Drs. Pierre Renard, Patrick Wüthrich and Xuan Wang of Institut de Recherches Servier (France) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of January 20, 2015. As old friends and long-term collaborators of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, they discussed in-depth the current status of multiple bilateral research projects with Professor Ming-Wei Wang.