‘Super typhoon’ heads for China’s financial hub

SHANGHAI - A powerful typhoon targeted China’s booming eastern province of Zhejiang and financial hub Shanghai on Tuesday, prompting the evacuation of tens of thousands of people as ships and boats were called back to port.

Typhoon Wipha was 270 miles southeast of the former foreign treaty port of Wenzhou in Zhejiang at 3 a.m. GMT. With gusts of up to 123 miles per hour, it was moving northwest at 12 miles per hour, Xinhua news agency said, putting it on a course to skirt Taiwan.

“East China, including the commercial hub of Shanghai, is preparing for what may be the most destructive typhoon in a decade,” the agency said.

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