A project review meeting organized by the Science, Technology and Education Department of National Health and Family Planning Commission (STED-NHFPC) of the People’s Republic of China was held in Shanghai in the morning of February 14, 2014. This project entitled "Construction, development and resource-sharing of the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL)" is funded under the National Mega Program on Drug Discovery and Development. 

Present in the meeting included Professor Chen Wang (Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Deputy Director-General of  STED-NHFPC), Madam Guangxia Song (Section Chief of STED-NHFPC), Dr. Peixin Wu (Section Chief of STED-NHFPC) and Professor Yang Zhao from STED-NHFPC; Professor Kaixian Chen (Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Jian Ding (Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering and Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Professor Song Li (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, PLA Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing), Professor Fenghong Qu (Beijing Association of Promotion of International Pharmaceutical Research), Mr. Lanzhong Wang (General Manager of Shanghai Zhangjiang Base for Biomedical Development, Co. Ltd.) and Professor Meiyu Geng (Deputy Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences). Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director of CNCL), Fajun Nan (Deputy Director of CNCL) Jianmin Yue (Deputy Director of CNCL) and representatives from the six satellite libraries of CNCL.
The meeting was chaired by Professor Chen Wang following an on-site visit to CNCL facilities. Professor Ming-Wei Wang gave a detailed status report on the construction progresses, operating mechanisms, working plans and public services of CNCL. Questions were raised and discussions enthusiastically carried out relative to innovation on the operating mechanisms, resource and technical services as well as sustained growth, among other topics.

Professor Jingrong Cui (School of Pharmacy, Peking University), Professor Junhai Xiao (Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, PLA Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing), Deputy Section Chief Tao Yu (Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing), Professor Jing Shang (Drug Screening Center of China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing), Dr. Wanhong Xu (Hangzhou High-throughput Drug Screening Center) and Deputy Section Chief Chuan Li (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) briefly reported the progresses made in their respective satellite libraries.

In his concluding remarks, Professor Chen Wang highly commended and warmly congratulated the impressive achievements made so far at CNCL. "As a public resource center and capability development project, the establishment of CNCL is of strategic, forward-looking, fundamental, public and global importance", said he. "I believe that it will play a key role in promoting China’s overall capability in drug discovery and development through it relentless efforts in mechanism innovation and public services".  He emphasized that CNCL should focus on bearing fruits from its services apart from building up internal capability. "While working on resource integration and application, major efforts must directed towards technology innovation that confers the international development trend, continuous upgrade of service abilities, expansion of the number and scale of satellite libraries, trial of market-oriented operating models and ultimately, realization of top-tier and sustainable development goals for CNCL", commented by him.