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.