Rain clouds gather over Haimen Port before the coming of typhoon Kaemi in Taizhou city, East China's Zhejiang Province, July 25, 2006. Emergency management authorities in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces ordered ships and fishermen in from the sea as Typhoon Kaemi approached the Chinese mainland, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.[newsphoto]

Rain clouds gather over Haimen Port before the coming of typhoon Kaemi in Taizhou city, East China's Zhejiang Province, July 25, 2006. Emergency management authorities in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces ordered ships and fishermen in from the sea as Typhoon Kaemi approached the Chinese mainland, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.[newsphoto]

    Provinces prepare for landing of Kaemi

    BEIJING, July 25 -- While the coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian have enjoyed little time to recover after being hard hit by Typhoon Bilis, both locations are on high alert as Typhoon Kaemi approaches.

    As of 2 pm yesterday, the eye of Kaemi was located about 220 kilometres east of Hengchun, Taiwan Province, and was moving northwestward at 18 to 20 kilometres per hour, sources with the Guangdong Provincial Meteorological Bureau said.

    3,000 armed police called in for Kaemi operations

    FUZHOU, July 24 (Xinhua) -- Three thousand armed police have been stationed in southeastern province of Fujian, ready to launch rescue and relief operations when Typhoon Kaemi hits.

    About 130 vans and 80 speed boats were provided for rescue teams, officials with the provincial headquarters of armed police said, and they had gathered more than 3,500 life vests and 2,000 life buoys.  

    Southeast China provinces prepare for typhoon Kaemi 

    BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- South and east China's Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces are calling ships back to harbors and evacuating people to brace themselves for the upcoming typhoon Kaemi, local authorities said on Monday.

    As of 6 p.m. Monday in Zhejiang, over 25,000 ships have sought shelter in protected harbors, 80,000 people in low-lying areas were evacuated to safer places, and 185 million cubic meters of water in reservoirs and 50 million cubic meters in rivers were sluiced in prevention of floods.  

    Typhoon Bilis leaves 612 dead in China, while Typhoon Kaemi is coming

    BEIJING, July 24 (Xinhua) -- As of 16:00 on Monday, Typhoon Bilis which caused heavy floods and rainstorms has left 612 people dead, 208 missing, and 3.068 million relocated to safer places, according to the office of the National Natural Disaster Reduction Committee.

    In the meantime, the country is getting prepared to fight the year's No.5 tropical storm Kaemi, according to sources with the disaster relief department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

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