China, People's Republic of : Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project

Sovereign Project | 50391-001

The proposed project aims to support Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR) to promote, coordinate, and deliver integrated elderly care and health care services to provide continued care for those in need. It will serve as a demonstration for the People's Republic of China (PRC) of an integrated elderly care and health care system and will be the first project in GZAR to introduce internationally accepted public-private partnership (PPP) principles and standards in the elderly care sector.

Project Details

  • Project Officer
    Wang, Lan
    East Asia Department
    Request for information
  • Country/Economy
    China, People's Republic of
  • Sector
    • Health
Project Name Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project
Project Number 50391-001
Country / Economy China, People's Republic of
Project Status Active
Project Type / Modality of Assistance Loan
Source of Funding / Amount
Loan 3819-PRC: Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Healthcare Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project
Ordinary capital resources US$ 100.00 million
Operational Priorities OP1: Addressing remaining poverty and reducing inequalities
OP2: Accelerating progress in gender equality
OP3: Tackling climate change, building climate and disaster resilience, and enhancing environmental sustainability
OP4: Making cities more livable
OP6: Strengthening governance and institutional capacity
Sector / Subsector

Health / Health sector development and reform - Health system development

Gender Effective gender mainstreaming
Description The proposed project aims to support Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR) to promote, coordinate, and deliver integrated elderly care and health care services to provide continued care for those in need. It will serve as a demonstration for the People's Republic of China (PRC) of an integrated elderly care and health care system and will be the first project in GZAR to introduce internationally accepted public-private partnership (PPP) principles and standards in the elderly care sector.
Project Rationale and Linkage to Country/Regional Strategy

The PRC is facing a serious change in its demographic structure. In 2017, 158 million people-11.4% of the population-were aged 65 years and above. The aging rate is expected to reach 14% in 2025 and 21% in 2035. The aging population increases incidence of age-related diseases. Elderly people typically have chronic diseases and experience multiple morbidities. The primary cause of their care dependence is the loss of physical function resulting from chronic diseases and age-associated impairments. Further, many elderly people have complex cases of multiple chronic diseases and physical and/or cognitive disabilities which require a continuity of services for both elderly care and health care. Coordination of care between health sector and elderly care sector is necessary to provide seamless care services for elderly people in need and to reduce avoidable hospitalization.

In an aging society, elderly people tend to be readmitted to hospital because of lack of appropriate elderly care institutions that allow them to transition back to their homes. However, it would be difficult for families to provide adequate care for elderly people who are discharged from hospitals and still require medical and elderly care services. Inadequate care at home can cause further health problems, which may require readmission to hospital. Frequent transitions between hospitals and homes or long stays in hospitals further reduce the functional abilities of the elderly.

In the PRC, more than 100 million elderly people had at least one chronic disease in 2013. The burden of chronic disease is expected to increase by 40% by 2030 from the status of 2013. The number of elderly people with multiple chronic conditions is also increasing significantly in the PRC. Those elderly people would require post-acute care and rehabilitation to restore or stabilize their functionality after discharge from hospital as well as elderly care (long-term care) to maintain their daily living. A coordination system, linking the acute phase care, post-acute phase care, rehabilitation, and elderly care in an effective and efficient way, is at the core of integrated health and elderly care. Such a system needs to ensure smooth linkage of care services across the elderly care and health care sectors.

To create a coordination system, a functional hospital discharge management system needs to be established. The discharge management system will (i) clarify care needs after hospitalization, including needs for medical care, medication, rehabilitation, and elderly care; and (ii) identify where and how an elderly person can access his or her needed care. Such individualized care plans should be prepared based on discussions with the elderly people, their families, medical experts, therapists, social workers, and elderly care experts. Further, it is necessary to strengthen the elderly care service capacity to meet a range of care needs. The integration of health and elderly care will provide seamless care services across the two sectors based on needs, and avoid using medical resources for the elderly care service provision.

Enhanced private sector involvement is vital to fill the gap in supplying coordinated elderly care and health care services. Quantity of private providers varies greatly across localities, and no scheme has been established to ensure their quality. Considering substantial increase in care needs due to rapid aging of the population, it would be unrealistic for the public sector to be the main provider of care services. Meanwhile, the public sector needs to take responsibility for establishing standardized care needs assessment and service quality monitoring systems. The private sector could bring its knowledge and experience to better design facilities, engage skilled staff, and provide efficient services under the guidelines and regulations set by the public sector. Such alignment of responsibilities is not yet clearly established in the PRC elderly care sector.

