Packing List – Power Socket Adaptor For China Travel
For those who may not know what’s the power socket type is being standardised in China, here is it, as shown in the photo above. For Class II electrical appliances, China uses Type A 2-pin plug and socket. For Class I appliances, 3-pin plug and socket of Type I is being used. Plugs are rated as 10A, 250V. Why do we need to know all these?
For this ‘cloud-computing’ era, we need and more than often will bring along some kind of electronic travel gadgets on our travel. Be it mobile phone, PDA, laptop, or camera, all are using batteries. You will need to recharge them after some use. You might remember to bring along all those cords and chargers for each and every one of them, but, have you ever wonder whether the power socket type in your travel destination is the same with your origin country? There are no less than 15 types of plugs and sockets being used in countries of this world. Do you check this requirement before you depart for your travel destination? Though it’s just a small item, you will save up some hassle to hunt for an adaptor in that country if the power sockets in that country is different from all your power plugs of your electronics and you didn’t bring along an adaptor. 🙂
So, for those travellers who is planning to go to any part of China (off course, it must be cities with electricity supply), and you are not from Australian, New Zealand, Fiji, Argentina and Papua New Guinea, you need to bring along a power socket adaptor like the one shown in the above photo. You will need it to charge your batteries. I will definitely need it to recharge those batteries of my digital camera!
Your charger will definitely need one of this. It is a 2-pin adaptor socket to fit nicely into either their wall socket or shave socket. The multi-sized socket holes will fit for any of your plugs, either you are from France, UK, Europe, USA, South Africa, Middle East, Australasia, Japan, Demark, Russia, Malaysia, Singapore and most of other countries. This adaptor should be able to get from your electrical shops or travel shops, from 250V 10A to 125V 15A, altogether 18 types of plugs!
If you can’t get it in your country, please remember to get it first thing when you arrive at the China airport or you will lose your only chance to shoot your camera endlessly without regrets. It is defintely in my Top 5 Packing List for Travel To China. – Travel Feeder.
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Cecil Lee
The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.
The first time we went to China many many years ago, we were shocked when we realised that their power socket is different from ours as it would mean that we couldn’t charge our digital camera. That time we were using Canon Ixus (the heavy block of metal LOL). Luckily, that brand was so popular that we had another guy in the same tour group also using the same camera and he had the adaptor to lend us. Phew!
Anyway, I think many countries are using the other kind of power socket (unlike Sg and Malaysia). It’s great that you share this very impt info here!
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- August 18, 2009>Eunice,
- August 24, 2009Hope this could help other people who are about to travel China for the first time…
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This is very helpful information for those planning to visit China. During my trip we needed to recharge our camera batteries every day. The first thing we did when we got back to our hotel. If we hadn’t been prepared for this, there wouldn’t be many photos of our two week trip to China.Good advice.
- April 22, 2011This is a very useful post but you say only Australian, New Zealand, Fiji, Argentina and Papua New Guinea don’t need to bring an adapter.
- August 19, 2011I’m Dutch and I’ve been living in China for a year and a half now and I was pleasantly surprised that I could just plug my electrical appliances in the electric sockets here.
I brought a travel adapter thinking that it wouldn’t fit, but it is no problem. We use this plug and socket (don’t know how to post an image so I just put the address here
@Danny,
Perhaps the place you are living in China is adapting the same type of socket as Europe. Generally, sockets in Netherland and China are of different types.
- August 19, 2011Thanks for sharing.
The sockets in my apartment in Beijing are the ones of the top picture of your blog. I can just use the normal Dutch plugs in the top part of the socket.
- August 20, 2011Cool tips there, Cecil. I know you have readers from all over the world here, so I thought this might be of use to them — a little site I found called WhichPlug.com — it helps you find the travel adaptor you need based on the country you’re coming from and where you’re going. Hope that helps someone!
- February 14, 2015