Dozens of foreign students took part in a Mid-Autumn Festival celebration at Beijing World Park on September 24, 2007. Two foreign students from Ukraine and Zimbabwe were being taught the old ritual of archery.

One Ukrainian student tried on a Han costume with her teacher's help at the Mid-Autumn Festival celebration in Beijing on September 24, 2007.

Residents in Shenzhen are unlikely to be able to see a full moon today, the Mid-autumn Festival, as the city expects more rain from the impact of Francisco, the 14th tropical storm this year.

The city's meteorological observatory issued a blue tropical warning yesterday, calling on the public to be braced for strong gales as rain strikes the city.

The tropical storm, bringing winds of up to 72 kilometers per hour, landed at Changfa Township in Wenchang County midday yesterday before heading towards the northern part of the Beibu Gulf, south of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Though Francisco swirled westward and didn't directly affect Shenzhen, forecasters said it was expected to bring the city 40 millimeters of rainfall.

Sources from the city's flood prevention center, which was on duty around the clock, said the storm hadn't brought economic losses to the city.

According to the observatory, cloudy weather with occasional patchy showers will linger until the end of the week, and temperatures will remain between 25 and 32 degrees Celsius in the latter half of the week.

Francisco brought heavy downpours in Hainan and Southwest Guangdong.

In Hainan, a fishing boat with eight on board capsized in the Qiongzhou Strait on its way back to the port of Haikou, the provincial maritime affairs bureau said.

Rescuers found two of the eight fishermen, all residents from Danzhou in western Hainan. The remaining six are still missing and rescue efforts are continuing.

The train-ferry service linking Hainan with Guangdong was suspended and some train services were canceled.

(Shenzhen Daily September 25, 2007)