The storm brought strong winds and heavy rains, leaving one person injured and 148 units of housing damaged along coastal villages in Hainan's Guangcun Town, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said.

But the headquarters received no damage reports from nearby Guangdong Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which also experienced heavy rainfall.

On early morning of July 30, the storm entered the sea in the east of Beibu Bay after passing Hainan's Changjiang County and is expected to head for coastal areas north of Vietnam, it said.

Nock-Ten, the eighth storm and the most powerful one to hit China so far this year, was recorded as packing winds of up to 28 meters per second when it landed at Longlou Town in the city of Wenchang at 5:40 p.m on July 29. At least 31 people in the Philippines died as a result of the storm.