Shanghai, China's business hub, lifted its typhoon warning on Tuesday evening as Jangmi moved northwest out of the coastal areas in the afternoon.

Typhoon Jangmi, downgraded to a strong tropical storm Monday afternoon, bypassed China's coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian and Shanghai City, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to some areas.

Fine weather was expected in the following three to four days in the coastal region, a boon to tourists enjoying the week-long national day holidays, according to the weather forecast.

Ship services between Mawei of Fujian Province to Mazu resumed on Tuesday after being halted on Saturday. Tourists aboard the Anqi and Jinlou ferries left Mawei at 10.p.m., according to the frontier inspection station of Fuzhou, capital of Fujian.

The sea route of Xiamen-Jinmen resumed its service on Monday.

Jangmi, which slammed into Taiwan on Sunday afternoon, left two people dead and forced the closure of schools and offices before moving to the Chinese mainland early on Monday.

It brought strong winds of up to 100km per hour as well as more than 30cm of rains in 24 hours on Monday in coastal areas of Zhejiang Province, according to the provincial meteorological station.

More than 30 overseas vessels had been forced to cancel their plans to enter Shanghai harbors as of 5:00 PM on Tuesday, and more were stranded in the harbors, the city's Waigaoqiao port officials said.

Jangmi came on the heels of Hagupit, the 14th strong typhoon of this year. It landed in the southern Guangdong Province last Wednesday.

Hagupit left China on Thursday and moved into Vietnam, after killing at least 17 people in southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Rainstorms have affected the lives of 6.5 million people in the region. Some 678,000 people were forced to evacuate. Direct economic losses were estimated at 5.4 billion yuan (US$794 million), according to the Guangxi autonomous regional department of civil affairs.

(Xinhua News Agency October 1, 2008)