4) Hatching and brooding of chicks has temperature requirements, and warm keeping needs firewood and electricity, which may cause a large portion of funding and is a burden for women. 3. Project Suggestions 1) Want to get technical support and can get guidance from technical staff when encounter a problem. 2) Hope that project funds can be reasonably used to meet the needs of expansion. 3) Hope that the government provide contact information of emergency relief, and can seek help when face an emergency (epidemic, market risk). 4) In terms of training method, women want to have a professional on-site guidance, accompanied with DVD release, which can make them learn yourself in the absent of guidance staff. 251    Minute 2: Key information Man Interview of Yantang Village, Xuyong County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province Discussion Time: In the Afternoon of November 6, 2013 Discussion Location: Yantang Village Interviewee: Secretary Xu of Yantang Village Record of Main Contents: 1. Village Condition Yantang Village has a population of 2550 in 480 households, with labor force accounting for more than 50%. The village has a minority population of 1356, including 7 Miao people, and the rest of the Yi people. Ethnic minority has basically finished Hanification, and their lifestyle is not much different from Han nationality. The village has land of 5400 mu, which is basically mountainous land, where plants sweet orange of 1600 mu and chestnut of 1000 mu. Arable land is 800 mu, where mainly plants corn, pepper, sweet potato, watermelon and so on. But the main crops of the village are sweet orange and chestnut, which are cash crops, and sweet orange is the main cash crop of Chishui River Valley. 2. Sweet Orange Planting 1) This village, located in the Chishui River Valley, is a famous sweet orange producing area. The sweet orange produced in this village has good quality, high sugar, and good look, loved by consumers. Currently, the village plants 1,600 mu of sweet orange, and plans to expand to 2,000 mu in the future. 90% of the villagers are planting sweet orange, and it is estimated that price of this year is around 4-5 yuan per jin. 2) The main two difficulties in orange planting: First, pest control is rather difficult; second, sweet orange has relative high requirement for soil, fertilizer and water, especially irrigation water, which directly affects the growing, size and quality of sweet orange. 3) Good harvest years can bring income to sweet orange planter. Planting income is more than wage income, but the drought year is very difficult, and harvest of sweet orange depends on the weather, which is because there is no irrigation water, and people are helpless facing this situation 3. Sales Status 252    1) Sweet oranges of good quality can be sold through the channels contacted by the county and township levels of governments. At the same time, it can carry out publicity and the price is in accordance with the market price. But now the local orange do not has its own trademark. 2) The oranges with small size and poor quality are sold to foreign buyers by the villagers themselves, which accounts for a large part of sales. Minutes 3: Interview of Ortolan Cooperative Principal in Huichuan Town, Weiyuan County, Dingxi City, Gansu Province Discussion Time: In the Afternoon of November 24, 2013 Discussion Location: Huichuan Town, Weiyuan County Interviewee: Xu Long, Principal of Ortolan Cooperative Record of Main Contents: 1. Basic Information of the Cooperative Established in May 2013, it has 7 shareholders when registered with funds of 200 thousand yuan. It adopts the way that funds can be seen as shares, with funds allocation ratio as 4:1.5:1.5:0.75:0.75:0.75:0.75. Organizational structure is divided into Council and General Meeting of Cooperative Members, which is made up of 7 people and 9 members respectively. The cooperative has built raising zone. Cooperative adopts the form of "cooperative + base + farmers + company". 