Frontline scientists and researchers of the COVID-19 fight race against time to provide technological support for the prevention and control of the epidemic. Staff in a Beijing-based biomedical company check the vitality of the nucleic acid test kits for novel coronavirus, on February 27, 2020. (Photo by He Yong/People’s Daily)

An expert from the Tianjin medical team supporting Enshi, Central China’s Hubei Province, guides a medical worker from the local Center for Disease Control to carry out experiments in the newly-built molecular biology laboratory, on Feb 21, 2020. (Photo: by Yang Shunpi/Xinhua)

Medical workers in Guanggu District of Wuhan Tongji Hospital, Central China’s Hubei Province, communicate with their colleague through a newly developed AI robot on Feb 23, 2020. (Photo by Yuan Chenzhen/ People’s Daily)

An employee from a technology company in Chengdu, capital city of Southwest China’s Sichuan Province, shows the newly developed thermostatic amplification chip on February 24, 2020. The chip will be used to upgrade the products for detecting the novel coronavirus. (Photo by Liu Kun/Xinhua)

An engineer in a Shenyang-based medical equipment company, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, tests a mobile digital X-ray photography system. (Photo by Wang Bingkun/Xinhua)

Staff from a technology company in Qingdao High-tech Zone, East China’s Shandong Province, test the nucleic acid test kits on February 13, 2020. The kits will detect the novel coronavirus within one hour. (Photo by Xie Hao/www.cpanet.cn) (Compiled by Jiao Jingxian)