BEIJING — A powerful typhoon killed at least 18 people in China after making landfall on the east coast early Saturday and moving north toward Shanghai, state media reported.

The storm, Typhoon Lekima, also destroyed at least 200 homes and left 16 people missing, according to the reports. It made landfall as a super typhoon at about 1:45 a.m., in Zhejiang Province near the city of Taizhou, and weakened as it moved north, the reports said.

The reports did not say where the deaths had occurred, but the authorities said Taizhou and two other cities, Wenzhou and Ningbo, were especially hard-hit.

As the storm approached Shanghai, officials said that more than 200,000 people in the area had been moved as a precaution. Almost 300 flights and more than 1,200 trains were canceled as the typhoon moved slowly inland, reports said.