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Beijing

Two officials probed for graft

The Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Thursday that prosecutors are investigating two local officials on graft charges. Xu Gang, a former senior Party official from Wuxi in Jiangsu province, and Chen Qiuhua, formerly head of the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region's forestry department, are suspected of taking bribes, the procuratorate said.