More than 100 firefighters, rescue workers and medical staff were sent to the scene in Shanxi province, the Lvliang municipal government said on its official social media account.
The landslide hit shortly before 5am local time, the post noted. Rescuers with four large machines and five ambulances looked for the people who had been trapped but the search concluded by early Monday afternoon.
There was no immediate word on the cause of the landslide or the identities of the deceased.
State-run People's Daily confirmed that nine people had been killed by the disaster which struck the south valley of Caijiazhuang in the Zaolin Township of Lishi District in Lvliang.
The mountainous Lvliang prefecture has been hit by a number of landslides over the years, including one in 2008 that killed 19 people.
The Daily Mail
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