In the morning of December 16, 2015, a roundtable discussion was held at the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) relative to a research project entitled “Standards of development, management and application of large-scale compound libraries”. The meeting was chaired by Senior Engineer Yingyan Jiang. Dr. Mujie Zhang (former CCP Committee Secretary of Shanghai Pudong Market Authority) and his associate, Mr. Haisheng Song were invited to attend the meeting. Participants of the project such as Jiuqing Tan, Xiaoyan Wu and Hui Zhang were also present. The meeting mainly discussed the execution progress and guideline set-up. This project is sponsored by Shanghai Municipality Science and Technology Commission.