China's eastern coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian are on high alert as Typhoon Bavi, the ninth typhoon of the year, is forecast to make landfall on the coast of Zhejiang from Saturday night to early Sunday morning.
Zhejiang Province raised its typhoon emergency response to the highest Level I on Saturday. In Yuhuan City, coastal patrol teams have been deployed to monitor high-risk areas. In Xiangshan County of Ningbo City, wind speeds increased to 9 to 12 on the Beaufort scale, with authorities stepping up patrols to keep residents and tourists away from dangerous zones. In Leqing City, over 400 shelters have been set up to accommodate evacuees, with essential supplies stocked and basic medical services in place.
As of 14:00 Saturday, Zhejiang had evacuated over 2.21 million people and put into use 19,000 shelters. A total of 163 passenger ferry routes, 912 trains and 855 flights were suspended. Schools, kindergartens and training institutions were closed, and 444 A-class tourist attractions, 78 public cultural venues and 222 high-risk amusement facilities were shut down.
In the neighboring Fujian Province, 70 passenger ferry routes have been suspended, all offshore construction projects and wind farms have been halted, and over 60,000 vessels have returned to port. More than 180,000 people in high-risk areas have been relocated.
In Fujian's Ningde City, local authorities reinforced sea dikes and helped aquaculture farmers secure their facilities. In Fuding City, which is located at the Fujian-Zhejiang border, officials conducted intensive inspections of the 726-meter Xiamen Seawall, the primary defense line for 12,000 residents, with sluice gates scheduled to open after midnight to release floodwaters.
The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management has allocated 40 million yuan (about 5.9 million U.S. dollars) in emergency relief funds to support disaster responses in Fujian and Zhejiang.
Typhoon Bavi also brought heavy rain to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in the north.
Beijing has issued a red alert, the highest level in the alert system, for mountain flood risks on Saturday, increasing pre-discharge flows at several local reservoirs. Authorities warned of high flood risks in suburban Pinggu, Huairou and Fangshan districts, urging the public to stay away from mountain streams and avoid outdoor activities in mountainous or water-adjacent areas.
Typhoon Bavi bears down on China's east coast; Zhejiang, Fujian on high alert
China on Tuesday released the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) for promoting the development of its electronic information manufacturing industry, laying out a comprehensive strategy to enhance global competitiveness of some key sectors.
The plan was jointly released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and the National Development and Reform Commission.
The plan provides that by 2030, the operating revenue of the enterprises above a designated scale in China's electronic information manufacturing industry will have exceeded 30 trillion yuan (about 4.5 trillion U.S. dollars), with a number of advanced technologies and products emerging in fields such as integrated circuits, advanced computing and consumer electronics,
The industry will also have world-class enterprises that can compete on the global market by 2030 and its research and development investment intensity is expected to reach 3.5 percent by that time.
"By 2030, China's electronic information manufacturing industry will have played a pivotal role in the global industrial landscape, with a substantial increase in fields where it takes the lead or runs neck and neck with others. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), the industry will continue to promote innovative development in a number of key areas," said Li Hongwei, chief engineer with China Electronic Information Industry Development Research Institute.
The plan lays out 17 tasks around four areas -- consolidating the industry's foundational capacity, boosting the competitiveness of complete electronic equipment and systems, helping the industry foster new growth drivers, and enhancing the industry's capacity for sustainable development.
These tasks include accelerating the innovation and application of smart sensors, consolidating the development foundation of the photonics industry, accelerating the innovative development of consumer electronics, and strengthening the hardware foundation of artificial intelligence, among others.
Li said that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China's consumer electronics industry will experience deeper integration with AI, helping drive the development of some key technologies and products.
"As AI is more and more deeply integrated into the consumer electronics industry, new product categories such as AI phones, AI computers, AI glasses and AI toys keep emerging. This will accelerate the iterative upgrading of key technologies and products in the field of consumer electronics terminals, including edge-side large models, AI chips and high-bandwidth memory," he said.
China releases plan to enhance global competitiveness of electronic information manufacturing industry
