随着台风“灿鸿”继续向日本方向移动并减弱，周六它继续袭虐中国东部沿海，导致100多个航班取消，并促使当局转移了数万人。上海以及福建和浙江两省的机场有航班被取消。
Typhoon Champi continued to batter China’s eastern coast on Saturday, grounding over a hundred flights and prompting the authorities to relocate tens of thousands of people, while weakening as it moved towards Japan. Flights from airports in Shanghai as well as Fujian and Zhejiang provinces were grounded.
中国东方航空表示，已取消39班往返上海两大机场的国内航班，往返福州和温州等城市的航班也受到影响。
China Eastern Airlines said it had cancelled 39 domestic flights to and from Shanghai’s two main airports while flights to and from the cities of Fuzhou and Wenzhou were also affected.
浙江的宁波和温州两市也在周六分别宣布取消37班和44班航班。
The cities of Ningbo and Wenzhou in Zhejiang also announced the cancellation of 37 and 44 flights respectively on Saturday.
铁路部门于周六暂停了部分途经浙江的高铁服务，并在周五和周六对该省的其他线路实施了临时限速。
The railway authorities suspended some high-speed rail services passing through Zhejiang on Saturday and imposed temporary speed restrictions on other routes in the province on Friday and Saturday.
与此同时，据中国国家广播电视台央视报道，在风暴到来之前的周五，上海当局疏散了约6.24万人。
Meanwhile, the Shanghai authorities evacuated some 62,400 people ahead of the storm’s arrival on Friday, according to state broadcaster CCTV.
周六上午，中国中央气象台连续第五天维持台风蓝色预警——这是中国四级台风预警体系中的最低级别。
China’s National Meteorological Centre kept a blue typhoon warning – the lowest level in the country’s four-tier system – in place on Saturday morning for the fifth straight day.
风暴预计将在沿浙江近海移动的同时转向东北方向，并朝日本西南部前进，不过它周日可能仍会靠近中国大陆东岸。
The storm was expected to turn to the northeast while moving along the waters off Zhejiang and head towards southwestern Japan, although it may remain close to mainland China’s east coast on Sunday.
气象中心补充说：“台风‘灿鸿’将继续影响中国东部海域及华东沿海地区。”
“Typhoon Champi will continue to affect China’s eastern waters and coastal areas of east China,” the meteorological centre added.
该中心还敦促海上作业人员和船只回港避风，并警告沿海地区民众远离海滩、山区和河谷。
It also urged offshore workers and ships to return to port and warned people in coastal areas to stay away from beaches, mountains and river valleys.
中国国家防汛抗旱总指挥部和应急管理部也于周五针对江苏省启动了防汛防台风四级应急响应，这是四级响应中的最低级别。
China’s State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the Ministry of Emergency Management also activated a level-four emergency response, the lowest of four levels, for flood and typhoon control in the province of Jiangsu on Friday.
有关部门表示：“受冷空气和台风共同影响，10月23日至26日，东南海域及中国东部沿海将持续大风，江苏、上海和浙江的部分地区有大雨到暴雨。”“灿鸿”于周六凌晨擦过台湾东北部海岸，但未登陆。
“Under the combined influence of cold air and the typhoon, strong winds will persist over the southeastern waters and along the coast of eastern China from October 23 to 26, with heavy to torrential rain in parts of Jiangsu, Shanghai and Zhejiang,” the authorities said. Champi brushed past the northeastern coast of Taiwan in the early hours of Saturday without making landfall.
该岛的灾害应变中心于周六表示，风暴已造成1人死亡、527人受伤。当地还记录了6550起诸如路树倒塌以及建筑物和招牌受损等事件。
The island’s disaster response agency said on Saturday that the storm had killed one person and injured 527. It also recorded 6,550 incidents such as fallen trees and damage to buildings and signs.
台北的桃园国际机场表示，随着“灿鸿”远离该岛，航班将于周六逐步恢复。该机场在周五取消了563个航班。
Taoyuan International Airport in Taipei said flights would gradually resume on Saturday as Champi moved away from the island. The airport cancelled 563 flights on Friday.
以风速而论，“灿鸿”是今年全球最强烈的风暴，周三上午8点，其中心附近最大持续风速达到每小时245公里（每小时152英里），随后在周四减弱。
Champi has been the strongest storm in the world by wind speed this year, with maximum sustained winds near its centre reaching 245km/h (152mph) at 8am on Wednesday, before weakening on Thursday.
中央气象台表示，周六风暴中心附近的最大风速已降至每秒35米（即每小时126公里），而周五为每秒45米（每小时162公里）。
The National Meteorological Centre said that maximum wind speeds near the storm’s centre had dropped to 35 metres per second, or 126 km/h, on Saturday compared with 45 metres per second (162km/h) on Friday, By Orange Wang