Tires on a China Eastern Airlines Boeing 737 with 100 people aboard burst on landing in Shanghai, causing no injuries but forcing the airport to close for several hours, state press has reported.

The four tires of the Boeing 737-300's undercarriage exploded when the jet landed in Shanghai's Hongqiao airport after a regularly scheduled flight from the northern port city of Qingdao on January 2, the Shanghai Daily said.

Nobody was injured but authorities were forced to shut the runway for more than four hours, causing lengthy delays to a flight log already under pressure from bad weather in Shanghai, the newspaper said.

Following the incident up to 40 incoming flights were diverted to Shanghai's international airport in Pudong.

A China Eastern official told the paper that the cause of the accident was under investigation.