Events in the year 2006 in China.

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

– Hu Jintao * Premier –

Wen Jiabao Wen Jiabao (born 15 September 1942) is a retired Chinese politician who served as the Premier of the State Council from 2003 to 2013. In his capacity as head of government, Wen was regarded as the leading figure behind China's economic polic ...

Vice President A vice president, also director in British English, is an officer in government or business who is below the president (chief executive officer) in rank. It can also refer to executive vice presidents, signifying that the vice president is on ...

–

Zeng Qinghong Zeng Qinghong (born 30 July 1939) is a retired Chinese politician. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, China's highest leadership council, and top-ranked member of the Secretariat of the Central ...

* Vice Premier –

Huang Ju Huang Ju (28 September 1938 – 2 June 2007) was a Chinese politician and a high-ranking leader in the Chinese Communist Party. He was a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, China's top decision making body, between 2002 until his death in ...

* Congress Chairman –

Wu Bangguo Wu Bangguo (born 12 July 1941) is a retired high-ranking politician in the People's Republic of China. He was the Chairman and Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress from 2003 t ...

* Conference Chairman –

Jia Qinglin Jia Qinglin (; born 13 March 1940) is a retired senior leader of the People's Republic of China and of the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He was a member of the CCP's Politburo Standing Committee, the party's highest ruling organ, between ...

Governors

* Governor of Anhui Province –

Wang Jinshan Wang Jinshan (; ) is a retired Chinese politician. He served as Governor of Anhui province from 2003 to 2007, and Communist Party Chief, the top political position in the province, from 2007 to 2010. He is a native of Gongzhuling, Jilin province. ...

* Governor of Fujian Province –

Huang Xiaojing Huang Xiaojing (; February 1946 - ) is a politician of the People's Republic of China and a former governor of Fujian Province. A native of Fuzhou, Fujian, Huang started working in September 1969, and joined the Chinese Communist Party in Decem ...

* Governor of Gansu Province – Lu Hao (until this year) * Governor of Guangdong Province –

Huang Huahua Huang Huahua (born October 1946 in Xingning, Guangdong) is a retired Chinese politician, and the Governor of Guangdong between 2003 and 2011. Of Hakka heritage, he was once the mayor of Meizhou. Biography Huang was born in Xingning County, ...

* Governor of Guizhou Province –

Shi Xiushi Shi Xiushi (; born July 1942) is a Chinese politician who served as governor of Guizhou from 2001 to 2006. He was a member of the Standing Committee of the 10th and 11th National People's Congress. He was a member of the 16th Central Committee ...

then

Lin Shusen Lin Shusen (born December 1946) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He was Governor and Deputy Communist Party Chief of Guizhou Province from 2006 to 2010. Prior to that he was Communist Party Chief and Mayor of Guangzhou, capi ...

* Governor of Hainan Province –

Wei Liucheng Wei Liucheng ( born August 1946) is a Chinese businessman and politician. He is the former Governor and Communist Party Secretary of Hainan province. In August 2011, Wei became one of the deputy chairs of the Committee on the Economy and Finance i ...

* Governor of Hebei Province –

Ji Yunshi Ji Yunshi (, born September 1945) is a Chinese politician. He served in a variety of offices, including Governor of Jiangsu (1998–2002), Governor of Hebei (2002—2006), Vice-Minister for Human Resources and Social Security (2006–2011 ...

then Guo Gengmao * Governor of Heilongjiang Province –

Zhang Zuoji Zhang Zuoji (18 January 1945 – 11 June 2021) was a Chinese politician and the former governor of Heilongjiang. He also served as the director of the economic committee of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). ...

* Governor of Henan Province – Li Chengyu * Governor of Hubei Province – Luo Qingquan * Governor of Hunan Province –

Zhou Bohua Zhou Bohua (; born July 1948) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor of Hunan Province and Minister of the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC). Biography Zhou was born in Xiangtan, Hunan ...

then

Zhou Qiang Zhou Qiang (; born 25 April 1960) is a Chinese politician who is the current Chief Justice and President of the Supreme People's Court of China. Previously, he served as the secretary of the Chinese Communist Party's Hunan committee, the effec ...

* Governor of Jiangsu Province – Liang Baohua * Governor of Jiangxi Province –

Huang Zhiquan Huang Zhiquan may refer to: * Huang Zhiquan (politician, born 1908) (黃穉荃), Chinese politician and member of the Legislative Yuan *Huang Zhiquan (politician, born 1942) (黄智权), Chinese politician and Governor of Jiangxi See also *Huang Z ...

* Governor of Jilin Province – Wang Min (until December),

Han Changfu Han Changfu (; born 10 October 1954) is a Chinese politician. Until December 2020 he was Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs. Before he was Governor of Jilin province. Han joined the Chinese Communist Party in January 1974. He holds a do ...

