China's national observatory on Wednesday issued a yellow alert for typhoon Fengshen, the 24th typhoon of the year, as it is expected to bring strong winds and heavy rain to parts of the country's southern regions.

As of 9 a.m. Wednesday, the typhoon was located over the waters of the South China Sea, about 170 kilometers west-northwest of Yongxing Dao of Sansha City, Hainan Province, packing winds of up to 33 meters per second near its eye, according to the National Meteorological Center (NMC).

Fengshen is expected to move southwestward at 10 km per hour. Its intensity will remain steady through Wednesday morning before gradually weakening. The typhoon will make landfall over Vietnam's central coast as a tropical storm on Thursday before weakening rapidly, said the center.

Gales are forecast to hit parts of the East China Sea, the Taiwan Straits, the Bashi Channel, the waters east of Taiwan, coastal regions of southern Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan and Hainan Island, and parts of the South China Sea, as well as the Beibu Gulf between 2 p.m. Wednesday and 2 p.m. Thursday, the NMC said.

Meanwhile, it said that some areas of Hainan Island and Taiwan may experience heavy rainstorms during the same period.

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(Cover: Surging waves along the coast of Qionghai City, Hainan Province, south China, October 22, 2025. /VCG)