In the evening of February 22, 2014, Professor Zhu Chen, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress of China, dined with Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of the National Center for Drug Screening (NCDS) and the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL), at his residence in Beijing. He was briefed with the overall progresses made by NCDS and CNCL in recent years. An in-depth discussion was carried out relative to strengthening international collaborations in translational medicine and upgrading Zhangjiang Biopharm Valley to become one of the centers of research excellence in the world.