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Scope :
The project will help Hezhou (i) reduce pollution in and improve the environment of the former mineral mining area; (ii) provide essential and inclusive social services; and (iii) strengthen institutions to make former mineral mining workers' living areas in Hezhou green, inclusive, healthy, and sustainable.
12. The project is aligned with six operational priorities of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Strategy 2030 by boosting human capital and social protection; gender equality in human development; environmental sustainability; access, quality, and reliability of urban services; rural development; and governance and institutional capacity for service delivery. The project is in line with ADB's Operational Plan for Health, 2015 2020, by strengthening health systems and elderly care, and with the country partnership strategy for the PRC, 2021 2025, by reducing pollution, responding to the needs of an aging society, and strengthening institutions for health- and elderly-care systems. The project supports the achievement of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, and 15.
The project will allow ecological rehabilitation of abandoned mountain mining areas, restoration of former mining land to operational farmland, regeneration of urban areas and villages, stimulation of lagging economies in selected mining-affected areas, and promotion of green-mining. The project outcome will be environment, livability, and livelihood in hezhou-kedashan mountain mining areas restored; and the project will be aligned with the following impact: abandoned mountain mining areas in guangxi province revitalized.
After sustained exploitation, by intensive mining, hezhou-kedashan has seen severe ecological damage. While significant mining operations ceased by the early-1990s, legacy issues have remained and worsened due to the areas abandoned status. The rural environment and the urban built-infrastructure of the hezhou-kedashan mountain mining area has suffered land degradation and soil erosion, associated deforestation and loss of vegetation, the blighting or outright loss of traditional farmland, surface water and ground water contamination, flooding along the hejiang river and its tributaries, and an overall lack of urban and rural infrastructure. The statutory authority responsible for maintaining and managing these mining areas was an enterprise which was declared bankrupt in 2002. Since that time little has been done to manage the lands, nor mitigate ongoing damage. The hezhou-kedashan mountain mining area is one of the largest such blighted and abandoned areas. The void created by any active management to contain further deterioration of the land, and the absence of any meaningful program of reclamation coupled with illegal mining activities have exacerbated the poor condition of the areas natural resources. In hezhou, most mining sites were not properly closed and restored leaving a legacy of heavy metals, con
