Typhoon Matmo has made landfall in East China’s Fujian province. It is the 10th typhoon to affect the country this year. Matmo brought strong winds and heavy downpours to parts of Fujian. Nearly 297 thousand people were evacuated. More than 340 thousand families in the province suffered from power outages.
Over 5,000 rescue workers were dispatched to restore the power grid. Meanwhile, railway authorities in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, suspended 182 trains running in southern and eastern coastal areas. In Shanghai, nineteen trains linking to coastal cities like Xiamen and Shenzhen were suspended, affecting more than 5,300 passengers. Tourists have been evacuated from coastal and island resorts in Zhejiang, Fuzhou, Hainan and Guangdong provinces.