China issued an orange alert, the second-strongest level, as Typhoon Mujigae landed in Zhanjiang City in Southern Guangdong Province on Sunday afternoon.

At 6 p.m., Mujigae, the 22nd typhoon of the year, was heading west from Guangdong for Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and entered Bobai County in Guangxi, packing winds of up to 38 meters per second, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) said.

The typhoon is forecast to move northwest at a speed of up to 20 km per hour and die down, the NMC said.

Mujugae will continue to bring gales and torrential rain to the coastal regions of Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan from Sunday to Monday.

The Guangdong provincial government ordered suspension of all maritime travel and entertainment activities. Some 38,900 fishing boats have returned to harbor or nearby shelters in Guangdong.

High-speed trains linking Haikou and Sanya, both on Hainan Province, were suspended on Saturday and Sunday. Sixty-eight flights from and to Haikou Meilan International Airport were canceled on Saturday.

More than 25,000 fishing boats in Hainan have returned to harbor and 6,955 fishermen have been evacuated.

The tropical storm coincides with the week-long National Day holiday, and many tourists are vacationing on the island province of Hainan. More than 80,000 people visited Hainan on Friday, up 8.65 percent from the same period last year, statistics from the province show.

China has a four-tier color-coded weather warning system, with red representing the most extreme weather, followed by orange, yellow and blue.

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