BEIJING -- Liu Houcheng, deputy chief economist of the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC), is being investigated for suspected serious violation of Party disciplinary rules and laws, according to China's top anti-graft body Wednesday.

Liu is being investigated by the discipline inspection team stationed at the CNNC and the Henan provincial supervisory committee, said a statement published on the website of the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.