In the morning of February 22, 2019, Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library) and Senior Engineer Jia Wang (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Science) held a teleconference with Drs. Gang Liu (Senior Program Officer, Global Health Discovery & Translational Sciences, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation), Sheng Ding (Director, Global Health Drug Discovery Institute, GHDDI), Wen Xiong (Director of Scientific Program, GHDDI), Shawn Chen (Principle Investigator, GHDDI), Kun Sun (Investigator, GHDDI) and Chi Kin Chan (HTS leader, GHDDI). The participants joined the meeting from different locations and discussed the proposition, research plan and implementation route of a collaboration aiming at screening novel therapeutic agents against several diseases of poverty. They reached an agreement on the subject.