Timeline: China's fight against COVID-19 in five stages

China released a white paper titled "Fighting COVID-19: China in Action" on Sunday, comprehensively explaining China's battle against the disease.

"Making people's lives and health its first priority, China adopted extensive, stringent, and thorough containment measures, and has for now succeeded in cutting all channels for the transmission of the virus," said the document.

According to the white paper, China's fight against the epidemic can be divided into five stages.