GUANGZHOU, Sept. 24 (Xinhua) -- More than 2.16 million local residents had been relocated in south China's Guangdong Province as of 4 p.m. on Wednesday in response to Typhoon Ragasa, which made landfall in the province at about 5 p.m.
Typhoon Ragasa, the 18th typhoon of this year, with maximum wind force near its center reaching 40 meters per second, churned ashore at Hailing Island in the city of Yangjiang in Guangdong, according to the provincial meteorological observatory.
