Chongqing is the safest and most stable city in China, according to a league table cited in the Chongqing Evening News Wednesday.

This annual evaluation, by the Central Committee for Comprehensive Management of Public Security, reflects the overall level of social order, stability and safe construction and is based on more than 70 indexes including mass sense of safety, dispute resolution and mediation, comprehensive management of grass-roots infrastructure and social management.

Chongqing scored 93.48 points in 2010 evaluation, taking the top spot for the first time, up from 13th place in the 2009.

Chongqing is well known for launching a massive and high-profile crackdown on gang crimes in 2009. During the campaign, more than 90 local officials were prosecuted and 42 were found guilty of sheltering criminal gangs, including Wen Qiang, the former deputy director of the Chongqing public security bureau, who was sentenced to death.

Since June in 2009, the municipality had busted 405 gangs and captured 4,425 suspects as of June 2011.

Their efforts paid off. Chongqing reached a record high of 95.89 percent in 2010 mass safety index.