The typhoon is packing winds of up to 173km/h.
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US News reported that approximately a million people had left their homes near the coast before typhoon Chan-hom arrived.
The super typhoon is expected to move north and traverse Zhejiang, Shanghai and southeast Jiangsu through Sunday afternoon.
More than 100 trains and 600 flights were canceled in the cities of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and Taizhou, according to Xinhua.
Four people were also injured by falling trees in Taiwan when the storm buffeted the island on Friday.
Some 1.1 million people had been evacuated from coastal areas of Zhejiang and more than 46,000 in neighboring Jiangsu province ahead of the storm, Xinhua said.
Rescue workers strengthen a dyke during a storm caused by typhoon Chan-hom in east China’s Zhejiang province on Saturday. Television coverage showed waves breaking over storm surge barriers along the coast, and passenger ferries were forced to cancel service.
As of 10 p.m. of the same day, a total of 28,764 ships have been recalled to port due to the harsh weather condition.
In Ningbo, 135 miles south of Shanghai, the room of a hotel collapsed under heavy rain, killing one and injuring two others, China’s state news agency reported, according to Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post.
Several cities suspended inter-city bus services.
On Saturday night the city of Shanghai will feel the brunt of Chan-hom.
A number of flights in and out of Japan’s Okinawa island chain and northern Taiwan were cancelled.
China’s meteorological authority on Sunday downgraded the alert for Typhoon Chan-Hom from red to orange as it is set to weaken on its way to move northeast.
People look on as waves from Typhoon Chan-hom hit the shore in Wenling, Zhejiang province in China on July 10, 2015.
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The U.S. government’s Joint Typhoon Warning Centre forecast that after hitting China, Chan-hom would head towards the Korean peninsula, bringing gale-force winds to the west coast of South Korea.
