水均益曾在新华社中东总分社设在开罗的总部工作过。他介绍在总部工作的情况时写道:“……编辑室的门外放了一台被我们称为‘生命线’的电传机。这台电传机接收的是美联社的电讯稿。一般情况下,美联社的电讯稿无论在时效上还是报道的信息量上都比其他一些世界级 Shui Junyi had worked in Xinhua News Agency Middle East headquarters in Cairo’s headquarters. When introducing the work at headquarters, he wrote: "... a teletype machine, which we call the ’Lifeline’, was placed outside the editorial room, which received the telegraph from the Associated Press. In the circumstances, the Associated Press’s telegraph version of both the timeliness and coverage of information than some other world-class