The Government of the PRC has recognized the importance of integrated elderly care and health care services to respond to its rapidly aging population, and issued a related policy in 2015. In line with the central policy, the Government of GZAR (GGZAR) in 2016 issued policies on the implementation of elderly care and health care integration, and for enhancing the involvement of the private sector in care service provision for elderly people. While the GGZAR issued those policies, it has limited experience and capacity in promoting the integration of elderly care and health care, and private sector involvement in the coordinated care service provision.

In order to build the institutional capacity and system, the municipalities of Nanning and Hezhou were selected as pilot cities for elderly care and health care integration in 2017. In the same year, people aged 65 years and above were 0.8 million and 0.2 million in Nanning and Hezhou municipalities which account for 11.4% and 10.1 % of the population, respectively. More than 85% of those elderly people have at least one chronic disease and about 60% have multimorbidity. The integration of elderly care and health care is necessary to provide needed care services for those elderly people. However, most elderly patients directly return home after discharge from tertiary level hospitals. A functional coordination system is not established between hospitals and elderly care facilities in those municipalities. The inter-sectoral coordination among bureaus, such as the civil affairs bureaus and the health commission, needs to be established.

Impact

Integrated elderly care and health care services in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region established

Project Outcome
Description of Outcome

Utilization of coordinated health care and elderly care services in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region increased

Progress Toward Outcome The contracts for consulting services on project management/capacity development, external safeguards monitor and construction supervision were awarded in 2021 and April 2023, respectively. The consulting service contract on technical capacity in elderly care sector, the civil works contracts under Nanning Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital subproject and Hezhou People's Hospital (Site 1) subprojects have been signed. The civil works contract under Hezhou Social Welfare Institution Subproject is being signed.
Implementation Progress
Description of Project Outputs

Coordinated care services and facilities improved

Public-private partnership project for integrated elderly care and health care services provision developed

Management and policy development capacities in promoting integrated elderly care and health care services developed

