Typhoon Kaemi, the fifth of the year, is to land on east China's Fujian Province between Xiamen and Fuqing at noon or at dusk on Tuesday, local meteorologists forecast.

At 5:00 on Tuesday morning, Kaemi was located at latitude 23.4 north and longitude 119.9 east along the coast of Chia Yi of Taiwan and 210 kilometers southeast of Fujian's Jinjiang. It is moving northwesterly with a speed of 20 kilometers per hour. The force 13 wind near its center has a speed of 40 meters per second.

The meterologists said there is now fresh gale or whole gale (force 8-10)on the Fujian coast.

They added that from Tuesday to Wednesday, moderate to heavy rain will sweep the province, with rainstorm in some counties.

Typhoon Bilis, the fourth of the year, has so far claimed more than 600 lives in Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Guangdong provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Drawing on the lesson of Bilis, local governments are taking measures to call back fishermen on the sea, check and protect reservoirs, monitor natural disasters like floods and landslides, and arrange evacuation of people in dangerous areas to safe places.

Three thousand armed police have been stationed in Fujian, ready to launch rescue and relief operations when Typhoon Kaemi hits.