In the afternoon of March 15, 2019, Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library) met with Professor Huaqiang Xu and Associate Professor Lihua Zhao (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) at the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). They discussed recent progresses made in their collaborative research projects and reached an agreement as to this year’s work priorities. Professor Dehua Yang (Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences), graduate students Fulai Zhou, Chenyao Li and Wen Sun from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences as well as Fenghui Zhao and Chaotong Cong from School of Pharmacy, Fudan University participated in the meeting.