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Typhoon Bavi slams into east China's Zhejiang coast

Typhoon Bavi hits Zhejiang coast, over 1.5 million people evacuated to safety.

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Editorial Team
July 12, 2026
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China's Zhejiang province was on its highest alert as Typhoon Bavi made landfall at around 11:20 p.m. local time Saturday. Zhejiang had activated its top-level emergency response earlier in the day. This followed mass evacuation efforts, involving more than one-and-a-half million people moved to safe shelters opened across the region. CGTN's Chen Tong checked in from one of the major shelters in Wenzhou city.

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