Zhang Lei, an official with Nanshan town in Xuwen county, Guangdong province, has been busy with colleagues visiting local villages to check the disaster situation and help residents rebuild their homes and restore production.

"Now the top priority is to ensure the safety of the villages, to open damaged roads and assist the people in need," he said.

Typhoon Yagi made a second landfall in Xuwen late on Friday, causing widespread of economic losses to the mainland's southernmost county. Roads were blocked by fallen trees, electric poles and billboards. Crops were destroyed and residential houses were damaged.

Zhang said that as of Monday noon more than 300 Party and government officials are working day and night in 18 villages in Nanshan to carry out road obstacle clearance work.

In all of Xuwen county, more than 900 rescue teams were busy at work on streets and highways and in villages and ports to help the county restore production and social order.

Feng Hua, 70, a Guansan village resident, said the typhoon was the strongest he had seen in his life. He said some longan trees he has grown for three decades were blown down, and bricks and tiles on his 40-year-old house had fallen. His roof is on the verge of collapse, he added.

"With the help of local government and volunteers, the falled trees have been cleaned up and potential safety hazards have been removed," he said.

Through the efforts of the government at all levels, production and social order in Zhanjiang — which was hardest-hit by Yagi, the 11th typhoon this year — are being accelerated, authorities said.

The transportation capacity of Qiongzhou Strait Ferry Port in Xuwen, which was severely damaged by Yagi, has been restored. Eight berths in Xuwen have been restored, along with two in Hai'an New Port.