On May 13, 2019, Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean of School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) visited the world renowned Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB), Cambridge, U.K. He conducted discussions with Drs. Chris Tate and M. Madan Babu (Executive Editor, Nucleic Acids Research) covering topics such as structural and functional studies on G protein-coupled receptors. After lunch, Dr. Wang had a special meeting with six postdoctoral fellows from mainland China (Zhunlong Ke, Xiaohan Li, Yangci Liu, Chang Lu, Kun Qu and Wenjuan Zhang), briefing them of the improved research environment in China and welcome them to carry out academic exchanges in Shanghai. Before concluding the visit, he delivered an invited lecture at Sanger Seminar Room entitled “Small molecule agonists for class B G protein-coupled receptors: past, present and future” which was enthusiastically responded by the audience.