Shui Junyi ( zh, c=水均益, p=Shuǐ Jūnyì, born 20 September 1963 in Sanjia Jishuijia Village,

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), is a Chinese Han兰州大学：校友水均益简介
Lanzhou University journalist. His grandfather named Shui Zi ( zh, 水梓), is a

Lanzhou Lanzhou (, ; ) is the capital and largest city of Gansu Province in Northwest China. Located on the banks of the Yellow River, it is a key regional transportation hub, connecting areas further west by rail to the eastern half of the country. H ...

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

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. 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 China Central Television (CCTV) is a Chinese state- and political party-owned broadcaster controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its 50 different channels broadcast a variety of programing to more than one billion viewers in six lan ...

and participated in the ''Oriental Horizon'' ( zh, 东方时空) program and was the host of the news commentary ''Focus Report'' ( zh, 焦点访谈). On 5 February 2003 five people including Shui went to

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to report. On March 18, two days before the war began, Shui reported that the group had withdrawn from

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

. On March 26, some members of the report group returned for further report. In 2003, he was named as one of China's top ten outstanding young people. Shui became the presenter of the news programme ''The World'' ( zh, 环球视线) of China Central Television.

Personal life

Shui's original wife is Wang Jun( zh, 王君) with whom he fathered had a daughter, Shui Yishi ( zh, 水亦诗). Shui's current wife is Yang Di ( zh, 杨迪), and they have two children.

References

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