A night view of Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province [Photo/zj.zjol.com]

Huzhou was rated the safest city in East China's Zhejiang province in December 2021, local media reported.

This was the seventh month in a row that the city has been rated as the safest in the province.

The ranking was based on a safety index, an indicator introduced by Zhejiang that is the first of its kind in the nation, to measure the safety level of cities in the province.

The index evaluates a city's safety in a variety of areas, including politics, society, finance, production, food, drugs, environment, internet, and information.

Huzhou scored 95.91 points out of 100, followed by Zhoushan and Jiaxing.