2. Sales of Sheep The cooperative is in collaboration with Gansu Shenlong Company. At present, it has applied for designated slaughtering procedures. The output sheep of cooperative can be slaughtered at designated slaughterhouse. 60 parts of sheep have been packaged to be sold as semi-finished medicated foods and greens, combined with local herbs, with gross profit about 50 %, which is distributed by slaughter and processing sector. Matters about packaging of Chinese herbal medicine and sheep have been contacted with Gansu Agricultural University and the Gansu Provincial Academy 253    of Agricultural Sciences. Relative base has been established in Gansu Agricultural University, and special lab has been set up in the office building. Achievements have been obtained: first, the only one designated sheep slaughtering point in Weiyuan County; second, Yuangudui trademark has been created. These are created as companies, since cooperative has own difficult in doing these things. 3. Sheep Raising and Surrounding Environment Raising zone is faced with greenhouse vegetable base across the street. Sheep manure can give or sell to vegetable base. There is a lot of farmland surrounding raising zone to grow food, which can produce straw. In the other hand, sheep manure and straw can be used for biogas fermentation. Some villagers have biogas digester to conduct forage cultivation and processing. 4. Project Design 1) Sheep breeding: Cooperative purchases sheep, and the dead or wounded ones is replaced by company within two weeks. 2) Sheep raising: farmers raise sheep and cooperative provides technology and services. Cooperative is responsible to carry out quarantine in collaboration with veterinary stations, which needs one veterinarian in township, one person in service station and two technical experts in cooperative. 3) Slaughter and purchase: it is purchased at protected price, which is slightly higher than the market price. Dividend: Market price is 14 yuan per jin, price of finished meat is 28 yuan per jin, and the price of sheep meat in supermarket is 55 yuan per jin, which can generate 47% of middle income. 7% is returned to the cooperative for provident fund and villagers dividends. Minutes 4: General Forum of Tangjiawuji Village, Liangshan County, Sichuan Province Discussion Time: In the Morning of November 10, 2013 Discussion Location: Tangjiawuji Village Committee Interviewee: 14 villagers, including six women with 5 in poverty, and all are Yi people Record of Main Contents: 1. Planting Situation The main crops planted by villagers are green pepper and amorphophallus albus, and agricultural crops are corn, 254    sweet potato, pea, and so on. Since from 1997, the villagers has begun to plant amorphophallus albus, with a little plant area and unstable market price. From the beginning of last year, the planters become more and more, with more than 100 households. But every household plants a area from 2 to 4 mu. One mu of amorphophallus albus requires 1,000 jin seedlings. Fresh amorphophallus albus can gain good sale, so it sells as soon as it is dug. Generally, amorphophallus albus is intercropped with pepper or corn, which is more profitable than intercropping sweet potato. 2. Development Issues 1) It has difficulties in buying seeds and fertilizer, which can only be purchased in the market; 2) There is no planting training, and all techniques are groped out by the farmers themselves, so there exits space to improve nurturing seedlings and planting technique; 3) There is no advanced irrigation equipment, and farmer can only use buckets to carry water; 4) Price of amorphophallus albus is not stable, suddenly up and down of price has a tremendous impact on the enthusiasm of the villagers; 5) Pest problem. In 2011, soft rot cut the out by 20 percent, which cause great economic burden for farmers. 