China issues red alert as Typhoon Utor approaches

China has raised an orange wave warning for Typhoon Utor to red, Xinhua news agency reported on Wednesday. Utor, the 11th typhoon to hit China this year, is expected to make landfall in south China's Guangdong Province between Wednesday evening and early Thursday morning. The State Oceanic Administration issued a first-level emergency response on late Tuesday, urging the administration's south China sea branch to send working teams to direct disaster prevention efforts. it also asked other relevant departments to carry out disaster prevention work. China's National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center said waves as high as 11 meters will appear in the northern part of the South China Sea from Tuesday night to Wednesday, adding that waves up to six meters high will appear in coastal areas in Guangdong. Typhoon Utor hit the Philippines in Monday killing at least 11 people and displacing over a hundred thousand others.