Shui Junyi
Chinese Han journalist
Shui Junyi (Chinese: 水均益; pinyin: Shuǐ Jūnyì, born 20 September 1963 in Sanjia Jishuijia Village, Gansu) is a Chinese Han journalist.
His grandfather, named Shui Zi (Chinese: 水梓), is a Lanzhou in Gansu Province.
Early life
From 1980 to 1984, he studied English Language and Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, Lanzhou University. Shui Yishi graduated from the Communication University of China in 2006.
Career
From 1984 to 1993, he worked as an editor and reporter at the International Newsroom of Xinhua News Agency. From 1989 to 1991, he was a correspondent working in Egypt and participated in Gulf War reporting. Xinhua was one of the Chinese domestic mainstream media that reported on.
In 1993, he joined China Central Television and participated in the Oriental Horizon (Chinese: 东方时空) program and was the host of the news commentary Focus Report (Chinese: 焦点访谈).
On 5 February 2003 five people including Shui went to Iraq to report. On March 18, two days before the war began, Shui reported that the group had withdrawn from Baghdad.
Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Shui Junyi” is chinese Han journalist. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Shui, Junyi and Chinese, not as a finished interpretation.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q9301044. VIAF identifies the subject as 177145003292861300985. The Library of Congress control number is no2015163881. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963, 1980, 1984 and 2006.
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