2006 in China

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
December 20: Ma Ji, Chinese actor (born 1934)
See also
List of Chinese films of 2006
Chinese Super League 2006
Hong Kong League Cup 2006–07
References
Years of the 21st century in China