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Yuanyue Dang

China’s southern province of Guangdong and the tropical island province of Hainan are working to restore power and communications after severe damage caused by Super Typhoon Yagi.
Electricity and water supplies have been “basically restored” in Zhanjiang, the southernmost city in Guangdong, the city’s official outlet Zhanjiang Daily reported on Monday.
But electricity has not been restored in Xuwen, which was hit head-on by Yagi, it said.


Local officials were still repairing damaged communication facilities on Monday, the Zhanjiang Daily report said.
The report said the city’s “main roads” had been reopened. Rural roads in Xuwen were blocked on Monday morning, but were expected to reopen by midday on Monday.
Local officials were helping farmers, fishermen and factories resume production, according to the report.
The super typhoon has killed four people and injured 95 in Hainan. No casualties had been reported in Guangdong by Monday.

Xuwen is separated from Hainan, an island south of Guangdong, by the Qiongzhou Strait which people and vehicles can cross by ferry. Local ferry terminals are expected to “fully resume” operations on Tuesday, according to local media reports.
Yagi made landfall in Wenchang, Hainan, on Friday afternoon and again in Xuwen, Guangdong, during the night.
The state news agency Xinhua said on Monday morning that communications were still cut off in “many places” in Wenchang.

The official Hainan Daily said on Sunday that People’s Liberation Army soldiers stationed in Wenchang were working with local firefighters and residents to restore water, power and communications.
In another report on Monday morning, the paper said local health officials would sanitise the streets of Wenchang and the provincial capital Haikou to prevent infectious diseases and food safety problems.
The report also said that Hainan’s 14,000 communications base stations had been repaired by Monday morning, but that more than half the damaged facilities had not been repaired.
The Haikou government said it expected to restore communications in the city from Monday to Wednesday and in rural areas from Wednesday to Friday.
All bus routes in Haikou had resumed on Monday. There were still 21 roads waiting to be cleared.


Power was restored to 100,000 of the city’s 320,000 households without electricity on Monday.
Hainan authorities said at a press conference on Saturday night that “preliminary estimates” put the damage caused by Yagi in Wenchang at 32.7 billion yuan (US$4.6 billion), roughly equivalent to the city’s annual GDP last year. The economic loss in Haikou was 26.324 billion yuan.


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