Status of Implementation Progress (Outputs, Activities, and Issues) As of 14 Sept. 2023, cumulative contract awards were $ 19.21 million and cumulative disbursements were $ 1.61 million. The minor change on relocation of subproject site of HPH site 2 has been approved in June 2023. The site of the PPP subproject is being relocated. The preliminary and detailed designs of the facilities for Hezhou People's Hospital Site 2 and the PPP subproject were delayed correspondingly due to the project site change. The transaction advisory services team's support to the project will be extended to provide sufficient time for the launch of tender documents for the PPP subproject and awarding of contract to the PPP concessionaire.
Geographical Location Guangxi
Safeguard Categories
Environment B
Involuntary Resettlement B
Indigenous Peoples C
Summary of Environmental and Social Aspects
Environmental Aspects An initial environmental examination (IEE), including an environmental management plan (EMP), was prepared for five elderly care facilities and a medical facility, and was disclosed on the ADB website in June 2019. The IEE concluded that the anticipated environmental impacts can be mitigated through effective EMP implementation. During construction, impacts anticipatedincluding noise, air pollutants, demolition waste, and risk to community and occupational health and safetyare localized and short-term and can be effectively mitigated by implementing good construction practices. Contractors will address management of wastewater and drainage, medical waste, and their linkage with associated facilities, as required in the IEE and EMP. The EMP lists mitigation procedures that must be strictly followed in compliance with PRC regulations and ADB guidelines. The executing agency has confirmed its commitment and capacity to implement the EMP. Further capacity building is proposed in the EMP. It will assign a safeguards officer within the GPMO to supervise effective implementation of the EMP. The procedures, reporting timelines, and roles and responsibilities of relevant agencies are described in the EMP. Environmental complaints will be handled in accordance with the grievance redress mechanism established for the project by the GPMO.
Involuntary Resettlement The project requires 11.38 hectares (ha) of land, comprising 4.94 ha of rural collective lands and 6.44 ha of state-owned lands. Rural collective lands will be acquired for the second elderly care facility under the Hezhou People's Hospital subproject and will affect 56 households with 296 persons in Xiadao village, of which 26 households with 152 persons will be significantly impacted because of house demolition. The income losses for households with land impacts has been assessed to be insignificant, with less than 1% of their household incomes affected. A draft resettlement plan was prepared following the laws and regulations of the PRC, GZAR, and Hezhou Municipality; and ADB's Safeguard Policy Statement (2009). HMG will be responsible for paying compensation and assisting affected persons before land acquisition and relocation. The other five facilities will be located on stateowned lands, and the resettlement due diligence confirmed that there is no past nor present concerns related to involuntary resettlement. During project implementation, the GPMO and resettlement management staff of implementing agencies and PIEs will be trained in involuntary resettlement procedures. A grievance redress mechanism has been established, and an external agency will be engaged for semiannual resettlement monitoring and evaluation.
Indigenous Peoples In subproject areas of Nanning Municipality, ethnic minorities account for 50% of the total population. In the subproject area in Pinggui District, Hezhou Municipality, they account for 2% of the total population. The Zhuang is the dominant ethnic minority in Nanning while the Yao is the dominant ethnic minority in Hezhou. Ethnic minorities live in harmony with others and anticipate no obstruction or discrimination in accessing improved elderly care and health care services under the project. The subprojects will not adversely affect their community identities, beliefs, religions, or customs. Therefore, an ethnic minority development plan to ensure that they receive improved elderly care services and health services is not required.
Stakeholder Communication, Participation, and Consultation
During Project Design From December 2018 to February 2019, 2,000 persons were interviewed, 8 consultations with government agencies and 5 focus group discussions were held, and 12 key informant interviews were conducted. The civil affairs bureau, poverty alleviation office, health commission, human resource and social security bureau, and Xiadao village committee took part in the consultations.
During Project Implementation During project implementation, consultations will be conducted to (i) increase elderly people's awareness of coordinated elderly care and health care services, (ii) strengthen the understanding of necessary cross-sector coordination among relevant bureaus, and (iii) improve the accessibility of elderly who need coordinated elderly care and health care services.
Business Opportunities
Consulting Services

All consulting services will be undertaken in accordance with ADB's Procurement Policy (2017, as amended from time to time) and Procurement Regulations for ADB Borrowers (2017, as amended from time to time). Details are below:

Quality-cost based selection (implementation support) - 142.5 person-months

Quality-cost based selection (construction supervision) - 320.0 person-months

Quality-cost based selection (technical capacity) - 120.0 person-months

Consultants' qualification selection (external monitoring) - 28.0 person-months

Individual consultant selection (technical capacity) - 20.0 person-months

Procurement

All procurement of goods and work will be undertaken in accordance with ADB's Procurement Policy (2017, as amended from time to time) and Procurement Regulations for ADB Borrowers (2017, as amended from time to time). Details are below:

Open competitive bidding with national advertisement - 18 contracts

Open competitive bidding with international advertisement - 1 contract

Responsible ADB Officer Wang, Lan
Responsible ADB Department East Asia Department
Responsible ADB Division PRC Resident Mission (PRCM)
Executing Agencies
Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, through Guangxi Foreign Loans Project Management Office
Timetable
Concept Clearance 06 Dec 2018
Fact Finding 09 Apr 2019 to 16 Apr 2019
MRM 27 Jun 2019
Approval 24 Sep 2019
Last Review Mission -
Last PDS Update 25 Sep 2023

Loan 3819-PRC

Milestones
Approval Signing Date Effectivity Date Closing
Original Revised Actual
24 Sep 2019 22 Nov 2019 04 Mar 2020 30 Apr 2026 - -
Financing Plan Loan Utilization
Total (Amount in US$ million) Date ADB Others Net Percentage
Project Cost 193.52 Cumulative Contract Awards
ADB 100.00 15 Sep 2023 22.00 0.00 22%
Counterpart 93.52 Cumulative Disbursements
Cofinancing 0.00 15 Sep 2023 1.61 0.00 2%
Status of Covenants
Category Sector Safeguards Social Financial Economic Others
Rating Satisfactory Satisfactory Satisfactory Satisfactory - -