3. Cooperative Conditions There is no cooperative or similar organization in the village. Villagers have no knowledge on cooperative, but they consider it beneficial and want to join cooperative. It would be better not to pay entrance fee. Cooperative is responsible for providing the means of production and sales. If cooperative has base, they are also willing to go to work in there. 4. Women and Poor People Women go to work in the fields after eating breakfast at about 7:30, come back home to take a break in the afternoon and continue to work until it is dark. If the Men are at home, women and men to work, the labor intensity of women is almost equal to that of men. 70% of the household chores are done by women. Plowing and other heavy works are done by men, and carrying water, weeding and other light works are generally done by women. The village has no special policies and specific measures for the poor. 255    Minutes 5: Interview of Agriculture Economy Station Chief in Agricultural Bureau of Dongxiang County, Linxia Prefecture, Gansu Province Discussion Time: In the Afternoon of November 16, 2013 Discussion Location: Agricultural Bureau of Dongxiang County Interviewee: Chief Yin Record of Main Contents: 1. Cooperative 1) The county has 43 cooperative organizations, 39 cooperatives (21 cattle and sheep breeding cooperatives, and the others are potato buying and selling cooperatives and pepper planting cooperatives), and four associations (Sheep Raising Association, Dongxiang Boiled Mutton Association, Potato Planting Association). The promoters are all capable brains. 2) Raising cooperatives generally is composed of a dozen people, who participate in cooperatives by becoming a shareholder. The construction of cooperatives demands to build farms, conduct centralized breeding, buy cattle and forage in a unified manner, as well as carry out unified plague prevention and sales. Small farms also need investment of more than 200 thousand yuan, and only large-scale can generates profits. 3) The operation of cooperatives needs to make profit, and adopts profit -oriented policy. Livestock raising need to increase investment, and gradually achieve scale benefit; 4) Scale of livestock raising cannot be too big, since large scale cause difficulty in preventing epidemic diseases. The number of cooperative should increase gradually. Ordinary farmers can not benefit due to the little number of participants. Now, it is lack of supporting service cooperatives, and the contents of services can include corn farming, planting, harvesting and so on. 2. Training Agriculture Economy station has conducted training, which was done by hired professionals. Cooperatives have not carried out group training yet, but conducted some communications and exchanges. The reason is the lack of training funds. 3. Project Suggestions 1) The most critical matter is the selection of chairman, who should have the sense of service and can play a leading role; 2) Normalized standards should be established in all aspect to form the system that can be followed; 3) Profit making of projects can be utilized to encourage farmers to involve in projects; 4) Ordinary farmer has weak participation ability, which need the appropriate supportive policies. 256    Attachment 5: Identification of Land Acquisition     257        258    :.,_ .... ' ""'"''"'"' ... ........,... " ............ :.,..,. "~ , ~~"' *" ,... =- ,.- ::::: lg::;f,.- ....... ,_.,._ ,......, ,..,., ~- .... '"-" ..- ..-..... §:: h~-:::- ..""'_ ;=- ::...- .. ~=-" ~;"' - __ ........ . - y......... :x..... ....... ~- ,..,., , _.,._ , .... _ 2.:- ..... ,.,. '"""" ............_ ,....... y_., ........ ~- ,..,., ,......, ,..._ ,.,. ,.""" - .........,..... ......... ..... _, " --   __ -..... .. ..... ......... 