Mr. Peter Zhu, MBA (Chairman, Board of Directors of Sino-American Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Professionals Association) and Dr. Zhenping Wu (Vice President of Hutchison MediPharma Co., Ltd.) visited the Chinese National Compound Library (CNCL) in the afternoon of December 7, 2016. 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. The honorable guests highly commended the founding principles, operating mechanisms and innovation achievements of this national resource-sharing platform for drug discovery.