Chinese tourists escape from the ocean waves splashing on a trestle bridge on the beach near Zhuhai city in south China's Guangdong Province, on August 4, 2009 as the tropical storm of "Goni" approaches to the city. [Xinhua]

The tropical storm Goni landed at a speed of 83 km per hour early Wednesday morning in Taishan of southern China's Guangdong Province, according to local meteorological station.

No casualties were reported yet by 8:00 AM, the local government said.

The storm, the seventh of its kind in China this year, brought about torrential rain in southwestern part of the province with a maximum precipitation at 186 mm.

The meteorological station forecast that Goni would move westward.

Maritime affairs department in the neighboring Hainan Province said on Tuesday that it had issued an emergency warning to 20,000 fishing vessels in the South China Sea, calling them to harbor.

Meteorologists also said another tropical storm, Morakot, which formed on the west Pacific Ocean Tuesday morning, was now moving at 20 km per hour northwestward.

They estimated the two tropical storms would not influence each other before Friday.

A Chinese tourist manages to hold his umbrella against strong wind on a trestle bridge on the beach near Zhuhai city in south China's Guangdong Province, on August 4, 2009 as the tropical storm of "Goni" approaches to the city. [Xinhua]

A Chinese boy escapes from an ocean wave splashing on a trestle bridge on the beach near Zhuhai city in south China's Guangdong Province, on August 4, 2009 as the tropical storm of "Goni" approaches to the city. [Xinhua]

(Xinhua News Agency August 5, 2009)