China has stripped a senior energy official of his government and Communist Party posts less than a week after announcing he was under investigation for suspected bribe-taking. Xu Yongsheng, one of seven deputy directors of the National Energy Administration, which drafts energy policy, has been removed from his positions, the official Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday, citing the Organization Department of the Communist Party. The Supreme People’s Procuratorate said in a statement last week that the top investigative body had started a criminal probe into Mr. Xu and Wang Junli, director of the National Energy Administration’s new energy department. Both were said to be suspected of taking of bribes. The National Energy Administration had no immediate comment, but Mr. Xu’s name has already been removed from the list of senior officials on the administration’s website. China’s Communist Party leaders have been pushing ahead with a prolonged campaign against official […]