On June 4, 2019, Dr. Ming-Wei Wang, Director, the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University visited Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation located at the center of Seattle, U.S.A. He conducted an in-depth and detailed discussion with Drs. Ken Duncan, Deputy Director and Gang Liu, Senior Program Officer, Global Health Discovery & Translational Sciences of the foundation. They reached a common understanding on topics such as execution plan, personnel deployment and intellectual properties relative to a joint research program.