In the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Professor Yang Shi (Academician of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Harvard Medical School and Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Fudan University) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL). He was accompanied by Drs. Yujiang Shi (Associate Professor of Harvard Medical School and Professor of Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Fudan University), Guoming Shi (Associate Professor of Hepatic Tumor and Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University), Li Tan (Associate Professor) and Rui Guo (Associate Professor) of Institute of Biomedical Sciences Fudan University. Professor Ming-Wei Wang (Director of the National Center for Drug Screening/CNCL and Dean, School of Pharmacy, Fudan University) warmly greeted the honorable guests. They conducted an in-depth discussion focusing on prospects of setting up research collaborations. Dr. Dehua Yang (Associate Professor) and Ms. Qing Liu (Assistant Professor) from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences participated in the discussion.