BEIJING, July 29 (Reuters) - Typhoon Fung-Wong had weakened into a tropical storm by Tuesday after it struck the east coast of China overnight, forcing mass evacuations and threatening the region with torrential rains and landslides.

The typhoon hit the eastern coastal province of Fujian late on Monday night after sweeping the island of Taiwan, where it killed one person.

In Fujian and adjacent Zhejiang province, authorities evacuated more than 500,000 people and called in thousands of fishing boats, according to the official Xinhua news agency.

But news reports early on Tuesday did not mention any deaths.

Xinhua said that Fung-Wong, meaning phoenix in Chinese, had weakened into a tropical storm, but "continues to have severe effects on Zhejiang".

Wenzhou and Taizhou, business and industry centres on the coast of Zhejiang, were lashed by torrential rains, it said.

Forecasters in rural Anhui province, inland from China's coast, warned that it too faced violent rains that could trigger landslides and hill collapses, the China News Service reported. (Reporting by Chris Buckley; Editing by Nick Macfie) (chris.buckley@reuters.com; +86 10 66271261)

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