A volunteers’ initiation meeting for the 2019 Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings in Shanghai was held at the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of March 15, 2019. 35 undergraduate and graduate student volunteers from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences，ShanghaiTech University and School of Pharmacy, Fudan University attended the event. Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Chinese Organizer of the QMB Shanghai Meetings, Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL) gave a presentation that explained in great detail relative to volunteers’ tasks as well as meeting organizational arrangements.