(starting December) * Governor of Liaoning Province –

Zhang Wenyue Zhang Wenyue (; born October 1944) was the Chinese Communist Party Liaoning provincial committee Secretary, succeeding Li Keqiang from October 2007. In 2009 he retired and was succeeded by Wang Min. Biography A native of Pucheng, Fujian provi ...

* Governor of Qinghai Province – Song Xiuyan * Governor of Shaanxi Province –

Chen Deming Chen Deming (; born 1949) is a former the President of Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits of the People's Republic of China. Early life Chen was born in Shanghai in 1949. He went on to receive a Bachelor's Degree in Economics, a ...

then Yuan Chunqing * Governor of Shandong Province – Han Yuqun * Governor of Shanxi Province – Yu Youjun * Governor of Sichuan Province –

Zhang Zhongwei Zhang Zhongwei (; born February 1942) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor of Sichuan province from 1999 to 2007. Biography Zhang Zhongwei was born in February 1942 in Guan County (now Dujiangyan City) ...

* Governor of Yunnan Province – Xu Rongkai * Governor of Zhejiang Province –

Lü Zushan Lü Zushan (born November 1946) is a politician of the People's Republic of China. He succeeded Xi Jinping as Governor of Zhejiang province in 2003. After retiring from provincial leadership in 2011, he has served as Vice-Chairman of the Financia ...

Events

March

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

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

April

* April 14: A man disfigured in a bear attack becomes the first in China to have a

face transplant A face transplant is a medical procedure to replace all or part of a person's face using tissue from a donor. Part of a field called "Vascularized Composite Tissue Allotransplantation" (VCA) it involves the transplantation of facial skin, the ...

. * April 30: 24

miners A miner is a person who extracts ore, coal, chalk, clay, or other minerals from the earth through mining. There are two senses in which the term is used. In its narrowest sense, a miner is someone who works at the rock face; cutting, blasting, ...

killed in a mine explosion in the Chinese province of

Shaanxi Shaanxi (alternatively Shensi, see § Name) is a landlocked province of China. Officially part of Northwest China, it borders the province-level divisions of Shanxi (NE, E), Henan (E), Hubei (SE), Chongqing (S), Sichuan (SW), Gansu (W), N ...

May

* May 11:

Baidu Baike Baidu Baike (; , also known as Baidu Wiki) is a semi-regulated Chinese-language collaborative online encyclopedia owned by the Chinese technology company Baidu. The beta version was launched on April 20, 2006, and the official version was lau ...

, a Chinese collaborative online encyclopedia, is launched in

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

Baidu.com Baidu, Inc. ( ; , meaning "hundred times") is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence (AI), headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District. It is one of the la ...

, modelled on

Wikipedia Wikipedia is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read refer ...

but heavily self censored. Wikipedia is largely inaccessible without a

proxy Proxy may refer to: * Proxy or agent (law), a substitute authorized to act for another entity or a document which authorizes the agent so to act * Proxy (climate), a measured variable used to infer the value of a variable of interest in climate ...

in China. * May 20: The construction of the

Three Gorges Dam The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River by the town of Sandouping, in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges. The Three Gorges Dam has been the world' ...

wall, the largest dam in the world, is completed in the

July

* July 1: The Qingzang railway launches a trial operation, making

Tibet Tibet (; ''Böd''; ) is a region in East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about . It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people. Also resident on the plateau are some other ethnic groups such as Monpa, Taman ...

the last province-level entity of China to have a conventional railway. * July 6: The Nathula Pass between

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

and China, sealed during the

Sino-Indian War The Sino-Indian War took place between China and India from October to November 1962, as a major flare-up of the Sino-Indian border dispute. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibet ...

, 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 A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organization ...

for the 110 metres

hurdles Hurdling is the act of jumping over an obstacle at a high speed or in a sprint. In the early 19th century, hurdlers ran at and jumped over each hurdle (sometimes known as 'burgles'), landing on both feet and checking their forward motion. Today, ...

at the Super Grand Prix in

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...

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 Yunnan , () is a landlocked province in the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the ...

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 Wenzhou (pronounced ; Wenzhounese: Yuziou �y33–11 tɕiɤu33–32 ), historically known as Wenchow is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Zhejiang province in the People's Republic of China. Wenzhou is located at the extreme south east ...

Zhejiang Zhejiang ( or , ; , Chinese postal romanization, also romanized as Chekiang) is an East China, eastern, coastal Provinces of China, province of the People's Republic of China. Its capital and largest city is Hangzhou, and other notable citie ...

November

* November 13: Nanshan Colliery disaster: A

colliery Coal mining is the process of extracting coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and since the 1880s has been widely used to generate electricity. Steel and cement industries use coal as a fuel for extraction of iron from ...

explosion in Shanxi province in northern China kills at least 24 miners.

Deaths

* December 20: Ma Ji, Chinese actor (born 1934)

References

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