In the afternoon of September 20, 2016, Drs. Hualiang Jiang (Director of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences) and Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening) met at the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) to discuss recent progresses made in their collaborative research project on glucagon-like peptide-1 receptors. They reached an agreement as to the near-term priorities associated with it. Drs. Cheng Luo, Mingyue Zheng and Dehua Yang from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica participated in the discussion.