East China's Shanghai and Fujian Province have ramped up safety measures as Typhoon Bavi slams into the country's eastern coast.
Typhoon Bavi, the ninth typhoon of the year, landed on the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province at around 23:20 Saturday, according to the Zhejiang provincial meteorological observatory.
The storm, with the maximum wind force at its center reaching 40 meters per second, churned ashore at Yuhuan City, a county-level city administered by the city of Taizhou.
In response, two of Shanghai's international airports on Sunday canceled 653 flights. Since Saturday, over 50 major tourist attractions have been temporarily closed, and 34,000 residents from high-risk areas have been relocated to safer ground.
In Fujian, more than 180,000 people have been evacuated. Operations have been suspended on 70 passenger ferry routes, all offshore construction projects and wind farms have halted operations, and over 60,000 vessels have returned to port.
Shanghai, Fujian brace for Typhoon Bavi, evacuate residents
China's foreign trade showed upward momentum in the first half of 2026, with higher port throughput and growth in both imports and exports, according to official data.
According to the country's State Information Center, during the first six months of this year, China's average daily container throughput at ports nationwide increased by 6.7 percent year on year, and the average daily cargo throughput grew by 1.3 percent.
Meanwhile, the country's foreign trade structure has also been optimized, transforming high added-value products into the driving force for export growth.
Latest statistics showed that in the January-to-June period, the average daily number of international cargo flights increased by 4.6 percent year on year, with strong and sustained demand for high-value-added products, such as electronics.
"Facing the complex and ever-changing external economic and trade environment in the first half of the year, the resilience and competitiveness of China's industrial and supply chains have become increasingly evident. Foreign trade has not only achieved steady growth in scale but has also demonstrated a positive trend of 'quality imports and exports.' Looking ahead to the second half of 2026, as the benefits of institutional opening up continue to unfold, new momentum for the high-quality development of China's foreign trade will keep building up, likely providing further certainty and vitality to the global economy," said Wang Bingjie, assistant researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission's Institute of Foreign Economic.
China’s foreign trade shows great momentum in H1
