And, the BBC adds that one coastal area experienced 20 inches of rain in 24 hours, the heaviest there in a century.
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Soudelor killed six people in Taiwan and injured over 100.
Heavy downpours have caused mudslides and cave-ins in the city’s rural areas, and several houses collapsed on Saturday night.
The 12 dead and five missing people may have been washed away by floods or buried under the collapsed houses in Wenzhou City in Zhejiang Province, state-run Xinhua news agency reported, citing local flood control and drought relief officials.
Strong winds and heavy rains were expected to continue in Taiwan.
The storm made landfall in China’s Fujian province late Saturday after causing six deaths in Taiwan and leaving hundreds of thousands there without electricity.
About 1.36 million people in the city were affected by the typhoon, the agency said, estimating direct economic losses at 3.83 billion yuan.
Billed as the biggest typhoon of the year last week with winds of up to 230 kilometres (140 miles) an hour, Soudelor – named after a legendary Micronesian chief – has since weakened.
Fujian raised its typhoon alert to the highest level in anticipation of the storm, with at least 163,000 people evacuated to higher ground.
A mother and daughter swept out to sea were among the eight individuals who have been reported as dead or missing since typhoon Soudelor made landfall early Saturday in Taiwan.
Prior to targeting Taiwan and China, the center of Soudelor passed directly over the island of Saipan to the north of Guam with Category 2 hurricane-force winds on Sunday night.
Soudelor also left more homes in Taiwan without power than any other storm in the country’s history, but Taipower had restored electricity to most of those homes as of Sunday afternoon.
Residents gather to see huge waves stirred up by strong wind as typhoon Soudelor draws near the mainland of China in Wenling, in east China’s Zhejiang province.
The typhoon greatly affected the city of Putian in Fujian province.
An 8-year-old girl and her mother died when they were swept out to sea Thursday from a beach on the east coast, Taiwan’s official Central News Agency reported.
Three airports were closed and more than 530 flights canceled, while more than 7,000 soldiers and police were on standby, provincial authorities said.
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A street corner is filled with a mangled rooftop brought down by strong winds from Typhoon Soudelor in Taipei, Taiwan, Saturday, August 8, 2015.
