In China, residents have been evacuated, ships called back to port and flights canceled as Typhoon Muifa approaches eastern coastal areas. Shanghai's meteorological station has forecast that Typhoon Muifa is most likely to brush Shanghai and continue moving northward, rather than making landfall over Zhejiang Province or Shanghai as previously expected. Muifa, the ninth typhoon to hit China this year, was located about 630 km from Shanghai and was moving northwestward at a speed of 18 km per hour. About 230,000 residents in the coastal areas of Zhejiang Province have been evacuated since Friday. A total of 75 flights scheduled to depart from Shanghai were cancelled yesterday afternoon. Shanghai railway authorities have established an emergency response plan and stepped up inspection for high-speed railway facilities. In Fujian, flood control authorities have called more than 5,000 fishing vessels back to harbor. In Zhejiang, more than 4,000 vessels have been called back to harbor in the cities of Ningbo and Taizhou. China's National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center issued a red alert for high sea waves, the highest alert in the four-level high wave warning system.