In the morning of April 25, 2016, Dr. Ming-Wei Wang, Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/Chinese National Compound Library and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University, visited Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) at the invitation of its newly appointed Director General, Professor Hong Tang. An in-depth discussion concerning talent recruitment, multilateral collaboration and resource sharing was carried out with the participation of Drs. Ruiming Xu (Institute of Biophysics, CAS, Beijing), Ming Lei (the National Center for Protein Science Shanghai, CAS), Yu Zhang (Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology, CAS), Hong Tang (Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, CAS), Xia Jin (Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, CAS), Jianhua Wang (Institut Pasteur of Shanghai, CAS) and himself.