Accompanied by Professor Caiguang Yang (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Mr. Jack Smith (Senior Communications Manager of UK Research and Innovation) and Mr. Jingyuan Guan (Cameraman) made a special visit to the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of September 19, 2018. They interviewed Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) who answered their questions about the role of chemical compounds in drug discovery, the current status of China’s drug innovation and the prospect of developing new antibiotics against drug-resistant strains of bacteria. The news crew also filmed this largest chemical compound library in Asia and its cultural atmosphere.