A volunteers initiation meeting for 2016 Queenstown Molecular Biology (QMB) Meetings in Shanghai was held at the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of February 26, 2016. More than 60 undergraduate and graduate student volunteers from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences and School of Pharmacy, Fudan University attended the event. Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Chinese Organizer of the QMB Shanghai Meetings, Director of CNCL and Dean of Fudan School of Pharmacy) gave a presentation that explained in great detail relative to volunteers’ tasks as well as meeting organizational arrangements. He also answered several questions raised by students.