Plugs and electricity in China

China runs at 220 V, 50 Hz, with Type A, I sockets.

Data status: references list slightly different sockets.

What you need, coming from…

Two devices that behave oppositely. A charger takes any supply, so only the plug shape matters. A hair dryer is built for one voltage, and the wrong one destroys it.

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Socket types used here

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  Type AType A (NEMA 1-15, ungrounded) · 2 pins · not earthed
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  Type IType I (AS/NZS 3112) · 3 pins · earthed

Plug photographs from Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized. Credits and licences.

What the two references say

This site grades a country by comparing two general references rather than merging them. Where they disagree we show both and say so, because a reconciled number with the disagreement hidden is the failure mode this whole dataset is built against.