Twelve of the losses were accounted for in and around Wenzhou city in the region of Zhejiang, where deluges brought on mudslides and a few houses caved in on Saturday night, Xinhua news office said.
It included that in the neighboring city of Lishui, two individuals were additionally executed.
Xinhua cited nearby debacle alleviation authorities as saying the dead and missing may have been washed away by surges or covered under demolished homes.
Around 1.58 million individuals in the city were influenced by the tropical storm by Sunday evening, the office said, assessing direct financial misfortunes at 4 billion yuan ($644 million).
Close-by Wencheng district saw storms of 645 millimeters (25.4 inches) in 24 hours - the heaviest in 100 years - after the hurricane made landfall on Saturday night, as indicated by prior Xinhua reports.
The tempest had arrived in Fujian area and at first slice energy to more than three million homes there, as per the organization, yet more than a third had power restored by Sunday morning.
Charged as the greatest hurricane of the year a week ago with winds of up to 230 kilometers (140 miles) 60 minutes, Soudelor - named after a fanciful Micronesian boss - has subsequent to debilitated.
China's National Meteorological Center conjecture the hurricane would be minimized to a tropical gloom by Sunday night as it moved further inland.
Soudelor left six individuals dead in Taiwan, where it tore up trees and activated avalanches, harming power lines and thumping out energy to a record four million families.
Half a million homes were still without force Sunday, Taiwan Power Co. said, as blocked streets hampered endeavors to restore supplies in a few ranges.
Taiwan's loss of life rose to six following an eight-year-old young lady who turned up gone Thursday subsequent to being cleared out to ocean with her mom and twin sister was discovered dead.
Her mom and sister, got in the solid waves on the east drift, were the first casualties of the hurricane.
About 379 individuals were harmed by the tempest in Taiwan, which saw waterways break their banks under heavy rain and towering waves pound the coastline.
Taiwan lifted its hurricane cautioning Sunday, however the climate department cautioned of further overwhelming precipitation in the south.
AFP