A view of Huzhou, East China's Zhejiang province. [Photo/WeChat account: huzhoufabu]

Huzhou was recently ranked first in Zhejiang in a provincial appraisal of efforts to boost common prosperity in 2022, according to a recent report.

This is the second year in a row that the city has topped the evaluation.

The report focused on people's sense of gain, happiness, security and identity, key indicators adopted by Zhejiang to measure a place's common prosperity. Eleven cities in the province were assessed based on factors including public safety, transportation, employment and entrepreneurship, and urban-rural gap.

Huzhou scored 89.7 points, 0.22 points above the provincial average.

According to the report, 91.37 percent of Huzhou residents are satisfied with public security and 86.62 percent are content with the city's ecological environment.

The satisfaction rate towards public transportation and social assistance were 88.98 percent and 82.51 percent respectively.

In June 2021, the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council, China's Cabinet, unveiled a guideline to develop Zhejiang into a demonstration zone for common prosperity. That same year, Huzhou was designated as the only pilot city in the province to narrow the urban-rural development gap.