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Machang Town Xinfeng 861 2700 1882 69.7 Yes Yes Chuanqing Dafang Lihua County Changchun 2543 9103 992 10.9 Miao, Yi Yes Yes Township Maochang Bijiao 926 3700 1789 48.35 Miao, Yi Yes Yes Town Yongjiu 756 2337 1424 60.93 Miao, Yi Yes Yes Subtotal 5978 21740 8277 38.07 Bijie Guizhou Guiguo Town Qimo Village 920 3928 2025 51.55 Miao, Yi, Yilao No Yes City Nuochong 530 2210 650 29.41 Miao, Yi, Yilao No Yes Village Xiongjiachang Chuandongba Miao, 416 1686 1212 71.89 Yes Yes Zhijin Township Village Chuanqing County Miao, Mongol, Baima Village 612 2248 1742 77.49 Yes Yes Hui Baini Xinzhai Village 329 1276 819 64.18 Miao, Yi No Yes Township Subtotal 2807 11348 6448 56.82 266    Total 8785 33088 14725 44.50 Table 2 How Minorities in Xuyong County, Bijie City, Sichuan Province Are Affected Whether Minorities Minority Minority Provinc Administrativ Household Populatio Minorit Minorit Live in City County Township Populatio Percentag e e Village s n y Type y Village Compact n e (%) Communitie s Miao, Chishui 1116 3587 3412 95.12 Yi, No Yes Chishui Town Zhuang Shuangshan 582 2556 1192 46.64 Miao No Yes Nanshan 364 1568 618 39.41 Miao No Yes Xuyon Shuilao 833 3487 2216 63.55 Miao, Yi Yes Yes Luzho Sichuan g Chahe 558 2869 2003 69.82 Miao, Yi Yes Yes u City Shuilao County Tianba 391 2333 1683 72.14 Miao, Yi Yes Yes Township Haiya 687 2693 1512 56.15 Yi, Miao Yes Yes Daba 303 1365 953 69.82 Yi, Miao Yes Yes Yantang 489 2309 1356 58.73 Yi Yes Yes Shiba Township Anle 434 1713 749 43.72 Yi, Miao Yes Yes Total 5757 24480 15694 64.11 Table 3 How Minorities in Yi Autonomous Prefecture of Liangshan, Sichuan Province Are Affected Whether Minorities Minority Minority Minority Provinc County/Dist Township/Stre Househol Populatio Minority Minority Live in City Administrative Village Househol Populatio Percentag e rict et ds n Type Village Compact ds n e (%) Communiti es 267    Whether Minorities Minority Minority Minority Provinc County/Dist Township/Stre Househol Populatio Minority Minority Live in City Administrative Village Househol Populatio Percentag e rict et ds n Type Village Compact ds n e (%) Communiti es Xiangling Shangzhai Village 204 1078 204 1078 100.00 Yi Yes Yes Township Xiazhai Village 160 926 160 926 100.00 Yi Yes Yes Dexi Degu Village 559 1655 220 1098 66.34 Yi Yes Yes Township Mayizu Tangjiawuji Village 551 2600 480 2400 92.31 Yi Yes Yes Township Taoping Luojie Village 474 2000 280 1400 70 Yi Yes Yes Township Keye Village 243 1283 243 1283 100 Yi Yes Yes Mufu Longwangmiao Village 299 1100 120 600 54.55 Yi No Yes Yi Township Laoxiangtang Village 210 900 210 900 100 Yi No Yes Autonomo Liangping Village 169 700 169 700 100 Yi Yes Yes us Jinyang Pailai Town Sichuan Tanshan Village 332 1300 60 300 23.08 Yi Yes Yes Prefecture County Xiaoyinmu of Bojiwan Village 210 900 210 900 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Liangshan Honglian Shamapingzi Village 306 1200 100 500 41.67 Yi Yes Yes Township Lugao Town Youfang Village 337 1500 60 300 20 Yi Yes Yes Baoer Village 240 856 240 856 100 Yi Yes Yes Yida Village 209 735 209 735 100 Yi Yes Yes Yida Wawu Village 190 668 190 668 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Shaluo Village 96 407 96 407 100 Yi Yes Yes Gageda Village 172 759 172 759 100 Yi Yes Yes Bingdi Muniguer Village 150 599 150 599 100 Yi Yes Yes 268    Whether Minorities Minority Minority Minority Provinc County/Dist Township/Stre Househol Populatio Minority Minority Live in City Administrative Village Househol Populatio Percentag e rict et ds n Type Village Compact ds n e (%) Communiti es Township Buluo Village 173 788 173 788 100 Yi Yes Yes Nanwa Shubo Village 279 1275 279 1275 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Nigulada Village 257 1180 257 1180 100 Yi Yes Yes Niboluo Village 297 1078 297 1078 100 Yi Yes Yes Siwo Zhalangu Village 215 789 215 789 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Siwo Village 173 620 173 620 100 Yi Yes Yes Tugou Jiluo Village 157 620 157 620 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Zhongzi Village 260 1108 260 1108 100 Yi Yes Yes Duriluo Village 280 866 280 866 100 Yi Yes Yes Yimohe Jifu Village 181 871 181 871 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Guti Village 188 977 188 977 100 Yi Yes Yes Dongfeng Village 223 764 223 764 100 Yi Yes Yes Youdi Village 83 491 83 491 100 Yi