In the early morning of March 20, 2019, Drs. Ming-Wei Wang (Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library) and Dehua Yang (Professor of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) met with Dr. Diether Lambrechts (Director, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology, Belgium) who arrived in Shanghai a couple of hours earlier from New York for breakfast at Changtai Square. They discussed and agreed on the day program of multi-institutional academic exchanges.