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

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)