2006 in China explained

Events in the year 2006 in China.

Incumbents

April 14: A man disfigured in a bear attack becomes the first in China to have a face transplant.^[2]
April 30: 24 miners killed in a mine explosion in the Chinese province of Shaanxi.^[3]

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.^[4]
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.^[5]

July 1: The Qingzang railway launches a trial operation, making Tibet the last province-level entity of China to have a conventional railway.^[6]
July 6: The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.^[7]
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.^[8]
July 27: More than 80 people dead and missing as a result of Typhoon Kaemi.

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.^[9]

November 13: Nanshan Colliery disaster: A colliery explosion in Shanxi province in northern China kills at least 24 miners.^[10]

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)
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)

Web site: 10th CPPCC National Committee opens 4th session in Beijing.
News: First face transplant for China . BBC News . 14 Apr 2006.
News: Blast at China coal mine kills 27. BBC News . April 30, 2006.
News: Site launches 'Chinese Wikipedia' . BBC News . 11 May 2006.
News: Three Gorges dam wall completed. BBC News. 20 May 2006. 17 May 2013.
News: China's first train to Tibet conquers high-altitude hurdles. The Associated Press. 2 Jul 2006. 31 Jul 2009. Alexa. Olesen.
Web site: Silk Road rejoins at Nathu La Pass after 44 years . . 2006-07-07 . Li . Baodong . Shuangqi, Fu . 5 Aug 2009 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111209231058/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/07/content_4803157.htm . 2011-12-09 . dead .
News: Quake Rocks China, 19 Dead . CBS News . 22 Jul 2006.
News: China typhoon sparks mass exodus . BBC News . 10 Aug 2006.
News: Latest Stories From News.Com.Au . http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20091001121759/http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0%2C20867%2C20749177%2D1702%2C00.html . dead . 2009-10-01 . 2010-09-07 .