Organized by the National Center for Drug Screening (NCDS), 2015 National compound resource platform work conference was held in Zhangjiang, Shanghai in the evening of March 19, 2015. Professor Ming-Wei Wang, Director of NCDS and the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) chaired the meeting, which was attended by 23 delegates representing the CNCL core facility, six satellite libraries and six institutions that will participate in the proposed “regional resource centers”. The priorities of this year’s tasks, distribution of funds and network software testing were among the topics discussed.