BEIJING - Two officials from east China's Jiangsu Province and south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region are under criminal investigation, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said on Tuesday.

Feng Yajun, former secretary of the Communist Party of China Committee of Jianye District of Nanjing, capital city of Jiangsu, and Huang Huakuan, former director of the Department of Communications of Guangxi are being investigated over allegations of accepting bribes.

Local prosecutors have taken "coercive measures" against them, according to the SPP.

According to the Criminal Procedure Law, coercive measures include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest.