WHEN Chinese acupuncturist Liu Jiangui arrived in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)-at that time called the Republic of Zaire -he had no inkling that this was where he would find renown and respect one day.rnIt was 1981 and Liu,who used to work at the Hebei General Hospital in north China,had gone to the Central African country with other doctors as part of a Chinese medical team.Liu,then 35,became well-known after he cured the military commander of Equateur,a province in the north,of severe skin ulcer,using traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).