Yes Yes Rekejue Yongfeng Village 126 481 126 481 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Bingyidi Village 169 639 169 639 100 Yi Yes Yes Rekejue Village 216 835 216 835 100 Yi Yes Yes Subtotal 8388 34548 6850 29791 86.23 Zeluo Village 257 1050 257 1050 100 Yi Yes Yes Guangming Village 232 938 232 938 100 Yi Yes Yes Butuo Siqie Village 290 1060 290 1060 100 Yi Yes Yes Temuli Town County Suxia Village 233 891 233 891 100 Yi Yes Yes Ji’nai Village 295 750 295 750 100 Yi Yes Yes Riqie Village 216 828 216 828 100 Yi Yes Yes 269    Whether Minorities Minority Minority Minority Provinc County/Dist Township/Stre Househol Populatio Minority Minority Live in City Administrative Village Househol Populatio Percentag e rict et ds n Type Village Compact ds n e (%) Communiti es Geze Village 172 615 172 615 100 Yi Yes Yes Lada Shouzi Village 205 868 205 868 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Dianzi Village 175 876 175 876 100 Yi Yes Yes Shizui Village 376 1486 376 1486 100 Yi Yes Yes Laoji Village 289 975 289 975 100 Yi Yes Yes Yahe Village 260 1160 260 1160 100 Yi Yes Yes Feitulu Village 360 1460 360 1460 100 Yi Yes Yes Ashengrida Village 204 928 204 928 100 Yi Yes Yes Tuojue Town Laojiugui Village 286 1086 286 1086 100 Yi Yes Yes Baoliangguer Village 222 540 222 540 100 Yi Yes Yes Feige Village 249 940 249 940 100 Yi Yes Yes Xiaguo Village 406 1640 406 1640 100 Yi Yes Yes Ripai Village 421 1556 421 1556 100 Yi Yes Yes Buer Village 265 980 265 980 100 Yi Yes Yes Rijiu Village 273 1011 273 1011 100 Yi Yes Yes Buer Luodu Village 266 984 266 984 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Zhuerku Village 273 1010 273 1010 100 Yi Yes Yes Labozuo Village 207 766 207 766 100 Yi Yes Yes Heimenzi Village 224 829 224 829 100 Yi Yes Yes Abao Village 300 1022 300 1022 100 Yi Yes Yes Luogu Wadu Village 340 1341 340 1341 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Poli Village 226 939 226 939 100 Yi Yes Yes Meisa Moci Village 219 856 219 856 100 Yi Yes Yes 270    Whether Minorities Minority Minority Minority Provinc County/Dist Township/Stre Househol Populatio Minority Minority Live in City Administrative Village Househol Populatio Percentag e rict et ds n Type Village Compact ds n e (%) Communiti es Township Subtotal 7741 29385 7741 29385 100 Jiwei Village 330 1420 330 1420 100 Yi Yes Yes Taqian Village 247 755 247 755 100 Yi Yes Yes Gengze Village 268 1094 268 1094 100 Yi Yes Yes Bapu Town Dage Village 210 860 210 860 100 Yi Yes Yes Sanhe Village 368 1147 368 1147 100 Yi Yes Yes Sale Village 228 963 228 963 100 Yi Yes Yes Jueluo Village 494 1420 494 1420 100 Yi Yes Yes Jueluo Pagu Village 247 710 247 710 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Ze’e Village 350 1005 350 1005 100 Yi Yes Yes Dian’a’ni Village 373 1072 373 1072 100 Yi Yes Yes Meigu Texi Village 150 560 150 560 100 Yi Yes Yes County Dushi Village 105 394 105 394 100 Yi Yes Yes Jingyetexi Caizhu Village 120 481 120 481 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Xigansa Village 276 723 276 723 100 Yi Yes Yes Guohe Village 247 720 247 720 100 Yi Yes Yes Puqian Village 228 837 228 837 100 Yi Yes Yes Nongzuo Village 230 1119 230 1119 100 Yi Yes Yes Jiagu Village 276 723 276 723 100 Yi Yes Yes Nongzuo Yise Village 267 881 267 881 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Wayijue Village 243 1019 243 1019 100 Yi Yes Yes Kae Village 124 420 124 420 100 Yi Yes Yes 271    Whether Minorities Minority Minority Minority Provinc County/Dist Township/Stre Househol Populatio Minority Minority Live in City Administrative Village Househol Populatio Percentag e rict et ds n Type Village Compact ds n e (%) Communiti es Wa’nigu Village 143 605 143 605 100 Yi Yes Yes Wawu Village 342 1546 342 1546 100 Yi Yes Yes Waluo Village 223 896 223 896 100 Yi Yes Yes Jiukou Waluoqianha Village 132 1223 132 1223 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Jiukou Village 295 1325 295 1325 100 Yi Yes Yes Bowoku Village 271 1124 271 1124 100 Yi Yes Yes