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.
Births
May 24 — Zeng Liqi, professional golfer
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) September 27 — Guan Xuezeng, actor (b. 1922) 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)
See also List of Chinese films of 2006 Chinese Super League 2006 Hong Kong League Cup 2006–07
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