Photo taken on July 10, 2015 shows huge waves at a dock in Zhoushan City of east China's Zhejiang Province. Typhoon Chan-Hom is expected to land somewhere between Sanmen and Zhoushan in east China's Zhejiang Province on Saturday afternoon, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) forecast. (Xinhua/Wu Linhong)

BEIJING, July 11 -- Typhoon Chan-Hom is expected to land somewhere between Sanmen and Zhoushan in east China's Zhejiang Province on Saturday afternoon, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) forecast.

At 5 a.m., Chan-Hom was about 185 kilometers away from Xiangshan County in Ningbo, with the wind speed at the center up to 52 meters per second.

It is moving northwestward at a speed up to 20 kilometers per hour and will bring heavy rain to Zhejiang, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Anhui, Fujian, and Taiwan.

More than 865,000 people in Zhejiang have been evacuated as of Friday.

Nearly 29,000 ships had been recalled to port as of 10 p.m., Friday, and several cities have reported heavy rain and strong gales, the Zhejiang provincial flood, typhoon and drought headquarters said.

Before this, another typhoon, Linfa, made landfall on Thursday in the southern province of Guangdong, bringing torrential rain to the coast. No casualties have been reported.