BEIJING, Aug. 20 -- Three local officials in China are being involved in separate investigations for suspected bribe taking, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Thursday.

The trio are Lin Chungui, former head of the Heilongjiang Administrative Cadre Institute of Politics and Law; Li Yuemin, vice head of Heilongjiang's forestry bureau; and Zhou Yang, vice chairman of the municipal committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in the city of Sanya in south China's Hainan Province.

Both Lin and Li have been arrested.