In the morning of November 4, 2017, Dr. Jianyang Zeng, the National Youth 1000 Program expert and Assistant Professor from Institute of Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). He conducted an enthusiastic and productive discussion with Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library) and Dehua Yang (Professor at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) as well as two PH.D. candidates, Yue Zhu and Guangyao Lin. The topics covered included the latest progresses made in their research project and further application of artificial intelligence in high-throughput screening, among others.