Secco pays serious attention to its relationship with the local community. We would like to work in partnership with representatives of the local community to ensure that our project delivers positive benefit to the community, and that any negative impacts we may bring are minimised. An established international consultancy, Environmental Resources Management, was entrusted to carry out a Social Impact Assessment for SECCO. Secco's Social Impact Assessment was carried out from May to July 2003. The assessment started with 132 household surveys covering 5 villages in Caojing and Fengxian districts and 24 stakeholder interviews with local government, contractors, and SCIP AC. Data on the local economy, culture and society was collected before Secco's commencement, to serve as a baseline for comparison with periodic future monitoring to identify changes and implement interventions where necessary and appropriate. The Social Impact Assessment established Secco's commitment to working hand in hand with the community to ensure that their concerns are addressed as the project is constructed and then goes into production. It also set up good network with local government and community, as well as helping Secco identify its positive and negative impacts on the local society in the short and long term. This will provide Secco with a much more objective basis for determining its social impact management and future investment. SECCO has started to take overall measures to enhance positive impacts and mitigate potential negative impacts in the area of environment, health, traffic safety，management of construction workforce, community communication and pushing the local economic development SECCO is also enrolling the other investors within SCIP in this effort to raise social impact awareness. Secco has taken the lead in calling on investors to take on their "Corporate Social Responsibility" and partner together so that the entire SCIP will become: "a neighbour of choice" for the local community.