Yibowo Village 327 1973 327 1973 100 Yi Yes Yes Luoeyigan Luoeyigan Village 93 364 93 364 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Azhuowawu Village 107 387 107 387 100 Yi Yes Yes Xinnong Village 235 702 235 702 100 Yi Yes Yes Wani Village 294 1439 294 1439 100 Yi Yes Yes Yiminxin Village 375 1518 375 1518 100 Yi Yes Yes Lamuajue Lada Village 130 578 130 578 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Madu Village 286 996 286 996 100 Yi Yes Yes Luobucaiga Village 307 1287 307 1287 100 Yi Yes Yes Hema Village 238 982 238 982 100 Yi Yes Yes Wagujue Village 288 1122 288 1122 100 Yi Yes Yes Hongbi Village 64 245 64 245 100 Yi Yes Yes Taha Village 170 680 170 680 100 Yi Yes Yes Longmen Ertuo Village 160 494 160 494 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Shubuyiluo Village 186 741 186 741 100 Yi Yes Yes Ermaqian Village 165 495 165 495 100 Yi Yes Yes Hagu Village 211 851 211 851 100 Yi Yes Yes 272    Whether Minorities Minority Minority Minority Provinc County/Dist Township/Stre Househol Populatio Minority Minority Live in City Administrative Village Househol Populatio Percentag e rict et ds n Type Village Compact ds n e (%) Communiti es Erhe Village 174 677 174 677 100 Yi Yes Yes Gutuo Village 197 686 197 686 100 Yi Yes Yes Yiguojue Yideamo Village 238 887 238 887 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Erma Village 131 547 131 547 100 Yi Yes Yes Waxi Village 186 931 186 931 100 Yi Yes Yes Waxi Laluo Village 213 1147 213 1147 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Dalaamo Village 107 517 107 517 100 Yi Yes Yes Nimuze Village 110 530 110 530 100 Yi Yes Yes Subtotal 11779 45818 11779 45818 100 Yes Jinchi Village 246 904 246 904 100 Yi Yes Yes Nianzi Village 163 716 163 716 100 Yi Yes Yes (Yanziluo Village) Aluwazi Village (Wazi 178 716 178 716 100 Yi Yes Yes Jiefang Village) Township Jiefang Village 245 1035 245 1035 100 Yi Yes Yes Zhaojue Bintu Village (Huopu 166 548 166 548 100 Yi Yes Yes County Village) Dajue Village 227 874 227 874 100 Yi Yes Yes Lamo Village 185 620 185 620 100 Yi Yes Yes Mazimo Village 186 970 186 970 100 Yi Yes Yes San’gang (Mazipu Village) Township Yangpeng Village 270 1135 270 1135 100 Yi Yes Yes (Yangpeng Village) 273    Whether Minorities Minority Minority Minority Provinc County/Dist Township/Stre Househol Populatio Minority Minority Live in City Administrative Village Househol Populatio Percentag e rict et ds n Type Village Compact ds n e (%) Communiti es Saxiaxiamodi Village 276 1236 276 1236 100 Yi Yes Yes (Xiamo Village) Yipoboshou Village 268 1073 268 1073 100 Yi Yes Yes Waliluo Village (Wali 227 865 227 865 100 Yi Yes Yes Village) Nidi Shujuewawu Village 117 415 117 415 100 Yi Yes Yes Township (Wawu Village) Yimushujue Village 210 670 210 670 100 Yi Yes Yes (Naituo Village) Tuanjie Village 326 1298 326 1298 100 Yi Yes Yes Wanchang Xiluo Village 254 987 254 987 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Dashitou Village 240 780 240 780 100 Yi Yes Yes Erdahuo Village 421 1625 421 1625 100 Yi Yes Yes (Erdanwu Village) Saladipo Boliege Village 432 1235 432 1235 100 Yi Yes Yes Township (Gaoshan Village) Waxia Village (Waxia 363 1239 363 1239 100 Yi Yes Yes Village) Yilimu Village 462 2833 462 2833 100 Yi Yes Yes Suosuolada Village 279 1603 279 1603 100 Yi Yes Yes Sikai Geluoamo Village 297 1936 297 1936 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Waguonaituo Village 264 1461 264 1461 100 Yi Yes Yes Legejue Village 146 991 146 991 100 Yi Yes Yes 274    Whether Minorities Minority Minority Minority Provinc County/Dist Township/Stre Househol Populatio Minority Minority Live in City Administrative Village Househol Populatio Percentag e rict et ds n Type Village Compact ds n e (%) Communiti es Haogu Village 363 1849 363 1849 100 Yi Yes Yes Sawaluoqiebo Village 340 1595 340 1595 100 Yi Yes Yes Sawaluoer Village 138 756 138 756 100 Yi Yes Yes Baer Village 250 1594 250 1594 100 Yi Yes Yes Bozuo Village (Bozuo 127 933 127 933 100 Yi Yes Yes Village) Eku