I had a phone conversation today with a coworker who is in China supervising installations of machines in a new factory. He complained that my webpage was misleading - plugs aren't very often used. "They just stick the wires in the outlet. I even saw a guy who held them in place with a screwdriver..."
Rather than a consistent colour coding, which you would expect from new work done at the same time, the Chinese sparkies use red, blue, yellow and green indiscriminately for the phases. Earth is (supposed to be) black according to the locals. (Didn't the Russian use that?) Nevertheless, they were better sparkies than plumbers...
On the upside, the booze is cheap. :-)
