Chinese authorities said typhoon Bebinca is expected to hit the east coast as early as Sunday night and may pose a major public safety risk as tens of millions of holidaymakers take trips across the country for the mid-autumn festival.

While the impact of Typhoon Bebinca has now concluded, Typhoon Pulasan is expected to bring heavy to torrential rain to parts of eastern and northern Zhejiang, Shanghai, southern Jiangsu and southern Anhui from Sept 20 to 22.

Typhoon Pulasan made landfall Thursday night in the city's Fengxian district, with a maximum wind speed of 83 kph, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency. The storm "is forecast to gradually weaken as it moves inland,

More than a hundred thousand people were evacuated from Shanghai as Typhoon Pulasan brought heavy rains that broke local records in parts of the Chinese megacity.