📋 Tender Overview
Source of Funding / Amount: Loan 4136-prc: jiangxi ganzhou rural vitalization and comprehensive environment improvement project
Ordinary capital resources: US$ 200.00 million
The yangtze river economic belt (yreb) is one of the three key economic growth engines in the peoples republic of china (prc). Its nine provinces and two specially administered municipalities account for over 40% of the population, 40% of freshwater resources, and about 45% of the countrys economic output. While the yreb has benefited from extensive development since the 1980s, economic growth in the middle and upper reaches of the yangtze river basin lags that of the coastal areas. These parts of the yreb still face significant challenges as a result of (i) weak institutional coordination for strategic planning; (ii) increasing pollution and pressure on natural resources; (iii) slow transformation into green development; and (iv) limited integration of waterways, ports, and intermodal logistics. To manage these challenges, the government of the prc formulated the yreb development plan 2016 2030. The asian development bank (adb) and the government have agreed to adopt a framework approach. Priority is given to: (i) institutional strengthening and policy reform; (ii) ecosystem restoration, environmental protection, and management of water resources; (iii) inclusive green industrial transformation; and (iv) construction of an integrated multimodal transport corridor.
Rural livelihoods in yreb have lagged industrial production and urban livelihoods. As a result, income inequality and poverty are still persistent in rural areas of lesser-developed middle and upper reaches of the yangtze river basin. Majority of rural wastewater and wastes directly discharge to the water system without treatment and disposal. As the rural economy expands, more regulatory, administrative and environmental management challenges will require stronger institutional capacity. Against this background, the government of the prc formulated the rural vitalization strategy to promote poverty reduction, rural development, and green and inclusive growth. The rural vitalization strategy focuses on governance reform, wastewater and waste management, rural-urban integration, ecosystem protection, and other rural development. The strategy prioritizes managing climate change and the environment to support the governments priorities in realizing an ecological civilization and rural vitalization. Ganzhou municipality (ganzhou) lies in the middle reaches of the yangtze river and the project is part of the yreb. Ganzhou has been selected as it is deemed poor, relatively rural, has weak institutional capacity on environmental management, and is strategically located in the vicinity of the gan river. Ganzhou is a large agricultural prefecture-level municipality in jiangxi province, which is a national ecological pilot zone. It has an estimated population of 9. 7 million in 2017 and land area of 39,380 square kil
