Follow Hong Kong Investment Immigration and Hong Kong Life: The China City Competitiveness Research Institute released the 2013 ranking of the safest cities in China, with Hong Kong taking the top spot. Following Hong Kong are Taipei and Shenzhen.
Recently, the China City Competitiveness Research Institute released the 2013 ranking of the safest cities in China, with Yantai and Weihai both making the top ten, ranking fifth and ninth respectively.
According to reports, the top ten safest cities in China are: Hong Kong, Taipei, Shenzhen, Lhasa, Yantai, Xuzhou, Changsha, Huizhou, Weihai, and Yuxi. Yantai ranks fifth with a total score of 90.29.
The main characteristics of a "safe city" include no major safety incidents in the year, good social security, a favorable investment environment, low occurrence of production accidents, safe consumer goods, and sustainable ecological development, providing citizens, businesses, and governments with a good information network environment and strong information security guarantees. The report released by the China City Competitiveness Research Institute points out that the evaluation index system for safe cities quantifies these characteristics into numerous indicators, including social security, economic security, ecological security, and information security. It is known that Yantai was previously ranked second in the "2010 China Safest Cities Ranking," second only to Hong Kong.
Since its establishment in 1998, the China City Competitiveness Research Institute has organized over a hundred experts and scholars each year to conduct comparative research on the comprehensive competitiveness and growth competitiveness of 296 cities at the prefecture level and above in China.