Village 102 671 102 671 100 Yi Yes Yes Dimo Village Dimo 233 1578 233 1578 100 Yi Yes Yes (Lamoshede Village) Township Wagu Village 243 1821 243 1821 100 Yi Yes Yes Erwu Village 225 1383 225 1383 100 Yi Yes Yes (Maluoluoxia Village) Erbu Village (Teluomo 297 2003 297 2003 100 Yi Yes Yes Village) Haipuluoxia Village 154 741 154 741 100 Yi Yes Yes Hejue Village 165 930 165 930 100 Yi Yes Yes Liuenmada Village 171 897 171 897 100 Yi Yes Yes Liuqie Liuqie Village 189 1035 189 1035 100 Yi Yes Yes Township Sikegewu Village 133 703 133 703 100 Yi Yes Yes Aboluo Village 176 1070 176 1070 100 Yi Yes Yes Aduwaxia Village 110 565 110 565 100 Yi Yes Yes Subtotal 9864 47889 9864 47889 100 Total 37772 157640 36234 152883 96.98 275  Whether Minority Minorities Administrative Minority Minority Minority Province Prefecture County Township/Street Households Population Percentage Live in Village Population Type Village   (%) Compact Communities Chuntai Hexian Village 273 1508 1508 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Township Dashu Village 265 1318 1318 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Zhengjia 159 642 642 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Village Dashu Township Nanyangwa 137 670 670 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Village Qiaolu Village 158 843 843 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Hui Dongxiang Bulenggou Autonomous Gaoshan 68 345 345 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Gansu Autonomous Village Prefecture Township County Sale Village 168 836 836 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes of Linxia Yaoshui Daban Town 298 1458 1458 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Village Yanling Town Dayan Village 260 1350 1350 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Muye Village 122 769 769 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Machang Suonan Town 191 1045 1045 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Village Tuanjie Village 142 716 716 100 Dongxiang Yes Yes Total 2241 11500 11500 100 Table 5 How Minorities in Dongxiang Autonomous County, Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Linxia, Gansu Province Are Affected Table 6 How Minorities in Hui Autonomous County of Zhangjiachuan, Tianshui City, Gansu Province Are Affected Whether Minority Minorities Administrative Minority Minority Minority Province City County Township Households Population Percentage Live in Village Population Type Village (%) Compact Communities Gansu Tianshui Hui Malu Baiyang 157 734 7400 62.66 Hui Yes Yes 276    Whether Minority Minorities Administrative Minority Minority Minority Province City County Township Households Population Percentage Live in Village Population Type Village (%) Compact Communities City Autonomous Townsihp Village County of Baoping 166 747 Hui Yes Yes Zhangjiachuan Village Baoliang 253 1132 Hui Yes Yes Caochuan 120 542 Hui Yes Yes Changning Village 330 1530 Hui Yes Yes (Shizhuangke included) Datan Village 220 1273 Hui Yes Yes Douya Village 108 510 Hui Yes Yes Huayuan 144 663 Hui Yes Yes Village Jinchuan 406 2002 Hui Yes Yes Village Kangwang 144 681 Hui Yes Yes Village Linfeng Village 125 584 Hui Yes Yes Siwan Village 44 194 Hui Yes Yes Yanjia Dachang 276 1217 Hui Yes Yes Township Village Total 2493 11809 7400 62.66 Table 7 How Minorities in Yongjing County, Hui Autonomous Prefecture of Linxia, Gansu Province Are Affected 277    Whether Minority Minorities Minority Minority Minority Province Prefecture County Township Village Households Population Percentage Live in Population Type Village (%) Compact Communities Wanzi 205 887 887 100 Hui Yes Yes Village Wangtai Yangshan 185 788 788 100 Hui Yes Yes Town Village Wangtai Hui 250 1235 1235 100 Hui Yes Yes Village Autonomous Yongjing Gansu Xuping Prefecture County 286 1264 1221 96.6 Hui Yes Yes Village of Linxia Xiaoling Tumen 275 1250 1250 100 Hui Yes Yes Township Village Goutan 263 1198 1040 86.81 Hui Yes Yes Village Total 1464 6622 6421 96.96 278