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At least one person died Wednesday in a typhoon that quieted business activity in the Chinese commercial center of Shanghai as it dumped heavy amounts of rain in high winds.

 

Typhoon Haikui led to the cancellation of 700 flights on Wednesday, while thousands of ships were moored as the storm was felt throughout China's crowded Yangtze Delta region around Shanghai, a region of around 100 million that represents more than a third of the country's economic output.

 

After the storm made landfall in the manufacturing province of Zhejiang during the early hours of Wednesday, Shanghai authorities listed a woman hit by flying glass as the city's first casualty of what appeared to be the most disruptive storm to hit the city in about seven years.