The zinc oxide arrester for power transmission line is an overvoltage protector, which is small in size and light in weight, and convenient in transportation. The zinc oxide arrester has good protection performance. With the good nonlinear volt ampere characteristics of zinc oxide, the current flowing through the arrester under normal working voltage is very small. When the overvoltage acts, the resistance drops sharply, and the overvoltage energy is released to achieve the protection effect. The difference between this lightning arrester and the traditional lightning arrester is that it has no discharge gap, uses the non-linear characteristics of zinc oxide to discharge and disconnect, has superior performance, strong anti pollution, good hydrophobicity, anti-aging, resistance to leakage traces and resistance to electrical erosion.