More than 33,300 residents of Tianjin's Wuqing and Beichen districts who had been transferred to safe areas in the wake of flooding caused by Typhoon Doksuri in late July, have now returned to their hometowns.

They were the first group of residents to be relocated and have been trickling back home since Friday. Tianjin relocated and resettled 86,484 residents.

The red alert was lifted on Monday morning for the Yongding River, one of the three estuaries affected by the large flood in the Haihe River since late July.