The port city of Ningbo in east China's Zhejiang Province has become the first city in the  province that has appeared in the list of "top ten Chinese cities with noiselessness" in a recently released report on environmental quality by the State Bureau of Environmental Protection.

The report on the noise environment of Chinses cities for 2003 was conducted by China Envrironmental Monitoring Station under the State Bureau of Environmental Protection.

The rest of the "top ten Chinese cities with noiselessness" are Jinan, Yantai, Yingchuan, Xining, Hefei, Qinhuangdao, Urumqi, Shenyang and Guilin.

From: Zhejiang Online