BEIJING - Two senior Party officials from North China's Shanxi province have been investigated for serious discipline and law violations, said the discipline inspection agency here Saturday.

They are Chen Chuanping, party chief of Taiyuan city, Shanxi's provincial capital, and Nie Chunyu, member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Shanxi Provincial Committee, said a statement from the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI).