China evacuates over 865,000 as super typhoon nears

People watch huge waves hit the shore near Wenling, east China's Zhejiang province as typhoon Chan-hom approaches on July 10, 2015.-AFP

The powerful storm could be the strongest typhoon to make landfall in Zhejiang province, which borders Shanghai to the south, for the month of July since 1949, China’s National Meteorological Centre (NMC) said.

At 9:00 am (0100 GMT) on Saturday, the typhoon was around 115 kilometres (71 miles) southeast of Zhejiang province over the East China Sea packing winds of up to 187 km per hour, the NMC said.