Staff members check the operation of equipment of a sluice gate in Yancheng City, east China's Jiangsu Province, July 12, 2026.

Typhoon Bavi, the ninth typhoon of the year, landed on the coast of east China's Zhejiang Province at around 11:20 p.m. Saturday, according to the Zhejiang provincial meteorological observatory.

The typhoon, with the maximum wind force at its center reaching 40 meters per second when landing, first churned ashore at Yuhuan City, a county-level city administered by the city of Taizhou, before making a second landfall in Yueqing City under the city of Wenzhou at around midnight.

After landfall, the typhoon is expected to continue moving northwestward while weakening. (Photo by Peng Ling/Xinhua)