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.

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

References