China on Thursday braced for the imminent landfall of Typhoon Doksuri, shutting schools and businesses in some coastal cities, while its national observatory renewed its most severe weather alert after overnight heavy rainfall in the country's southwest.
The approaching typhoon is expected to make landfall on China's southeast coast in the early hours of Friday, state radio reported, citing Fujian provincial weather authorities.
Three coastal cities in Fujian province shut schools, businesses and factories on Thursday, state media reported, while flood control authorities in one of them, Xiamen, warned of a "serious impact". Beijing launched emergency flood control operations in the country's southwest on Wednesday night after torrential rains in the provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan as well as the nearby metropolis of Chongqing.
Taiwan's weather bureau issued wind and rain warnings on Thursday for the southern and eastern parts of the island, including the major port city of Kaohsiung where businesses and schools were closed and landslide warnings issued. The storm had cut power from more than 49,000 households across Taiwan but the majority of them had since been restored.
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