In the afternoon of July 17, 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) met with his old friend, Dr. Tony Zhang (CEO of Tyligand Bioscience Ltd. based in Shanghai), at the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). They discussed potential collaboration opportunities in drug discovery. Accompanied by CNCL staff, Dr. Zhang toured the R&D facilities there after the meeting and highly commended the foundation principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for innovation.