# 2006 in China

Events in the year 2006 in China.

## Incumbents

* Party General Secretary – Hu Jintao
* President – Hu Jintao
* Premier – Wen Jiabao
* Vice President – Zeng Qinghong
* Vice Premier – Huang Ju
* Congress Chairman – Wu Bangguo
* Conference Chairman – Jia Qinglin

### Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province – Wang Jinshan
* Governor of Fujian Province – Huang Xiaojing
* Governor of Gansu Province – Lu Hao (until this year)
* Governor of Guangdong Province – Huang Huahua
* Governor of Guizhou Province – Shi Xiushi then Lin Shusen
* Governor of Hainan Province – Wei Liucheng
* Governor of Hebei Province – Ji Yunshi then Guo Gengmao
* Governor of Heilongjiang Province – Zhang Zuoji
* Governor of Henan Province – Li Chengyu
* Governor of Hubei Province – Luo Qingquan
* Governor of Hunan Province – Zhou Bohua then Zhou Qiang
* Governor of Jiangsu Province – Liang Baohua
* Governor of Jiangxi Province – Huang Zhiquan
* Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Min (until December), Han Changfu (starting December)
* Governor of Liaoning Province – Zhang Wenyue
* Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Xiuyan
* Governor of Shaanxi Province – Chen Deming then Yuan Chunqing
* Governor of Shandong Province – Han Yuqun
* Governor of Shanxi Province – Yu Youjun
* Governor of Sichuan Province – Zhang Zhongwei
* Governor of Yunnan Province – Xu Rongkai
* Governor of Zhejiang Province – Lü Zushan

## Events
### March

* March 3: The 2006 Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference opens in Beijing.

### April

* April 14: A man disfigured in a bear attack becomes the first in China to have a face transplant.
* April 30: 24 miners killed in a mine explosion in the Chinese province of Shaanxi.

### May

* May 11: Baidu Baike, a Chinese collaborative online encyclopedia, is launched in People's Republic of China by Baidu.com, modelled on Wikipedia but heavily self censored. Wikipedia is largely inaccessible without a proxy in China.
* May 20: The construction of the Three Gorges Dam wall, the largest dam in the world, is completed in the People's Republic of China.

### July

* July 1: The Qingzang railway launches a trial operation, making Tibet the last province-level entity of China to have a conventional railway.
* July 6: The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.
* July 7: An explosion in the village of Dongzhai village in Shanxi province in north China kills 43 people.
* July 11: Liu Xiang of China sets a new World Record for the 110 metres hurdles at the Super Grand Prix in Lausanne with a time of 12.88 seconds.
* July 22: July 2006 Yunnan earthquake: An earthquake measuring 5.1-5.2 in magnitude hits a mountainous region of Yunnan Province in south China killing at least 18-19 people and injuring at least 60 more.
* July 27: More than 80 people dead and missing as a result of Typhoon Kaemi.

### August

* August 10: More than 1.5 million Chinese evacuate while Super Typhoon Saomai, the strongest to land in China in 50 years, makes landfall in Wenzhou, Zhejiang.

### November

* November 13: Nanshan Colliery disaster: A colliery explosion in Shanxi province in northern China kills at least 24 miners.

## Deaths

* February 13 — Wang Xuan, computer scientist (b. 1937)
* February 22 — Bill Tung, Hong Kong actor and horse racing commentator (b. 1933)
* February 25 — Liang Lingguang, 11th Governor of Guangdong (b. 1916)
* March 6 — Ruth Weiss, Austrian-Chinese educator and journalist (b. 1908)
* March 11 — Liu Zhijian, lieutenant general (b. 1912)
* March 17 — Yuan Baojing, billionaire (b. 1966)
* May 12 — Huang Xinting, lieutenant general (b. 1913)
* September 14 — Rao Shoukun, lieutenant general (b. 1915)
* October 5 — Liao Hansheng, politician (b. 1911)
* October 13 — Wang Guangmei, politician, philanthropist and wife of Liu Shaoqi (b. 1921)
* October 28 — Henry Fok, Hong Kong entrepreneur and politician (b. 1923)
* November 20 — Hong Xuezhi, general and politician (b. 1913)
* November 23 — Chen-Lu Tsou, biochemist (b. 1923)
* December 11 — Lo Tak-shing, former President of Law Society of Hong Kong (b. 1935)
* December 20 — Ma Ji, actor (b. 1934)