Sanya City in Hainan Province has issued a red typhoon warning, with the entire city suspending classes, work, business operations, transport, navigation, and closing tourist attractions.
According to China Central Television (CCTV) News, the Hainan Provincial Meteorological Bureau reported that this year’s 13th typhoon, “K剑鱼” (“Kammuri”), strengthened from a severe tropical storm to a typhoon at 2 a.m. on Sunday (August 24), and is expected to move northwest at a speed of 15 to 20 kilometers per hour, rapidly intensifying. It will gradually approach the southern coast of Hainan Island and is expected to make landfall in Sanya, Hainan (as a severe typhoon) between the afternoon and early evening, then continue toward the central and northern coast of Vietnam.
According to the Sanya Meteorological Observatory, over the next 12 hours, average wind speeds along Sanya’s coast and land will gradually increase to level 12, with gusts reaching 13 to 15, accompanied by heavy rainfall and intense lightning. At 6:36 a.m. on Sunday, the Sanya Meteorological Observatory upgraded the typhoon orange warning to a red typhoon warning.
Sanya City issued a notice on Sunday to implement the “Five Suspensions and One Closure” measures in batches across the city, namely suspension of classes, work, business operations, transport, navigation, and closure of tourist attractions.
Sanya City issued a notice on Sunday to implement the “Five Suspensions and One Closure” measures in batches across the city, namely suspension of classes, work, business operations, transport, navigation, and closure of tourist attractions.
Specifically, for the “suspension of classes,” all offline teaching, offline training, and outdoor educational activities will stop citywide; for the “suspension of work,” all construction sites must halt work, and all personnel involved in construction must cease operations. Except for enterprises responsible for emergency rescue and maintaining basic social operations, all businesses must stop work and suspend production.
For the “suspension of business,” shopping malls, restaurants, entertainment venues, trading venues, gathering places, internet cafes, bars, commercial pedestrian streets, parks, individual businesses, enterprises and merchants must all suspend business; farmers’ markets and supermarkets will be closed from 10 a.m. onward.
For the “suspension of transport,” public buses, taxis, online ride-hailing, passenger and freight transport, and trams must all stop operations from 12 p.m. onward.
For the “suspension of transport,” public buses, taxis, online ride-hailing, passenger and freight transport, and trams must all stop operations from 12 p.m. onward.
For the “suspension of navigation,” all vessels are prohibited from navigating or working in the city’s navigable waters; all types of vessels must be moored in safe waters to avoid the typhoon, and all personnel must evacuate from vessels. Suspension of air navigation will be separately announced by aviation management authorities, airports, and airlines to the public.
All tourist attractions, amusement parks are closed, all travel agencies must suspend travel-related operations, water tourism enterprises must stop water recreation projects, and citizens and tourists are prohibited from going to open waters, beaches, and other dangerous coastal, river or water areas.