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2006 in the People's Republic of China

Events in the year 2006 in the People's Republic of China.

The construction of the Three Gorges Dam wall, the largest dam in the world, is completed Typhoon Saomai making landfall in Zhejiang, China, 10 August 2006

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

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.^[3]
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.^[4]

July 1 The Qingzang railway launches a trial operation, making Tibet the last province-level entity of China to have a conventional railway.^[5]
July 6 The Nathula Pass between India and China, sealed during the Sino-Indian War, re-opens for trade after 44 years.^[6]
July 7 An explosion in the village of Dongzhai village in Shanxi province in north China kills 43 people.^[7]
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.^[8]
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.^[9]
July 27 More than 80 people dead and missing as a result of Typhoon Kaemi.^[10]

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.^[11]^[12]