Evacuations ordered as remnants of Typhoon Koinu hit southern China

Scores of flights in Hong Kong were cancelled on Sunday as Tropical Storm Koinu neared the southern Chinese city (Emily Wang/AP)

People were moved to shelters and nearly 2,000 boats recalled to port as the remnants of Typhoon Koinu slammed into southern China on Monday after leaving one dead and more than 300 injured in Taiwan.

The storm bore down on the southern Chinese island province of Hainan on Monday, just south of the financial centre of Hong Kong and the key manufacturing regions in the surrounding area on mainland China.