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Title Document Type Document Date
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Procurement Plan Procurement Plans Jul 2023
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Audited Project Financial Statements (January-December 2022) Audited Project Financial Statements Jun 2023
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Audited Project Financial Statements (January-December 2021) Audited Project Financial Statements Jun 2022
Amendment to the Project Agreement for Loan 3819-PRC: Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Healthcare Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project Project/Program Agreements Mar 2022
Loan Agreement (Ordinary Operations) for Loan 3819-PRC: Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Healthcare Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project Loan Agreement (Ordinary Resources) Nov 2019
Project Agreement for Loan 3819-PRC: Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Healthcare Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project Project/Program Agreements Nov 2019
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public–Private Partnership Project: Gender Action Plan Gender Action Plans Sep 2019
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public–Private Partnership Project: Project Administration Manual Project/Program Administration Manual Sep 2019
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public–Private Partnership Project: Report and Recommendation of the President Reports and Recommendations of the President Sep 2019
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public–Private Partnership Project: Initial Poverty and Social Analysis Initial Poverty and Social Analysis Dec 2018

Safeguard Documents See also: Safeguards
Safeguard documents provided at the time of project/facility approval may also be found in the list of linked documents provided with the Report and Recommendation of the President.

Title Document Type Document Date
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Hezhou Huanan Traditional Medical Care Nursing Home Subproject Final Resettlement Plan Resettlement Plans Sep 2023
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: External Resettlement and Social Monitoring and Evaluation Report No. 4 Social Monitoring Reports Jun 2023
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Hezhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Site (HTCMH Site) Subproject Final Resettlement Plan Resettlement Plans May 2023
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Updated Initial Environmental Examination Initial Environmental Examination Feb 2023
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: External Environmental Monitoring Report (2022) Environmental Monitoring Reports Feb 2023
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Hezhou Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital Site (HTCMH Site) Subproject Resettlement Plan Resettlement Plans Feb 2023
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: External Resettlement and Social Monitoring and Evaluation Report No. 3 Social Monitoring Reports Nov 2022
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: External Resettlement and Social Monitoring and Evaluation Report No. 2 Social Monitoring Reports Apr 2022
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: External Environmental Monitoring Report (2021) Environmental Monitoring Reports Mar 2022
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: External Resettlement and Social Monitoring and Evaluation Report No. 1 Social Monitoring Reports Oct 2021
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Social Monitoring Report (March 2020-June 2021) Social Monitoring Reports Aug 2021
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Consolidated Resettlement Due Diligence Report Safeguards Due Diligence Reports Jun 2019
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Initial Environmental Examination Initial Environmental Examination May 2019
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Hezhou No. 2 Nursing Home for Disabled Elderly Resettlement Plan Resettlement Plans May 2019
Demonstration of Guangxi Elderly Care and Health Care Integration and Public-Private Partnership Project: Hezhou Huanan Traditional Medical Care Nursing Home Resettlement Due Diligence Report Safeguards Due Diligence Reports Apr 2019

Evaluation Documents See also: Independent Evaluation

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Tenders

Tender Title Type Status Posting Date Deadline
Technical Capacity Development in Elderly Care Sector Firm - Consulting Closed
Construction Supervision Firm - Consulting Closed
External Resettlement and Social Monitor Specialist Individual - Consulting Closed
External Environment Monitor Specialist Individual - Consulting Closed
Technical Capacity Development in Elderly Care Sector Firm - Consulting Closed
Project Management and Capacity Development Firm - Consulting Closed

Contracts Awarded

Contract Title Approval Number Contract Date Contractor | Address Executing Agency Total Contract Amount (US$) Contract Amount Financed by ADB (US$)
Consulting Services Loan 3819 24 Apr 2023 Hebei Zhongyuan Engineering Project Management Co., Ltd. | Guangxi, PRC Govt of GZAR, thru Guangxi Guangxi Foreign Loans Project Management Office 1,643,257.57 1,598,770.09
PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT Loan 3819 08 Apr 2021 BEIJING HELISON INFORMATION CONSULTING CO. LTD | ROOM 320 NO 12 ANHUILI 2ND COMMUNITY CHAOYANG DISTRICT, BEIJING, CHINA, PEOPLE'S REP.OF Govt of GZAR, thru Guangxi Foreign Lns_Prj Mgt Off 1,094,009.00 1,094,009.00