China plans to replace two top energy officials as part of a reshuffle of the top economic planning agency, a Chinese financial newspaper said.
Chen Deming, newly appointed as a vice-chair of the National Development and Reform Commission, would take charge of energy issues, the 21st Century Business Herald said, without setting a date for a handover.
They are currently run by fellow vice-chair Zhang Guobao.
Beijing abolished its energy ministry in 1993, but around that time it also became a net importer of oil, and inexorable growth in dependence on foreign crude has raised the profile of China's energy concerns both domestically and abroad.
The NDRC in recent years has headed off suggestions that it should cede the energy portfolio to an independent ministry.
Instead it set up an energy bureau to deal with day-to-day concerns and last year established an energy office that reports to a top policy-setting group headed by Premier Wen Jiabao.

